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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eileen RobertsonStuart Douglas|title=We'll be Watching YouLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=It wasnDuring location filming for his 1970't that Christine Brett was exactly nosy, but life hadns sitcom 't treated her particularly kindly recently. Her marriage had ended in divorce Floggit and sheLeggit'd lost her job. Here she was, middle-aged and back living with her mother. And checking that people were not breaking leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the law was dead body of a ''duty'' not woman on the edge of a ''pleasure''reservoir. Admittedly some of her accusations had been wide of the markThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but she had been a witness when something about the robbers left the hypermarket whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the face help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the driver of country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the getaway car was familiar - if only she could place itSecond World War. Unfortunately Christine had cried wolf too often and But is there really a link between the local police weren't too inclined deaths? And will they manage to give her much credence.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719810728</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Andrez BergenStig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|titlesummary=Who Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is Killing the Great Capes of Heropafuture she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In search of entertainment, Jack crosses over from real world Melbourne Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to Heropa, where he becomes (dah daaah!) Southern Cross. However therehold seventy-five 'luxury's not much time for him to acclimatise to his new lycraapartments -clad role or his super-powerwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. As the new addition to The Equalizers he has work to doThere was no skull. The heroes of Heropa are starting to die in Was this a totally unprecedented manner so Jack joins forces ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the quartet starting with an DCI Harry Nelson. It'es difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' (but t, that she is pregnant with his child as a symbol looking suspiciously like a 'z) in an attempt to restore law and order and to remain aliveresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. For the rules have changed in this once-virtual world: death in Heropa now means death in real life too.in Heropa now means death in real life tooHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178279235X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Corban Addison0008551324|title=The Garden of Burning SandDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A little girl named Kuyeya It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is found struggling in Lusakaprison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Zambia abusedhe promises, deeply shocked is someone big and badly injuredit will be worth the police doing what he wants. American lawyer Zoe Fleming And what he wants is over there when her friend and local police officer Joseph receives to be transferred to an open prison to serve the call remainder of his sentence and so her involvement beginsto get an early parole date. SheNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's determined even prepared to help Joseph track down Kuyeya's attacker but do the trail takes some surprising turns through the underbelly of Zambia, alarming Zoe other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with the extent of the crusade shehim is kept well away from what's taken onhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063307</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=OmensA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Kelley ArmstrongJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Olivia TaylorIt's sixteen years since nine-year-Jones has old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a charmed lifehalt. Her family is rich Now, her fiance perfect mother, Helena, and though she has some questions about her careerfather are dead in their bed. Initially, she knows it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that things will work themselves outmakes 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. Until she learns Kerrigan is convinced that shethe explanation lies in Rosalie's adopted - her true parents Americadisappearance: others (such as Derwent's most infamous serial killersboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3. Suddenly on the run from the media5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Olivia finds shelter in the small town of CainsvilleRobert and Stanza. It Robert's a strange sort of place 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 - full of oddball characters and gargoyles he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that seem a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to only appear at certain timesstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Shadow CollectorJo Callaghan|authortitle=Kate EllisLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A convicted murderess When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill 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. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and alleged witch returns a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to Devil’s Tree Cottagesolve the case in time, after eighteen or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years in jail since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for butchering two teenage girlshelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. When bodies start falling in West Fretham just days after her release Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, dispatched by Wiccan ceremonial bladesArthur Crockleford, she is dead and the obvious suspectcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. But Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, for DI Wesley Petersonshe feels, something strange is going on let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the village that casts doubt on man or pursue the identity of profession she loved. After the killer split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the validity rebound from the love of Lilith Benley’s original convictionher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=The Doll's HouseHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Tania CarverNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=There can be no confusion in the name of the latest Tania Carver novel. Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''The Dolls House'' well and truly sums it s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, which is made clear as the book opens in a very pinksons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, very well laid out lounge with a living dollEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, also dressed in pinkAlec, arranging the room until it is spotlessnot. Aside from the slightly ominous undertones Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the repetition that everything must be perfect; body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the reader could almost be forgiven for initially thinking they haven’t picked up a crime novel at allriver. It soon becomes obvious that this isn’t was an easy assumption for the case though as we follow DI Phil Brennan back into police to make that same room with Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the doll sat straight-backed at the precisely laid out dinner tableguilt. This time though, the doll is dead 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>0751550523</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529900360|title=The Treasure HuntGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life for Montalbano It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and his team was slow: it seemed that even the criminals were taking life easy and there after Alex recovered, Sturgis was almost a sense of relief when an elderly man and reluctant to ask for his sister began firing into the street below their Vigata apartmenthelp on difficult cases. There wasnHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't a lot of news either - which was why Montalbano found himself need the reluctant hero help of the news programmes as he climbed up the outside of the buildinga psychologist only worked for a while. What he didnFinally, it was Robin, Delaware't realise s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that a life-sized rubber doll (you know ''exactly'' what I mean) found in the apartment would dominate his life, particularly when 'her' twin was found in a rubbish binman she loved needed. I meanThe next case did look simple, where do you keep such things? though. In Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a cupboard? remote property in Bel Air. Under He was the bed? heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. Montalbano could tell you But which of them was the drawbacks of both those locations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447228782</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=The Last Winter of Dani LancingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=P D VinerOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There’s no good Chef Paul Delamare took a 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 deal with do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the death of impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a child. When Dani Lancing is killed her parents react in different waysbroken arm, but neither it didn't turn out that way is particularly helpful or healthy. And of course neither way will bring their daughter back. It’s now 20 years later The teaching - and the mystery of whodunnit is still looming over Jim and Patty’s heads, though they’re no longer togetherproblems - are all his own. The murder of a child will do one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to a marriagebe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953294</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Bad Little FallsLaying Out the Bones|author=Paul DoironKate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Bad Little Falls'', set in It was one of those flash downpours that the wilds of rural Maine British weather often delivers in midwintera heatwave. In a gully, shows the unravelling mystery of a man stumbling out of a blizzard human skeleton came to the front door of an unsuspecting elderly couple. The man is frozen half to death surface and soon begins raving about a friend lost in forensic testing proved the stormbody to be Lee Geary, which quickly causes a frenzied rescue missionwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Soon Mike Bowditch, He'd been a game warden known drug user and Doiron’s protagonisthad learning disabilities, uncovers the missing man under so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a snow drifttownie, turning so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the hunt into a murder investigation. Whilst this initially powerful mystery becomes gradually overshadowed by Doiron’s portrayal suicide of Bowditch’s love interest, Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at least one too many descriptions the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of her anatomy, it is still an interesting the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and baffling mystery to be unravelledme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529425867|title=Desert Heart: 2 Lost and Never Found (Ellen Martin DisastersA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ten years have passed since [[Chasing Heart: 1 In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (Ellen Martin Disastersreading's not ''really'' his thing) by Mark Lingane|Chasing Heart]] and that moment that Ellen Martin met his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and fell trackies. They're usually in love with Alex Heart while he was attempting to extricate her from South American impending doomlime green or acid yellow. We now catch up with them You might wonder if you're being introduced to discover that Ellen has ditched Alex, has become a partner in her law firm and is about to fly out to the Middle East police procedural written for important business negotiations on behalf of a clientlaughs. Ellen isnWell, you't known for staying out re not. The two men are just different sides of trouble and the Middle East isn't known for its tolerance of same policing coin. Sometimes the mischievously danger-pronecombination works brilliantly well. Therefore it's not long before Ellen needs a rescuer again and, yes, Sometimes it's reunion timeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=Broken AngelsThe Winter Visitor|author=Graham MastertonJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Despite the odd reservationIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, [[White Bones by Graham Masterton|which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the first book]] in his more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he'Katie Maguires had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn' series, was good enough t long to have me eagerly reaching for the second, ''Broken Angels''live. Whilst Masterton may have dipped into some of the female detective clichés with his debut crime thrillerIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, he also dipped into stripped to his past as underwear and sent to a great horror writer and watery grave in the combination worked wellboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851182</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Naked SingularityNye of Pheasants|author=Sergio De La PavaSteve Burrows|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=You probably know that when you start DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a review of a book by quoting someone else that you are not really going short holiday in Singapore to have anything original to say about itmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Sometimes Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that's because it's already been lauded to the skies he was facing a man armed with a knife - and you agree with every published wordhe killed a Ghurka. Sometimes it isn't. ''Casi's voice is astonishing'' is one Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the blurb quotesman. I agreeNow he could be facing the death penalty. ItDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's just that you can still get tired of hearing it. And I didt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=Never Go BackThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lee ChildKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Reacher is calling on a lady friend. HeGreg Mason's never actually met her, they've just spoken on beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the phone, and point where he'll warn someone about how much he likes her voicecharges. For a drifter like Reacher with nothing better to do, that It's a good enough reason to head to Virginia job too because Greg and maybe buy her Joyce will soon have a coffeebaby and they're both delighted. Except Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when he arrives at his she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old unitfriend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's headquartersconcerned about his sister, the lady he wants Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - new commanding officer Major Susan Turner - isnit simply wasn't therein his nature. Instead, he finds himself accused of homicide, The police and brought back into the army. Someone is going coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to be very sorry about thisfind out what happened on the night Gil died. And does anyone really think it'll be Jack?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593065743</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Silence Of The LambsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Thomas HarrisAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Well, I suppose I know what all It's the fuss is about now1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Except He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it isn’t fuss, not any morewasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. It’s so famous that it’s become part 'Shades of our languageCameron Strike', you might be thinking. People who’ve never read Nice bloke, but where's the book or seen life experience that backs up this profession? On the film can name at least one of the charactersother hand, he has been asked to look into something. At twenty fiveJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, I am the same age as Silence of the Lambs (the novel) and only three years older than the filmor rather, which is incidentally the same age they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as my brother. I cannot remember a time when Hannibal Lecter was not the bogey mantragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. For some years I was under the impression that Buffalo Bill Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a real serial killertrain. There is even a rather catchy and charming song entitled ''It Rubs The Lotion On It’s Skin' Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099586576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=Pilgrim SoulThe Misper|author=Gordon FerrisKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's 1947, no doubt about that. He was the worst winter in memory is only just getting started, fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Duncan pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Brodie is a crime reporter working He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the streets manslaughter of Glasgow for the Gazetteofficer. And so lives must go on. The reason he's good at reporting is probably just natural talent For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a decent education. The reason he's good at crime missing teenager is that hefound on her territory she's drawn into a trained investigatorwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897624</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=Dead RichThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Katia LiefCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Mac'' Macleary and his wife Karin In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are retired homicide detectivesfound murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's set up in an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the private investigation businessbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, while she DCI Christine Caplan is trying hard pulled in to be a full-time mother, while still having to actively resist having her name on the office name-plate, and not-quite-but-almost resenting not being able to join 'shadow' him on stake-outs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944791</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas H Cook1529427045|title=SandrineThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Sam and Sandrine Madison live ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the American dream. Both have jobs that they lovesmall town of Gasskas, lecturing at where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the same college, an adult daughter and many memories that include area have sparked a beautiful holiday gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in the Medcoming forward. However Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the dream goes tragically sourarea to have vanished without trace. Sandrine is found dead and Sam is charged It was only with murder despite his protestations reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it was suicide. The court case begins and Sam starts quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a fight for his own life as remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the past catches up with him part Salander played in unusual and unexpected waysher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855137</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Maksik1787636607|title=A Marker to Measure DriftThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jacqueline roams It's a scene replicated all too often in the beaches early hours of the Greek islands offering massages morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for money a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to ward off starvationget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. It helps but hunger is always with herThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', lurking alongside particularly in the memory light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a former life in Liberia long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and the mindcollect her - but her phone's ear voice of dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her motheruse his. Jacqueline is at least alive There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and existing, but at what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548052</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Koethi Zan1405957174|title=The Never ListA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Friends since childhoodFrom the first page, Sarah and Jennifer had always admitted we know that they were so cautious it was daft. They'd even composed their own 'Never ListNadine Walsh's party will not end well. As long as they stuck The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to it they'd be safe, and safe they were until that one night. The night after call the college party they forgot 'Never get into the car'ambulance he so desperately needs. They did. The next thing theyWhat we don're aware of t know is waking up in a dark cellar with two other girls; four of them altogether but only three of them will emerge. A decade later, Sarah who the man is safe once again, living under a new name with all connections or why Nadine prefers to the past wipedhave him die. But then the letter arrives; heI's coming for her. Itd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's not over after allhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556554</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective0008530025|authortitle=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as the first fictional detective and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths to come, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use of logic and deduction aid the police on their most baffling cases. The characters literary debut was in the short story ''The Murders Murder in the Rue Morgue'' in 1841 and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' 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 all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and the creativity of all keeps the character fresh from story to story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Last To DieFamily|author=Tess GerritsenCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Somewhere It was in Italy 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. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one summerhas been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of people are gathered experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take down Icarusthe investigation further. They have no qualms about their mission of taking out More to the point, they're going to do this immensely wealthy man. His wife and his children are merely live on camera, episode by-standers, not to be involvedepisode. His habits have been studiedThere's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. He is a monster, to be dealt withIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0553820524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall0241996104|title=The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken (Vish Puri Mysteries)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=For those of us have not met Vish Puri before heNancy's a private investigatormother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, based in Delhihas been convicted of their murder. He's also We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a gourmet and more than a little bit overweightlife sentence. ItThe barrister tells her that she's not for nothing that his wife calls him received a 'silent sentence'Chubby''. His current case is a little unusual: he- she's called in not been found guilty of anything but will have to investigate live with what happened for the theft rest of a moustacheher life. Vish is no slouch in the facial furniture stakesOf course, but his client is the champion it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the loss is more than just an embarrassment. Then, to complicate matters Vish is present at a post-match cricket dinner when papers are making the father most of a top Pakistani player dies - from poison in his butter chickenit. When Vish is called in to investigate he has to become involved with the continent's mafias. And he has to travel to Pakistan. Yes - it's Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''thatrich bitch'' seriousmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561875</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Cold HeartsA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Gunnar StaalesenMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=After refusing a prospective client, who afterwards viciously assaulted another prostitute, Margrethe goes missing. Her worried friend One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the street visits Varg VeumEnglish in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, a local private investigatorKerquelin, in the hope that man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he will take departs from the case script. Luckily, his doctor is there and get to the bottom man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of it without survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the need for police involvementmilitary has stepped in. Varg then investigates every lead One daughter lives nearby and attempts to discover all he can about the missing woman’s unusual upbringinganother, who lives in California, racking up more trouble and past cases as well as creating dangerous enemiesis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908129433</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The InterpretationsTrial|author=David Shaw MackanzieRob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Interpretations is the second novel written Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by David Shaw Mackanzie. It's set in the Scottish Highlandsjust about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the remote town of Dalmore, after the strange disappearance of one of its residentsOld Bailey. The book is split into two parts. Part There's just one takes place man in the late 1980s while part two takes place frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in the early 2000scourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. In Knight was told that the first part we meet Tom Kingsmill, born best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and bred in Dalmore. Tom participates in a race with his local running clubpupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Part of the race route Tom is expected Knight's determined to run leads over the newlyplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-built bridge connecting Dalmore with the outside world. This bridge is the one Reverend McFarren has an obsessive hatred for. He believes the bridge is a bad omen after two teenagers jumped to their deaths just the month before. No one could have predicted the way in which the reverendCameron's hunch is proved correct. Tom fails recommendations to finish the race - in fact, he has vanished entirelycontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737263</amazonuk>
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