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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Stuart Douglas<!|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries -- Henley -->Death at the Dress Rehearsal|-rating=3.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787196607.jpgCrime|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787196607/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Reckless Obsession by Dai Henley]]=== [[image:4starDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further.jpg| They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crimeto death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|Crime]]isbn=1803368209}}{{FrontpageIt was several years since DCI Andy Flood's wife had been murdered, but he'd not come to terms with it|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. His daughters were coping reasonably well, not least because There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his mother had moved vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in after Georgina's death together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and she ran relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the home future she wants for herself and looked after the girls. her daughter? Flood's real problem was that For the Met had moved moment they’re enjoying life in the murder to cold case status. He couldn't believe that they'd do this when present and putting the murder of future on the wife of one of their own was unsolved, but ''he's'' determined not to give up on the case. Each evening when he's finished work he goes into his study and works on the statements from the case, looking for any inconsistencies. [[Reckless Obsession by Dai Henleyback burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|Full Review]]author=Elly Griffiths <!-- Schaffhausen -->|rating=4.5|-genre=Crime| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-align: top; textfive 'luxury' apartments -align: center;"|[[image:Schaffhausen_Vanishingwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway.jpg|left|link=https://www There was no skull.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657135 Was this a ritual killing or murder?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657135]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Vanishing Season by Johanna Schaffhausen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{ Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime=4.5|genre=Crime]] Schaffhausen has been garnering a lot of attention |summary=It's unusual for her first crime novel having already been crowned a ''First Crime Novel Award Winner'' by anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Mystery Writers of Americapolice. My interest therefore was definitely piqued and I was excited to read this book Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. So, does it live up But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to all tell the police where the hype? In body of a word: yesmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. I was gripped from the outset (forgive the terrible pun This person, he promises, we are after all dealing with a serial killer who chops off is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the hands remainder of his victims sentence and to keep as trophies!) [[The Vanishing Season by Johanna Schaffhausen|Full Review]] <!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 -- Parsons -->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:178089595X.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/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;"|===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5starold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with an air ambulance, She was never found and the mess falls on investigation ground to a busy shopping centre halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and we her father are barely out of the first chapterdead in their bed. DC Max Wolfe Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's latest adventure looks at religion, radicalisation, hate and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump to catching those responsible. The rest something about the positioning of the book gradually builds a web of intrigue bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and a virtual soap opera of family issuesher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]] <!-- Reynolds What looked as though it was going to be an open-and->|-| style="widthshut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Reynolds_Fireothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.jpg}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|lefttitle=The Kellerby Code|linkauthor=http://www.amazonJonny Sweet|rating=3.co.uk/dp/0575090588/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalEdward Jevons is a working-align: top; textclass young man, obsessed with his upper-align: left;"|===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5starclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] He's also self-obsessed, demanding, [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically handsome and entitled and uses Edward to everyone else run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or why, or who could be next. In such a circumstance who can be trusted tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if stumble upon the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]]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_Doves.jpg|left|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786074273/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: When a man is found crucified on the top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:4stara hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] The It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body of a senior attaché from the Mexican consulate was found in crucified a local bird sanctuaryfew days later, along Kat is suddenly struggling with the body of the director. It was a strange tableau: the girl impaled on a branch a potential serial killer and the man lying at her feet, both in a cage. The fact very high profile case that the man is draws a diplomat isn't immediately evident - he was in the area under an assumed namelot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. DCI (and birder enthusiast) Domenic Jejeune is conflicted. The immediate problem is obviously Will they be able to establish who murdered solve the man and case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the woman - case and even that's complicated by the political necessity of not to involving the Mexican consulate, thus tying his hands rather tightly. The thoughts which are running in the back potentially, out of his mind though are about the full-time research position studying birds which the director's death has opened up. Could this be his escape route from the police force? [[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrowsa career?|Full Review]]isbn=139851120X}}<!-- Griffiths -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1035021803| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller[[image:Griffiths_Dark|rating=3.jpg5|left|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784296635/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]=== [[image:4starIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Dr Ruth Galloway has got used to being She's back now because of a published authorrequest for help from her beloved aunt, to being on television, but sheCarole. Freya's still flattered when Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli asks for her help with some bones which heformer mentor and Carole's discovered in a tiny hilltop village outside Romeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, but doesn't know what to make of themsay the least. Ruth succumbs Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to temptationthe village: Arthur, she and Angelo have some history (it was just the one nightfeels, let her down badly...) and it's years since Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she's had a holiday. Even a working holiday has has not felt able to be an improvementnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. Castello degli Angeli isn't quite what After the split, she was expecting, but it will make worked in a reasonable break for hercafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her daughter Katelife, friend Shona who was murdered) and Freya and Shona's son LouisJames have now divorced. [[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths|Full Review]]}}<!-- Burrows -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1398524085| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French[[image:Burrows_Siege.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780748434/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:3Charlotte 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is new to Saltmarsh, but his reputation has come before himnot. Success in a high profile case has made him Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the poster boy river. It was an easy assumption for the police. There's a snag though: Jejeune isnto make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't ''actually'' that keen on stand the jobguilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd much rather be out birdwatching, s little else they can do but that doesn't bring in an income get on with their lives and there's a simple factwonder about what really happened. Jejeune is '}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn'veryt been Lt Milo Sturgis'' a very good detectives fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, with insights which few other people possessSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. There's one advantage to His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the job too: Saltmarsh is situated in North Norfolkhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, the UKDelaware's premier birding country but sometimes Jejeune's mind is more on partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the birds than involvement was something that the jobman she loved needed. [[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Durrenmatt -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice The next 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| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]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 in hand to look into things 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 second timeheatwave. But what's this 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]] <!-- Giordano -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]] There are 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 (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1529425867|==title=[[Auntie Poldi Lost and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How to describe this book - well for starters it's unlike anything Never Found (A D 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]] <!-- Ellis -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] <!-- Tudor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] <!-- Mendoza -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] Michael Holland is a cocky 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 (a stoner tooth fairyWilkins Mystery) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) 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]] |} {{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 <!Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|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. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a 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 have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the 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, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and 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 train. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 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 capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a 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 his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - remove 25/10 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 Trap|author=Suzanne Elizabeth ReedCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis 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', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=MartyA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's Masterparty will not end well. The victim - a 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=34.5

|summary=Margaret It was nervous about going for in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the walk around the lake on body of her ownstepfather, convinced until Luke Ryder, in the very last moment that her husband would relent and go with hergarden of their West London home. She made it to He had an injury on the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the bar, relieved that sheback of his head which could have happened if he'd managed to leave slipped down the steps but the drunken man who vicious beating his face had taken was Martyobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's master and some other suspiciousnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-looking men behind hercrime show. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sister's widower, Avel, had remarried A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and his new wifeto take the investigation further. More to the point, Elenathey're going to do this live on camera, was in the clubhouse with Avelepisode by episode. There's children no dump of the whole box set - three teenage girls and a boy who was little more than a toddlerno shortage of cliffhangers. Elena didn't look in the least pleased to be there and despite AvelIt's promises to pick them up, he was nowhere to be seencompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann0241996104|title= WychwoodComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=ThirtyNancy's mother and step-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and left her partnerstep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Much as she prefers London We first meet Nancy outside the court, she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for after Martin receives a short time to lick life sentence. The barrister tells her wounds, but that she arrives to find the neighbouring part of the Wychwood is 's received a crime scene. Even broken'silent sentence' -hearted journalists canshe't afford s not been found guilty of anything but will have to pass up live with what happened for the chance rest of a story, particularly if they know they need to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth can't resist sticking her nose inlife. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case there Of course, it's an extra interest in it for Elspeth, and once shemade worse because Nancy's spotted the connection between the ritualised murder rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the local myth about papers are making the Carrion King, Peter most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killer''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1529413680|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those One of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin she the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is essentially a shortthe re-tempered private investigator enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in her early 50s 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with an alcoholsome friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, doughnut Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man obsessionis whisked away in a helicopter. Much like TV A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's Midsomer Murdersa senior government employee, the small Cotswold village where Agatha man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives has an astonishingly high crime rate nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farsome of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1529196388|title=The Furthest StationTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on Grant Cliveden was a hero: a particular part of 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 the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the Metropolitan Lineframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for example him was Jonathan Taylor- they call for PC Peter Grant Cameron of the Special Assessment UnitStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, also known as The Follywho eventually represent him. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders Knight's determined to plead not guilty, they are despite all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The FollyTaylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>