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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter JamesStuart Douglas|title=Dead Man's GripLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=What starts as a normal day During location filming for Tony Revere soon ends in his death after he is knocked from his cycle 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and is thrown under a truck. Carly Chase does not hit him but as she swerves to avoid himLeggit', her Audi smashes into leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a café window. A subsequent breathalyser test shows that she is still over woman on the limit from the night beforeedge of a reservoir. Stuart Ferguson The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the truck driverwhole thing bothers Lowe, is also not responsible for and he enlists the accident but he was tired having driven for more hours than are legally permitted. The van driver who actually hits Tony first just doesn't stop. It seems like help of a tragic accidentfellow actor, especially as John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the weather was terrible country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Tony was cycling on , seemingly, a link to death during the wrong side of Second World War. But is there really a link between the road. Tony's mother, deaths? And will they manage to uncover who has links with the Mafia, does not think so though and is set on revenge.responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230747256</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Esmahan Aykol and Ruth Whitehouse (translator)0008517061|title=Kati Hirschel Murder Mystery: Hotel BosphorusDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kati Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has a lot to impart to her readerssettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She burbles on right throughout the book There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about all sorts of things which are on her mind. So we learn about her colleagues, friends and neighbours which all gives a nice hint of the Turkish way future of his life. As a German nationalwith his vet girlfriend, Kati can stand back Livia and take her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a cool look at all things Turkish. But lot of compromise: does she like what she sees all of the time? She soon tells us. She's not slow Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to highlight stereotypical German traits - the lack of humour, the discipline etc which can be at odds move in with Kati now living amongst the more laid-back Turks. We also find out that the locals are passionate Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the telephone future she wants for herself and mobile phones in particular. Forever glued to an ear apparently. So much so that she thinks 'Alexander Graham Bell must have had Turkish genes.' her daughter? She also likes to go on and on about For the terrible parking moment they’re enjoying life in Istanbul informing us that 'It takes thirty minutes to get from home to the shop, present and putting the future on foot or by car. I go by car.' I particularly liked that linethe back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738680</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1786482126|title=Loose-LimbedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Captain Franck Guerin of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Brigade Criminelle site was about going to learn hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a lot more about ballet than he ever expected or wanted to knowdoorway. Sophie Duval There was no skull. Was this a leading dancer ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the Paris Opera Ballet – an etoile – and she was murdered in her homeDCI Harry Nelson. A chord had been wrapped three times around her neck and then she had been strangledIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but why? It seemed simple to rule out professional jealousy and Nelson doesn't, that she seemed to have little life outside is pregnant with his child as a result of the balletone night they spent together some three months ago. The Opera Ballet is a tight-knit and dedicated worldHer condition will be obvious before long, but it's not long before it's a world of terror, least because Sophie Duval Ruth is only the first person prone to diesudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine0008551324|title=The LonerDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jardine starts with some background on Xavier AisladoIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Even at school Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Edinburgh, his bulk prison and rather serious manner ensures that he sails through his academic courses. This is against the odds of a chaotic life at home. His Spanish father's a bit prepared to tell the police where the body of a cold fish, his Scottish mother is as meek as a church mouse so Xavier (or Xavi) missing person is really guided buried and nurtured by his rather ferocious grandmother, Paloma. Even I who was afraid of responsible for herdeath. She takes no prisonersThis person, he promises, wears is someone big and it will be worth the trousers in the Aislado household (in both Spain and Scotland) and speaks her mind every timepolice doing what he wants. Although there are certain areas which are out And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of boundshis sentence and to get an early parole date. But I also loved her too. Not much to ask, is it? Jardine has created a terrific character in Paloma, in particularThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357167</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton0008405026|title=Hamish Macbeth: Death of a ValentineA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Remembering ''Hamish Macbeth'It' s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the 1990s TV seriesinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, in the person of Robert Carlisleher mother, accompanied by a Westie called Wee JockHelena, I'm only just beginning to get to know the real Hamish as brought to paper by M C Beatonand her father are dead in their bed. More robust in appearance than your man CarlisleInitially, with it looks like a shock of red hair, hestraightforward murder/suicide but there's accompanied on his rounds by something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an indeterminate hound called Lugs open-and -shut case is now a wildcat called Sonsiecomplex double murder. That both animals are referred to by Kerrigan is convinced that the locals explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as the beasties, and only a special few of said locals are willing to look after them in HamishDerwent's absenceboss, says something about their temperament. Hamish would call it exuberance. Or loyaltyUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015090</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill Knox0571379877|title=StormtideThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Webb Carrick Edward Jevons is a Chief Officer working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in the Scottish Fisheries Protection Service love with Stanza since their university days - and he's out in the North Atlantic where drunkenly confided how he strays into the middle of a feud between shark hunters and local fishermenfeels to Robert. ItMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a little time since it happened relationship had begun between them but theyhe're still angry about the death of a young woman. The consensus of opinion s not like most men: Edward is that she discovered she was pregnant and committed suicide from left to stumble upon the pier. One two of the shark hunters is held to be responsible. It all threatens to come to them kissing in a head when Carrick boards a fishing boat and finds her skipper dead on the deckdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014574</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robin Cook1035021803|title=CureThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery is returning to work after her maternity leave. It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been longer than usual because her son had a potentially fatal neuroblastoma but this is now in complete remission, but leaving him and going back to work is not going to be easythe English country village where she grew up. ItShe's not going to be easy back now because of a request for whoever is looking after JJ either. Laurie is just a little bit neurotic about leaving himhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's lost a bit of confidence with regard to the job too so itformer mentor and Carole's perhaps fortunate that her first case close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is what looks like an open dead and shut case of a natural deaththe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Laurie's Arthur was the reason why Freya had not so certain been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though – although quite they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a few people would like cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her to make up her mind that no further investigation is neededlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230750648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillaume Musso1398524085|title=Where Would I Be Without YouHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summaryauthor=I love the cover, which I think angles this book firmly towards women. With that old Beach Boys hit from the Sixties as the title, it encapsulates everything you need to know when choosing this book. It's not really crime fiction, in that it lacks a whodunnit aspect in favour of following the protagonists, a Nicci French cop and a Scottish master criminal, through a romantic entanglement and into the jaws of death. The interest is in which of the two men will gain command of the other – and who is really driving the action – when both their attentions are focused on the same girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906040346</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adrian McKinty|title=Falling Glass|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Like all good Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''noir'' fiction, McKinty provides us with a charismatic central character - here in the form of Killians fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Of Pavee traveller Her children, Irish stock (otherwise known as 'tinkers') he has made his name as an enforcer of other people's lawssons Niall, collecting debts Paul and finding missing people. He's tough Ollie and capable of violenceher daughter, Etty. are all worried but generally gets his man by avoiding force where possible- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. A sort Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of hit man with a conscience. HoweverGreg's father, when the book kicks off he has semi-retiredDuncan Ackerley, but his decision to invest his ill gotten gains in property has fallen foul of the property crash, so when a job comes up offering a cool half million river. It was an easy assumption for simply finding the ex-wife police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and daughters of budget airline magnate Richard Coulter, itthen committed suicide when he couldn's t stand the guilt. The Salter children are not one he can easily turn down. Killian knows this sounds too good to be that simple. And, of course, heconvinced but there's rightlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529900360|title=Hamish Macbeth: Death of a SweepThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in the midIt 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-1990s, despite shut cases which didn't need the encroachment help of satellite and cable, Sunday evenings still seemed to be a time to sit down to watch the Beeb or ITV with the family psychologist only worked for a dose of gentle viewingwhile. "Drama" is too strong a word Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the programmes involvement was something that aired in that prime time slot (somewhere between 7pm and 9pm)the man she loved needed. TechnicallyThe next case did look simple, they ''though. Two lovers weremurdered 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 it'' dramas – but they were laced with humour, protected from over-exposure to violence or sex or s not the truly dark underbelly Italian. But which of them was the stories they actually told.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010218</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow178763681X|title=Maxwell's IslandKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Maxwell had never been intending to go to the Isle of Wight but when his colleague went sick Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at the last moment he volunteered to take her place on the a residential cookery school tripin Belgravia. His wife, Jacquie wasnHe didn't entirely convinced that this lived up really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the family holiday theyimpression that he'd been planningbe at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but she went along tooit didn't turn out that way. There were quite a few adults, as there have to be nowadays, including Medlicott, The teaching - and the new head of art, and problems - are all his wifeown. Jacquie feels that itThe one thing he hadn's even less of a holiday t expected was for her when Medlicott's wife goes missing someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and she's forced everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the policewoman she'd hoped to leave at homeprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074900892X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1529421284|title=Into The Darkest CornerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book didn't actually look It was one of those flash downpours that appealing. The cover is on the sepia side of dullBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. I didn't know In a gully, a human skeleton came to the author's name surface and forensic testing proved the title didn't really grab mebody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. When I started reading we were straight into the transcript of He'd been a court case in which known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it seemed that could have been a police officer was being questioned in court about his relationship with a womansimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. He Geary was accused of being violent to hera townie, but it seemed that the boot so what was really he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other foot. Then we deaths which were into a story – or even two stories – with two not considered suspicious at the time lines some four years apart. Within ten minutes I couldnLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that't put it downs cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251579</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Osborne1529425867|title=Kill Me OnceLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The title and the book cover plus the wording 'Introducing a new breed of serial killer' leave the reader in no doubt as to the type of book it isIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. A lot Raymond Wilkins is of innocent blood is going to be spilled throughout these pagesNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. AndD I Ryan Wilkins, in the case son of many individuals with evil at their core, we get to visit the childhood Ryan and father of one of the main charactersRyan, Nathan Stiedoweis not. I wasnHe't at all surprised to read that he was 'different' from the other little boys at schools not any of those things. He often got nasty nicknames thrown at him 's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his peerswardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. But did he care? They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Add You might wonder if you're being introduced to all of thata police procedural written for laughs. Well, his parents were bible-bashers but their fervent love you're not. The two men are just different sides of God didn't seem to extend to their sonthe same policing coin. Why? Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Nathan decided from a very early age that, in order to survive, heSometimes it'd better develop a pretty thick skin - and fasts problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955092X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1529431735|title=Blood RushThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lilly has had the baby she was expecting in the last book, It's February 1991 and daughter Alice Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the child from hellmore surprising. Sweet and angelic with just about anyone other than her mum, she wonHe't sleep at night, is prone to screaming fits and about d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as disruptive to a previously one-parent, one-child household as wanted drug smuggler for a baby could bedecade. Fortunately father Jack (copper, The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-boyfriendwife, current status indeterminate) saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is welcome abducted, stripped to come his underwear and lend sent to a hand whenever he can spare watery grave in the timeboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Of course, Alice adores him. Equally fortunately, first-born and now teenage son, Sam, is unbelievably cool about his baby sis. Just Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to round it off, Lilly and Sam's father are also on speaking and son-sharing terms (and sod his new girlfriend!).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014736</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Carr0861541774|title=The Sign of Fear|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Mary Watson - a distant second to John Watson, who A Nye of course was a distant second to Sherlock Holmes. Fed up with staying at home while her new husband spends too much time at 221b Baker Street, or away with Holmes sleuthing, she gets to dabble her own feet in the underworld waters when a certain Professor Moriarty comes calling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685006</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPheasants|author=Craig Smith|title=Cold RainSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Still completely traumatised by DCI Domenic Jejeune'The Snowman' investigations close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, Inspector Harry Hole has fled Norway for the seedy underbelly of Hong Kong where he is happy taken a short holiday in Singapore to lose himself to debt and drugsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Back Maik was involved in Norway, two women are found murdered by the same gruesome means and Crime Squad believe they have another serial killer on their hands. Harry's boss, Gunner Hagen wants his best detective back, as a street brawl - he would later maintain that he believes Harry is the only person who can find the killer, after two months with no leads. Despite being persuaded to return to Oslo due to his father's illness and was facing a man armed with no apparent interest in the case, Harry's detective instincts take him straight to the murder scene when a third woman is found dead knife - and he cannot resist getting involved, especially when the current investigative team seem to be making such killed a mess of itGhurka.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554004</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John H Watson Initially, Tony Reynolds and Chris Coady|title=The Lost Stories he faced a charge of Sherlock Holmes|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that a successful detective character will he might have far too many cases in his career for it planned to be at all realisticmurder the man. The worst case in point are Now he could be facing the Hardy Boys, who have had two hundred or more adventures and are still not 20death penalty. Slightly more literary, but no less busy it Domenic Jejeune can seem, was Sherlock Holmes, for Watson declaimed many times that he did not write down do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all that man's exploits. Tony Reynolds here gives us eight more cases, making Holmes' workload even more impressive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685618</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Hawken1521129886|title=The Dead Women of JuarezThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Although Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the story related here is point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a work of fiction, the situation is based on fact. The Mexican border city of Juárez has good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a shocking problem with female homicides (usually young baby and invariably pretty)they're both delighted. Official statistics put Joyce will be more delighted about the number of murders at 400 since 1993 while, we are told, residents believe that baby when she gets past the true number of disappeared women morning sickness. Greg is closer approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to 5000have killed himself. But attention Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to this problem make ends meet and her son is diverted by drug crime, although the two may not be entirely unrelatedthriving. Anything that raises public awareness of this terrible situation Lucy, such as Hawken's bookhe says, is to be encouragedconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. So much for the fact, what about the fiction?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668773X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Denise Mina The police and Antonio Fuso|title=A Sickness in the Family|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives coroner have accepted that the Usher familydeath was suicide, in a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend". After a bloodbath in there, the Ushers expand downwards, clearing a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase is due but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to go. This is not the only crack in proceedings, however, as we soon discover while witnessing find out what happened on the fall of this House of Ushernight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teresa Solana and Peter BushB0CK3MYJ56|title=A Shortcut to ParadiseResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The characters are introduced to It's the reader one at a time1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. The main ones He used to have a whole chapter or two to tell their story, including a bit of background information high-flying job in the city but aside from all of this, they all seem to have some sort of connection to a swish, literary event. So, for example, thereit wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a young, rather frazzled husband called Ernestprivate investigator. You can tell that he's a kindlyShades of Cameron Strike', mild personyou might be thinking. He takes his role as fatherNice bloke, husband and (although meagre) breadwinner very, very seriously. Hebut where's a translator. He's had some bad luck to contend with lately and the household bills are piling life experience that backs up but he spares his wife this profession? On the sorry details of their current financial state. But all other hand, he's doing is piling on the pressure for himselfhas been asked to look into something. SomethingJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's got to give ... and it doesbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. BigJoyce -time. And without wishing to spoil the plot in any wayand her parents, I think I Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can safely say that he ' ... decided t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to put himself into the shoes fall in front of the heroes he translated and, for the first time in his life, he took the bull by the hornsa train. Greg'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738559</amazonuk>s been asked to investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1838954481|title=The BurningMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book opens with Ryan Kennedy killed a bunch of young women enjoying a drink-fuelled night out in the capital. And as often happens, police officer: there's always one absolutely paralytic no doubt about that. He was the fifteen- with drastic consequencesyear-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Casey gives her readers a sharp taste He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of danger early on as we accompany the unfortunate Kelly officer. And so lives must go on a terrifying taxi ride. The media For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is stirring up a right old frenzy and calling this local serial killer ''The Burning Man''. And yes, itfound on her territory she's drawn into a suitably horrible title wider investigation - and we hear it time and time again throughout back into the bookorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936004</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Massimo Carlotto1448309743|title=Bandit Love|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In 2004 three criminals-turned-good are approached by a stranger to investigate a drugs haul, stolen from a fully-secure institute. Rather than be pressurised into the job by a man who cannot state what info he needs, nor for whom nor why, they let him die, leaving his ugly bling ring behind for his operators. In 2006 one of them has the nightmare of his girlfriend being kidnapped, and replaced by the same ring. Can the trio work out the identity of a man dead two years, involved somehow in the federal theft, and counter the current crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193337280X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Danny Miller|title=Kiss Me QuickCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The jacket cover is certainly eye-catchingIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a nice sepia-tinged photograph of Brighton seafrontwealthy family are found murdered. The Prologue opens in only item missing from the home is the year 1939, also in Devil Stone: myth says that if the Brighton area. A young Jack Regent stone is enjoying the start of what appears to be a new liferemoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's apparently paid the price for previous an easy conclusion given that two of them 'eventsdiscovered' and is now a reformed characterthe body. Or The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he? The next couple of pages would suggest otherwise. But then againdisappears, JackDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's smart, very smart. He makes sure that he doesnshadow't get his hands dirty. He leaves that for others. For the mugshim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Talbot1529077699|title=Grandville Mon AmourThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Dr Olembé discovers a potential cure for cancer and is given the go-ahead to begin human trials''It's all bloody peculiar, the potential rewards are huge. Sadlyisn't it, his first human patient dies shortly afterwards. Medical neglectSir? Is Dr Olembé's reputation finished? Well, before we have much time to consider these things, a second body is discovered. This time it's a career academic at the university. Was this suicide? Are the two deaths linked? Part medical crime story, part academic satire, part speculative fiction, The Oxford Virus addresses this case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095658800X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael White1529427045|title=The Art of MurderGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Chief Inspector Jack Pendragon 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 Whitechapel. The man is horribly mutilated but he's held up in a chair and the scene Life has been set as a nod more to the surrealist painter, Magritte. This is art as murder. Back in Whitechapel in the 1880s the man who was probably the most famous murderer of them all. Heoffer than people - prime numbers for example''s planned the murder of four local prostitutes with the bodies being horribly mutilated. Four, he feels, is a satisfyingly balanced number. This is murder as art.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551446</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Robins1787636607|title=The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the BathTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During It's a scene replicated all too often in the early months hours of 1915, Britain was fighting the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for her life during a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the First World War'taxi problem', and newspaper headlines were preoccupied with particularly in the armylight of 's exploits and outrages by the enemymissing women'. For a timeone young woman, only one event at home could compete with them the final stop on the front news pages – the unhappy fate bus leaves her a long way short of two or three brides who her home. She had been drowned, in separate incidents, in their baths, intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the fact that one man was probably responsiblebus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848541074</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arnaldur Indridason1405957174|title=HypothermiaA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=MariaFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's body was found by her friend Karenparty will not end well. It was hanging from The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the rafters of her holiday home at Lake Thingvallavatn and when Detective Erlendur arrived it seemed like a straightforward case of suicideambulance he so desperately needs. Maria had been in a poor mental state since What we don't know is who the death of her mother two years previously and there was a history of depressionman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. It wasnI't until Karen approached Erlendur with d better give you a recording of a séance which Maria had attended shortly before her death little more background so that his curiosity was aroused. There was no great pressure 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 peopleyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532271</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Dean0008530025|title=To Die AloneMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The bodies of a man It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and his dog are found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in an isolated part the garden of the northern hillstheir West London home. The injuries, particularly to He had an injury on the dog are horrific and although it initially looks though the man might back of his head which could have died from accidental injuries it soon becomes obvious that happened if he's been stabbedd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The victim – Trevor Meredith – Twenty years later, no one has been acting strangely lately as charged with his murder and it looks as though he might have been aware that he was in danger's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. And where A group of experts has his girl friend disappeared been brought together to review the evidence and to? take the investigation further. More to the point, who, ''exactly'they're going to do this live on camera, is Trevor Meredithepisode by episode. Chief Inspector Jack Harris There's no dump of the whole box set - and his team have their work cut outno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Sargeant0241996104|title=Long Time WaitingComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=24.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Pippa Adams is determined to do well on Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first day as a CID detectivemeet Nancy outside the court, especially when she is plunged straight into after Martin receives a murder caselife sentence. However, an unfortunate comment about Agatha Christie plunges The barrister tells her that into disarray and she becomes known as 'Agathas received a 'silent sentence' - she'. There is little time s not been found guilty of anything but will have to dwell on this though; there is a murder to solvelive with what happened for the rest of her life. Two men broke into the Brocks Of course, it's made worse because Nancy' home late one night, took Carl Brock away and killed him, and chained his wife, Gaby, to a chair. Carl Brock was a teacher and presumably above reproach s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - but as Pippa and her colleagues investigate, all sorts the papers are making the most of issues come to the surface and it seems that Carl was not as innocent as they first presumed. Can Pippa find out the truth ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and persuade her disdainful colleagues that she ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is a capable detective?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091060</amazonuk>undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Magson1529413680|title=Death on the MaraisA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We meet One of the main events of the central character, Inspector Rocco Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and are informed that heBruno's a city man, happiest pounding there to see the elegant streets of Parisshow with some friends. But suddenly and against his willIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he finds himself in departs from the sticks. He's not too happy about itscript. His new colleagues are more than happy to rib him a littleLuckily, tell him that nothing much his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in the way of crime happens herea helicopter. One A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of these colleagues takes things a stage further survival but - puffs up his cheeks before commenting as he'we get s a senior government employee, the occasional punchman who runs Frenchelon -up over a game of bar billiards ...' Rocco thinks he'll be bored out of his skull the military has stepped in no time. Big surprise then when on day oneOne daughter lives nearby and another, yeswho lives in California, on day one he's involved is flying in the discovery with some of a young woman. And Magson wastes no time in giving his readers all the gory details of this womanher father's last few hours alive. We almost feel her slow, agonising deathfriends for a pre-arranged holiday. And the question is why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008342</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Buchan1529196388|title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay)Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Richard Hannay is feeling oldGrant Cliveden was a 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. He looks at himself and There's just one man in the frame for his contemporaries murder - Jimmy Knight - and sees a spread of complacencyit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Luckily Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor- or perhaps very unluckily Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- an old pledge will come to haunt Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. His earlier career in Africa saw Hannay and his friends swear Knight's determined to protect a man from others plead not guilty, despite all Taylor- and now a second generation of animosity is ripe for Hannay Cameron's recommendations to step in and be a protective detectivethe contrary. Add in a supposed treasure hoard, and who knows where his last journey might end up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697156X</amazonuk>
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