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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin WalkerStuart Douglas|title=The Resistance Man: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Old Murcoing passed on During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the priest called dead body of a woman on Bruno Courreges, the chief edge of police in St Denis, as Murcoing had died clutching a bank note from the legendary Neuvic train robbery which happened in 1944reservoir. Murcoing had battled to find out what really happened The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the money from the robbery - whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the reserves help of the Banque de France - as the Resistance had certainly seen only a small part of itfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. That's not what's immediately concerning Bruno though. As a member of They travel across the Resistance Murcoing would have his funeral paid for by the state country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and it would be up , seemingly, a link to Bruno to organise thisdeath during the Second World War. He's also concerned with But is there really a series of burglaries on his patch - and it seems that one of them has led link between the deaths? And will they manage to a brutal murder.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178087071X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Crowther0008517061|title=PenitenceDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Phil Davis is a Former Metropolitan Police detective in a small town in Texas and he's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees the body of an elderly road accident victim whose back is covered with scars which have obviously been inflicted over years if not decades, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There's no suggestion that There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the death was anything other than accidental but Davis starts to wonder when he hears future of other men his life with similar scars who have met an untimely - if seemingly innocent - death recently. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one of the big beasts of the agency who's spending time looking into a murder with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlier. To cap it allvet girlfriend, someone was tried for the crime Livia and has been her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a mental institution since, so what 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 Valdez doingthe future she wants for herself and her daughter?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk> For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1786482126|title=A Darkness Descending The Janus Stone (Sandro CelliniDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a new political party and it seemed going to have caught the publichold seventy-five 'luxury's imagination, particularly apartments - when they discovered the young and even some older people, embarrassed by the antics bones of their prime ministera child beneath a doorway. Then the leader, Niccolo Rosselli collapsed at a rally - but there There was worse to comeno skull. His partnerWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Flavia, disappeared leaving behind a devastated Niccolo - and a baby who was only a matter of weeks oldDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. She was found in a down-at-heel hotelIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, where that she'd ended her life in is pregnant with his child as a result of the bathroomone night they spent together some three months ago. But why would she do it? Why did she Her condition will be obvious before long, not leave a note? Sandro Cellini was called in least because Ruth is prone to investigate - but quite ''what'' was he investigating?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893262</amazonuk>sudden bouts of sickness.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson0008551324|title=The Detective's DaughterDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Terry Darnell - formerly Detective Inspector Darnell - came out of It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the Co-op other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in a village on prison and he's prepared to tell the south coast, with police where the makings body of an impromptu breakfast in a carrier bag missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and died of a heart attack on it will be worth the way back to his carpolice doing what he wants. He hadn't see a lot And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his daughter in the last few years, but the death saddened Stellasentence and to get an early parole date. She ran a cleaning company - Clean Slate - and was obsessive about cleaning and cleanlinessNot much to ask, with her life based on order and is it wasn? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't long before think so and she began clearing her father's house. Hidden away in the attic were case papers relating even prepared to do the Rokesmith murder, which had occurred some thirty years earlier other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and which had never been solvedanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800240</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly0008405026|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost the typical MumIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's got was never found and the investigation ground to a husband halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and three children and sheher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's permanently tiredsomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Her fullWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-time job at and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life and sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's constantly chasing around trying to catch up with what she ought to have doneboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3. Husband Joe 5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a taxi driver working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and they can only just manage to afford the rent on their cottage in the picturesque lake districtStanza. ItRobert's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl theatre director. He's also self- really only a child - is abducted obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and brutally rapeduses Edward to run errands for him. Then another girl of about the same age goes missing Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Lisa was responsible for her safetyhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. What do you say, what do you do Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that situation? Lisa a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is about left to find outstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Quentin BatesJo Callaghan|title=Chilled to the BoneLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It would have been embarrassing for When a man is found crucified on the shipowner to be found tied to his bed top of a hill in one of Reykjavik's smartest hotelsNuneaton, abandoned in DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the middle of an obvious bondage sessioncase alongside her sidekick, but he was past caringthe AI detective Lock. Death was from natural causesIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. It would have been easy for Sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir to write this off as an unfortunate accidentBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, but instinct told her Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that things were not quite as they seemeddraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Some discreet questioning around Will they be able to solve the hotels case in the city brought to light several similar incidentstime, with or will Kat find herself taken off the victims relieved of their credit cards case and cash and grateful to keep everything quiet. It's ''almost'' benign crime, but then some disturbing connections came to light.potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472100840</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John le Carre1035021803|title=A Delicate TruthThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's 2008 and Paul is recruited by, apparently, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the government to assist in an undercover operation in GibraltarEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede back now because of a cell of Al Qaedarequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Paul performsFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is thanked dead and taken home without complicationsthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Fast forward to 2011 and Toby Bell is promoted Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the role of private secretary for Paul's recruitervillage: Arthur, she feels, MP Fergus Quinnlet her down badly. Whilst acquainting himself with Quinn's CVEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Toby uncovers she has not felt able to be near the story of man or pursue the mission, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints that it may not have been as straightforward as all thatprofession she loved. Quinn also appears to have been connected with an organisation that's not all it seemsAfter the split, unfortunately for she worked in a particular pillar cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of a Cornish community for whom her life will never be the same again, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elif Shafak1398524085|title=HonourHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamila Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Pembe her daughter, Etty. are twins whoall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, growing up among the Kurdish in TurkeyEtty and Greg, are as wrapped in find the customs body of their Muslim faith and heritage as they are Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the love of their familyriver. Jamila develops a talent It was an easy assumption for the police to make that will make her Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the hub of her communityguilt. PembeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's destiny lies over the sea as she migrates to England little else they can do but get on with her husband Adem in search of a better life. However, the destiny they travel towards is oh so different from the destiny of which they dreamtheir lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921165</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ace Atkins1529900360|title=The RangerGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Every so often I read a book which just confirms how little I know about the USA. I donIt hadn't quite understand the political systembeen 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. I certainly don't understand the law enforcement system (His assertions that there were only open-and don-shut cases which didn't like need the bits I do help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'get'; I fear s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that our UK leaders seem to think the involvement was something that the politicisation man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of law enforcement that seems a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to be an extremely rich man and it's not the norm over there is actually a good idea)Italian. And every so often I come across a branch But which of them was the military that I'd never heard of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147210031X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sabine Durrant178763681X|title=Under Your SkinKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When household name Gaby Mortimer finds Chef Paul Delamare took a body teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. 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 common near her London homeimpression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it is horrible didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and shocking, but the problems - are all his own. The one thing she doesn’t expect is he hadn't expected was for someone to become the main suspect in the murder caseturn up dead. After all Unfortunately, she he was just the one person who found discovered the poor woman’s body. Surely and everyone knows that the Police should be spending their time searching for a more likely assailant than a perhaps past her prime TV presenter? But it soon becomes clear police consider that Gaby is the one they are fixating on, the one person to whom they will try to make be the limited evidence fit. And it’s going to take everything she’s got to convince them otherwiseprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444762397</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van Lustbader1529421284|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Jack McClureIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, aide and friend a human skeleton came to the US president, is back at work after the death of his daughter surface and forensic testing proved the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughterbody to be Lee Geary, Alliwho had disappeared nine years earlier. However, Jack hasnHe't fully recovered; he's still in mourning d been a known drug user and full had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of self-recrimination misadventure but the show must go onDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. When an American senator is killed in Capri Jack's Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on hand Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to investigate, starting a mission that will take him into the Ukraine suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the seamier side of power on both sides of the Atlantictime. Apparently not all the President's closest advisors can be trusted Lockyer and that's not Jack's only complication. After Alli's traumatic experiences at the hands DC Gemma Broad of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person she trusts, so sheMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's coming along for the ride, through hell, high water cold cases to you and a few murdersme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529425867|title=Esmahan Aykol Lost and Ruth Whitehouse Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Baksheesh (Kati Hirschel Murder Mysteries)Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Kati HirschelIn Oxford, daughter there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of German parentsNigerian descent, still runs the only crime fiction bookshop in Istanbul Balliol educated andalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, when good's measured against badson of Ryan and father of Ryan, seems to be having a rough timeis not. Good that sheHe's about to buy her first apartmentnot any of those things. However, looking at the bad, sheHe's just split up with her boyfriend (albeit after a very good dinner)white, is strangled in originated from a car trailer park , barely educated (though reading's not to death… which is good''really'' his thing) and is about his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to be arrested a police procedural written for her stranglerlaughs. Well, you's murder occurring, as it did, while she was eating strawberry ice creamre not. The only way she can exonerate herself is to emulate her fictional heroes once again and do some sleuthingtwo men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524049</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maxim Jakubowski1529431735|title=The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=A couple of years agoIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, I reviewed [[The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 by Maxim Jakubowski]] and it was something of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a frustrating experience. There were some really good short stories in there, from excellent authors, but they were padded out by wanted drug smuggler for a significant number of completely unmemorable onesdecade. The latest in the series suffers return has come about because he's had a letter from the same lack of quality control his ex- if anythingwife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the ratio boot of hits a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to misses is somewhat lower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780337930</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Holt0861541774|title=Blessed Are Those Who ThirstA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''1222'' 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 one of last year’s crime novel sensations. Set involved in a blizzardstreet brawl -hit hotel in he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a remote part of Norway knife - and featuring prickly detective Hanne Wilhelmsen, it was Miss Marple meets Harry Holehe killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a clever and very funny take on the Nordic noir genre. ''1222'' was Britain’s introduction charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to Wilhelmsen and her creator, murder the lawyer and Norwegian Minister for Justice-turned-novelist Anne Holtman. Scandinavian readers, however, have been familiar with them both since 1993, when Hanne made her debut in Now he could be facing the novel [[The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt|The Blind Goddess]]death penalty. ''Blessed Are Those Who Thirst'', first written in 1994, is Hanne’s second case, a story that shows her still finding her feet Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a detectivediplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892266</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerald Wixey1521129886|title=Salt of Their BloodThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in 1960 Stuart couldn’t Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to sleep on 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 very hot nightbaby and they're both delighted. He lived at the pub next door to Joyce will be more delighted about the bus garage and baby when she gets past the sounds drifted upwardsmorning sickness. A man screamed and then there was the sound of a heavy weight falling. When he jumped out of bed he saw someone scurrying awayGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. No one was interested in what Stuart might have heard's concerned about his sister, Lucy, or seen who's struggling to make ends meet and even her son is not thriving. Lucy, he lost interest as says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the day after coroner have accepted that the inquest (the mechanic’s death was ‘an accident’, the coroner said) his best friendsuicide, Declan, disappeared. Twelve years later but Stuart was leading a feckless life but was still convinced 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 's prepared to pay Greg to pick find out what happened on the wrong person then it was Kathynight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766963</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo ZeiligB0CK3MYJ56|title=Eddie the KidResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eddie Bereskin is arrested in It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a London antihigh-war protest flying job in 2002the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? His parentsOn the other hand, Stuart he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and JessicaHelen are half-sisters, or rather, they were also anti-war activists back until Helen was killed in their day and are still passionate about their socialist values. Indeed, Eddie has inherited their socialist beliefs and genes but being what's been written off as a child from that household comes tragic accident at a high price; a price that Eddie and his sister Esther continue to payan unmanned level crossing. There againJoyce - and her parents, being known as Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can'The Downing Street Tickler' does t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come with to fall in front of a sort of kudos that he doesntrain. Greg't minds been asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780993676</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1838954481|title=Beyond BeliefThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Joshua Richards isnRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there't s no doubt about that. He was the most successful PI; clients aren't exactly lining up around fifteen-year-old holding the block but he lives in hope that one day his luck will change… gun and pointing it doesat DI Kieran Shaw. Within a couple He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of weeks the jury system he has a sudden plethora was found not guilty of enquirers; both the bad news is that none murder and the manslaughter of them seem to live long enough to pay himthe officer. And so lives must go on. Meanwhile elsewhere, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the Engine powering capital and hoping for a quieter life in the world (literally) is dying, although the populous countryside but when a missing teenager is blissfully oblivious. Is there a connection? Joshua Richards doesnfound on her territory she't know, but there seems to be s drawn into a huge part wider investigation - and back into the orbit of himself he's not acquainted with either… at least not yetRyan Kennedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Cassidy1448309743|title=Killing Rachel: The Murder Notebooks|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rose's mother and Josh's father - both members of the police cold case squad - have been missing for more than five years now. Although their bodies were never found, the authorities have always insisted that they are probably dead. But in the [[Dead Time: The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy|first book]] in this series, the step siblings find information that suggests Kathy and Brendan are still alive. So Rose, Josh and friend Skeggsie are pursuing every lead they have - including trying to decipher the cryptic notebooks they have discovered. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815516</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=S J Bolton|title=Like This, For EverCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in JanuaryIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Lacey Flint very nearly [[Dead Scared by S J Bolton|threw herself off five members of a tower]]wealthy family are found murdered. Now it's February and she is on extended leave and talking to a counsellor. Whether she The only item missing from the home is trying to convince the psyche-doctor Devil Stone: myth says that she if the stone is fit for work or that she isn'tremoved from Otterburn House, isn't entirely cleardeath will follow. Maybe itThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's not clear an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to Flint either'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069161</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jude Cook1529077699|title=Byron EasyThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Byron Easy is a 30-year-old poet and product of a failed marriage who''It's all bloody peculiar, in turnisn't it, 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 pointSir? 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>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins1529427045|title=Seduction of The Girl in the InnocentEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loosely based on real life events from the 1950s, ''Seduction of the Innocent'' tells a story around a group of comic book publishers, who are being attacked Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for their product being inappropriate. Here, the ''innocentexample'' are a generation of young people being corrupted by that material and the ''seduction'' is that practised by the comic books themselves. In both a book he has written and in a Congressional hearing, noted psychiatrist Dr. Werner Frederick claims that comic books are leading their audience into the world of violence, crime and sex depicted in their chosen reading material, which can only be having a negative effect on the individuals and on society as a whole.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687484</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1787636607|title=Human RemainsThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Annabel lived on her own, with It's a life filled by her job as scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a police intelligence analyst, her aging mother way to get home. Some are lucky and her catmanage to get one of the few taxis available. It was Others squash onto the cat night bus that began will only go as far as one of the storyoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', as she led Annabel to particularly in the light of 'the house next doormissing women'. For one young woman, where there was a body which had obviously been there the final stop on the bus leaves her a long timeway short of her home. Decomposition was advanced She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but Annabel hadnher phone't known that there was anyone living there and it seemed that no one else careds dead. Back at work curiosity took hold and it seemed that there The bus had been rather a lot of bodies which driven off before she had lain undiscovered over the last few months - and definitely more than in previous yearschance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There was, though, 's no suggestion that death was other than through natural causes so it was difficult option but to get her police colleagues interestedstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843418X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1405957174|title=The CarrierA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Due to a delayed flight homeFrom the first page, Gaby has to stay overnight in a German hotel with fellow passenger Laurenwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. During the night Lauren tells Gaby about The victim - a man charged with - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the murder of his paralysed wifeambulance he so desperately needs. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him to be innocentdie. 2. HeI's Tim Breary, Gaby's former lover with whom she has unfinished business. Once home Gaby is determined to prove his innocence but d better give you a little more background so thatyou can understand what's easier said than donehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Bolton0008530025|title=Dead ScaredMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A few minutes before midnight on 22nd JanuaryIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. DC Lacey Flint is standing He had an injury on top the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the tallest tower in Cambridge, contemplating flyingsteps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. ItTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's a beautiful sight out there. Just one step. Mark Joesbury is entering now the chapel and pounding up the stairs… not knowing what hesubject of ''Infamous'll do, or what he'll find, when he gets to the topa true-crime show. We'll have to wait A group of experts has been brought together to review the end of the book evidence and to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552159832</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Craig|title=The Circus: An Inspector Carlyle Novel|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Journalist Duncan Brown was found dead in take the back of a rubbish truckinvestigation further. It was a prosaic introduction More to a major scandal 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 point, they're going to complain about the loud music was shot dead do this live on the doorstepcamera, episode by episode. It might have seemed that it couldnThere't get much worse, but before long Carlyle found himself up against Trevor Miller, a former police officer who had become security officer to s no dump of the Prime Ministerwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. He and Carlyle went back a long way and none of the memories were goodIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100379</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Masterton0241996104|title=White BonesComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Finding a dead body isnNancy't an unusual occurrence for Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of the Cork Gardaitheir murder. But finding We first meet Nancy outside the bones of eleven bodies in court, after Martin receives a mass grave, each with marks life sentence. The barrister tells her that suggest the flesh was stripped from them and with evidence that they were used in she's received a voodoo'silent sentence' -like ritual is beyond she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the pale even by rest of her usual standardslife. There is some respite when Of course, it appears that these bones have been dead bodies for more than 80 years, until another fresh set appear in roughly 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the same spotmost of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185064X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Whitelaw1529413680|title=Money Never Sleeps|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Fancy Jones is a crime writer. ActuallyA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, it’s Francine Double-Barrelled name but her brother never got further than being able to pronounce ‘Fancy’ and the name stuck. Her Pink Pen Detective stories are one Chief of the main reasons that she was invited to attend a writers’ conference in Derbyshire. But Fancy has other reasons for going: in London someone is trying to kill her. 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 on a bus. The bubble-wrapped piece of concrete hurled through the bedroom window as she slept convinced her - if she still had any lingering doubts. There was just one problem: the attacks continued when she got to Derbyshire and it soon became clear that she wasn’t to be the only victim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719807476</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Joseph Wambaugh|title=Harbour NocturneMartin Walker
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|summary=The Hollywood Station series One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is set (no prizes for guessing) the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in Hollywood1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. Hollywood isIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, almost by definitionKerquelin, a bit weird. A full moon the man playing one of the main characters is known as a Hollywood moon, because that's seriously injured when all he departs from the weirdoes come out to playscript. But it's Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a district that needs to be policed like any otherhelicopter. It has its fair share A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of RTAs and domestics and sad and lonely people. Not for nothing has the night shift sergeant instituted pizzasurvival but -rewarded awards for best as he'True Hollywood Romance' or 'Quiet Desperation' reports from s a given shiftsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. You need One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a black sense of humour to work the mean streetspre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800550</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana Stabenow1529196388|title=Dead in the Water (A Kate Shugak Investigation)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=Kate Shugak is Grant Cliveden was a native Aleut living in an Alaskan National Park hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and she's currently an investigator for hire. I hesitate looked up to call her a private investigator as so far she's been hired by a government agencyjust about everyone, but so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at just over five feet tall and just over thirty shethe Old Bailey. There's just one man in the best man when frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it comes to sorting out what's been going on. This time itnot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the case best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of two crew members lost from a ship off the coast of Alaska some months before. Their families want to know what happened to them. ThatStag Court Chambers and it's how Kate came to be signed on as a deckhand on the ''Avilda''. They're crabbing in some of the nastiest Taylor-Cameron and most dangerous conditions you can imaginehis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. And itKnight's determined to plead not just the weather thatguilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the problemcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800410</amazonuk>
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