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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon BeckettStuart Douglas|title=Stone BruisesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=When we meet Sean itDuring location filming for his 1970's obvious that hesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the run, but it will be edge of a long time before we find out what fromreservoir. He's drivingThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, in France and he knows that he has to get rid enlists the help of the cara fellow actor, but when he does so he finds himself in far worse difficultyJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Cutting They travel across farmland he puts his foot in the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a metal mantrap and can't free himself. The damage link to his foot is considerable and he soon loses consciousness - but when he comes to he's in the hayloft at the farm, being looked after by death during the farmer's elder daughterSecond World War. The farmer But is definitely not pleased when he finds out, the younger daughter in a mantrap in her own right and there's really a lot of animosity against link between the family in the local village.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073282</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=This Dark Road to MercyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Wiley CashStig Abell|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Easter Quilby is twelve years oldFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her sister Ruth are daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a children's home. Not so long ago they woke lot of compromise: does Jake give up to find their mother slouched across the bed, dead. Drink his off-grid and drugs and a hard, sad relaxing life had finally got to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her, reservations about whether or maybe not this is the future she wants for herself and her body just gave up on it. daughter? Their father, Wade Chesterfield, sometime baseball star, had lit out For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on them three years earlierthe back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752223X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=RespectThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Mandasue HellerElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=Growing up is difficult Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the best bones of circumstancesa child beneath a doorway. The council estate where Chantelle has grown up in isn't decaying - it is dead and rotten There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It has become a holding place for those who are condemned to a life of crime's difficult as Ruth knows, at least when they arenbut Nelson doesn't serving time. It , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the type of place that saps ambition and hope from its unlucky inhabitantsone night they spent together some three months ago. But Chantelle Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is determined prone to break out. She has avoided all the pitfalls waiting for children in her situation, avoiding drugs, alcohol, crime and dead end relationshipssudden bouts of sickness. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769472</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=East of InnocenceThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=David ThorneNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary='WhatIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the difference between God other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and a lawyer? The man sitting across the desk from me, eyes fixed on my face, doesn't look like he'd appreciate s prepared to tell the punch linepolice where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death.' Terry Campion wouldn't even understand the punch line This person, but then his lawyerhe promises, Daniel Connell knows just how untrue is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants isto be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He should. Not much to ask, is it? HeThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a lawyer even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who has somehow lost works with him is ability to mete out his own salvation let alone anyone elsekept well away from what'shappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782392203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis0008405026|title=The Shroud MakerA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a sixteen years since nine-year on since the last Palkin Festival when Jenny Bercival -old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and this time D I Wesley Peterson is called in when the body of a young woman is discovered floating out investigation ground to sea in a dinghyhalt. The town is packed with visitors who've come to celebrate the life of the fourteenth century mayor of TradmouthNow, her mother, but John Palkin was no saint eitherHelena, having made his fortune and her father are dead in trade and the odd bit of piracytheir bed. Jenny BercivalInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's mother is convinced something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her daughter is still alive boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- she's even received some letters which back this up and- but Peterson shut case is concerned that the two cases might be linkednow a complex double murder. If one woman has been brutally murdered Kerrigan is convinced that the outlook for the one who has been missing for a year doesnexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't look goods boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958049</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Lythell0571379877|title=The Lie Of You: I Will Have What Is MineKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Kathy thinks she has everything: the job; the baby; Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and himStanza. But she doesnRobert't have my wills a theatre director. She has no hidden places.He'' Thus speaks Hejas also self-obsessed, demanding, Kathy's colleague on the architecture magazinehandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Kathy is coming to terms Edward has been in love with a new husband, a new baby Stanza since their university days - and the inevitable return he's drunkenly confided how he feels to her demanding career as an editorRobert. Heja doesn't mind though; sheMost men in Robert's patient and will use Kathyposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's preoccupation for her own devious purposes. Whether Kathy realises it or not, Heja like most men: Edward is upset and unsettled with a vengeance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rubbernecker|author=Belinda Bauer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Anatomy students at Cardiff University have left to work out stumble upon the correct cause of death of bodies they dissect as part two of their studies. This creates them kissing in a problem for student Patrick Fort when he becomes increasingly convinced that his subject has been murdereddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779490</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Wrong Quarry Jo Callaghan|authortitle=Max Allan CollinsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To create When a true anti-hero man is no easy task. I have read plenty found crucified on the top of crime fiction that reports a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to have an unlikable son of a gun at the centre of case alongside her sidekick, the storyAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, but rarely are they actually that badhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. You might get But when there is a second body found crucified a detective few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a gruff exterior, but potential serial killer and a kind heart. Or perhaps very high profile case that draws a career criminal whose sense lot of morals are actually better than the cops. Thank goodness then for Max Allan Collin’s ''Quarry'' novelsunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Old school murder mysteries that have Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a hitman at their heart (usually pointing his gun at it).career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781162662</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Costello and Neil Richards1035021803|title=Cherringham - The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder on Thames: A Cozy Crime Series|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sarah Edwards returned with her two children It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to sleepy Cherringham in the Cotswolds after her marriage fell apartEnglish country village where she grew up. Jack Brennan was She's back now because of a homicide detective with NYPD and a year ago he lost his wiferequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. All he wants now Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is peace and quiet dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to that end he's living on a canal boat in Cherringhamsay the least. Both of them thought that what they needed Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to get away from the stress and strain - but village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they're just beginning were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to realise that there's something missing in their livesbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. ExcitementAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GFJ9UFG</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=CloudlandHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Joseph OlshanNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Catherine WinslowCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, a retired investigative journalistsons Niall, writes household columns for various newspapers while she sits holed up in Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her house husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in Vermontthe river. One day, It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the winter snow started melting, she discovered a body near her propertyguilt. The discovery unearthed a series of killings which Catherine Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and her neighbour a forensic psychiatrist set out to solvewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906413924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1529900360|title=As Serious As Death (Primavera Blackstone Mystery)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Primavera Blackstone is determined to live a quiet life. SheIt hadn's happy in her role as a single parent to the late Oz Blackstonet been Lt Milo Sturgis's three children (one of hersfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, two of someone else's Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and- donshut cases which didn't askneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's complicatedpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again...) and living in a village on She knew that the involvement was something that the Spanish coast suits her perfectlyman she loved needed. She's OK with Liam Matthews tooThe next case did look simple, though. He's not Two lovers were murdered in the love swimming pool of her life but they rub along well together until Liam mentions the M worda remote property in Bel Air. Primavera doesn't want He was the heir to get married an Italian shoe empire and before long Liam she is on his way. Problems never seem married to come on their own - an extremely rich man and it's not the next one is the arrival of a retired policeman from her Scottish pastItalian. Ricky Ross is now a private detective and he's working for Jack Weighley, owner But which of a budget airline and a man whose PR makes him seem nicer than them was the reality would prove.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357132</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=BinaryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Michael CrichtonOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Switch on TV over the holiday season and you will eventually stumble across Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a show about celebrities before they were famous. Sit back and watch Hollywood Royalty gurn on an advert or appear residential cookery school in an early episode of ‘Grange Hill’Belgravia. Working before you hit the limelight does not happen solely He didn't really want to actors; authors often but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a life before they put pen to paper (or finger way of getting both men and women to keyboard)do what he wanted. Indeed, Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the likes of Stephen Kingschool to assist Paul, Jack Higgins and many others who had a prolific career under a nom de plumebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Michael Crichton is another such author The teaching - and after the problems - are all his untimely death 1998 we will be unlikely own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to see any new works by himturn up dead. ThankfullyUnfortunately, he was the publisher ''Titan Books'' has gone back person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to his earlier days under be the name John Lange to re-release some of his hardboiled crime fictionprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783291257</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Monument to MurderLaying Out the Bones|author=Mari HannahKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Kate Daniels is working It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Northumberland, following the discovery of two bodies buried on a beachheatwave. In a gully, overlooking a beautiful vista. With no knowledge of human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the local communitybody to be Lee Geary, Daniels who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and her loyal team had learning disabilities, so it could have an overwhelming amount of work to do, as well as been a strong sense simple case of justice powering them onmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Meanwhile Geary was a townie, recently widowed Emily McCann is struggling so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to cope with a return to her prison work, as well as the added complication suicide of a prisoner who has taken a shine Holly Gilbert and to hertwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. And Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the two situations are about Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to collide with one hell of an impact…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447246047</amazonuk>you and me) investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Love LucidWilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Lucid 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 more than a full-immersion role play game; itnot. He's THE full-immersion role play gamenot any of those things. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs to be done is to plug in and the playerHe's brain will take them to the virtual world while during sleepwhite, originated from a trailer park, providing perfect lucidity barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and an alternative life within an avatarhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. However itYou might wonder if you's also becoming the game re being introduced to die a police procedural written forlaughs. YesWell, literally die for as players are being murdered while theyyou're connectednot. Detective Evan Waugh is The two men are just different sides of the investigator given the case to prove that he still has what it takessame policing coin. However there's an added complication for both he and Seth as Sometimes the investigation continuescombination works brilliantly well. Her name is Ellen, the woman for whom Lucid isn't just a way of life, Sometimes it ''is'' her lifes problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1982 DS Jack Frost - not yet forty years old - It's February 1991 and Essex is burying his wifebitingly cold, Marywhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. There The return has come about because he's had a good turnout for the funeral letter from the police force and the local Masonshis ex-wife, which saying that she's ill and hasn'might'' be the reason why the local ne'er-do-wells seem t long to be rather more active than usuallive. Superintendent Mullett makes a day (It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and rather sent to a lot of watery grave in the night) boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is ita warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, whilst Jack finds himself back at the police station and taking a call about Danny Maik, has taken a foot found short holiday in a fieldSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. ('We're looking for someone Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a very bad limpknife - and he killed a Ghurka...') Add in Initially, he faced a rape at charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the local comprehensive school (hot on man. Now he could be facing the heels of one near death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a pub) diplomatic incident and a new computer system which seems designed to confuse and it's obvious that Jack isnwouldn't going to get much chance to grieve for his wife - not that she was help Danny at the top of his list of priorities before she diedall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059307100X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1521129886|title=Saints of the Shadow BibleThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlie Watts said that being in Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the Rolling Stones for fifty years consisted of 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 decade drumming baby and four decades waiting for something to happenthey're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. John Rebus Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- back in CID - is feeling much the same way as business is slowlaw appears to have killed himself. HeStuart's had to come back in as a sergeantconcerned about his sister, Lucy, but being back was what was important. Hewho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not even ''that'' worried about working for Siobhan Clarke when their positions used to be reversedthriving. On the other hand Lucy, he's not pleased when Inspector Malcolm Fox from Professional Standards (''or whatever they're calling themselves this week'') investigates what happened some thirty years before at a station where Rebus was the new sergeant (first time round...). Fox says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself isn- it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the best of positions though - hedeath was suicide, but Stuart's on his way back prepared to CID where he knows that he's going pay Greg to be loathed by everyone for find out what happened on the job he's been doingnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144747</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Almost LoveResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Christina JamesAnn Macarthur|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=When It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you pick might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a crime novel tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and it has the weight of a brick in your handher parents, your suspicions arenOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't immediately alertedunderstand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Many a gripping tale takes a while in the tellingGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773460</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1838954481|title=Montalbano's First CaseThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Montalbano Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was just thirty five the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and he was a deputy Inspector up in pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the mountains, which he hated trigger but due to the extent that they could put him off his food. But in vagaries of the way that such things are known, jury system he knew that he would be promoted before long. What was found not known was where he would be promoted ''to'' guilty of both the murder and this worried himthe manslaughter of the officer. If it was another posting in the mountains he would resignAnd so lives must go on. His girlfriend's uncle told For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the couple that it was Vigata, which delighted Montalbano capital and he went to visit, unfortunately witnessing an assault. The wiser traffic cop hoping for a quieter life in the area was otherwise engaged (chatting to countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a couple wider investigation - and back into the orbit of dogs, as it happened...) but Montalbano was quick to correct the car registration which he'd noted down wronglyRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00FJNMB6E</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=Closed for WinterThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Jorn Lier HorstCaro Ramsay|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=On a remote stretch In the village of Cronchie on the southern Norwegian West coast sits of Scotland, five members of a selection of holiday cottages – second homes for the moderately wealthyfamily are found murdered. When a man turns up to close his down securely for The only item missing from the winter he finds he has been burgled. What's more he finds what seems to be home is the culprit in Devil Stone: myth says that if the neighbouring property – stone cold dead behind his balaclava and black clothingis removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The explanation may perhaps lie only suspects are known Satanists but in the fact many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the secluded coastline has been often used for a different kind of crime, body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but even when Inspector Wisting factors drug-runners into the proceedingshe disappears, his investigation will still not run according DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to plan…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737492</amazonuk>'shadow' him.
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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?''
Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'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 money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1529427045|title=Under A Silent MoonThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On the morning of the first of November 2012 the police were called ''Life has more to a cottage just outside a small English village. A popular, attractive young woman had been found dead and murder was suspected. Was it a coincidence that there was then a report of an apparent suicide of a woman who lived close by? Her car had rolled down into a quarry. For DCI Louisa Smith this was her first major incident and it was complicated when she found that the DI on her team was Andy Hamilton. Sheoffer than people - prime numbers for example'd been in a relationship with him and it lasted until she discovered that he was married. Hamilton hadn't given up on her though - he was still convinced that she would come back to him. Not that he planned on it breaking up his marriage, of course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00ANOB8GS</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Bronze GodsThe Trap|author=A A AguireCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=One It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the new worlds night bus that will only go as far as one of the authors have createdoutlying villages. Where is The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are light of 'the customsmissing women'. For one young woman, et cetera, et ceterathe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating She had intended to ring someone to come and steampunk mixed with fantasy is collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the double hitbus driver to let her use his. Throw There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings of a really good timehigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall1405957174|title=The Case of A Death at the Love Commandos (Vish Puri Mysteries)Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ram and Tulsi fell in love but their different castes meant From the first page, we know that TulsiNadine Walsh's family were completely against their marrying, with Tulsi's father locking her up and saying that he would hunt down Ramparty will not end well. The Love Commandos victim - a group formed to help mixedman -caste couples - came is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to their aid, but when they liberated Tulsi, Ram was snatched from his hiding placecall the ambulance he so desperately needs. For Vish Puri, IndiaWhat we don's 'Most Private Investigator', it was proving t know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to be a difficult monthhave him die. HeI'd failed to retrieve some stolen jewels, better give you a pickpocket had removed his wallet (and he had to depend his Mummy-ji to retrieve it) and this case just made everything worse. He could see the problem - but Vish wasn't ''little more background so thatyou can understand what'' convinced about love matchess happening. Then he found that his arch rival, Hari Kumar, was also trying to find Ram - but for whom?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Corley0008530025|title=Dead of WinterMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Louise Nightingale is investigating a series of sexual attacks which are becoming increasingly violent. The latest victim is It was in hospital December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Nightingale sees something found the body of her younger self stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the girl in 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 bedvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Jenni Twenty years later, no one has been sleeping rough. Itcharged with his murder and it's not her real name, but she's ''very'' insistent about now the subject of ''iInfamous'', a true-crime show. Superintendent Andrew Fenwick is A group of experts has been brought in together to investigate review the disappearance of seventeen-year-old Isabel Mattias, evidence and to take the daughter of an artist and a rock star who died five years ago in a car crashinvestigation further. She disappeared from her exclusive boarding schoolMore to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, but has she run away or been abducted? episode by episode. Her friends seem unwilling to provide much information There's no dump of the whole box set - and even the teachers feel that respecting Issieno shortage of cliffhangers. It's privacy is importantcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014776</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Eileen RobertsonJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|titlesummary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Wefirst meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter''ll is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be Watching Youprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasnOne 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 Bruno't that Christine Brett was exactly nosy, but life hadn't treated her particularly kindly recentlys there to see the show with some friends. Her marriage had ended in divorce and sheIt'd lost her jobs all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Here she wasLuckily, middle-aged his doctor is there and back living with her mother. And checking that people were not breaking the law was a ''duty'' not man is whisked away in a ''pleasure''helicopter. Admittedly some A local doctor (and friend of her accusations had been wide Bruno) wonders about his chances of the mark, survival but she had been - as he's a witness when senior government employee, the robbers left man who runs Frenchelon - the hypermarket and the face of the driver of the getaway car was familiar - if only she could place itmilitary has stepped in. Unfortunately Christine had cried wolf too often One daughter lives nearby and the local police werenanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father't too inclined to give her much credences friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719810728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrez Bergen1529196388|title=Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In search of entertainment, Jack crosses over from real world Melbourne Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to Heropaby just about everyone, where so there was public uproar when he becomes (dah daaah!) Southern Crosswas murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. However thereThere's not much time just one man in the frame for him to acclimatise to his new lycramurder -clad role or his superJimmy Knight -powerand it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. As Knight was told that the new addition to The Equalizers he has work to dobest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. The heroes of Heropa are starting Knight's determined to die in a totally unprecedented manner so Jack joins forces with the quartet starting with an plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'e' (but with a symbol looking suspiciously like a 'z) in an attempt s recommendations to restore law and order and to remain alive. 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 toocontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178279235X</amazonuk>
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