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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan BradleyStuart Douglas|title=The Weed That Strings Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Hangman's Bag Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=BishopDuring location filming for his 1970's Laceysitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the closest village dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to Buckshaw, the de Luce family homeassign it as an accidental death, was but something about the traditional sleepy English villagewhole thing bothers Lowe, particularly in and he enlists the nineteen fifties when this story is set. The arrival help of a travelling puppet show causes some excitementfellow actor, although it has John Le Breton to be admitted that the show is there because the van broke down rather than because there was an intention to stage a performancehelp him investigate matters further. There's a need to raise money for They travel across the repair of the van so Rupert Porsoncountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, famed puppeteer from the BBCseemingly, agrees a link to put on two shows in death during the village hallSecond World War. There But is, of course, there really a grisly murder.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140911760X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Pastor0008517061|title=Liar MoonDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Near VeronaFormer Metropolitan Police detective, northern ItalyJake Johnson, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a German military policemanlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, known as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to have conducted previous murder investigations. He Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is asked to look into the death of one Vittorio Lisi, a prominent local fascist who was run over future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in his wheelchair the present and putting the future on his own estate by a carthe back burner. The number one suspect is his widow Claretta.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Damian McNicholl1786482126|title=Twisted Agendas|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Writing about Ireland and the Irish, especially the dimension of the Troubles and the IRA, from a third hand American perspective is a recipe for cliché and stereotype. Balancing and interweaving the story of American journalist Piper with that of Irishman Danny's search for independence in London does enable McNicholl in some part to achieve a wry and knowing stance, making us hope for a clever twist away from the predictably which always seems so close.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248025</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Alan Bradley|title=I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce MysteryElly Griffiths
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|genre=Crime
|summary=The finances of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the de Luce family are in a dreadful state and Flaviasite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's father makes apartments - when they discovered the decision to allow bones of a film company to make use of the family stately home, Buckshaw, as child beneath a locationdoorway. Flavia is in her element with new people to investigateThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, new processes to mull over and her friendship Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Dogger, her fatherDCI Harry Nelson. It's manservantdifficult as Ruth knows, to progress. Therebut Nelson doesn's obviously something strange going on when the star t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the film persuades the director - much against his one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will - be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to put on a benefit performance for the village. When there's a snow storm which cuts Buckshaw and many sudden bouts of the residents of the local village off from the outside world - and then a murder - you have the makings of a classic 'locked room' mysterysickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409114201</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0008551324|title=Slash And Burn|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The front cover suggests an action-packed, thriller-type read. But I hadn't bargained for the charm similar to [[:Category:Alexander McCall Smith|Alexander McCall Smith]]. So, a light read then, fair enough. And I could tell from Cotterill's one page 'Acknowledgements' that he is a witty writer. And that is certainly underlined by the chapter headings, such as 'Another Fine Mess' and 'Lipstick and Too Tight Underwear.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381970</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Gregg Olsen|title=Victim SixNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=It''Olsen will have you on s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the edge of your seat'' says Lee Childpolice. I have read Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and thoroughly enjoyed some of Childhe's books so I couldn't wait prepared to get started on this booktell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Would This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be as good and as satisfying as Child's?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331738</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harlan Coben|title=Shelter|rating=4worth the police doing what he wants.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mickey Bolitar's girlfriend Ashley has disappeared, And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the latest in a long list remainder of things his sentence and to go wrong in his lifeget an early parole date. First his father died Not much to ask, then his junkie mother went into rehab, forcing him is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to move in do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with his uncle Myron, and now shy, beautiful Ashley has vanishedhim is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620055</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0008405026|title=The Impossible DeadA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When it started it all seemed so simpleIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. A constable in CID had been She was never found guilty ofand the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, erHelena, pressing his attentions on young women who came his way and her father are dead in the course of the jobtheir bed. Just to make certain that Initially, it wasnlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't a wider problem s something about the Professional Standards Unit (or whatever it was being called this week) from another force was asked to investigate three officers who might have been overly supportive positioning of the miscreantbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Then What looked as though it was going to be an exopen-and-policeman was shot by shut case is now a weapon which couldncomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't exist and from there it all gots boss, well, rather messy and in the middle of it all was Inspector Malcolm Fox of the ComplaintsUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889532</amazonuk>
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|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Berit and Justus (mother Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and son) are waiting for John before they eat supperStanza. HeRobert's latea theatre director. Perhaps heHe's popped in also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to see an ex-colleague or nipped into the pub run errands for a quick drinkhim. But neither of these options ring true for BeritEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. John is currently unemployed which is Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a shame as relationship had begun between them but he was very good at his last job. He's also not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the most social or chatty two of men. Some would even describe him as surly and them kissing in a bit gruffdark passageway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749040092</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ian Hunt works as When a dispatcher taking 911 calls in rural Texas. One day he takes man is found crucified on the top of a call from his 14 year old daughter. That would be enough to ruin your day hill in itselfNuneaton, but DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the daughter in question was kidnapped seven years agocase alongside her sidekick, presumed deadthe AI detective Lock. They have even held a funeral for her. That It's really going to mess their first live case together, having previously been very successful with your mindseveral cold cases. What ensues But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a desperate chase potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find her once more before herself taken off the kidnapper can escape or worse. case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230755968</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Andriacco1035021803|title=No Police Like HolmesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=At 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 beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Investigating s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Conan Doyle Crockleford, is dead and Sherlock Holmes' Colloquium (in the UK it would probably be a conference) the St Benignus College in Erincircumstances seem suspicious, Ohio is due to receive a donation of say the least. Arthur was the third largest collection of Sherlockiana in reason why Freya had not been back to the world – including some rare pieces of substantial valuevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The plan is that there should Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be good publicity for near the college and that man or pursue the attendees have a good time – deerstalker hats not being compulsoryprofession she loved. But even After the best-laid plans are derailed by theft split, she worked in a cafe, met and murder. Jeff Cody is married James (on the public relations director at rebound from the college love of her life, who was murdered) and he's determined to solve the crimes before his eccentric brother in law, Professor Sebastian McCabeFreya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178092206X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1398524085|title=The Shadows in the Street|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=This is the fifth novel in Susan Hill's series about the detective Simon Serrailler. Although you could probably follow the story without knowing the previous books I think it does help to have some background on who all the characters are. I really love the way Hill weaves her story around some wonderful character studies. Simon is actually hardly in this novel, and the focus instead is on the 'extras', with a lot of details being put into characters who will only be around for this particular novel but who live and breathe through it wonderfully well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099499282</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=David Enrique Spellman|title=Far SouthNicci French|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary='Far South' is a highly unusual book. ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's published as 'crime fiction' fiftieth birthday party but this is really only part of the storynever turned up. It's also a collection of creative endeavours that combines narrative with web-based content Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. We are told that 'David Enrique Spellman all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the voice for the Far South Project. The Far South Collective is a loosely affiliated group body of artists, writersGreg's father, actorsDuncan Ackerley, filmmakers musicians and dancers. He works in close collaboration with Esko Tikanmäki Portogales, a Uruguayan web designer'the river. While I applaud its ambition in trying to add something more creative It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the novel concept, I have slightly more mixed views guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about the success of thiswhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688108</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Asa Larsson and Laurie Thompson (Translator)1529900360|title=Until Thy Wrath Be Past: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we talk about It hadn'Scandinavian crime fictiont been Lt Milo Sturgis' s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and the name 'Larsson' even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there's an awful temptation to [[The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson were only open-and Reg Keeland (translator)|jump to conclusions]] about who ''exactly'-shut cases which didn' t need the author might behelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Slow down thoughFinally, it was Robin, because thereDelaware's another Swedish crime writer with that surname and this one is very much alive and writingpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Asa Larsson is not down with She knew that the southern softies in Stockholm but up in involvement was something that the far north, not far from Norway or Finlandman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in Kiruna, where she's placed Rebecca Martinsson, who works as the swimming pool of a prosecutor, and Inspector Anna-Maria Mellaremote property in Bel Air. Those in He was the know have met them [[The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson|before]] heir to an Italian shoe empire and this she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the third book in Italian. But which of them was the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050729</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronyca Bates178763681X|title=Dead on TimeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I reviewed Bates' earlier book [[Dead in the Water by Veronyca Bates|Dead Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the Water]] and enjoyed it for what it was - a light but enjoyable crime readBelgravia. This book has the same look He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and feel about itwomen to do what he wanted. Bates has decided to base her crime within Paul ''somehow'' got the corridors of power, local power impression that is, he'd be at the council chambers. And some of usschool to assist Paul, perhaps many of uswho had a broken arm, secretly would like to know the ins but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and outs, the deals made etc by our locallyproblems -elected councillors (even although we agree that much of their work can be a tad dull and a tad tedious)are all his own. But weThe one thing he hadn'll probably shout from the rafters if they happen t expected was for someone to get their comeuppance, as happens in this bookturn up dead. Mayor Boot has received his final comeuppance. He's deadUnfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin1529421284|title=A Kiss Before DyingLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He't read any d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of Levinmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's books to date although I know various titles from television and films etct convinced. And Geary was a townie, so what struck me straight away was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the terrific introduction by Chelsea Cainsuicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Most intros can be rather dull Lockyer and pedantic but this one is refreshingly different. It starts with DC Gemma Broad of the eye-catching line 'I could kill Ira LevinMajor Crimes Review Unit (that' s cold cases to you and left me eager, very eager to get on and read the book) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015910</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Ings1529425867|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>}} {{newreview|author=Thierry Jonquet|title=Tarantula: The Skin Lost and Never Found (A D 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 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 at the hands of an unknown possessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWilkins Mystery)|author=Stuart Neville|title=CollusionSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When In Oxford, there are two D I read the back cover blurb carefullyWilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I discovered that most Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of the story Ryan, is located in Ireland and not New York as I'd previously thought so I was just a little disappointed before I'd even opened the book. IHe'm usually a sucker for anything American in the fiction stakess not any of those things. Policeman Jack Lennon (his proper name is John and thereHe's white, originated from a good piece later on illustrating the fact that hetrailer park, barely educated (reading's officially called John Lennonnot ''really'' his thing)and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. JackThey's on surveillance duty watching a couple of no-users as they sit and talk re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a local cafepolice procedural written for laughs. Jack's in the comfort of his vehicle but stillWell, heyou's re not impressed with his latest task and says in his own words . 'Yep, The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. shit work.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535351</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Magson1529431735|title=Death on the Rive Nord: An Inspector Lucas Rocco MysteryThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Illegal immigrants are not a recent phenomenonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Back in 1963, in Picardy, a truck dropped He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a group of illegal workers close to wanted drug smuggler for a deserted stretch of canal, at the dead of nightdecade. Seven people left the truckThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and it was only when the driver investigated that he found an eighth inside the truck, stabbed hasn't long to deathlive. It was 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a few days before the body surfaced watery grave in the canal and Inspector Lucas Rocco was given the job boot of investigating the deatha stolen Ford Sierra. The problems in Algeria were in the past but not forgotten and Rocco would find himself involved with notorious Is it a warning from a Spanish gang leaders from the former colony – and occasionally wondering if he has bitten off more than he can chew.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008393</amazonuk>or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin0861541774|title=The Boys From BrazilA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A small group of powerful Nazis gather for a convivial post-prandial meetingDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, and collect identities and orders from their leaderDanny Maik, who is sending them has taken a short holiday in Singapore to different corners of the world in order that many innocent people may be killedmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. But this isn't when you might expect Maik was involved in a street brawl - it's the midhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -1970sand he killed a Ghurka. It isn't where you might expectInitially, for these Nazis are remnants he faced a charge of Hitler's regime manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that fled he might have planned to south America for safetymurder the man. And Now he could be facing the deaths are being ordered for reasons you will never foretelldeath penalty. In that regard, then, you are Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as well-informed as chief Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman, who hears tantalising hints of the plot, but cannot fathom it - nor indeed find proof it has indeed startedany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015902</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Ferris1521129886|title=The Hanging ShedThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This book is already Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'The No 1 eBook bestseller'' so I was expecting a good readll warn someone about how much he charges. Part of The Douglas Brodie Series, where Brodie, the central character, is a no-holds-barred journalist, although his past reveals that heIt's been a soldier good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a policeman. Ferris elaborates further baby and gives his readers some background on Brodiethey're both delighted. Brodie comes across, right from Joyce will be more delighted about the start, as a resourceful, likeable and forthright man who has not been afraid to break away from his small-town roots in baby when she gets past the west of Scotlandmorning sickness. His present job Greg is based approached by an old friend whose brother-in London but it-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's obvious that Brodieconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's heart's just struggling to make ends meet and her son is not in itthriving. He wants to return to ScotlandLucy, he says, Glasgow is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in particular and try his journalistic luck therenature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, An opportunity soon comes along - but itStuart's one he was never in a million years expectingprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark EllisB0CK3MYJ56|title=Frank Merlin: Princes GateResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In It's the early part of 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the Second World War there was a lull, when hostilities didncity but it wasn't really seem to get going – the satisfying so-called Phoney Warhe's now set himself up as a private investigator. Some Londoners, who'd left the capital in the expectation Shades of early bombing raidsCameron Strike', began drifting back and there were still those who thought that peace could you might be negotiated – that we could stay out of the fightthinking. Chief amongst those outside of Nice bloke, but where's the political classes who supported life experience that backs up this view was profession? On the American Ambassadorother hand, Joseph Kennedyhe has been asked to look into something. Kennedy wasJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, perhaps fortunately but not unusuallyor rather, out of the country when one of the staff they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at the residence was murdered an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her body fished out parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of the Thamesa train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766572</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1838954481|title=Bad IntentionsThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jon, Reilly and Axel had been friends for the best part of Ryan Kennedy killed a couple of decadespolice officer: there's no doubt about that. Axel He was the dominant one of fifteen-year-old holding the trio gun and Reilly was easily ledpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Jon - well Jon was vulnerable. Something had happened He pulled the trigger but due to them all at the end vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the previous year murder and Jon had recently been in a mental hospital, but now, at the beginning manslaughter of autumn, Axel and Reilly were taking him for a weekend at Dead Water Lakethe officer. The three young men went out in a boat and Jon went over the side And so lives must go on. Neither Axel nor Reilly made any attempt to help him and they didn't report his disappearnace until For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the following moring - capital and even then they said that he'd gone hoping for a walk quieter life in the forest countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and had not returnedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953584X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1448309743|title=The SirenDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read and reviewed Bruce's [[The Calling by Alison Bruce|The Calling]] and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was hoping that this book would be equally goodIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The location only item missing from the home is once again Cambridge. Two young women hastily meet up after hearing a local news item. A male body has been discovered in a gruesome and sorry state and has sent the two women into a right old flapDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Although both The only suspects are now known Satanists but in steady relationships and Kimberly is a mummany ways, they obviously share a shady past together. that'It was a joke between s an easy conclusion given that two of them: Kimberly gets them both into trouble'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Rachel gets them outDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1529077699|title=All YoursThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inés leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter. So ordinary in fact, the term 'desperate housewife' could have been invented exclusively for her. She is under no illusions about marriage as an institution - but is convinced she knows It's all about her husbandbloody peculiar, and all about men and how to handle them – with a little help from her motherisn't it, whose observations on losing a man are always at the front of InésSir?'' mind. When Inés follows her husband on an errand one night, she witnesses him having a violent argument with another woman; the woman then suffers a freak accident and dies. Inés takes charge of the ensuing trouble in her usual capable way, with the full confidence of someone who is always in control. But in trying to protect her husband, she comes up against much more than she bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190473880X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1529427045|title=FallenThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Faith Mitchell is not having a good day. A three-hour training seminar had stretched into four-and-a-half-hours, which meant that not only was she late picking up her baby daughter from her mothers' she was also starving hungry. This mattered 'Life has more to offer than it would people - prime numbers for most of us, because Faith is diabetic. She needs to eatexample''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057949</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1787636607|title=The CallingTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The storyIt's location is a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and around Cambridge looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and we manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the blow-by-blow account night bus that will only go as far as DC Goodhew meets one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the different members 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of Kaye's family in order to build up the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a picture long way short of her recent comings and goingshome. Kaye's mother seems particularly upset. A nice She had intended to ring someone to come and effective touch by Bruce is that each chapter heading is simply that daycollect her - but her phone's datedead. Kaye disappeared in March 2011 so that The bus had driven off before she had the reader feels a sense of chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. clock ticking There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and still no Kayein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1405957174|title=FreedomA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A short while agoFrom the first page, I read Daniel Suarezwe know that Nadine Walsh's debut novel [[Daemon by Daniel Suarez|Daemon]], which was a gripping technological thrillerparty will not end well. It may not have been The victim - a terribly original idea, but it was well written if a little lacking in character building man - is dying when we first meet him and it did seem Nadine consciously makes no effort to end a little abruptlycall the ambulance he so desperately needs. The reason for this abrupt end now becomes clear, as there What we don't know is who the man is now or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a sequel, ''Freedom™'little more background so that you can understand what's happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381229</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wesley Stace0008530025|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary="Nothing in recent fiction prepared me for the power and the polish of this subtle tale of English music Murder in the making, a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]" "His handling of dry comic dialogue and cynical affectation is reminiscent of P G Wodehouse… an intelligent, fun and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]" Just two of the previous reviews that adorn the back cover of 'Charles Jessold…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily|author=Ruth Dugdall|title=The Sacrificial ManCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Synchronicity? Is It was in December 2003 that what they call itfifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, when unconnected events chime with each other in unavoidable significance? the garden of their West London home. Maybe it is just He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the human need to see patterns vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and make connections where there are none, but it's still weird when it happens. In a week that saw a storyline in now the subject of ''EmmerdaleInfamous'' echoed in , a very personal documentary by Terry Pratchett considering the possibility true-crime show. A group of choosing experts has been brought together to review the nature evidence and time of to take the investigation further. his own endMore to the point, I found myself reading they'The Sacrificial Man'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248009</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box|title=Out Of Range|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Will Jensenre going to do this live on camera, a Wyoming Game Warden of many years standing, had long held the respect of the townsfolk of Jacksonepisode by episode. Recently though he seemed to have been going off There's no dump of the rails. Not turning up for work on time; a couple of DUIs; his wife upped whole box set - and left. Then one day he cooks himself 14lb no shortage of meatcliffhangers. No vegetables. And slowly eats his way through it, washed down with whiskey, before he goes to fetch his .44 magnum from the pick-upIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878044</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0241996104|title=The Track of SandComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Inspector Montalbano awoke one morning Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and saw the body her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of a horse on their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the beach in front of his housecourt, but itafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's not long before it disappears, leaving only received a track in the sand. How is he to investigate this when he doesn't know where the horse came from? It isnsilent sentence' - she't long though before equestrian champion Rachele Esterman arrives at police headquarters to report her horse missing. It had s not been stabled at the home of Saverio Lo Duca, one found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the richest men in Sicily – and one rest of his horses is missing tooher life. When Montalbano finds that he Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and his home the papers are under threat he wonders who he has upset – and making the list most of possibilities it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is disturbingly large one favourite epithet and influential''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernesto Mallo and Katherine Silver1529413680|title=Sweet MoneyA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man whose nickname One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is Mole (the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and it suits him just perfectly) is released from prisonBruno's there to see the show with some friends. HeIt's described as your average Joe Publicall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, your the man in playing one of the street so normal in every way that no one would look twice at him. And that's main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the pointscript. He's clever and resourceful enough to blend into any crowd Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in any situationa helicopter. Now that A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's served his time behind barsa senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has he become a reformed man? stepped in. Is he going to opt One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a lawful way of life from now on? You'd perhaps think so, wouldn't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738737</amazonuk>pre-arranged holiday.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1529196388|title=Grievous AngelThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read (Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and reviewed) Jardinelooked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's [[The Loner by Quintin Jardine|The Loner]] just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and found it an engaging work of fiction's not too long before Knight appears in court, so I charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was looking forward to dipping into my first Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it''Bob Skinner Mysterys Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron' I think s recommendations to the front cover alone may very well tempt readers with its attention-grabbing graphics which shouts out 'read me'contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356934</amazonuk>
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