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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel SuarezStuart Douglas|title=FreedomLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=A short while ago, I read Daniel SuarezDuring location filming for his 1970's debut novel [[Daemon by Daniel Suarez|Daemon]]sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', which was leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a gripping technological thrillerwoman on the edge of a reservoir. It may not have been a terribly original ideaThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but it was well written if something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a little lacking in character building fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and it did seem , seemingly, a link to end a little abruptlydeath during the Second World War. The reason for this abrupt end now becomes clear, as But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is now a sequel, ''Freedom™''. responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857381229</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wesley Stace0008517061|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as Death in a MurdererLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary="Nothing in recent fiction prepared me for Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the power future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and the polish of this subtle tale of English music her daughter Diana, as moving in the making, together would mean a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]" "His handling lot of dry comic dialogue compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and cynical affectation relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is reminiscent of P G Wodehouse… an intelligent, fun the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent putting the future on Sunday]" Just two of the previous reviews that adorn the back cover of 'Charles Jessold…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>burner.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Dugdall1786482126|title=The Sacrificial ManJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=SynchronicityBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Is that what they call itInevitably, when unconnected events chime Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with each other in unavoidable significance? DCI Harry Nelson. Maybe it is just the human need to see patterns and make connections where there are noneIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but itNelson doesn's still weird when it happens. In a week t, that saw a storyline in ''Emmerdale'' echoed in she is pregnant with his child as a very personal documentary by Terry Pratchett considering the possibility result of choosing the nature and time of one night they spent together some three months ago. his own endHer condition will be obvious before long, I found myself reading 'The Sacrificial Man'not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248009</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box0008551324|title=Out Of RangeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Will Jensen, a Wyoming Game Warden of many years standing, had long held It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect of for the townsfolk of Jacksonother. Recently though But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he seemed 's prepared to have been going off tell the police where the rails. Not turning up for work on time; body of a couple of DUIs; his wife upped missing person is buried and leftwho was responsible for her death. Then one day This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he cooks himself 14lb of meat. No vegetableswants. And slowly eats his way through it, washed down with whiskey, before what he goes wants is to fetch be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date.44 magnum from Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the pickother thing that Hardie demanded -upmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878044</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0008405026|title=The Track of SandA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Montalbano awoke It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one morning summer night. She was never found and saw the body of investigation ground to a horse on the beach halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in front of his housetheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but itthere's not long before it disappears, leaving only a track in something about the positioning of the sandbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. How is he to investigate this when he doesn't know where the horse came from? It isn't long What looked as though before equestrian champion Rachele Esterman arrives at police headquarters it was going to report her horse missing. It had been stabled at the home of Saverio Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily – be an open-and one of his horses -shut case is missing toonow a complex double murder. When Montalbano finds Kerrigan is convinced that he and his home the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are under threat he wonders who he has upset – and the list of possibilities is disturbingly large and influentialless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernesto Mallo and Katherine Silver0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet Money|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A Edward Jevons is a working-class young man whose nickname is Mole (, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and it suits him just perfectly) is released from prisonStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's described as your average Joe Publicalso self-obsessed, demanding, your man in the street so normal in every way that no one would look twice at handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. And thatEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's the pointdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. HeMost men in Robert's clever and resourceful enough to blend into any crowd and in any situation. Now position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's served his time behind bars, has he become a reformed man? Is he going not like most men: Edward is left to opt for stumble upon the two of them kissing in a lawful way of life from now on? You'd perhaps think so, wouldn't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738737</amazonuk>dark passageway.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Quintin JardineJo Callaghan|title=Grievous AngelLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read (and reviewed) Jardine's [[The Loner by Quintin Jardine|The Loner]] and When a man is found it an engaging work crucified on the top of fictiona hill in Nuneaton, so I was looking forward DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to dipping into my the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first ''Bob Skinner Mysterylive case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases.'' I think the front cover alone may 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 well tempt readers with its high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention-grabbing graphics which shouts 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 'read me'.of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755356934</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig1035021803|title=London Calling: An Inspector Carlyle NovelThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The current government had It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been looking back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a little sickly in the polls request for a while help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and it seemed that Edgar Carlton – charismatic Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and ruthless – had only to get the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the finish line reason why Freya had not been back to be the next Prime Ministervillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. His twin brotherEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Xavier, would she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the next Foreign Secretaryprofession she loved. Then a murderer targets former members of After the Merrion Club – an exclusivesplit, hedonistic group of undergraduates at Cambridge University – and this includes Edgarshe worked in a cafe, Xavier met and married James (on the rebound from the current mayor love of Londonher life, Christian Holyrod. Inspector John Carlyle of the Metropolitan Police doesn't take that long to work out why this is happening who was murdered) and Freya and who is at risk – but ''who'' is doing it is an entirely different matterJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849019665</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gene Kerrigan1398524085|title=The RageHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Bob Tidey has been round the block a few times. HeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's middle-agedfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, has a lessEtty. are all worried but -thanstrangely -perfect home lifeher husband, Alec, but on the upsideis not. Shortly afterwards, he loves his job - especially court work Etty and court appearances. ''Bob Tidey felt at home here.'' HeGreg, find the body of Greg's going to have his hands full shortly. Enter Vincentfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the other main characterriver. Fresh out of It was an Irish prison, easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn's strutting all over t stand the placeguilt. You could say he The Salter children are not convinced but there's looking for trouble. Fed up little else they can do but get on with small-beer crimes, he wants to land a big one. A big one with big rewards their lives and then he can put his feet upwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846552567</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marika Cobbold1529900360|title=Drowning RoseThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn'It been Lt Milo Sturgis'd never met a female burglar befores fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, let alone one with the credentials Sturgis was reluctant to model lingerie, ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and I confess that I was more than -shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a little intriguedwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware' s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. So says Charlie Howard before he realises She knew that the involvement was something that the lady in question has stolen his most prized possessionman she loved needed. A talisman that he thinks is essential to his writing is the framed first edition of ''The Maltese Falcon'' that hangs above his desknext case did look simple, though. All his mysterious visitor leaves Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in this spot is empty spaceBel Air. The explosive He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and chaotic events that follow are fuelled by Charlieit's determination to get his book backnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847399592</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Smith178763681X|title=Mixed BloodKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I reviewed SmithChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's [[Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith|Wake Up Dead]] t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and after reading women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the blurb on impression that he'd be at the back coverschool to assist Paul, this book would appear to be in who had a similar stylebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. We meet Jack, his heavilyThe teaching -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 (no pun intended here) over Table Mountainproblems - are all his own. WhatThe one thing he hadn's not t expected was for someone to like? turn up dead. But this idyll is about to take a nasty Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and unexpected turn for everyone knows that the worse as a couple of no-users, high on drugs, take their chance and break in police consider that person to be the Burns' home. And all this action is seen by a security guard nearbyprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687586</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jussi Adler-Olsen1529421284|title=MercyLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Prologue intends to grab It was one of those flash downpours that the reader's attention right from the first wordBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. I liked that. A girl, or perhaps In a woman (we don't know yet) is imprisoned somewhere, barely kept alive in some sort of darkgully, airless and smelly makeshift prison - but why? And by whom exactly? The story opens in 2007 and we learn that Copenhagen detective Carl is recovering from a near-death experience in human skeleton came to the line of police duty. His colleagues were not so lucky. So we see a broken surface and rather vulnerable man trying to claw his way back forensic testing proved the body to a normal life. Guilt, revengebe Lee Geary, anger are perhaps some of the emotions coursing through his veinswho had disappeared nine years earlier. His senior colleagues are at a loss as to what to do with him - heHe's d been a good copperknown drug user and had learning disabilities, after allso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The solution is that a fancy new title is invented along with Geary was a fancy new departmenttownie, all for Carl. But will so what was he copedoing out on Salisbury Plain alone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141399961</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Graeme Kent|title=Devil-Devil|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=In There are connections to the Solomon Islands in 1960, Sergeant Ben Kella stands out as an oddity in many ways. Trained since childhood as an ''aofia'', the traditional peacemaker suicide of the islands, he was mission educated and sent away Holly Gilbert and appears to belong completely to neither the modern age nor two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the old customstime. Finding his place in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the world, though, will have to wait – because thereMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's a missing anthropologist cold cases to find, a rebellious nun to protect, you and a murder to solveme) investigate. Oh, and a magic man has just cursed him. All in a day's work…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013403</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter James1529425867|title=Dead Man's GripLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What starts as a normal day for Tony Revere soon ends in his death after he In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is knocked from his cycle of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is thrown under a trucknot. Carly Chase does He's not hit him but as she swerves to avoid himany of those things. He's white, her Audi smashes into originated from a café windowtrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. A subsequent breathalyser test shows that she is still over the limit from the night before You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Stuart Ferguson Well, the truck driver, is also you're not responsible for the accident but he was tired having driven for more hours than are legally permitted. The van driver who actually hits Tony first two men are just doesn't stopdifferent sides of the same policing coin. It seems like a tragic accident, especially as the weather was terrible and Tony was cycling on Sometimes the wrong side of the roadcombination works brilliantly well. Tony Sometimes it's mother, who has links with the Mafia, does not think so though and is set on revengeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230747256</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Esmahan Aykol and Ruth Whitehouse (translator)1529431735|title=Kati Hirschel Murder Mystery: Hotel BosphorusThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kati has a lot to impart to her readers. She burbles on right throughout the book about all sorts of things which are on her mind. So we learn about her colleaguesIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, friends and neighbours which made Bruce Hopkins' return all gives a nice hint of the Turkish way of lifemore surprising. As He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a German national, Kati can stand back and take wanted drug smuggler for a cool look at all things Turkishdecade. But does she like what she sees all of the time? She soon tells us. SheThe return has come about because he's not slow to highlight stereotypical German traits had a letter from his ex- the lack of humourwife, the discipline etc which can be at odds with Kati now living amongst the more laid-back Turks. We also find out that the locals are passionate about the telephone and mobile phones in particular. Forever glued to an ear apparently. So much so saying that she thinks 'Alexander Graham Bell must have had Turkish genes.' She also likes to go on s ill and on about the terrible parking in Istanbul informing us that hasn'It takes thirty minutes t long to get from home to the shop, on foot or by carlive. I go by car.It' I particularly liked that line.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738680</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Barrie|title=Loose-Limbed|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Captain Franck Guerin of the Brigade Criminelle was about s hard to learn a lot more about ballet than he ever expected or wanted to know. Sophie Duval was a leading dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet – an etoile – and she was murdered in her home. A chord had been wrapped three times around her neck and then she had been strangledfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but why? It seemed simple stripped to rule out professional jealousy his underwear and she seemed sent to have little life outside a watery grave in the boot of the balleta stolen Ford Sierra. The Opera Ballet is Is it a warning from a tight-knit and dedicated world, but it's not long before it's Spanish gang or a world of terror, because Sophie Duval is only the first person problem closer to die.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251846</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine0861541774|title=The LonerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jardine starts DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with some background on Xavier Aisladoan old ally, Guy Trueman. Even at school Maik was involved in Edinburgh, his bulk a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and rather serious manner ensures that he sails through his academic courses. This is against the odds of killed a chaotic life at homeGhurka. His Spanish father's a bit of a cold fishInitially, his Scottish mother is as meek as he faced a church mouse so Xavier (or Xavi) is really guided and nurtured by his rather ferocious grandmother, Paloma. Even I was afraid charge of hermanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. She takes no prisoners, wears the trousers in Now he could be facing the Aislado household (in both Spain and Scotland) and speaks her mind every timedeath penalty. Although there are certain areas which are out of bounds. But I also loved her too. Jardine has created Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a terrific character in Paloma, in particulardiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357167</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1521129886|title=Hamish Macbeth: Death of a ValentineThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Remembering Greg Mason''Hamish Macbeth'' from the 1990s TV series, in the person of Robert Carlisle, accompanied by a Westie called Wee Jock, I'm only s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to know the real Hamish as brought to paper by M C Beatonpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. More robust in appearance than your man Carlisle, with a shock of red hair, heIt's accompanied on his rounds by an indeterminate hound called Lugs a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a wildcat called Sonsiebaby and they're both delighted. That both animals are referred to by Joyce will be more delighted about the locals as baby when she gets past the beasties, and only a special few of said locals are willing morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to look after them in Hamishhave killed himself. Stuart's absenceconcerned about his sister, Lucy, says something about their temperament. Hamish would call it exuberance. Or loyalty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bill Knox|title=Stormtide|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Webb Carrick is a Chief Officer in the Scottish Fisheries Protection Service and hewho's out in the North Atlantic where he strays into the middle of a feud between shark hunters struggling to make ends meet and local fishermenher son is not thriving. It's a little time since Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it happened but theysimply wasn're still angry about the death of a young womant in his nature. The consensus of opinion is police and the coroner have accepted that she discovered she the death was pregnant and committed suicide from the pier. , One of the shark hunters is held but Stuart's prepared to be responsible. It all threatens pay Greg to come to a head when Carrick boards a fishing boat and finds her skipper dead find out what happened on the decknight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014574</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robin CookB0CK3MYJ56|title=Cure|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery is returning to work after her maternity leave. It's 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 easy. It's not going to be easy for whoever is looking after JJ either. Laurie is just a little bit neurotic about leaving him. She's lost a bit of confidence with regard to the job too so it's perhaps fortunate that her first case is what looks like an open and shut case of a natural death. Laurie's not so certain though – although quite a few people would like her to make up her mind that no further investigation is needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230750648</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Guillaume Musso|title=Where Would I Be Without You?|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=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 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 GlassAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Like all good It's the 1990s and Greg Mason'noir'' fiction, McKinty provides us with s twenty-eight years old. He used to have a charismatic central character high- here flying job in the form of Killian. Of Pavee traveller, Irish stock (otherwise known as city but it wasn'tinkerst satisfying so he') he has made his name s now set himself up as an enforcer a private investigator. 'Shades of other peopleCameron Strike's laws, collecting debts and finding missing peopleyou might be thinking. He's tough and capable of violenceNice bloke, but generally gets his man by avoiding force where possible. A sort of hit man with a conscience. However's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, when the book kicks off he has semibeen asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-retiredsisters, but his decision to invest his ill gotten gains or rather, they were until Helen was killed in property has fallen foul of the property crash, so when what's been written off as a job comes up offering a cool half million for simply finding the extragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce -wife and daughters of budget airline magnate Richard Coulterher parents, itOliver and Pam Hetherington - can's not one he can easily turn down. Killian knows this sounds too good t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to be that simplefall in front of a train. And, of course, he Greg's rightbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1838954481|title=Hamish Macbeth: Death of a SweepThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the midfifteen-1990s, despite year-old holding the encroachment of satellite gun and cable, Sunday evenings still seemed pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to be a time to sit down to watch the Beeb or ITV with vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the family for a dose manslaughter of gentle viewingthe officer. "Drama" is too strong And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a word for quieter life in the programmes that aired in that prime time slot (somewhere between 7pm and 9pm). Technically, they countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she''were'' dramas – but they were laced with humour, protected from overs drawn into a wider investigation -exposure to violence or sex or and back into the truly dark underbelly orbit of the stories they actually toldRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1448309743|title=Maxwell's IslandThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Maxwell had never been intending to go to In the Isle village of Wight but when his colleague went sick at the last moment he volunteered to take her place Cronchie on the school tripWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. His wife, Jacquie wasn't entirely convinced The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that this lived up to if the family holiday they'd been planningstone is removed from Otterburn House, but she went along toodeath will follow. There were quite a few adults, as there have to be nowadays, including Medlicott, the new head of artThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and his wife. Jacquie feels that it's even less an easy conclusion given that two of a holiday for her when Medlicottthem 's wife goes missing and shediscovered's forced the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be the policewoman she'd hoped to leave at homeshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074900892X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1529077699|title=Into The Darkest CornerRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book didn't actually look that appealing. The cover is on the sepia side of dull. I didn't know the authorIt's name and the title didn't really grab me. When I started reading we were straight into the transcript of a court case in which it seemed that a police officer was being questioned in court about his relationship with a woman. He was accused of being violent to herall bloody peculiar, but it seemed that the boot was really on the other foot. Then we were into a story – or even two stories – with two time lines some four years apart. Within ten minutes I couldnisn't put it down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Osborne|title=Kill Me Once|rating=4|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 is. A lot of innocent blood is going to be spilled throughout these pages. And, in the case of many individuals with evil at their core, we get to visit the childhood of one of the main characters, Nathan Stiedowe. I wasn't at all surprised to read that he was 'different' from the other little boys at school. He often got nasty nicknames thrown at him from his peers. But did he care? Add to all of that, his parents were bible-bashers but their fervent love of God didn't seem to extend to their son. WhySir? Nathan decided from a very early age that, in order to survive, he'd better develop a pretty thick skin - and fast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955092X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Black|title=Blood Rush|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Lilly has had the baby she was expecting in the last book, and daughter Alice is the child from hell. Sweet and angelic with just about anyone other than her mum, she won'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 be. Fortunately father Jack (copper, ex-boyfriend, current status indeterminate) is welcome to come and lend a hand whenever he can spare the time. Of course, Alice adores him. Equally fortunately, first-born and now teenage son, Sam, is unbelievably cool about his baby sis. Just 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>}} {{newreview|author=Molly Carr|title=The Sign of Fear|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Mary Watson - a distant second to John Watson, 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 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>}}
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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 while, we are told, residents believe that the true number of disappeared women is closer to 5000outlying villages. But attention to this The woman all regret the 'taxi problem is diverted by drug crime', although particularly in the two may not be entirely unrelated. Anything that raises public awareness light of this terrible situation, such as Hawken's book, is to be encouragedthe missing women'. So much for the fact For one young woman, what about the fiction?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668773X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Denise Mina and Antonio Fuso|title=A Sickness in final stop on the Family|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=In Eton Terrance there lives the Usher family, in bus leaves her a house above a basement flat where a gangster holds sway over a Polish "girlfriend"long way short of her home. After a bloodbath in there, She had 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 Ushers expand downwards, clearing a cavernous hole in their home where a staircase is due bus driver to golet her use his. This is not the only crack There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in proceedings, however, as we soon discover while witnessing the fall of this House of Usherhigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848564163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teresa Solana and Peter Bush1405957174|title=A Shortcut to ParadiseDeath at the Party|author=Amy 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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