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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gene KerriganStuart Douglas|title=The RageLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Bob Tidey has been round the block a few times. HeDuring location filming for his 1970's middle-agedsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', has leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a less-than-perfect home life, but woman on the upside, he loves his job - especially court work and court appearancesedge of a reservoir. ''Bob Tidey felt at home here.'' He's going The police seem happy to have his hands full shortly. Enter Vincentassign it as an accidental death, but something about the other main character. Fresh out of an Irish prisonwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he's strutting all over enlists the place. You could say he's looking for trouble. Fed up with small-beer crimeshelp of a fellow actor, he wants John Le Breton to land a big onehelp him investigate matters further. A big one with big rewards They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and then he can put his feet up, 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>1846552567</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marika Cobbold0008517061|title=Drowning RoseDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The latest in Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the annual series future of short story collections edited by Maxim Jakubowski gives readers his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a wide range lot of stories from authors as diverse as 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 much-acclaimed [[:Category:Ian Rankin|Ian Rankin]] future she wants for herself and [[:Category:Kate Atkinson|Kate Atkinson]], her daughter? newwcomers such as Nigel Bird For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Jay Stringer, and father and son combination Peter and Phil Loveseyputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015678</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Ewan1786482126|title=The Good Thief's Guide to VeniceJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Iluxury'd never met apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a female burglar before, let alone one with the credentials to model lingerie, and I confess that I doorway. There was more than no skull. Was this a little intrigued.' ritual killing or murder? So says Charlie Howard before he realises that the lady in question has stolen his most prized possessionInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. A talisman It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that he thinks she is essential to pregnant with his writing is child as a result of the framed first edition of ''The Maltese Falcon'' that hangs above his deskone night they spent together some three months ago. All his mysterious visitor leaves in this spot Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is empty space. The explosive and chaotic events that follow are fuelled by Charlie's determination prone to get his book backsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847399592</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Smith0008551324|title=Mixed Blood|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=I reviewed Smith's [[Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith|Wake Up Dead]] and after reading the blurb on the back cover, this book would appear to be in a similar style. We meet Jack, his heavily-pregnant wife Susan and their young son as they relax in their smart suburban home. Smith paints a lovely picture: the setting sun, drinks on the balcony and views to die for The Devil You Know (no pun intended hereD S Max Craigie) over Table Mountain. What's not to like? But this idyll is about to take a nasty and unexpected turn for the worse as a couple of no-users, high on drugs, take their chance and break in to the Burns' home. And all this action is seen by a security guard nearby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687586</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jussi Adler-Olsen|title=MercyNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Prologue intends to grab the readerIt's attention right unusual for anyone from the first wordHardie family to approach the police. I liked thatNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. A girl, or perhaps a woman (we don't know yet) But Davie Hardie is imprisoned somewhere, barely kept alive struggling in some sort prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of dark, airless a missing person is buried and smelly makeshift prison - but why? who was responsible for her death. And by whom exactly? The story opens in 2007 This person, he promises, is someone big and we learn that Copenhagen detective Carl is recovering from a near-death experience in it will be worth the line of police dutydoing what he wants. His colleagues were not so lucky. So we see a broken and rather vulnerable man trying And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to claw serve the remainder of his way back sentence and to a normal lifeget an early parole date. GuiltNot much to ask, revenge, anger are perhaps some of the emotions coursing through his veins. is it? His senior colleagues are at a loss as to what The 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 - heis kept well away from what's a good copper, after all. The solution is that a fancy new title is invented along with a fancy new department, all for Carlhappening. But will he cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141399961</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent0008405026|title=Devil-DevilA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Solomon Islands in 1960investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, Sergeant Ben Kella stands out as an oddity and her father are dead in many waystheir bed. Trained since childhood as an Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''aofia'', s something about the traditional peacemaker positioning of the islands, he was mission educated and sent away bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and appears to belong completely to neither the modern age nor the old customsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Finding his place in the world, What looked as though, will have it was going to wait – because there's a missing anthropologist to find, a rebellious nun to protect, be an open-and -shut case is now a complex double murder to solve. Oh, and a magic man has just cursed him. All Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in a dayRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's work…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013403</amazonuk>boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter James0571379877|title=Dead Man's GripThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What starts as Edward Jevons is a normal day for Tony Revere soon ends in working-class young man, obsessed with his death after he is knocked from his cycle upper-class friends, Robert and is thrown under a truckStanza. Carly Chase does not hit him but as she swerves to avoid him, her Audi smashes into Robert's a café windowtheatre director. A subsequent breathalyser test shows that she is still over the limit from the night before. Stuart Ferguson He's also self-obsessed, the truck driverdemanding, is also not responsible handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for the accident but him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he was tired having driven for more hours than are legally permittedfeels to Robert. The van driver who actually hits Tony first just doesn Most men in Robert't stop. It seems like s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a tragic accident, especially as the weather was terrible and Tony was cycling on the wrong side of the road. Tonyrelationship had begun between them but he's mother, who has links with the Mafia, does not think so though and like most men: Edward is set on revengeleft to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230747256</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Esmahan Aykol and Ruth Whitehouse (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=Kati Hirschel Murder Mystery: Hotel BosphorusLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kati has When a lot to impart to her readers. She burbles man is found crucified on right throughout the book about all sorts top of things which are on a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her mindsidekick, the AI detective Lock. So we learn about her colleaguesIt's their first live case together, friends and neighbours which all gives a nice hint of the Turkish way of lifehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. As But when there is a German nationalsecond body found crucified a few days later, Kati can stand back Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and take a cool look at all things Turkishvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. But does she like what she sees all of 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She soon tells us's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's former mentor and Carole's not slow to highlight stereotypical German traits - close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the lack of humourcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the discipline etc which can be at odds with Kati now living amongst the more laid-back Turksleast. We also find out that Arthur was the locals are passionate about reason why Freya had not been back to the telephone and mobile phones in particularvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Forever glued Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to an ear apparentlybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. So much so that After the split, she thinks 'Alexander Graham Bell must have had Turkish genes.' She also likes to go on worked in a cafe, met and married James (on about the terrible parking in Istanbul informing us that 'It takes thirty minutes to get rebound from home to the shoplove of her life, on foot or by car. I go by carwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.' I particularly liked that line.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738680</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1398524085|title=Loose-LimbedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Captain Franck Guerin of the Brigade Criminelle Charlotte Salter was about to learn a lot more about ballet than he ever expected or wanted to knowat her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Sophie Duval was a leading dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet – an etoile – Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and she was murdered in her homedaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. A chord had been wrapped three times around her neck Shortly afterwards, Etty and then she had been strangledGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, but why? in the river. It seemed simple was an easy assumption for the police to rule out professional jealousy make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and she seemed to have little life outside of then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the balletguilt. The Opera Ballet is a tight-knit and dedicated world, Salter children are not convinced but itthere's not long before it's a world of terror, because Sophie Duval is only the first person to dielittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1529900360|title=The LonerGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jardine starts with some background on Xavier Aislado. Even at school in Edinburgh, his bulk and rather serious manner ensures It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he sails through felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his academic courseshelp on difficult cases. This is against His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the odds help of a chaotic life at homepsychologist only worked for a while. His Spanish fatherFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's a bit of a cold fish, his Scottish mother is as meek as a church mouse so Xavier (or Xavi) is really guided and nurtured by his rather ferocious grandmotherpartner, Palomawho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Even I She knew that the involvement was afraid of hersomething that the man she loved needed. She takes no prisonersThe next case did look simple, wears though. Two lovers were murdered in the trousers swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Aislado household (in both Spain heir to an Italian shoe empire and Scotland) she is married to an extremely rich man and speaks her mind every timeit's not the Italian. Although there are certain areas But which are out of bounds. But I also loved her too. Jardine has created a terrific character in Paloma, in particular.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357167</amazonuk>them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton178763681X|title=Hamish Macbeth: Death of a ValentineKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Remembering Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''Hamish Macbethsomehow'' from got the 1990s TV series, in impression that he'd be at the person of Robert Carlisleschool to assist Paul, accompanied by who had a Westie called Wee Jockbroken arm, Ibut it didn'm only just beginning to get to know t turn out that way. The teaching - and the real Hamish as brought problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to paper by M C Beatonturn up dead. More robust in appearance than your man Carlisle, with a shock of red hairUnfortunately, he's accompanied on his rounds by an indeterminate hound called Lugs and a wildcat called Sonsie. That both animals are referred to by was the locals as person who discovered the beasties, body and only a special few of said locals are willing everyone knows that the police consider that person to look after them in Hamish's absence, says something about their temperament. Hamish would call it exuberance. Or loyaltybe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015090</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bill Knox1529421284|title=StormtideLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Webb Carrick is It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a Chief Officer in human skeleton came to the Scottish Fisheries Protection Service surface and he's out in forensic testing proved the North Atlantic where he strays into the middle of a feud between shark hunters and local fishermenbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. ItHe's d been a little time since known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it happened could have been a simple case of misadventure but theyDI Matt Lockyer wasn're still angry about the death of t convinced. Geary was a young woman. townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? The consensus There are connections to the suicide of opinion is that she discovered she was pregnant Holly Gilbert and committed suicide from to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the piertime. One Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the shark hunters is held Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to be responsible. It all threatens to come to a head when Carrick boards a fishing boat you and finds her skipper dead on the deckme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robin Cook1529425867|title=CureLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is returning to work after her maternity leaveof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. It's been longer than usual because her D I Ryan Wilkins, son had a potentially fatal neuroblastoma but this is now in complete remissionof Ryan and father of Ryan, but leaving him and going back to work is not going to be easy. ItHe's not going to be easy for whoever is looking after JJ eitherany of those things. Laurie is just a little bit neurotic about leaving him. SheHe's lost white, originated from a bit of confidence with regard to the job too so ittrailer park, barely educated (reading's perhaps fortunate that her first case is what looks like an open not ''really'' his thing) and shut case his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a natural deathpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. LaurieThe two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's not so certain though – although quite a few people would like her to make up her mind that no further investigation is neededproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230750648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillaume Musso1529431735|title=Where Would I Be Without You?The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=I love the coverIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which I think angles this book firmly towards womenmade Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. With that old Beach Boys hit from He'd been exiled on the Sixties Costa del Sol as the titlea wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, it encapsulates everything you need saying that she's ill and hasn't long to know when choosing this booklive. It's not really crime fictionhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, in that it lacks stripped to his underwear and sent to a whodunnit aspect watery grave in favour the boot of following the protagonists, a French cop and stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Scottish master criminal, through Spanish gang or 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>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian McKinty0861541774|title=Falling GlassA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Like all good DCI Domenic Jejeune''noir'' fictions close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, McKinty provides us with has taken a charismatic central character - here short holiday in the form of Killian. Of Pavee traveller, Irish stock (otherwise known as 'tinkers') he has made his name as Singapore to meet up with an enforcer of other people's lawsold ally, collecting debts and finding missing peopleGuy Trueman. He's tough and capable of violence, but generally gets his man by avoiding force where possible. A sort of hit Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a conscienceknife - and he killed a Ghurka. However Initially, when the book kicks off he has semi-retired, faced a charge of manslaughter but his decision evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to invest his ill gotten gains in property has fallen foul of murder the property crash, so when a job comes up offering a cool half million for simply finding man. Now he could be facing the ex-wife and daughters of budget airline magnate Richard Coulter, it's not one he death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can easily turn down. Killian knows this sounds too good do nothing to be that simple. And, of course, hehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's rightt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1521129886|title=Hamish Macbeth: Death of a SweepThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the mid-1990s, despite the encroachment of satellite point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and cable, Sunday evenings still seemed to they're both delighted. Joyce will be a time to sit down to watch more delighted about the Beeb or ITV with baby when she gets past the family for a dose of gentle viewingmorning sickness. "Drama" Greg is too strong a word for the programmes that aired approached by an old friend whose brother-in that prime time slot (somewhere between 7pm -law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and 9pm)her son is not thriving. TechnicallyLucy, he says, they is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart'were'' dramas – but they were laced with humour, protected from over-exposure s prepared to pay Greg to violence or sex or the truly dark underbelly of find out what happened on the stories they actually toldnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J TrowB0CK3MYJ56|title=Maxwell's IslandResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Maxwell had never been intending to go to the Isle of Wight but when his colleague went sick at the last moment he volunteered to take her place on the school trip. His wife, Jacquie wasnIt't entirely convinced that this lived up to s the family holiday they1990s and Greg Mason'd been planning, but she went along toos twenty-eight years old. There were quite He used to have a few adults, as there have to be nowadays, including Medlicott, high-flying job in the new head of art, and his wife. Jacquie feels that city but itwasn't satisfying so he's even less of now set himself up as a holiday for her when Medlicottprivate investigator. 's wife goes missing and sheShades of Cameron Strike's forced to , you might be the policewoman she'd hoped to leave at homethinking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074900892X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Haynes|title=Into The Darkest Corner|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The book didnNice bloke, but where't actually look s the life experience that appealing. backs up this profession? The cover is on On the sepia side of dullother hand, he has been asked to look into something. I didn't know the author's name Joyce and the title didn't really grab me. When I started reading we Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were straight into the transcript of a court case in which it seemed that a police officer until Helen was being questioned killed in court about his relationship with what's been written off as a womantragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. He was accused of being violent to Joyce - and herparents, but it seemed that the boot Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was really on the other foot. Then we were into doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a story – or even two stories – with two time lines some four years aparttrain. Within ten minutes I couldnGreg't put it downs been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251579</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Osborne1838954481|title=Kill Me OnceThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The title and the book cover plus the wording 'Introducing Ryan Kennedy killed a new breed of serial killerpolice officer: there' leave the reader in s no doubt as to about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the type of book gun and pointing it isat DI Kieran Shaw. A lot of innocent blood is going to be spilled throughout these pages. And, in He pulled the case of many individuals with evil at their core, we get trigger but due to visit the childhood of one vagaries of the main characters, Nathan Stiedowe. I wasn't at all surprised to read that jury system he was 'different' from found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the other little boys at schoolofficer. He often got nasty nicknames thrown at him from his peersAnd so lives must go on. But did he care? Add to all of For DI Sarah Collins that, his parents were bible-bashers means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but their fervent love of God didn't seem to extend to their son. Why? Nathan decided from when a very early age that, in order to survive, hemissing teenager is found on her territory she'd better develop s drawn into a pretty thick skin wider investigation - and fastback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955092X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1448309743|title=Blood RushThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lilly has had In the baby she was expecting in village of Cronchie on the last bookWest coast of Scotland, and daughter Alice five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the child Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from hellOtterburn House, death will follow. Sweet and angelic with just about anyone other than her mumThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, she wonthat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered't sleep at night, is prone to screaming fits and about as disruptive to a previously one-parent, one-child household as a baby could bethe body. Fortunately father Jack (copper, ex-boyfriend, current status indeterminate) The Senior Investigating Office is welcome to come and lend a hand whenever DCI Bob Oswald but when he can spare the time. Of course, Alice adores him. Equally fortunately, first-born and now teenage son, Samdisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is unbelievably cool about his baby sis. Just pulled in to round it off, Lilly and Sam's father are also on speaking and son-sharing terms (and sod his new girlfriend!)shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014736</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Molly Carr1529077699|title=The Sign of FearRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Mary Watson - a distant second to John Watson''It's all bloody peculiar, who 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 Streetisn't it, 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>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett1529427045|title=The LeopardGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Still completely traumatised by 'The Snowman' investigation, Inspector Harry Hole Life has fled Norway more to offer than people - prime numbers for the seedy underbelly of Hong Kong where he is happy to lose himself to debt and drugs. Back 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 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 fatherexample's illness and 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 and he cannot resist getting involved, especially when the current investigative team seem to be making such a mess of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846554004</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Hawken1787636607|title=The Dead Women of JuarezTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Although It's a scene replicated all too often in the story related here is a work early hours of fiction, the situation is based on factmorning. The Mexican border city Drunken revellers spilling out of Juárez has clubs and looking for a shocking problem with female homicides (usually young way to get home. Some are lucky and invariably pretty)manage to get one of the few taxis available. Official statistics put Others squash onto the number night bus that will only go as far as one of murders at 400 since 1993 whilethe outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', we are toldparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, residents believe that the true number final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of disappeared women is closer her home. She had intended to ring someone to 5000come and collect her - but her phone's dead. But attention The bus had driven off before she had the chance to this problem is diverted by drug crime, although beg the two may not be entirely unrelatedbus driver to let her use his. Anything that raises public awareness of this terrible situation, such as Hawken There's book, is no option but to be encouragedstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes. So much for the fact, what about the fiction?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668773X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso1405957174|title=A Sickness in the Family|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives the Usher family, 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 to go. This is not the only crack in proceedings, however, as we soon discover while witnessing Death at the fall of this House of Usher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParty|author=Teresa Solana and Peter Bush|title=A Shortcut to ParadiseAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The characters are introduced to From the reader one at a time. The main ones have a whole chapter or two to tell their storyfirst page, including a bit of background information but aside from all of this, they all seem to have some sort of connection to a swish, literary event. So, for example, therewe know that Nadine Walsh's a young, rather frazzled husband called Ernestparty will not end well. You can tell that he's The victim - a kindly, mild person. He takes his role as father, husband man - is dying when we first meet him and (although meagre) breadwinner very, very seriously. He's a translator. He's had some bad luck Nadine consciously makes no effort to contend with lately and call the household bills are piling up but ambulance he spares his wife the sorry details of their current financial stateso desperately needs. But all heWhat we don's doing t know is piling on who the pressure for himselfman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. SomethingI's got to d better give ... and it does. Big-time. And without wishing to spoil the plot in any way, I think I you a little more background so that you can safely say that he understand what' s happening... decided to put himself into the shoes of the heroes he translated and, for the first time in his life, he took the bull by the horns.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738559</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey0008530025|title=The BurningMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book opens with a bunch It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of young women enjoying a drink-fuelled night out her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the capitalgarden of their West London home. And as often happensHe had an injury on the back of his 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, thereno one has been charged with his murder and it's always one absolutely paralytic now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true- with drastic consequencescrime show. Casey gives her readers a sharp taste A group of danger early on as we accompany experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the unfortunate Kelly point, they're going to do this live on a terrifying taxi ridecamera, episode by episode. The media is stirring up a right old frenzy There's no dump of the whole box set - and calling this local serial killer ''The Burning Man''no shortage of cliffhangers. And yes, itIt's a suitably horrible title and we hear it time and time again throughout the bookcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936004</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Massimo Carlotto0241996104|title=Bandit LoveComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=In 2004 three criminalsNancy's mother and step-turnedfather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-good are approached by a stranger to investigate a drugs haulbrother, Martin, stolen from a fully-secure institutehas been convicted of their murder. Rather than be pressurised into We first meet Nancy outside the job by court, after Martin receives 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 operatorslife sentence. In 2006 one The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of them has anything but will have to live with what happened for the nightmare rest of his girlfriend being kidnappedher life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and replaced by the same ringpapers are making the most of it. Can the trio work out the identity of a man dead two years, involved somehow in the federal theft, ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and counter the current crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193337280X</amazonuk>''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Miller1529413680|title=Kiss Me QuickA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The jacket cover One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is certainly eyethe re-catching, a nice sepia-tinged photograph enactment of the liberation of Brighton seafront. The Prologue opens in the year 1939, also town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the Brighton areashow with some friends. A young Jack Regent It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is enjoying seriously injured when he departs from the start of what appears to be a new lifescript. He's apparently paid Luckily, his doctor is there and the price for previous 'events' and man is now whisked away in a reformed characterhelicopter. Or is A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he? The next couple of pages would suggest otherwise. But then again, Jack's smarta senior government employee, very smartthe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. He makes sure that he doesnOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father't get his hands dirty. He leaves that s friends for others. For the mugsa pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Talbot1529196388|title=Grandville Mon AmourThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Grant Cliveden was a body hero: a policeman who stood for all that was washed good and honest and looked up on to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the beach of a rural Icelandic fishing village Old Bailey. There's just one man in the powersframe for his murder -thatJimmy Knight -be were rather keen that the death should be written off as an accident. After alland it's not too long before Knight appears in court, falling into the water when youcharged with Cliveden've had far too much to drink is not unusuals murder. HvalvickKnight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's police sargeantTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, GunnhildurAdam Green, isn't convinced thoughwho eventually represent him. The Knight'drinking too muchs determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron' was done in s recommendations to the bars of Reykjavik, some hundred kilometres awaycontrary. If the man was too drunk to walk he was certainly in no position to drive a car – so who brought him to his death – and why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013608</amazonuk>
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