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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. 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 a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Thomas H CookStig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. 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 off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or 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 future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Crime of Julian WellsJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jonathon Bailey, Cathy Morrissey and Patrick Broder of Network 4 News sit Builders were demolishing an old house in a viewing room unable Norwich - the site was going to believe their eyes as the courierhold seventy-delivered VT flickers in front of them. Wealthy bankerfive 'luxury's son and society playboy Cliff Hudson seems to be suspended from apartments - when they discovered the top bones of a tall building by his ankleschild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He's tied to Was this a friend identified as 'Steve'ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, both terror stricken and whimpering an apology prompted by three men oddly dressed in tuxedos and balaclavasDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. As the city will soon come to realise, these men (pseudonyms Wilde, Whitman and Waters) are the 3W Gang, sworn to do societyIt's dirty work for it difficult as they isolate and punish bigots. Crusaders or criminals? Detective Danny Everard of the NYPD Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't have , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the luxury of choosingone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, just the headache not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of trying to catch themsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780991312</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bonnie Nadzam0008551324|title=LambThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=David Lamb It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is anchored struggling in prison and he's prepared to his life by his career, his affair-ridden marriage tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and caring who was responsible for his fatherher death. Over timeThis person, his wife divorces himhe promises, his father dies is someone big and his employers insist it will be worth the police doing what he takes a period of enforced leavewants. So And what's left? There he wants is just one constant remaining: his friendship with Tommie who, he feels, would to be transferred to an ideal holiday companion. He suggests that they both take a short trip as it would do them both good open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Tommie agrees eagerlyto get an early parole date. The adventure then begins in the form of a journey Not much to a beautifulask, remote cabin. David is 54 years old and Tommieit? SheThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and 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's 11happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir0008405026|title=I Remember YouA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Too often, people – such as myself – refer to a book as being a rollercoaster read, mostly down to a simply topsyIt's sixteen years since nine-year-turvy plotold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. But this is She was never found and the true embodiment of investigation ground to a white-knuckle ridehalt. It has the anxiety of the queue as we watch three people – a couple Now, her mother, Helena, and another young woman – get ferried across the fjord to one of western Iceland's most remote outpostsher father are dead in their bed. Initially, with the aim being to renovate an old building as it looks like a guesthouse. Therestraightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the crunch positioning of the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find bodies that something very malevolent is hiding in the tiny settlementmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. And just What looked as the car starts we might though it was going to be seeking in vain the relieved thumbsan open-and-up from those leaving shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the rideexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, telling us all is well and all survivedUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Mark0571379877|title=The Dark WinterKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Just Edward Jevons is a couple of weeks before Christmas Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy was working-class young man, obsessed with his young son in the centre of Hull when he was alerted by screaming. The noise was coming from the church upper-class friends, Robert and McAvoy so nearly caught the man responsibleStanza. HeRobert'd brutally murdered s a young girl who had already escaped as the only survivor when her family was slaughtered during the conflict in Sierra Leonetheatre director. ItHe's a difficult time also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for the police him. Edward has been in love with a relatively new team at the Serious Stanza since their university days - and Organised Crime Squad and ithe's a little while before the links drunkenly confided how he feels to two other deaths emergeRobert. Fred Stein had been the sole survivor of the loss of one of the three trawlers from Hull which went down Most men in early 1968. HeRobert'd been part of s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a documentary about the loss relationship had begun between them but had disappeared - off Iceland - in the course of the filming. He was later discovered - dead in a drifting lifeboat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389181</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julie Corbin|title=Do Me No Harm|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Dr Olivia Somers he's not like most men: Edward is minding her own business, trying left to raise stumble upon the two kids alone in the wake of her divorce, when everything goes wrong and her son, Robbie, ends up in hospital. It’s hard to work out what really happened, or even if Robbie is giving her the full story, but when there’s a further incident, this time involving a break them kissing in at their home, it becomes clear that these are no random attacks, and someone is out to get them. With the help of a friendly (and handsome) detective, Olivia tries to piece together the puzzle to work who is behind the trouble, and it’s a race against time to figure it out before the next unwelcome surprise from the culpritdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=L C TylerJo Callaghan|title=Herring on the NileLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A motley crowd When a man is found crucified on the top of oddball characters (few of whom end up being who they say they are)a hill in Nuneaton, find themselves as travelling companions on a luxury paddle steamerDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, cruising up the NileAI detective Lock. And It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a murder occursfew days later, it soon becomes clear Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that only draws a member lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the crew case in time, or one of will Kat find herself taken off the guests could have done the dastardly deed. A couple case and, potentially, out of amateur detectives have to work fast to discover who pulled the trigger. Sound familiara career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330472151</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1035021803|title=The Betrayal of Trust: A Simon Serrailler Novel Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the wettest summer English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for a hundred years we'll all be familiar with what happened in Laffertonhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Heavy rain caused a landslip on Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the moorscircumstances seem suspicious, blocking to say the nearby roadleast. Thankfully, what we're not familiar with Arthur was the presence of a shallow grave and reason why Freya had not been back to the skeleton of a teenage girlvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The sharp eyes of one of the forensic team spotted that something wasn't quite right Even though they were in another area - and a second grave was revealed. It was easy business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to identify the first body - the young girl had gone missing from be near the town sixteen years before - but man or pursue the second body proved more difficultprofession she loved. AndAfter the split, she worked in a time of financial cuts cafe, met and staff shortages it's down to Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler to tackle married James (on the cold case on his own with just a little help on rebound from the new murder caselove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099499347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fuminori Nakamura1398524085|title=The ThiefHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Thief 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 worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is content roaming the streets of Tokyonot. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, living on find the contents body of its wealthier citizensGreg' pockets untils father, Duncan Ackerley, his original partner in crime (literally) introduces him to Kizaki, a local shady big shotthe river. Kizaki wants It was an easy assumption for the Thiefpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's help on a straightforward jobt stand the guilt. He will just be one of a team tasked with breaking into a rich speculatorThe Salter children are not convinced but there's home, scaring him a little, taking the contents of his safe else they can do but get on with their lives and departing. No rough stuff and the financial settlement Kizaki offers will more than compensate the pickpocket for his timewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780339135</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luis Sepulveda1529900360|title=The Shadow of What we Were|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Chile, the modern day. Four elderly men meet for one last time, planning something suspiciously underhand, having made arrangements - and discussed Internet dating - online. We're let into the fact that the grandfather of one was a bank robber in a classic tale of Robin Hood-style wealth distribution, but as to what the outcome of their plans might be we're forced to wait. Elsewhere a domestic incident leads to a bizarre death - by record player. And you can just tell I'm suggesting you wait to discover the link...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609450027</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cath Staincliffe|title=Split Second|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=On a late December evening, Emma Curtis is on a bus travelling home from work when she becomes aware of a young lad being picked on by three others. Too scared to intervene, she sits alone feeling guilty but taking everything in. To her shame, nineteen year old student, Jason Barnes, comes downstairs on the bus and immediately challenges the three youths. Luke, the young victim, leaps off the bus and a chase follows. Jason continues to try and defend Luke, and they end up in Jason's front garden where his parents witness the brutal attack. Eventually the trio run off leaving Luke unconscious on the snowy ground. Worse still, is the realisation that Jason has been stabbed and tragically it turns out to be fatal. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013462</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=JM Shaw|title=Ten Weeks in AfricaJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Stephen It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Martha Odinga live with their younger siblings even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and ailing mother in -shut cases which didn't need the Makera slumshelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, near Kisuru in BatangaDelaware's partner, Africawho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Their father She knew that the involvement was killed by something that the Army man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of Celestial Peace so they try to make a living on the streetsremote property in Bel Air. Corruption flows through Batanga like sewage through Makera though, He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and the protection payments they need she is married to pay an extremely rich man and it's not the police to continue trading are becoming prohibitive so Stephen searches for better paid employment in questionable career areasItalian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340934050</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Grieves178763681X|title=Sleepwalkers|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Ben is the devoted proud father of two young children, the happily married husband of Carrie and a skilled car mechanic. He has all the makings of a wonderful life that would actually become one if he could just get a decent night's sleep. The problem is that he's haunted by vivid, violent nightmares. Meanwhile across town, 15 year old Toby also has nightmares and, on top of this, a body scarred with abuse, a fact his teacher, Anna, is determined to do something about. His parents have the appearance of people who love him but, where child abuse is concerned, that means nothing. Anna cares enough to get involved, not realising that it's an involvement that could cost her life. Indeed, as all three of them are about to find out, not all nightmares end on waking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389807</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin Walker|title=The Devil's Cave: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Easter was just two weeks away when Satanism came to St Denis. The naked body of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a woman was spotted residential cookery school in an old punt drifting down the riverBelgravia. There looked He didn't really want to be but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a tattoo way of a pentagram on her body getting both men and there were black candles at each end of the punt – but there was nothing women to indicate the identity of the woman or where she had come fromdo what he wanted. Bruno Courreges, Paul ''somehow'' got the Chief of Police had enough on his plate without this: impression that he'd had an anonymous letter about some domestic abuse which had to be looked into and at the town held school to assist Paul, who had a development proposal which seemed just too good to be true – even though broken arm, but it might mean didn't turn out that Bruno got way. The teaching - and the sports hall which problems - are all his own. The one thing hehadn'd been after t expected was for quite a whilesomeone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870671</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Conrad1529421284|title=No SaleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first suspect It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a wife's murder is always heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the husband, surface and so it is with Shelley Cox, but Victorforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a film professorknown drug user and had learning disabilities, claims so it must could have been suicidea simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. A picture emerges of Geary was a sadtownie, alcoholic woman, who had an almost different identity and personality while so what was he doing out drinking in Antwerp's docklands area. on Salisbury Plain alone? Victor is happy enough There are connections to replace her with an enveloping relationship with a student who matches his knowledge the suicide of Holly Gilbert and mimics his idolsto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. But still, Shelley was Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the victim of a crime, Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and if the police who keep calling on Victor are correct, it could be but one of a series..me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738974</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie Hauxwell1529425867|title=In Her BloodLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Catherine Berlin In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is known to everyone simply as 'Berlinof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. SheHe's in her mid fiftieswhite, originated from a civilian investigator with the Financial Services Agency - and shetrailer park, barely educated (reading's been a heroin addict for more than twenty yearsnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. ItThey's largely controlled by her GP - one of the few understanding ones left - who prescribes pharmaceutical-grade heroin on her weekly visit to his surgeryre usually in lime green or acid yellow. HeYou might wonder if you's taught her re being introduced to manage her addictiona police procedural written for laughs. Then two problems come togetherWell, you're not. On a pre-arranged meet with an informant who has information about a loan shark she finds the woman's body floating in Limehouse Basin - with the head nearly severed from The two men are just different sides of the bodysame policing coin. And when she visits her GP's surgery she finds another bodySometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Then Sometimes it's not just her job that's at riskproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021806</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1529431735|title=The SilenceWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It seemed to begin when Joey McCarthy was stabbed to death in a pub car park's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd arrived in his posh (if not quite new) car and lost his life in been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a random attack of violencedecade. Charlotte StoneThe return has come about because he's mother died not had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long afterwardsto live. There wasnIt't really anything suspicious about this (although her children thought that their father hadn't really done enough s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to help) his underwear and soon after two teenage friends committed suicidesent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Then DC Gary Goodhew found the body of another suicide victim and Is it brought to mind another investigation which had a profound effect on him - and warning from a Spanish gang or a connection was made between him and Charlotte Stone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012032</amazonuk>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum0861541774|title=The CallerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=LilyDCI Domenic Jejeune's baby daughter was asleep close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the garden when her husband came home and it was so peaceful that they allowed her Singapore to sleep on a little longermeet up with an old ally, but when they went to bring her in she Guy Trueman. Maik was covered involved in blood. It seemed to be coming from her mouth a street brawl - but when they got her to hospital there he would later maintain that he was no injury facing a man armed with a knife - and it was apparently he killed a practical jokeGhurka. But Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that evening a message was left on Inspector Konrad Sejer's mat: 'Hell begins now'he might have planned to murder the man. It was Now he could be facing the first in a series of such incidentsdeath penalty. They werenDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't planned to cause physical harm but they left the victims shaken, feeling harassed and worriedhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Sakey1521129886|title=The Two Deaths of Daniel HayesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man struggles onto a deserted beach in Maine, United States, after almost drowning but, far from feeling relieved, Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he realises that something has been left behind – his memorycharges. He finds an unlocked prestige car, It's a set of dry clothes that fit, some money, good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a gun baby and an urge to leavethey're both delighted. (I know - if it had been a British beach, I'd have given it 5 minutes before it was empty and Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the wheels were off! Sorry... I digress..morning sickness.) So, driving Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to a local motel, he tries to find some glimmer of a past or an identityhave killed himself. The car belongs to a Daniel HayesStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, so thatwho's what he'll call himself for nowstruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. ThenLucy, by coincidencehe says, it becomes more than is convinced that; Gil would never have killed himself - itsimply wasn's becomes t in his nature. The police and the name coroner have accepted that the armed police yell as they surround his room. death was suicide, Can a man discover his past whilst outrunning his present? Someone is about but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find outwhat happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David BarrieB0CK3MYJ56|title=Hard-HeartedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was difficult to think that anything was other than odd's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. A beautiful woman was savagely attacked He used to have a high-flying job in one the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of ParisCameron Strike' most elegant neighbourhoods, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but all she took with her as she ran from where's the house was an old book - and a shawl. Even stranger was life experience that she was a Sorbonne professor and she was dating a hedge fund manager. backs up this profession? Then there was On the influential Bank which did its best other hand, he has been asked to persuade Captain Franck Guerin to carry out a couple of arrests look into something. Joyce and Helen are half- not necessarily because it would aid the case he sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was working on, but because it would help them. Throw killed in what's been written off as a billionaire who sleeps in the poorest hotels rather than tragic accident at the beautiful home which he half owns an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and a serial seductress with an unusual line in honesty her parents, Oliver and you Pam Hetherington - can see why Guerin is finding life 't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a little confusingtrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Rendell1838954481|title=The Saint Zita SocietyMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hexam Place in Pimlico is an exclusive street of whiteRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-painted stucco Georgian houses lived in by old holding the rich gun and by those who serve them, who are far from richpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The help are a motley assortment of drivers, au pairs, cleaners and gardeners who decide He pulled the trigger but due to form the St Zita Society - Zita being vagaries of the patron saint jury system he was found not guilty of domestic servants - but its purpose is occasionally hard to determine. There are minor problems they want to tackle, such as dog excrement being bagged both the murder and left in the street and situations where they have little hope of having any impact, such as none manslaughter of the servants being invited to a particular social occasionofficer. And so lives must go on. Perhaps For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the main purpose is to give an excuse capital and hoping for meeting a quieter life in the pubcountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194404X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1448309743|title=CriminalThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The apartment in Atlanta was particularly sordid but made horrifying by In the village of Cronchie on the brutally-murdered body West coast of Scotland, five members of a womanwealthy family are found murdered. Special agent Will Trent The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'almostdiscovered'' involved in the investigation but his boss Amanda Wagner seems determined to keep him at arm's lengthbody. The murder brings back memories for Wagner of a murder Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the city more than thirty five years ago - before Will was born - but Trent receives some disturbing news which has him going back to the children's home where he grew upshadow' him. How does it all fit together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057965</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikita Lalwani1529077699|title=The Village|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=A BBC film crew is sent to India to make a documentary about an Indian prison with a difference. There are no walls, the prisoners hold down jobs and their families live with them as a condition of acceptance. In fact, to all intents and purposes, it seems like an ordinary village which is all the more unusual when you consider that they all share the same crime category; all the prisoners have been convicted of murder. The programme makers Raging Storm (20-something British-born, Indian director Ray, ruthless producer Serena and ex-convict-turned-presenter, NathanTwo Rivers) 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 famous. Both parties will be sorely disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cherie Priest|title=Eden Moore - Wings to the KingdomAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dead soldiers from the American Civil War have been seen wandering around the Chickamauga National Park in Georgia''It's all bloody peculiar, site of a notable Confederate victory in 1863. They donisn't speak, just point forlornly as locals turn and flee in the opposite direction. Eden Moore would rather ignore it completely, especially as show business psychics Tripp and Diana Marshall have already started investigating, complete with camera crew and full entourage. However, eventually her curiosity (and her friendsSir?' unstinting nagging) gets to her and she agrees to trespass after dark, quickly discovering that the gesticulating dead are a minor problem compared to the reason they've awoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687735</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Asa Larsson and Marlaine Delargy (translator)1529427045|title=The Black Path: A Rebeka Martinsson InvestigationGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the far north of Sweden the frozen body of a woman was found in fishing hut out on the lake. She’d been tortured but the injury which killed her was clumsy, even amateur. Identification isn’t easy but it’s faily quick and Anna''Life has more to offer than people -Maria Mella and her colleagues hoped prime numbers for a speedy end to the case. Then it all turned complicated when the body of a six-month-old suicide had to be exhumed and Mella and Rebecka Martinsson were drawn further and further into the investigation of corruption at one the country’s major mining companies. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the mining company had enemies of its won - ones who would stop at nothingexample''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050311</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Silva1787636607|title=Portrait of a SpyThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gabriel Allon It'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 his wife, Chiara, decide manage to rent a nice little Cornish cottage; get one of the perfect hideaway in which to renovate artfew taxis available. A rosy domestic picture Others squash onto the night bus that, will only go as far as any spy thriller aficionado will tell you isn't going to last longone of the outlying villages. It lastsThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in factthe light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, as the final stop on the bus leaves her a long as it takes some middle-eastern terrorists way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to bomb Paris come and Copenhagen and then move on to Londoncollect her - but her phone's Covent Gardendead. Gabriel and Chiara are there, about The bus had driven off before she had the chance to have lunch, but Gabriel is unable beg the bus driver to concentrate on the menu and just let things happenher use his. Mr and Mrs Allon end up being dragged back into the day job as they and their multiThere's no option but to start walking -national colleagues brandish a spectrum of experience unsuitably clothed and talent in order to take on a rogue Yemeni cleric who, embarrassingly enough, had been supported by the Americanshigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000743331X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonin Varenne and Sian Reynolds (translator)1405957174|title=Bed of NailsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you're a policeman in Paris and your involvement in office politics takes a turn for From the worsefirst page, you could we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end up in charge of suicideswell. That would make it your job to cope with all the jumpers, the pillThe victim -takers, the apparent suicide with two types of bullet through his head a man - even is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the naked men running into the flow of traffic around the ring-roadambulance he so desperately needs. You might not get the case of What we don't know is who the American junkie who dies performing a pierced-man act in a seedy clubis or why Nadine prefers to have him die. No, looking into that is that manI's closest friend, John, fresh from living in the French wilds as an outdoorsman. But in d better give you a Paris where cause of death can be little more background so bizarre, a reason for death that you can have very far-reaching consequences..understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050370</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barry Fantoni0008530025|title=Harry Lipkin, Private Eye: The Oldest Detective Murder in the WorldFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Harry Lipkin may not be It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the fittest private investigator body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Florida once you take into account the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his indigestion and his arthritis, but at 87 head which could have happened if he's definitely d slipped down the steps but the oldestvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Despite this he still manages to make a steady livingTwenty years later, picking up no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the little jobs that donsubject of ''Infamous't interest the police and Norma Weinberger's problem comes into that category, a true-crime show. Small but expensive knick-knacks seem A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to be going missing from around take the house so could it be a light-fingered member of staff? investigation further. The suspects (More to the gardenerpoint, the butlerthey're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the maid and the chauffer) each have their own story whole box set - and motive, leaving Harry to get the four down to a short list no shortage of onecliffhangers. A task thatIt's perhaps a little harder than it soundscompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972272</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Miller0241996104|title=The Gilded EdgeComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=London: 1965 These 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 dark dayscourt, when 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 Krays had yet to be brought to justice rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the underworld in London was based on protection rackets and armed robberiespapers are making the most of it. These were the days when a politician getting caught with a call girl was a national scandal ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and generated genuine fear and outrage rather than a few front page headlines soon forgotten''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. The headlines generated then are still quoted now. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath1529413680|title=Meltwater A Chateau Under Siege (Fire and IceA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A group One of internet activists decided to base themselves in Iceland whilst they prepared their latest exposé. This time it was a video the main events of a purported Israeli attrocity which needed verifying and preparing for publication. All would have been well the Sarlat tourist season is the re- or as well as such things ever are - if one enactment of the liberation of the group hadntown from the English in 1370 and Bruno't been murdered on a visit s there to a volcanosee the show with some friends. It was a volcano which caused 's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the second problem - not the erruption man playing one of the small, pretty one which main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the group had visited with fatal consequencesscript. Luckily, but his doctor is there and the big, ugly one which no one could pronounce and which disrupted air traffic all over Europe man is whisked away in the spring of 2010a helicopter. Yes. That oneA 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 stepped in. Eyjafjallajokull meant that travel too One daughter lives nearby and from Iceland was exceedingly difficult another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father''and'' it disrupted the investigation of the murders friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Dean1529196388|title=The Wrong ManTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ex-marine James Bishop worked Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for an elite protection companyall that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. The idea behind There's just one man in the frame for his last mission murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was to protect multiJonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-millionaire Randall Brennan Cameron and his daughter Natalie butpupil, insteadAdam Green, he found himself framed for murderwho eventually represent him. Who? Why? These why may be questions that need answering but thatKnight's determined to plead not going to happen whilst he's serving a life sentence. Howeverguilty, where Bishop is concerned, thatdespite all Taylor-Cameron's only a minor blip compared recommendations to the task aheadcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755382692</amazonuk>
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