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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diane JanesStuart Douglas|title=The Pull of Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the MoonDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The main story, the events in KateDuring location filming for his 1970's memorysitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', is set in summer 1972leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. Simon's uncle has gone away for a few months and Simon and his friend Danny are meant The police seem happy to be doing some work on assign it as an accidental death, but something about the garden over whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the holidayhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Trudie invites herself , seemingly, a link to join them a couple of weeks laterdeath during the Second World War. How did a summer of lounging around and drinking with But is there really a little work on link between the garden end in murderdeaths? And what can Kate tell Danny's mother Mrs Ivanisovicwill they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Duncker0008517061|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His JudgeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's rural FranceFormer Metropolitan Police detective, and 2000 is barely begunJake Johnson, when hunters come across has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a spread little uncertainty about the future of human corpses in the mountains. Several familieshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, all as moving in the same cult, seem together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to have killed themselves on their path move in with Livia or does Livia move to wherever. If so, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a problem, the future she wants for the last time it happened, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody could work out why – herself and who was there to dispose of some of the evidence. her daughter? This isn't a problem for For the policeman involved, as he fell desperately moment they’re enjoying life in love with the investigative judge in collaborating present and putting the future on the initial case. Combining again, they see a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composerback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Kelly1786482126|title=Death WatchThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, 15 year Builders were demolishing an old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen years later house in Norwich - the site was going to the day, her twin brother Bryanhold seventy-five 'luxury's body is found in apartments - when they discovered the hospital incinerator where he workedbones of a child beneath a doorway. There is was no evidence to suggest accident skull. Was this a ritual killing or suicidemurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and the police quickly treat it that she is pregnant with his child as a murderresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. They Her condition will be obvious before long, not only need least because Ruth is prone to find out who did it, but to work out the link between Bryan's murder and the disappearance and presumed death sudden bouts of his twin sister. The investigation takes them into the family and a nearby hostel for homeless mensickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson0008551324|title=The Ice Cream GirlsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy and Serena, labelled 'The Ice Cream GirlsIt' by a rapacious press, have their young lives shattered by s unusual for anyone from the man they shared, a teacher in a position of trust, who controlled them in Hardie family to approach the worst possible wayspolice. The girls are trapped as victims because neither Neither side likes or has any respect for the assertiveness or maturity other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to handle tell the situationpolice where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Chance intervenes This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to escalate get an inevitable situationearly parole date. Now twenty years onNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|authortitle=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett A Stranger in the Family (translatorMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=The SnowmanJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Norway, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and it's the investigation ground to a snowy and dark Novemberhalt. Women are disappearingNow, her mother, Helena, and/or being found horrifically killedher father are dead in their bed. The police have little to go onInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but with the help of flashbacks across cases there's something about the police could never hope to connect, we can see hints positioning of a clever, but misogynistic man who seems to be the culprit, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and on a mission against marital infidelityher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But what could What looked as though it was going to be the connection with all those crimes and the American presidential elections? And why an open- and how - might shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the policeexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, the victims, and the reader, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird0571379877|title=Past TenseThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after Edward Jevons is a funeralworking-class young man, not least because she had never met the deceased obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and was unaware that her husband was the next of kinStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He was working in South America 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and not expected home uses Edward to run errands for sometimehim. Josephine Short Edward has obviously been a feisty character thoughin love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Despite being unmarried she Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon) and amassed the two of them kissing in a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeraldark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken BruenJo Callaghan|title=The GuardsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to investigate the apparent suicide of case alongside her teenage daughter in Galwaysidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Jack But when there is ex Irish police (Garda) but also a known alcoholic second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with nothing much else in his life. His approach to investigation is haphazard - he doesn't really have a method beyond asking direct questions potential serial killer and, if necessary, using his fistsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Predictably, there is more Will they be able to solve the suicide case than first meets in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the eye case and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friendpotentially, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets and levels out of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; it's darker and has a grim realism.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1035021803|title=All That I HaveThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of a firm of provincial solicitors but thankfully this Castle Freeman is a man very skilled in writing about the law rather than practicing it. In his latest novel Freeman tells an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing and his practical yet low-key approach It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to maintaining order in rural Vermont. Not for Wing the gung ho approach to fighting crimeEnglish country village where she grew up. He doesn She't wear s back now because of a uniformrequest for help from her beloved aunt, he drives a battered old car rather than the standard issue sheriffCarole. Freya's wagon former mentor and his gunCarole's close friend, so ubiquitous in US law enforcementArthur Crockleford, is safely tucked away dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in his bottom drawerbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Everyone After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the area knows rebound from the sheriff and by love of her life, who was murdered) and large they respect him Freya and his slightly unorthodox way of doing businessJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1398524085|title=DaemonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=As the internet grows and technology advances, itCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's seems there is nothing you can't dofiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and cars her daughter, Etty. are more automated than everall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact Shortly afterwards, Etty and play against each other Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in huge arenasthe river. Thanks It was an easy assumption for the police to social networking, make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the internet guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can be addictive do but get on with their lives and, yes, I'm aware of the irony in writing that herewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529900360|title=The Killing of the TinkersGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legs. HeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been lying low 'over the water' in Londonbadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, licking Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his woundshelp on difficult cases. Jack (I'm slightly surprised His assertions that Bruen there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't give him need the help of a more Irish name) is psychologist only worked for a middle-agedwhile. Finally, it was Robin, washed-upDelaware's partner, disgraced ex-copwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. As if She knew that the involvement was something that wasn't bad enoughthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, he also has though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a lot of very bad habitsremote property in Bel Air. He acknowledges however that was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the new world is designed for non-smokersItalian.' He also admits quite freely and openly that 'An alcoholic has dreams to rival that But which of any Vietnam vet.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman178763681X|title=KillerKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus fara residential cookery school in Belgravia. He uses didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the heart of impression that he'd be at the story. His story telling is very straightforwardschool to assist Paul, not weighing down the story with too much stylewho had a broken arm, but sticking to it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the substance and delivering a hardproblems -hitting work every timeare all his own. With ''Killer'The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he has done was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the same againprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Hunter1529421284|title=I, SniperLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=You don't often find novels or films based on the art It was one of those flash downpours that the sniperBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Hiding out for hours motionless and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for as interesting In a story as gully, a face human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to face shoot outbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. But with He'Id been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, Sniperso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, Stephen Hunter has managed so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to combine the art suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the sniper with the art time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the crime thriller in a decent readMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1529425867|title=The MissingLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992Oxford, Sarah Finchthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's twelve year old brother Charlie says to her not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not 'Tell mum I'll be back soon.really'' Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting to find out what happened to himthing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Now They're usually in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a local private school while looking after her uncaring motherpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, who since Charlieyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's disappearance has slid into alcoholismproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett1529431735|title=The Godfather of KathmanduWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half It'farang' the son of a brothel madam s February 1991 and an American GIEssex is bitingly cold, but itwhich made Bruce Hopkins's return all the latter rather than more surprising. He'd been exiled on the former which is likely to hold up his promotion in the Thai police force, where he's Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a detectivedecade. HeThe return has come about because he's also the part owner of had a brothel where letter from his motherex-wife, Nong, is the madam in chargesaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's no problem for hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has underwear and sent to a few illegal interests of his own. He's currently watery grave in competition with the head boot of the army, General Zinna, to see who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for salestolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson0861541774|title=The SpireA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers the body of a black fellow studentDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Angela HallDanny Maik, at the foot of the spire has taken a short holiday in the centre of the college he attendsSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he little suspects would later maintain that his best friend will be charged he was facing a man armed with the murdera knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Now Initially, sixteen years later, Darrow is back, at the invitation he faced a charge of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farr, manslaughter but evidence came to become president of the college in order light that suggested that he might have planned to rebuild its reputation after a case of embezzlement has left murder the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years)man. As Darrow digs into what happened with the college finances, Now he also begins to look afresh at could be facing the trial of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as chargeddeath penalty. He also finds time Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to start an emerging relationship with the provosthelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's troubled, but beautiful, daughtert help Danny at all. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp1521129886|title=Among ThievesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from 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 Isabella Stewart Gardner museum morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in Boston -law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in the United Stateshis nature. The police investigation failed to find them and many felt they were lost forever. But soon the paintings and their whereabouts would be impacting on many peoplecoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera B0CK3MYJ56|title=Dark EntriesResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie Meldon, exIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-criminaleight years old. He used to have a high-defence attorney, flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now in set himself up as a private practiceinvestigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', leaves his office very late one nightyou might be thinking. HeNice bloke, but where's met by the FBI. life experience that backs up this profession? Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working outOn the other hand, trying he has been asked to stay fitlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, trying to stay saneor rather, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail they were until Helen was killed in a couple of dayswhat' time. Perry was s been written off as a coptragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. UnderJoyce -coverand her parents, maverick Oliver and darn good at her jobPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent downGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1838954481|title=The Chalk Circle Man|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, he's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about 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>}} {{newreviewMisper|author=Jean Rowden|title=More Deaths Than OneKate London|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Constable Thomas 'Thorny' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement in a case and so is taken by his wife, Mary, to recuperate in the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during the war. He expects to be bored - the most interesting thing on the horizon is a case of missing gnomes. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left the force in a haze of suspicion. Shortly afterwards, 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 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=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined Ryan Kennedy killed a funny little book group in London, and one of the first books we read was a Sue Grafton alphabet book. I had, up to this point, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such books, and so I was dubious about what Ipolice officer: there'd have to say s no doubt about itthat. That book changed my literary life. I devoured He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing itat DI Kieran Shaw. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for all He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the other books in jury system he was found not guilty of both the series murder and read them quickly, one by one, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world manslaughter of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading listthe officer. And so now, years later, I find myself with lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the latest book capital and hoping for a quieter life in the alphabet series lying in my lap, countryside but when a happy smile missing teenager is found on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1448309743|title=DishonourThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern livesIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Lily Valentine The only item missing from the home 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 the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is a boy removed from the sink estatesOtterburn House, death will follow. Thin, angry, rebellious, The only suspects are known Satanists but with an ability to charm and a serious talent for art that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girls. Hard-workingmany ways, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful to their families. Theythat're also English teenagers, with a fair dose s an easy conclusion given that two of what that normally impliesthem 'discovered' the body. Jack The Senior Investigating Office is a copper, overlooked for the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protectionDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in love with Lily, addicted to the job, always trying to do the right thing, and not always succeeding. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distraction'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1529077699|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' 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 mobiles. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when the need arisesIt's all bloody peculiar, but this isn't the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that heit, Sir?'s going to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall1529427045|title=The DisappearedGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|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 and whilst she's settled into the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alison, is uneven and she's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills Life has more to a greater extent offer than she would care to admit. Shepeople - prime numbers for example's a feisty woman though and determined that she's going to do the job properly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1787636607|title=The Merry MisogynistTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng and despite It's a scene replicated all too often in the fact that they have a combined age early hours of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like the newly-weds they aremorning. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic Drunken revellers spilling out of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm clubs and looking for lifea way to get home. Well, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing Some are lucky and wedding girls in various parts manage to get one of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treesfew taxis available. What he does to his victims leaves Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the morgue staff sickenedoutlying villages. There's a determination to find The woman all regret the man responsible and bring him to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Hayes |title=A Hard Death|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=I haven't read Jonathan Hayestaxi problem' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on particularly in the inside cover light of 'the book is impressivemissing women'. My expectations were high. All For one young woman, the final stop on the ingredients are in place for bus leaves her a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Floridalong way short of her home. Brooding, enigmatic, awe-inspiring and where we all seem She had intended to expect crocodiles ring someone to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutescome and collect her - but her phone's dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Cotterill|title=Curse of The bus had driven off before she had the Pogo Stick|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed chance to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usual. This time beg the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge and the Justice Department. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and married, although not in the usual order of events) is left bus driver 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 expectlet her use his. As if that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, thereThere's a geriatric hitno option but to start walking -person on the loose unsuitably clothed and Siri is kidnappedin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1405957174|title=Bad Penny BluesA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into From the seedy underbelly of London on first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiesambulance he so desperately needs. What we don'Bad Penny Blues' t know is who the story of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in the west of the city, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peersman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre of London and I'd better give you a new decade promised exciting possibilitieslittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield0008530025|title=Cold to the Touch|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica Hurly. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing to do with her. Jess is a talented chef but she's short of work – 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 delighted. Sarah senses her vulnerability, but it's Jess who organises the let of one of her mother's cottages Murder in the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent fire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily|author=Helen Fitzgerald|title=Bloody Women|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women'', I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald and by the title and blurb, I expected a standard crime-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this wasn't the case. The novel was a kind of black comedy and written with wit and humour, despite the theme of murder and violence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeffery Deaver|title=The Bodies Left BehindCara Hunter
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|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesstepfather, Luke Ryder, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal garden of a lifetimetheir West London home. But He had an injury on their first evening in the place, a series back of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the couple outvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. They know they are in real trouble when a man Twenty years later, no one has been charged with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building his murder and it's now the only hope they have is that someone will take notice subject of Steven's phone call to the police'Infamous'', 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 a happy womantrue-crime show. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha A group of experts has been invited brought together to review the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow evidence and looks forward to take the whole thing being over as soon as possibleinvestigation further. She sees James just before More to the weddingpoint, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants they're going to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killeddo this live on camera, episode by a bullet through episode. There's no dump of the window, whole box set - and James and Agatha are the primary suspectsno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0241996104|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in the southNancy's mother and step-east father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the other in the northher step-eastbrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. At We first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each othermeet Nancy outside the court, but years later after Martin receives a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtlife sentence. The author has investigated the connection and come up with barrister tells her that she's received 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 silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]rest of her life. Of course, the first of Steig Larssonit's made worse because Nancy's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, was a fine standrich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -alone novel. The second in and the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues papers are making the adventures most of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonit. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich 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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