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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OmensStuart Douglas|authortitle=Kelley ArmstrongLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has a charmed life. Her family is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about her career, she knows that things will work themselves out. Until she learns that sheDuring location filming for his 1970's adopted - her true parents Americasitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the run from edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the mediawhole thing bothers Lowe, Olivia finds shelter in and he enlists the small town help of Cainsvillea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It's They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem link to only appear at certain timesdeath 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>1803368209

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=The Shadow CollectorDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Kate EllisStig Abell

|summary=A convicted murderess 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 alleged witch returns to Devil’s Tree Cottageher daughter Diana, after eighteen years as moving in jail for butchering two teenage girls. When bodies start falling together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in West Fretham just days after with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her release, dispatched by Wiccan ceremonial blades, she reservations about whether or not this is the obvious suspect. But, future she wants for DI Wesley Peterson, something strange is going on herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the village that casts doubt on the identity of present and putting the killer and future on the validity of Lilith Benley’s original convictionback burner. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958006</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The DollJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's Housedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Tania CarverNeil Lancaster

|summary=There can be no confusion in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the name of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the latest Tania Carver novelother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he''The Dolls House'' well and truly sums it up, which is made clear as s prepared to tell the police where the book opens in body of a very pinkmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, very well laid out lounge with a living doll, also dressed in pinkhe promises, arranging the room until it is spotless. Aside from the slightly ominous undertones someone big and it will be worth the repetition that everything must police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be perfect; transferred to an open prison to serve the reader could almost be forgiven for initially thinking they haven’t picked up a crime novel at allremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. It soon becomes obvious Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that this isn’t the case though as we follow DI Phil Brennan back into Hardie demanded - make certain that same room DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with the doll sat straight-backed at the precisely laid out dinner table. This time though, the doll him is deadkept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550523</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0571379877|title=The Treasure HuntKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Life for Montalbano and his team was slow: it seemed that even the criminals were taking life easy and there was almost Edward Jevons is a sense of relief when an elderly working-class young man , obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and his sister began firing into the street below their Vigata apartmentStanza. There wasnRobert't s a lot of news either theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - which was why Montalbano found himself the reluctant hero of the news programmes as and he's drunkenly confided how he climbed up the outside of the buildingfeels to Robert. What he didnMost men in Robert't realise was s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a life-sized rubber doll (you know relationship had begun between them but he''exactly'' what I mean) found in s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the apartment would dominate his life, particularly when 'her' twin was found two of them kissing in a rubbish bin. I mean, where do you keep such things? In a cupboard? Under the bed? Montalbano could tell you the drawbacks of both those locationsdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447228782</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Last Winter of Dani LancingJo Callaghan|authortitle=P D VinerLeave No Trace

|summary=There’s no good way to deal with When a man is found crucified on the death top of a childhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. When Dani Lancing But when there is killed her parents react in different waysa second body found crucified a few days later, but neither way Kat is particularly helpful or healthy. And suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of course neither way will bring unwanted attention to their daughter backAI Future Policing project. It’s now 20 years later and Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the mystery of whodunnit is still looming over Jim case and Patty’s heads, though they’re no longer together. The murder potentially, out of a child will do that to a marriage.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953294</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=Bad Little FallsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Paul DoironC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Bad Little Fallss back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, set in is dead and the wilds of rural Maine in midwintercircumstances seem suspicious, shows the unravelling mystery of a man stumbling out of a blizzard to say the front door of an unsuspecting elderly coupleleast. The man is frozen half Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to death and soon begins raving about a friend lost in the stormvillage: Arthur, she feels, which quickly causes a frenzied rescue missionlet her down badly. Soon Mike Bowditch Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, a game warden and Doiron’s protagonist, uncovers she has not felt able to be near the missing man under or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a snow driftcafe, turning met and married James (on the rebound from the hunt into a murder investigation. Whilst this initially powerful mystery becomes gradually overshadowed by Doiron’s portrayal of Bowditch’s love interest, and at least one too many descriptions of her anatomylife, it is still an interesting who was murdered) and Freya and baffling mystery to be unravelledJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338198</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1398524085|title=Desert Heart: 2 (Ellen Martin Disasters)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=Ten years have passed since [[Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters) by Mark Lingane|Chasing Heart]] Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and that moment that Ellen Martin met Ollie and fell in love with Alex Heart while he was attempting to extricate her from South American impending doomdaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. We now catch up with them to discover that Ellen has ditched AlexShortly afterwards, has become a partner in her law firm Etty and is about to fly out to Greg, find the Middle East for important business negotiations on behalf body of a clientGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Ellen isn't known It was an easy assumption for staying out of trouble the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and the Middle East isnthen committed suicide when he couldn't known for its tolerance of stand the mischievously danger-proneguilt. Therefore itThe Salter children are not convinced but there's not long before Ellen needs a rescuer again little else they can do but get on with their lives and, yes, it's reunion timewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478656</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=Broken AngelsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Graham MastertonJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Despite the odd reservation, [[White Bones by Graham Masterton|the first book]] in his It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Katie Maguire'' seriess fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was good enough reluctant to have me eagerly reaching ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the secondhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware''Broken Angels''s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Whilst Masterton may have dipped into some of She knew that the involvement was something that the female detective clichés with his debut crime thrillerman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, he also dipped into his past as though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a great horror writer 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's not the combination worked wellItalian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851182</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=A Naked SingularityKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Sergio De La PavaOrlando Murrin|rating=34

|summary=You probably know that when you start Chef Paul Delamare took a review of teaching job at a book by quoting someone else that you are not residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really going want to have anything original but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to say about itdo what he wanted. Sometimes Paul ''somehow'' got the impression thathe's because it's already been lauded d be at the school to the skies and you agree with every published word. Sometimes assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it isndidn'tturn out that way. ''Casi's voice is astonishing'' is one of The teaching - and the blurb quotesproblems - are all his own. I agreeThe one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. It's just Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that you can still get tired of hearing it. And I didperson to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052802</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Never Go BackLaying Out the Bones|author=Lee ChildKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Jack Reacher is calling on It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a lady friendheatwave. He's never actually met her In a gully, they've just spoken on a human skeleton came to the phone, surface and he likes her voice. For a drifter like Reacher with nothing better forensic testing proved the body to dobe Lee Geary, thatwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He's d been a good enough reason to head to Virginia known drug user and maybe buy her had learning disabilities, so it could have been a coffee. Except when he arrives at his old unit's headquarters, the lady he wants to meet - new commanding officer Major Susan Turner - isnsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't thereconvinced. Instead Geary was a townie, so what was he finds himself accused doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of homicide, Holly Gilbert and brought back into to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the armytime. Someone is going Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to be very sorry about thisyou and me) investigate.  And does anyone really think it'll be Jack?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593065743</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=The Silence Of The LambsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Thomas HarrisSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=WellIn Oxford, there are two D I suppose Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I know what all the fuss Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is about nownot. Except it isn’t fuss, He's not any more. It’s so famous that it’s become part of our language. People who’ve never read the book or seen the film can name at least one of the charactersthose things. At twenty fiveHe's white, I am the same age as Silence of the Lambs originated from a trailer park, barely educated (the novelreading's not ''really'' his thing) and only three years older than the film, which is incidentally the same age as my brotherhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. I cannot remember You might wonder if you're being introduced to a time when Hannibal Lecter was police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not . The two men are just different sides of the bogey mansame policing coin. For some years I was under Sometimes the impression that Buffalo Bill was a real serial killercombination works brilliantly well. There is even a rather catchy and charming song entitled ''It Rubs The Lotion On It’s Skin' Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099586576</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=Pilgrim SoulThe Winter Visitor|author=Gordon FerrisJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=It's 1947February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the worst winter in memory is only just getting started, and Duncan more surprising. Brodie is He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a crime reporter working the streets of Glasgow wanted drug smuggler for the Gazettea decade. The reason return has come about because he's good at reporting is probably just natural talent had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and a decent educationhasn't long to live. The reason heIt's good at crime hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is that he's abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a trained investigatorstolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897624</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=Dead RichA Nye of Pheasants|author=Katia LiefSteve Burrows

|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Mac'' Macleary s close friend and his wife Karin are retired homicide detectivesformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He's set up Maik was involved in the private investigation business, while she is trying hard to be a fullstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -time motherand he killed a Ghurka. Initially, while still having he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to actively resist having her name on light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the office name-plate, man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and not-quite-but-almost resenting not being able to join him on stake-outswouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944791</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig1521129886|title=Then We Die: An Inspector Carlyle NovelThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=If you were wondering Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where you might find Inspector John Carlyle, then having afternoon tea in the Palm Court at the Ritz might not be the first place which comes to mind. But don't worry - he's not gone upmarket - ll warn someone about how much hecharges. It's treating his mother a good job too because Greg and it comes as Joyce will soon have a bit of a shock baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she announces that shegets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's divorcing concerned about his father after fifty years of marriagesister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Carlyle thinks Lucy, he says, is convinced that what looks like a bit of trouble kicking off might be a welcome diversion Gil would never have killed himself - heit simply wasn's not ''big'' on family relationships - but he could never t in his nature. The police and the coroner have imagined accepted that the ramifications of slipping away from table whilst his mother went death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the ladiesnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100395</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas H CookB0CK3MYJ56|title=SandrineResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54

|summary= Sam It's the 1990s and Sandrine Madison live the American dreamGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Both He used to have jobs that they love, lecturing at the same college, an adult daughter and many memories that include a beautiful holiday high-flying job in the Medcity 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? However On the dream goes tragically sourother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Sandrine is found dead Joyce and Sam is charged with murder despite his protestations that it Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was suicidekilled in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The court case begins Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Sam starts Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a fight for his own life as the past catches up with him in unusual and unexpected waystrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855137</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Maksik1838954481|title=A Marker to Measure DriftThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=54

|summary=Jacqueline roams Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the beaches of fifteen-year-old holding the Greek islands offering massages for money to ward off starvationgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It helps He pulled the trigger but hunger is always with her, lurking alongside due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the memory manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a former quieter life in Liberia and the mindcountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's ear voice drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of her motherRyan Kennedy. Jacqueline is at least alive and existing, but at what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548052</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Koethi Zan1448309743|title=The Never ListDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=Friends since childhoodIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Sarah and Jennifer had always admitted that they were so cautious it was daft. They'd even composed their own 'Never List'. As long as they stuck to it they'd be safe, and safe they were until that one nightfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The night after only item missing from the home is the college party they forgot 'Never get into Devil Stone: myth says that if the car'. They didstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The next thing theyonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that're aware of is waking up in a dark cellar with s an easy conclusion given that two other girls; four of them altogether 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but only three of them will emerge. A decade laterwhen he disappears, Sarah DCI Christine Caplan is safe once again, living under a new name with all connections pulled in to the past wiped. But then the letter arrives; he's coming for her. Itshadow's not over after allhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556554</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)|rating=3Well yes, it is.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as Jem Rosco blew into the first fictional detective and at local pub one evening in the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint middle of an autumn gale, stayed for many sleuths about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to comethe village of Greystone, most notably Sherlock Holmesin Devon. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use Rosco had the status of logic a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and deduction aid the police on their most baffling cases. The characters literary debut was in the short story all round ''The Murders in the Rue Morguecelebrity'' in 1841 and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. I ''Beyond Rue Morguenearly'' contains nine stories (in addition to the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on the same character or influenced by him. From samurai assassins and the apocalypse to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting to solve a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers said 'all take the intriguing character to places -round good egg' but as we wouldn’t expect 'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the creativity of all keeps money for his first boat? How did he finance the character fresh from story to story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>trip?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=Last To DieThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Tess GerritsenKarin Smirnoff

|summary=Somewhere in Italy one summer''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, a group where the so-far-untapped natural resources of people are gathered to take down Icarus. They the area have no qualms about their mission of taking out this immensely wealthy mansparked a gold rush. His wife and his children are merely by-standers, The criminal underworld has not to be involvedbeen slow in coming forward. His habits Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have been studiedvanished without trace. He It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a monster, to be dealt withremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0553820524</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall1787636607|title=The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken (Vish Puri Mysteries)Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=For those of us have not met Vish Puri before heIt's a private investigator, based scene replicated all too often in Delhithe early hours of the morning. He's also a gourmet Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and more than looking for a little bit overweightway to get home. It's not for nothing that his wife calls him ''Chubby''Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. His current case is a little unusual: he's called in to investigate Others squash onto the theft night bus that will only go as far as one of a moustachethe outlying villages. Vish is no slouch in The woman all regret the facial furniture stakes'taxi problem', but his client is particularly in the champion and light of 'the loss is more than just an embarrassmentmissing women'. ThenFor one young woman, to complicate matters Vish is present at the final stop on the bus leaves her a post-match cricket dinner when the father long way short of a top Pakistani player dies - from poison in his butter chickenher home. When Vish is called in She had intended to investigate he has ring someone to become involved with the continentcome and collect her - but her phone's mafiasdead. And he has The bus had driven off before she had the chance to travel beg the bus driver to Pakistanlet her use his. Yes - itThere's ''that'' seriousno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561875</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=Cold HeartsA Death at the Party|author=Gunnar StaalesenAmy Stuart

|summary=After refusing a prospective client, who afterwards viciously assaulted another prostitute, Margrethe goes missing. Her worried friend from From the street visits Varg Veum, a local private investigatorfirst page, in the hope we know that he Nadine Walsh's party will take the case not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and get Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the bottom of it without ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the need for police involvementman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Varg then investigates every lead and attempts to discover all he I'd better give you a little more background so that you can about the missing woman’s unusual upbringing, racking up more trouble and past cases as well as creating dangerous enemiesunderstand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908129433</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=The InterpretationsMurder in the Family|author=David Shaw MackanzieCara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=The Interpretations is the second novel written by David Shaw Mackanzie. It's set was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the Scottish Highlandsbody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the remote town garden of Dalmore, after their West London home. He had an injury on the strange disappearance back of one of its residents. The book is split into two parts. Part one takes place in his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the late 1980s while part two takes place in steps but the early 2000svicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. In Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the first part we meet Tom Kingsmillsubject of ''Infamous'', born and bred in Dalmore. Tom participates in a race with his local running clubtrue-crime show. Part A group of experts has been brought together to review the race route Tom is expected evidence and to run leads over the newly-built bridge connecting Dalmore with take the outside worldinvestigation further. This bridge is More to the one Reverend McFarren has an obsessive hatred for. He believes the bridge is a bad omen after two teenagers jumped point, they're going to their deaths just the month beforedo this live on camera, episode by episode. No one could have predicted the way in which the reverend There's hunch is proved correct. Tom fails to finish no dump of the race whole box set - in fact, he has vanished entirelyand no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737263</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VM Giambanco0241996104|title=The Gift of DarknessComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Thirteen days. These are the words etched into the door jamb of James and Annie SinclairNancy's bedroom while James, Annie mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their two young sons lay on the bedSussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, murderedhas been convicted of their murder. Newbie in We first meet Nancy outside the Seattle PD homicide divisioncourt, Detective Alison Madison, gradually realises after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a truth as horrific as 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the scene with which she and rest of her colleagues are facedlife. It all started with a historic kidnapping Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from 25 years earlier her mother - and now time is running outthe papers are making the most of it. Thirteen days… They aren't just carved words, they're a ticking clock. Thirteen days to solve the case. Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''Thirteen days before darkness descends.rich bitch''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878702</amazonuk>might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina1529413680|title=The Red RoadA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Everyone remembers where they were One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and what they were doing when they heard that Princess Diana was dead, right? On that August night fourteen-year-old (but she Bruno''looks'' sixteen, as she would tell you herself) Rose Wilson snappeds there to see the show with some friends. SheIt'd s all been pimped out by her boyfriend and let down by everyone - very carefully choreographed but that night she committed two dreadful crimes and it seemed that her life was overgoes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Then a defence lawyer took pity on her Luckily, his doctor is there and set out to save her from the worst consequencesman is whisked away in a helicopter. Well over A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a decade later DI Alex Morrow is a witness senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in the case of Michael Brown. Brown is vicious One daughter lives nearby and brutalanother, who lives in California, damaged beyond hope of salvation but Morrow knows that something is wrong when fingerprint evidence places him at the site flying in with some of her father's friends for a murder committed the week before pre- when he was safely in prisonarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409140717</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=StolenThe Trial|author=Rebecca MuddimanRob Rinder

|summary=''Stolen'' is Grant Cliveden was a gripping tale about hero: a child policeman who is abducted. Her mother, Abbiestood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was forced from her car, taken off murdered in a van and brutally attackedplain sight at the Old Bailey. Eventually, abandoned by her attackers, she found help from passing travellers but by There's just one man in the time that she returned to her carframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, Beth, her baby, had disappearedcharged with Cliveden's murder. A police search ensued but neither Abbie’s attackers nor Knight was told that the baby could be found. Things are further complicated when Paulbest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Abbie’s husbandAdam Green, discovers that he is who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not Beth’s natural father. He leaves Abbie alone but she refuses guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to accept that her daughter might be deadthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190188886X</amazonuk>