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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=David Baldacci|title=True Blue|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jamie Meldon, ex<!--criminalRemove -defence attorney, now in private practice, leaves his office very late one night. He's met by the FBI. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working out, trying to stay fit, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple of days' time. Perry was a cop. Under-cover, maverick and darn good at her job. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fred VargasStuart Douglas|title=The Chalk Circle Man|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet JeanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, he's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about Death at the most obtuse things in his pursuit of the truth, and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes a surprisingly perceptive ability to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Rowden|title=More Deaths Than OneDress Rehearsal
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|summary=Constable Thomas During location filming for his 1970'Thornys sitcom ' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement in a case Floggit and so is taken by his wifeLeggit', Mary, to recuperate in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the seaside town where he worked as dead body of a policeman during the war. He expects to be bored - the most interesting thing woman on the horizon is edge of a case of missing gnomesreservoir. Then he bumps into The police seem happy to assign it as an old colleague - someone who left accidental death, but something about the force in a haze of suspicion. Shortly afterwardswhole thing bothers Lowe, a body is found on the beach. Even stranger is that the dead man is someone that Thorny and his colleague thought had died during he enlists the war. It seems that things are not as they seem. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sue Grafton|title=U is for Undertow|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in London, and one help of the first books we read was a Sue Grafton alphabet book. I hadfellow actor, up John Le Breton to this point, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such books, and so I was dubious about what I'd have to say about ithelp him investigate matters further. That book changed my literary life. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for all They travel across the other books in the series country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and read them quickly, one by oneseemingly, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into link to death during the world of Agatha Christie which gave me Second World War. But is there really a joyously long reading list. link between the deaths? And so now, years later, I find myself with the latest book in the alphabet series lying in my lap, a happy smile on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black0008517061|title=DishonourDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern livesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is There’s perhaps a boy from little uncertainty about the sink estates. Thinfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, angryLivia and her daughter Diana, rebellious, but with an ability to charm and as moving in together would mean a serious talent for art that gets lost in lot of compromise: does Jake give up his ganstaoff-speak grid and tendency relaxing life to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girls. Hard-working, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful move in with Livia or does Livia move to their families. They're also English teenagers, with a fair dose of what that normally implies. Jack Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a copper, overlooked the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, moment they’re enjoying life in love with Lily, addicted to the job, always trying to do present and putting the future on the right thing, and not always succeeding. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distractionback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1786482126|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Mad Maxluxury' Maxwell has always been something apartments - when they discovered the bones of a dinosaur and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobileschild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He might prefer to make Was this a phone call ritual killing or send a note when the need arisesmurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but this isnNelson doesn't the way , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problemsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler0008551324|title=MercyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In some ways, the first line of this novel says it all: 'It's hard unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to sit still when your client approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is scheduled struggling in prison and he's prepared to die in fifteen hourstell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death.' From this moment onThis person, the action comes thick he promises, is someone big and fast, leaving it will be worth the reader with barely police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the breath remainder of his sentence and to murmer 'get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it really probable that all this was left to the last day? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then s even prepared to do the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and twirls that are very satisfactoryanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall0008405026|title=The DisappearedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|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 Valley. It's now some months later sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and whilst she's settled into the job investigation ground to some extent her relationship with a halt. Now, her officermother, AlisonHelena, is uneven and sheher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's still shaky mentally something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and dependant on pills her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a greater extent than she would care to admitcomplex double murder. SheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's a feisty woman though and determined that shedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's going to do the job properlyboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross0571379877|title=CapturedThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny Edward Jevons is dying a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- brain cancer is hitting him just as heclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's barely turning fortya theatre director. As a result he compiles a short list of rights to wrongHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and people uses Edward to create closure withrun errands for him. One, his exEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -wife, might not be easy, two concern a misguided sense of a guilt of old. The fourth turns out and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be a missing womanRobert. The journey he takes Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that redemptive exercise a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is not for left to stumble upon the squeamishtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin CotterillJo Callaghan|title=The Merry MisogynistLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun When a man is now married to Madame Daeng and despite found crucified on the fact that they have a combined age top of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the newly-weds they areAI detective Lock. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos can't dampen SiriIt's enthusiasm for lifetheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. WellBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts lot of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding unwanted attention to their bodies to treesAI Future Policing project. What he does Will they be able to his victims leaves solve the morgue staff sickened. There's a determination to case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man responsible case and bring him to justice., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1035021803|title=A Hard DeathThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayess twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She' bestseller s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Precious Bloods former mentor and Carole' so I was a fresh readers close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, so to speaksay the least. His writing biography on Arthur was the inside cover of reason why Freya had not been back to the book is impressivevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. My expectations Even though they were highin business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. All After the ingredients are split, she worked in place for a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Florida. Broodingcafe, enigmaticmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, awe-inspiring who was murdered) and Freya and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutesJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1398524085|title=Curse of the Pogo StickHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usualnever turned up. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant)Her children, sons Niall, communist (even more reluctantly) Paul and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge Ollie and the Justice Departmenther daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Nurse Dtui (pregnant Shortly afterwards, Etty and marriedGreg, although not in find the usual order body of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who mightGreg's father, or might not be a helpDuncan Ackerley, but probably not in the way that you might expectriver. As if It was an easy assumption for the police to make that wasnDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's a geriatric hit-person little else they can do but get on the loose with their lives and Siri is kidnappedwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1529900360|title=Bad Penny BluesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiesdifficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'Bad Penny Blues' is t need the story help of the hunt a psychologist only worked for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the west of involvement was something that the cityman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, at though. Two lovers were murdered in the time swimming pool of a melting pot of immigrants from remote property in Bel Air. He was the Caribbean heir to an Italian shoe empire and Ireland, bohemian artists she is married to an extremely rich man and media types, and even peersit's not the Italian. Carnaby Street But which of them was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield178763681X|title=Cold to the TouchKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica HurlyChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her way of getting both men and it seems that her mother wants nothing women to do with herwhat he wanted. Jess is a talented chef but shePaul ''somehow''s short of work – got the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over impression that he'd be at the host at school to assist Paul, who had a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighted. Sarah senses her vulnerabilitybroken arm, but itdidn's Jess who organises t turn out that way. The teaching - and the let of problems - are all his own. The one of her motherthing he hadn's cottages in t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the sea-side town where she grew up so police consider that Sarah can have a long break from person to be the flat where she still smells a recent fireprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1529421284|title=Bloody WomenLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women''It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, I hadn't heard of a human skeleton came to the author Helen Fitzgerald surface and by forensic testing proved the title body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and blurbhad learning disabilities, I expected so it could have been a standard crime-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't the caseconvinced. The novel Geary was a kind townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of black comedy Holly Gilbert and written with wit to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and humour, despite DC Gemma Broad of the theme of murder Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and violenceme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529425867|title=The Bodies Left BehindLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesIn Oxford, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsinthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal of a lifetimeBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. But on their first evening in the place D I Ryan Wilkins, a series son of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple out. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun Ryan and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and the only hope they have is that someone will take notice father of Steven's phone call to the policeRyan, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – Thisnot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M C Beaton|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is He's not a happy womanany of those things. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse He's white, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to originated from a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goestrailer park, with plenty of friends in tow barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and looks forward to 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 and wants to pull out wardrobe consists mainly of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James shell suits and Agatha are the primary suspectstrackies. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Janes|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in the south-east and the other They're usually in the north-eastlime green or acid yellow. At first glance they seemed You might wonder if you're being introduced to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtpolice procedural written for laughs. The author has investigated the connection and come up with a riveting book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]Well, the first of Steig Larssonyou's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, was a fine stand-alone novelre not. The second in two men are just different sides of the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues same policing coin. Sometimes the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larssoncombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's finely crafted anti-heroproblematic. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review now. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
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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 deathsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Carl Whittley The return has just tortured come about because he's had a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau letter from his ex- wife, saying that she's ill and blown a hapless commuter hasn't long to smithereens at a railway stationlive. He It's planning hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his next murder already, secreted away underwear and sent to a watery grave in the shed at the bottom boot of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid fathera stolen Ford Sierra. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing Is it a warning from a career as Spanish gang or a forensic psychologist, there's only him problem closer to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, really. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 0861541774|title=Acts of Violence|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard day's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the next, all A Nye of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There is the draftee with a sick mother, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through to the morning. We are shown how in the midst 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 nothing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPheasants|author=Nigel McCrery|title=Core of EvilSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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
|genre=Crime
|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 agency. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entails. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as Ryan Kennedy killed a result police officer: there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, it's evident no doubt about that Sam is a man of few words. He has was the mannerisms of a cat fifteen-year- stealthy, quick on his feetold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, pulled the trigger but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette due to the vagaries of the jury system he was an elegant, almost essential accessoryfound not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. 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 annoying, but most of us will have had to deal with themAnd so lives must go on. Fortunately, we can hit For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the delete button capital and forget about them as quickly as they came. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donher territory she't. But I wonder how many of us would react if s drawn into a spam Ewider investigation -Mail actually was a matter and back into the orbit of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1448309743|title=Blood BornThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro 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
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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
|genre=Crime
|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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