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|author=Seishi Yokomizo Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During 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. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to 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?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=The Honjin MurdersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=To many readersFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to make the book one move in with Livia or does Livia move to read; preferably quantified by Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the words 'clever' or 'good'. future she wants for herself and her daughter? For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan moment they’re enjoying life in the 1930spresent and putting the future on the back burner. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The oldest son of Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned upbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, what Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with it being arranged at great hasteDCI Harry Nelson. She only has an uncle representing her familyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, for that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one thingnight they spent together some three months ago. Either wayHer condition will be obvious before long, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only 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=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the wedded couple to be slashed Hardie family to death in their private annex before approach the sun rises on their marriagepolice. What with 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 man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhoodperson is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at 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 time remainder of the crimehis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, this case has a lot of is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the peculiar about itother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1782275002

|authorisbn=Will Dean 0008405026|title=Black River A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns It's sixteen years since nine- year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her personal lifefather are dead in their bed. Initially, returning it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss 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 isolated town of Gavrik explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and into Stanza. Robert's a desperate search theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her missing best friendsidekick, the AI detective Lock. 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 unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. With Will they be able to solve the Midsommar sun blocked case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out by of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the dark pines English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the forestcircumstances seem suspicious, Tuva fights to save say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her frienddown badly. But who’ll Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte 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 - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It 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 little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{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, Sturgis was reluctant to save Tuvaask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help 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 the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786077116178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. 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.

|isbn=17857692941529421284|title=Man at Laying Out the Window (Detective Cardilini)Bones|author=Robert JeffreysKate Webb

|summary=It's when we read was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a young boy is creeping reluctantly gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a teacherknown drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? 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 bedroom one October night that we realise something cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In 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 badly wrongnot. He's not any of those things. Nowadays you He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really''his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You mightwonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part re not. The two men are just different sides of the childsame policing coin. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit in Sometimes the most horrific fashioncombination works brilliantly well. When he reached Captain EdmundSometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's bedroom he found February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the man dead more surprising. He'd been exiled on the floor, the top of his skull missingCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The schoolreturn has come about because he's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and it was obviously sent to a stray bullet which had killed watery grave in the Captainboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbn=14722557981529427045|title=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Quintin JardineKarin 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 Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of shoplifting from clubs and looking for a local supermarketway to get home. It's always been assumed that she couldn't live with Some are lucky and manage to get one of the shamefew taxis available. People were surprised Others squash onto the night bus that she committed suicide just before will only go as far as one of the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight to clear her nameoutlying villages. She said that she The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'd been set up because she was hot . For one young woman, the final stop on the trail bus leaves her a long way short of corruption in the councilher home. Her ex She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinnerbut her phone's daughter, and asked that dead. The bus had driven off before she look into clearing Brownhad the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's name: it's something which he feels that he has no option but to do start walking - unsuitably clothed and in memory of his son who was murdered recentlyhigh-heeled shoes.

|isbn=15294022551405957174|title=A Body in Death at the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Party|author=Helen CoxAmy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious of From the scars on her facefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. They were acquired The victim - a man - is dying when she was rescued from a car in we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the River Ouse by Inspector Halloranambulance he so desperately needs. She’d been suspected of What we don't know is who the murder of her boyfriend, Owen, and in the process of clearing her name she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detectionman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Kitt developed I'd better give you a taste for Inspector Halloran Too, but they’re taking it slowly. Well, sort of slowlylittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.

|isbn=02419851100008530025|title=All Murder in the Rage (D I Fawley)Family

|summary=A very beautifulIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on in the outskirts garden of Oxfordtheir West London home. She didnHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't want to go to d slipped down the police station or steps but the hospital: she just wanted to be vicious beating his face had taken homewas obviously deliberate. The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policeTwenty years later, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford no one has been charged with his murder and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Foolit's joke which had gone wrongnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. No crime had A group of experts has been committed brought together to review the evidence and Faith didn't want to take the matter any investigation further. Fawley and his team werenMore to the point, they't prepared re going to leave it at that do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and they began investigatingno shortage of cliffhangers. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didnIt't seem to have much of a historys compelling viewing.

|isbn=15420154210241996104|title=The Royal Baths MurderComing to Find You|author=J R EllisJane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4

|summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant man. In fact the only surprising thing was that town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there wasn't more of a queue waiting to do see the dirty deedshow with some friends. What was a bit It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer and that the main characters is seriously injured when he was strangled in departs from the midst of Harrogate's crime writing festivalscript. He went for a swim at the Royal Baths and never returnedLuckily, his body being found by doctor is there and the receptionistman is whisked away in a helicopter. DCI Jim Oldroyd was A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man tasked with investigating who runs Frenchelon - the crimemilitary has stepped in. It would not be the only death, One daughter lives nearby and it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeantanother, Andy Carterwho lives in California, that Oldroydis flying in with some of her father's was not one of themfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.

|authorisbn= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)1529196388|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= Grant Cliveden was a hero: 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 the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it'It Would Be Night s not too long before Knight appears in Caracascourt, charged with Cliveden'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelas murder. It begins with Knight was told that the death best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Adelaida FalconStag Court Chambers and it's mother Taylor-Cameron and chronicles Adelaidahis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's coming determined to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to escape itthe contrary. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- Nicci French -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471179230.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471179230/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lying Room by Nicci French]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. He has a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Lying Room by Nicci French|Full Review]] <!-- Nicola Monaghan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0857308025.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VRSX3SN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It was more than a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of Nottingham. Then it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she'd even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. They'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were the man and the woman, wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on the Murder Squad, ending up as a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get. [[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan|Full Review]] <!-- Ann Cleeves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509889566.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509889566/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]] When we first meet DI Matthew Venn he's at his father's funeral, although 'at' rather overstates the proximity. He sees everyone - his mother and the preacher included from a distance - but he doesn't go it. He wouldn't be welcome. Those attending are part of the Barum Brethren and the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told the congregation how wrong they were in their beliefs. It coincided with him leaving university and joining the police force. The announcement of Matthew's marriage to Jonathan Church was in the local paper and whilst he doesn't know if his father saw it, he can't imagine that it will have gone down well. [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves|Full Review]] <!-- Stephen Booth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:075157628X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/075157628X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Drowned Lives by Stephen Booth]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an old man who wants his help in healing a decades' old family rift he's reluctant to get involved, but then Chris is reluctant to get involved in anything but a pint in the pub these days. It could just be the way that he is, or the fact that he's just lost both his parents within three months of each other. He's currently existing in the family home and wondering when he's going to be made redundant from his job with the council. The short answer to that one is 'soon'. Chris does his best to deter the old man, but it's not before he's left a lot of papers with his neighbour. Then the old man is murdered and the police come calling on Chris. [[Drowned Lives by Stephen Booth|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1784742783.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742783/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler) by Susan Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky and - all things considered - his life is as good as it could be. He's back at work after a long break to recuperate from the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his life. When he's not at work he's spending his time in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restored. There's talk of an exhibition of his drawings. Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. It's the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a call. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubt. [[The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler) by Susan Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Lynda La Plante -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785768506.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785768506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) by Lynda La Plante]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Jane Tennison had worked hard to get a place on the Flying Squad and she felt that she was there on merit. The Squad wondered who she'd slept with to get the place and bets were being taken as to who she'd sleep with in the first week. What none of them - Jane included - knew was that she was there as an experiment, in the hope that a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised and Jane was the only female who applied who ticked all the boxes. She doesn't tick all the boxes for the head of the Squad, DCI Murphy. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experience, and the appropriate set of genitals - and he's determined that Jane will fail. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) by Lynda La Plante|Full Review]] <!-- Steve Burrows -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786075776.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786075776/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Dance of Cranes by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy Hey, the estrangement being of his making, not hers. He hasn't explained to her that he is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant and now has her first murder case. It looks as though there's an obvious suspect, but Salter isn't so certain. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey to rescue his brother, Damian, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parks. [[A Dance of Cranes by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Oates -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785656775.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785656775/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musician, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition of ''The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates|Full Review]] <!-- Paula Daly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787632105.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787632105/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Clear My Name by Paula Daly]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating the cases of prisoners who can convince them that they've been wrongly convicted and they're just moving Move on to their next case. She's somewhat surprised when Clive, the head of the charity, announces that she'll have someone shadowing her. Avril's in her mid twenties and rather gauche as well as prone to putting her foot in it. One of the reasons they're now going to look at the case of Carrie Kamara is that she's female and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a woman: such impressions matter. [[Clear My Name by Paula Daly|Full Review]] <!-- Denzil Meyrick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1846974755.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846974755/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Newest Crime]] Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed in Kinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. It's hard to avoid the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, golfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before one of the crew members and a local bird watcher go missing. [[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI DaleyHistorical) by Denzil Meyrick|Full Review]] <!-- Stuart MacBride -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0007419449.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007419449/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Stuart MacBride]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] DS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killer. He's just about OK and he's supposed to be easing himself back into the swing of the job in a gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch. He'd been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's the first of several child murders. To add to the complications the police even have a body but no child reported missing. A serial killer, a child killer and abuser, is on the loose in Aberdeen and the press are missing no opportunity to bay for blood. As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happening. [[Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Stuart MacBride|Full Review]]