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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley ThomsonStuart Douglas|title=The Detective's DaughterLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Terry Darnell - formerly Detective Inspector Darnell - came out During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of the Co-op in a village woman on the south coast, with the makings of an impromptu breakfast in a carrier bag and died edge of a heart attack on the way back to his carreservoir. He hadn't see a lot of his daughter in the last few yearsThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the death saddened Stella. She ran a cleaning company - Clean Slate - and was obsessive about cleaning and cleanlinesswhole thing bothers Lowe, with her life based on order and it wasn't long before she began clearing her father's house. Hidden away in the attic were case papers relating to he enlists the Rokesmith murder, which had occurred some thirty years earlier and which had never been solved. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800240</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paula Daly|title=Just What Kind help of Mother Are You?|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost the typical Mum. She's got a husband and three children and she's permanently tiredfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Her full-time job at They travel across the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and she's constantly chasing around trying , seemingly, a link to catch up with what she ought to have donedeath during the Second World War. Husband Joe But is there really a taxi driver and link between the deaths? And will they can only just manage to afford the rent on their cottage in the picturesque lake district. It's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl - really only a child - uncover who is abducted and brutally raped. Then another girl of about the same age goes missing and Lisa was responsible for her safety. What do you say, what do you do in that situationbefore more people lose their lives? Lisa is about to find out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Bates0008517061|title=Chilled to the BoneDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=It would have been embarrassing for Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the shipowner to be found tied to future of his life with his bed vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in one together would mean a lot of Reykjavik's smartest hotels, abandoned 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 middle of an obvious bondage session, but he was past caring. Death was from natural causes. It would have been easy future she wants for Sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir to write this off as an unfortunate accident, but instinct told herself and her that things were not quite as they seemed. daughter? Some discreet questioning around For the hotels moment they’re enjoying life in the city brought to light several similar incidents, with present and putting the future on the victims relieved of their credit cards and cash and grateful to keep everything quiet. It's ''almost'' benign crime, but then some disturbing connections came to lightback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100840</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John le Carre1786482126|title=A Delicate Truth|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's 2008 and Paul is recruited by, apparently, the government to assist in an undercover operation in Gibraltar. It's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede a cell of Al Qaeda. Paul performs, is thanked and taken home without complications. Fast forward to 2011 and Toby Bell is promoted to the role of private secretary for Paul's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinn. Whilst acquainting himself with Quinn's CV, Toby uncovers the story of the mission, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints that it may not have been as straightforward as all that. Quinn also appears to have been connected with an organisation that's not all it seems, unfortunately for a particular pillar of a Cornish community for whom life will never be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elif Shafak|title=HonourElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jamila and Pembe are twins who, growing up among the Kurdish in Turkey, are as wrapped Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the customs of their Muslim faith and heritage as site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they are in discovered the love bones of their familya child beneath a doorway. Jamila develops There was no skull. Was this a talent that will make her the hub of her communityritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. PembeIt's destiny lies over the sea difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she migrates to England is pregnant with her husband Adem in search his child as a result of a better lifethe one night they spent together some three months ago. HoweverHer condition will be obvious before long, the destiny they travel towards not least because Ruth is oh so different from the destiny prone to sudden bouts of which they dreamsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921165</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ace Atkins0008551324|title=The RangerDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Every so often I read a book which just confirms how little I know about It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the USApolice. I donNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't quite understand s prepared to tell the police where the political systembody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. I certainly don't understand the law enforcement system (This person, he promises, is someone big and don't like it will be worth the bits I do 'get'; I fear that our UK leaders seem police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to think that serve the politicisation remainder of law enforcement that seems his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to be the norm over there ask, is actually a good idea). it? And every The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so often I come across a branch of and she's even prepared to do the military other thing that IHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd never heard ofs happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147210031X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sabine Durrant0008405026|title=Under Your SkinA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When household name Gaby Mortimer finds It'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 body in the common near halt. Now, her London homemother, Helena, it is horrible and shockingher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the one thing she doesn’t expect is to become positioning of the main suspect in the murder casebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. After all, she What looked as though it was just the one who found the poor woman’s body. Surely the Police should going to be spending their time searching for an open-and-shut case is now a more likely assailant than a perhaps past her prime TV presenter? But it soon becomes clear complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that Gaby is the one they explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are fixating on, the one to whom they will try to make the limited evidence fit. And it’s going to take everything she’s got to convince them otherwiseless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444762397</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van Lustbader0571379877|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Jack McClureEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, aide and friend to the US presidentobsessed with his upper-class friends, is back at work after the death of his daughter Robert and the resolved kidnapping of President CarsonStanza. Robert's own daughter, Allia theatre director. However, Jack hasn't fully recovered; heHe's still in mourning and full of also self-recrimination but the show must go onobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. When an American senator is killed Edward has been in Capri Jacklove with Stanza since their university days - and he's on hand drunkenly confided how he feels to investigate, starting a mission that will take him into the Ukraine and the seamier side of power on both sides of the AtlanticRobert. Apparently not all the PresidentMost men in Robert's closest advisors can be trusted and position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward thata relationship had begun between them but he's not Jack's only complication. After Alli's traumatic experiences at like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the hands two of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person she trusts, so she's coming along for the ride, through hell, high water and them kissing in a few murdersdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Esmahan Aykol and Ruth Whitehouse (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=Baksheesh (Kati Hirschel Murder Mysteries)Leave No Trace|rating=4.5
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|summary= Kati Hirschel, daughter When a man is found crucified on the top of German parentsa hill in Nuneaton, still runs DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the only crime fiction bookshop in Istanbul andcase alongside her sidekick, when good's measured against bad, seems to be having a rough timethe AI detective Lock. Good that sheIt's about to buy her their first apartmentlive case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. HoweverBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, looking at the bad, she's just split up Kat is suddenly struggling with her boyfriend (albeit after a potential serial killer and a very good dinner), is strangled in high profile case that draws a car park (though not lot of unwanted attention to death… which is good) and is about their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to be arrested for her strangler's murder occurringsolve the case in time, as it did, while she was eating strawberry ice cream. The only way she can exonerate or will Kat find herself is to emulate her fictional heroes once again taken off the case and do some sleuthing., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908524049</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maxim Jakubowski1035021803|title=The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A couple It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of years agoa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, I reviewed [[The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 by Maxim Jakubowski]] is dead and it the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was something of a frustrating experiencethe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There Even though they were some really good short stories in therebusiness together as antique hunters, from excellent authorsshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but they were padded out by she worked in a significant number of completely unmemorable ones. The latest in cafe, met and married James (on the series suffers rebound from the same lack love of quality control her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 - if anythingstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the ratio body of hits Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to misses is somewhat lowermake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780337930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Holt1529900360|title=Blessed Are Those Who ThirstThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'1222s 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-and-shut cases which didn'' was one t need the help of last year’s crime novel sensations. Set in a blizzard-hit hotel in psychologist only worked for a remote part of Norway and featuring prickly detective Hanne Wilhelmsenwhile. Finally, it was Miss Marple meets Harry HoleRobin, a clever and very funny take on Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the Nordic noir genre. ''1222'' involvement was Britain’s introduction to Wilhelmsen and her creator, something that the lawyer and Norwegian Minister for Justice-turned-novelist Anne Holtman she loved needed. Scandinavian readers The next case did look simple, however, have been familiar with them both since 1993, when Hanne made her debut though. Two lovers were murdered in the novel [[The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt|The Blind Goddess]]swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it''Blessed Are Those Who Thirst'', first written in 1994, is Hanne’s second case, a story that shows her still finding her feet as a detectives not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892266</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerald Wixey178763681X|title=Salt of Their BloodKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in 1960 Stuart couldn’t get Belgravia. He didn't really want to sleep on but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a very hot nightway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. He lived Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the pub next door school to the bus garage assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the sounds drifted upwardsproblems - are all his own. A man screamed and then there The one thing he hadn't expected was the sound of a heavy weight falling. When he jumped out of bed he saw for someone scurrying awayto turn up dead. No one was interested in what Stuart might have heardUnfortunately, or seen and even he lost interest as was the day after person who discovered the inquest (body and everyone knows that the mechanic’s death was ‘an accident’, the coroner said) his best friend, Declan, disappeared. Twelve years later Stuart was leading a feckless life but was still convinced police consider that there was a connection between the mechanic’s death and Declan’s disappearance. He was also involved in an illicit love affair with Kathy - and if he had person to pick be the wrong person then it was Kathyprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766963</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Zeilig1529421284|title=Eddie Laying Out the KidBones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eddie Bereskin is arrested It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a London anti-war protest in 2002heatwave. His parentsIn a gully, Stuart a human skeleton came to the surface and Jessicaforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, were also anti-war activists back in their day and are still passionate about their socialist valueswho had disappeared nine years earlier. IndeedHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, Eddie has inherited their socialist beliefs and genes so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but being DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a child from that household comes at a high price; a price that Eddie townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and his sister Esther continue to paytwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. There again, being known as 'The Downing Street Tickler' does come with a sort Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of kudos the Major Crimes Review Unit (that he doesn't minds cold cases to you and me) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780993676</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529425867|title=Beyond BeliefLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Joshua Richards isn't the most successful PI; clients aren't exactly lining up around the block but he lives in hope that one day his luck will change… and it doesIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Within a couple of weeks he has a sudden plethora of enquirers; the bad news Raymond Wilkins is that none of them seem to live long enough to pay himNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Meanwhile elsewhere D I Ryan Wilkins, the Engine powering the world (literally) is dyingson of Ryan and father of Ryan, although the populous is blissfully obliviousnot. He's not any of those things. Is there a connection? Joshua Richards doesn He't knows white, but there seems to be originated from a huge part of himself hetrailer park, barely educated (reading's not acquainted with either… at least not yet''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Killing Rachel: The Murder Notebooks|rating=4 They're usually in lime green or acid yellow.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rose You might wonder if you's mother and Josh's father - both members of the re being introduced to a police cold case squad - have been missing procedural written for more than five years nowlaughs. Although their bodies were never found Well, the authorities have always insisted that they are probably deadyou're not. But in the [[Dead Time: The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy|first book]] in this series, two men are just different sides of the step siblings find information that suggests Kathy and Brendan are still alivesame policing coin. So Rose, Josh and friend Skeggsie are pursuing every lead they have - including trying to decipher Sometimes the cryptic notebooks they have discoveredcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Bolton1529431735|title=Like This, For EverThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in January, Lacey Flint very nearly [[Dead Scared by S J Bolton|threw herself off a tower]]. Now itIt's February 1991 and she Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on extended leave and talking to the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a counsellordecade. Whether she is trying to convince the psycheThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-doctor wife, saying that she is fit for work or that she isn't, isns ill and hasn't entirely clearlong to live. Maybe itIt's not clear hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to Flint eithera watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069161</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jude Cook0861541774|title=Byron Easy|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Byron Easy is a 30-year-old poet and product A Nye of a failed marriage who, in turn, has a failed marriage of his own. He works in a shop whilst waiting to be discovered as a poet. How did his depression-tinted life reach this point? Once there was hope, love and many good times and, as he sits on a train travelling to his mother's for Christmas with a bag full of money, he reflects and ponders while trying to escape something more tangible and dangerous than the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021938</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPheasants|author=Darragh McManus|title=The Polka Dot GirlSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Police Detective Eugenie Auf der Maur is called DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to investigate the murder of Madeleine Greenhill the daughter of the wealthy socialite Misericordiaemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The more she looks into it, the less it seems an open Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and shut casehe killed a Ghurka. In fact it opens Initially, he faced a Pandora's Box charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that shakes Hera City he might have planned to its core, not murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to mention its ability to agitate Eugeniehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's core a little too. The fact is that somebody wants her deadt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780991819</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins1521129886|title=Seduction of the InnocentThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loosely based on real life events from the 1950s, Greg Mason''Seduction of s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the Innocentpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It' tells s a story around good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a group of comic book publishers, who are being attacked for their product being inappropriatebaby and they're both delighted. Here, Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'innocent'' are a generation of young people being corrupted by that material s struggling to make ends meet and the ''seduction'' her son is that practised by the comic books themselvesnot thriving. In both a book Lucy, he has written and says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in a Congressional hearing, noted psychiatrist Drhis nature. Werner Frederick claims The police and the coroner have accepted that comic books are leading their audience into the world of violencedeath was suicide, crime and sex depicted in their chosen reading material, which can only be having a negative effect but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the individuals and on society as a wholenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687484</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana StabenowB0CK3MYJ56|title=Bad BloodResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=You would think that if there were two villages side by side then they would be much of a muchness with lots of toing It's the 1990s and froing between them and with regular intermarriagesGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. It He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so with Kushtaka and Kuskulana in the Alaskan National Parkhe's now set himself up as a private investigator. One village - well'Shades of Cameron Strike', a small township really - thrivedyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, whilst but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the otherhand, Kushtaka, went downhillhe has been asked to look into something. A hundred years of bad blood occasionally erupted into violence Joyce and there Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was little doubt that the responsibility for suspicious death of killed in what's been written off as a teenager tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was down doing there - or how she could come to the people fall in front of Kuskulana and that there would be vengeancea train. It was down to State Trooper Jim Chopin Greg's been asked to find the culprit and prevent the inter-village warfare from escalating out of controlinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851204</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1838954481|title=Human RemainsThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Annabel lived on her own, with a life filled by her job as Ryan Kennedy killed a police intelligence analyst, her aging mother and her catofficer: there's no doubt about that. It He was the cat that began fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the story, as she led Annabel trigger but due to the house next door, where there vagaries of the jury system he was a body which had obviously been there a long timefound not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. Decomposition was advanced but Annabel hadn't known that there was anyone living there and it seemed that no one else caredAnd so lives must go on. Back at work curiosity took hold For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and it seemed that there had been rather hoping for a lot of bodies which had lain undiscovered over quieter life in the last few months countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and definitely more than in previous years. There was, though, no suggestion that death was other than through natural causes so it was difficult to get her police colleagues interestedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843418X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1448309743|title=The CarrierDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Due to a delayed flight homeIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Gaby has to stay overnight in five members of a German hotel with fellow passenger Laurenwealthy family are found murdered. During The only item missing from the night Lauren tells Gaby about a man charged with home is the murder of his paralysed wife. At this point two things strike GabyDevil Stone: 1. Lauren believes him to be innocentmyth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. 2. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's Tim Breary, Gabyan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's former lover with whom she has unfinished businessthe body. Once home Gaby The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is determined pulled in to prove his innocence but that's easier said than doneshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Bolton1529077699|title=Dead ScaredThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A few minutes before midnight on 22nd January, DC Lacey Flint is standing on top of the tallest tower in Cambridge, contemplating flying. ''It's a beautiful sight out there. Just one step. Mark Joesbury is entering the chapel and pounding up the stairs… not knowing what heall bloody peculiar, isn'll dot it, or what heSir?''ll find, when he gets to the top.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig1529427045|title=The Circus: An Inspector Carlyle NovelGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Journalist Duncan Brown was found dead in the back of a rubbish truck. It was a prosaic introduction ''Life has more to a major scandal offer than people - prime numbers for Inspector John Carlyle and before long his slim resources were stretched even further when a teenager had a bomb attached to his neck and the neighbour who was about to complain about the loud music was shot dead on the doorstep. It might have seemed that it couldnexample''t get much worse, but before long Carlyle found himself up against Trevor Miller, a former police officer who had become security officer to the Prime Minister. He and Carlyle went back a long way and none of the memories were good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100379</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Whitelaw1787636607|title=Money Never SleepsThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fancy Jones is It's a crime writerscene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Actually, it’s Francine Double-Barrelled name but her brother never got further than being able Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to pronounce ‘Fancy’ get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the name stuckfew taxis available. Her Pink Pen Detective stories are Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the main reasons that she was invited to attend a writers’ conference in Derbyshireoutlying villages. But Fancy has other reasons for going: The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in London someone is trying to kill herthe light of 'the missing women'. It was difficult to think otherwise when you only just avoid being pushed in front of a tube train and have a rucksack hurled at you as you get For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a buslong way short of her home. The bubbleShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -wrapped piece of concrete hurled through the bedroom window as she slept convinced but her - if phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she still had any lingering doubtsthe chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There was just one problem: the attacks continued when she got 's no option but to Derbyshire start walking - unsuitably clothed and it soon became clear that she wasn’t to be the only victimin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719807476</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Wambaugh1405957174|title=Harbour NocturneA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hollywood Station series is set (no prizes for guessing) in Hollywood. Hollywood is, almost by definition, a bit weird. A full moon is known as a Hollywood moonFrom the first page, because we know thatNadine Walsh's when all the weirdoes come out to playparty will not end well. But it's The victim - a district that man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs to be policed like any other. It has its fair share of RTAs and domestics and sad and lonely people. Not for nothing has What we don't know is who the night shift sergeant instituted pizza-rewarded awards for best 'True Hollywood Romance' man is or 'Quiet Desperation' reports from a given shiftwhy Nadine prefers to have him die. You need I'd better give you a black sense of humour to work the mean streetslittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800550</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana Stabenow0008530025|title=Dead Murder in the Water (A Kate Shugak Investigation)Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kate Shugak is a native Aleut living It was in an Alaskan National Park December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and she's currently an investigator for hirefound the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. I hesitate to call her a private investigator as so far sheHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's been hired by a government agency, d slipped down the steps but at just over five feet tall and just over thirty she's the best man when it comes to sorting out what's been going onvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. This time Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the case subject of two crew members lost from ''Infamous'', a ship off the coast of Alaska some months beforetrue-crime show. Their families want A group of experts has been brought together to know what happened review the evidence and to themtake the investigation further. ThatMore to the point, they's how Kate came re going to be signed do this live on as a deckhand on the ''Avilda''camera, episode by episode. TheyThere're crabbing in some s no dump of the nastiest whole box set - and most dangerous conditions you can imagineno shortage of cliffhangers. And itIt's not just the weather that's the problemcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800410</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matias Nespolo0241996104|title=Seven Ways to Kill a Cat|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=The Argentinian economy is in meltdown and the streets of Buenos Aires are awash with protestors, but this means little to those struggling to survive in the shanty towns clinging Coming to the city's edge. In the ''barrio'' every day is hard and the choices you make really do mean the difference between life and death. Gringo, a youth on the verge of becoming a man and Chueco, his unreliable friend, both short on options, are drawn to the local gang culture and the seemingly easy money it offers. But, with a turf war brewing, can either of them survive the coming storm?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552388</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFind You|author=Michael Kardos|title=The Three Day AffairJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary= How well do you know your best friends? Will thought he knew Jeffrey, Nolan Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Evan particularly well. Heckher step-brother, they'd known each other since college at PrincetonMartin, before the advent has been convicted of wives and partnerstheir murder. HoweverWe first meet Nancy outside the court, Willafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's assurance becomes less certain during received a golfing weekend. Just blokes together 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the WaGs out the way; what could go wrong? rest of her life. Nothing till Jeffrey stops the car to pop into a convenience store and emerges with nothing except the tillOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's contents rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the shop assistant he's kidnappedpapers are making the most of it. What do they do? A simple enough question ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but as the hours tick by it becomes more complicatedis undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185081X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|authortitle=Lee Child A Chateau Under Siege (EditorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=VengeanceMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I like short story collections. They'One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re useful reading material when you're a mum -enactment of the liberation of young children as you can usually manage to squeeze the town from the English in a six page story at nap time, but you1370 and Bruno're guaranteed if you try s there to start that 500 page novel yousee the show with some friends. It've s all been meaning to read that just as it starts to get interesting your baby will wake up! very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. This collection of crime stories Luckily, his doctor is brought together under there and the title man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he''Vengeance'' sos a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, as you'd imaginewho lives in California, they are all to do is flying in with revenge and people getting or trying to get their own backsome of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857899015</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana Stabenow1529196388|title=A Fatal Thaw (A Kate Shugak Investigation)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Roger McAniff bought Grant Cliveden was a new Winchester rifle hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and went out looked up to test it - and nine people were dead by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the end of the dayOld Bailey. But There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - only eight of them had been shot by McAniff and one - Lisa Getty was shot by someone else. McAniff wouldnit't have it - he was almost insulted by the thought that he might have missed someone - but ballistic tests proved that s not too long before Knight appears in this instance he wasncourt, charged with Cliveden't the killers murder. Kate Shugak Knight was given told that the job best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of tracking down the unknown killer. It wasnStag Court Chambers and it't going to be easys Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, not least because she apprehended McAniff and every conversation began with a statement that she could have saved time and money if she'd killed who eventually represent him. ThatKnight's determined to plead not Kateguilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's way thoughrecommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800402</amazonuk>
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