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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Cara Black|title=Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc)|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Aimée Leduc is back and this time she might just have found the sister she's always longed for. When a Haitian woman arrived in the offices of Leduc detective in central Paris and announced that she was Aimée's father's illegitimate daughter Aimée allowed enthusiasm to overrule logic as she'd been lonely since her mother's disappearance and her father's death. René, her partner in Leduc Detective, is wary but he can't dissuade Aimée. It's not long before she's involved in the murky world of Haitian politics and murder in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013144</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John HarveyStuart Douglas|title=A Darker Shade of Blue|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=There are eighteen short stories covering the East Midlands, those parts of London you'd generally really rather avoid Lowe and rural East Anglia. You'll see broken families, revenge killings, prostitution and drugs. There's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched police force and underpaid men and women staffing it. And then there are Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the people who, in spite of everything, fight for justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548232</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gladys Mitchell|title=The Mystery of a Butcher's ShopDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=A body is found in a butcherDuring location filming for his 1970's shop one morning in Wandles Parva. It has been expertly chopped up sitcom 'Floggit and hung just like Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a piece woman on the edge of pork, but because it is missing a head, identification is impossiblereservoir. There are soon suggestions that The police seem happy to assign it must be Rupert Sethleighas an accidental death, a land-owner who had supposedly gone to but something about the US. His cousinwhole thing bothers Lowe, Jim Redsey is and he enlists the obvious suspect. The two men didn't like each other - in facthelp of a fellow actor, nobody actually liked Rupert SethleighJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. The local vicar's daughter, Felicity They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Aubrey, related to Jim and Rupertseemingly, decide a link to play detectivedeath during the Second World War. Before long, But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they are joined by Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, an elderly woman manage to uncover who fancies herself a detective. Can they sort out the red herrings and find the killeris responsible before more people lose their lives? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009954685X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Cave0008517061|title=For Everything Death in a ReasonLonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Joseph RuebinsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He is one second away from There’s perhaps a very satisfying climax to little uncertainty about the future of his boxing career, and winding up for life with his ultimate punch, when he freezesvet girlfriend, Livia and suffers a strokeher daughter Diana, and ends up in hospital. Overnight someone kills the elderly man as moving in the next bed. Meanwhile, together would mean a policeman hunts down the man who killed lot of compromise: does Jake give up his son. Where are 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 connecting links - future she wants for herself and how could her daughter? For the fact that Joseph was put moment they’re enjoying life in the wrong ward due to a mishap with present and putting the forms imperil future on the rest of his close-knit family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956236898</amazonuk>back burner.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Litt1786482126|title=King DeathThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Skelton, thatBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's apartments - when they discovered the musician, adores his girlfriendbones of a child beneath a doorway. She's certainly exotic with ' There was no skull... her hair ... like black oil flowing over Was this a stone.' ritual killing or murder? HoweverInevitably, they are only a heartbeat away from breaking up when it happensDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. What looks like some internal part of the bodyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, animal or even human that she is hurled from pregnant with his child as a London trainresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. The pair just happen to Her condition will be travelling on that very train and they also just happen obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to witness this unsavoury actionsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith0008551324|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice MysteryThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has a gruesome murder on her hands. The victim, a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has had to give up a lucrative and interesting career due to ill-health. HeIt's now merely existing. He's waiting unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to die, basicallyapproach the police. He wants to die. So straight away, Neither side likes or has any respect for the plot starts to thicken nicelyother. WeBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're introduced s prepared to tell the police where the body of a clutch of characters, or, more appropriately, suspectsmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Apart from the immediate familyThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the extended family, there's also various others, home helps etcpolice doing what he wants. It seems several people have And what he wants is to be transferred to an axe open prison to grind as far as serve the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concernedremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. You have Not much to ask yourself the question at this point, who'd murder a frail, almost-dead manis it? It would take a particularly callous person. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to have put up any sort of struggle. It would have been similar to killing a tiny, helpless kitten. Hedo 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 so far gone, why not just play the waiting game?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell0008405026|title=Death at the Opera|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Miss Ferris would not normally have been entertained for a major part in Hillmaston School's production of The Mikado. She was self-effacing, meek and not very talented. But – she had offered to finance the cost of the production and this swung matters A Stranger in her favour. It did mean that she couldn't afford the holiday she had planned for the summer and had to spend it in her aunt's boarding house, but she'd been pleased to make the gesture as she'd been happy at the school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546841</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Barrie Roberts|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man From HellJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Noted West Country philanthropist Lord Backwater iskilled – by poachers, according It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to the police investigatinga halt. His sondisagrees Now, her mother, Helena, and calls her father are dead in Sherlock Holmestheir bed. Initially, who quickly establishes it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies thatthe true solution makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to the mystery be an open-and-shut case is much stranger – involving now a fearedcriminal brotherhood, crimes from many years pastcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and the Gates ofHell themselvesUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565089</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H Paul Jeffers0571379877|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Stalwart CompanionsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After replying to an article written by the worldEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's first consultingdetectivealso self-obsessed, Sherlock Holmesdemanding, young Teddy Roosevelt, about handsome and entitled and uses Edward to study lawat Columbia, strikes up a correspondence with run errands for him. They're pleased tofinally meet when Holmes is acting Edward has been in America – love with Stanza since their university days - and naturally,Roosevelt introduces him he's drunkenly confided how he feels to another friend, NYPD Detective WillHargreavesRobert. Of course, foul play is Most men in the air – and the three men areled into an investigation which starts off as 'justRobert' s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a dead body, relationship had begun between them butleads he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them to discover kissing in a plot against the President himself,Rutherford Hayesdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565097</amazonuk>
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Lydia Chin takes When a man is found crucified on the top of a new case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarskyhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to find missing jewellery which belonged to an Austrian Jewish refugee in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired for the case alongside her ability to operate in New York Citysidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's Chinese communitytheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. She But when there is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilder's storya second body found crucified a few days later, told through letters written Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to her mothersolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and when Joel 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 Smithpotentially, who has been out of touch for a while, returns to help her. This detective story linking past and present is compulsive reading.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Robertson1035021803|title=RandomThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man is planning his first murder and heIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's doing it with some careback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. WeFreya'll gradually realise that hes former mentor and Carole's been making preparations for some time but close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the oddest thing is that this murder must be completely randomleast. He mustn't be diverted from his chosen system even if Arthur was the person who is selected is someone he would rather reason why Freya had not killbeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. It's Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not a whodunit – for felt able to be near the killer tells us man or pursue the story as it progresses – or even profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a 'why did he do it' as even that will become obviouscafe, but met and married James (on the rebound from the suspense is in whether or not he will get caughtlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1398524085|title=A Room Swept White|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=There's a classic Agatha Christie style hook at the start of this story. TV producer Fliss Benson receives a card with no message other than sixteen numbers arranged in four rows of four. On the same day Fliss takes over work on a documentary about cot death mothers and miscarriages of justice. Simultaneously, one of the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card in her pocket. Work out what the numbers mean and you will find the killer. But as this is a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you will have to note every detail in every part of the book to reach the right conclusion. The plot has 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin Stratford|title=Double JeopardyNicci French|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Celebrating Charlotte Salter was expected at her release from 18 months under cover busting a drugs ganghusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her cherished Aunt Jo for dinnerdaughter, Etty. Just across from the restaurantare all worried but - strangely - her husband, in a dark alleyAlec, a man stands watchingis not. As Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the two women leave body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the restaurant, a motorcycle rounds river. It was an easy assumption for the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined police to attract attention – shots ring outmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Two bodies hit the groundThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her homeSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Eighteen years later to His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the dayhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, her twin brother Bryanit was Robin, Delaware's body is found in partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the hospital incinerator where he workedman she loved needed. There is no evidence to suggest accident or suicide The next case did look simple, and though. Two lovers were murdered in the police quickly treat it as swimming pool of a murderremote property in Bel Air. They not only need He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to find out who did an extremely rich man and it, but to work out the link between Bryan's murder and not the disappearance and presumed death Italian. But which of his twin sister. The investigation takes them into was the family and a nearby hostel for homeless men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson178763681X|title=The Ice Cream Girls|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Poppy and Serena, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious press, have their young lives shattered by the man they shared, a teacher in a position of trust, who controlled them in the worst possible ways. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has the assertiveness or maturity to handle the situation. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years on, the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed courses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)|title=The SnowmanOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Norway, and it's Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a snowy and dark Novemberresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Women are disappearing, He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and/or being found horrifically killedwomen to do what he wanted. The police have little to go on, but with Paul ''somehow'' got the help of flashbacks across cases impression that he'd be at the police could never hope school to connectassist Paul, we can see hints of who had a cleverbroken arm, but misogynistic man who seems it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to be the culprit, and on a mission against marital infidelityturn up dead. But what could be Unfortunately, he was the connection with all those crimes and person who discovered the American presidential elections? And why - body and how - might everyone knows that the police, the victims, and the reader, all come consider that person to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>the prime suspect.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1529421284|title=Past TenseLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jan Wakefield It was surprised to find herself arranging one of those flash downpours that the refreshments for mourners after British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a funeralgully, not least because she had never met a human skeleton came to the deceased surface and was unaware that her husband was forensic testing proved the next of kinbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He was working in South America 'd been a known drug user and not expected home for sometime. Josephine Short has obviously had learning disabilities, so it could have been a feisty character thoughsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Despite being unmarried she had had Geary was a child (townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at a the time when this would have been frowned upon) and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the funeralMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529425867|title=The Guards|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Lost and Never Found (A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate the apparent suicide of her teenage daughter in Galway. Jack is ex Irish police (GardaD I Wilkins Mystery) 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 and, if necessary, using his fists. Predictably, there is more to the suicide case than first meets the eye and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets and levels of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; it's darker and has a grim realism.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Castle Freeman|title=All That I HaveSimon 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 middleletter from his ex-agedwife, washed-up, disgraced ex-cop. As if saying that wasnshe's ill and hasn't bad enough, he also has a lot of very bad habitslong to live. He acknowledges however that It'the new world s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely abducted, stripped to his underwear and openly that 'An alcoholic has dreams sent to rival that a watery grave in the boot of any Vietnam veta stolen Ford Sierra.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman0861541774|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 A Nye of the story. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking to the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every time. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPheasants|author=Stephen Hunter|title=I, SniperSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You donDCI Domenic Jejeune't often find novels or films based on the art of the snipers close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hiding out for hours motionless Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for as interesting a story as he killed a face to face shoot outGhurka. But with 'IInitially, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to combine murder the art of man. Now he could be facing the sniper with the art of the crime thriller in death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a decent readdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1521129886|title=The Missing|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In 1992, Sarah Finch's twelve year old brother Charlie says to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soon.'' Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting to find out what happened to him. Now in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholism.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=John Burdett|title=The Godfather of KathmanduKeith 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 Life has more to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job offer than people - prime numbers for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'example' – 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. Hard-working, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful to their families. They're also English teenagers, with a fair dose of what that normally implies.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1787636607|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter It'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a dinosaur way to get home. Some are lucky and even he realises just how manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far adrift he is when some as one of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesthe outlying villages. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when The woman all regret the need arises'taxi problem', but this isnparticularly in the light of 'the missing women't . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of the younger generation her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Maxwell discovers that hecollect her - but her phone's going dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to have beg the bus driver to climb a steep learning curve if helet her use his. There's no option but to help his students through the problemstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler1405957174|title=Mercy|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In some ways, A Death at 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.' 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>}} {{newreviewParty|author=M R Hall|title=The DisappearedAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We From the first met Jenny Cooper in [[page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] victim - a man - is dying when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valleywe first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's now some months later and whilst she's settled into t know is who the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alison, man is uneven and she's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care or why Nadine prefers to admithave him die. SheI's d better give you a feisty woman though and determined little more background so that sheyou can understand what's going to do the job properlyhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross0008530025|title=CapturedMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying It was in December 2003 that fifteen- brain cancer is hitting him just as 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 barely turning fortynow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. As a result he compiles a short list A group of rights experts has been brought together to wrong, review the evidence and people to create closure withtake the investigation further. OneMore to the point, his ex-wifethey're going to do this live on camera, might not be easy, two concern a misguided sense episode by episode. There's no dump of a guilt the whole box set - and no shortage of oldcliffhangers. The fourth turns out to be a missing woman. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamishIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0241996104|title=The Merry MisogynistComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng Nancy's mother and despite the fact that they have a combined age of going on for a hundred step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and forty they're behaving like the newlyher step-weds they arebrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Even being We first meet Nancy outside the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos cancourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence't dampen Siri- she's enthusiasm not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. WellOf course, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and wedding girls in various parts of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. What he does to his victims leaves papers are making the morgue staff sickenedmost of it. There's a determination to find the man responsible 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and bring him to justice''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529413680|title=A Hard DeathChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno't read Jonathan Hayess there to see the show with some friends. It' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh readers all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, so to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover man playing one of the book main characters is impressiveseriously injured when he departs from the script. My expectations were high. All Luckily, his doctor is there and the ingredients are man is whisked away in place for a good thrillerhelicopter. The location is The Everglades A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in Florida. BroodingOne daughter lives nearby and another, enigmaticwho lives in California, aweis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-inspiring and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutesarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529196388|title=Curse of the Pogo StickThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to control his reactions in front of Judge Haengby just about everyone, but occasionally so there was public uproar when he forgot himself and was more insolent than usualmurdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. This time There's just one man in the Laos national coroner (reluctant)frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on a road trip charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the judge best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and the Justice Department. Nurse Dtui (pregnant it's Taylor-Cameron and marriedhis pupil, although not in the usual order of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr GeungAdam Green, who might, or might not be a help, but probably not in the way that you might expecteventually represent him. As if that wasnKnight't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a boobys determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-trapped corpse, thereCameron's a geriatric hit-person on recommendations to the loose and Siri is kidnappedcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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