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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CamilleriStuart Douglas|title=The Wings of Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the SphinxDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction when Caterella rang him at home was that a During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead man had been found somewhere. Cat soon puts him right though. It’s body of a womanon the edge of a reservoir. She’s been foundThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, naked but particularly clean something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and on he enlists the edge help of the local rubbish tipa fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Most of her face had been blown awayThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, which was going a link to make identification particularly difficultdeath during the Second World War. Two things were obvious though – she was particularly beautiful and she had But is there really a tattoo of a butterfly on her shoulder blade.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mackenzie0008517061|title=City of StrangersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Paul Metzger – mid thirtiesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, with a failed marriageJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a broken relationship little uncertainty about the future of his life with his brother (who converted to Judaism)vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a dying father (who is an ex-Nazi). Straight away there are obvious flaws with his family dynamic. As lot of compromise: does Jake give up his writing career fails to take off he's left -grid and relaxing life to churn out thousands of words for articles that have no meaning move in with Livia or does Livia move to him, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the dregs of future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the publishing world. His moment they’re enjoying life isn't quite as high flying as he hoped. But then Paul gets offered a lucrative book deal; in the present and putting the future on the one thing he has wanted for years. The only catch is he has to write about his fatherback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Pelecanos1786482126|title=Shoedog|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=If you ever find yourself as a character in a work of fiction, it’s probably best to avoid hitchhikers. The chances are it’s going to turn out very badly for either the driver or the hitchhiker - or both. Constantine is a denim-clad, Marlboro-smoking, drifter and loner with a strong sense of right and wrong who has just returned from a period of travelling around the world and is heading south back home in the US when he is picked up by a man named Polk, driving a muscle car. So what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Barrie|title=Night-Scented|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Arbaud is determined to make her mark in the world of luxury brands. Most perfumes are off-shoots of established fashion houses Janus Stone (or celebrity names, but let's not go down ''that'' roadDr Ruth Galloway), but Isabelle has poached her rival's most talented perfumer and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the top. But – it would seem that someone is determined that she won't succeed. First on and then a second of her financial backers died, the first in circumstances which might have been a accident, but probably wasn't. About the second there could be no doubt. Two bullet holes are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pauline Rowson|title=The Suffocating Sea: A DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime NovelElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Crime|summary=Anyone who loves murder mystery novels will know there is a big difference between a policeman and a copper, and Pauline Rowson’s character DI Andy Horton in The Suffocating Sea is every bit a copper. Tough on the outside, soft on the inside Horton is just the chap to start nosing around a suspicious fire on board a boat – at least that’s where it starts, because DI Horton is about to discover he is more involved in the mystery than just as an investigating officer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955098246</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cara Black|title=Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc)|rating=4
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|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 Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the offices of Leduc detective in central Paris and announced that she site was Aimée's father's illegitimate daughter Aimée allowed enthusiasm going to overrule logic as shehold seventy-five 'd been lonely since her motherluxury's disappearance and her father's deathapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. RenéWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, her partner in Leduc DetectiveDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, is wary but he canNelson doesn't dissuade Aimée, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. It's Her condition will be obvious before long, not long before she's involved in the murky world least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Haitian politics and murder in Paris' bohemian Latin Quartersickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013144</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Harvey0008551324|title=A Darker Shade of BlueThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A body is found in a butcherIt's shop one morning in Wandles Parvaunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. It Neither side likes or has been expertly chopped up any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and hung just like he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a piece of porkmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, but because it is missing a headhe promises, identification is impossiblesomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. There are soon suggestions that it must And what he wants is to be Rupert Sethleigh, a land-owner who had supposedly gone transferred to an open prison to serve the USremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. His cousin Not much to ask, Jim Redsey is the obvious suspect. it? The two men didnnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't like each other - in fact, nobody actually liked Rupert Sethleigh. The local vicarthink so and she's daughter, Felicity, and Aubrey, related even prepared to Jim do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Rupert, decide to play detective. Before long, they are joined by Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, an elderly woman anyone who fancies herself a detectiveworks with him is kept well away from what's happening. Can they sort out the red herrings and find the killer? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954685X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Cave0008405026|title=For Everything a ReasonA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Joseph RuebinsIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He is one second away from She was never found and the investigation ground to a very satisfying climax to his boxing careerhalt. Now, and winding up for his ultimate punchher mother, when he freezesHelena, and suffers a stroke, and ends up her father are dead in hospital. Overnight someone kills the elderly man in the next their bed. MeanwhileInitially, it looks like a policeman hunts down straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the man who killed his sonbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Where are the connecting links What looked as though it was going to be an open- and how could -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the fact that Joseph was put explanation lies in the wrong ward due to a mishap with the forms imperil the rest of his close-knit family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956236898</amazonuk>Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Litt0571379877|title=King DeathThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=SkeltonEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, thatRobert and Stanza. Robert's the musician, adores his girlfrienda theatre director. SheHe's certainly exotic also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he' s drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert... her hair ... like black oil flowing over a stone. Most men in Robert' However, they are only a heartbeat s position would stay away from breaking up when it happens. What looks Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like some internal part most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of the body, animal or even human is hurled from them kissing in a London train. The pair just happen to be travelling on that very train and they also just happen to witness this unsavoury actiondark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian GalbraithJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice MysteryTrace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has When a gruesome murder man is found crucified on her hands. The victim, a Mr Brodie (the top of a suitably Scottish name) has had to give up a lucrative and interesting career due to ill-health. He's now merely existing. He's waiting to diehill in Nuneaton, basically. He wants DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to die. So straight awaythe case alongside her sidekick, the plot starts to thicken nicelyAI detective Lock. WeIt're introduced to a clutch of characterss their first live case together, or, more appropriately, suspectshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Apart from the immediate family, the extended family, But when there's also various othersis a second body found crucified a few days later, home helps etcKat 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. It seems several people have an axe Will they be able to grind as far as solve the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concerned. You have to ask yourself case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the question at this pointcase and, who'd murder a frailpotentially, almost-dead man? It would take a particularly callous person. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable to have put up any sort out of struggle. It would have been similar to killing a tiny, helpless kitten. He's so far gone, why not just play the waiting gamecareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1035021803|title=Death at the OperaThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Miss Ferris would not normally have It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been entertained for a major part in Hillmaston Schoolback to the English country village where she grew up. She's production back now because of The Mikadoa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. She was self-effacingFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, meek is dead and not very talentedthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. But – she Arthur was the reason why Freya had offered not been back to finance the cost of the production and this swung matters in village: Arthur, she feels, let her favourdown badly. It did mean that Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she couldn't afford has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the holiday profession she had planned for loved. After the summer and had to spend it split, she worked in her aunt's boarding housea cafe, but she'd been pleased to make met and married James (on the gesture as she'd been happy at rebound from the schoollove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546841</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barrie Roberts1398524085|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man From HellHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Noted West Country philanthropist Lord Backwater Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, iskilled – by poachers, according to the police investigatingnot. His sondisagrees Shortly afterwards, Etty and calls in Sherlock HolmesGreg, who quickly establishes thatfind the true solution to the mystery is much stranger – involving a fearedcriminal brotherhoodbody of Greg's father, crimes from many years pastDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Gates ofHell themselvesguilt. The 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>1848565089</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H Paul Jeffers1529900360|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Stalwart CompanionsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After replying to an article written by the worldIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's first consultingdetective, Sherlock Holmes, young Teddy Rooseveltfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, about Sturgis was reluctant to study lawat Columbia, strikes up 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 correspondence with himwhile. They Finally, it was Robin, Delaware're pleased tofinally meet when Holmes is acting in America – and naturallys partner,Roosevelt introduces him to another friendwho 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, NYPD Detective WillHargreavesthough. Of course, foul play is Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the air – heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the three men areled into an investigation Italian. But which starts off as 'just' a dead body, butleads of them to discover a plot against was the President himself,Rutherford Hayes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565097</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Lambert178763681X|title=Any Human FaceKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=1983: Alex enjoys the attention of his latest loverChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Bruno is generous with his money He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and his time; women to do what he lends Alex the flash car, dines him extravagantly, treats him well, takes him seriouslywanted. "It was not that he was not fond of Paul ''somehow'' got the older man… or impression that he didn't appreciate d be at the longer term view of school to assist Paul, who had a leg-up into journalism…"broken arm, but itdidn's just t turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he doesnhadn't realise he is lying expected was for someone to himselfturn up dead. What he feels for Bruno is a bit more than affectionUnfortunately, as he is about was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to discoverbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512994</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Rozan1529421284|title=Trail of BloodLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lydia Chin takes on It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a new case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarskygully, a human skeleton came to find missing jewellery which belonged the surface and forensic testing proved the body to an Austrian Jewish refugee in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired for her ability to operate in New York City's Chinese communitybe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilder He's story, told through letters written to her mother, d been a known drug user and when Joel is shot dead the next dayhad learning disabilities, being fired by the client doesnso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't stop her wanting to find out moreconvinced. She is glad when her old associate Bill Smith Geary was a townie, who has been so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of touch for a while, returns Holly Gilbert and to help hertwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. This detective story linking past Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and present is compulsive readingme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Robertson1529425867|title=Random|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Lost and Never Found (A man is planning his first murder and he's doing it with some care. We'll gradually realise that he's been making preparations for some time but the oddest thing is that this 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 kill. It's not a whodunit – for the killer tells us the story as it progresses – or even a 'why did he do it' as even that will become obvious, but the suspense is in whether or not he will get caught.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Sophie Hannah|title=A Room Swept WhiteSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's a classic Agatha Christie style hook at the start In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of this storyNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. TV producer Fliss Benson receives a card with no message other than sixteen numbers arranged in four rows D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of fourthose things. On the same day Fliss takes over work on He's white, originated from a documentary about cot death mothers trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and miscarriages his wardrobe consists mainly of justiceshell suits and trackies. Simultaneously, one of the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card They're usually in her pocketlime green or acid yellow. Work out what the numbers mean and You might wonder if you will find the killer're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. But as this is a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story Well, you will have to note every detail in every part 're not. The two men are just different sides of the book to reach same policing coin. Sometimes the right conclusioncombination works brilliantly well. 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 Sometimes it's problematic. Sadly, I didn't until I was writing this review…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Stratford1529431735|title=Double JeopardyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=2.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Celebrating her release from 18 months under cover busting a drugs gangIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets her cherished Aunt Jo for dinnerwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Just across from He'd been exiled on the restaurant, in Costa del Sol as a dark alley, wanted drug smuggler for a man stands watchingdecade. As the two women leave the restaurant The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, a motorcycle rounds the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined saying that she's ill and hasn't long to attract attention – shots ring outlive. Two bodies hit It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the groundboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0861541774|title=The Pull A Nye of the MoonPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The main story, the events in KateDCI Domenic Jejeune's memoryclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, is set in summer 1972. Simon's uncle has gone away for taken a few months and Simon and his friend Danny are meant short holiday in Singapore to be doing some work on the garden over the holidaymeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along, and Trudie invites herself to join them Maik was involved in a couple of weeks street brawl - he would later. How did maintain that he was facing a summer of lounging around and drinking man armed with a little work on the garden end in murder? And what can Kate tell Danny's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia Duncker|title=The Strange Case of the Composer knife - and His Judge|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's rural France, and 2000 is barely begun, when hunters come across he killed a spread of human corpses in the mountainsGhurka. Several familiesInitially, all in the same cult, seem he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have killed themselves on their path planned to wherevermurder the man. If so, this is a problem, for the last time it happened, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody Now he could work out why – and who was there to dispose of some of be facing the evidencedeath penalty. This isnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't a problem for the policeman involved, as he fell desperately in love with the investigative judge in collaborating on the initial case. Combining again, they see a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composerhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Kelly1521129886|title=Death WatchThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen years later to the day, her twin brother BryanGreg Mason's body is found in just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the hospital incinerator point where he worked'll warn someone about how much he charges. There is no evidence to suggest accident or suicide, 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 police quickly treat it as a murderbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. They not only need Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to find out have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who did it, but to work out the link between Bryan's murder struggling to make ends meet and the disappearance and presumed death of her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his twin sisternature. The investigation takes them into police and the family and a nearby hostel for homeless mencoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy KoomsonB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Ice Cream GirlsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy It's the 1990s and Serena, labelled Greg Mason'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious press, s twenty-eight years old. He used to have their young lives shattered by the man they shared, a teacher high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a position private investigator. 'Shades of trustCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, who controlled them in but where's the worst possible ways. life experience that backs up this profession? The girls are trapped as victims because neither On the other hand, he has the assertiveness or maturity been asked to handle the situationlook into something. Chance intervenes to escalate Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an inevitable situationunmanned level crossing. Now twenty years onJoyce - and her parents, the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesa train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)1838954481|title=The SnowmanMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's Norway, and it's a snowy and dark Novemberno doubt about that. Women are disappearing, He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and/or being found horrifically killedpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The police have little He pulled the trigger but due to go on, but with the help vagaries of flashbacks across cases the police could never hope to connect, we can see hints jury system he was found not guilty of a clever, but misogynistic man who seems to be both the culprit, murder and on a mission against marital infidelity. But what could be the connection with all those crimes and manslaughter of the American presidential elections? officer. And why - and how - might the police, the victims, and the reader, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Aird|title=Past Tense|rating=3lives must go on.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the refreshments capital and hoping for mourners after a funeral, not least because she had never met quieter life in the deceased and was unaware that countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her husband was the next of kin. He was working in South America and not expected home for sometime. Josephine Short has obviously been a feisty character though. Despite being unmarried territory she had had 's drawn into a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) wider investigation - and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for back into the funeralorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1448309743|title=The GuardsDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate In the village of Cronchie on the apparent suicide West coast of Scotland, five members of her teenage daughter in Galway. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) but also a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his lifewealthy family are found murdered. His approach to investigation The only item missing from the home is haphazard - he doesn't really have a method beyond asking direct questions and, the Devil Stone: myth says that if necessarythe stone is removed from Otterburn House, using his fistsdeath will follow. Predictably The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, 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 that's an easy conclusion given that two of corruption within them 'discovered' the citybody. '' The Guards'Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to ' is not your conventional crime thriller; itshadow's darker and has a grim realismhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1529077699|title=All That I HaveThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As the internet grows and technology advances, it''It's seems there is nothing you canall bloody peculiar, isn't do. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent and cars are more automated than ever. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact and play against each other in huge arenas. Thanks to social networkingit, the internet can be addictive and, yes, ISir?''m aware of the irony in writing that here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1529427045|title=KillerThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|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 Life has more to the substance and delivering a hardoffer than people -hitting work every time. With ''Killerprime numbers for example'', he has done the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1787636607|title=The MissingTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah FinchIt's twelve year old brother Charlie says a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to her get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'Tell mum Ithe missing women'll be back soon.'' Sixteen years later For one young woman, his family are still waiting the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to find out what happened ring someone to himcome and collect her - but her phone's dead. Now in The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her twenties, Sarah is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlieuse his. There's disappearance has slid into alcoholismno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett1405957174|title=The Godfather of KathmanduA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' From the son of a brothel madam and an American GIfirst page, but itwe know that Nadine Walsh's the latter rather than the former which party will not end well. The victim - a man - is likely dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to hold up his promotion in call the Thai police force, where ambulance he's a detectiveso desperately needs. HeWhat we don's also t know is who the part owner of a brothel where his mother, Nong, man is the madam in chargeor why Nadine prefers to have him die. ItI's no problem for his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has d better give you a few illegal interests of his own. He's currently in competition with the head of the army, General Zinna, to see who little more background so that you can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchaiunderstand what's Kathmandu-based guru has for salehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson0008530025|title=The SpireMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of a black fellow studenther stepfather, Angela HallLuke Ryder, at in the foot garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the spire in back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the centre of steps but the college he attends, he little suspects that vicious beating his best friend will be charged with the murderface had taken was obviously deliberate. Now, sixteen Twenty years later, Darrow is back, at the invitation of no one has been charged with his mentor murder and it's now college provost, Lionel Farrthe subject of ''Infamous'', to become president of the college in order to rebuild its reputation after a case true-crime show. A group of embezzlement experts has left been brought together to review the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in evidence and to take the intervening years)investigation further. As Darrow digs into what happened with More to the college financespoint, he also begins they're going to look afresh at do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the trial whole box set - and no shortage of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as chargedcliffhangers. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provost It's troubled, but beautiful, daughtercompelling viewing. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=David HospJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Among ThievesA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston English in 1370 and 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 United Statesscript. The police investigation failed to find them Luckily, his doctor is there and many felt they were lost foreverthe man is whisked away in a helicopter. But soon A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the paintings man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and their whereabouts would be impacting on many peopleanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1529196388|title=Dark Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, are worried. Yes the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with the TV producers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrial|author=David Baldacci|title=True BlueRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie MeldonGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, ex-criminal-defence attorney, now so there was public uproar when he was murdered in private practice, leaves his office very late one nightplain sight at the Old Bailey. HeThere's met by just one man in the FBI. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working out, trying to stay fitcourt, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple of dayscharged with Cliveden' times murder. Perry Knight was told that the best barrister for him was a cop. UnderJonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-coverCameron and his pupil, maverick and darn good at her jobAdam Green, who eventually represent him. Until she ended up stoned on methKnight's determined to plead not guilty, busted for robbery, convicted and sent downdespite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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