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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo OrsiStuart Douglas|title=NoLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -one Loves a PolicemanDeath at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=23.5
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|summary=It is December 2001 During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Argentina is in crisis. Pablo Martelli used to be a policeman – not just any policemanLeggit', but part leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a force now referred to as 'woman on the National Shame' for its role doing horrible things to opponents edge of the military regimea reservoir. Now he sells bathrooms The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but it seems something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he cannot escape his past – once enlists the help of a policemanfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, always a policemanlink to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0008517061|title=The Wings of the SphinxDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction when Caterella rang him Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at home was that a dead man had been found somewhereLittle Sky. Cat soon puts him right though. It’s There’s perhaps a woman. She’s been foundlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, naked but particularly clean Livia and on the edge her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the local rubbish tip. Most of future she wants for herself and her face had been blown away, which was going to make identification particularly difficult. daughter? Two things were obvious though – she was particularly beautiful For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and she had a tattoo of a butterfly putting the future on her shoulder bladethe back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mackenzie1786482126|title=City of StrangersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Paul Metzger – mid thirties, with Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a failed marriage, doorway. There was no skull. Was this a broken relationship with his brother (who converted to Judaism)ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and a dying father (who is an ex-Nazi). Straight away there are obvious flaws Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his family dynamicDCI Harry Nelson. As his writing career fails to take off he It's left to churn out thousands of words for articles that have no meaning to himdifficult as Ruth knows, the dregs of the publishing world. His life isnbut Nelson doesn't quite as high flying , that she is pregnant with his child as he hoped. But then Paul gets offered a lucrative book deal; result of the one thing he has wanted for yearsnight they spent together some three months ago. The only catch Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is he has prone to write about his fathersudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Pelecanos0008551324|title=ShoedogThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you ever find yourself as a character in a work of fiction, it’s probably best It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to avoid hitchhikersapproach the police. The chances are it’s going to turn out very badly Neither side likes or has any respect for either the driver or the hitchhiker - or bothother. Constantine But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a denim-cladmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Marlboro-smokinghe promises, drifter is someone big and loner with a strong sense it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of right his sentence and wrong who has just returned from a period of travelling around to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the world other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is heading south back home in the US when he is picked up by a man named Polk, driving a muscle carkept well away from what's happening. So what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie0008405026|title=Night-ScentedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Arbaud is determined 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 make a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her mark father are dead in the world of luxury brandstheir bed. Most perfumes are off-shoots of established fashion houses (or celebrity namesInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but letthere's not go down ''something about the positioning of the bodies that'' road), but Isabelle has poached her rival's most talented perfumer makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the topboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But – What looked as though it would seem that someone was going to be an open-and-shut case is determined that she won't succeednow a complex double murder. First on and then a second of her financial backers died, Kerrigan is convinced that the first explanation lies in circumstances which might have been a accidentRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but probably wasn't. About the second there could be no doubt. Two bullet holes Una Burt) are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious deathless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251811</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pauline Rowson0571379877|title=The Suffocating Sea: A DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime NovelKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Anyone who loves murder mystery novels will know there Edward Jevons is a big difference between a policeman working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a coppertheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and Pauline Rowson’s character DI Andy Horton uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in The Suffocating Sea is every bit a copperlove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Tough on the outside, soft on the inside Horton is just the chap to start nosing around Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a suspicious fire on board a boat – at least that’s where it starts, because DI Horton relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is about left to discover he is more involved stumble upon the two of them kissing in the mystery than just as an investigating officera dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955098246</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cara BlackJo Callaghan|title=Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc)Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Aimée Leduc When a man is back and this time she might just have found crucified on the sister she's always longed for. When top of a Haitian woman arrived hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the offices of Leduc AI detective in central Paris and announced that she was AiméeLock. It's father's illegitimate daughter Aimée allowed enthusiasm to overrule logic as she'd their first live case together, having previously been lonely since her mother's disappearance and her father's deathvery successful with several cold cases. René, her partner in Leduc DetectiveBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is wary but he can't dissuade Aiméesuddenly 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's not long before she's involved Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the murky world case and, potentially, out of Haitian politics and murder in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849013144</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Harvey1035021803|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 and rural East Anglia. You'll see broken families, revenge killings, prostitution and drugs. ThereThe Antique Hunter's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched police force and underpaid men and women staffing it. And then there are the people who, in spite of everything, fight for justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548232</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGuide to Murder|author=Gladys Mitchell|title=The Mystery of a Butcher's ShopC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A body is found in a butcherIt's shop one morning in Wandles Parva. It twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been expertly chopped back to the English country village where she grew up and hung just like a piece . She's back now because of pork, but because it is missing a headrequest for help from her beloved aunt, identification is impossibleCarole. There are soon suggestions that it must be Rupert Sethleigh, a land-owner who had supposedly gone to the US. His cousin, Jim Redsey is the obvious suspect. The two men didn Freya't like each other - in fact, nobody actually liked Rupert Sethleigh. The local vicars former mentor and Carole's daughterclose friend, FelicityArthur Crockleford, is dead and Aubreythe circumstances seem suspicious, related to Jim and Rupertsay the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, decide to play detectivelet her down badly. Before long, Even though they are joined by Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradleywere in business together as antique hunters, an elderly woman who fancies herself a detectiveshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Can they sort out After the red herrings split, she worked in a cafe, met and find married James (on the rebound from the killer? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954685X</amazonuk>love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Cave1398524085|title=For Everything a ReasonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Joseph RuebinsCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He is one second away from a very satisfying climax to his boxing careerHer children, sons Niall, Paul and winding up for his ultimate punchOllie and her daughter, when he freezesEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, and suffers a strokeAlec, and ends up in hospitalis not. Overnight someone kills Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the elderly man body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the next bedriver. Meanwhile, a policeman hunts down 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 man who killed his songuilt. Where The Salter children are the connecting links - not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and how could the fact that Joseph was put in the wrong ward due to a mishap with the forms imperil the rest of his close-knit family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956236898</amazonuk>wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Litt1529900360|title=King DeathThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Skelton, thatIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's the musicianfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, adores Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his girlfriendhelp on difficult cases. SheHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's certainly exotic with ' ... her hair ... like black oil flowing over t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a stonewhile.' HoweverFinally, they are only a heartbeat away from breaking up when it happenswas Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. What looks like some internal part of She knew that the involvement was something that the bodyman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, animal or even human is hurled from though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a London trainremote property in Bel Air. The pair just happen He was the heir to be travelling on that very train an Italian shoe empire and they also just happen she is married to witness this unsavoury actionan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039728</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith178763681X|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice MysteryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a gruesome murder on her handsresidential cookery school in Belgravia. The victim, a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had to give up a lucrative way of getting both men and interesting career due women to ill-healthdo what he wanted. HePaul ''s now merely existing. Hesomehow's waiting to die, basically. He wants to die. So straight away, the plot starts to thicken nicely. We're introduced to a clutch of characters, or, more appropriately, suspects. Apart from got the immediate family, the extended family, thereimpression that he's also various others, home helps etc. It seems several people have an axe to grind as far as d be at the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concerned. You have school to ask yourself the question at this pointassist Paul, who'd murder had a frailbroken arm, almostbut it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -dead man? It would take a particularly callous personand the problems - are all his own. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to have put turn up any sort of struggledead. It would have been similar Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to killing a tiny, helpless kittenbe the prime suspect. He's so far gone, why not just play the waiting game?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1529421284|title=Death at Laying Out 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 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>}} {{newreviewBones|author=Barrie Roberts|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man From Hell|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Noted West Country philanthropist Lord Backwater iskilled – by poachers, according to the police investigating. His sondisagrees, and calls in Sherlock Holmes, who quickly establishes thatthe true solution to the mystery is much stranger – involving a fearedcriminal brotherhood, crimes from many years past, and the Gates ofHell themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565089</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H Paul Jeffers|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Stalwart Companions|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=After replying to an article written by the world's first consultingdetective, Sherlock Holmes, young Teddy Roosevelt, about to study lawat Columbia, strikes up a correspondence with him. They're pleased tofinally meet when Holmes is acting in America – and naturally,Roosevelt introduces him to another friend, NYPD Detective WillHargreaves. Of course, foul play is in the air – and the three men areled into an investigation which starts off as 'just' a dead body, butleads them to discover a plot against the President himself,Rutherford Hayes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Lambert|title=Any Human Face|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=1983: Alex enjoys the attention of his latest lover. Bruno is generous with his money and his time; he lends Alex the flash car, dines him extravagantly, treats him well, takes him seriously. "It was not that he was not fond of the older man… or that he didn't appreciate the longer term view of a leg-up into journalism…", it's just that he doesn't realise he is lying to himself. What he feels for Bruno is a bit more than affection, as he is about to discover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512994</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=S J Rozan|title=Trail of BloodKate 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 has taken a short holiday in summer 1972Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Simon's uncle has gone away for Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a few months knife - and Simon and his friend Danny are meant he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be doing some work on the garden over facing the holidaydeath penalty. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along, and Trudie invites herself Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to join them help as any interference from another police force could provoke a couple of weeks later. How did a summer of lounging around diplomatic incident and drinking with a little work on the garden end in murder? And what can Kate tell wouldn't help Danny's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>at all.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Duncker1521129886|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His JudgeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's rural France, a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and 2000 is barely begun, they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when hunters come across a spread of human corpses in she gets past the mountainsmorning sickness. Several families, all Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the same cult, seem -law appears to have killed themselves on their path to whereverhimself. If so, this is a problemStuart's concerned about his sister, for the last time it happenedLucy, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody could work out why – and who was there 's struggling to dispose of some of the evidencemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. This isnLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't a problem for in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the policeman involveddeath was suicide, as he fell desperately in love with the investigative judge in collaborating but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the initial case. Combining again, they see a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composernight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim KellyB0CK3MYJ56|title=Death WatchResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen years later to It's the day, her twin brother Bryan1990s and Greg Mason's body is found in the hospital incinerator where he workedtwenty-eight years old. There is no evidence He used to suggest accident or suicide, and have a high-flying job in the police quickly treat city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a murderprivate investigator. They not only need to find out who did it'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but to work out the link between Bryanwhere's murder and the disappearance and presumed death of his twin sister. The investigation takes them life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into the family and a nearby hostel for homeless mensomething.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Ice Cream Girls|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Poppy Joyce and SerenaHelen are half-sisters, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious pressor rather, have their young lives shattered by the man they shared, a teacher were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a position of trust, who controlled them in the worst possible waystragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has the assertiveness Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or maturity how she could come to handle the situationfall in front of a train. Chance intervenes Greg's been asked 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 coursesinvestigate.|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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