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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charles LambertStuart Douglas|title=Any Human FaceLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=1983: Alex enjoys During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the attention edge of his latest lovera reservoir. Bruno is generous with his money The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and his time; he lends Alex enlists the flash carhelp of a fellow actor, dines him extravagantly, treats him well, takes John Le Breton to help him seriouslyinvestigate matters further. "It was not that he was not fond of They travel across the older man… or that he didn't appreciate the longer term view of country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a leg-up into journalism…", it's just that he doesn't realise he is lying link to himselfdeath during the Second World War. What he feels for Bruno But is there really a bit link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more than affection, as he is about to discover.people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512994</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Rozan0008517061|title=Trail of BloodDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lydia Chin takes on Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a new case helping another private investigatorlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Joel PilarskyLivia and her daughter Diana, to find missing jewellery which belonged to an Austrian Jewish refugee as moving in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired for her ability together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to operate move in New York City's Chinese community. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilder's story, told through letters written with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her mother, and when Joel reservations about whether or not this is shot dead the next day, being fired by the client doesn't stop her wanting to find out more. She is glad when her old associate Bill Smith, who has been out of touch future she wants for a while, returns to help herself and her. This detective story linking past daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and present is compulsive readingputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Robertson1786482126|title=RandomThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man is planning his first murder and heBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's doing it with some careapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. We'll gradually realise that he's been making preparations for some time but the oddest thing is that Was this a ritual killing or murder must be completely random. ? He mustn't be diverted from his chosen system even if the person who is selected is someone he would rather not killInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's not a whodunit – for the killer tells us the story difficult as it progresses – or even a 'why did he do itRuth knows, but Nelson doesn' t, that she is pregnant with his child as even that a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will become be obviousbefore long, but the suspense not least because Ruth is in whether or not he will get caughtprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah0008551324|title=A Room Swept WhiteThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereIt's a classic Agatha Christie style hook at unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the start of this storypolice. TV producer Fliss Benson receives a card with no message Neither side likes or has any respect for the other than sixteen numbers arranged . But Davie Hardie is struggling in four rows prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of four. On the same day Fliss takes over work on a documentary about cot missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death mothers and miscarriages of justice. SimultaneouslyThis person, he promises, one of the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card in her pocket. Work out what the numbers mean someone big and you it will find be worth the killerpolice doing what he wants. But as this And what he wants is a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you will have to note every detail in every part be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of the book his sentence and to reach the right conclusionget an early parole date. The plot has more twists than a spiral staircaseNot much to ask, though there are clues that could help you, including one rather cheeky feature - if you can spot is it. ? Sadly, I didnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't until I was writing this review…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>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 him is kept well away from what's happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Stratford0008405026|title=Double JeopardyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Celebrating It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her release from 18 months under cover busting bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a drugs ganghalt. Now, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets her cherished Aunt Jo for dinner. Just across from the restaurantmother, Helena, and her father are dead in a dark alleytheir bed. Initially, it looks like a man stands watching. As straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the two women leave positioning of the restaurant, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a motorcycle rounds the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined to attract attention – shots ring outcomplex double murder. Two bodies hit Kerrigan is convinced that the groundexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0571379877|title=The Pull of the MoonKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The main storyEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, the events in Kateobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's memory, is set in summer 1972a theatre director. Simon He's uncle has gone away for a few months also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and Simon entitled and his friend Danny are meant uses Edward to be doing some work on the garden over the holidayrun errands for him. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Trudie invites herself he's drunkenly confided how he feels to join them a couple of weeks laterRobert. How did a summer of lounging around and drinking with a little work on the garden end Most men in murder? And what can Kate Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell DannyEdward that a relationship had begun between them but he's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerJo Callaghan|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His JudgeLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's rural France, and 2000 When a man is barely begun, when hunters come across found crucified on the top of a spread of human corpses hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the mountainscase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Several familiesIt's their first live case together, all in the same cult, seem to have killed themselves on their path to whereverhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. If so, this But when there is a problem, for the last time it happened, in Switzerland second body found crucified a few years previousdays later, nobody could work out why – Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and who was there a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to dispose of some of the evidencetheir AI Future Policing project. This isn't a problem for Will they be able to solve the policeman involvedcase in time, as he fell desperately in love with or will Kat find herself taken off the investigative judge in collaborating on the initial case. Combining againand, they see a link with everybody involved in both casespotentially, out of a famous conductor /composer.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Kelly1035021803|title=Death WatchThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen It's twenty years later since Freya Lockwood has been back to the dayEnglish country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, her twin brother BryanCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's body close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is found in dead and the hospital incinerator where he worked. There is no evidence circumstances seem suspicious, to suggest accident or suicide, and say the police quickly treat it as a murderleast. They Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only need been back to find out who did itthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but she has not felt able to work out be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the link between Bryan's murder split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the disappearance love of her life, who was murdered) and presumed death of his twin sister. The investigation takes them into the family Freya and a nearby hostel for homeless menJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson1398524085|title=The Ice Cream GirlsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and SerenaOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious pressEtty and Greg, have their young lives shattered by find the man they sharedbody of Greg's father, a teacher in a position of trustDuncan Ackerley, who controlled them in the worst possible waysriver. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has It was an easy assumption for the assertiveness or maturity police to handle make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the situationguilt. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on, the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though with their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesand wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)1529900360|title=The SnowmanGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's Norwayfault 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 help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a snowy and dark Novemberpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Women are disappearing, and/or being found horrifically killedShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The police have little to go onnext case did look simple, but with though. Two lovers were murdered in the help swimming pool of flashbacks across cases a remote property in Bel Air. He was the police could never hope heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to connect, we can see hints of a clever, but misogynistic an extremely rich man who seems to be and it's not the culprit, and on a mission against marital infidelityItalian. But what could be the connection with all those crimes and the American presidential elections? And why - and how - might which of them was the police, the victims, and the reader, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowmanprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird178763681X|title=Past TenseKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a funeral, not least because she had never met the deceased and was unaware that her husband was the next of kinresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He was working in South America didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and not expected home for sometimewomen to do what he wanted. Josephine Short has obviously been Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a feisty character thoughbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Despite being unmarried she had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) The teaching - and amassed a considerable fortunethe problems - are all his own. Her grandson Joe The one thing he hadn't expected was flying home from Lasserta for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the funeralprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529421284|title=The GuardsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate It was one of those flash downpours that the apparent suicide of her teenage daughter British weather often delivers in Galwaya heatwave. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) but also In a gully, a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his lifehuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. His approach to investigation is haphazard - he doesn He't really have d been a method beyond asking direct questions known drug user andhad learning disabilities, if necessary, using his fistsso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Predictably Geary was a townie, there is more so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide case than first meets of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the eye and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets time. Lockyer and levels DC Gemma Broad of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; itMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's darker cold cases to you and has a grim realismme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1529425867|title=All That Lost and Never Found (A D I HaveWilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As the internet grows In Oxford, there 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 technology advancesfather of Ryan, itis not. He's seems there is nothing you cannot any of those things. He't do. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home s white, originated from another continent a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and cars are more automated than everhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact and play against each other They're usually in huge arenaslime green or acid yellow. Thanks You might wonder if you're being introduced to social networkinga police procedural written for laughs. Well, the internet can be addictive and, yes, Iyou'm aware re not. The two men are just different sides of the irony in writing that heresame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529431735|title=The Killing of the TinkersWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's d been lying low 'over exiled on the water' in London, licking his woundsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Jack (IThe return has come about because he'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him s had a more Irish name) is a middle-aged, washed-up, disgraced letter from his ex-cop. As if that wasn't bad enoughwife, he also has a lot of very bad habits. He acknowledges however saying that she'the new world is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely s ill and openly that hasn'An alcoholic has dreams t long to rival that of any Vietnam vetlive.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dave Zeltserman|title=Killer|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Here at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman It's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight hard to the heart of the story. His story telling feel any sympathy when Hopkins is very straightforwardabducted, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the substance and delivering boot of a hard-hitting work every timestolen Ford Sierra. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Hunter0861541774|title=I, SniperA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You donDCI Domenic Jejeune't often find novels or films based on the art of the sniper. Hiding out for hours motionless s close friend and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for as interesting a story as a face to face shoot out. But with 'Iformer colleague, Sniper'Danny Maik, Stephen Hunter has managed taken a short holiday in Singapore to combine the art of the sniper meet up with the art of the crime thriller an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a decent readstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Casey|title=The Missing|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In 1992 Initially, Sarah Finch's twelve year old brother Charlie says he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to her ''Tell mum I'll murder the man. Now he could be back soonfacing the death penalty.'' Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to find out what happened to him. Now in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at help as any interference from another police force could provoke a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charliediplomatic incident and wouldn's disappearance has slid into alcoholismt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett1521129886|title=The Godfather of KathmanduThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but itGreg Mason's the latter rather than the former which is likely just beginning to hold up get his promotion in confidence as an investigator to the Thai police force, point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a detectivegood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. He's also Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the part owner of a brothel where his mother, Nong, morning sickness. Greg is the madam approached by an old friend whose brother-in charge-law appears to have killed himself. ItStuart's no problem for concerned about his bosssister, Colonel VikornLucy, who has a few illegal interests of his own's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. HeLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's currently t in competition with his nature. The police and the head of coroner have accepted that the army, General Zinnadeath was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to see who can raise find out what happened on the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for salenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North PattersonB0CK3MYJ56|title=The SpireResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers It's the body of 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a black fellow student, Angela Hall, at the foot of the spire high-flying job in the centre city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of the college he attendsCameron Strike', he little suspects that his best friend will you might be charged with the murderthinking. NowNice bloke, sixteen years laterbut where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, Darrow is back, at the invitation of his mentor he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and now college provostHelen are half-sisters, Lionel Farror rather, to become president of the college they were until Helen was killed in order to rebuild its reputation after what's been written off as a case of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become tragic accident at an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years)unmanned level crossing. As Darrow digs into Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what happened with the college finances, he also begins she was doing there - or how she could come to look afresh at the trial fall in front of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as chargeda train. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provost Greg's troubled, but beautiful, daughterbeen asked to investigate. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp1838954481|title=Among ThievesThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in fifteen-year-old holding the United Statesgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The police investigation failed He pulled the trigger but due to find them the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and many felt they were lost foreverthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. But soon For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the paintings capital and their whereabouts would be impacting hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on many peopleher territory she's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1448309743|title=Dark EntriesThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie MeldonIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, ex-criminal-defence attorneyfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, now death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in private practicemany ways, leaves his office very late one night. Hethat's met by an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the FBIbody. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is dead pulled in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working out, trying to stay fit, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple of days' time. Perry was a cop. Under-cover, maverick and darn good at her job. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent downshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1529077699|title=The Chalk Circle ManRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, he''It's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Shortall bloody peculiar, ungainlyisn't it, 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>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1529427045|title=U is for UndertowThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|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>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Black|title=Dishonour|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency Life has more to be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from the sink estates. Thin, angry, rebellious, 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. Hardoffer than people -working, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful to their families. They're also English teenagers, with a fair dose of what that normally implies. Jack is a copper, overlooked prime numbers for the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M J Trow|title=Maxwell's Retirement|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 arises, but this isn't the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Kessler|title=Mercy|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In some ways, the first line of this novel says it all: 'It's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hours.example' From this moment on, the action comes thick and fast, leaving the reader with barely the breath to murmer 'is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactory. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</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 the fact that they have a combined age of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like the newly-weds they are. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos can't dampen SiriIt's enthusiasm for life. Well, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls scene replicated all too often in various parts the early hours of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. What he does to his victims leaves the morgue staff sickenedmorning. There's a determination to find the man responsible Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs 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 Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was looking for a fresh reader, so way to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover of the book is impressiveget home. My expectations were high. All the ingredients Some are in place for a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Florida. Brooding, enigmatic, awe-inspiring lucky and where we all seem to expect crocodiles manage to rear their heads out get one of the swampy waters every five minutesfew taxis available.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Cotterill|title=Curse Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the Pogo Stick|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usualoutlying villages. This time The woman all regret the Laos national coroner (reluctant)'taxi problem', communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on a road trip with particularly in the judge and light of 'the Justice Departmentmissing women'. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and marriedFor one young woman, although not in the usual order of events) is left to run final stop on the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be bus leaves her a help, but probably not in the long way that you might expectshort of her home. As if that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a boobyShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -trapped corpse, therebut her phone's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappeddead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathi Unsworth |title=Bad Penny Blues|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Step into The bus had driven off before she had the seedy underbelly of London on chance to beg the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiesbus driver to let her use his. There'Bad Penny Blues' is the story of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and 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 peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitieshigh-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 ''Bloody Women'', I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald and by the title and blurb, I expected a standard crimeIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this wasn't the case. The novel was a kind of black comedy old Maura Howard came home and written with wit and humour, despite found the theme body of murder and violence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeffery Deaver|title=The Bodies Left Behind|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional 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 his murder and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters it's now the building and 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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