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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathi Unsworth Stuart Douglas|title=Bad Penny BluesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties. During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Bad Penny BluesFloggit and Leggit' is , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the story dead body of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in woman on the west edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the citywhole thing bothers Lowe, at and he enlists the time help of a melting pot of immigrants from fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the Caribbean country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Ireland, bohemian artists and media typesseemingly, and even peersa link to death during the Second World War. Carnaby Street was just becoming But is there really a link between the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield0008517061|title=Cold to the TouchDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica HurlyFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on There’s perhaps a coldlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, dark London morningLivia and her daughter Diana, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and it seems that her mother wants nothing relaxing life to do move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her. Jess reservations about whether or not this is a talented chef but she's short of work – the occasion when future she emptied a tureen of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance wants for herself and her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighted. daughter? Sarah senses her vulnerability, but it's Jess who organises For the let of one of her mother's cottages moment they’re enjoying life in the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have a long break from present and putting the future on the flat where she still smells a recent fireback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1786482126|title=Bloody WomenThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Bloody Women'apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, I hadnbut Nelson doesn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald and by the title and blurb, I expected that she is pregnant with his child as a standard crime-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this wasn't result of the caseone night they spent together some three months ago. The novel was a kind of black comedy and written with wit and humour Her condition will be obvious before long, despite the theme not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of murder and violencesickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver0008551324|title=The Bodies Left BehindDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to buy a holiday home to give them approach the opportunity police. Neither side likes or has any respect for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal of a lifetimeother. But on their first evening Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the place, a series police where the body of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple out. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun missing person is buried and stocking mask appears at their windowwho was responsible for her death. Another enters the building This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the only hope they have police doing what he wants. And what he wants is that someone will take notice to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of Stevenhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's phone call even prepared to do the police, cut off by the intruders after he other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is able to get out only one word – Thiskept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton0008405026|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy womanIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She is concerned with was never found and the rate at which her body is ageing; even worseinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her ex-husbandmother, JamesHelena, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the weddingher father are dead in their bed. She goes Initially, with plenty of friends in tow and it looks forward to like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before positioning of the wedding, when he bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it clear that he has changed his mind was going to be an open-and wants to pull out of the wedding-shut case is now a complex double murder. Then the bride Kerrigan is killed, by a bullet through convinced that the windowexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and James and Agatha Una Burt) are the primary suspectsless convinced. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0571379877|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apartEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, one in the southRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-east obsessed, demanding, handsome and the other entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in the northlove with Stanza since their university days -eastand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but years later Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a link relationship had begun between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt. The author has investigated but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the connection and come up with two of them kissing in a riveting bookdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with When a man is found crucified on the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Dragon Tattoo]]case alongside her sidekick, the first of Steig LarssonAI detective Lock. It's Millennium trilogy of thrillerstheir first live case together, was having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a fine stand-alone novel. The second in the seriesbody found crucified a few days later, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures a very high profile case that draws a lot of Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's finely crafted anti-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you unwanted attention to stop reading this review nowtheir AI Future Policing project. I'm about Will they be able to spoil solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the ending for you…case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1035021803|title=Tooth and ClawThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to connect the deathsEnglish country village where she grew up. Carl Whittley has just tortured She's back now because of a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. HeCarole's planning his next murder alreadyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered dead and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologistthe circumstances seem suspicious, there's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to change the colostomy bagvillage: Arthur, to cookshe feels, to cleanlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able tobe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, wellshe worked in a cafe, just to bear itmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, reallywho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1398524085|title=Acts of ViolenceHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on Charlotte Salter was expected at her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayhusband's workfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the nextHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasworried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. There is Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the draftee with a sick motherbody of Greg's father, the nurse who thinks she has run over a babyDuncan Ackerley, in the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and othersriver. We are shown what these characters were doing It was an easy assumption for the police to make that evening, Duncan had murdered Charlie and how these events drag through to then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the morningguilt. We The Salter children are shown how in the midst of not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their own interesting, poignant lives and dangerous concerns 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 nothingwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529900360|title=Core of EvilThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas rose," she saids fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, watching Sturgis was reluctant to see whether Daisy could still hear herask for his help on difficult cases. "Helleborin His assertions that there were only open-and hellebrin are both like digitalis, -shut cases which Ididn've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as well. It's t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a very nasty cocktailwhile."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end Finally, and Violet has become Daisyit was Robin, Daisy sets her sights on a new townDelaware's partner, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Daisy has problems with her memory - She knew that the identities go back so far involvement was something that sometimes the man she can barely remember who is she is nowloved needed. The next case did look simple, let alone all though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the whos heir to an Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganItalian. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish178763681X|title=Dead of WinterKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon LakeChef 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, Michigan is picturebut it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pineproblems -peppered winter wonderlandare all his own. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life and on arrival in Loon Lake The one thing he feels almost as if hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he has come homewas the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4. Life has not been easy for Kincaid5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. A troubledIn a gully, unhappy child of mixed racea human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, passed around various institutions who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and foster homeshad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, Louis figures that if so what was he is going doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to put some integrity back into the world, he will need suicide of Holly Gilbert and to wear a badge two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to do ityou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1529425867|title=Fear in the CotswoldsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is a house sitter by professionof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. When people go away she moves into their homes D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and looks after their animals and the propertyfather of Ryan, is not. This time itHe's winter and she's spending a month in the Cotswold village not any of Hampnettthose things. It wouldnHe't be s white, originated from a job for all trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of us but Thea delights in getting to know the local people shell suits and the areatrackies. In the past sheThey's also been involved with the police re usually in solving various cases but it looks as though that lime green or acid yellow. You might have come wonder if you're being introduced to an end as a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledsame policing coin. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in Sometimes the snow which lead to a body in a nearby fieldcombination works brilliantly well. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if sheSometimes it's imagined it allproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1529431735|title=Spade and ArcherThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|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 February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all that that entailsthe more surprising. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey He'd been exiled on the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and Costa del Sol as a result therewanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's lots of bootleg liquorill and hasn't long to live. Straight away, itIt's evident that Sam hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a man of few words. He has watery grave in the mannerisms boot of a cat - stealthy, quick on his feetstolen Ford Sierra. He's also Is it a warning from a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding Spanish gang or a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker0861541774|title=Stop MeA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam EDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl -Mails can be incredibly annoyinghe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but most of us will evidence came to light that suggested that he might have had planned to deal with themmurder the man. Fortunately, we can hit Now he could be facing the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they camedeath penalty. I certainly prefer not Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'thelp Danny at all. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1521129886|title=Blood BornThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support Greg Mason's just beginning to a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart get his confidence as an investigator to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brotherspoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death It's a good job too because Greg and faces Joyce will soon have a battle against time to save herbaby and they're both delighted. In Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the panic, Anya fails to take note of morning sickness. Greg is approached by an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, old friend whose brother-in trying -law appears to save the girlhave killed himself. Stuart's lifeconcerned about his sister, Lucy, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apart. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed who's struggling to walk free make ends meet and only hours later there her son is news of another attacknot thriving. A pair of sisters Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have been stabbed killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and raped resulting in the coroner have accepted that the death of onewas suicide, while but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the other clings to lifenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Brutal TellingResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning, in It's the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. There is He used to have a body high-flying job in the bistro and Olivier is stunnedcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? The man On the other hand, he has been bludgeoned asked to deathlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, but thereor rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's no sign of been written off as a weapontragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, no obvious reason for the killing Oliver and no clues as Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to the identity of the victim. Meanwhile, fall in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache front of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacostea train. TheyGreg've s been asked to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaosinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey1838954481|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)Misper|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summaryauthor=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in Kate 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 (a demonic female spirit) 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=2.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hard-working, regular guy (more of s no doubt about that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the adoption agency trigger but due to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and vagaries of the teenage biological father had jury system he was found not signed his consent guilty of both the murder and now wants to take the baby backmanslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Even worse news is For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the boycapital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughterdrawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1448309743|title=Wasp-WaistedThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one In the village of Cronchie on the eliteWest coast of Scotland, 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 five members of a problem when a young model is wealthy family are found dead in a luxury hotel in Parismurdered. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of The only item missing from the body home is delivered to Exposé, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murdererremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. Despite the provenance of the picture itThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's difficult not to be in awe an easy conclusion given that two of the skill and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go on is the ''verythem 'discovered' expensive underwear which the body . The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is wearing – or you might almost say ''modellingpulled in to 'shadow'him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529077699|title=HustleThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, the long con and the short con. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes right. This is the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at once. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard AsplinIt's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of all bloody peculiar, isn''find 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 returnt it, but that return comes a lot quicker and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''HustleSir?''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529427045|title=The ComplaintsGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The Complaints' is not the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they're the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox Life has been there more to offer than people - prime numbers for some time and at the beginning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policeman. Most people think that Glen Heaton is 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 otherwise. They don't reckon that heexample's bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1787636607|title=No Escape|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=I've long had an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychology. The mind is a fascinating thing, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wrong. The same is true of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things don't work out too well for the police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrap|author=Paul Charles|title=Family LifeCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at the family farm for Liam'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 wasn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe'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>}} {{newreview|author=Mehmet Murat Somer |title=The Gigolo Murder|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=After a break-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and self-pity for too long, so his friend, 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 married. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused of the murder of a gigolo. Our hero suspects that the brother-in-law is not guilty... but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Lovesey |title=Skeleton Hill|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=When It's a scene replicated all too often in the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of corpses sneak off clubs and looking for a crafty drink – way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get 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 morefew taxis available. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced Others squash onto the night bus that it's a relic will only go as far as one of the battleoutlying villages. One The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the corpses goes missing – his car left at women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the nearby racecourse – bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and it turns out that collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in establishing who is buried in that lonely spothigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 1405957174|title=BaitA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|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 From the dead woman's handfirst page, and it is soon discovered we know that the womanNadine Walsh's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years beforeparty will not end well. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove that someone The victim - a man - is out dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to murder all call the children of Raymond Garvey's..ambulance he so desperately needs. That someone may just be Garvey What we don's bastard son, t know is who believes that the tumour man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killeryou can understand what's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 0008530025|title=The Dead Room|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick series, the Dead Room sees the head of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that the case is more complicated than she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her father's death Murder in the line of duty wasn't all that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husband's murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily|author=Kate Ellis |title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)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
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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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