132,627
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchno edit summary
[[Category:Crime|*]]
[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Simon Ings|title=Dead Water|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=The standard advice to artists has always been "don't gild the lily". For those writers who appear not to understand how this relates to their art form, let me offer up a basic translation: don't complicate a brilliant plot<! Dead Water suffers from such gilding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878885</amazonuk-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thierry JonquetStuart Douglas|title=Tarantula: The Skin I Live In|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In a large French country house, an expert in facial reconstruction surgery keeps a beautiful woman locked up in her bedroom. He placates her with opium, but barks orders through hugely powerful speakers Lowe and an intercom. She tantalises him with her sexuality, which he tries to ignore, except for when he seems to abuse it in a sort of S/M way when he does let her into society, as he forces her to prostitute herself. Elsewhere, a young, inept bank robber holes himself up in a sunny house, waiting for the heat to die. And finally, a young man is held chained up in a cellar Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the hands of an unknown possessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stuart Neville|title=CollusionDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When I read the back cover blurb carefully, I discovered that most of the story is located in Ireland and not New York as IDuring location filming for his 1970'd previously thought so I was just a little disappointed before Is sitcom 'd even opened the book. IFloggit and Leggit'm usually a sucker for anything American in , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the fiction stakes. Policeman Jack Lennon (his proper name is John and there's dead body of a good piece later woman on illustrating the fact that he's officially called John Lennon)edge of a reservoir. Jack's on surveillance duty watching a couple of no-users The police seem happy to assign it as they sit an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and talk in he enlists the help of a local cafefellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Jack's in They travel across the comfort of his vehicle but stillcountry during their days off filming, he's not impressed with his latest task uncovering more possible murders and says in his own words 'Yep, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War... shit work.' 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>0099535351</amazonuk>1803368209
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Magson0008517061|title=Death on the Rive Nord: An Inspector Lucas Rocco Mysteryin a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Illegal immigrants are not a recent phenomenon. Back in 1963Former Metropolitan Police detective, in Picardy, a truck dropped a group of illegal workers close to a deserted stretch of canalJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at the dead of nightLittle Sky. Seven people left There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the truckfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and it was only when the driver investigated that he found an eighth inside the truckher daughter Diana, stabbed as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to death. It was a few days before the body surfaced move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the canal future she wants for herself and Inspector Lucas Rocco was given her daughter? For the job of investigating the death. The problems in Algeria were moment they’re enjoying life in the past but not forgotten present and Rocco would find himself involved with notorious gang leaders from putting the future on the former colony – and occasionally wondering if he has bitten off more than he can chewback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008393</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin1786482126|title=The Boys From BrazilJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A small group of powerful Nazis gather for a convivial postBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -prandial meeting, and collect identities and orders from their leader, who is sending them the site was going to different corners hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of the world in order that many innocent people may be killeda child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But Was this isn't when you might expect - it's the mid-1970sa ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It isn's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't where you might expect, for these Nazis are remnants that she is pregnant with his child as a result of Hitler's regime that fled to south America for safetythe one night they spent together some three months ago. And the deaths are being ordered for reasons you Her condition will never foretell. In that regardbe obvious before long, then, you are as well-informed as chief Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman, who hears tantalising hints not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of the plot, but cannot fathom it - nor indeed find proof it has indeed startedsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015902</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Ferris0008551324|title=The Hanging ShedDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This book is already It''The No 1 eBook bestseller'' so I was expecting a good reads unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Part of The Douglas Brodie Series, where Brodie, Neither side likes or has any respect for the central character, other. But Davie Hardie is a no-holds-barred journalist, although his past reveals that struggling in prison and he's been prepared to tell the police where the body of a soldier missing person is buried and a policemanwho was responsible for her death. Ferris elaborates further This person, he promises, is someone big and gives his readers some background on Brodieit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Brodie comes across, right from And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the start, as a resourceful, likeable remainder of his sentence and forthright man who has not been afraid to break away from his small-town roots in the west of Scotlandget an early parole date. His present job Not much to ask, is based in London but it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's obvious that Brodiet think so and she's heart's just not in it. He wants even prepared to return to Scotland, Glasgow in particular do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and try his journalistic luck there. An opportunity soon comes along - but itanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's one he was never in a million years expectinghappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893645</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis0008405026|title=Frank Merlin: Princes GateA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the early part of the Second World War there was a lull, when hostilities didnIt't really seem to get going – the sos sixteen years since nine-year-called Phoney Warold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Some Londoners, who'd left the capital in the expectation of early bombing raids, began drifting back She was never found and there were still those who thought that peace could be negotiated – that we could stay out of the fightinvestigation ground to a halt. Chief amongst those outside of the political classes who supported this view was the American AmbassadorNow, her mother, Helena, Joseph Kennedyand her father are dead in their bed. Kennedy wasInitially, perhaps fortunately it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but not unusually, out of there's something about the country when one positioning of the staff at the residence bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was murdered going to be an open-and her body fished out of -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the Thamesexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766572</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum0571379877|title=Bad IntentionsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=JonEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Reilly obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Axel had been friends for the best part of a couple of decadesStanza. Axel was the dominant one of the trio and Reilly was easily ledRobert's a theatre director. Jon He's also self- well Jon was vulnerable. Something had happened to them all at the end of the previous year and Jon had recently been in a mental hospital, but nowobsessed, at the beginning of autumndemanding, Axel handsome and Reilly were taking entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him for a weekend at Dead Water Lake. The three young men went out Edward has been in a boat love with Stanza since their university days - and Jon went over the sidehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Neither Axel nor Reilly made any attempt to help him and they didnMost men in Robert't report his disappearnace until the following moring - and even then they said s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'd gone for s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a walk in the forest and had not returneddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953584X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison BruceJo Callaghan|title=The SirenLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read and reviewed BruceWhen 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 [[The Calling by Alison Bruce|The Calling]] and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was hoping that this book would be equally goodtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The location But when there is once again Cambridge. Two young women hastily meet up after hearing a local news item. A male second body has been discovered in found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a gruesome potential serial killer and sorry state and has sent the two women into a right old flapvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Although both are now Will they be able to solve the case in steady relationships time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and Kimberly is a mum, they obviously share a shady past together. 'It was a joke between them: Kimberly gets them both into troublepotentially, Rachel gets them out.'of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849016070</amazonuk>139851120X
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1035021803|title=All YoursThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inés leads an ordinary life with It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her husband beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and daughter. So ordinary in factthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the term least. 'desperate housewife' could have Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been invented exclusively for back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let herdown badly. She is under no illusions about marriage Even though they were in business together as an institution - but is convinced antique hunters, she knows all about her husband, and all about men and how has not felt able to handle them – with a little help from her mother, whose observations on losing a be near the man are always at or pursue the front of Inés' mindprofession she loved. When Inés follows her husband on an errand one night After the split, she witnesses him having worked in a violent argument with another woman; the woman then suffers a freak accident cafe, met and dies. Inés takes charge of married James (on the ensuing trouble in her usual capable way, with rebound from the full confidence love of someone who is always in control. But in trying to protect her husbandlife, she comes up against much more than she bargained forwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190473880X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Rendell1398524085|title=The VaultHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=The unthinkable has happenedCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Chief Inspector Wexford has retiredHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's had a long career as he father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was already an Inspector when he first appeared in 1964 – perhaps not a good plan if you're looking easy assumption for longevity in your character – but I doubt that Ruth Rendell could have anticipated quite how popular Reg Wexford would prove the police to be. And make thatDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's what he is now – plain Reg Wexford – with no authority to interview people and no warrant card in his pockett stand the guilt. He and Dora The Salter children are splitting their time between Kingsmarkham and their daughternot convinced but there's coach house in London, little else they can do but the novelty of trips here get on with their lives and there soon wears a little thin and Wexford finds himself at something of a loose endwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937108</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1529900360|title=FallenThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Faith Mitchell is not having a good dayIt 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. A three-hour training seminar had stretched into fourHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a-half-hourswhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, which meant who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that not only the involvement was something that the man she late picking up her baby daughter from her mothers' she was also starving hungryloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. This mattered more than it would for most Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of us, because Faith is diabetica remote property in Bel Air. She needs He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to eatan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057949</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H R F Keating178763681X|title=The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote Mystery|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary='The Perfect Murder' was the first of HRF Keating's Inspector Ghote mysteries, first published in 1964. It has a kind of gentle charm and has some things in its favour, not least the believable Indian setting when the author had not visited the country in which he chose to set his character at a time when research would have been more difficult than it would today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141194472</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Alison Bruce|title=The CallingOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story's location is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in and around Cambridge and we get the blow-by-blow account as DC Goodhew meets the different members of KayeBelgravia. He didn's family in order t really want to build up but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a picture way of her recent comings getting both men and goingswomen to do what he wanted. KayePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's mother seems particularly upsett turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. A nice and effective touch by Bruce is that each chapter heading is simply that dayThe one thing he hadn's datet expected was for someone to turn up dead. Kaye disappeared in March 2011 so Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the reader feels a sense of police consider that person to be the clock ticking - and still no Kayeprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012040</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1529421284|title=Freedom|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=A short while ago, I read Daniel Suarez's debut novel [[Daemon by Daniel Suarez|Daemon]], which was a gripping technological thriller. It may not have been a terribly original idea, but it was well written if a little lacking in character building and it did seem to end a little abruptly. The reason for this abrupt end now becomes clear, as there is now a sequel, ''Freedom™''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381229</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLaying Out the Bones|author=Wesley Stace|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as a MurdererKate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary="Nothing It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in recent fiction prepared me for a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the power surface and forensic testing proved the polish of this subtle tale of English music in the makingbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]" "His handling of dry comic dialogue known drug user and cynical affectation is reminiscent had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of P G Wodehouse… an intelligentmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, fun so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]" Just to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the previous reviews Major Crimes Review Unit (that adorn the back cover of 'Charles Jessold…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>s cold cases to you and me) investigate.
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Dugdall1529425867|title=The Sacrificial ManLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Synchronicity? In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Is that what they call itRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, when unconnected events chime with each other in unavoidable significance? Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Maybe it is just the human need to see patterns D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and make connections where there are nonefather of Ryan, but itis not. He's still weird when it happensnot any of those things. In He's white, originated from a week that saw a storyline in trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Emmerdalereally'' echoed his thing) and 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 very personal documentary by Terry Pratchett considering the possibility of choosing the nature and time of police procedural written for laughs. his own endWell, I found myself reading you're not. The Sacrificial Mantwo men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248009</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box1529431735|title=Out Of RangeThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Will Jensen, a Wyoming Game Warden of many years standingIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, had long held which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the respect of the townsfolk of Jacksonmore surprising. Recently though he seemed to have He'd been going off exiled on the railsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Not turning up for work on time; The return has come about because he's had a couple of DUIs; letter from his ex-wife upped , saying that she's ill and left. Then one day he cooks himself 14lb of meathasn't long to live. No vegetables. And slowly eats his way through itIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, washed down with whiskey, before he goes stripped to fetch his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.44 magnum Is it a warning from the pick-up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878044</amazonuk>a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0861541774|title=The Track A Nye of SandPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Montalbano awoke one morning DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and saw the body of a horse on the beach in front of his houseformer colleague, but it's not long before it disappearsDanny Maik, leaving only has taken a track short holiday in the sandSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. How is Maik was involved in a street brawl - he to investigate this when would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he doesn't know where the horse came from? It isn't long though before equestrian champion Rachele Esterman arrives at police headquarters to report her horse missingkilled a Ghurka. It had been stabled at the home of Saverio Lo DucaInitially, one he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the richest men in Sicily – and one of his horses is missing tooman. When Montalbano finds that he and his home are under threat he wonders who Now he has upset – and could be facing the list of possibilities is disturbingly large death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and influentialwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507664</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernesto Mallo and Katherine Silver1521129886|title=Sweet MoneyThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man whose nickname is Mole (and it suits him Greg Mason's just perfectly) is released from prisonbeginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. HeIt's described as your average Joe Public, your man in a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the street so normal morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in every way that no one would look twice at him-law appears to have killed himself. And thatStuart's the point. Heconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's clever and resourceful enough struggling to blend into any crowd make ends meet and in any situationher son is not thriving. Now Lucy, he says, is convinced that heGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's served t in his time behind barsnature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, has he become a reformed man? Is he going but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to opt for a lawful way of life from now find out what happened on? You'd perhaps think so, wouldn't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738737</amazonuk>the night Gil died.
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin JardineB0CK3MYJ56|title=Grievous AngelResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read (It's the 1990s and reviewed) JardineGreg Mason's [[The Loner by Quintin Jardine|The Loner]] and found twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it an engaging work wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of fictionCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, so I was looking forward he has been asked to dipping look into my first something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what''Bob Skinner Mysterys been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing.'' I think the front cover alone may very well tempt readers with its attentionJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington -grabbing graphics which shouts out can'read met understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356934</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig1838954481|title=The Misper|author=Kate London Calling: An Inspector Carlyle Novel|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The current government had been looking Ryan Kennedy killed a little sickly in police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the polls for a while gun and pointing it seemed that Edgar Carlton – charismatic and ruthless – had only to get to at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the finish line trigger but due to be the next Prime Minister. His twin brother, Xavier, would be vagaries of the next Foreign Secretary. Then a murderer targets former members jury system he was found not guilty of both the Merrion Club – an exclusive, hedonistic group of undergraduates at Cambridge University – and this includes Edgar, Xavier murder and the current mayor manslaughter of London, Christian Holyrodthe officer. And so lives must go on. Inspector John Carlyle of For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the Metropolitan Police doesn't take that long to work out why this is happening capital and who hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is at risk – but found on her territory she''who'' is doing it is an entirely different matters drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849019665</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gene Kerrigan1448309743|title=The RageDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Bob Tidey has been round In the village of Cronchie on the block West coast of Scotland, five members of a few timeswealthy family are found murdered. He's middle-aged, has a less-than-perfect The only item missing from the home lifeis the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but on the upsidein many ways, he loves his job - especially court work and court appearances. ''Bob Tidey felt at home here.'' Hethat's going to have his hands full shortly. Enter Vincent, the other main character. Fresh out an easy conclusion given that two of an Irish prison, hethem 'discovered's strutting all over the placebody. You could say The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he's looking for trouble. Fed up with small-beer crimesdisappears, he wants DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to land a big one. A big one with big rewards and then he can put his feet up'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846552567</amazonuk>
}}
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
}}
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Ewan1787636607|title=The Good Thief's Guide to VeniceTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It'I'd never met s a female burglar before, let alone one with scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the credentials morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to model lingerie, get home. Some are lucky and I confess that I was more than a little intriguedmanage to get one of the few taxis available.' So says Charlie Howard before he realises Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the lady in question has stolen his most prized possessionoutlying villages. A talisman that he thinks is essential to his writing is The woman all regret the framed first edition of 'taxi problem'The Maltese Falcon, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' that hangs above his desk. All his mysterious visitor For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves in this spot is empty spaceher a long way short of her home. The explosive She had intended to ring someone to come and chaotic events that follow are fuelled by Charliecollect her - but her phone's determination dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to get let her use his book back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847399592</amazonuk> There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Smith1405957174|title=Mixed BloodA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I reviewed SmithFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh'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 styleparty will not end well. We meet Jack, his heavilyThe victim -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 man - is dying when we first meet him and views Nadine consciously makes no effort to die for (no pun intended here) over Table Mountaincall the ambulance he so desperately needs. Whatwe don's not to like? But this idyll t know is about to take a nasty and unexpected turn for who the worse as a couple of no-users, high on drugs, take their chance and break in man is or why Nadine prefers to the Burns' homehave him die. And all this action is seen by I'd better give you a security guard nearbylittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687586</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jussi Adler-Olsen0008530025|title=MercyMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Prologue intends to grab It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the reader's attention right from body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the first wordgarden of their West London home. I liked thatHe 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. A girlTwenty years later, or perhaps a woman (we donno one has been charged with his murder and it't know yet) is imprisoned somewhere, barely kept alive in some sort s now the subject of dark''Infamous'', airless and smelly makeshift prison a true- but why? crime show. And by whom exactly? The story opens in 2007 A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and we learn that Copenhagen detective Carl is recovering from a near-death experience in to take the line of police dutyinvestigation further. His colleagues were not so lucky. So we see a broken and rather vulnerable man trying More to claw his way back the point, they're going to a normal lifedo this live on camera, episode by episode. Guilt, revenge, anger are perhaps some There's no dump of the emotions coursing through his veinswhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. His senior colleagues are at a loss as to what to do with him - heIt's a good copper, after allcompelling viewing. The solution is that a fancy new title is invented along with a fancy new department, all for Carl. But will he cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141399961</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent0241996104|title=Devil-Devil|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=In 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 of the islands, he was mission educated and sent away and appears to belong completely Coming to neither the modern age nor the old customs. Finding his place in the world, though, will have to wait – because there's a missing anthropologist to find, a rebellious nun to protect, and a murder to solve. Oh, and a magic man has just cursed him. All in a day's work…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013403</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFind You|author=Peter James|title=Dead Man's GripJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=What starts as a normal day for Tony Revere soon ends in his death after he is knocked from his cycle Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and is thrown under a truckher step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Carly Chase does not hit him but as she swerves to avoid him We first meet Nancy outside the court, her Audi smashes into after Martin receives a café windowlife sentence. A subsequent breathalyser test shows The barrister tells her that she is still over the limit from the night before. Stuart Ferguson, the truck driver, is also 's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not responsible been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the accident but he was tired having driven for more hours than are legally permittedrest of her life. The van driver who actually hits Tony first just doesn Of course, it's made worse because Nancy't stop. It seems like a tragic accident, especially as s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the weather was terrible and Tony was cycling on papers are making the wrong side most of the roadit. Tony ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter''s mother, who has links with the Mafia, does is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not think so though and be printed but is set on revengeundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230747256</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|authortitle=Esmahan Aykol and Ruth Whitehouse A Chateau Under Siege (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=Kati Hirschel Murder Mystery: Hotel BosphorusMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kati has a lot One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to impart to her readerssee the show with some friends. She burbles on right throughout the book about It's all sorts of things which are on her mind. So we learn about her colleaguesbeen very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, friends and neighbours which all gives a nice hint the man playing one of the Turkish way of lifemain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. As a German nationalLuckily, Kati can stand back his doctor is there and take the man is whisked away in a cool look at all things Turkishhelicopter. But does she like what she sees all A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of the time? She soon tells us. Shesurvival but - as he's not slow to highlight stereotypical German traits - the lack of humoura senior government employee, the discipline etc which can be at odds with Kati now living amongst the more laidman who runs Frenchelon -back Turks. We also find out that the locals are passionate about the telephone and mobile phones military has stepped in particular. Forever glued to an ear apparently. So much so that she thinks 'Alexander Graham Bell must have had Turkish genes.' She also likes to go on One daughter lives nearby and on about the terrible parking another, who lives in Istanbul informing us that 'It takes thirty minutes to get from home to the shopCalifornia, on foot or by car. I go by car.is flying in with some of her father' I particularly liked that lines friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738680</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529196388|title=Loose-LimbedThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Captain Franck Guerin of the Brigade Criminelle Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was about good and honest and looked up to learn a lot more by just about ballet than everyone, so there was public uproar when 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 homeplain sight at the Old Bailey. A chord had been wrapped three times around her neck and then she had been strangled, but why? It seemed simple to rule out professional jealousy and she seemed to have little life outside of There's just one man in the ballet. The Opera Ballet is a tightframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight -knit and dedicated world, but it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's a world of terrorTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, because Sophie Duval is only despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the first person to diecontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251846</amazonuk>
}}
Move on to [[Newest Crime (Historical) Reviews]]
