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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Walter Mosley|title=Devil in a Blue Dress|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Easy Rawlins is a little down on his luck, having just been laid off from his job and with a mortgage payment due. So when DeWitt Albright walks into Joppy's bar and offers him money for finding a young woman who has gone missing, it seems like the perfect opportunity for him to keep his house, as well as to pass some time. Of course, what Albright doesn't mention is that the reason he's looking for this woman is that she's run off with a large amount of someone else's money and quite a few people on the streets of Los Angeles are prepared to kill to get that money back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686830</amazonuk>}} {{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
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|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
|genre=Crime
|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)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Aimée Leduc is back and this time she might just have found the sister sheCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's always longed forfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. When a Haitian woman arrived in the offices of Leduc detective in central Paris Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and announced that she was Aimée's father's illegitimate her daughter Aimée allowed enthusiasm to overrule logic as she'd been lonely since , Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her motherhusband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's disappearance and her father's death, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. René, her partner in Leduc Detective, is wary but It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he cancouldn't dissuade Aiméestand the guilt. It's The Salter children are not long before sheconvinced but there's involved in the murky world of Haitian politics little else they can do but get on with their lives and murder in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarterwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013144</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Joseph RuebinsIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. He is one second away from His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a very satisfying climax to his boxing career, and winding up psychologist only worked for his ultimate puncha while. Finally, when he freezesit was Robin, and suffers a strokeDelaware's partner, and ends up in hospitalwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Overnight someone kills She knew that the involvement was something that the elderly man in the she loved needed. The next bedcase did look simple, though. Meanwhile, Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a policeman hunts down the man who killed his sonremote property in Bel Air. Where are He was the connecting links - heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and how could it's not the fact that Joseph Italian. But which of them was put in the wrong ward due to a mishap with the forms imperil the rest of his close-knit familyprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956236898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Litt178763681X|title=King DeathKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Skelton, that's the musician, adores his girlfriend. She's certainly exotic with ' ... her hair ... like black oil flowing over Chef Paul Delamare took a stone.' However, they are only teaching job at a heartbeat away from breaking up when it happensresidential cookery school in Belgravia. What looks like some internal part of the body, animal or even human is hurled from a London train. The pair just happen He didn't really want to be travelling on that very train and they also just happen to witness this unsavoury action.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039728</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Galbraith|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice Mystery|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has a gruesome murder on her hands. The victim, a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has 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, almost-dead man? It would take a particularly callous person. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable to have put up any sort of struggle. It would have been similar to killing a tiny, helpless kittenbut it didn't turn out that way. He's so far gone, why not just play the waiting game?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gladys Mitchell|title=Death at the Opera|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Miss Ferris would not normally have been entertained for a major part in Hillmaston School's production of The Mikado. She was selfteaching -effacing, meek and not very talented. But – she had offered to finance the cost of the production and this swung matters in her favourproblems - are all his own. It did mean that she couldnThe one thing he hadn't afford the holiday she had planned expected was 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>}} {{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 someone 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 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 car, dines him extravagantly, treats him wellUnfortunately, 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 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 Jeopardy|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=Celebrating her release from 18 months under cover busting a drugs gang, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets her cherished Aunt Jo for dinner. Just across from the restaurant, in a dark alley, a man stands watching. As the two women leave the restaurant, a motorcycle rounds the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined to attract attention – shots ring out. Two bodies hit the ground.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Winter Visitor|author=Diane Janes|title=The Pull of the MoonJames Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The main storyIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the events in Katemore surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's memoryhad a letter from his ex-wife, is set in summer 1972. Simonsaying that she's uncle has gone away for a few months ill and Simon and his friend Danny are meant hasn't long to be doing some work on the garden over the holidaylive. Danny brings It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his girlfriend Kate along, underwear and Trudie invites herself sent to join them a couple watery grave in the boot of weeks latera stolen Ford Sierra. How did Is it a warning from a summer of lounging around and drinking with Spanish gang or a little work on the garden end in murder? And what can Kate tell Danny's mother Mrs Ivanisovicproblem closer to home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Duncker0861541774|title=The Strange Case A Nye of the Composer and His JudgePheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's rural Franceclose friend and former colleague, and 2000 is barely begunDanny Maik, when hunters come across has taken a spread of human corpses short holiday in the mountainsSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Several families, all Maik was involved in the same cult, seem to have a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed themselves on their path to wherevera Ghurka. If soInitially, this is he faced a problem, for the last time it happened, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody could work out why – and who was there charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to dispose of some of murder the evidenceman. This isn't a problem for the policeman involved, as Now he fell desperately in love with the investigative judge in collaborating on could be facing the initial casedeath penalty. Combining again, they see Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composerdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help 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=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
|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 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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