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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonStuart Douglas|title=The Ice Cream GirlsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Serena, labelled Leggit'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious press, have their young lives shattered by leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the man they shared, dead body of a teacher in woman on the edge of a position of trust, who controlled them in the worst possible waysreservoir. The girls are trapped police seem happy to assign it as victims because neither has an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the assertiveness or maturity help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to handle the situationhelp him investigate matters further. Chance intervenes They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to escalate an inevitable situationdeath during the Second World War. Now twenty years on, But is there really a link between the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed courses.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)0008517061|title=The SnowmanDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's NorwayFormer Metropolitan Police detective, and it's a snowy and dark November. Women are disappearingJake Johnson, and/or being found horrifically killedhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The police have There’s perhaps a little to go on, but with uncertainty about the help future of flashbacks across cases the police could never hope to connecthis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, we can see hints as moving in together would mean a lot of a clever, but misogynistic man who seems compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to be Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the culprit, future she wants for herself and on a mission against marital infidelity. her daughter? But what could be For the connection with all those crimes and moment they’re enjoying life in the American presidential elections? And why - present and how - might putting the police, future on the victims, and the reader, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>back burner.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1786482126|title=Past Tense|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after a funeral, not least because she had never met the deceased and was unaware that her husband was the next of kin. He was working in South America and not expected home for sometime. Josephine Short has obviously been a feisty character though. Despite being unmarried she had had a child The Janus Stone (at a time when this would have been frowned uponDr Ruth Galloway) and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeral.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ken Bruen|title=The GuardsElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes Builders were demolishing an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor old house in Norwich - the site was going to investigate hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the apparent suicide bones of her teenage daughter in Galwaya child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) but also Was this a known alcoholic ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with nothing much else in his lifeDCI Harry Nelson. His approach to investigation is haphazard - he It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't really have a method beyond asking direct questions and, if necessary, using that she is pregnant with his fistschild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Predictably Her condition will be obvious before long, there not least because Ruth is more prone to the suicide case than first meets the eye and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets and levels sudden bouts of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; it's darker and has a grim realismsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman0008551324|title=All That I HaveThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the internet grows other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and technology advances, ithe's seems there prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is nothing you can't doburied and who was responsible for her death. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent This person, he promises, is someone big and cars are more automated than everit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Huge online games allow users worldwide And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to interact serve the remainder of his sentence and play against each other in huge arenasto get an early parole date. Thanks Not much to social networkingask, the internet can be addictive is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and, yes, Ishe'm aware of s even prepared to do the irony in writing other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that hereDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen0008405026|title=The Killing of A Stranger in the TinkersFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He's been lying low 'over She was never found and the water' in London, licking his woundsinvestigation ground to a halt. Jack (I'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him a more Irish name) is a middle-agedNow, her mother, washed-upHelena, disgraced ex-copand her father are dead in their bed. As if that wasn't bad enoughInitially, he also has it looks like a lot straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of very bad habitsthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He acknowledges however that 'the new world What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is designed for non-smokersnow a complex double murder.' He also admits quite freely and openly Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'An alcoholic has dreams to rival that of any Vietnam vets boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman0571379877|title=KillerThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here at the BookbagEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, we've been very impressed obsessed with Dave Zeltsermanhis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's work thus fara theatre director. He 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight Edward to the heart of the storyrun errands for him. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story Edward has been in love with too much style, but sticking Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every timeRobert. With Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'Killer'', he has done s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the same againtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen HunterJo Callaghan|title=I, SniperLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You don't often find novels or films based When a man is found crucified on the art top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the sniperAI detective Lock. Hiding out for hours motionless It'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 suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for as interesting a story as very high profile case that draws a face lot of unwanted attention to face shoot outtheir AI Future Policing project. But with 'I, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed Will they be able to combine solve the art of case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the sniper with the art case and, potentially, out of the crime thriller in a decent read.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1035021803|title=The MissingAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah FinchIt's twelve year old brother Charlie says twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to her the English country village where she grew up. She''Tell mum I'll be s back soonnow because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' Sixteen years laters close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, his family are still waiting to find out what happened say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to himthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Now Even though they were in her twentiesbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, Sarah is teaching at she worked in a local private school while looking after cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her uncaring motherlife, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholismwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett1398524085|title=The Godfather of KathmanduHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, s fiftieth birthday party but it's the latter rather than the former which is likely to hold never turned up his promotion in the Thai police force. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, where he's a detectiveEtty. He's also the part owner of a brothel where his motherare all worried but - strangely - her husband, NongAlec, is the madam in chargenot. It's no problem for his bossShortly afterwards, Colonel VikornEtty and Greg, who has a few illegal interests find the body of his own. HeGreg's currently father, Duncan Ackerley, in competition with the head of river. It was an easy assumption for the army, General Zinna, police to see who can raise make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchaiguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's Kathmandu-based guru has for salelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson1529900360|title=The SpireGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers 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 difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the body help of a black fellow studentpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Angela Hallit was Robin, at Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the foot of the spire in the centre of the college he attends, he little suspects involvement was something that his best friend will be charged with the murderman she loved needed. Now The next case did look simple, sixteen years later, Darrow is back, at though. Two lovers were murdered in the invitation of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farr, to become president of the college in order to rebuild its reputation after a case swimming pool of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer remote property in the intervening years)Bel Air. As Darrow digs into what happened with He was the college finances, he also begins heir to look afresh at the trial of his friend an Italian shoe empire and questions if he really was guilty as charged. He also finds time she is married to start an emerging relationship with the provostextremely rich man and it's troubled, but beautiful, daughternot the Italian. Is the real killer still at large and are But which of them was the two crimes connectedprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp178763681X|title=Among ThievesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Boston in the United StatesBelgravia. The police investigation failed He didn't really want to find them but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and many felt they were lost foreverwomen to do what he wanted. But soon Paul ''somehow'' got the paintings and their whereabouts would impression that he'd be impacting on many peopleat the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Ian Rankin t turn out that way. The teaching - and Werther Dell'Edera |title=Dark Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, problems - are worriedall his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Yes Unfortunately, he was the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to person who discovered the one way out, body and the brilliant prize everyone knows that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but police consider that's nothing person to do with be the TV producersprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Baldacci1529421284|title=True BlueLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie Meldon, ex-criminal-defence attorney, now in private practice, leaves his office very late It was one night. He's met by of those flash downpours that the FBIBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead in In a dumpster. Mace Perry is working outgully, trying a human skeleton came to stay fitthe surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, trying to stay sanewho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in so it could have been a couple simple case of daysmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn' timet convinced. Perry Geary was a cop. townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Under-cover, maverick There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and darn good to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at her jobthe time. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and sent downme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1529425867|title=The Chalk Circle ManLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste AdamsbergIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. An unlikely police commissaireRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, heis not. He's an acquired taste for his colleaguesnot any of those things. ShortHe's white, ungainlyoriginated from a trailer park, seemingly thinking about the most obtuse things in barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his pursuit of the truth, thing) and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a surprisingly perceptive ability to find police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solvecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Rowden1529431735|title=More Deaths Than OneThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Constable Thomas It'Thorny' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement in a case s February 1991 and so Essex is taken by his wifebitingly cold, Mary, to recuperate in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during the warmore surprising. He expects to be bored - the most interesting thing 'd been exiled on the horizon is Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a case of missing gnomesdecade. Then The return has come about because he bumps into an old colleague 's had a letter from his ex- someone who left the force in a haze of suspicion. Shortly afterwardswife, a body is found on the beach. Even stranger is saying that the dead man is someone that Thorny she's ill and his colleague thought had died during the warhasn't long to live. It seems that things are not as they seem. Can Thorny work out what 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is going onabducted, even with stripped to his underwear and sent to a broken legwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton0861541774|title=U is for UndertowA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a funny little book group short holiday in LondonSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and one of the first books we read was he killed a Sue Grafton alphabet bookGhurka. I hadInitially, up he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to this point, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such books, and so I was dubious about what I'd light that suggested that he might have planned to say about itmurder the man. That book changed my literary lifeNow he could be facing the death penalty. I devoured it. I couldnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't get enough! I immediately searched for help Danny at all the other books in the series and read them quickly, one by one, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading list. 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!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1521129886|title=DishonourThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying Greg Mason's just beginning to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency his confidence as an investigator to be the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a trifle good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised)re both delighted. Ryan is a boy from Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the sink estatesmorning sickness. Thin, angry, rebellious, but with Greg is approached by an ability to charm and a serious talent for art that gets lost old friend whose brother-in his gansta-speak and tendency law appears to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girlshave killed himself. Hard-workingStuart's concerned about his sister, soberLucy, appropriately dressed, dutiful who's struggling to their familiesmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. They're also English teenagersLucy, he says, with a fair dose of what is convinced that normally impliesGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. Jack is a copper, overlooked for The police and the coroner have accepted that the interesting cases (like murder)death was suicide, good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted but Stuart's prepared to the job, always trying pay Greg to do find out what happened on the right thing, and not always succeeding. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distractionnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J TrowB0CK3MYJ56|title=Maxwell's RetirementResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter It'Mad Maxs the 1990s and Greg Mason' Maxwell has always been something 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 mobiless twenty-eight years old. He might prefer used to make a phone call or send have a note when high-flying job in the need arises, city but this isnit wasn't the way 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 younger generation and Maxwell discovers life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, hehas been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's going been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to have to climb fall in front of a steep learning curve if hetrain. Greg's been asked to help his students through the probleminvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler1838954481|title=MercyThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In some ways, the first line of this novel says it allRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: 'Itthere's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in no doubt about that. He was the fifteen hours-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw.' From this moment on, He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the action comes thick murder and fast, the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the reader with barely capital and hoping for a quieter life in the breath to murmer 'countryside but when a missing teenager is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?found on her territory she' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then s drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactoryorbit of Ryan Kennedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall1448309743|title=The DisappearedDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valleyonly item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's now some months later and whilst shean easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's settled into the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alisonbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is uneven and she's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care pulled in to admit. She's a feisty woman though and determined that sheshadow's going to do the job properlyhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1529077699|title=CapturedThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just as he''It's barely turning forty. As a result he compiles a short list of rights to wrongall bloody peculiar, and people to create closure with. Oneisn't it, his ex-wife, might not be easy, two concern a misguided sense of a guilt of old. The fourth turns out to be a missing woman. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamish.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529427045|title=A Hard DeathThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover of the book is impressive. My expectations were high. All the ingredients are in place for a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Florida. Brooding, enigmatic, awe-inspiring and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1787636607|title=Bad Penny BluesThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into It's a scene replicated all too often in the seedy underbelly early hours of London on the cusp morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the Swinging Sixtiesfew taxis available. 'Bad Penny Blues' is Others squash onto the story night bus that will only go as far as one of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the west light of 'the citymissing women'. For one young woman, at the time final stop on the bus leaves her a melting pot long way short of immigrants from the Caribbean her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peerscollect her - but her phone's dead. Carnaby Street was just becoming The bus had driven off before she had the fashion centre of London chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1405957174|title=Cold to A Death at the TouchParty|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlyparty will not end well. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on The victim - a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her - is dying when we first meet him and it seems that her mother wants nothing Nadine consciously makes no effort to do with hercall the ambulance he so desperately needs. Jess What we don't know is a talented chef but she's short of work – who the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Sarah senses her vulnerability, but itI's Jess who organises the let of one of her mother's cottages in the sea-side town where she grew up d better give you a little more background so that Sarah you can have a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent fireunderstand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald0008530025|title=Bloody WomenMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. 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 taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of 'Bloody Women'Infamous'', I hadn't heard a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the author Helen Fitzgerald evidence and by to take the investigation further. More to the title and blurbpoint, I expected a standard crime-thriller novel. But early they're going to do this live oncamera, I realised this wasnepisode by episode. There't s no dump of the case. The novel was a kind of black comedy and written with wit whole box set - and humour, despite the theme no shortage of murder and violencecliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver0241996104|title=The Bodies Left BehindComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesstep-brother, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in WisconsinMartin, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal has been convicted of a lifetimetheir murder. But on their We first evening in meet Nancy outside the placecourt, after Martin receives a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outlife sentence. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and the only hope they have is The barrister tells her that someone will take notice of Stevenshe's phone call to the police, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.|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 not received a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex'silent sentence' -husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has she's not been invited found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the wedding. She goes, with plenty rest of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possibleher life. She sees James just before the wedding Of course, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and wants to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha papers are making the primary suspectsmost of it. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' 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 favourite epithet and the other in the north-east. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt. 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]], the first of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, was a fine stand-alone novel. The second in the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonrich bitch's finely crafted anti-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review nowmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529413680|title=Tooth and ClawA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is on the loose, and yet again re-enactment of the liberation of the police have failed to connect town from the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - English in 1370 and blown a hapless commuter Bruno's there to smithereens at a railway stationsee the show with some friends. He It's planning his next murder alreadyall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, secreted away in the shed at the bottom man playing one of the garden of main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the house he shares with script. Luckily, his invalid father. Carl doctor is embittered there and lonely - with his mother living the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and pursuing a career friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a forensic psychologistsenior government employee, there's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bagman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, to cookwho lives in California, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallyis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529196388|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted Grant Cliveden was a hot bath after hero: a hard day's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to the nextby just about everyone, all of whom are absorbed so there was public uproar when he was murdered in their own dilemmasplain sight at the Old Bailey. There is 's just one man in the draftee frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with a sick motherCliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, the nurse who thinks she has run over a babyAdam Green, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and otherseventually represent him. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through Knight's determined to the morning. We are shown how in the midst of their own interestingplead not guilty, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which despite all their windows look, through which windows they witness Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the attack, and how these people did nothingcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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