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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffery DeaverStuart Douglas|title=The Bodies Left BehindLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and her husband Steven decided to buy Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a holiday home reservoir. The police seem happy to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesassign it as an accidental death, they brought an old colonial house in but something about the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsinwhole thing bothers Lowe, on foreclosure – it seemed like and he enlists the deal help of a lifetimefellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. But on They travel across the country during their first evening in the placedays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin link to freak death during the couple outSecond World War. They know they are in real trouble when But is there really a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters link between the building and the only hope deaths? And will they have is that someone will take notice of Steven's phone call manage to the police, cut off by the intruders after he uncover who is able to get out only one word – This.responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton0008517061|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a happy woman. She is concerned little uncertainty about the future of his life with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worsehis vet girlfriend, Livia and her ex-husbanddaughter Diana, James, is getting married to as moving in together would mean a much younger woman lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Agatha has been invited relaxing life to the wedding. She goes, move in with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind future she wants for herself and wants to pull out of her daughter? For the wedding. Then moment they’re enjoying life in the bride is killed, by a bullet through present and putting the window, and James and Agatha are future on the primary suspectsback burner. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1786482126|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the southsite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -east and when they discovered the other in the north-eastbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with each otherDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but years later Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. The author has investigated the connection and come up with a riveting bookHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551324|authortitle=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with It's unusual for anyone from the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with Hardie family to approach the Dragon Tattoo]], police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the first of Steig Larssonother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Millennium trilogy prepared to tell the police where the body of thrillers, a missing person is buried and who was a fine stand-alone novelresponsible for her death. The second in the series This person, he promises, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson is someone big and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues 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 adventures remainder of Lisbeth Salanderhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, Larssonis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's finely crafted antieven prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -hero. If you havenmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review nows happening. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0008405026|title=Tooth and ClawA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and yet again the police have failed investigation ground to connect the deathsa halt. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - Now, her mother, Helena, and blown her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. Hestraightforward murder/suicide but there's planning his next murder already, secreted away in something about the shed at the bottom positioning of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid fatherbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Carl is embittered What looked as though it was going to be an open-and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing shut case is now a career complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as a forensic psychologist, thereDerwent's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to cleanboss, to, well, just to bear it, reallyUna Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 0571379877|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino Edward Jevons is stabbed on her way home from worka working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayRobert's worka theatre director. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There is the draftee with a sick motherHe's also self-obsessed, the nurse who thinks she has run over a babydemanding, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating handsome and entitled and othersuses Edward to run errands for him. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how these events drag through he feels to the morningRobert. We are shown how 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 midst two of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns them kissing in a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothingdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel McCreryJo Callaghan|title=Core of EvilLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup When a man is found crucified on the top of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. '"There are all kinds of horrible things a hill in the Christmas rose," she saidNuneaton, watching DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see whether Daisy could still hear the case alongside her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalissidekick, which I've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as wellthe AI detective Lock. It's a their first live case together, having previously been very nasty cocktailsuccessful with several cold cases."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on But when there is a second body found crucified a new townfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a new identity potential serial killer and, most importantly, a new victimvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Daisy has problems with her memory - Will they be able to solve the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is nowcase in time, let alone all or will Kat find herself taken off the whos she's been beforecase and, potentially, and most certainly not the who with whom she began. out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1035021803|title=Dead of WinterThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon LakeIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the 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, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely dead and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life and on arrival Even though they were in Loon Lake he feels almost business together as if he has come home. Life antique hunters, she has not been easy for Kincaidfelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. A troubledAfter the split, unhappy child of mixed raceshe worked in a cafe, passed around various institutions met and foster homes, Louis figures that if he is going to put some integrity back into married James (on the rebound from the worldlove of her life, he will need to wear a badge to do itwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1398524085|title=Fear in the CotswoldsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by professionCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. When people go away she moves into their homes Her children, sons Niall, Paul and looks after their animals Ollie and the propertyher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. This time it's winter Shortly afterwards, Etty and sheGreg, find the body of Greg's spending a month father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Cotswold village of Hampnettriver. It wouldn't be a job was an easy assumption for all of us but Thea delights in getting the police to know the local people make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the areaguilt. In the past sheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's also been involved with the police in solving various cases little else they can do but it looks as though that might have come to an end as the relationship she had get on with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to a body in a nearby field. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared their lives and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it allabout what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1529900360|title=Spade and ArcherThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravelyIt 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 set up ask for his one-man detective agencyhelp on difficult cases. ItHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's t need the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entails. Many locals, help of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquorpsychologist only worked for a while. Straight awayFinally, it's evident that Sam is a man of few words. He has the mannerisms of a cat - stealthywas Robin, quick on his feet. HeDelaware's also a compulsive chain-smokerpartner, but then who nudged Milo into asking for help again, most people were. In She knew that era, holding a cigarette the involvement was an elegant, almost essential accessorysomething that the man she loved needed. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Jay Parker|title=Stop Me|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingThe next case did look simple, but most of us will have had to deal with themthough. Fortunately, we can hit Two lovers were murdered in the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they cameswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. I certainly prefer not He was the heir to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck an Italian shoe empire and she is supposed married to become if I donan extremely rich man and it'ts not the Italian. But I wonder how many which of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually them was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to bethe primary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox178763681X|title=Blood BornKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support 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 vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives impression that he'd be at the house she finds Giverny close school to death and faces assist Paul, who had a battle against time to save her. In the panicbroken arm, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether but it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murderdidn't turn out that way. Worse still, in trying to save the girl's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene The teaching - and the case falls apartproblems - are all his own. She blames herself The one thing he hadn't expected was for the Harbourn brothers being allowed someone to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attackturn up dead. A pair of sisters have been stabbed Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and raped resulting in everyone knows that the death of one, while police consider that person to be the other clings to lifeprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529421284|title=The Brutal TellingLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early It was one morning, in the village of Three Pines, those flash downpours that the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephoneBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. There is In a gully, a body in human skeleton came to the bistro surface and Olivier is stunnedforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The man has He'd been bludgeoned to deatha known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but thereDI Matt Lockyer wasn's no sign of t convinced. Geary was a weapontownie, no obvious reason for so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the killing suicide of Holly Gilbert and no clues as to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the identity of the victimtime. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. TheyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that've been s cold cases to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaosyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey1529425867|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 Lost 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 Never Found (a demonic female spiritA D I Wilkins Mystery) 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 GoodbyeSimon Mason|rating=24.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is narrated by Jack McMcGuaneof Nigerian descent, who describes himself as a hard-workingBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, regular guy (more son of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he Ryan and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girlfather of Ryan, Angelinais not. He's not any of those things. He's white, when their world is shattered by a telephone call originated from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and now wants to take the baby backtrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Even worse news is that the boy You might wonder if you's father is an influential federal judgere being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. They have Well, you've guessed re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529431735|title=Wasp-WaistedThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the eliteIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, dealing with national security, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded hemade Bruce Hopkins's been moved into criminal investigationsreturn all the more surprising. His first case proves to be something of a problem when He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a young model is found dead in wanted drug smuggler for a luxury hotel in Parisdecade. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body is delivered to Exposé, The return has come about because he's had a bigletter from his ex-circulation scandal sheetwife, before the body is discovered saying that she's ill and it can only have been taken by the murdererhasn't long to live. Despite the provenance of the picture itIt's difficult not hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to be a watery grave in awe the boot of the skill and artistry which produced ita stolen Ford Sierra. All Guerin has Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to go on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 0861541774|title=HustleA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two formsDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, the long con and the short con. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes taken a lot longer short holiday in Singapore to set meet up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightwith an old ally, Guy Trueman. This is the art of fleecing Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a single person out of knife - and he killed a lot of money all at onceGhurka. It is this Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onman. The short con can Now he could be something as basic as a rigged game of ''find facing the lady'', which aims death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to part help as many people any interference from another police force could provoke a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker diplomatic incident and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle'wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1521129886|title=ConmanThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the success of the BBC TV show point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Hustles 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 art of baby when she gets past the long con seems morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be more popular than I ever recallhave killed himself. IStuart've always liked the seriess concerned about his sister, Lucy, as it shows a battle of wits who's struggling to make ends meet and there her son is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endnot thriving. Until Richard Asplin's ''Conman''Lucy, he says, Iis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn'd not read anything with quite t in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the same level of intricacydeath was suicide, although Jeffery Deaver but Stuart's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin B0CK3MYJ56|title=The ComplaintsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in It'The Complaints' is not s the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they1990s and Greg Mason're the cops who investigate other copss twenty-eight years old. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time and at He used to have a high-flying job in the beginning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a case against a serving policemanprivate investigator. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps 'Shades of information just to get the right result when justice Cameron Strike', you might not be served otherwisethinking. They donNice bloke, but where't reckon s the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, hehas been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's bent 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 a degree of resentment against Foxbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar1838954481|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelMisper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on the case of Ryan Kennedy killed a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. As he looks into it further, He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty wayat DI Kieran Shaw. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed He pulled the trigger but due to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number the vagaries of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do jury system he was found not really care very much. Most guilty of both the victims are homeless women with a history murder and the manslaughter of drug problems 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 wrong side orbit of the lawRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1448309743|title=No EscapeThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I've long had an interest in psychologyIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, particularly abnormal psychologyfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The mind only item missing from the home is a fascinating thingthe Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wrongdeath will follow. The same is true only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things donthem 'discovered't work out too well for the policebody. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to appeal to me'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1529077699|title=Family LifeThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at the family farm for Liam''It's birthday. There was just one empty seat at the table and the family waited for Joe – the only one of the children who wanted to farm – to return home. It wasnall bloody peculiar, isn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe, Sir?''s body had been discovered on land by a disused warehouse. There were no injuries to the body and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529427045|title=Skeleton HillThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=When the Sealed Knot re''Life has more to offer than people -enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off prime numbers for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that itexample''s a relic of the battle. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Pynchon 1787636607|title=Inherent ViceThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The close of the It'60s, s a scene replicated all too often in the dawn early hours of the '70smorning. San FranciscoDrunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some people say the most influential people are Nixon lucky and his croniesmanage to get one of the few taxis available. Some people say they're Charlie Manson and his croniesOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Some people call The woman all regret the smog surrounding everyone 'taxi problem', particularly in the Bay Area air pollutionlight of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, others the final stop on the bus leaves her a drug hazelong way short of her home. Doc, 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 sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point chance to beg the same bigwig property developer. One of these is from bus driver to let her use his ex, now with said mogul, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately dies. How will this escalate into a manic mystery, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back There's no option but to life, unusual retreats, start walking - unsuitably clothed and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1405957174|title=Bloodline|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murder. However, slivers of an X-Ray are found in the dead woman's hand, and it is soon discovered that the woman's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with A Death at the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out to murder all the children of Raymond Garvey's... That someone may just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that the tumour that killed his father meant 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>}} {{newreviewParty|author=Chris Mooney |title=The Dead RoomAmy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third in From the Darby McCormick seriesfirst page, the Dead Room sees the head of Bostonwe know that Nadine Walsh's CSU investigating party will not end well. The victim - a horrific home invasion which leads man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to a womancall the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that t know is who the case man is more complicated than she could possibly or why Nadine prefers to have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her fatherhim die. I's death in the line of duty wasn't all d better give you a little more background so that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husbandyou can understand what's murderhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 0008530025|title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and the following morning found the body of one of them was found her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children garden of long-defunct Ragged Schooltheir West London home. The teenager He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there taken was a Victorian doll – similarly mutilatedobviously deliberate. Back in the nineteen fifties there Twenty years later, no one has been four murders in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled charged with his murder and mutilated and left with it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a doll by their sidetrue-crime show. The killer had never A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to justicetake the investigation further. HeMore to the point, they'd be likely re going to be in his seventies do this live on camera, episode by now – was it possible that he was still fit enough to return to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Dawes Green0241996104|title=RavensComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Shaw Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Romeo are two friendsher step-brother, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GAMartin, and find that one family has just had been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the only winning lottery ticket for court, after Martin receives a $318million jackpotlife sentence. The family involved is very average barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the weekly lottery and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebook, boy glued to a PSP or somethingrest of her life. There Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are enough gaps within making the family for the pair most of guys to break in between them, it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and have them under threat for half the winnings''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell1529413680|title=Cut Short A Chateau Under Siege (DI Geraldine SteelA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=An au pair took her employer's young daughter, One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the nextre-door neighbourenactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's son and his friend there to see the parkshow with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, but the young girl was petulant about man playing one of the inclusion of main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the second boy script. Luckily, his doctor is there and with the wilfulness man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a child senior government employee, the man who finds herself less than runs Frenchelon - the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not gomilitary has stepped in. In there she used a stick to stir up One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some leaves and uncovered the body of her father's friends for a womanpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elliott J Gorn 1529196388|title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One|rating=4|genre=History|summary=John Dillinger was born and brought up in Indiana. His childhood was no better and no worse than most but the early part of his adult life was to be blighted by a spell in prison when he was convicted of an attack on a man in a botched hold-up. Hoping for leniency he pleaded guilty but was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentence. It's easy to see where Dillinger's contempt for the law was spawned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia |title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells the story of how he came to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrial|author=Nick Brownlee |title=BurnRob Rinder|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa the problems start mounting up again. A nun has gone missing in mysterious circumstances and the local priest doesn't seem all that worried. After a meal with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – but how he had got into the fort ion the first place? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. Kenya's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joseph Teller |title=The Tenth Case|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I am Grant Cliveden was a hero: a great fan of courtroom dramaspoliceman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, which is so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one of man in the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and I pretty much look on him as the master of this genre. So, when I discover a book that claims that it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden''better than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound to be interesteds murder. This Knight was told that the claim made by the publishers best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight'The Tenth Case'' and I had s determined to read it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although plead not guilty, despite all that he writes lives up Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to expectations. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does? Read on..the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>
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