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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- Parsons -->Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries -Death at the Dress Rehearsal| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|3.5[[image:178089595X.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Girl During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5starthe edge of a reservoir.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with The police seem happy to assign it as an air ambulanceaccidental death, but something about the mess falls on a busy shopping centre whole thing bothers Lowe, and we are barely out he enlists the help of the first chapter. DC Max Wolfe's latest adventure looks at religiona fellow actor, radicalisation, hate and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump John Le Breton to catching those responsiblehelp him investigate matters further. The rest of They travel across the book gradually builds a web of intrigue country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and , seemingly, a virtual soap opera of family issueslink to death during the Second World War. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]] <!-- Reynolds -->But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|-isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place[[image:Reynolds_Fire.jpg|leftauthor=Stig Abell|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/refrating=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Crime===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically to everyone else Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect of relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is truly democraticthe future she wants for herself and her daughter? Everyone knows everything For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be nextputting the future on the back burner. In such a circumstance who can be trusted to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)<!-- Burrows -->|author=Elly Griffiths|-rating=4.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Crime[[image:Burrows_Doves.jpg|left|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786074273/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-21]]  | style="verticalfive 'luxury' apartments -align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Pitying when they discovered the bones of Doves by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:4stara child beneath a doorway.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] The body of a senior attaché from the Mexican consulate There was found in no skull. Was this a local bird sanctuaryritual killing or murder? Inevitably, along Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the body of the directorDCI Harry Nelson. It was a strange tableau: the girl impaled on a branch and the man lying at her feet's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, both in a cage. The fact that the man she is pregnant with his child as a diplomat isn't immediately evident - he was in result of the area under an assumed nameone night they spent together some three months ago. DCI (and birder enthusiast) Domenic Jejeune Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is conflicted. The immediate problem is obviously to establish who murdered the man and the woman - and even that's complicated by the political necessity of not to involving the Mexican consulate, thus tying his hands rather tightlyprone to sudden bouts of sickness. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The thoughts which are running in Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the back of his mind though are about Hardie family to approach the full-time research position studying birds which police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the directorother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's death has opened upprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Could this This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be his escape route from worth the police force? [[A Pitying doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of Doves by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Griffiths his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -->|-make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|0008405026[[image:Griffiths_Dark.jpg|left|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784296635/refA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=nosim?tagJane Casey|rating=thebookbag-21]]5|genre=Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textIt's sixteen years since nine-year-align: left;"|===[[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]=== [[image:4starold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Dr Ruth Galloway has got used to being Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a published author, to being on television, straightforward murder/suicide but shethere's still flattered when Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli asks for something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her help with some bones which heboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-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 discovered in a tiny hilltop village outside Romeboss, but doesn't know what to make of themUna Burt) are less convinced. Ruth succumbs to temptation: she and Angelo have some history (it was just the one night}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3...) and it's years since she5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's had a holidaytheatre director. Even a working holiday has He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be an improvementrun errands for him. Castello degli Angeli isn Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't quite what she was expecting, but it will make a reasonable break for her, her daughter Kate, friend Shona and Shonas drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's son Louis. [[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths|Full Review]]position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a 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 dark passageway.}}<!-- Burrows -->{{Frontpage|-author=Jo Callaghan| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Leave No Trace|rating=4[[image:Burrows_Siege.jpg|leftgenre=Crime|linksummary=http://wwwWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780748434/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Siege It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]==unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFrontpage|Crime]]isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to MurderDetective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is new to Saltmarsh, but his reputation has come before him|author=C L Miller|rating=3. Success in a high profile case 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has made him been back to the poster boy for the policeEnglish country village where she grew up. ThereShe's back now because of a snag though: Jejeune isnrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya't s former mentor and Carole''actually'' that keen on s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the jobleast. He'd much rather be out birdwatchingArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, but that doesn't bring in an income and there's a simple factlet her down badly. Jejeune is ''very'' a very good detectiveEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, with insights which few other people possessshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. There's one advantage to After the job too: Saltmarsh is situated split, she worked in North Norfolka cafe, the UK's premier birding country but sometimes Jejeune's mind is more met and married James (on the birds than rebound from the job. [[A Siege love of Bitterns by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}<!-- Durrenmatt -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1398524085| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -align: top; textstrangely -align: left;"|===[[The Execution her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]=== [[image:2.5starGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]  It's 1957, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurants, little else they can do but get on with their lives and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rapwonder about what really happened. Of course he's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly of much interest, not only to our narrator}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets Sturgis was reluctant to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second timeask for his help on difficult cases. But what His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's this, where he opens his testimony about t need the affair with the conclusionhelp of 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 he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[man she loved needed. The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]] |}  <!-- Durrenmatt -->*[[image:Durrenmatt_Justicenext case did look simple, though.jpg|left|link=https://www Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air.amazon He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875 But which of them was the primary target?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime [[image:2.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It's 1957, and we're somewhere Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Switzerland, and thereBelgravia. He didn's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a politician has gone into the crowded room way of one of those getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'the place to go' restaurantsgot the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, and point blank shot who had a professor everyone there must have knownbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and ferried a British companion to the airport in problems - are all his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rapown. Of course The one thing hehadn's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed t expected was for someone to disappearturn up dead. He's certainly of much interest, not only Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the man Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in hand to look into things a second time. But what's thisheatwave. In a gully, where he opens his testimony about a human skeleton came to the affair with surface and forensic testing proved the conclusionbody to be Lee Geary, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Giordano -->*[[image:Giordano Fruitshad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919 Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]] ===[[Auntie Poldi and There are connections to the Fruits suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Lord by Mario Giordano]]===time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]{FrontpageHow 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> <br> <br> <br> <!-- Ellis -->*[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]] ===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Tudor -->*[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]] ===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=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> <!-- Mendoza -->*[[image:Mendoza Name.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857052632?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857052632]] ===[[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Okay, so call me a traditionalist but I enjoy picking up a book and instantly recognising the genre to which the book belongs and from here making an immediate, if not altogether accurate, assumption about whether I am likely to enjoy said book. Quite often it is not until we are fully immersed in a story we start to recognise and appreciate the style and tone of the writer and decide whether we are want to continue the story to completion. This surely is the process by which us mere reading mortals decide whether or not we enjoyed a book? Well, after reading ''Name of the Dog'' I have to be honest and say I did not know what to make of it on initial inspection. Nor have I settled my state of flux wherein I am trying to decide whether or not I really did enjoy Mendoza's tale of corruption and crime in Cartel run Mexico. [[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Jester -->*[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] ===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]]isbn=1529425867 Michael Holland is a cocky |title=Lost and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip Never Found (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records departmentA D I Wilkins Mystery) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]]<br> <br> {{newreview|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Buried SecretsSimon Mason

|summary=You never know what goes on in a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal lifeIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He had a beautiful wife and a house that had a mortgage which was smaller than most people's credit card billnot any of those things. On the other handHe's white, originated from a trailer park, there werenbarely educated (reading's not ''really''t that many people who had a good word to say about him his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and when he was involved trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg and with only a few hours to livepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, people were more worried about you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the extra work than saddenedcombination works brilliantly well. When his wifeSometimes it's battered body was found in their kitchen, the idea that it was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answerproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1529431735|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan It's February 1991 and his wife Deborah at their new home in Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the CotswoldsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Mrs Bradley is The return has come about because he's had a wellletter from his ex-known psychiatrist but wife, saying that she's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observationill and hasn't long to live. She soon comes It's hard to hear the story of a local ghostfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, that of stripped to his underwear and sent to a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over watery grave in the gate leading to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play boot of a part in what is about to happenstolen Ford Sierra. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire with the acquisition of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as they visit Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to give festive wishes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marjorie Orr0861541774|title=By the Light A Nye of a LiePheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friendand former colleague, EricaDanny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was killed involved in a hitstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have been in Hammersmithhe killed a Ghurka. She'd left her getting into Initially, he faced a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was on her way home charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Hampstead light that suggested that he might have planned to review papers ready for a court appearance murder the following morningman. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way Now he could be facing the death penalty. The Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police didn't seem likely to pursue the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she wasnwouldn't going to leave her friend unavengedhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed1521129886|title=Marty's MasterThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=Margaret was nervous Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about going for the walk around the lake on her own, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and go with herthey're both delighted. She made it to Joyce will be more delighted about the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the bar, relieved that baby when she'd managed to leave gets past the drunken man who was Marty's master and some other suspiciousmorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-looking men behind herlaw appears to have killed himself. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterStuart's widower, Avel, had remarried and concerned about his new wifesister, ElenaLucy, was in the clubhouse with Avelwho's children - three teenage girls struggling to make ends meet and a boy who was little more than a toddlerher son is not thriving. Elena didnLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't look in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the least pleased to be there and despite Aveldeath was suicide, but Stuart's promises prepared to pick them up, he was nowhere pay Greg to be seenfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George MannB0CK3MYJ56|title= WychwoodResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=ThirtyIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job and left her partnereight years old. Much as she prefers London, she decides He used to retreat to her childhood home have a high-flying job in an Oxfordshire village for the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a short time to lick her woundsprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but she arrives to find where's the neighbouring part of life experience that backs up this profession? On the Wychwood is a crime sceneother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Even broken Joyce and Helen are half-hearted journalists can't afford to pass up the chance of a storysisters, or rather, particularly if they know they need to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth can't resist sticking her nose were until Helen was killed in. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case therewhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an extra interest in it for Elspethunmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and once Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how shecould come to fall in front of a train. Greg's spotted the connection between the ritualised murder and the local myth about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources been asked to try and uncover a serial killerinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1838954481|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of you the jury system he was found not familiar with Agatha Raisin she is essentially 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 capital and hoping for a short-tempered private investigator quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her early 50s with an alcohol, doughnut and man obsession. Much like TVterritory she's Midsomer Murders, drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1448309743|title=The Furthest StationDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters In the village of Cronchie on a particular part the West coast of the Metropolitan LineScotland, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the Special Assessment Unithome is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, also death will follow. The only suspects are known as Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Folly. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, they are all DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Follyto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1529077699|title= The Happy EndingRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. He''It's a bit shakey on his pinsall bloody peculiar, canisn't move far without his walking frameit, has been known to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still heSir?''s managing well enough at home Well yes, it is. Mentally he's all thereJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, even if he does have these conversations with his wifestayed for about a month and then turned up, who's been naked and dead , in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the last 6 yearsvillage of Greystone, in Devon. ThereRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round 's a point when 'doing okcelebrity' stops being quite so ok, a point when there's clearly no purpose left. NoI ''nearly'' said 'all-one comes, even the paramedics seem to have shunted you to the bottom of the listround good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and well, ithis background isn's all becoming just a bit too undignifiedt exactly an open book. To be honest, when Where did he found get the morphine Betty'd been stock-piling against the day her own illness got too much money for her but never used as it turned out, his first boat? Harry was on How did he finance the point of using it himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1529427045|title=These Darkening DaysThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=Somewhere ''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 his brain Tony Garner knew 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 getting hold Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the knife was part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a mistake, but he liked knives scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and had quite looking for a collection until they were all taken away after way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the accident which had left him, well, not quite night bus that will only go as far as he ought to beone of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem with this knife was that it was beside ', particularly in the woman who was lying in light of 'the ginnell, one leg twisted under her rather strangely and with blood coursing down her facemissing women'. Tony thought about ringing For one young woman, the police but dismissed final stop on the idea quicklybus leaves her a long way short of her home. She was still alive had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - just - so an ambulance might have been a good idea, but Tony her phone's dead. The bus had an instinct for when trouble was going driven off before she had the chance to catch him, so he dropped beg the knife down a drain bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and disappearedin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith1405957174|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryDeath at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Adrian Gray was From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a particularly pleasant man- is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but that the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no reason why he should meet one has been charged with his death at murder and it's now the hands subject of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931''Infamous'', a true-crime show. None A group of experts has been brought together to review the six children were fond of their father evidence and several had cause to wish him deadtake the investigation further. Richard was More to the eldest and was married point, they're going to Laurado this live on camera, episode by episode. He was a politician There's no dump of the whole box set - and keen no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to advance himself Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step- father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and to get her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a title other than the knighthood which he already had - but such endeavours cost money which he life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'didn'tsilent sentence'- she' s not been found guilty of anything but will haveto live with what happened for the rest of her life. HeOf course, it's made worse because Nancy'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him out the papers are making the most of the messit. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>