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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie HannahStuart Douglas|title=A Room Swept WhiteLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=ThereDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a classic Agatha Christie style hook at woman on the start edge of this story. TV producer Fliss Benson receives a card with no message other than sixteen numbers arranged in four rows of fourreservoir. On The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the same day Fliss takes over work on a documentary about cot death mothers whole thing bothers Lowe, and miscarriages he enlists the help of justice. Simultaneouslya fellow actor, one of the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card in her pocketJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Work out what They travel across the numbers mean country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and you will find , seemingly, a link to death during the killerSecond World War. But as this is there really a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you link between the deaths? And will have they manage to note every detail in every part of the book to reach the right conclusion. The plot has uncover who is responsible before more twists than a spiral staircase, though there are clues that could help you, including one rather cheeky feature - if you can spot it. Sadly, I didn't until I was writing this review…people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Stratford0008517061|title=Double JeopardyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=2.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Celebrating her release from 18 months under cover busting Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a drugs ganglittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets Livia and her cherished Aunt Jo for dinner. Just across from the restaurantdaughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a dark alley, a man stands watching. As lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the two women leave moment they’re enjoying life in the restaurant, a motorcycle rounds present and putting the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined to attract attention – shots ring out. Two bodies hit future on the groundback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1786482126|title=The Pull of the MoonJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The main story, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the events in Katesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's memoryapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, is set in summer 1972Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Simon It's uncle has gone away for difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a few result of the one night they spent together some three months and Simon and his friend Danny are meant to ago. Her condition will be doing some work on the garden over the holiday. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate alongobvious before long, and Trudie invites herself not least because Ruth is prone to join them a couple sudden bouts of weeks latersickness. How did a summer of lounging around and drinking with a little work on the garden end in murder? And what can Kate tell Danny's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Duncker0008551324|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His JudgeDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's rural France, and 2000 is barely begun, when hunters come across a spread of human corpses in unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the mountainspolice. Several families, all in Neither side likes or has any respect for the same cult, seem to have killed themselves on their path to whereverother. If so, this But Davie Hardie is a problem, for struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the last time it happened, in Switzerland body of a few years previous, nobody could work out why – missing person is buried and who was there to dispose of some of the evidenceresponsible for her death. This isn't a problem for the policeman involvedperson, as he fell desperately in love with promises, is someone big and it will be worth the investigative judge in collaborating on police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the initial caseremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Combining againNot much to ask, they see a link is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composerhim is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Kelly0008405026|title=Death WatchA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, 15 It's sixteen years since nine-year -old Norma Jean Judd Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her homebed one summer night. Eighteen years later She was never found and the investigation ground to the daya halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her twin brother Bryan's body is found father are dead in the hospital incinerator where he workedtheir bed. There is no evidence to suggest accident or suicide Initially, and the police quickly treat it as looks like a straightforward murder. They not only need to find out who did it, /suicide but to work out the link between Bryanthere's murder and something about the positioning of the disappearance bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and presumed death of his twin sisterher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The investigation takes them into the family What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is now a nearby hostel for homeless mencomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson0571379877|title=The Ice Cream GirlsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy and Serena, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by Edward Jevons is a rapacious press, have their working-class young lives shattered by the man they shared, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a teacher in a position of trusttheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, who controlled them in the worst possible wayshandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. The girls are trapped as victims because neither Edward has the assertiveness or maturity been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to handle the situationRobert. Chance intervenes Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years on, the traumatic events have profoundly affected stumble upon the emotional stability two of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)Callaghan|title=The SnowmanLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Norway, and it's When a snowy and dark November. Women are disappearing, and/or being man is found horrifically killed. The police have little to go crucified on, but with the help of flashbacks across cases the police could never hope to connect, we can see hints top of a cleverhill in Nuneaton, but misogynistic man who seems DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be the culpritcase alongside her sidekick, and on a mission against marital infidelitythe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But what could be the connection when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with all those crimes a potential serial killer and the American presidential elections? a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And why - and how - might Will they be able to solve the policecase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the victimscase and, and the readerpotentially, all come to be so terrified out of a good old Scandinavian snowmancareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1035021803|title=Past TenseThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to find herself arranging the refreshments English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for mourners after a funeralhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, not least because she had never met is dead and the deceased and was unaware that her husband was circumstances seem suspicious, to say the next of kinleast. He Arthur was working in South America and the reason why Freya had not expected home for sometimebeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Josephine Short Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has obviously been a feisty character thoughnot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Despite being unmarried After the split, she had had worked in a child cafe, met and married James (at a time when this would have been frowned uponon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeralFreya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1398524085|title=The GuardsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate the apparent suicide of Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her teenage daughter in Galway, Etty. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) are all worried but also a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his life. His approach to investigation is haphazard - he doesn't really have a method beyond asking direct questions andstrangely - her husband, if necessaryAlec, using his fistsis not. Predictably Shortly afterwards, there is more to the suicide case than first meets the eye Etty and JackGreg, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets and levels find the body of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; itGreg's darker and has a grim realism.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Castle Freeman|title=All That I Have|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of a firm of provincial solicitors but thankfully this Castle Freeman is a man very skilled father, Duncan Ackerley, in writing about the law rather than practicing itriver. In his latest novel Freeman tells It was an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing and his practical yet low-key approach to maintaining order in rural Vermont. Not easy assumption for Wing the gung ho approach police to fighting crime. He doesnmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't wear a uniform, he drives a battered old car rather than stand the standard issue sheriffguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's wagon and his gun, so ubiquitous in US law enforcement, is safely tucked away in his bottom drawer. Everyone in the area knows the sheriff and by and large little else they respect him can do but get on with their lives and his slightly unorthodox way of doing businesswonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1529900360|title=DaemonThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=As 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 internet grows and technology advanceshelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's seems there is nothing you can't dopartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in your own home from another continent and cars are more automated than everBel Air. Huge online games allow users worldwide He was the heir to interact an Italian shoe empire and play against each other in huge arenas. Thanks she is married to social networking, the internet can be addictive an extremely rich man and, yes, Iit'm aware s not the Italian. But which of them was the irony in writing that here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen178763681X|title=The Killing of the TinkersKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsbut celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow's been lying low 'over got the waterimpression that he' in Londond be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, licking his wounds. Jack (I'm slightly surprised that Bruen but it didn't give him a more Irish name) is a middleturn out that way. The teaching -aged, washedand the problems -up, disgraced ex-copare all his own. As if that wasnThe one thing he hadn't bad enoughexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he also has a lot of very bad habits. He acknowledges however was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that 'the new world is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely and openly police consider that 'An alcoholic has dreams person to rival that of any Vietnam vetbe the prime suspect.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1529421284|title=Killer|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Here at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to the heart of the story. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking to Laying Out the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every time. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBones|author=Stephen Hunter|title=I, SniperKate 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=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Constable Thomas Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'Thorny' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement in a case and so is taken by his wife, Mary, to recuperate in s no doubt about that. He was the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during fifteen-year-old holding the wargun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He expects pulled the trigger but due to be bored - the most interesting thing on vagaries of the horizon is a case jury system he was found not guilty of missing gnomes. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left both the murder and the force in a haze manslaughter of suspicionthe officer. Shortly afterwards, a body is found And so lives must go on the beach. Even stranger is For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the dead man is someone that Thorny capital and his colleague thought had died during hoping for a quieter life in the war. It seems that things are not as they seem. Can Thorny work out what countryside but when a missing teenager is going found on, even with her territory she's drawn into a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1448309743|title=U is for Undertow|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Several years ago I joined 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 I'd have to say about it. That book changed my literary life. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for 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>}} {{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Helen Black|title=DishonourCaro 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 Blues|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties. 'Bad Penny Blues' is the story of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in the west of the city, A Death at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParty|author=Frances Fyfield|title=Cold to the TouchAmy 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 life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of strange snapping noises outside begin anything but will have to freak live with what happened for the couple outrest of her life. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and papers are making the only hope they have is that someone will take notice most of Stevenit. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter''s phone call to the police, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – Thisfavourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529413680|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. 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 has been invited to the wedding. She goesA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, with plenty Chief of friends in tow 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 of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects. 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=CrimePolice Novel)|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in the south-east 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' NestMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson English in 1370 and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the Dragon Tattoo]]script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the first man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of Steig Larssonsurvival but - as he's Millennium trilogy of thrillersa senior government employee, was a fine standthe man who runs Frenchelon -alone novelthe military has stepped in. The second One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in the seriesCalifornia, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures is flying in with some of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonher father's finely crafted antifriends for a pre-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review nowarranged holiday. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529196388|title=Tooth and Claw|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. He's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, there's only him 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>}} {{newreviewThe Trial|author=Ryan David Jahn |title=Acts of ViolenceRob 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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