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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Daniel D Victor|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh Bullet|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=In 1911, author, journalist and celebrated dandy David Graham Phillips was shot multiple times by Harvard educated musician Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, who then committed suicide. The journalist had received on the morning of his death a threatening telegram signed with his own name, but had shrugged it off as during his career as a 'muckraker', to use the term coined for him by Theodore Roosevelt, he'd made many enemies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Cotterill|title=Love Songs From A Shallow Grave|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is about to celebrate his seventy!-fourth birthday but it looks as though it might be his last. Instead of being at home with Madam Daeng, his wife of three months, he's in jail. It's not your average run-ofRemove -the-mill jail either. Siri is chained to some lead piping and conditions are not exactly five star. Meanwhile Phosy and Dtui are having marriage problems whilst he struggles to investigate the deaths of three women, all skewered by an epee and their thighs showing a letter engraved with a knife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter JamesStuart Douglas|title=Dead Like You|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Brighton is faced with a serial rapist who appears to have a fetish for shoes Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - after the rape, he removes the woman's shoes and takes them with him. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is immediately reminded of a previous unsolved case that he was involved in several years before, during which a young girl disappeared, never to be found. It was precisely Death at that time that Grace's own wife, Sandy, disappeared and, although he is now having a child with another woman, he has never been able to forget Sandy. If the rapist has reared his ugly head again, why has he chosen to do so after so long? Could it be a copycat rapist? And will Grace's memories of Sandy help him to find some clue as to her disappearance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Giorgio Faletti|title=I KillDress Rehearsal
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|summary=Monte Carlo: not generally During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a place associated with moderation and temperance woman on the edge of any kind a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and therefore probably he enlists the perfect setting for help of a killing spree by fellow 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, a serial killer with link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a particular fetish for extreme souvenir gathering.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath0008517061|title=Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
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|summary=Magnus Jonson was in some difficulty in BostonFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He'd overheard another detective getting himself involved in something illegal and when he reported this he found that even There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the good guys weren't terribly fond future of him – his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and the others her daughter Diana, as moving in together would prefer to see him dead before the case came to trial. The solution was simple but unusualmean a lot of compromise: Jonson was born in Iceland although he'd mostly grown does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in Boston with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the police moment they’re enjoying life in Iceland wanted someone to give them some help in beefing up their murder squad. Jonson disappeared from Boston, telling no one where he was going the present and resurfaced in Iceland. Simple? Noputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1786482126|title=Death and the MaidenThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Edris Tidson used Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to grow bananas on Tenerifehold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Not the world capital of banana growing so far It's difficult as I knowRuth knows, but I guess such plantations could have existed and certainly Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they'd spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be believable when Mitchell penned this classic crime caper in 1947obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546833</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillermo Orsi0008551324|title=No-one Loves a PolicemanThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It 's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is December 2001 struggling in prison and Argentina is in crisis. Pablo Martelli used he's prepared to be a policeman – not just any policeman, but part tell the police where the body of a force now referred to as 'the National Shame' missing person is buried and who was responsible for its role doing horrible things to opponents of the military regimeher death. Now This person, he sells bathroomspromises, but is someone big and it seems will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he cannot escape wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his past – once a policemansentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, always a policemanis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0008405026|title=The Wings of A Stranger in the SphinxFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction when Caterella rang him at home It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was that never found and the investigation ground to a dead man had been found somewherehalt. Cat soon puts him right thoughNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. It’s Initially, it looks like a woman. She’s been found, naked straightforward murder/suicide but particularly clean and on there's something about the edge positioning of the local rubbish tipbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Most of her face had been blown away, which What looked as though it was going to make identification particularly difficultbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Two things were obvious though – she was particularly beautiful and she had a tattoo of a butterfly on her shoulder bladeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mackenzie0571379877|title=City of StrangersThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Paul Metzger – mid thirties, with Edward Jevons is a failed marriageworking-class young man, a broken relationship obsessed with his brother (who converted to Judaism)upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a dying father (who is an ex-Nazi)theatre director. Straight away there are obvious flaws with his family dynamic. As his writing career fails to take off he He's left also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to churn out thousands of words run errands for articles that have no meaning to him, the dregs of the publishing world. His life isn Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't quite as high flying as s drunkenly confided how he hopedfeels to Robert. But then Paul gets offered Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a lucrative book deal; the one thing relationship had begun between them but he has wanted for years. The only catch 's not like most men: Edward is he has left to write about his fatherstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George PelecanosJo Callaghan|title=ShoedogLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you ever find yourself as When a man is found crucified on the top of a character hill in a work of fictionNuneaton, it’s probably best DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to avoid hitchhikersthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. The chances are it’s going to turn out It's their first live case together, having previously been very badly for either the driver or the hitchhiker - or bothsuccessful with several cold cases. Constantine But when there is a denim-cladsecond body found crucified a few days later, Marlboro-smoking, drifter and loner Kat is suddenly struggling with a strong sense of right potential serial killer and wrong who has just returned from a period very high profile case that draws a lot of travelling around unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the world and is heading south back home case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the US when he is picked up by a man named Polkcase and, potentially, driving out of a muscle car. So what could possibly go wrongcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687365</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1035021803|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 (or celebrity names, but letThe Antique Hunter's not go down ''that'' road), but Isabelle has poached her rival's most talented perfumer and given him free rein Guide 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>}} {{newreviewMurder|author=Pauline Rowson|title=The Suffocating Sea: A DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime NovelC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Anyone who loves murder mystery novels will know there is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a big difference between a policeman request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and a copperCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Pauline Rowson’s character DI Andy Horton the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in The Suffocating Sea is every bit a copperbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Tough on After the outsidesplit, soft she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the inside Horton is just rebound from the chap to start nosing around a suspicious fire on board a boat – at least that’s where it startslove of her life, because DI Horton is about to discover he is more involved in the mystery than just as an investigating officerwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955098246</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cara Black1398524085|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>}} {{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=John Harvey|title=A Darker Shade of BlueNicci French|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. There'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>}} {{newreview|author=Gladys Mitchell|title=The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=A body is found in a butcher's shop one morning in Wandles Parva. It has been expertly chopped up and hung just like a piece of pork, but because it is missing a head, identification is impossible. 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't like each other - in fact, nobody actually liked Rupert Sethleigh. The local vicar's daughter, Felicity, and Aubrey, related to Jim and Rupert, decide to play detective. Before long, they are joined by Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, an elderly woman who fancies herself a detective. Can they sort out the red herrings and find the killer? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954685X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Cave|title=For Everything a Reason|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Joseph Ruebins. He is one second away from a very satisfying climax to his boxing career, and winding up for his ultimate punch, when he freezes, and suffers a stroke, and ends up in hospital. Overnight someone kills the elderly man in the next bed. Meanwhile, a policeman hunts down the man who killed his son. Where are the connecting links - 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>}} {{newreview|author=Toby Litt|title=King Death|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Skelton, thatCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's the musician, adores his girlfriendfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She's certainly exotic with ' ..Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her hair ... like black oil flowing over a stonehusband, Alec, is not.' HoweverShortly afterwards, they are only a heartbeat away from breaking up when it happens. What looks like some internal part of Etty and Greg, find the bodyof Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, animal or even human is hurled from a London trainin the river. The pair just happen It was an easy assumption for the police to be travelling on make that very train Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they also just happen to witness this unsavoury actioncan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith1529900360|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice MysteryThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight awayIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, DS Rice has a gruesome murder Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on her handsdifficult cases. The victim, a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has had to give up a lucrative His assertions that there were only open-and interesting career due to ill-health. Heshut cases which didn's now merely existing. He's waiting to die, basically. He wants to die. So straight away, t need the plot starts to thicken nicely. We're introduced to help of a psychologist only worked for a clutch of characters, or, more appropriately, suspectswhile. Apart from the immediate familyFinally, the extended familyit was Robin, thereDelaware's also various otherspartner, home helps etcwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. It seems several people have an axe to grind as far as She knew that the involvement was something that the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concernedman she loved needed. You have to ask yourself the question at this point, who'd murder a frailThe next case did look simple, almost-dead man? It would take a particularly callous personthough. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable to have put up any sort Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of struggle. It would have been similar to killing a tiny, helpless kittenremote property in Bel Air. Hewas the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's so far gone, why not just play the waiting gameItalian. But which of them was the primary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell178763681X|title=Death at the OperaKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Miss Ferris would not normally have been entertained for Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a major part residential cookery school in Hillmaston School's production of The MikadoBelgravia. She was self-effacing, meek and not very talented. But – she He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had offered to finance the cost a way of the production getting both men and this swung matters in her favourwomen to do what he wanted. It did mean that she couldnPaul ''t afford the holiday she had planned for the summer and had to spend it in her auntsomehow's boarding house, but she'd been pleased to make got the gesture as sheimpression that he'd been happy be at the school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546841</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 Holmesassist Paul, who quickly establishes thatthe true solution to the mystery is much stranger – involving had a fearedcriminal brotherhood, crimes from many years pastbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the Gates ofHell themselvesproblems - are all his own.|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 worldone thing he hadn's first consultingdetective, Sherlock Holmes, young Teddy Roosevelt, about t expected was for someone to study lawat Columbia, strikes turn 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 carUnfortunately, dines him extravagantly, treats him well, takes him seriously. "It was not that he was not fond of the older man… or person who discovered the body and everyone knows that he didn't appreciate the longer term view of a leg-up into journalism…", it's just police consider that he doesn't realise he is lying person to himself. What he feels for Bruno is a bit more than affection, as he is about 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 new case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarsky, to find missing jewellery which belonged to an Austrian Jewish refugee in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired for her ability to operate in New York City's Chinese communityheatwave. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilder's story In a gully, told through letters written a human skeleton came to her mother, the surface and when Joel is shot dead forensic testing proved the next day, being fired by the client doesn't stop her wanting body to find out more. She is glad when her old associate Bill Smithbe Lee Geary, who has had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been out of touch for a whileknown drug user and had learning disabilities, returns to help her. This detective story linking past and present is compulsive reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Craig Robertson|title=Random|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man is planning his first murder and heso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's doing it with some caret convinced. We'll gradually realise that Geary was a townie, so what was he's been making preparations for some time but the oddest thing is that this murder must be completely random. doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? He mustn't be diverted from his chosen system even if There are connections to the person who is selected is someone he would rather suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not killconsidered suspicious at the time. ItLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that'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 caughtcold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Room Swept WhiteD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon 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=It's Norway, and itRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'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 the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on a mission against marital infidelity. But what could be For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the connection with all those crimes capital and hoping for a quieter life in the American presidential elections? And why countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and how - might the police, the victims, and back into the reader, all come to be so terrified orbit of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1448309743|title=Past Tense|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after a funeral, not least because she had never met the deceased and was unaware that 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 she had had a child The Devil Stone (at a time when this would have been frowned uponDCI Christine Caplan) and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeral.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ken Bruen|title=The GuardsCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
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|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
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|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 English in Boston in the United States. The police investigation failed to find them 1370 and many felt they were lost forever. But soon the paintings and their whereabouts would be impacting on many peopleBruno's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera |title=Dark Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, there to see the latest hit reality TV show, are worriedwith some friends. Yes the six housemates are thereIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, present and correctKerquelin, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the man playing one way outof the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the merryman who runs Frenchelon -go-round of horror that is their new homethe military has stepped in. They are already being scared witlessOne daughter lives nearby and another, by phantoms - but thatwho lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's nothing to do with the TV producersfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Baldacci1529196388|title=True BlueThe Trial|author=Rob 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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