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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in the gritty yet glamorous world of Modesty Blaise <!-- at least, as gritty and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980s. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking to reproduce all the original strips in handy largeRemove -format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three stories, all of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume I've reviewed - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet Caroline]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cara HoffmanStuart Douglas|title=So Much PrettyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=HaedenDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', New York is leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a small town woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the type where nothing really happens. When 19 year old Wendy White goes missingwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the local reporterhelp of a fellow actor, Stacy FlynnJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, thinks she’s found her big breakuncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, but her investigations lead her to a wall of silence which proves highly distressing link to break throughdeath during the Second World War. Hoffman’s observations of small town life and small town personalities are compelling. No aspect But is left unexamined, from there really a link between the painful tedium deaths? And will they manage to the quite contentment experienced as part of a whole spectrum of emotions experienced by visitors and residents alike.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846059704</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Belinda Bauer0008517061|title=Finders KeepersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set in ExmoorFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, plucky has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little Jess Took is kidnapped from her father's vehicle while he is off managing uncertainty about the local hunt. Before you can say 'who took Took?' another little boy is plucked from future of his life with his parents' car. In both scenes the only evidence is vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a postlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-it note saying 'you don't love grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her' reservations about whether or him. On not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the case is DI Reynolds who is initially more concerned with how his new hair transplant is taking until future on the crimes escalate to a full scale serial abduction caseback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593066901</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Harvey1786482126|title=Good BaitThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Karen Shields runs the over-stretched Homicide and Serious Crimes Unit and it's Builders were demolishing an earlyold house in Norwich -morning call which takes her the site was going to Hampstead Heath and a seventeenhold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Moldovan boy who's dead under when they discovered the ice in the pondbones of a child beneath a doorway. Even working out who he There was is difficult and she's got no idea that she's at the edge of a web of organised crime and gang warfare which will take up much of her timeskull. Hundreds of miles away DI Trevor Cordon lives in Was this a sail loft in Newlyn and his day-to-day duties areritual killing or murder? Inevitably, wellDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, undemanding but heNelson doesn's shaken out t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of his rut when an old acquaintance dies in London and he heads off to the capital to find the friend's daughterone night they spent together some three months ago. It's going Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to be a lot more complicated than he realises - and it touches on Karen Shield's problems in a way that neither sudden bouts of them could ever have imaginedsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021628</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian McKinty0008551324|title=The Cold Cold Ground|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=''The Cold Cold Ground'' is the first of a planned trilogy of police procedural novels featuring Sean Duffy. Set in 1980s Northern Ireland it's a little reminiscent of the TV show ''Life on Mars'', full of reminders of the music and events of the period that evokes nostalgia in those who lived through it. In all good police procedural novels, the hero has to have a 'thing' that sets him apart. With Duffy it is that he is a Catholic in a predominantly Protestant police force. What this means is that no one trusts him on either side of the religious divide. And as this is set during the worst of the 'troubles' with hunger strikes and rioting on the streets, not to mention car bombs and other acts of violence, this is a big issue for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688221</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Andrea Camilleri|title=The Terracotta DogNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Montalbano was somewhat surprised It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to find himself having a heart-to-heart conversation with one of approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the most feared Mafioso other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Sicily - prison and even more surprised when Tano the Greek indicated that he'd like s prepared to be caught tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and arrestedwho was responsible for her death. He wasn't giving himself upThis person, you note - he wanted promises, is someone big and it to look as though will be worth the police doing what had happened was outside his controlhe wants. Meanwhile, And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the rest remainder of the team were dealing with a supermarket heist - the proceeds of which were inexplicably abandoned at a filling stationhis sentence and to get an early parole date. To cap Not much to ask, is it all, Montalbano discovers a secret grotto in a mountain cave, with two young lovers, dead some fifty years but still embracing - all watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. ? ItThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's not a normal day for even prepared to do the detective other thing that Hardie demanded - but then make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what is normal for him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330492918</amazonuk>'s happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton0008405026|title=V is for VengeanceA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=AhIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, what bliss! her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. To have Initially, it looks like a lovely fat copy straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the latest in the Alphabet murder series sitting on my lapbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. This latest is reassuringly weighty, although I still managed What looked as though it was going to read it be an open- or devour it as my husband would have it and- in shut case is now a very short time! complex double murder. I love Kerrigan is convinced that the experience of reading these stories, finding myself caught up explanation lies in KinseyRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's world, unwilling to put the book down until I, along with Kinseyboss, have figured out what has been going onUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745873</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley0571379877|title=The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=BishopEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's Laceyalso self-obsessed, the closest village demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to Buckshaw, the de Luce family home, was the traditional sleepy English village, particularly in the nineteen fifties when this story is setrun errands for him. The arrival of a travelling puppet show causes some excitement, although it Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be admitted that the show is there because the van broke down rather than because there was an intention to stage a performanceRobert. ThereMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a need relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to raise money for stumble upon the repair two of the van so Rupert Porson, famed puppeteer from the BBC, agrees to put on two shows them kissing in the village hall. There is, of course, a grisly murderdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911760X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben PastorJo Callaghan|title=Liar MoonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The finances of the de Luce family are in When a dreadful state and Flavia's father makes man is found crucified on the decision to allow a film company to make use top of the family stately home, Buckshaw, as a location. Flavia is hill in her element with new people to investigateNuneaton, new processes DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to mull over and the case alongside her friendship with Doggersidekick, her fatherthe AI detective Lock. It's manservanttheir first live case together, to progresshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. There's obviously something strange going on But when the star of the film persuades the director - much against his will - to put on there is a second body found crucified a benefit performance for the village. When there's few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a snow storm which cuts Buckshaw potential serial killer and many 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 residents of the local village case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off from the outside world - case and then a murder - you have the makings , potentially, out of a classic 'locked room' mystery.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409114201</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1035021803|title=Slash And Burn|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The front cover suggests an action-packed, thriller-type read. But I hadnAntique Hunter't bargained for the charm similar s Guide 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>}} {{newreviewMurder|author=Gregg Olsen|title=Victim SixC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Olsen will have you on the edge s back now because of your seat'' says Lee Childa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. I have read Freya's former mentor and thoroughly enjoyed some of ChildCarole's books so I couldn't wait close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to get started on this bookthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Would it Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be as good near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and as satisfying as Child's?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331738</amazonuk>James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harlan Coben1398524085|title=Shelter|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mickey Bolitar's girlfriend Ashley has disappeared, the latest in a long list of things to go wrong in his life. First his father died, then his junkie mother went into rehab, forcing him to move in with his uncle Myron, and now shy, beautiful Ashley has vanished.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620055</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ian Rankin|title=The Impossible DeadNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When it started it Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all seemed so simpleworried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. A constable in CID had been found guilty Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body ofGreg's father, erDuncan Ackerley, pressing his attentions on young women who came his way in the course of the jobriver. Just It was an easy assumption for the police to make certain that it wasnDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't a wider problem 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 of stand the miscreantguilt. Then an ex-policeman was shot by a weapon which couldnThe Salter children are not convinced but there't exist s little else they can do but get on with their lives and from there it all got, well, rather messy and in the middle of it all was Inspector Malcolm Fox of the Complaintswonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889532</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529900360|title=Killed at the Whim of a HatThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jimm Juree It 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 a crime reporter, just a heartbeat away from getting the job of her dreams when family circumstances forced her reluctant to quit her job ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and move to a fishing village on -shut cases which didn't need the Gulf help of Siama psychologist only worked for a while. Forget all about Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the up-market resorts like Phuket where involvement was something that the money goesman she loved needed. It never gets anywhere near MapraoThe next case did look simple, though. Mair, her daughter Jimm and son Arny along with Granddad Jah have to try and grub Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a living out of the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurantremote property in Bel Air. Jimm's sister, who used He was the heir to be her brother, has chosen an Italian shoe empire and she is married to stay in the city, where she lives her life online an extremely rich man and it's not always on the right side Italian. But which of them was the law.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849165548</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kjell Eriksson178763681X|title=The Hand That TremblesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I read and reviewed recently ErikssonChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's [[The Princess t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson|The Princess of Burundi]] getting both men and was rather disappointedwomen to do what he wanted. How will this book shape up? Sven-Arne Persson is an astute politician. He knows when to press Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the flesh for best effect and also when school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn on out that way. The teaching - and the smiles problems - even if those smiles donare all his own. The one thing he hadn't quite reach his eyesexpected was for someone to turn up dead. In shortUnfortunately, he is a career politician. Calculated. And there's a great line on page 21 which sums him up beautifully - 'He was a Dr Jekyll the person who discovered the body and Mr Hyde of county politics ..everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074904019X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kjell Eriksson1529421284|title=The Princess of BurundiLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Berit It 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 Justus (mother and son) are waiting for John before they eat supperforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's lated been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Perhaps Geary was a townie, so what was he's popped in doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to see an ex-colleague or nipped into the pub for a quick drink. But neither suicide of these options ring true for Berit. John is currently unemployed Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which is a shame as he was very good were not considered suspicious at his last jobthe time. HeLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's also not the most social or chatty of men. Some would even describe him as surly cold cases to you and a bit gruffme) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749040092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1529425867|title=Watson's Choice|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Sir Bohun Lost and Never Found (that's pronounced 'Boon', in case you're wonderingA D I Wilkins Mystery) Chantrey is not the brightest or most sensitive of men, but Sherlock Holmes is one of his great passions in life. To celebrate the great man's anniversary he throws a party at which the guests are invited to come as characters from the stories. Our heroine, Mrs Bradley, and her secretary Laura Menzies are among the guests but not everyone there is interested in Sherlock Holmes. Quite a few are interested in Chantrey's money and his announcement that he is to marry his poverty-stricken nursery governess provokes anger in certain quarters. Then the Hound of the Baskervilles makes an unscheduled appearance...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548593</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gianrico Carofiglio|title=Temporary PerfectionsSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is the fourth book in the popular Guido Guerrieri seriesof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The front cover is eye-catchingD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, as is the titlenot. As early as pHe's not any of those things.9 I could see that Carofiglio has He's white, originated from a nice line in wit trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and ironytrackies. Ergo - They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'When you appear before the Court of Cassationre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you feel you're in an orderly world, part not. The two men are just different sides of a justice system that works ..the same policing coin. Sometimes the world is not orderly and justice is not servedcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738729</amazonuk>s problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shuichi Yoshida1529431735|title=VillainThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=WellIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, I suppose Iwhich made Bruce Hopkins'd better begin with return all the bad which was there were moments at the start of this novel when I thought I couldnmore surprising. He't possibly read it right to d been exiled on the endCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's written in such had a stiltedletter from his ex-wife, factual style with details about the road networks of the local area saying that she's ill and exactly how much anyone pays for anything they eat or buy or rent! hasn't long to live. Faced, for example, with the paragraph It''cars setting out from Nagasaki that take the pass road s hard to save money take the Nagasaki Expressway from Nagasaki to Omurafeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, then stripped to Higashi-Sonogi his underwear and Takeo, and get off at sent to a watery grave in the Saga Yamato interchangeboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Intersecting this east-west Nagasaki Expressway at the interchange is Route 263'' I thought I'd never manage Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to read more than a couple of lines before falling asleep! Still, I persisted and actually, I'm glad I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526654</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn0861541774|title=The DispatcherA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ian Hunt works as DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a dispatcher taking 911 calls short holiday in rural TexasSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. One day Maik was involved in a street brawl - he takes would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a call from his 14 year old daughterGhurka. That would be enough to ruin your day in itself Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the daughter in question was kidnapped seven years ago, presumed deadman. They have even held a funeral for her Now he could be facing the death penalty. That's really going Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to mess with your mind. What ensues is help as any interference from another police force could provoke a desperate chase to find her once more before the kidnapper can escape or worsediplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230755968</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Andriacco1521129886|title=No Police Like HolmesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=At Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle ll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and Sherlock Holmesthey' Colloquium (in re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the UK it would probably be a conference) baby when she gets past the St Benignus College morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in Erin-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Ohio Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is due to receive a donation of the third largest collection of Sherlockiana in the world – including some rare pieces of substantial valuenot thriving. The plan Lucy, he says, is convinced that there should be good publicity for the college and that the attendees Gil would never have a good time – deerstalker hats not being compulsorykilled himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. But even the best-laid plans are derailed by theft The police and murder. Jeff Cody is the public relations director at coroner have accepted that the college and hedeath was suicide, but Stuart's determined prepared to pay Greg to solve find out what happened on the crimes before his eccentric brother in law, Professor Sebastian McCabenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178092206X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Shadows in the StreetResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's the fifth novel in Susan Hill1990s and Greg Mason's series about the detective Simon Serraillertwenty-eight years old. Although you could probably follow the story without knowing the previous books I think it does help He used to have some background on who all a high-flying job in the characters arecity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? I really love On the way Hill weaves her story around some wonderful character studiesother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Simon is actually hardly Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in this novelwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and the focus instead is on the Pam Hetherington - can'extrast understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg', 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 wells been asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099499282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Enrique Spellman1838954481|title=Far SouthThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary='Far South' is Ryan Kennedy killed a highly unusual book. Itpolice officer: there's published as 'crime fiction' no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but this is really only part due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the storyofficer. It's also a collection of creative endeavours that combines narrative with web-based content And so lives must go on. We are told For DI Sarah Collins that 'David Enrique Spellman is means leaving the voice capital and hoping for a quieter life in the Far South Project. The Far South Collective countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a loosely affiliated group of artists, writers, actors, filmmakers musicians wider investigation - and dancers. He works in close collaboration with Esko Tikanmäki Portogales, a Uruguayan web designer'. While I applaud its ambition in trying to add something more creative to the novel concept, I have slightly more mixed views about back into the success orbit of thisRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688108</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|authortitle=Asa Larsson and Laurie Thompson The Devil Stone (TranslatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=Until Thy Wrath Be Past: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we talk about 'Scandinavian crime fiction' and In the name 'Larsson' there's an awful temptation to [[The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|jump to conclusions]] about who ''exactly'' village of Cronchie on the author might be. Slow down thoughWest coast of Scotland, because there's another Swedish crime writer with that surname and this one is very much alive and writingfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Asa Larsson The only item missing from the home is not down with the southern softies in Stockholm but up in Devil Stone: myth says that if the far north, not far stone is removed from Norway or FinlandOtterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in Kirunamany ways, where shethat's placed Rebecca Martinsson, who works as a prosecutor, and Inspector Anna-Maria Mellaan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. Those in the know have met them [[ The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson|before]] and this Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is the third book pulled in the seriesto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050729</amazonuk>
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{{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?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin1529427045|title=A Kiss Before DyingThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I haven't read any of Levin's books Life has more to date although I know various titles from television and films etc. And what struck me straight away was the terrific introduction by Chelsea Cain. Most intros can be rather dull and pedantic but this one is refreshingly different. It starts with the eyeoffer than people -catching line prime numbers for example'I could kill Ira Levin' and left me eager, very eager to get on and read the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015910</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thierry Jonquet1787636607|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 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>}} {{newreviewTrap|author=Stuart Neville|title=CollusionCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When I read It's a scene replicated all too often in the back cover blurb carefully, I discovered that most early hours of the story is located in Ireland morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and not New York as I'd previously thought so I was just looking for a little disappointed before I'd even opened the bookway to get home. I'm usually a sucker for anything American in Some are lucky and manage to get one of the fiction stakesfew taxis available. Policeman Jack Lennon (his proper name is John and there's a good piece later on illustrating Others squash onto the fact night bus that he's officially called John Lennon)will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. JackThe woman all regret the 's on surveillance duty watching a couple of no-users as they sit and talk in a local cafe. Jacktaxi problem's , particularly in the comfort light of his vehicle but still, he's not impressed with his latest task and says in his own words the missing women'. 'YepFor one young woman, ... shit work.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adrian Magson|title=Death the final stop on the Rive Nord: An Inspector Lucas Rocco Mystery|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Illegal immigrants are not bus leaves her a recent phenomenonlong way short of her home. Back in 1963, in Picardy, a truck dropped a group of illegal workers close She had intended to ring someone to a deserted stretch of canal, at the come and collect her - but her phone's dead of night. Seven people left The bus had driven off before she had the truck, and it was only when chance to beg the bus driver investigated that he found an eighth inside the truck, stabbed to deathlet her use his. It was a few days before the body surfaced in the canal There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and Inspector Lucas Rocco was given the job of investigating the death. The problems in Algeria were in the past but not forgotten and Rocco would find himself involved with notorious gang leaders from the former colony – and occasionally wondering if he has bitten off more than he can chewhigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008393</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin1405957174|title=The Boys From BrazilA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A small group of powerful Nazis gather for From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a convivial postman -prandial meeting, is dying when we first meet him and collect identities and orders from their leader, who is sending them Nadine consciously makes no effort to different corners of call the world in order that many innocent people may be killedambulance he so desperately needs. But this isnWhat we don't when you might expect - it's know is who the mid-1970sman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. It isnI't where d better give you a little more background so that you might expect, for these Nazis are remnants of Hitlercan understand what's regime that fled to south America for safety. And the deaths are being ordered for reasons you will never foretell. In that regard, then, you are 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 startedhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015902</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Ferris0008530025|title=The Hanging ShedMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This book is already ''The No 1 eBook bestseller'' so I It was expecting a good read. Part in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of The Douglas Brodie Seriesher stepfather, where BrodieLuke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the central character, is a no-holds-barred journalist, although back of his past reveals that head which could have happened if he's been a soldier and a policeman. Ferris elaborates further and gives d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his readers some background on Brodieface had taken was obviously deliberate. Brodie comes acrossTwenty years later, right from the start, as a resourceful, likeable and forthright man who no one has not been afraid to break away from charged with his small-town roots in murder and it's now the west subject of Scotland. His present job is based in London but it's obvious that Brodie's heartInfamous''s just not in it, a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. He wants More to return the point, they're going to Scotlanddo this live on camera, Glasgow in particular episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and try his journalistic luck thereno shortage of cliffhangers. An opportunity soon comes along - but itIt's one he was never in a million years expectingcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis0241996104|title=Frank Merlin: Princes GateComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=In the early part of the Second World War there was a lull, when hostilities didnNancy't really seem to get going – the sos mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-called Phoney War. Some Londonersbrother, who'd left the capital in the expectation of early bombing raidsMartin, began drifting back and there were still those who thought that peace could be negotiated – that we could stay out has been convicted of the fighttheir murder. Chief amongst those We first meet Nancy outside of the political classes who supported this view was the American Ambassadorcourt, Joseph Kennedyafter Martin receives a life sentence. Kennedy was, perhaps fortunately but The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not unusually, out been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the country when one rest of the staff at the residence was murdered and her body fished out of the Thameslife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karin Fossum|title=Bad Intentions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Jon Of course, Reilly it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and Axel had been friends for the best part papers are making the most of a couple of decadesit. Axel was the dominant ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one of the trio favourite epithet and Reilly was easily led. Jon - 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 now, at the beginning of autumn, Axel and Reilly were taking him for a weekend at Dead Water Lake. The three young men went out in a boat and Jon went over the side. Neither Axel nor Reilly made any attempt to help him and they didn't report his disappearnace until the following moring - and even then they said that he'd gone for a walk in the forest and had rich bitch'' might not returnedbe printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953584X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1529413680|title=The SirenA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read 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 reviewed BruceBruno's [[The Calling by Alison Bruce|The Calling]] and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was hoping that this book would be equally goodthere to see the show with some friends. The location It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is once again Cambridgeseriously injured when he departs from the script. Two young women hastily meet up after hearing Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a local news itemhelicopter. A male body local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has been discovered stepped in a gruesome and sorry state and has sent the two women into a right old flap. Although both are now One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in steady relationships and Kimberly California, is a mum, they obviously share a shady past together. flying in with some of her father'It was s friends for a joke between them: Kimberly gets them both into trouble, Rachel gets them outpre-arranged holiday.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1529196388|title=All YoursThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|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 Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for her. She is under no illusions about marriage as an institution - but is convinced she knows all about her husband, that was good and all about men honest and how looked up to handle them – with a little help from her motherby just about everyone, whose observations on losing a man are always so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the front of InésOld Bailey. There' mind. When Inés follows her husband on an errand s just one night, she witnesses him having a violent argument with another woman; man in the woman then suffers a freak accident frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and dies. Inés takes charge of the ensuing trouble it's not too long before Knight appears in her usual capable waycourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the full confidence best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of someone Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who is always in controleventually represent him. But in trying Knight's determined to protect her husbandplead not guilty, she comes up against much more than she bargained fordespite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190473880X</amazonuk>
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