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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Joe Gores|title=Spade and Archer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his one<!--man detective agency. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entails. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, it's evident that Sam is a man of few words. He has the mannerisms of a cat Remove - stealthy, quick on his feet. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Jay ParkerStuart Douglas|title=Stop MeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', but most leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of us will have had to deal with thema reservoir. FortunatelyThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, we can hit but something about the delete button whole thing bothers Lowe, and forget about them as quickly as they camehe enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, no matter how bad my luck is supposed a link to become if I don'tdeath during the Second World War. But I wonder how many of us would react if is there really a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming link between the deaths? And will they manage to beuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox0008517061|title=Blood BornDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothershas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. But when Anya arrives at There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the house she finds Giverny close to death future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and faces her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a battle against time lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to save Little Sky despite her. In the panic, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell reservations about whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save not this is the girl's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the case falls apart. She blames herself for moment they’re enjoying life in the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed present and raped resulting in putting the death of one, while future on the other clings to lifeback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1786482126|title=The Brutal TellingJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the ringing bones of the telephonea child beneath a doorway. There is was no skull. Was this a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunnedritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but thereIt's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues difficult as to the identity of the victim. MeanwhileRuth knows, in Montrealbut Nelson doesn't, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec that she is called into investigate, along pregnant with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacostechild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. They've been to Three Pines Her condition will be obvious beforelong, but this time the village not least because Ruth is in chaosprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey0008551324|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus Devil You Know (a demonic female spiritD S Max Craigie) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say Goodbye|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hard-working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news is that the boy's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Barrie|title=Wasp-Waisted|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigations. His first case proves to be something of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Paris. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body is delivered to Exposé, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murderer. Despite the provenance of the picture it's difficult not to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Ferguson |title=HustleNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, It's unusual for anyone from the long con and Hardie family to approach the short conpolice. The long con Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is more elaborate struggling in prison and has more that can go wrong, takes he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at oncepolice doing what he wants. It And what he wants is this that to be transferred to an open prison to serve the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' remainder of his sentence and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'find s even prepared to do the lady'', which aims to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that return comes a lot quicker DS Max Craigie and this anyone who works with him is the basis for Will Fergusonkept well away from what's ''Hustle''happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 0008405026|title=Conman|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Thanks to the success of the BBC TV show ''Hustle'', the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recall. I've always liked the series, as it shows a battle of wits and there is so much that can go wrong the outcome is A Stranger in doubt right until the end. Until Richard Asplin's ''Conman'', I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaver's ''The Vanished Man'' comes close.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Ian Rankin |title=The ComplaintsJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in It'The Complaints' is not s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the job for you if personal popularity mattersinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, because they're the cops who investigate other copsand her father are dead in their bed. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there for some time and at 's something about the beginning positioning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policemanbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Most people think that Glen Heaton What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwisecomplex double murder. They don't reckon Kerrigan is convinced that hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's bent and theredisappearance: others (such as Derwent's a degree of resentment against Foxboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0571379877|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane Edward Jevons is reluctant to take on the case of a missing teenagerworking-class young man, but obsessed with his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itupper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in Robert's a peculiarly nasty waytheatre director. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to know something also becomes a victimrun errands for him. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who Edward has abducted been in love with Stanza since their university days - and murdered a number of very young women he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the police do a relationship had begun between them but he's not really care very much. Most of like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the victims are homeless women with a history two of drug problems and them kissing in a life on the wrong side of the lawdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N J CooperJo Callaghan|title=Leave No EscapeTrace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I've long had an interest When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in psychologyNuneaton, particularly abnormal psychologyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. The mind is a fascinating thingIt's their first live case together, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wronghaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The same But when there is true of crime thrillersa second body found crucified a few days later, which are Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot more entertaining when things don't work out too well for the policeof unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. So Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to me.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1035021803|title=Family LifeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the family farm for LiamEnglish country village where she grew up. She's birthdayback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. There was just one empty seat at the table Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the family waited for Joe – the only one of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the children who wanted to farm – to return homeleast. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Arthur was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe's body reason why Freya had not been discovered on land by a disused warehouseback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There Even though they were no injuries in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the body split, she worked in a cafe, met and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1398524085|title=The Gigolo MurderHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a break-Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and selfher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -pity for too longstrangely - her husband, so his friendAlec, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbul. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be marriednot. However Shortly afterwards, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder caseEtty and Greg, when Pekerdemfind the body of Greg's brother-father, Duncan Ackerley, in-law is accused of the murder of a gigoloriver. Our hero suspects 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 brother-in-law is guilt. The Salter children are not guilty... convinced but there's little else they can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529900360|title=Skeleton HillThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When the Sealed Knot reIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a sixand-pack in shut cases which didn't need the shade help of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no morepsychologist only worked for a while. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a relic of the battlepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. One of She knew that the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out involvement was something that the bone is nowhere near as old as they thinkman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, but though. Two lovers were murdered in the head swimming pool of Bath CID still has difficulty a remote property in establishing who Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is buried in that lonely spotmarried to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 178763681X|title=BaitKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The close 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'60sd be at the school to assist Paul, the dawn of the who had a broken arm, but it didn'70st turn out that way. San Francisco. Some people say The teaching - and the most influential people problems - are Nixon and all his croniesown. Some people say theyThe one thing he hadn're Charlie Manson and his croniest expected was for someone to turn up dead. Some people call Unfortunately, he was the smog surrounding person who discovered the body and everyone in the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug haze. Doc, knows that the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point police consider that person to be the same bigwig property developer. One of these is from his ex, now with said mogul, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately diessuspect. How will this escalate into a manic mystery, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1529421284|title=BloodlineLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murdera heatwave. However In a gully, slivers of an X-Ray are found in a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the dead womanbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's handd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, and so it is soon discovered that the womancould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's mother t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to murder all the children suicide of Raymond Garvey'sHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time... That someone may just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the tumour that killed his father meant Major Crimes Review Unit (that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killer's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1529425867|title=The Dead RoomLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick seriesIn Oxford, the Dead Room sees the head there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and her always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, sonof Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's hospitalisationnot any of those things. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved He's white, she realises that the case is more complicated than she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already deadoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and suggestions that her fathertrackies. They's death re usually in the line of duty wasnlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you't all that it seemed re being introduced to bea police procedural written for laughs. Meanwhile Well, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husbandyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's murderproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 1529431735|title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the following morning the body of one of them was found in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children of long-defunct Ragged Schoolmore surprising. The teenager had He'd been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there was exiled on the Costa del Sol as a Victorian doll – similarly mutilated. Back in the nineteen fifties there has been four murders in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled and mutilated and left with wanted drug smuggler for a doll by their sidedecade. The killer return has come about because he's had never been brought a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to justicelive. HeIt'd be likely s hard to be in his seventies by now – was it possible that he was still fit enough to return feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Dawes Green|title=Ravens|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Shaw underwear and Romeo are two friends, moving across country for sent to a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has just had watery grave in the only winning lottery ticket for boot of a $318million jackpotstolen Ford Sierra. The family involved is very average - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up for the weekly lottery and descends into Is it a gin fug as warning from a result, girl stuck on Facebook, boy glued to Spanish gang or a PSP or something. There are enough gaps within the family for the pair of guys problem closer to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winnings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell0861541774|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=An au pair took her employerDCI Domenic Jejeune's young daughterclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, the next-door neighbour's son and his friend has taken a short holiday in Singapore to the parkmeet up with an old ally, but the young girl Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy facing a man armed with a knife - and with the wilfulness he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of a child who finds herself less than manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the centre of attention ran off into man. Now he could be facing the bushes, where she knew that she must not godeath penalty. In there she used Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a stick to stir up some leaves diplomatic incident and uncovered the body of a womanwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elliott J Gorn 1521129886|title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number OneThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=John Dillinger was born 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 brought up in Indianathey're both delighted. His childhood was no better and no worse than most but Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the early part of his adult life was to be blighted morning sickness. Greg is approached by a spell in prison when he was convicted of an attack on a man old friend whose brother-in a botched hold-uplaw 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. Hoping for leniency Lucy, he pleaded guilty but 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 sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonmentsuicide, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentence. Itbut Stuart's easy prepared to see where Dillinger's contempt for pay Greg to find out what happened on the law was spawnednight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia B0CK3MYJ56|title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia FamilyResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Joaquin It'Jacks the 1990s and Greg Mason' Garcia worked for the FBIs twenty-eight years old. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim He used to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at have a time high-flying job in the city but sometimes for yearsit wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. In 'Shades of Cameron Strike'Making Jack Falcone, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where'' he tells s the life experience that backs up this profession? On the story of how other hand, he came has been asked to infiltrate the Mafia in New York look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was responsible for killed in what's been written off as a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime familiestragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. If that doesnJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italianstrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 1838954481|title=BurnThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I am Ryan Kennedy killed a great fan 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 courtroom dramas, which is one the jury system he was found not guilty of both the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much murder and I pretty much look on him as the master manslaughter of this genrethe officer. So, 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 I discover a book that claims that itmissing teenager is found on her territory she's ''better than Grisham or your money drawn into a wider investigation - and back'' I am bound to be interested. This was into the claim made by the publishers orbit of ''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that he writes lives up to expectations. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does? Read on..Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Mosby 1448309743|title=Still BleedingThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alex Connor has been trying to negate In the village of Cronchie on the memory West coast of his wife's suicide by running away. He's left all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them for years. But now SarahScotland, one five members of his closest friends, has been a wealthy family are found murdered and . The only item missing from the prime suspect home is her partnerthe Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, Alexdeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's brother Jamesan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. For Alex The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, this DCI Christine Caplan is the one thing that could call him home, as Sarah was the one who told pulled in to 'shadow' him to confront death, not run from it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina1529077699|title=Still MidnightThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On a quiet Sunday evening in the suburbs of Glasgow an old man is kidnapped from an unassuming house. The kidnappers are incompetent – they don''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't seem entirely certain who it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is they're after and . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of them fires his gunan autumn gale, badly injuring stayed for about a teenage girl. As they leavemonth and then turned up, taking the old man with themnaked and dead, they demand in a ransom small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of two million poundsGreystone, in Devon. Have they got Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the right house world sailor and if so, why do they think that thereall round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 's so much money to be had there? DS Alex Morrow is certain that this is going to be her case – after all, she was promised – -round good egg' but it goes to her arch rivalas we'll find out, DS Grant Bannerman he could be more than a little bit close with money and she is to work under his commandbackground isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100529</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{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 - prime numbers for example''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine 1787636607|title=Inhuman RemainsThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Primavera Blackstone wants to keep It's a low profile. After an apparent attempt on her life by her ex-husband, she is still feeling fragile, even though Mr Blackstone is now dead. Living scene replicated all too often in Spain with her seven year old son, Tom, she thinks she is safe from prying eyes, but then her Aunt Adrienne comes to visit and all hell lets losethe early hours of the morning. Adrienne asks Prim to find her son, Prim's cousin, Frank, who has been Drunken revellers spilling out of contact clubs and looking for some time a way to get home. Some are lucky and who she suspects is in some kind manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of troublethe outlying villages. Prim eventually tracks Frank down, or rather, Frank finds her The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', but by then Adrienne is particularly in the hands light of his enemies'the missing women'. For one young woman, the perpetrators final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of a massive commercial fraudher home. Can Prim help Frank She had intended to safety, find Adrienne ring someone to come and solve collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the mystery, all without putting bus driver to let her sonuse his. There's life no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in danger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348990</amazonuk>high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol O'Connell 1405957174|title=Bone by BoneA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty years ago two teenage boys went into From the woods outside the northern Californian town of Coventry but only one of them came homefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The other was sent away by his father, Judge Hobbs victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he's only just returned home because he believes that his father might be dyingso desperately needs. During the first night thereWhat we don's a thump as a human jawbone – complete with teeth – lands on t know is who the front porchman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Josh Hobbs is coming home – bone by boneI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535298X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Castillo0008530025|title=Sworn to SilenceMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Called out yet again It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the freezing cold body of an Ohio winter night to deal with stray cows in the roadher stepfather, Officer T.J. BanksLuke Ryder, newcomer to in the Painters Mill police department, is not a happy mangarden of their West London home. His night, however, is going to get a whole lot worse. From He had an injury on the hole in back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the wire fence when steps but the cattle escapedvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, a trail of blood leads him across the snow to an unknown woman, 'no one has been charged with his murder and it'naked as s now the day she came into thissubject of '' Infamous''world, a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and deader than Elvis''to take the investigation further. With the understatement of More to the yearpoint, Banks tells dispatch that 'they're going to do this was no'' ''accident…I think we got us a murderlive on camera, episode by episode. There''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736408</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Gardner|title=The Neighbour|rating=5|genre=Crime |summary=Jason Jones returns from his late shift at s no dump of the newspaper to find his four-yearwhole box set -old daughter, Ree, sleeping soundly and his wife nowhere to be seenno shortage of cliffhangers. Sandy has not taken her bag, money or her mobile phone and she has not taken her car. More importantly she has not taken Ree. And Sandy would never leave ReeIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101029</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl0241996104|title=The Last DickensComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime Thrillers|summary=In BengalNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, India on a June day in 1870 two young mounted policemen are hot on the trail of dacoit suspected has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the recent daylight robbery of court, after Martin receives a train of bullock cartslife sentence. The chests taken from 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 carts were full rest of Opiumher life. Meanwhile a few thousand miles away in Boston Of course, USA, a young office boy is chased through it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the docks by a dark stranger most of it. ''HindooFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' appearance wielding a walking stick topped by a ferociously fanged idolis one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655084X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marshall Karp1529413680|title=Flipping OutA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the UK, when people used to be able to afford it, people might form a career liberation of the town from the English in taking run-down houses, doing them up 1370 and selling them on for a profitBruno's there to see the show with some friends. If It's all been very lucky (or particularly weirdcarefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, as was more often the case) they might get a second career doing man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the same thing on TVscript. But over in LALuckily, where his doctor is there and the process man is known as ''flipping'', they do things much betterwhisked away in a helicopter. There, a group A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of policemensurvival but - as he's wives have formed a group with a wellsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -known mystery authorthe military has stepped in. She writes a murder book set One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in the house the others are working onCalifornia, and when both hit the markets together the profit is exemplary. Or so it is until someone starts bringing real life death to the houses - for the very women flying in the group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749079789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K O Dahl|title=The Last Fix|rating=4|genre=Crime |summary=Katrine Bratterud didn't really want to go to the party, but it was given by the people from with some of her drug rehabilitation centre and she felt under an obligation as the social workers had done so much to help her. It wasnfather't going to be easy though – the other guests would be drinking heavily whilst she had to remain clean and to make matters worse she'd been physically attacked that day at the travel agency where she workeds friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571232949</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glen Peters 1529196388|title=Mrs D'Silva's Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of CalcuttaThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime |summary=During Grant Cliveden was a picnic excursion with 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 mother Joan murder - Jimmy Knight - and other families from Calcuttait's Anglo Indian communitynot too long before Knight appears in court, ten year old Errol makes a gruesome discovery – charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the partly decomposed body best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a young woman. The victim turns out to be Agnes, brought up by nuns Stag Court Chambers and lately married to a much older man. As witnesses, Joan it's Taylor-Cameron and Errol are required to attend the inquest at which a verdict of suicide is implied. After the inquest, Anil, a former his pupil at the school where Joan teaches, and PhilomenaAdam Green, both friends of the dead girlwho eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, confide in Joan that they believe that Agnes was murdered and ask for Joandespite all Taylor-Cameron's help in finding out who was responsiblerecommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906998019</amazonuk>
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