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|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan and During location filming for his wife Deborah at their new home in the Cotswolds. Mrs Bradley is a well-known psychiatrist but she1970's also sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers woman on the edge of observationa reservoir. She soon comes The police seem happy to hear assign it as an accidental death, but something about the story whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a local ghostfellow actor, that of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over the gate leading John Le Breton to Groaning Spinney: help him investigate matters further. They travel across the ghost will play country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a part in what is about link to happendeath during the Second World War. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become But is there really a link between the local squire with the acquisition of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as deaths? And will they visit manage to give festive wishes.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marjorie Orr0008517061|title=By the Light of Death in a LieLonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friendFormer Metropolitan Police detective, EricaJake Johnson, was killed in has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a hit-little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and-run accident (ifher daughter Diana, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have been as moving in Hammersmith. She'd left her getting into together would mean a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and she was on her way home relaxing life to Hampstead move in with Livia or does Livia move to review papers ready for a court appearance Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the following morning. Then future she died three hours later wants for herself and miles out of her way. daughter? The police didn't seem likely to pursue For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the case future on the grounds that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going to leave her friend unavengedback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed1786482126|title=Marty's MasterThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=Margaret Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was nervous about going for to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the walk around the lake on her own, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent and go with herbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She made it to the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the barWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, relieved that she'd managed to leave the drunken man who was Marty's master and some other suspicious-looking men behind herDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterIt's widowerdifficult as Ruth knows, Avelbut Nelson doesn't, had remarried and that she is pregnant with his new wife, Elena, was in child as a result of the clubhouse with Avel's children - one night they spent together some three teenage girls and a boy who was little more than a toddlermonths ago. Elena didn't look in the least pleased to Her condition will be there and despite Avel's promises to pick them upobvious before long, he was nowhere not least because Ruth is prone to be seensudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann0008551324|title= WychwoodThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Thirty-something Elspeth Reeves It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has lost her job any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and left who was responsible for her partnerdeath. Much as she prefers London This person, he promises, she decides is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to retreat be transferred to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for a short time open prison to lick her wounds, but she arrives to find serve the neighbouring part remainder of the Wychwood is a crime scenehis sentence and to get an early parole date. Even broken-hearted journalists can't afford Not much to pass up the chance of a storyask, particularly if they know they need to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth canis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't resist sticking her nose in. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case there's an extra interest in it for Elspeth, think so and once she's spotted even prepared to do the connection between the ritualised murder other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and the local myth about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killeranyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton0008405026|title= Agatha Raisin and A Stranger in the Witches' TreeFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 35|genre= Crime|summary=For those of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin she is essentially It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a short-tempered private investigator in halt. Now, her early 50s with an alcoholmother, Helena, doughnut and man obsessionher father are dead in their bed. Much Initially, it looks like TVa straightforward murder/suicide but there's Midsomer Murders, something about the positioning of the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders to sustain 28 books so faropen-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch0571379877|title=The Furthest StationKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird Edward Jevons is a working- spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the Metropolitan Lineclass young man, for example obsessed with his upper- they call for PC Peter Grant of the Special Assessment Unitclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also known as The Folly. Stray river godsself-obsessed, missing Victorian childrendemanding, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a day’s (or relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a night’s) work for The Follydark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David StokesJo Callaghan|title= The Happy EndingLeave No Trace|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon When a man is 97 years old. He's found crucified on the top of a bit shakey on his pinshill in Nuneaton, can't move far without his walking frameDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, has been known to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still he's managing well enough at homethe AI detective Lock. Mentally heIt's all theretheir first live case together, even if he does have these conversations having previously been very successful with his wife, who's been dead the last 6 yearsseveral cold cases. There's But when there is a second body found crucified a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so okfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a point when there's clearly no purpose leftlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. No-one comes, even the paramedics seem to have shunted you Will they be able to solve the bottom of case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the list, case and well, it's all becoming just a bit too undignified. To be honestpotentially, when he found the morphine Betty'd been stock-piling against the day her own illness got too much for her but never used as it turned out, Harry was on the point of using it himself.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Benjamin MyersC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=These Darkening DaysHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of the knife Charlotte Salter was a mistakeexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, but he liked knives sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and had quite a collection until they were her daughter, Etty. are all taken away after the accident which had left himworried but - strangely - her husband, wellAlec, is not quite as he ought to be. The problem with this knife was that it was beside the woman who was lying in the ginnellShortly afterwards, one leg twisted under her rather strangely Etty and with blood coursing down her face. Tony thought about ringing Greg, find the police but dismissed body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the idea quicklyriver. She It was still alive - just - so an ambulance might have been a good idea, but Tony easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had an instinct for murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when trouble was going to catch him, so he dropped couldn't stand the knife down a drain guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and disappearedwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith1529900360|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Adrian Gray was not a particularly pleasant manIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, but that Sturgis was no reason why he should meet reluctant to ask for his death at the hands of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931help on difficult cases. None of His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the six children were fond help of their father and several had cause to wish him deada psychologist only worked for a while. Richard Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the eldest and involvement was married to Laurasomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was a politician the heir to an Italian shoe empire and keen she is married to advance himself - an extremely rich man and to get a title other than it's not the knighthood which he already had - but such endeavours cost money which he ''didn't'' haveItalian. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him and But which of them was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him out of the mess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton178763681X|title=Y is Knife Skills for YesterdayBeginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary= Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. My very first crime fiction book was Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a Kinsey Millhone storybroken arm, and I found but it so utterly captivating didn't turn out that it converted me from a crime avoider way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to a crime lover! turn up dead. Since that first storyUnfortunately, I have been committed to he was the person who discovered the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt both excited body and a little sad everyone knows that the police consider that person to be holding the penultimate story in the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1529421284|title= Look For HerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In 1976a gully, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school a human skeleton came to the surface and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades forensic testing proved the town of Lilling tried body to solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance untilbe Lee Geary, almost twenty who had disappeared nine years later, her body was discoveredearlier. Annalise He's body was badly decomposed d been a known drug user and there had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was lack of DNA availablea townie, the only trace so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the body was found in her skirt suicide of Holly Gilbert and does to two other deaths which were not match anyone on recordconsidered suspicious at the time. The chances Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder soon becomes a Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seencases to you and me) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E V Harte|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under a pseudonym. But, as a self-confessed chicklit fan, who's never read a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it....turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Neil White1529425867|title= From The Shadows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm a bit old-fashioned Lost and therefore not a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straight. Never Found (A D I'll go with a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else fails. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWilkins Mystery)|author=Angela Marsons|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)Simon Mason

|summary=It was a field tripIn Oxford, but to be honest a lot there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the students didn't really look all that interested in the excavation Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Dr A really rather hoped that none of them would go into forensicsalways exquisitely dressed. There was more excitement when the skull was discovered but at that point the students were quickly escorted from the scene and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigationRyan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis He's white, originated from the neighbouring force also arrived with the same intention: the burial site was right on the border between the two forces a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and no one was quite certain where one ended his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and the other begantrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Stone assumed that it would be her case and was shocked and bewildered when she found that it was You might wonder if you're being introduced to be run as a joint investigationpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. She nearly refused: she and Travis had historyThe two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1529431735|title=The Word is MurderWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=An attractiveIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, well-heeled woman enters which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a classically-minded funeral parlour in London, and makes plans wanted drug smuggler for her own funerala decade. Within just The return has come about because he's had a few hoursletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's had lunch, engaged with business affairs – ill and been killed in her own homehasn't long to live. Could anyone have foreseen the service to have been needed so quickly? ThatIt's the initial premise of this thriller, this most intriguing mystery, and if you want hard to read it – which feel any sympathy when Hopkins is something you really should do – with no surprises, you should not read the book's blurb, or even the authorial biographyabducted, stripped to his underwear and perhaps not even sent to a watery grave in the followingboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Just go in blind, and wait for the surprises – that start, as Is it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue0861541774|title= The Night StalkerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turf. LewishamDCI Domenic Jejeune's finest are sent to the country for this outing. There's been close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a death down short holiday in SomersetSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It's not the sort of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad to get Maik was involved in, it looks like a hitstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -and-run on he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a remote road in charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a big four-by-four who didndiplomatic incident and wouldn't even know he'd done ithelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title= Martin Edwards They Had It Coming (editorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor= The Long Arm of the LawKeith Redfern|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'golden agell warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they' of crime fiction, we think of re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the brilliant amateur forever putting baby when she gets past the official Pmorning sickness.C. Plod Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to shamehave killed himself. Miss MarpleStuart's concerned about his sister, Sherlock HolmesLucy, Poirot, Father Brown who's struggling to make ends meet and so onher son is not thriving. I'll admit to being a fan of all of thoseLucy, he says, but they arenis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't the whole storyin his nature. The other side of police and the coin shows coroner have accepted that the official police doing their job and getting their mandeath was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermidB0CK3MYJ56|title=Insidious Intent: Responsibilities (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10Greg Mason mysteries) |author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's got less than three weeks to livetwenty-eight years old. Had Kathryn known that she might He used to have made different choicesa high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. I've a suspicion that she Shades of Cameron Strike', you might not have wasted time being at the weddingbe thinking. Nice bloke, but it was there where's the life experience that she met her killerbacks up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. He said his name was David Joyce and he was charmingHelen are half-sisters, respectfulor rather, unwilling to rush anything they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as he was still getting over the death of his wife. Kathryn was left with the feeling that he was still more than a little bit in love with Triciatragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. They went on a couple of dates Joyce - and then David took her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a cottage in the Dales for the weekendtrain. By the end of the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker1838954481|title= All The Wicked GirlsMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the small town of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missingholding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her, He pulled the incident rocks trigger but due to the entire town. It is even more terrifying set against vagaries of the backdrop jury system he was found not guilty of recent crimes; for over both the murder and the course manslaughter of the year, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar Countyofficer. And so lives must go on. The kidnapper For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and murderer responsible hoping for a quieter life in the disappearance of these girls countryside but when a missing teenager is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and has so far evaded capture. Whilst he roams back into the streets, no one is safeorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1448309743|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over In the village of Cronchie on the course West coast of his workScotland, he's seen plenty five members of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this onewealthy family are found murdered. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request The only item missing from the home is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at Devil Stone: myth says that if the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard stone is now suffering removed from dissociative amnesiaOtterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, which means that he can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure an easy conclusion given that his real name is Richard Kitetwo of them 'discovered' the body. Richard The Senior Investigating Office is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who DCI Bob Oswald but when he is, despite news and press coverage of his case, and without a National Insurance numberdisappears, he DCI Christine Caplan is basically pulled in to 'off the grid,shadow' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truthhim. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1529077699|title=Good Friday The Raging Storm (Tennison 3Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane Tennison's a fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: she'It's back at Bow Street waiting for her first posting. Sheall bloody peculiar, isn'd like the Flying Squadt it, but sheSir?''s not got the experience, nor Well yes, it has to be said, the necessary physical attributes. This is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampant. It was also London just after Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the extensive IRA bombing campaign middle of 1974 an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and 75 then turned up, naked and no one believes that it's going dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to be over any time soonthe village of Greystone, in Devon. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in Rosco had the latest incident in which status of a national treasure: a bomb killed five people renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all- round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and shehis background isn's one of only two people who got a good look at t exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the bomber.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1529427045|title=The MermaidGirl in the Eagle's Scream (Wesley Peterson)Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. We'll follow the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journalLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.

In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the biography so-far-untapped natural resources of the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilandarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. ItSalander's not easy work as Staniland isnniece't inclined to give more away than he has to and s mother is unwilling to discuss the one thing which latest woman in the public will want area to know about: his wifehave vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's suicide which seemed to follow guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a scene from his most famous book. Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he was seemingly on his way to one of these talks when he disappearedher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1787636607|title= Murder in Saint-GermainThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to be honest get home. Some are lucky and say manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the best-selling Cara Black'taxi problem', it is particularly in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. And so, if Ilight of 'm honest, I wasnthe missing women't sure what to expect. How does For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a character with so many investigations under long way short of her belt retain the gusto we've home. She had intended to ring someone to come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep and collect her - but her interesting enough for those of us coming late phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the party? bus driver to let her use his. After reading There''Murder s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in Sainthigh-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easilyheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)1405957174|title=Three Days and a LifeA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Christmas weekFrom the first page, 1999, and Antoine hasnwe know that Nadine Walsh't got the best of situationss party will not end well. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the newThe victim - a man -fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let is dying when we first meet him waste his time on. He's built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely Nadine consciously makes no effort to woo call the girl next door that ambulance he loves, but she's rejected itso desperately needs. And his best company, What we don't know is who the dog from the other house next door, was injured in a hit and run, and shot man is or why Nadine prefers to be put out of its miseryhave him die. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, heI's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dogd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweephappening. As the title suggests, there will be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh0008530025|title=Leopard at Murder in the DoorFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year -old Rachel Fullsmith returns Maura Howard came home to Kenya after being away at school in England and finds a lot can change found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in 6 yearsthe garden of their West London home. Of course she realises her motherHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's death would alter things d slipped down the steps but shethe vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's not prepared for her father's live-in now the subject of 'companion' Sara nor SaraInfamous's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old room, a true-crime show. Michael A group of experts has been brought together to review the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though evidence and now a man with his own ideasto take the investigation further. Meanwhile More to the unrest between point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the British rulers whole box set - and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blowno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)0241996104|title= Can Coming to Find You Hear Me?|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In 1978, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen Nancy's mother and troubled. His mundanely stable, loving step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and ordered life is rocked by the murder of a young boy and the disappearance of a young womanher step-brother, who vanishes into the woods. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable fatherMartin, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts has been convicted of senseless violencetheir murder. Into this steps Anna We first meet Nancy outside the court, the mother of Eliaafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's friend, received a woman bowed under 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the strain rest of her life and haunted by her choices. As the heat of summer intensifies Of course, so does Eliait's made worse because Nancy's certainty that something is desperately wrong in his home. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, to the mysteriously sensual rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and sad Anna, Elia feels the ground start to shift under his feet, to feel the wind whipping his face from papers are making the cliff edge most of adolescence it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and the unavoidable pull of adulthood''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529413680|title=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie A Chateau Under Siege (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=The King of FoolsMartin Walker

|summary=Having sort One of split up with his partner, Jeanthe main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-Marie is on holiday alone on enactment of the liberation of the town from the southern French coast, when he chances to meet a married English woman, Marjorie. They meet in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the most unusual ways – show with two identical cars parked next to each othersome friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, she gets in the wrong man playing one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behindof the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Lo and behold they find each other at the casinoLuckily, his doctor is there and the following day, when she arrives at his hotel to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to heartman is whisked away in a helicopter. JeanA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but -Marie sees her to be as he's a very unhappily married womansenior government employee, and not even the arrival of his partner and makeman who runs Frenchelon -up sex can convince him he is not the military has stepped in love with Marjorie. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – One daughter lives nearby and into no end another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude1529196388|title= Death Makes A ProphetThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime Classic'' I had Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to check by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the first publication dateOld Bailey. Reading There's just one man in the first two pages, frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it could easily have been written 's not too long before Knight appears in 1967court, or charged with Cliveden'87, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017s murder. Given Knight was told that Budethe best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's witty caper originally came out in 1947Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, itwho eventually represent him. Knight's slightly criminal that itdetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's taken this long recommendations to resurfacethe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>