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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall0008517061|title=The DisappearedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn ValleyFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It's now some months later There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and whilst she's settled into the job relaxing life to some extent her relationship move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her officer, Alison, reservations about whether or not this is uneven and the future she's still shaky mentally wants for herself and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care to admit. her daughter? She's a feisty woman though For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and determined that she's going to do putting the future on the job properlyback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1786482126|title=CapturedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Kenny is dying Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy- brain cancer is hitting him just as hefive 'luxury's barely turning fortyapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As Was this a result he compiles a short list of rights to wrongritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and people to create closure Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working withDCI Harry Nelson. OneIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his ex-wife, might not be easy, two concern child as a misguided sense result of a guilt of oldthe one night they spent together some three months ago. The fourth turns out to Her condition will be a missing woman. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise obvious before long, not least because Ruth is not for the squeamishprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0008551324|title=The Merry MisogynistDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to Madame Daeng and despite approach the fact that they have a combined age of going on police. Neither side likes or has any respect for a hundred the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and forty theyhe're behaving like s prepared to tell the newly-weds they are. Even being police where the reluctant coroner for the Republic body of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm a missing person is buried and who was responsible for lifeher death. WellThis person, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man promises, is wooing someone big and wedding girls in various parts of it will be worth the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treespolice doing what he wants. What And what he does wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his victims leaves the morgue staff sickenedsentence and to get an early parole date. ThereNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a determination even prepared to find do the man responsible other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and bring anyone who works with him to justiceis kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 0008405026|title=A Hard DeathStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a fresh readerhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, so to speakand her father are dead in their bed. His writing biography on Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the inside cover positioning of the book is impressivebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. My expectations were high. All the ingredients are in place for What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a good thrillercomplex double murder. The location Kerrigan is The Everglades convinced that the explanation lies in Florida. BroodingRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, enigmatic, awe-inspiring and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutesUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0571379877|title=Curse of the Pogo StickThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his reactions in front of Judge Haengupper-class friends, but occasionally he forgot himself Robert and was more insolent than usualStanza. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant)Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, communist (even more reluctantly) handsome and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge entitled and the Justice Departmentuses Edward to run errands for him. Nurse Dtui (pregnant Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and married, although not in the usual order of events) is left he's drunkenly confided how he feels to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be a help, but probably not in the way that you might expectRobert. As if Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, thererelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappeddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathi Unsworth Jo Callaghan|title=Bad Penny BluesLeave No Trace
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|summary=Step into When a man is found crucified on the seedy underbelly top of London on a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the cusp of case alongside her sidekick, the Swinging SixtiesAI detective Lock. It'Bad Penny Blues' s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is the story of the hunt for suddenly struggling with a brutal potential serial killer targeting prostitutes in the west and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the citycase in time, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from or will Kat find herself taken off the Caribbean case and Ireland, bohemian artists and media typespotentially, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre out of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1035021803|title=Cold The Antique Hunter's Guide to the TouchMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=ThereIt's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlytwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a cold, dark London morning, sheShe's distraught back now because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing to do with of a request for help from herbeloved aunt, Carole. Jess is a talented chef but sheFreya's former mentor and Carole's short of work – close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over least. Arthur was the host at a dinner party did reason why Freya had not enhance been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighteddown badly. Sarah senses her vulnerabilityEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, but it's Jess who organises she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the let of one of her mother's cottages in profession she loved. After the sea-side town where split, she grew up so that Sarah can have worked in a long break cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the flat where she still smells a recent firelove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1398524085|title=Bloody WomenHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald Paul and by the title Ollie and blurbher daughter, I expected a standard crimeEtty. are all worried but - strangely -thriller novelher husband, Alec, is not. But early on Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, I realised this wasnin the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the caseguilt. The novel was a kind of black comedy and written Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with wit and humour, despite the theme of murder their lives and violencewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529900360|title=The Bodies Left BehindGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
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|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and her husband Steven decided even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity ask for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, his help on foreclosure – it seemed like difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the deal help of a lifetimepsychologist only worked for a while. But on their first evening in Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the placeman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outthough. They know they are Two lovers were murdered in real trouble when the swimming pool of a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their windowremote property in Bel Air. Another enters He was the building heir to an Italian shoe empire and the only hope they have she is that someone will take notice of Stevenmarried to an extremely rich man and it's phone call to not the police, cut off by Italian. But which of them was the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton178763681X|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34
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|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not Chef Paul Delamare took a happy womanteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a much younger woman way of getting both men and Agatha has been invited women to the weddingdo what he wanted. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to Paul ''somehow'' got the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before impression that he'd be at the weddingschool to assist Paul, when he makes who had a broken arm, but it clear didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he has changed his mind and wants hadn't expected was for someone to pull out of the weddingturn up dead. Then Unfortunately, he was the bride is killed, by a bullet through person who discovered the window, body and James and Agatha are everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the primary suspectsprime suspect. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1529421284|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & Laying Out the Morpeth Train RobberyBones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Two murders took place It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Edwardian England less than two years aparta heatwave. In a gully, one in a human skeleton came to the south-east surface and forensic testing proved the other in the north-eastbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. At first glance they seemed to He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have nothing to do with each other, been a simple case of misadventure but years later DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a link between them townie, so what was hinted he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at though never proved beyond doubtthe time. The author has investigated Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the connection Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and come up with a riveting bookme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|authortitle=Stieg Larsson Lost and Reg Keeland Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestSimon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the first son of Ryan and father of Steig LarssonRyan, is not. He's Millennium trilogy not any of thrillersthose things. He's white, was originated from a fine stand-alone novel. The second in the seriestrailer park, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland barely educated (translatorreading's not ''really'' his thing)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures and his wardrobe consists mainly of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonshell suits and trackies. They's finely crafted anti-herore usually in lime green or acid yellow. If You might wonder if you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you re being introduced to stop reading this review nowa police procedural written for laughs. I Well, you'm about to spoil re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529431735|title=Tooth and ClawThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer It's February 1991 and Essex is on the loosebitingly cold, and yet again which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the police have failed to connect more surprising. He'd been exiled on the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured Costa del Sol as a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at wanted drug smuggler for a railway stationdecade. He The return has come about because he's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with had a letter from his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely ex- with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologistwife, theresaying that she's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just ill and hasn't long to bear it, really. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ryan David Jahn |title=Acts of Violence|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from worklive. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayIt's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour hard to the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There feel any sympathy when Hopkins is the draftee with a sick motherabducted, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating stripped to his underwear and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through sent to the morning. We are shown how a watery grave in the midst boot of their own interesting, poignant 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 nothingstolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0861541774|title=Core A Nye of EvilPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
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|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. DCI Domenic Jejeune'"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas roses close friend and former colleague," she saidDanny Maik, watching has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalismeet up with an old ally, which I've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as wellGuy Trueman. It's Maik was involved in a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky street brawl - and graphically effluent he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on he killed a new townGhurka. Initially, he faced a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Daisy has problems with her memory - Now he could be facing the identities go back so far that sometimes she death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can barely remember who is she is now, let alone do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the whos she's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she began. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1521129886|title=Dead of WinterThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
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|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is pictureapproached by an old friend whose brother-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandlaw appears to have killed himself. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in Stuart's concerned about his life sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has her son is not been easy for Kincaidthriving. A troubledLucy, unhappy child of mixed racehe says, passed around various institutions is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and foster homes, Louis figures the coroner have accepted that if he is going to put some integrity back into the worlddeath was suicide, he will need but Stuart's prepared to wear a badge pay Greg to do itfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca TopeB0CK3MYJ56|title=Fear in the CotswoldsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time itIt's winter the 1990s and sheGreg Mason's spending twenty-eight years old. He used to have a month high-flying job in the Cotswold village of Hampnett. It wouldncity but it wasn't be satisfying so he's now set himself up as a job for all private investigator. 'Shades of us Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but Thea delights in getting to know where's the local people and life experience that backs up this profession? On the areaother hand, he has been asked to look into something. In the past sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks written off as though that might have come to a tragic accident at an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledunmanned level crossing. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and a foolish one Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - when or how she finds footsteps in the snow which lead could come to a body fall in front of a nearby fieldtrain. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if sheGreg's imagined it allbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1838954481|title=Spade and ArcherThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agencyRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. It's He was the 1920s in San Francisco so we have fifteen-year-old holding the prohibition era gun and all that that entailspointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Many locals, He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of course, choose to disobey both the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak murder and as a result there's lots the manslaughter of bootleg liquorthe officer. Straight away, it's evident And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that Sam is means leaving the capital and hoping for a man of few words. He has quieter life in the mannerisms of countryside but when a cat - stealthy, quick missing teenager is found on his feet. Heher territory she's also drawn into a compulsive chainwider investigation -smoker, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changedand back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1448309743|title=Stop Me|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most of us will have had to deal with them. Fortunately, we can hit the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they came. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I don't. 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>}} {{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Kathryn Fox|title=Blood BornCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to In the courthouse village of Cronchie on the day she West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at Devil Stone: myth says that if the house she finds Giverny close to stone is removed from Otterburn House, death and faces a battle against time to save herwill follow. In the panic The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Anya fails to take note that's an easy conclusion given that two of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girlthem 'discovered's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apartbody. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting pulled in the death of one, while the other clings to life'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529077699|title=The Brutal TellingRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning, in the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there''It's no sign of a weaponall bloody peculiar, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues as to the identity of the victim. Meanwhileisn't it, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. TheySir?''ve been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box 1529427045|title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=2.5
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|summary=''Three Weeks Life has more to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hardoffer than people -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 boyprime numbers for example'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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1787636607|title=HustleThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come It's a scene replicated all too often in two forms, the long con and early hours of the short conmorning. The long con is more elaborate Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and has more that can go wrong, takes looking for a lot longer way to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightget home. This is Some are lucky and manage to get one of the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at oncefew taxis available. It is this Others squash onto the night bus that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something will only go as basic far as a rigged game one of ''find the lady'', which aims to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possibleoutlying villages. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker and this is woman all regret the basis for Will Ferguson's taxi problem''Hustle''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Asplin |title=Conman|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Thanks to , particularly in the success light of 'the BBC TV show ''Hustle'missing women'. For one young woman, the art of final stop on the bus leaves her a long con seems to be more popular than I ever recallway short of her home. IShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone've always liked s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the series, as it shows a battle of wits and there is so much that can go wrong chance to beg the outcome is in doubt right until the endbus driver to let her use his. Until Richard AsplinThere's ''Conman'', I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaver's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1405957174|title=The Complaints|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 has been there for some time and A Death 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 he's bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Millar|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane Novel|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on the case of a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into it. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do not really care very much. Most of the victims are homeless women with a history of drug problems and a life on the wrong side of the law.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParty|author=N J Cooper|title=No EscapeAmy Stuart
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|summary=IFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh've long had an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologys party will not end well. The mind victim - a man - is a fascinating thing, but it has far more spectacular effects dying when things go wrongwe first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. The same is true of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things What we don't work out too well for know is who the policeman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. So I'd better give you a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to melittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles0008530025|title=Murder in the Family Life|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Sweeney family along with wivesIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, girlfriends and children were gathered at in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the family farm for Liamback of his head which could have happened if he's birthdayd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. There was just Twenty years later, no one empty seat at the table has been charged with his murder and it's now the family waited for Joe – the only one subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the children who wanted evidence and to farm – to return hometake the investigation further. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with More to the news that Joepoint, they's body had been discovered re going to do this live on land camera, episode by a disused warehouseepisode. There were 's no injuries to dump of the body whole box set - and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murderedno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 0241996104|title=The Gigolo MurderComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=After a breakNancy's mother and step-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and selfher step-pity for too longbrother, so his friendMartin, Ponponhas been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbulafter Martin receives a life sentence. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but unfortunately Pekerdem happens will have to be marriedlive with what happened for the rest of her life. However Of course, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdemit's made worse because Nancy's brotherrich -inshe inherited five million pounds from her mother -law is accused of and the papers are making the murder most of a gigoloit. Our hero suspects that the brother-in-law ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not guilty... be printed but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529413680|title=Skeleton HillA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple enactment of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one the liberation of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no moreshow with some friends. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that itIt's a relic all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the battlemain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. One of the corpses goes missing – Luckily, his car left at the nearby racecourse – doctor is there and it turns out that the bone man is nowhere near whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as old as they thinkhe's a senior government employee, but the head of Bath CID still man who runs Frenchelon - the military has difficulty stepped in establishing . One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is buried flying in that lonely spotwith some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 1529196388|title=Bait|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jake Moore was in the Flying Squad but a bullet put paid to his career and ten years later he's running a game-fishing business on the Kenyan coast. Times are hard and there's every chance that the business will fold unless he and his partner, Harry, can find the money to pay their bills. Some strange things are happening in the game fishing business too – one of their number has died in a mysterious explosion on his boat and the body of a man who shouldn't have been aboard has been washed up on the shore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749928840</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Trial|author=Thomas Pynchon |title=Inherent ViceRob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The close of the '60sGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the dawn of the '70sOld Bailey. San Francisco. Some people say There's just one man in the most influential people are Nixon frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and his cronies. Some people say theyit're Charlie Manson and his cronies. Some people call the smog surrounding everyone s not too long before Knight appears in the Bay Area air pollutioncourt, others a drug hazecharged with Cliveden's murder. Doc, Knight was told that the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of best barrister for him, which both point to the same bigwig property developer. One was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of these is from Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his expupil, now with said mogulAdam Green, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately dieswho eventually represent him. How will this escalate into a manic mysteryKnight's determined to plead not guilty, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>the contrary.
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