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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Jane Robins|title=The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=During the early months of 1915, Britain was fighting for her life during the First World War, and newspaper headlines were preoccupied with the army's exploits and outrages by the enemy. For a time, only one event at home could compete with them on the front news pages – the unhappy fate of two or three brides who had been drowned, in separate incidents, in their baths, and the fact that one man was probably responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848541074</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Arnaldur IndridasonStuart Douglas|title=Hypothermia|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Maria's body was found by her friend Karen. It was hanging from the rafters of her holiday home at Lake Thingvallavatn Lowe and when Detective Erlendur arrived it seemed like a straightforward case of suicide. Maria had been in a poor mental state since the death of her mother two years previously and there was a history of depression. It wasn't until Karen approached Erlendur with a recording of a séance which Maria had attended shortly before her death that his curiosity was aroused. There was no great pressure Le Breton Mysteries - Death at work and he had the time to indulge himself, so he looked further into the case along with the unsolved disappearances thirty years earlier of two unconnected people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532271</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Dean|title=To Die AloneDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The bodies During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a man and his dog are found in an isolated part woman on the edge of the northern hillsa reservoir. The injuries, particularly police seem happy to the dog are horrific and although assign it initially looks though the man might have died from as an accidental injuries it soon becomes obvious that he's been stabbed. The victim – Trevor Meredith – has been acting strangely lately as it looks as though he might have been aware that he was in danger. And where has his girl friend disappeared to? More to death, but something about the point, who, ''exactly''whole thing bothers Lowe, is Trevor Meredith. Chief Inspector Jack Harris and his team have their work cut out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091141</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Sargeant|title=Long Time Waiting|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=Pippa Adams is determined to do well on her first day as he enlists the help of a CID detectivefellow actor, especially when she is plunged straight into a murder case. However, an unfortunate comment about Agatha Christie plunges that into disarray and she becomes known as 'Agatha'. There is little time John Le Breton to dwell on this though; there is a murder to solvehelp him investigate matters further. Two men broke into They travel across the Brocks' home late one nightcountry during their days off filming, took Carl Brock away uncovering more possible murders and killed him, and chained his wife, Gabyseemingly, a link to a chairdeath during the Second World War. Carl Brock was But is there really a teacher and presumably above reproach - but as Pippa and her colleagues investigate, all sorts of issues come to link between the surface and it seems that Carl was not as innocent as deaths? And will they first presumed. Can Pippa find out the truth and persuade her disdainful colleagues that she manage to uncover who is a capable detectiveresponsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709091060</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Magson0008517061|title=Death on the Maraisin a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We meet the central characterFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Inspector Rocco and are informed that he's a city manJake Johnson, happiest pounding the elegant streets of Paris. But suddenly and against has settled into his will, he finds himself in the sticksrustic life at Little Sky. He's not too happy about it. His new colleagues are more than happy to rib him There’s perhaps a little, tell him that nothing much in uncertainty about the way future of crime happens here. One of these colleagues takes things a stage further - puffs up his cheeks before commenting 'we get the occasional punch-up over a game of bar billiards ...' Rocco thinks he'll be bored out of life with his skull in no time. Big surprise then when on day onevet girlfriend, yesLivia and her daughter Diana, on day one he's involved as moving in the discovery together would mean a lot of a young woman. And Magson wastes no time compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in giving his readers all with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the gory details of this woman's last few hours alive. We almost feel future she wants for herself and her slow, agonising death. daughter? And For the moment they’re enjoying life in the question is why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008342</amazonuk>present and putting the future on the back burner.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Buchan1786482126|title=The Island of Sheep Janus Stone (John HannayDr Ruth Galloway)|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Richard Hannay is feeling old. He looks at himself and his contemporaries and sees a spread of complacency. Luckily - or perhaps very unluckily - an old pledge will come to haunt him. His earlier career in Africa saw Hannay and his friends swear to protect a man from others - and now a second generation of animosity is ripe for Hannay to step in and be a protective detective. Add in a supposed treasure hoard, and who knows where his last journey might end up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697156X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katherine Hall Page|title=The Body in the FjordElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Page gives us another Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'The Body In The...'' book within a tried and tested format. The book jacket covers are always bright and jazzy and this one is no exception. We're deep in Norway, its picturesque countryside and worldapartments -famous fjords. We are in when they discovered the company bones of two different but interesting womena child beneath a doorway. Mother and daughter There was no skull. Pix Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, the daughter (I think the name sounds as if it belongs to someone young) is a mother in middle-age Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with teenage childrenDCI Harry Nelson. She has responsibilities It's difficult as Ruth knows, but at times Nelson doesn't, that she behaves like is pregnant with his child as a sixteen year old and I suppose that is part result of her appealthe one night they spent together some three months ago. She cannot seem to say ''no'' to anyone and now finds herself enlisted to solve an unexplained death and a missing person. The latter is the more important as the missing person, Kari Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is related prone to Ursula's best friend. Yes, perhaps a few too many names at the beginning sudden bouts of the book to grapple with but it soon settles downsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall0008551324|title=The Case of the Missing ServantDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We concentrate 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 struggling in prison and around bustling Delhi he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and straight away Hall gives a great description of his main characterwho was responsible for her death. Once seenThis person, never forgotten apparentlyhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And as if that were not enough what he wants is to be going on with, we're also given transferred to an open prison to serve the low-down on remainder of his 'team.' Their nicknames are very funny sentence and all of this delightful information gives the reader a taster of what's to come later in the book. I can't resist giving one explanationget an early parole date. Puri has several undercover operatives (I'm smiling Not much to myself just recalling ask, is it) one of whom is called Flush. Why? Simple. The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' ... he had a flush toilet in his home, a first for s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone in his remote village in ...who works with him is kept well away from what'' You just cannot help but smile, you really can't. And this gentle humour runs throughout the books happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099525232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman0008405026|title=OutsourcedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=I loved Dave ZeltsermanIt's ''man out of jail'' seriessixteen 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, her mother, Helena, with both [[Pariah by Dave Zeltserrman|Pariah]] and [[Killer by Dave Zeltserman|Killer]] being among the best crime thrillers I've read her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a long timestraightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. All good things must come What looked as though it was going to be an end, however, open-and with -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'Outsourced'' he has branched out slightlys boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687322</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish0571379877|title=Paint It BlackThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The central characterEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, PI Louis Kincaid has decamped to FloridaRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He doesn't really want s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be there but he run errands for him. Edward has no job prospects elsewhere, been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's still young and drunkenly confided how he needs feels to do something, fill his daysRobert. Even when a well-paid job as a PI falls Most men in his lap, he still hesitates. Then he thinks, what the hellRobert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he got to lose, a man's got not like most men: Edward is left to eat etcstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391338</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerio VaresiJo Callaghan|title=River of Shadows: A Commissario Soneri MysteryLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Rain was falling heavily When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the River Po catchment area in northern Italy and case alongside her sidekick, the old hands knew that it would burst its banks and there would be floodingAI detective Lock. But even they are surprised when they see Tonna It's barge setting out downstreamtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. He knows the river well But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, but his course out Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of the mooring was erratic and when the barge was eventually found Tonna was nowhere unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be seen; able to solve the barge was deserted. Was it coincidence case in time, or something more sinister when Tonna's brother appeared to commit suicide on will Kat find herself taken off the day case and, potentially, out of his brother's disappearance: Commisario Soneri is convinced that there is more to this than meets the eye.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694273</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1035021803|title=A Kind of Vanishing|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The novel interweaves between the past (the 1960s) and the present (the 1990s). Thomson gives us the run-down on the two playmates, the two young girls, Eleanor Ramsay and Alice. They have been instructed by their respective parents Antique Hunter's Guide to play together nicely. The Ramsay family is middle-class, they live in a big, rambling house and are always busy doing things. Alice is an only child of working-class parents. They are over-protective and monitor her every waking moment. Will a noisy tom-boy and an angelic Alice who wears impossibly shiny shoes get on, have things in common?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954930940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roger Smith|title=Wake Up Dead|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Straight away Smith plunges us into the underworld of Cape Town and the street chat of the locals. Boozed up and drugged up most of the time, violence is a nightly occurrence. And when local 'businessman' Joe is gunned down, it sparks off a whole chain of events for his American trophy wife, Roxy. Strong language, strong violence and strong feelings from the local criminals and low-life are the order of the day in this uncompromising novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687578</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMurder|author=Caspar Walsh|title=Blood RoadC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book opens with an extremely uncomfortable and graphically depicted scene of violence, made all the more so by the cool, calm and collected manner of It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the perpetratorsEnglish country village where she grew up. The episode ends in She's back now because of a bloody deathrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. WeFreya're in London so straight away theres former mentor and Carole's a smattering of East End humour with lots more close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to followsay the least. We're introduced Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the main male charactervillage: Arthur, Nickshe feels, who's really nothing better than low-life scum. That's pretty clear from the outsetlet her down badly. Even although he's old enough though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to know better he's still scumbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Add After the split, she worked in the fact that he's a husband cafe, met and married James (separated) and a father and on the rebound from the whole sorry saga starts to unfold. His wife's sick love of him and his criminal interests - her life, who was murdered) and so are Jake Freya and Zeb, his two sonsJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755317505</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Frayn1398524085|title=DeceptionsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life has not been easy for Annie WrayCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her husband died of leukaemia children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and she was left to bring up her two young children Dan and Racheldaughter, Etty. She appears to have a second chance at happiness after meeting Julian who eventually proposes to are all worried but - strangely - herhusband, Alec, is not. Before they can set a date for Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the wedding thoughbody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, twelve year old Dan fails to return from school one day and appears to have vanished without tracein the river. This is It was an easy assumption for the situation police to make that is met by Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the reader at the start of 'Deceptionsguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there' s little else they can do but get on with their lives and no one has a clue where he might be or wonder about what might have really happened to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0743268784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Tallis1529900360|title=Deadly CommunionThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt arrives at the Temple of Theseus in Vienna 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 investigate ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the murder help of a young woman at the hands of psychologist only worked for a deviant sexual predatorwhile. Discovering the woman died by the unusual means of a hatpin inserted Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into her brain, Rheinhardt soon turns to his friend the young psychoanalyst Max Liebermann asking for assistance and help again. She knew that the type of psychological insight involvement was something that only Liebermann, a disciple of Freudthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, can providethough. Meanwhile, Liebermann is already caught up Two lovers were murdered in his own investigations with the swimming pool of a patient named Erstweiler, who believes he has seen his doppelganger remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and that this she is a precursor married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099519720</amazonuk>them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marek Krajewski and Danusia Stok178763681X|title=The Phantoms of Breslau: An Eberhard Mock InvestigationKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eberhard Mock (Chef Paul Delamare took a name you would not easily forget) is teaching job at a police Criminal Assistantresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Hedidn's t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a single man still living at home with his father way of getting both men and leading a rather ordinary, uneventful lifewomen to do what he wanted. Until, one dayPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, four young men who are apparently sailorshad a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are found all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. And Mock is asked by his superior Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be part of the new murder commission. He accepts and from there on his life is one roller-coaster of events and emotionsprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694737</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Lewis1529421284|title=Bank Of The Black Sheep (Robin Llywelyn Trilogy)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The alcoholic and self-destructive detective is common to It was one of those flash downpours that the point of cliché British weather often delivers in crime fictiona heatwave. In a gully, but most carry on a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to take another casebe Lee Geary, and make a livingwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Robert Lewis He' character's lifestyle has effectively ended his professional career – he was destitute d been a known drug user and he is now terminally ill. He has woken up in a hospicehad learning disabilities, and learns from so it could have been a couple simple case of visiting police detectives that he is misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a washed up Private Investigatortownie, who is avoiding prosecution only because so what was he perhaps has a couple doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of months left, as he is dying Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of lung cancerthe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687454</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529425867|title=Black Diamond: Lost and Never Found (A Bruno Courreges Investigation|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Perigord is rightly famed for its food and at the heart of the region's success lies the black truffle. They're exported all over the world because nothing else quite lives up to the subtlety and nuances of flavour and aroma. There are the first rumblings of trouble though – a few complaints that packs of truffles have been adulterated by cheaper ones from China - and there are ominous signs that Chinese organised crime might be behind the fraud. Intriguingly there's another, possibly related problem for Bruno Courreges, the local chief of police. In St Denis market a Vietnamese family's stall is wrecked – and the attackers looked to be Chinese.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161216</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Malla Nunn|title=Let the Dead LieSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In early June 1953 most Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of the world was waiting for the coronation Ryan and father of Princess ElizabethRyan, but in South Africa the rigid and rigorously-applied race laws have split the countryis not. Those to whom the land once belonged are now part He's not any of an underclass with many living in gruelling povertythose things. Even some He's white people struggled to make , originated from a living trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and when ex-Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper came across the body his wardrobe consists mainly of a white child shell suits and trackies. They're usually in the Durban docks he has no idea where the tragedy will endlime green or acid yellow. ItYou might wonder if you's not long before he's the chief suspect re being introduced to a police procedural written for Jolly Markslaughs. Well, you' murder and re not. The two others as men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330519778</amazonuk> Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Hyland1529431735|title=Gunshot Road (Emily Tempest)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away the humour It's February 1991 and Essex is apparent in this bookbitingly cold, mainly coming from which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the mouth of Emily Tempestmore surprising. And weHe're also hurled into Aboriginal country with lots of unforgettable characters with equally unforgettable namesd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Hyland The return has come about because he's had a lovelyletter from his ex-wife, flowing style with a strong Australian flavour. Tempest has the unenviable job of trying saying that she's ill and hasn't long to keep law and orderlive. SheIt's travelled the world hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and has now returned to her roots. She seems sent to have a bit of an advantage watery grave in that she's the boot of mixed race, so can understand both white folks and black folksa stolen Ford Sierra. She certainly has her work cut out. Most of the locals see her job as Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a joke, not problem closer to be taken too seriously, until someone dies in suspicious circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916214X</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronyca Bates0861541774|title=Dead in the WaterA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The novel opens DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a couple of fishermen enjoying their hobby ... until they fish out of the water street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a dead body. The body of man armed with a middleknife -aged womanand he killed a Ghurka. Enter Initially, he faced a couple charge of rather endearing, local policemen intent on getting manslaughter but evidence came to the bottom of it all. The plot develops nicely. We discover light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the dead woman had two names, two identitiesman. Why? It seems to make the job of Now he could be facing the police twice as difficultdeath penalty. And Bates' conversational and over-the-garden-fence style is engaging and very easy Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to read. I romped through the chapters, no problem. The dead woman is becoming more of a mystery help as time goes on. Her past is delved into and looked over with any interference from another police force could provoke a fine tooth comb diplomatic incident and the bobby-dazzler question 'What makes a girl of nineteen marry a man of sixty?wouldn' is soon asked. A good section of the book is spent trying to answer that question. The obvious answer would appear to be - money. But is it in this case? And t help Danny at all sorts of puzzling questions are thrown up left, right and centre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090773</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler1521129886|title=The Herring In The LibraryThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tall, elegant Ethelred is Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a gentleman, good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a thirdbaby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-rate authorin-law appears to have killed himself. Elsie, Stuart's concerned about his literary agentsister, is short and dumpyLucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not afraid to speak her mindthriving. It is Elsie Lucy, in facthe says, who constantly assures her client he only occasionally aspires to the giddy heights of being secondis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -rateit simply wasn't in his nature. This could be The police and the coroner have accepted that the business partnership from helldeath was suicide, but not only do these two seem Stuart's prepared to get along, they even manage pay Greg to solve crimes together. In this, the third outing for L C Tyler's eccentric sleuths, we are provided with a locked room mystery, a cast of possible villains of find out what happened on the most stereotypical type, and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitchnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J BrookeB0CK3MYJ56|title=A Darker NightResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= The location is It's the beautiful 1990s and historic city of GranadaGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. The husbandHe used to have a high-and-wife writing duoflying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', aka P J Brookeyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, impart their knowledge of but where's the life experience that backs up this area profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to the reader almost straight awaylook into something. The hot Joyce and dusty terrain is described in detailHelen are half-sisters, along with some tempting snippets of local history; for exampleor rather, some of the locals still choose to live they were until Helen was killed in old cave houseswhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Very primitive living indeedJoyce - and her parents, as you Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can imagine. And one inhabitant, 't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a gypsy, is found deadtrain. As his cave is so bare and sparse thereGreg's not too much evidence for Sub-Inspector Romero been asked to go on. But, he does find something of interest..investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010455</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Lewis1838954481|title=Scent of a KillerThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=D I Stacey Collins is beginning to wonder if it was such Ryan Kennedy killed a good idea to introduce her teenage daughter to the father shepolice officer: there's longed for all her lifeno doubt about that. Professional Standards He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the Met are wondering about her links with vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the underworld murder and telling them that Jack Stanley, a major figure in the criminal world, is Sophie's father might well end her police career for goodmanslaughter of the officer. She gets away with what she says And so lives must go on this occasion, but finds herself side-lined in . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the next major case – capital and dong jobs which could well have been handled by hoping for a rookie constable. And what quieter life in the countryside but when a case it missing teenager is. Three headless corpses have been found in on her territory she's drawn into a parked car in a London street wider investigation - and as their hands have been removed too back into the first major problem is identificationorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030119</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)
|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is a big, meaty and satisfying read from In the village of Cronchie on the pen West coast of Caro Ramsay. I haven't read any Scotland, five members of her previous books to date but I will certainly look them out nowa wealthy family are found murdered. The location only item missing from the home is in and around the city of Glasgow so lots of Scottish humour and a nice line in Devil Stone: myth says that if the local dialect stone is removed from several charactersOtterburn House, death will follow. This all helps to get The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the reader involved early onbody. And I was The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141044349</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529077699|title=Tony Hillerman The Raging Storm (Editor) and Rosemary Herbert (EditorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=A New Omnibus of CrimeAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Clive Wilkes is a delivery boy for a grocery store somewhere in America. Miss Oyster Brown is a devout spinster in a Berkshire town. An unnamed Scottish doctor works in Swaziland. What do these disparate characters have in common with the learned Horace Rumpole''It's all bloody peculiar, Queer Customerisn't it, and Chief Superintendent Adam DalglieshSir? All of them are connected with crimes – either as victims, perpetrators, or investigators – in this brilliant anthology.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195370716</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Ceder1529427045|title=Frozen MomentThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=One cold, dark morning in December 2006 a man was driving to work when he began ''Life has more to have problems with his car. It was a fairly deserted part of the Swedish coast but he had vague memories of a caroffer than people -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 prime numbers 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 heexample'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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Saberhagen1787636607|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a VampireTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Holmes and Watson are called in by a bereaved father whoIt's convinced a pair scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of spiritualists have deceived his wife by holding clubs and looking for a séance in which their daughter seemed way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to returnget one of the few taxis available. When Others squash onto the pair attend a second séancenight 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 'the girl comes back againmissing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and itcollect her - but her phone's clear that this is no ordinary trickdead. Holmes gets assaulted and kidnapped, and Watson realises that for The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the second time in their investigative career they're dealing with vampiresbus driver to let her use his. He There's left with only one choice, no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and turns to Holmes cousin, the legendary Prince Dracula, for aidin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566778</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Mosley1405957174|title=Devil in a Blue DressA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Easy Rawlins is a little down on his luckFrom the first page, having just been laid off from his job and with a mortgage payment duewe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. So The victim - a man - is dying when DeWitt Albright walks into Joppy's bar we first meet him and offers him money for finding a young woman who has gone missing, it seems like Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the perfect opportunity for him to keep his house, as well as to pass some timeambulance he so desperately needs. Of course, what Albright doesnWhat we don't mention know is that who the reason he's looking for this woman man is that sheor why Nadine prefers to have him die. I's run off with d better give you a large amount of someone elselittle more background so that you can understand 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel D Victor0008530025|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh BulletMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1911It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, authorLuke Ryder, journalist and celebrated dandy David Graham Phillips was shot multiple times by Harvard educated musician Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, who then committed suicidein the garden of their West London home. The journalist He had received an injury on the morning back of his death a threatening telegram signed head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his own name, but had shrugged murder and it off as during his career as a 'muckrakers now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to use take the term coined for him investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by Theodore Roosevelt, heepisode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It'd made many enemiess compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0241996104|title=Love Songs From A Shallow GraveComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is about to celebrate his seventyNancy's mother and step-fourth birthday but it looks as though it might be his last. Instead of being father were brutally stabbed at home with Madam Daengtheir Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, his wife has been convicted of three monthstheir murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, heafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's in jail. Itreceived a 'silent sentence' - she's not your average run-been found guilty of-anything but will have to live with what happened for the-mill jail eitherrest of her life. Siri is chained to some lead piping and conditions are not exactly Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five star. Meanwhile Phosy million pounds from her mother - and Dtui the papers are having marriage problems whilst he struggles to investigate making the deaths most of three women, all skewered by an epee it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and their thighs showing a letter engraved with a knife''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter James1529413680|title=Dead Like YouA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Brighton One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is faced with a serial rapist who appears to have a fetish for shoes the re- after enactment of the liberation of the rape, he removes town from the womanEnglish in 1370 and Bruno's shoes and takes them there to see the show 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 foundsome friends. It was precisely at that time that Grace's own wifeall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, SandyKerquelin, disappeared the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and, although he the man is now having whisked away in a child with another woman, he has never been able to forget Sandyhelicopter. If the rapist has reared A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his ugly head again, why has chances of survival but - as he chosen to do so after so long? Could it be a copycat rapist? And will Grace's memories a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of Sandy help him to find some clue as to her disappearance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giorgio Faletti1529196388|title=I KillThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Monte CarloGrant Cliveden was a hero: not generally a place associated with moderation policeman who stood for all that was good and temperance of any kind honest and therefore probably looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the perfect setting Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for a killing spree by a serial killer his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with a particular fetish Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for extreme souvenir gatheringhim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>
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