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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annie HauxwellStuart Douglas|title=In Her BloodLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Catherine Berlin is known to everyone simply as During location filming for his 1970'Berlins sitcom '. SheFloggit and Leggit's in her mid fifties, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a civilian investigator with woman on the Financial Services Agency - and she's been edge of a heroin addict for more than twenty yearsreservoir. It's largely controlled by her GP - one The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of the few understanding ones left - who prescribes pharmaceutical-grade heroin on her weekly visit a fellow actor, John Le Breton to his surgeryhelp him investigate matters further. He's taught her They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to manage her addictiondeath during the Second World War. Then two problems come together. On a pre-arranged meet with an informant who has information about But is there really a loan shark she finds the woman's body floating in Limehouse Basin - with link between the head nearly severed from the body. deaths? And when she visits her GP's surgery she finds another body. Then it's not just her job that's at risk.will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434021806</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce0008517061|title=The SilenceDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It seemed to begin when Joey McCarthy was stabbed to death in a pub car parkFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He'd arrived There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his posh (if not quite new) car off-grid and lost his relaxing life to move in a random attack of violence. Charlotte Stone's mother died with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not long afterwards. There wasn't really anything suspicious about this (although is the future she wants for herself and her children thought that their father hadn't really done enough to help) and soon after two teenage friends committed suicide. daughter? Then DC Gary Goodhew found For the moment they’re enjoying life in the body of another suicide victim present and it brought to mind another investigation which had a profound effect putting the future on him - and a connection was made between him and Charlotte Stonethe back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1786482126|title=The CallerJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lily's baby daughter was asleep Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the garden when her husband came home and it site was so peaceful that they allowed her going to sleep on a little longer, but hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they went to bring her in she was covered in blooddiscovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. It seemed to be coming from her mouth - but when they got her to hospital there There was no injury and it was apparently a practical jokeskull. But that evening Was this a message was left on Inspector Konrad Sejer's ritual killing or murder? mat: 'Hell begins now'Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It was the first in 's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a series result of such incidentsthe one night they spent together some three months ago. They weren't planned Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cause physical harm but they left the victims shaken, feeling harassed and worriedsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Sakey0008551324|title=The Two Deaths of Daniel HayesDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man struggles onto a deserted beach in Maine, United States, after almost drowning but, far It's unusual for anyone from feeling relieved, he realises that something the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has been left behind – his memoryany respect for the other. He finds an unlocked prestige car, a set But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of dry clothes that fit, some money, a gun missing person is buried and an urge to leavewho was responsible for her death. (I know - if it had been a British beachThis person, he promises, I'd have given it 5 minutes before is someone big and it was empty and will be worth the wheels were off! Sorry... I digress..police doing what he wants.) So, driving And what he wants is to be transferred to a local motel, he tries an open prison to find some glimmer serve the remainder of a past or his sentence and to get an identityearly parole date. The car belongs Not much to a Daniel Hayesask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so thatand she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what he'll call himself for now. Then, by coincidence, it becomes more than that; it's becomes the name that the armed police yell as they surround his room. Can a man discover his past whilst outrunning his present? Someone is about to find outhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie0008405026|title=Hard-HeartedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was difficult never found and the investigation ground to think that anything was other than odda halt. A beautiful woman was savagely attacked in one of Paris' most elegant neighbourhoodsNow, but all she took with her as she ran from the house was an old book - mother, Helena, and a shawlher father are dead in their bed. Even stranger was Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that she was a Sorbonne professor makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and she was dating a hedge fund managerher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Then there What looked as though it was the influential Bank which did its best going to persuade Captain Franck Guerin to carry out a couple of arrests be an open-and- not necessarily because it would aid the shut case he was working on, but because it would help themis now a complex double murder. Throw in a billionaire who sleeps in Kerrigan is convinced that the poorest hotels rather than at the beautiful home which he half owns and a serial seductress with an unusual line explanation lies in honesty and you can see why Guerin is finding life a little confusingRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Rendell0571379877|title=The Saint Zita SocietyKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hexam Place in Pimlico Edward Jevons is an exclusive street of whitea working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-painted stucco Georgian houses lived in by the rich class friends, Robert and by those who serve them, who are far from richStanza. The help are Robert's a motley assortment of driverstheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, au pairsdemanding, cleaners handsome and entitled and gardeners who decide uses Edward to form the St Zita Society - Zita being the patron saint of domestic servants - but its purpose is occasionally hard to determinerun errands for him. There are minor problems they want to tackle, such as dog excrement being bagged and left Edward has been in the street love with Stanza since their university days - and situations where they have little hope of having any impact, such as none of the servants being invited he's drunkenly confided how he feels to a particular social occasionRobert. Perhaps the main purpose Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to give an excuse for meeting stumble upon the two of them kissing in the puba dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194404X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karin SlaughterJo Callaghan|title=CriminalLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The apartment in Atlanta was particularly sordid but made horrifying by When a man is found crucified on the brutally-murdered body top of a womanhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Special agent Will Trent is ''almost'' involved in the investigation but his boss Amanda Wagner seems determined to keep him at armIt's lengththeir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The murder brings back memories for Wagner But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of a murder in the city more than thirty five years ago - before unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will was born - but Trent receives some disturbing news which has him going back they be able to solve the children's home where he grew up. How does it all fit togethercase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846057965</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikita Lalwani1035021803|title=The VillageAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=A BBC film crew is sent It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to India to make the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a documentary about an Indian prison with a differencerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. There are no wallsFreya's former mentor and Carole's 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 the prisoners hold village: Arthur, she feels, let her down jobs and their families live with them as a condition of acceptancebadly. In factEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to all intents and purposes, it seems like an ordinary village which is all the more unusual when you consider that they all share be near the same crime category; all man or pursue the prisoners have been convicted of murderprofession she loved. The programme makers (20-something British-bornAfter the split, Indian director Rayshe worked in a cafe, ruthless producer Serena met and ex-convict-turned-presentermarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, Nathanwho was murdered) are expecting an eventful shoot and, in return, the inhabitants are expecting a film unit exhibiting the standards for which the BBC has become world famousFreya and James have now divorced. Both parties will be sorely disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cherie Priest1398524085|title=Eden Moore - Wings to the KingdomHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dead soldiers from the American Civil War have been seen wandering around the Chickamauga National Park in Georgia, site of a notable Confederate victory in 1863Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. They don't speakHer children, sons Niall, just point forlornly as locals turn Paul and flee in the opposite directionOllie and her daughter, Etty. Eden Moore would rather ignore it completelyare all worried but - strangely - her husband, especially as show business psychics Tripp and Diana Marshall have already started investigatingAlec, complete with camera crew and full entourageis not. HoweverShortly afterwards, eventually her curiosity (Etty and her friendsGreg, find the body of Greg' unstinting nagging) gets s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to her make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and she agrees to trespass after dark, quickly discovering that then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the gesticulating dead guilt. The Salter children are a minor problem compared to the reason not convinced but there's little else they've awokencan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687735</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Holt1529900360|title=The Blind GoddessGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here is a rum do 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 reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- a Nordic crime, and -shut cases which didn't need the launch episode help of a currently successful series, that has sat untranslated psychologist only worked for almost twenty years? a while. WhatFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's morepartner, when you start reading you may think who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the main character man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the author would choose to use as her principal heroine swimming pool of a remote property in future books should not be Hanne Wilhemsen, Bel Air. He was the too-good-heir to-be-true lipstick lesbian policewoman, but commercial lawyer Karen Borg, who an Italian shoe empire and she is thrust into a world of criminal proceedings when a married to an extremely rich man who has clearly murdered another demands her and only her as it's not the outlet of his truthItalian. Is this a wise move from him - and just what is the game afoot, and who are But which of them was the other main playersprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897055</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Asa Larsson and Marlaine Delargy (translator)178763681X|title=The Black Path: A Rebeka Martinsson InvestigationKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the far north of Sweden the frozen body of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a woman was found residential cookery school in fishing hut out on the lakeBelgravia. She’d been tortured He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the injury which killed her was clumsyimpression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, even amateurbut it didn't turn out that way. Identification isn’t easy but it’s faily quick The teaching - and Annathe problems -Maria Mella and her colleagues hoped are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for a speedy end someone to the caseturn up dead. Then it all turned complicated when Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body of a six-month-old suicide had to be exhumed and Mella and Rebecka Martinsson were drawn further and further into everyone knows that the investigation of corruption at one the country’s major mining companies. And as if police consider that wasn’t bad enough, person to be the mining company had enemies of its won - ones who would stop at nothingprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050311</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Brooks1529421284|title=Until Laying Out the Darkness ComesBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime |summary=Private detective John Craine has returned It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to Hale Island, the scene of many childhood holidays, surface and forensic testing proved the body to get away from a painful pastbe Lee Geary, his guilt, and his losswho had disappeared nine years earlier. And there He's another reason - the possibility that he has d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a half-sister hesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's never mett convinced. But within hours of arriving Geary was a townie, John discovers so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the body suicide of a dead girl concealed in a pill box on Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the beachtime. He calls 999 but when the police arrive the body has disappeared Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the officers clearly see him as a drunken fool prone Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to hysterical imaginingsyou and me) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553821</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Silva1529425867|title=Portrait of a SpyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gabriel Allon and his wifeIn Oxford, Chiara, decide to rent a nice little Cornish cottage; the perfect hideaway in which to renovate artthere are two D I Wilkins. A rosy domestic picture thatRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, as any spy thriller aficionado will tell you isn't going to last longBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. It lastsD I Ryan Wilkins, in factson of Ryan and father of Ryan, as long as it takes some middle-eastern terrorists to bomb Paris and Copenhagen and then move on to Londonis not. He's Covent Gardennot any of those things. Gabriel and Chiara are thereHe's white, about to have lunchoriginated from a trailer park, but Gabriel is unable to concentrate on the menu barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and just let things happentrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Mr and Mrs Allon end up You might wonder if you're being dragged back into the day job as they and their multi-national colleagues brandish a spectrum of experience and talent in order introduced to take on a rogue Yemeni cleric whopolice procedural written for laughs. Well, embarrassingly enough, had been supported by you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the Americanscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000743331X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonin Varenne and Sian Reynolds (translator)1529431735|title=Bed of NailsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When youIt're a policeman in Paris s February 1991 and your involvement in office politics takes a turn for the worseEssex is bitingly cold, you could end up in charge of suicides. That would make it your job to cope with which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the jumpers, the pill-takers, the apparent suicide with two types of bullet through his head - even the naked men running into the flow of traffic around the ring-roadmore surprising. You might not get He'd been exiled on the case of the American junkie who dies performing Costa del Sol as a pierced-man act in wanted drug smuggler for a seedy clubdecade. NoThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, looking into saying that is that manshe's ill and hasn't long to live. It's closest friendhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, John, fresh from living stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the French wilds as an outdoorsmanboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. But in Is it a warning from a Paris where cause of death can be so bizarre, Spanish gang or a reason for death can have very far-reaching consequences...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050370</amazonuk>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barry Fantoni0861541774|title=Harry Lipkin, Private Eye: The Oldest Detective in the WorldA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Harry Lipkin may not be the fittest private investigator DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in Florida once you take into account his indigestion a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and his arthritishe killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but at 87 evidence came to light that suggested that he's definitely might have planned to murder the oldestman. Despite this Now he still manages to make a steady living, picking up the little jobs that don't interest could be facing the police and Norma Weinberger's problem comes into that categorydeath penalty. Small but expensive knick-knacks seem Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be going missing help as any interference from around the house so another police force could it be provoke a light-fingered member of staff? The suspects (the gardener, the butler, the maid diplomatic incident and the chauffer) each have their own story and motive, leaving Harry to get the four down to a short list of one. A task thatwouldn's perhaps a little harder than it soundst help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972272</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Miller1521129886|title=The Gilded EdgeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=London: 1965 These were Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the dark days, baby when she gets past the Krays had yet morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be brought have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to justice make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the underworld in London death was based suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on protection rackets and armed robberies. These were the days when a politician getting caught with a call girl was a national scandal and generated genuine fear and outrage rather than a few front page headlines soon forgotten. The headlines generated then are still quoted nownight Gil died. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael RidpathB0CK3MYJ56|title=Meltwater Responsibilities (Fire and IceGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A group of internet activists decided to base themselves in Iceland whilst they prepared their latest exposé. This time it was a video of a purported Israeli attrocity which needed verifying It's the 1990s and preparing for publicationGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. All would He used to have been well a high- or as well as such things ever are - if one of flying job in the group hadncity but it wasn't been murdered on a visit to satisfying so he's now set himself up as a volcanoprivate investigator. It was a volcano which caused the second problem - not the erruption 'Shades of the smallCameron Strike', pretty one which the group had visited with fatal consequencesyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the biglife experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, ugly one which no one could pronounce he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and which disrupted air traffic all over Europe Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in the spring of 2010what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Yes. That one. Eyjafjallajokull meant that travel too Joyce - and from Iceland was exceedingly difficult ''her parents, Oliver andPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg' it disrupted the investigation of the murders been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Dean1838954481|title=The Wrong ManMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ex-marine James Bishop worked for an elite protection companyRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. The idea behind his last mission He was to protect multithe fifteen-year-millionaire Randall Brennan old holding the gun and his daughter Natalie pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but, instead, due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found himself framed for not guilty of both the murderand the manslaughter of the officer. Who? And so lives must go on. Why? These why may be questions For DI Sarah Collins that need answering means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but that's not going to happen whilst he's serving when a life sentence. However, where Bishop missing teenager is concerned, thatfound on her territory she's only drawn into a minor blip compared to wider investigation - and back into the task aheadorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755382692</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Crow1448309743|title=My Dearest JonahThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jonah and Verity start to write to each other as part In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a pen-pal schemewealthy family are found murdered. They may The only meet on paper but, as they reveal themselves and their pasts through their letters, they become item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the only constant in each of their existencesstone is removed from Otterburn House, and what existencesdeath will follow. Jonah has a troubled past (to put it mildly) including a stint The only suspects are known Satanists but in prison and a father serving a life sentence. Verity is the product many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of working class parents with aspirations which she has failed or refused to meet, splitting her working life between the local coffee shop and them 'discovered' the local strip jointbody. Their futures begin to appear a lot brighter than their pasts The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but then clouds gather when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to prove that appearances can be deceptive'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248254</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1529077699|title=Funeral Note: A Bob Skinner MysteryThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man''It's body was exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh the initial reaction was that all bloody peculiar, isn't it was murder - I mean, why else would you dispose of Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the body local pub one evening in that way? But the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and thenturned up, why would you bury it with obvious care naked and tell dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the police where it's buried? village of Greystone, in Devon. When Rosco had the postmortem showed that status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the man had died from natural causes it seemed that it was case closed world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all- round good egg' but Chief Constable Bob Skinner didnas we't always think in straight lines. He had ll find out, he could be more pressing problems to deal than a little bit close with thoughmoney and his background isn't exactly an open book. It seemed obvious that an Inspector on his force was corrupt and on Where did he get the personal front it looked as though money for his marriage was heading for first boat? How did he finance the rocks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356969</amazonuk>trip?
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{{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''.
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Noble1787636607|title=Tears of a PhoenixThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was almost inevitable 's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that Jed Johnson would follow his brothers into crimewill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The slippery slope from care to young offenderswoman all regret the ' institute to an eventual life sentence was almost predictable despite his mothertaxi problem's attempts to raise him for responsibility. However, once serving particularly in the light of 'the life sentence, Jed has time to think and, aided by Elisabeth, a prison service psychologist, he assesses his past and decides how hemissing women'd like his future to look. Decision doesn't guarantee fulfilment though For one young woman, and Jed has the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to go ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before he knows how she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his story will end. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846949882</amazonuk> There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Webster1405957174|title=A Death in Valenciaat the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chief Inspector Max Camara of From the Cuerpo Nacional de Policia has rather a lot on his plate. A renowned local paella chef and restaurant owner went missing and then his body turned up in the sea. Itfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's the eve of the Pope's visit to Valencia and there are threats against a local abortion clinicparty will not end well. The mayor victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the town hall are set on demolishing El Cabanyal, the colourful fishermanambulance he so desperately needs. What we don's quarter on t know is who the seafront, man is or why Nadine prefers to make way for modern development. To cap it all some ominous cracks have suddenly appeared in the walls of his flathim die. Well, he thinks theyI've suddenly appeared, but he's not quite certain. It's not exactly what d better give you might call a little more background so that you can understand what''home''s happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith0008530025|title=The Road to Hell: An Alice Rice MysteryMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Alice Rice is facing a disciplinary hearing which could result It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her dismissal from stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the police forcegarden of their West London home. She knows that she's innocent - that it wasn't her whoHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been too free charged with some sensitive information - but his murder and it's all now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to come down to whose word is believed and whether a couple of witnesses can remember exactly who said what in a very tense situationdo this live on camera, episode by episode. ItThere's a difficult afternoon and when she gets home that evening, Ian - no dump of the man with whom she lives whole box set - has a visitor and forgets the importance no shortage of Alice's afternooncliffhangers. The resulting argument will stay in AliceIt's mind for some of the worst reasonscompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972256</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Christobel KentJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=The Dead Season: A Sandro Cellini MysteryChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=It's August 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 Florence feels hotter than it usually does in August - if thatBruno's possible. Businesses are shut up as anyone who can migrates there to see the coast, but Sandro Cellini isn't one of themshow with some friends. He used to be a policeman but heIt's now a private investigator all been very carefully choreographed but even this business goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is running very slowlyseriously injured when he departs from the script. All he has to work on Luckily, his doctor is there and the case of man is whisked away in a young and very pregnant woman whose fiancé is missinghelicopter. The manager A local doctor (and friend of the local Bank won't be holidaying either - Bruno) wonders about his body is discovered in the shrubbery on a normally busy roundabout chances of survival but - and it looks as though ithe's been there for a few dayssenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Then thereOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a coincidence: it seems that the missing fiancé and the dead Bank manager both had the same namepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843549522</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henning Mankell1529196388|title=The White Lioness (Kurt Wallander)Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
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|summary=Louise Akerblom Grant Cliveden was a young housewife, hero: a motherpoliceman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, pillar of so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the local Methodist church and an estate agentOld Bailey. It was There's just one man in the last which would cause Kurt Wallander to investigate her disappearance frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and which would gradually bring to light a chain of events which led back to South Africait's not too long before Knight appears in court, to renegade members charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the South African Secret Service Stag Court Chambers and an exit's Taylor-KGB agent Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who would do ''anything'' to live in South Africaeventually represent him. What they have in common is a determination Knight's determined to halt Nelson Mandelaplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's rise recommendations to power even if the result is a blood bath. It didn't seem quite so complex on that Friday afternoon in 1992 but it would be one of Wallander's most complex cases and one which could cost him very dearlycontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571692</amazonuk>
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