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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --><!-- Durrenmatt -->{{Frontpage[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|leftauthor=Stuart Douglas|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating===[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]===3.5 [[image:2.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Itsummary=During location filming for his 1970's 1957, sitcom 'Floggit and weLeggit're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case on everyone's lips – leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the simple fact that dead body of a politician has gone into woman on the crowded room edge of one of those 'a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the place to go' restaurantswhole thing bothers Lowe, and point blank shot he enlists the help of a professor everyone there must have knownfellow actor, and ferried a British companion John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rap. Of course he's found guiltycountry during their days off filming, even if the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly of much interestuncovering more possible murders and, not only to our narratorseemingly, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager link to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by death during the man in hand to look into things a second timeSecond World War. But what's this, where he opens his testimony about is there really a link between the affair with the conclusion, that he himself deaths? And will need they manage to turn killer to redress the balanceuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives? [[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Giordano -->[[image:Giordano Fruits.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]] ===[[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]==isbn=1803368209 [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How to describe this book - well for starters it's unlike anything I've ever read before. It's chaotic, mad, funny, fast-paced, confusing but once you get into it it's really good fun and totally enjoyable. [[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]<br>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Ellis0008517061|title=A Map of the DarkDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing childrenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There's There’s perhaps a link back to little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her childhood heredaughter Diana, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and her father preferred not relaxing life to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be move in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her father reservations about whether or not this is dying of lung cancer and although the future she would have hoped wants for some personal time with him, herself and her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and you can't waste any time when children go missingputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147366277X</amazonuk>

<!-- Tudor -->{{Frontpage[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]1786482126 ===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Elmer Mendoza|title= Name of the DogElly Griffiths|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= If, like half of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the country you've been glued site was going to Netflix with series such as hold seventy-five 'luxury'Narcosapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' and ''El Chapo'' then I think you'll really enjoy this. The machismo of the cartelst, the disillusionment of the police and collusion of the military are all familiar territory and are well explored by Mendoza that she is pregnant with the odd surprise provided such his child as a female cartel boss at the heart result of the story whose gumption and conniving matches any of the male charactersone night they spent together some three months ago. Lefty the detective Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is the classic antihero of literature and is attractive ''despite'' himself so eliciting quick good will and a sense prone to sudden bouts of comradery from the readersickness. If you're less set in your ways than me then I certainly think this book and series are worth a read - just give yourself a few chapters to acclimatise!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052632</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Jester0008551324|title= Forever After: a dark comedyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Michael Holland It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has 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 cocky missing person is buried and brash young man who dies was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and gets made it will be worth the offer police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his lifetime; immortalitysentence and to get an early parole date. We follow Michael Not much to ask, a grim reaper is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple anyone who works with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flathim is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts0008405026|title=Buried SecretsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=You It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never know what goes on in found and the investigation ground to a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal lifehalt. He had a beautiful wife Now, her mother, Helena, and a house that had a mortgage which was smaller than most people's credit card billher father are dead in their bed. On the other handInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there weren't s something about the positioning of the bodies that many people who had a good word to say about him makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and when he her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg going to be an open-and with only -shut case is now a few hours to live, people were more worried about the extra work than saddenedcomplex double murder. When his wifeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's battered body was found in their kitchendisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, the idea that it was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answerUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell0571379877|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with her nephew Jonathan his upper-class friends, Robert and his wife Deborah at their new home in the CotswoldsStanza. Mrs Bradley is Robert's a well-known psychiatrist but shetheatre director. He's also a respected detective renowned self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for her sharp powers of observationhim. She soon comes Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to hear the story of a local ghost, Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over the gate leading to Groaning Spinneyrelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: the ghost will play a part in what Edward is about left to happen. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire with stumble upon the acquisition two of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as they visit to give festive wishesthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marjorie OrrJo Callaghan|title=By the Light of a LieLeave No Trace

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friend, Erica, was killed When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in a hit-and-run accident (ifNuneaton, indeedDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, it was an accident) but she really couldnthe AI detective Lock. It't understand why she should have s their first live case together, having previously been in Hammersmithvery successful with several cold cases. She'd left her getting into But when there is a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was on her way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for second body found crucified a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours few days later , Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and miles out a very high profile case that draws a lot of her wayunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The police didn't seem likely Will they be able to pursue solve the case on in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the grounds that it had probably been an accidentcase and, potentially, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going to leave her friend unavenged.out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed1035021803|title=MartyThe Antique Hunter's MasterGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Margaret was nervous about going for It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the walk around the lake on her own, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent and go with herEnglish country village where she grew up. She made it to the Blue Forge Club House where 's back now because of a request for help from her friend Laura worked behind the barbeloved aunt, relieved that she'd managed to leave the drunken man who was MartyCarole. Freya's master former mentor and some other suspicious-looking men behind her. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterCarole's widowerclose friend, AvelArthur Crockleford, had remarried is dead and his new wife, Elenathe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was in the clubhouse with Avel's children - three teenage girls and a boy who was little more than a toddlerreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Elena didn't look Even though they were in the least pleased business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be there near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and despite Avel's promises to pick them upmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, he who was nowhere to be seenmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1398524085|title= WychwoodHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Thirty-something Elspeth Reeves has lost Charlotte Salter was expected at her job husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and left her partnerdaughter, Etty. Much as she prefers Londonare all worried but - strangely - her husband, she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for a short time to lick her woundsAlec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, but she arrives to find the neighbouring part body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Wychwood is a crime sceneriver. Even broken-hearted journalists can't afford to pass up It was an easy assumption for the chance of a story, particularly if they know they need police to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth canmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't resist sticking her nose instand the guilt. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case The Salter children are not convinced but there's an extra interest in it for Elspeth, and once she's spotted the connection between the ritualised murder little else they can do but get on with their lives and the local myth wonder about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killerwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1529900360|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she is essentially loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a short-tempered private investigator remote property in her early 50s with Bel Air. He was the heir to an alcohol, doughnut Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man obsession. Much like TVand it's Midsomer Murders, not the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farItalian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>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. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1529421284|title=The Furthest StationLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part It was one of those flash downpours that the Metropolitan LineBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the Special Assessment Unitbody to be Lee Geary, also who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known as The Follydrug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Stray river gods Geary was a townie, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are all in a day’s connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (or a night’sthat's cold cases to you and me) work for The Follyinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1529425867|title= The Happy EndingLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is 97 years oldof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. He's a bit shakey on his pins D I Ryan Wilkins, can't move far without his walking frameson of Ryan and father of Ryan, has been known to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still heis not. He's managing well enough at homenot any of those things. Mentally heHe's all therewhite, even if he does have these conversations with his wifeoriginated from a trailer park, whobarely educated (reading's been dead the last 6 yearsnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. ThereThey's a point when re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'doing ok' stops re being quite so ok, introduced to a point when there's clearly no purpose leftpolice procedural written for laughs. No-one comesWell, even the paramedics seem to have shunted you to 're not. The two men are just different sides of the bottom of same policing coin. Sometimes the list, and combination works brilliantly well, . Sometimes it's all becoming just a bit too undignifiedproblematic. To be honest, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1529431735|title=These Darkening DaysThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the knife was Costa del Sol as a mistake, but wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he liked knives and 's had quite a collection until they were all taken away after the accident which had left himletter from his ex-wife, well, not quite as he ought saying that she's ill and hasn't long to belive. The problem with this knife was that it was beside the woman who was lying in the ginnellIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, one leg twisted under her rather strangely stripped to his underwear and with blood coursing down her face. Tony thought about ringing sent to a watery grave in the police but dismissed the idea quicklyboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. She was still alive - just - so an ambulance might have been Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a good idea, but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going problem closer to catch him, so he dropped the knife down a drain and disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith0861541774|title=Portrait A Nye of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Adrian Gray was not DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a particularly pleasant man, but that was no reason why he should meet his death at the hands of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars short holiday in 1931. None of the six children were fond of their father and several had cause Singapore to wish him deadmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Richard Maik was the eldest and was married to Laura. He involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a politician and keen to advance himself knife - and to get he killed a title other than the knighthood which Ghurka. Initially, he already had - faced a charge of manslaughter but such endeavours cost money which evidence came to light that suggested that he ''didn't'' might haveplanned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. He'd also been indiscreet with Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another woman who was attempting to blackmail him police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him out of the messwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1521129886|title=Y is for YesterdayThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary= Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. My very first crime fiction book was It's a Kinsey Millhone story, good job too because Greg and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from Joyce will soon have a crime avoider baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to a crime lover! have killed himself. Since that first storyStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, I have been committed who's struggling to the alphabet mysteriesmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, so is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it I felt both excited simply wasn't in his nature. The police and a little sad the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to be holding find out what happened on the penultimate story in the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily WinslowB0CK3MYJ56|title= Look For HerResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school It's the 1990s and instantly became a local celebrityGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. For decades the town of Lilling tried He used to solve have a high-flying job in the mystery city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of AnnaliseCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's disappearance untilthe life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, almost twenty years lateror rather, her body they were until Helen was discovered. Annalisekilled in what's body was badly decomposed been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and there was lack of DNA availableher parents, the only trace on the body Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was found doing there - or how she could come to fall in her skirt and does not match anyone on record. The chances front of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder soon becomes a train. Greg'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seens been asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte1838954481|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was excited the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to have the chance to read vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under capital and hoping for a pseudonym. But, as quieter life in the countryside but when a self-confessed chicklit fan, whomissing teenager is found on her territory she's never read drawn into a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it..wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy..turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1448309743|title= From The ShadowsDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that can't keep their timeline straightif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. I'll go with a prologue – even if itThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's becoming a bit an easy conclusion given that two of clichéd way of creating a mystery at them 'discovered' the beginning of a story – body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else fails. That, howeverhe disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadowspulled in to 'shadow' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529077699|title=Dead Souls The Raging Storm (D I Kim StoneTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=''It was a field trip's all bloody peculiar, but to be honest a lot of the students didnisn't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none of them would go into forensicsit, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. There was more excitement when Jem Rosco blew into the skull was discovered but at that point local pub one evening in the students were quickly escorted from the scene middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and D I Kim Stone came on site dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to begin her investigationthe village of Greystone, in Devon. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from Rosco had the neighbouring force also arrived with the same intentionstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the burial site was right on the border between the two forces world sailor and no one was quite certain where one ended and the other beganall round ''celebrity''. Stone assumed that it would I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be her case more than a little bit close with money and was shocked and bewildered when she found that it was to be run as a joint investigationhis background isn't exactly an open book. She nearly refused: she and Travis had history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Anthony HorowitzKarin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Word is MurderTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=An attractive, well-heeled woman enters It's a classically-minded funeral parlour scene replicated all too often in London, the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and makes plans looking for her own funerala way to get home. Within just a Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few hourstaxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', sheparticularly in the light of 'the missing women's had lunch. For one young woman, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her own home. Could anyone have foreseen the service She had intended to ring someone to have been needed so quickly? Thatcome and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the initial premise of this thriller, this most intriguing mystery, and if you want chance to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprises, you should not read beg the bookbus driver to let her use his. There's blurb, or even the authorial biography, no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and perhaps not even the followingin high-heeled shoes. Just go in blind, and wait for the surprises – that start, as it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1405957174|title= The Night StalkerA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|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. Lewisham's finest are sent to From the country for this outing. Therefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's been a death down in Somersetparty will not end well. It's not the sort of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad to get involved in, it looks like The victim - a hitman -is dying when we first meet him and-run on a remote road in Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four who didnambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't even know heis who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd done itbetter give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0008530025|title= The Long Arm of the Law|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the 'golden age' of crime fiction, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod to shame. Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown and so on. I'll admit to being a fan of all of those, but they aren't Murder in the whole story. The other side of the coin shows the official police doing their job and getting their man. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Val McDermid|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know It was in December 2003 that she's got less than three weeks to livefifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. Had Kathryn known that she might He had an injury on the back of his head which could have made different choices. Ihappened if he've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at d slipped down the wedding, steps but it the vicious beating his face had taken was there that she met her killerobviously deliberate. He said Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his name was David murder and he was charming, respectful, unwilling to rush anything as he was still getting over it's now the death subject of his wife. Kathryn was left with the feeling that he was still more than ''Infamous'', a little bit in love with Triciatrue-crime show. They went on a couple A group of dates experts has been brought together to review the evidence and then David took her to a cottage in take the Dales for investigation further. More to the weekendpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. By the end There's no dump of the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burnedwhole box set -out carand no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker0241996104|title= All The Wicked GirlsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In the small town of Grace, fifteenNancy's mother and step-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and beloved by all that know herstep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the incident rocks the entire towncourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of recent crimes; anything but will have to live with what happened for over the rest of her life. Of course of the year, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five young churchmillion pounds from her mother -attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for the disappearance papers are making the most of these girls it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, one favourite epithet and has so far evaded capture. Whilst he roams the streets, no one ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is safeundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1529413680|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is an investigator, specialising the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in missing persons cases1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. Over the course of his work, he It's seen plenty of unusual things, all been very carefully choreographed but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kitegoes badly wrong when, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You seeKerquelin, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at man playing one of the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard main characters is now suffering seriously injured when he departs from dissociative amnesiathe script. Luckily, which means that he can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure that his real name doctor is Richard Kite. Richard there and the man is frustrated because he cannot move on with his lifewhisked away in a helicopter. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news A local doctor (and press coverage friend of Bruno) wonders about his case, and without a National Insurance number, chances of survival but - as he is basically 'off the grid,' unable to get s a jobsenior government employee, pay tax or own a homethe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. This desperate One daughter lives nearby and confused man needs Rakeranother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be friends for a dangerous thingpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1529196388|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane Tennison's Grant Cliveden was a fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendonhero: she's back a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at Bow Street waiting for her first postingthe Old Bailey. SheThere'd like s just one man in the Flying Squad, but sheframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not got the experiencetoo long before Knight appears in court, nor, it has to be said, the necessary physical attributescharged with Cliveden's murder. This is 1976 and male chauvinism Knight was rampant. It told that the best barrister for him was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of 1974 Stag Court Chambers and 75 and no one believes that it's going to be over any time soonTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in the latest incident in which a bomb killed five people Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor- and sheCameron's one of only two people who got a good look at recommendations to the bombercontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>