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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily WinslowStuart Douglas|title=The Whole WorldLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|summary=The Whole World is During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a sort of crime/suspense novel set in Cambridge, England, told in turn from woman on the viewpoint edge of five different charactersa reservoir. The first two narrators, Polly and Liv, are friends, and police seem happy to have much in common – they are both American students with things to hideassign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and they are both attracted to he enlists the same young manhelp of a fellow actor, Nick. One night things come John Le Breton to a head as Nick somehow ends up kissing them both, then goes missing and is presumed deadhelp him investigate matters further. Then Nick They travel across the country during their days off filming, a blind woman called Gretchen uncovering more possible murders and a local police officer, Morrisseemingly, tell their stories, and a link to death during the novel takes several weird twistsSecond World War. It But is hard there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to say uncover who is responsible before more without revealing too much about the plot.people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385342888</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Saberhagen0008517061|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for Death in a VampireLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5
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|summary=Holmes Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Watson are called her daughter Diana, as moving in by together would mean a bereaved father who's convinced a pair lot of spiritualists have deceived compromise: does Jake give up his wife by holding a séance off-grid and relaxing life to move in which their daughter seemed with Livia or does Livia move to return. When the pair attend a second séance, the girl comes back again, and it's clear that Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is no ordinary trick. Holmes gets assaulted the future she wants for herself and kidnapped, and Watson realises that for her daughter? For the second time moment they’re enjoying life in their investigative career they're dealing with vampires. He's left with only one choice, the present and turns to Holmes cousin, putting the future on the legendary Prince Dracula, for aidback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566778</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Mosley1786482126|title=Devil in a Blue DressThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Easy Rawlins is 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 doorway. There was no skull. Was this a little down on his luckritual killing or murder? Inevitably, having just been laid off from his job and Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a mortgage payment dueDCI Harry Nelson. So when DeWitt Albright walks into JoppyIt'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 difficult as to pass some time. Of courseRuth knows, what Albright but Nelson doesn't mention is , that the reason he's looking for this woman she is that she's run off pregnant with his child as a large amount result of someone else's money and quite a few people on the streets one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Los Angeles are prepared to kill to get that money backsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686830</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel D Victor0008551324|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>}} {{newreviewDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Colin Cotterill|title=Love Songs From A Shallow GraveNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is about It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to celebrate his seventy-fourth birthday but it looks as though it might be his lastapproach the police. Instead of being at home with Madam Daeng, his wife of three months, Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's in jailprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It's not your average run-of-This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the-mill jail eitherpolice doing what he wants. Siri And what he wants is chained to some lead piping be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and conditions are not exactly five starto get an early parole date. Meanwhile Phosy Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Dtui are having marriage problems whilst he struggles she's even prepared to investigate do the deaths of three women, all skewered by an epee other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and their thighs showing a letter engraved anyone who works with a knifehim is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter James0008405026|title=Dead Like YouA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=Brighton is faced with a serial rapist who appears to have a fetish for shoes - after the rape, he removes the womanIt's shoes and takes them with himsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is immediately reminded of a previous unsolved case that he She was involved in several years before, during which a young girl disappeared, never found and the investigation ground to be founda halt. It was precisely at that time that Grace's own wife Now, her mother, SandyHelena, disappeared and, although he is now having a child with another woman, he has never been able to forget Sandyher father are dead in their bed. If the rapist has reared his ugly head again Initially, why has he chosen to do so after so long? Could it be looks like a copycat rapist? And will Gracestraightforward murder/suicide but there's memories something about the positioning of Sandy help him to find some clue the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to her be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giorgio Faletti0571379877|title=I KillThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Monte Carlo: not generally Edward Jevons is a place associated working-class young man, obsessed with moderation his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and temperance of any kind entitled and therefore probably the perfect setting uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a killing spree by a serial killer with relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a particular fetish for extreme souvenir gatheringdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael RidpathJo Callaghan|title=Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)Leave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Magnus Jonson was in some difficulty in Boston. He'd overheard another detective getting himself involved in something illegal and when he reported this he When a man is found that even crucified on the good guys weren't terribly fond top of him – and the others would prefer a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see him dead before the case came to trialalongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. The solution was simple but unusual: Jonson was born in Iceland although heIt'd mostly grown up in Boston s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the police in Iceland wanted someone a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to give them some help in beefing up their murder squadAI Future Policing project. Jonson disappeared from BostonWill they be able to solve the case in time, telling no one where he was going or will Kat find herself taken off the case and resurfaced in Iceland. Simple, potentially, out of a career? No.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848873972</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1035021803|title=Death and the MaidenThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Edris Tidson used It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to grow bananas on Tenerifethe English country village where she grew up. Not the world capital She's back now because of banana growing so far as I knowa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, but I guess such plantations could have existed is dead and certainly 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'd were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be believable when Mitchell penned this classic crime caper near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in 1947a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546833</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillermo Orsi1398524085|title=No-one Loves a PolicemanHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It is December 2001 Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Argentina her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is in crisisnot. Pablo Martelli used to be a policeman – not just any policeman Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, but part find the body of a force now referred to as Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the National Shame' river. It was an easy assumption for its role doing horrible things the police to opponents of make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the military regimeguilt. Now he sells bathrooms, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but it seems he cannot escape his past – once a policeman, always a policemanget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529900360|title=The Wings of the SphinxGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction when Caterella rang him at home was It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that a dead man Alex Delaware had been found somewherebadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Cat soon puts him right thoughHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. It’s a womanFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She’s been found, naked but particularly clean and on She knew that the edge of involvement was something that the local rubbish tipman she loved needed. Most of her face had been blown awayThe next case did look simple, which was going to make identification particularly difficultthough. Two things lovers were obvious though – she murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was particularly beautiful the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she had a tattoo is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of a butterfly on her shoulder blade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk>them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mackenzie178763681X|title=City of StrangersKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chef Paul Metzger – mid thirties, with Delamare took a failed marriage, teaching job at a broken relationship with his brother (who converted residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to Judaism), but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and a dying father (who is an ex-Nazi). Straight away there are obvious flaws with his family dynamic. As his writing career fails women to take off do what hewanted. Paul 's left to churn out thousands of words for articles 'somehow'' got the impression that have no meaning he'd be at the school to himassist Paul, who had a broken arm, the dregs of the publishing world. His life isnbut it didn't quite as high flying as he hopedturn out that way. But then Paul gets offered a lucrative book deal; The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he has wanted hadn't expected was for yearssomeone to turn up dead. The only catch is Unfortunately, he has was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to write about his fatherbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Pelecanos1529421284|title=ShoedogLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you ever find yourself as It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a character in heatwave. In a work of fictiongully, it’s probably best to avoid hitchhikers. The chances are it’s going a human skeleton came to turn out very badly for either the driver or surface and forensic testing proved the hitchhiker - or bothbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Constantine is He'd been a denim-cladknown drug user and had learning disabilities, Marlboro-smoking, drifter and loner with so it could have been a strong sense simple case of right and wrong who has just returned from misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a period townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of travelling around Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the world time. Lockyer and is heading south back home in DC Gemma Broad of the US when he is picked up by a man named Polk, driving a muscle carMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate. So what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529425867|title=Night-ScentedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Arbaud In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is determined to make her mark in the world of luxury brandsNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. Most perfumes are off-shoots He's not any of established fashion houses those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (or celebrity names, but letreading's not go down ''thatreally'' roadhis thing), but Isabelle has poached her rival's most talented perfumer and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the tophis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. But – it would seem that someone is determined that she wonThey't succeedre usually in lime green or acid yellow. First on and then a second of her financial backers died, the first in circumstances which You might have been wonder if you're being introduced to a accidentpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but probably wasnyou'tre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. About Sometimes the second there could be no doubtcombination works brilliantly well. Two bullet holes are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious deathSometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251811</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pauline Rowson1529431735|title=The Suffocating Sea: A DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime NovelWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Anyone who loves murder mystery novels will know there It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a big difference between wanted drug smuggler for a policeman and decade. The return has come about because he's had a copperletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and Pauline Rowson’s character DI Andy Horton in The Suffocating Sea is every bit a copperhasn't long to live. Tough on the outsideIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, soft on the inside Horton is just the chap stripped to his underwear and sent to start nosing around a suspicious fire on board watery grave in the boot of a boat – at least that’s where stolen Ford Sierra. Is it starts, because DI Horton is about a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to discover he is more involved in the mystery than just as an investigating officer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955098246</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cara Black0861541774|title=Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Aimée Leduc is back and this time she might just have found the sister sheDCI Domenic Jejeune's always longed forclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When Maik was involved in a Haitian woman arrived in the offices of Leduc detective in central Paris and announced street brawl - he would later maintain that she he was Aimée's father's illegitimate daughter Aimée allowed enthusiasm to overrule logic as she'd been lonely since her mother's disappearance facing a man armed with a knife - and her father's deathhe killed a Ghurka. RenéInitially, her partner in Leduc Detective, is wary he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he can't dissuade Aimée. It's not long before she's involved in the murky world of Haitian politics and might have planned to murder in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013144</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Harvey|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 Angliaman. You'll see broken families, revenge killings, prostitution and drugsNow he could be facing the death penalty. There's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another 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 could provoke 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 diplomatic incident 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 didnwouldn't like each other - in fact, nobody actually liked Rupert Sethleighhelp Danny at all. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Cave1521129886|title=For Everything a ReasonThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Joseph RuebinsGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. He is one second away from It's a very satisfying climax to his boxing career, and winding up for his ultimate punch, when he freezes, good job too because Greg and suffers Joyce will soon have a stroke, baby and ends up in hospitalthey're both delighted. Overnight someone kills Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the elderly man morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the next bed-law appears to have killed himself. MeanwhileStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, a policeman hunts down the man who killed his 's struggling to make ends meet and her sonis not thriving. Where are the connecting links Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and how could the fact coroner have accepted that Joseph the death was put in the wrong ward due suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to a mishap with find out what happened on the forms imperil the rest of his close-knit family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956236898</amazonuk>night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby LittB0CK3MYJ56|title=King DeathResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Skelton, thatIt's the musician, adores his girlfriend1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. SheHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's certainly exotic with now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike' , you might be thinking.Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something.. her hair ... like black oil flowing over a stone.' HoweverJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they are only were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a heartbeat away from breaking up when it happenstragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. What looks like some internal part of the bodyJoyce - and her parents, animal Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or even human is hurled from how she could come to fall in front of a London train. The pair just happen Greg's been asked to be travelling on that very train and they also just happen to witness this unsavoury actioninvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith1838954481|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice MysteryThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has Ryan Kennedy killed a gruesome murder on her hands. The victim, a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has had to give up a lucrative and interesting career due to ill-health. Hepolice officer: there's now merely existingno doubt about that. He's waiting to die, basicallywas the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He wants pulled the trigger but due to die. So straight away, the plot starts to thicken nicely. We're introduced to a clutch vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of characters, or, more appropriately, suspects. Apart from both the murder and the immediate family, manslaughter of the extended family, there's also various others, home helps etcofficer. It seems several people have an axe to grind as far as the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concernedAnd so lives must go on. You have to ask yourself For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the question at this point, whocountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she'd murder s drawn into a frail, almostwider investigation -dead man? It would take a particularly callous person. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable to have put up any sort and back into the orbit of struggle. It would have been similar to killing a tiny, helpless kittenRyan Kennedy. He's so far gone, why not just play the waiting game?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1448309743|title=Death at the OperaThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Miss Ferris would not normally have been entertained for a major part in Hillmaston School's production In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of The Mikado. She was self-effacingScotland, meek and not very talentedfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. But – she had offered to finance The only item missing from the home is the cost of Devil Stone: myth says that if the production and this swung matters in her favourstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. It did mean The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that she couldntwo of them 'discovered't afford the holiday she had planned for the summer and had body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to spend it in her aunt's boarding house, but she'd been pleased to make the gesture as sheshadow'd been happy at the schoolhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546841</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barrie Roberts1529077699|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man From HellRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Noted West Country philanthropist Lord Backwater iskilled – by poachers''It's all bloody peculiar, according to the police investigating. His sondisagreesisn't it, 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>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Lambert1529427045|title=Any Human FaceThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
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|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 Life has more to himself. What he feels for Bruno is a bit more offer than affection, as he is about to discover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512994</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=S J Rozan|title=Trail of Blood|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Lydia Chin takes on 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 people - prime numbers for her ability to operate in New York Cityexample's Chinese community. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilder's story, told through letters written to her mother, and when Joel is shot dead the next day, being fired by the client doesn't stop her wanting to find out more. She is glad when her old associate Bill Smith, who has been out of touch for a while, returns to help her. This detective story linking past and present is compulsive reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1787636607|title=A Room Swept WhiteThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereIt's a classic Agatha Christie style hook at scene replicated all too often in the start early hours of this storythe morning. TV producer Fliss Benson receives Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a card with no message other than sixteen numbers arranged in four rows way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of fourthe few taxis available. On Others squash onto the same day Fliss takes over work on a documentary about cot death mothers and miscarriages night bus that will only go as far as one of justicethe outlying villages. SimultaneouslyThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', one particularly in the light of 'the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card in her pocketmissing women'. Work out what For one young woman, the numbers mean and you will find final stop on the killerbus leaves her a long way short of her home. But as this is a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you will have She had intended to ring someone to note every detail in every part of come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the book chance to reach beg the right conclusionbus driver to let her use his. The plot has more twists than a spiral staircase, though there are clues that could help you, including one rather cheeky feature There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high- if you can spot itheeled shoes. Sadly, I didn't until I was writing this review…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Stratford1405957174|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 A Death at excess speed or in any other way destined to attract attention – shots ring out. Two bodies hit the ground.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Janes|title=The Pull of the Moon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The main story, the events in Kate's memory, is set in summer 1972. Simon's uncle has gone away for a few months and Simon and his friend Danny are meant to be doing some work on the garden over the holiday. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along, and Trudie invites herself to join them a couple of weeks later. How did a summer of lounging around and drinking with a little work on the garden end in murder? And what can Kate tell Danny's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia Duncker|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's rural France, and 2000 is barely begun, when hunters come across a spread of human corpses in the mountains. Several families, all in the same cult, seem to have killed themselves on their path to wherever. If so, this is a problem, for the last time it happened, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody could work out why – and who was there to dispose of some of the evidence. This isn't a problem for the policeman involved, as he fell desperately in love with the investigative judge in collaborating on the initial case. Combining again, they see a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParty|author=Jim Kelly|title=Death WatchAmy Stuart
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|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen years later to From the dayfirst page, her twin brother Bryanwe know that Nadine Walsh's body is found in the hospital incinerator where he workedparty will not end well. There The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no evidence effort to suggest accident or suicide, and call the police quickly treat it as a murderambulance he so desperately needs. They not only need to find out What we don't know is who did it, but the man is or why Nadine prefers to work out the link between Bryanhave him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's murder and the disappearance and presumed death of his twin sister. The investigation takes them into the family and a nearby hostel for homeless menhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson0008530025|title=The Ice Cream GirlsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
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|summary=Poppy It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Serenafound the body of her stepfather, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious pressLuke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have their young lives shattered by happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the man they sharedvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, a teacher in a position no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of trust''Infamous'', who controlled them in the worst possible waysa true-crime show. The girls are trapped as victims because neither A group of experts has been brought together to review the assertiveness or maturity evidence and to handle take the situationinvestigation further. Chance intervenes More to escalate an inevitable situationthe point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Now twenty years on, There's no dump of the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability whole box set - and no shortage of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursescliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)0241996104|title=The SnowmanComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=ItNancy's Norway, mother and it's a snowy step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and dark Novemberher step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Women are disappearingWe first meet Nancy outside the court, and/or being found horrifically killedafter Martin receives a life sentence. The police barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have little to go on, but live with what happened for the help rest of flashbacks across cases the police could never hope to connect, we can see hints of a clever, but misogynistic man who seems to be the culprither life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and on a mission against marital infidelity. But what could be the connection with all those crimes and papers are making the American presidential elections? most of it. And why - ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and how - ''rich bitch'' might the police, the victims, and the reader, all come to not be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1529413680|title=Past Tense|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after a funeralA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, not least because she had never met the deceased and was unaware that her husband was the next Chief 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 (at a time when this would have been frowned uponPolice Novel) 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 GuardsMartin Walker
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|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to investigate see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the apparent suicide man playing one of her teenage daughter the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in Galwaya helicopter. Jack is ex Irish police A local doctor (Gardaand friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but also a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his life. His approach to investigation is haphazard - as he doesn't really have s a method beyond asking direct questions and, if necessary, using his fists. Predictablysenior government employee, there is more to the suicide case than first meets man who runs Frenchelon - the eye military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and Jackanother, aided by his unsavoury friendwho lives in California, Sutton, uncover is flying in with some very disturbing secrets and levels of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; ither father's darker and has friends for a grim realismpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1529196388|title=All That I HaveThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of Grant Cliveden was a firm of provincial solicitors but thankfully this Castle Freeman is hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man very skilled in writing about the law rather than practicing it. In frame for his latest novel Freeman tells an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing murder - Jimmy Knight - and his practical yet low-key approach to maintaining order it's not too long before Knight appears in rural Vermontcourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. Not Knight was told that the best barrister for Wing the gung ho approach to fighting crime. He doesn't wear a uniform, he drives a battered old car rather than the standard issue sheriffhim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's wagon Taylor-Cameron and his gunpupil, so ubiquitous in US law enforcementAdam Green, is safely tucked away in his bottom drawerwho eventually represent him. Everyone in the area knows Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the sheriff and by and large they respect him and his slightly unorthodox way of doing businesscontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>
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