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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Spencer QuinnStuart Douglas|title=Thereby Hangs a TailLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=I have to admit to both skepticism During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and curiosity when I realised that this novel is narrated by a dog. ItLeggit's crime fiction, which isn't my usual genre leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of choice; I don't like anything gorier or more suspenseful than Agatha Christie's relatively tame worksa reservoir. But The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the pun in whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the book's title suggested that there might be an element help of humoura fellow actor, so I succumbed John Le Breton to my instincts help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and requested this book, seemingly, a 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>1847398375</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael White0008517061|title=The Art of MurderDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54
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|summary=Detective Chief Inspector Jack Pendragon Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has had a lot of experience of murder but he's never experienced anything like the one he was called to on a wintery January morning in Whitechapelsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The man is horribly mutilated but he's held up in There’s perhaps a chair little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and the scene has been set her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a nod lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the surrealist painter, Magritte. future she wants for herself and her daughter? This is art as murder. Back in Whitechapel For the moment they’re enjoying life in the 1880s present and putting the man who was probably the most famous murderer of them all. He's planned the murder of four local prostitutes with future on the bodies being horribly mutilated. Four, he feels, is a satisfyingly balanced number. This is murder as artback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551446</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1786482126|title=Scream: A DCI Mark Lapslie InvestigationThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
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|summary=When I read on Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the back cover that McCrerysite was going to hold seventy-five 's writing credits include televisionluxury's 'Silent Witness' I apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was impressed and expecting a terrific readno skull. But did it deliverWas this a ritual killing or murder? This book opens Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Mark Lapslie attending a terrorism conference, yes, you heard correctly, a terrorism conference which is being held in PakistanHarry Nelson. Meanwhile, back in wet and cold Britain, one of his colleagues, DS Emma Bradbury is having to step into her bossIt's shoesdifficult as Ruth knows, so to speak. A body has been discovered and the police need to get their investigation started. Therebut Nelson doesn's no doubtt, by the state that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the body, that it is murderone night they spent together some three months ago. And soon the whole team Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is a hive prone to sudden bouts of activity - from the CSIs to the pathologistsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161151</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Robins0008551324|title=The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the BathDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During It's unusual for anyone from the early months of 1915, Britain was fighting Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for her life during the First World War, other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and newspaper headlines were preoccupied with the armyhe's exploits prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and outrages by the enemywho was responsible for her death. For a timeThis person, he promises, only one event at home could compete with them on is someone big and it will be worth the front news pages – police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the unhappy fate remainder of two or three brides who had been drowned, in separate incidents, in their bathshis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the fact other thing that one man was probably responsibleHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848541074</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arnaldur Indridason0008405026|title=HypothermiaA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=MariaIt's body was found by sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her friend Karenbed one summer night. It She was hanging from never found and the rafters of investigation ground to a halt. Now, her holiday home at Lake Thingvallavatn mother, Helena, and when Detective Erlendur arrived her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it seemed looks like a straightforward case of murder/suicide. Maria had been in a poor mental state since but there's something about the death positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her mother two years previously boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and there was -shut case is now a history of depressioncomplex double murder. It wasn't until Karen approached Erlendur with a recording of a séance which Maria had attended shortly before her death Kerrigan is convinced that his curiosity was aroused. There was no great pressure at work and he had the time to indulge himselfexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, so he looked further into the case along with the unsolved disappearances thirty years earlier of two unconnected peopleUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532271</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Dean0571379877|title=To Die AloneThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The bodies of Edward Jevons is a working-class young man , obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and his dog are found in an isolated part of the northern hillsStanza. The injuries, particularly to the dog are horrific and although it initially looks though the man might have died from accidental injuries it soon becomes obvious that heRobert's been stabbeda theatre director. 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 the pointHe's also self-obsessed, whodemanding, ''exactly'', is Trevor Meredithhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Chief Inspector Jack Harris and his team have Edward has been in love with Stanza since 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 a CID detective, especially when she is plunged straight into a murder case. However, an unfortunate comment about Agatha Christie plunges that into disarray university days - and she becomes known as he'Agatha'. There is little time s drunkenly confided how he feels to dwell on this though; there is a murder to solveRobert. Two Most men broke into the Brocksin Robert' home late one night, took Carl Brock s position would stay away and killed him, and chained his wife, Gaby, to from Stanza or tell Edward that a chair. Carl Brock was a teacher and presumably above reproach - relationship had begun between them but as Pippa and her colleagues investigate, all sorts of issues come he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the surface and it seems that Carl was not as innocent as they first presumedtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. Can Pippa find out the truth and persuade her disdainful colleagues that she is a capable detective?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091060</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian MagsonJo Callaghan|title=Death on the MaraisLeave No Trace
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|summary=We meet the central character, Inspector Rocco and are informed that he's When a city man, happiest pounding is found crucified on the elegant streets top of Paris. But suddenly and against his willa hill in Nuneaton, he DCS Kat Frank finds himself in herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the sticksAI detective Lock. HeIt's not too happy about ittheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. His new colleagues are more than happy to rib him But when there is a second body found crucified a littlefew days later, tell him Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that nothing much in the way draws a lot of crime happens hereunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. One of these colleagues takes things a stage further - puffs up his cheeks before commenting 'we get Will they be able to solve the occasional punch-up over a game of bar billiards ...' Rocco thinks he'll be bored out of his skull case in no time. Big surprise then when on day one, yesor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, on day one he's involved in the discovery out of a young woman. And Magson wastes no time in giving his readers all the gory details of this woman's last few hours alive. We almost feel her slow, agonising death. And the question is whycareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749008342</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Buchan1035021803|title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Page gives us another It''The Body In The..s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'' book within s back now because of a tried and tested formatrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. The book jacket covers are always bright and jazzy Freya's former mentor and this one is no exception. WeCarole're deep in Norways close friend, Arthur Crockleford, its picturesque countryside is dead and world-famous fjords. We are in the company of two different but interesting women. Mother and daughter. Pixcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the daughter (I think least. Arthur was the name sounds as if it belongs reason why Freya had not been back to someone young) is a mother in middle-age with teenage children. She has responsibilitiesthe village: Arthur, but at times she behaves like a sixteen year old and I suppose that is part of feels, let her appealdown badly. She cannot seem to say ''no'' to anyone and now finds herself enlisted Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to solve an unexplained death and a missing person. The latter is be near the more important as man or pursue the missing person, Kari, is related to Ursula's best friendprofession she loved. Yes After the split, perhaps she worked in a few too many names at cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the beginning love of the book to grapple with but it soon settles downher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall1398524085|title=The Case of the Missing ServantHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We concentrate in Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and around bustling Delhi Ollie and straight away Hall gives a great description of his main characterher daughter, Etty. Once seenare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, never forgotten apparentlyis not. And as if that were not enough to be going on withShortly afterwards, we're also given the low-down on his 'team.' Their nicknames are very funny Etty and all of this delightful information gives Greg, find the reader a taster body of whatGreg's to come later father, Duncan Ackerley, in the bookriver. I canIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't resist giving one explanationstand the guilt. Puri has several undercover operatives (IThe Salter children are not convinced but there'm smiling to myself just recalling it) one of whom is called Flush. Why? Simple. '' ... he had a flush toilet in his home, a first for anyone in his remote village in ...'' You just cannot help s little else they can do but smile, you get on with their lives and wonder about what really can't. And this gentle humour runs throughout the bookhappened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099525232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1529900360|title=OutsourcedThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|summary=I loved Dave ZeltsermanIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn''man out t need the help of jaila psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'' seriess partner, with both [[Pariah by Dave Zeltserrman|Pariah]] and [[Killer by Dave Zeltserman|Killer]] being among who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the best crime thrillers I've read man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a long timeremote property in Bel Air. All good things must come He was the heir to an end, however, Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and with it''Outsourced'' he has branched out slightlys not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687322</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish178763681X|title=Paint It BlackKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The central character, PI Louis Kincaid has decamped to FloridaChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He doesndidn't really want to be there but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he has no job prospects elsewhere, wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he's still young and he needs d be at the school to do somethingassist Paul, who had a broken arm, fill his daysbut it didn't turn out that way. Even when a wellThe teaching - and the problems -paid job as a PI falls in are all his lap, he still hesitatesown. Then The one thing he thinks, what the hellhadn's he got t expected was for someone to loseturn up dead. Unfortunately, a man's got he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to eat etcbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391338</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerio Varesi1529421284|title=River of Shadows: A Commissario Soneri MysteryLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Rain It was falling heavily one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the River Po catchment area in northern Italy surface and forensic testing proved the old hands knew that it would burst its banks and there would body to be floodingLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. But even they are surprised when they see Tonna He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's barge setting out downstreamt convinced. He knows the river well Geary was a townie, but his course so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of the mooring was erratic Holly Gilbert and when the barge was eventually found Tonna was nowhere to be seen; two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the barge was desertedtime. Was it coincidence or something more sinister when Tonna's brother appeared to commit suicide on Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the day of his brotherMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's disappearance: Commisario Soneri is convinced that there is more cold cases to this than meets the eyeyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694273</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Kind of VanishingD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The novel interweaves between the past (the 1960s) In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and the present (the 1990s)always exquisitely dressed. Thomson gives us the run-down on the two playmatesD I Ryan Wilkins, the two young girlsson of Ryan and father of Ryan, Eleanor Ramsay and Aliceis not. They have been instructed by their respective parents to play together nicelyHe's not any of those things. The Ramsay family is middle-classHe's white, they live in originated from a bigtrailer park, rambling house barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and are always busy doing things. Alice is an only child his wardrobe consists mainly of working-class parentsshell suits and trackies. They are over-protective and monitor her every waking moment're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Will You might wonder if you're being introduced to a noisy tom-boy and an angelic Alice who wears impossibly shiny shoes get onpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, have things in common?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954930940</amazonuk>you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Smith1529431735|title=Wake Up DeadThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|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 It's February 1991 and drugged up most of the time, violence is a nightly occurrence. And when local 'businessman' Joe Essex 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>}} {{newreview|author=Caspar Walsh|title=Blood Road|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The book opens with an extremely uncomfortable and graphically depicted scene of violencebitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more so by the cool, calm and collected manner of the perpetratorssurprising. The episode ends in He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a bloody deathdecade. We're in London so straight away thereThe return has come about because he's had a smattering of East End humour with lots more to follow. We're introduced to the main male characterletter from his ex-wife, Nick, whosaying that she's really nothing better than low-life scum. That's pretty clear from the outset. Even although heill and hasn's old enough t long to know better he's still scumlive. Add in the fact that heIt's a husband (separated) and a father and the whole sorry saga starts hard to unfold. His wife's sick of him and his criminal interests - and so are Jake and Zebfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his two sons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755317505</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Frayn|title=Deceptions|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Life has not been easy for Annie Wray. Her husband died of leukaemia underwear and she was left sent to bring up her two young children Dan and Rachel. She appears to have a second chance at happiness after meeting Julian who eventually proposes to herwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Before they can set Is it a date for the wedding though, twelve year old Dan fails to return warning from school one day and appears to have vanished without trace. This is the situation that is met by the reader at the start of 'Deceptions' and no one has a clue where he might be Spanish gang or what might have happened a problem closer to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0743268784</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Tallis0861541774|title=Deadly CommunionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt arrives at the Temple of Theseus in Vienna to investigate the murder of a young woman at the hands of a deviant sexual predator. Discovering the woman died by the unusual means of a hatpin inserted into her brain, Rheinhardt soon turns to his DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend the young psychoanalyst Max Liebermann for assistance and the type of psychological insight that only Liebermannformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a disciple of Freudshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, can provideGuy Trueman. Meanwhile, Liebermann is already caught up Maik was involved in his own investigations a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a patient named Erstweilerknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, who believes he has seen his doppelganger and that this is faced a precursor charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the deathpenalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099519720</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marek Krajewski and Danusia Stok1521129886|title=The Phantoms of Breslau: An Eberhard Mock InvestigationThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eberhard Mock (a name you would not easily forget) is a police Criminal AssistantGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. HeIt's a single man still living at home with his father good job too because Greg and leading Joyce will soon have a rather ordinary, uneventful lifebaby and they're both delighted. Until, one day, four young men who are apparently sailors, are found deadJoyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. And Mock Greg is asked approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his superior sister, Lucy, who's struggling to be part of the new murder commissionmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. He accepts and from there on his life Lucy, he says, is one rollerconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself -coaster of events it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and emotionsthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694737</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert LewisB0CK3MYJ56|title=Bank Of The Black Sheep Responsibilities (Robin Llywelyn TrilogyGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The alcoholic It's the 1990s and selfGreg Mason's twenty-destructive detective is common eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the point of cliché in crime fiction, city but most carry on to take another case, and make a living. Robert Lewisit wasn' charactert satisfying so he's lifestyle has effectively ended his professional career – he was destitute and he is now terminally ill. He has woken set himself up in as a hospice, and learns from a couple private investigator. 'Shades of visiting police detectives that he is a washed up Private InvestigatorCameron Strike', who is avoiding prosecution only because he perhaps has a couple of months leftyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, as he is dying of lung cancer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687454</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Walker|title=Black Diamond: A Bruno Courreges Investigation|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Perigord is rightly famed for its food and at the heart of the regionbut where's success lies the black truffle. life experience that backs up this profession? They're exported all over On the world because nothing else quite lives up other hand, he has been asked to the subtlety and nuances of flavour and aromalook into something. There Joyce and Helen are the first rumblings of trouble though – a few complaints that packs of truffles have been adulterated by cheaper ones from China half- and there are ominous signs that Chinese organised crime might be behind the fraud. Intriguingly theresisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's another, possibly related problem for Bruno Courreges, the local chief of policebeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. In St Denis market a Vietnamese family's stall is wrecked – Joyce - and the attackers looked to be Chinese.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161216</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Malla Nunn|title=Let the Dead Lie|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In early June 1953 most of the world was waiting for the coronation of Princess Elizabethher parents, but in South Africa the rigid Oliver and rigorouslyPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there -applied race laws have split the country. Those or how she could come to whom the land once belonged are now part of an underclass with many living fall in gruelling poverty. Even some white people struggled to make a living and when ex-Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper came across the body front of a white child in the Durban docks he has no idea where the tragedy will endtrain. ItGreg's not long before he's the chief suspect for Jolly Marks' murder and two others as wellbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330519778</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Hyland1838954481|title=Gunshot Road (Emily Tempest)The Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away the humour is apparent in this book, mainly coming from the mouth of Emily Tempest. And weRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there're also hurled into Aboriginal country with lots of unforgettable characters with equally unforgettable namess no doubt about that. Hyland has a lovely, flowing style with a strong Australian flavour. Tempest has He was the fifteen-year-old holding the unenviable job of trying to keep law gun and orderpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. She's travelled He pulled the world and has now returned trigger but due to her roots. She seems to have a bit the vagaries of an advantage in that she's the jury system he was found not guilty of mixed race, so can understand both white folks the murder and black folksthe manslaughter of the officer. She certainly has her work cut outAnd so lives must go on. Most of For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the locals see countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her job as territory she's drawn into a joke, not to be taken too seriously, until someone dies in suspicious circumstanceswider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916214X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronyca Bates1448309743|title=Dead in the WaterThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The novel opens with a couple of fishermen enjoying their hobby ... until they fish out In the village of Cronchie on the water a dead body. The body West coast of a middle-aged woman. Enter a couple of rather endearingScotland, local policemen intent on getting to the bottom five members of it alla wealthy family are found murdered. The plot develops nicely. We discover that only item missing from the dead woman had two names, two identities. Why? It seems to make home is the job of Devil Stone: myth says that if the police twice as difficult. And Bates' conversational and over-the-garden-fence style stone is engaging and very easy to read. I romped through the chaptersremoved from Otterburn House, no problemdeath will follow. The dead woman is becoming more only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of a mystery as time goes on. Her past is delved into and looked over with a fine tooth comb and the bobby-dazzler question them 'What makes a girl of nineteen marry a man of sixty?discovered' is soon asked. A good section of the book is spent trying to answer that questionbody. The obvious answer would appear to be - money. But Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is it pulled in this case? And all sorts of puzzling questions are thrown up left, right and centreto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090773</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler1529077699|title=The Herring In The LibraryRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tall, elegant Ethelred is a gentleman, and a third-rate author. Elsie, his literary agent, is short and dumpy, and not afraid to speak her mind. ''It is Elsie, in fact, who constantly assures her client he only occasionally aspires to the giddy heights of being second-rate. This could be the business partnership from hell, but not only do these two seem to get along, they even manage to solve crimes together. In this, the third outing for L C Tyler's eccentric sleuthsall bloody peculiar, we are provided with a locked room mysteryisn't it, a cast of possible villains of the most stereotypical type, and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much youSir?''ll get a stitch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Lewis1529427045|title=Scent of a Killer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=D I Stacey Collins is beginning to wonder if it was such a good idea to introduce her teenage daughter to the father she's longed for all her life. Professional Standards at the Met are wondering about her links with the underworld and telling them that Jack Stanley, a major figure The Girl in the criminal world, is SophieEagle's father might well end her police career for good. She gets away with what she says on this occasion, but finds herself side-lined in the next major case – and dong jobs which could well have been handled by a rookie constable. And what a case it is. Three headless corpses have been found in a parked car in a London street and as their hands have been removed too the first major problem is identification.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030119</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalons|author=Caro Ramsay|title=Dark WaterKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is a big, meaty and satisfying read from the pen of Caro Ramsay. I haven't read any of her previous books 'Life has more to date but I will certainly look them out now. The location is in and around the city of Glasgow so lots of Scottish humour and a nice line in the local dialect from several characters. This all helps to get the reader involved early on. And I wasoffer than people - prime numbers for example''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141044349</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J T Ellison1787636607|title=All the Pretty GirlsThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're s a scene replicated all too often in Nashville the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a local girl has gone missingway to get home. She's a pretty twentysomething with Some are lucky and manage to get one of the rest of her life to leadfew taxis available. Until now, Others squash onto the night bus that iswill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. A gruesome find and a gruesome The woman all regret the 'trophytaxi problem' left by , particularly in the killer. Who and why - are light of 'the important questions for both Taylor Jackson of Homicide and Dr John Baldwin, FBI profilermissing women'. Straight away this novel is shaping up nicelyFor one young woman, I thoughtthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. And it gets betterShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The police have their work cut out in more ways than onebus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There'A decomposing body s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in ninetyhigh-degree heat could fell even the strongest professional.' And Ellison then goes on to describe in detail how all that unrelenting heat and all that cruel humidity affects a dead bodyheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830390X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Ceder1405957174|title=Frozen MomentA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|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 From 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 victimfirst page, but her lies to Inspector Christian Tell are soon discovered. Itwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will 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>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Winslow|title= The Whole World|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The Whole World victim - a man - is a sort of crime/suspense novel set in Cambridge, England, told in turn from the viewpoint of five different characters. The dying when we first two narrators, Polly and Liv, are friends, meet him and seem to have much in common – they are both American students with things to hide, and they are both attracted Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the same young man, Nickambulance he so desperately needs. One night things come to a head as Nick somehow ends up kissing them both, then goes missing and What we don't know is presumed dead. Then Nick, a blind woman called Gretchen and a local police officer, Morris, tell their stories, and who the novel takes several weird twists. It man is hard or why Nadine prefers to say have him die. I'd better give you a little more without revealing too much about the plotbackground so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385342888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Saberhagen0008530025|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a VampireMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Holmes It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Watson are called found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in by a bereaved father who's convinced a pair the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of spiritualists have deceived his wife by holding a séance in head which their daughter seemed to return. When could have happened if he'd slipped down the pair attend a second séance, steps but the girl comes back againvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's clear that this is no ordinary tricknow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Holmes gets assaulted A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and kidnappedto take the investigation further. More to the point, and Watson realises that for the second time in their investigative career they're dealing with vampiresgoing to do this live on camera, episode by episode. He There's left with only one choice, no dump of the whole box set - and turns to Holmes cousin, the legendary Prince Dracula, for aidno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566778</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Mosley0241996104|title=Devil in a Blue DressComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Easy Rawlins is a little down on his luckNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, having just has been laid off from his job and with convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a mortgage payment duelife sentence. So when DeWitt Albright walks into JoppyThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's bar and offers him money not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for finding a young woman who has gone missing, it seems like the perfect opportunity for him to keep his house, as well as to pass some timerest of her life. Of course, what Albright doesnit't mention is that the reason hes made worse because Nancy's looking for this woman is that rich - sheinherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter's run off with a large amount of someone else's money is one favourite epithet and quite a few people on the streets of Los Angeles are prepared to kill to get that money back''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686830</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel D Victor1529413680|title=The Further Adventures A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh BulletPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1911One 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 see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, authorKerquelin, 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 man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his death doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a threatening telegram signed with helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his own name, chances of survival but had shrugged it off as during his career - as he's a 'muckraker'senior government employee, to use the term coined for him by Theodore Rooseveltman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, heis flying in with some of her father'd made many enemiess friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529196388|title=Love Songs From A Shallow GraveThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about to celebrate his seventy-fourth birthday but it looks as though it might be his last. Instead of being at home with Madam Daeng, his wife of three monthseveryone, so there was public uproar when he's was murdered in jailplain sight at the Old Bailey. ItThere's not your average runjust one man in the frame for his murder -ofJimmy Knight -the-mill jail either. Siri is chained to some lead piping and conditions are it's not exactly five star. Meanwhile Phosy and Dtui are having marriage problems whilst he struggles to investigate the deaths of three womentoo long before Knight appears in court, all skewered by an epee and their thighs showing a letter engraved charged with a knifeCliveden's murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter James|title=Dead Like You|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Brighton is faced with a serial rapist who appears to have a fetish Knight was told that the best barrister for shoes him was Jonathan Taylor- after the rape, he removes the womanCameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's shoes Taylor-Cameron and takes them with him. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is immediately reminded of a previous unsolved case that he was involved in several years beforehis pupil, during which a young girl disappearedAdam Green, never to be foundwho eventually represent him. It was precisely at that time that Grace Knight's own wife, Sandy, disappeared and, although he is now having a child with another woman, he has never been able determined to forget Sandy. If the rapist has reared his ugly head againplead not guilty, why has he chosen to do so after so long? Could it be a copycat rapist? And will Gracedespite all Taylor-Cameron's memories of Sandy help him recommendations to find some clue as to her disappearance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Giorgio Faletti|title=I Kill|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Monte Carlo: not generally a place associated with moderation and temperance of any kind and therefore probably the perfect setting for a killing spree by a serial killer with a particular fetish for extreme souvenir gatheringcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>
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