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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony Hillerman (Editor) and Rosemary Herbert (Editor)Stuart Douglas|title=A New Omnibus of CrimeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=Clive Wilkes is During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a delivery boy for woman on the edge of a grocery store somewhere in Americareservoir. Miss Oyster Brown is The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a devout spinster in a Berkshire town. An unnamed Scottish doctor works in Swazilandfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. What do these disparate characters have in common with They travel across the learned Horace Rumpole, Queer Customercountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh? All of them are connected with crimes – either as victims, perpetratorsseemingly, or investigators – in this brilliant anthologya link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0195370716</amazonuk>1803368209

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J T Ellison0008517061|title=All the Pretty GirlsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=We're in Nashville and a local girl Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has gone missingsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She's There’s perhaps a pretty twentysomething with little uncertainty about the rest future of her his life to lead. Until nowwith his vet girlfriend, that is. A gruesome find Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a gruesome 'trophy' left by the killer. Who lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and why - are relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the important questions future she wants for both Taylor Jackson of Homicide herself and Dr John Baldwin, FBI profiler. her daughter? Straight away this novel is shaping up nicely, I thought. And it gets better. The police have their work cut out For the moment they’re enjoying life in more ways than one. 'A decomposing body in ninety-degree heat could fell even the strongest professional.' And Ellison then goes present and putting the future on to describe in detail how all that unrelenting heat and all that cruel humidity affects a dead bodythe back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830390X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Camilla Ceder|title=Frozen Moment|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One cold, dark morning in December 2006 a man was driving to work when he began to have problems with his car. It was a fairly deserted part of the Swedish coast but he had vague memories of a car-repair business in the area. When he limped his car in there he discovered a body: the man had been shot in the head and his lower body crushed as a car had been driven over it. The man panicked and called his neighbour for help. Seja was a trainee reporter and when she arrived she was fascinated by the murder victim, but her lies to Inspector Christian Tell are soon discovered. It's not the end of the matter though as there's an immediate attraction between Seja and Tell – and he's well aware that he's breaking all the rules by getting into a relationship with a witness and even a potential suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297859471</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Winslow1786482126|title=The Whole World|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The Whole World is a sort of crime/suspense novel set in Cambridge, England, told in turn from the viewpoint of five different characters. The first two narrators, Polly and Liv, are friends, and seem to have much in common – they are both American students with things to hide, and they are both attracted to the same young man, Nick. One night things come to a head as Nick somehow ends up kissing them both, then goes missing and is presumed dead. Then Nick, a blind woman called Gretchen and a local police officer, Morris, tell their stories, and the novel takes several weird twists. It is hard to say more without revealing too much about the plot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385342888</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Fred Saberhagen|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a VampireElly Griffiths

|summary=Holmes and Watson are called Builders were demolishing an old house in by a bereaved father whoNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's convinced apartments - when they discovered the bones of a pair of spiritualists have deceived his wife by holding child beneath a séance in which their daughter seemed to returndoorway. There was no skull. When the pair attend Was this a second séanceritual killing or murder? Inevitably, the girl comes back againDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, and itbut Nelson doesn's clear t, that this she is no ordinary trick. Holmes gets assaulted and kidnapped, and Watson realises that for pregnant with his child as a result of the second time in their investigative career one night they're dealing with vampiresspent together some three months ago. He's left with only one choice Her condition will be obvious before long, and turns not least because Ruth is prone to Holmes cousin, the legendary Prince Dracula, for aidsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566778</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Mosley0008551324|title=The Devil in a Blue DressYou Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=Easy Rawlins is a little down on his luck, having just been laid off It's unusual for anyone from his job and with a mortgage payment duethe Hardie family to approach the police. So when DeWitt Albright walks into JoppyNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's bar prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and offers him money who was responsible for finding a young woman who has gone missingher death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it seems like will be worth the perfect opportunity for him police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to keep serve the remainder of his house, as well as sentence and to pass some timeget an early parole date. Of courseNot much to ask, what Albright is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't mention is that the reason hethink so and she's looking for this woman is even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that she's run off DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with a large amount of someone elsehim is kept well away from what's money and quite a few people on the streets of Los Angeles are prepared to kill to get that money backhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686830</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel D Victor0008405026|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh BulletA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=In 1911It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, authorher mother, Helena, journalist and celebrated dandy David Graham Phillips was shot multiple times by Harvard educated musician Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsboroughher father are dead in their bed. Initially, who then committed it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide. The journalist had received on but there's something about the morning positioning of his death a threatening telegram signed with his own name, but had shrugged the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it off as during his career as was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'muckrakers disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, to use the term coined for him by Theodore Roosevelt, he'd made many enemiesUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0571379877|title=Love Songs From A Shallow GraveThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun Edward Jevons is about to celebrate a working-class young man, obsessed with his seventyupper-fourth birthday but it looks as though it might be his lastclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Instead of being at home with Madam Daeng, his wife of three months, heRobert's in jaila theatre director. ItHe's not your average also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run-of-the-mill jail eithererrands for him. Siri is chained Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to some lead piping and conditions are not exactly five starRobert. Meanwhile Phosy and Dtui are having marriage problems whilst Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he struggles 's not like most men: Edward is left to investigate stumble upon the deaths two of three women, all skewered by an epee and their thighs showing a letter engraved with them kissing in a knifedark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter JamesJo Callaghan|title=Dead Like YouLeave No Trace

|summary=Brighton When a man is faced with found crucified on the top of a serial rapist who appears hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to have a fetish for shoes - after the rapecase alongside her sidekick, he removes the womanAI detective Lock. It's shoes and takes them their first live case together, having previously been very successful with himseveral cold cases. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is immediately reminded of suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a previous unsolved very high profile case that he was involved in several years before, during which draws a young girl disappeared, never lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be found. It was precisely at that able to solve the case in time that Grace's own wife, Sandy, disappeared or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, although he is now having a child with another womanpotentially, 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 out of a copycat rapist? And will Grace's memories of Sandy help him to find some clue as to her disappearancecareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giorgio Faletti1035021803|title=I KillThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Monte CarloIt'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 request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and 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 business together as antique hunters, she has not generally felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a place associated with moderation cafe, met and temperance married James (on the rebound from the love of any kind her life, who was murdered) and Freya and therefore probably the perfect setting for a killing spree by a serial killer with a particular fetish for extreme souvenir gatheringJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath1398524085|title=Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary=Magnus Jonson Charlotte Salter was in some difficulty in Bostonexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd overheard another detective getting himself involved s father, Duncan Ackerley, in something illegal the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he reported this he found that even the good guys werencouldn't terribly fond of him – and the others would prefer to see him dead before stand the case came to trialguilt. The solution was simple Salter children are not convinced but unusual: Jonson was born in Iceland although hethere'd mostly grown up in Boston and the police in Iceland wanted someone to give them some help in beefing up s little else they can do but get on with their murder squad. Jonson disappeared from Boston, telling no one where he was going lives and resurfaced in Iceland. Simple? Nowonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1529900360|title=Death and the MaidenThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Edris Tidson used It 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 grow bananas ask for his help on Tenerifedifficult cases. Not His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the world capital help of banana growing so far as I knowa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, but I guess such plantations could have existed it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and certainly theyit'd be believable when Mitchell penned this classic crime caper in 1947s not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546833</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillermo Orsi178763681X|title=No-one Loves a Policeman|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=It is December 2001 and Argentina is in crisis. Pablo Martelli used to be a policeman – not just any policeman, but part of a force now referred to as 'the National Shame' Knife Skills for its role doing horrible things to opponents of the military regime. Now he sells bathrooms, but it seems he cannot escape his past – once a policeman, always a policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeginners|author=Andrea Camilleri|title=The Wings of the SphinxOrlando Murrin

|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction when Caterella rang him Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at home was that a dead man had been found somewhereresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Cat soon puts him right thoughHe didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. It’s Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a woman. She’s been foundbroken arm, naked but particularly clean it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and on the edge of the local rubbish tipproblems - are all his own. Most of her face had been blown away, which The one thing he hadn't expected was going for someone to make identification particularly difficultturn up dead. Two things were obvious though – she Unfortunately, he was particularly beautiful the person who discovered the body and she had a tattoo of a butterfly on her shoulder bladeeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mackenzie1529421284|title=City of StrangersLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Paul Metzger – mid thirties, with It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a failed marriagegully, a broken relationship with his brother (who converted human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to Judaism)be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a dying father (who is an ex-Nazi)simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Straight away there Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are obvious flaws with his family dynamic. As his writing career fails connections to take off he's left to churn out thousands the suicide of words for articles that have no meaning Holly Gilbert and to him, two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the dregs time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the publishing world. His life isnMajor Crimes Review Unit (that't quite as high flying as he hoped. But then Paul gets offered a lucrative book deal; the one thing he has wanted for years. The only catch is he has s cold cases to write about his fatheryou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Pelecanos1529425867|title=ShoedogLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=If you ever find yourself as a character in a work of fictionIn Oxford, it’s probably best to avoid hitchhikers. The chances there are it’s going to turn out very badly for either the driver or the hitchhiker - or bothtwo D I Wilkins. Constantine Raymond Wilkins is a denim-cladof Nigerian descent, Marlboro-smokingBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, drifter son of Ryan and loner with a strong sense father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of right and wrong who has just returned those things. He's white, originated from a period trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of travelling around the world shell suits and is heading south back home trackies. They're usually in the US when he is picked up by lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a man named Polkpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, driving a muscle caryou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. So what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529431735|title=Night-ScentedThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Isabelle Arbaud It's February 1991 and Essex is determined to make her mark in bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the world of luxury brandsmore surprising. Most perfumes are off-shoots of established fashion houses (or celebrity names, but letHe's not go down ''that'' road), but Isabelle d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has poached her rivalcome about because he's most talented perfumer and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the top. But – it would seem that someone is determined had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she won't succeed. First on s ill and then a second of her financial backers died, the first in circumstances which might have been a accident, but probably wasnhasn'tlong to live. About the second there could be no doubt. Two bullet holes are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pauline Rowson|title=The Suffocating Sea: A DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime Novel|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Anyone who loves murder mystery novels will know there It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is a big difference between a policeman abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a copper, and Pauline Rowson’s character DI Andy Horton watery grave in The Suffocating Sea is every bit the boot of a copperstolen Ford Sierra. Tough on the outside, soft on the inside Horton is just the chap to start nosing around Is it a warning from a suspicious fire on board Spanish gang or a boat – at least that’s where it starts, because DI Horton is about problem closer to discover he is more involved in the mystery than just as an investigating officer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955098246</amazonuk>home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cara Black0861541774|title=Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Cave1521129886|title=For Everything a ReasonThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby LittB0CK3MYJ56|title=King DeathResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith1838954481|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice MysteryThe Misper|author=Kate London

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1448309743|title=Death at the OperaThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barrie Roberts1529077699|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man From HellRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5

|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?''

{{newreview|author=H Paul Jeffers|title=The Further Adventures Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of Sherlock Holmes : The Stalwart Companions|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=After replying to an article written by the world's first consultingdetectiveautumn gale, Sherlock Holmesstayed for about a month and then turned up, young Teddy Rooseveltnaked and dead, about to study lawat Columbiain a small boat, strikes up a correspondence with him. They're pleased tofinally meet when Holmes is acting anchored in America – and naturally,Roosevelt introduces him Scully Cove close to another friendthe village of Greystone, NYPD Detective WillHargreavesin Devon. Of course Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, foul play is in round the air – world sailor and the three men areled into an investigation which starts off all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'just' a dead bodyll find out, butleads them to discover he could be more than a plot against little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the President himself,Rutherford Hayes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565097</amazonuk>money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Lambert1529427045|title=Any Human Face|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=1983: Alex enjoys The Girl in 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…", itEagle's just that he doesn't realise he is lying to himself. What he feels for Bruno is a bit more than affection, as he is about to discover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512994</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalons|author=S J Rozan|title=Trail of BloodKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|summary=Lydia Chin takes on a new case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarsky, ''Life has more to find missing jewellery which belonged to an Austrian Jewish refugee in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired offer than 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>}}

{{newreview|author=Craig Robertson|title=Random|rating=3Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man is planning his first murder and he's doing it with some care The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. WeSalander'll gradually realise that hes niece's been making preparations for some time but mother is the oddest thing is that this murder must be completely random. He mustn't be diverted from his chosen system even if latest woman in the person who is selected is someone he would rather not killarea to have vanished without trace. Itwas only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's not a whodunit – for the killer tells us the story as guardian but it progresses – or even quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'why did he do it' as even that will become obvious, but s unaware of the suspense is part Salander played in whether or not he will get caughther father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1787636607|title=A Room Swept WhiteThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|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 of fourway to get home. On the same day Fliss takes over work on a documentary about cot death mothers Some are lucky and miscarriages of justice. Simultaneously, manage to get one of the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card in her pocketfew taxis available. Work out what Others squash onto the numbers mean and you night bus that will find the killer. But only go as far as this is a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you will have to note every detail in every part one of the book to reach the right conclusionoutlying villages. 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 it. Sadly, I didnwoman all regret the 'taxi problem't until I was writing this review…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Stratford|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 particularly in the restaurant, in a dark alley, a man stands watching.  As light of 'the two missing 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>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Janes|title=The Pull of the Moon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The main storyFor one young woman, 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 final stop on the garden over the holiday. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along, and Trudie invites herself to join them bus leaves her a couple long way short of weeks laterher home. How did a summer of lounging around She had intended to ring someone to come and drinking with a little work on the garden end in murder? And what can Kate tell Dannycollect her - but her phone's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patricia Duncker|title=dead. 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 bus had driven off before she had the same cult, seem chance to have killed themselves on their path to wherever. If so, this is a problem, for beg the last time it happened, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody could work out why – and who was there bus driver to dispose of some of the evidencelet her use his. This isnThere't a problem for the policeman involved, as he fell desperately s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and 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 /composerhigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Kelly1405957174|title=A Death Watchat the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson0008530025|title=The Ice Cream GirlsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|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>

{{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 culprit, and on a mission against marital infidelityher life. But what could be the connection with all those crimes and the American presidential elections? And why Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - and how she inherited five million pounds from her mother - might the police, the victims, and the reader, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Aird|title=Past Tense|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging papers are making 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 most of kinit. He was working in South America ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not expected home for sometime. Josephine Short has obviously been a feisty character thoughbe printed but is undoubtedly spoken. Despite being unmarried she had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeral.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529413680|title=The GuardsA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1529196388|title=All That I HaveThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder

|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>

{{newreview|author=Daniel Suarez|title=Daemon|rating=4|genre=Move on to [[Newest Crime|summary=As the internet grows and technology advances, it's seems there is nothing you can'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 networking, the internet can be addictive and, yes, I'm aware of the irony in writing that here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>}}(Historical) Reviews]]