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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth HaynesStuart Douglas|title=Promises to Keep: A Short Story|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Jo is haunted by the death of a teenage asylum seeker whilst in police custody and she only hangs on to her fragile sanity by running. Whilst she's out in the woods (where she'd been warned that she ''really'' shouldn't go) she discovered a young boy living rough Lowe and she knew that she had to do everything in her power to keep him safe. There were complications. Her partner was DS Sam Hollands who had a direct involvement with asylum seekers Le Breton Mysteries - and the boy living rough in the woods was the younger brother of the dead teenager. Sam wanted to get her relationship with Jo back onto an even keel, but one night she returned from work to find a stranger in her house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00I9GXP2M</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Bradley|title=Speaking from Among Death at the BonesDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Many eleven year olds would be excited at During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the thought dead body of a five-hundred-year-old tomb being opened to (hopefully) reveal woman on the bones edge of the local saint, but Flavia de Luce had what might almost be called a professional interestreservoir. Before The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the opening whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of the tomb she'd been associated with four dead bodies (a fellow actor, John Le Breton to say that she was instrumental in solving help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders sounds just and, seemingly, a little too much like ''bragging'' doesn't it?) but this time she really wasn't expecting link to find Mr Collicut, death during the church organist who had been missing for six weeksSecond World War. Still, But is there he was, dead - and wearing really a gas mask.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409118185</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Welsh0008517061|title=A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The summer of Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the great heat wave is also the summer future of death. Stevie thought nothing his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didn't register. Then the illness camecompromise: plaguedoes Jake give up his off-like symptoms sweeping across the world. When Stevie's boyfriend dies it's easy grid and relaxing life to put it down move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch future she wants for herself and she won't stop till she's followed it, no matter what happens or who tries to stop herdaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=Water MusicThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Margie OrfordElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cassie is out riding on a bridle path hardly used Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the height bones of summer, totally deserted in wintera child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Her horse takes Was this a tumbleritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and she goes Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with itDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, and stumbles into a tinybut Nelson doesn't, plastic-wrapped that she is pregnant with his child, maybe as a result of the one night they spent together some three-years oldmonths ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and painfully thin, foot-soles like marble and skin blue with coldnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=PoppetThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Mo HayderNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Jack Caffrey It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has been around any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a while now, I just haven't previously stumbled into his deep dark worldmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the sixth in police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the series remainder of books featuring the plain clothed Detective Inspector of Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Teamhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, but you donis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't need think so and she's even prepared to have read any of do the others to enjoy other thing that Hardie demanded - if enjoy make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is the right word - this (not quite the) latest offeringkept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857500767</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley0008405026|title=The Dead A Stranger in Their Vaulted Archesthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Flavia de Luce is nearly twelve but sheIt's grown up without sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the presence of investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother who is presumed to have died in a mountaineering accident , Helena, and her father are dead in Tibet when Flavia was just a babytheir bed. The loss has left its mark on Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the family: Colonel de Luce is a broken man positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was Harriet who owned the family home going to be an open- Buckshaw and- they've lived in shut case is now a financial limbocomplex double murder. But now HarrietKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's body has been found and we join the family disappearance: others (such as itDerwent's brought back to the village on a train commissioned by the government. The great and the good boss, Una Burt) are there - including Winston Churchill - but there's also a mysterious death. And the man who has died whispered a warning to Flavia just before he went under the wheels of the trainless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409118193</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie0571379877|title=The Madness of JulyKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A dead body Edward Jevons is found in a Houses of Parliament broom cupboard on a hot 1970s summer dayworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. A sinister enough event normally but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concernsRobert's a theatre director. The fact the deceased has WillHe's phone number in his pocket triggers a series of events that not only tests his loyalty to workalso self-obsessed, demanding, country handsome and family but will take Will from the everyday political cut entitled and thrust uses Edward to his old jobrun errands for him. The job Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he hoped 's drunkenly confided how hefeels to Robert. Most men in Robert'd walked s position would stay away fromStanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: spyingEdward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann PurserJo Callaghan|title=Scandal at Six: A Lois Meade MysteryLeave No Trace|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lois Meade leads When a busy life. As if running her own cleaning company isn't sufficient she can never resist doing man is found crucified on the top of a bit of ''ferretin' '' when something strange happens hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the village of Long Farndencase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt's so good that local police inspector Hunter Cowgill is only too pleased to involve her as his assistanttheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Mind youBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, it probably helps that Cowgill Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very fond high profile case that draws a lot of Lois and his nephew (also a policeman) is married unwanted attention to Lois' daughter, Josietheir AI Future Policing project. This Will they be able to solve the case in time, local zookeeperor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, Robert Pettinson and his nephewpotentially, Justin Brookes are involved in trading endangered animals and they'd prefer that Lois and her family kept their noses out of their business.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>042526176X</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig1035021803|title=A Man of Sorrows: An Inspector Carlyle NovelThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector John Carlyle It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a lot on his platerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. His attack on a paedophile priest left Father McGowan injured Freya's former mentor and angry Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Carlyle in a vulnerable positionthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The fact that Arthur was the Pope is due reason why Freya had not been back to visit ups the political pressure and brings Carlyle into conflict with his old nemesisvillage: Arthur, Christian Holyrodshe feels, the Mayor of Londonlet her down badly. Then there's Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the armed robbery at a very upmarket Mayfair jeweller when tens of millions of pounds worth of stock goes missing - along with one of man or pursue the assistantsprofession she loved. Normally he'd have had some support from his bossAfter the split, but she's on secondment worked in Canada a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the man replacing love of her has great hopes for Carlyle - mainly that he can get him dismissed. Then Carlyle's wife has a serious health scare life, who was murdered) and Freya and his daughter is growing up ''very'' fastJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Hogan1398524085|title=A Pleasure and a Calling|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Estate agent William Heming has got it right. He owns a successful estate agency and yet isn't too noticeable. He's helpful, but not in a memorable way. A bit on the beige side perhaps but that’s just the way he likes it, living a life that assists society. Take the time he entered the home of the gentleman who refused to clear up his dog's leavings for instance. It's ok – Heming didn't break in. He already has the key as he once sold the house. How many of his former clients' keys has he actually kept, you wonderHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? The answer's easy: all of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laura Wilson|title=The RiotNicci French|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Stratton has moved to a new posting Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Notting Hill is fresh territory to himher daughter, Etty. are all worried but he’s going to have to get to know it fast when a rent collector - strangely - her husband, Alec, is stabbednot. There’s a sense Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of loss from Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the people who knew river. It was an easy assumption for the man - he was inclined police to help if make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he could and with landlords wanting to oust rent-controlled tenants so that they could put ‘coloured’ people or prostitutes in their place (higher rents, you see) any help was welcomecouldn't stand the guilt. Added to this The Salter children are not convinced but there are increasing numbers of street fights involving teddy boys. It’s 1958 - 's little else they can do but get on with their lives and there’s a heatwavewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Atheist's Prayer1529900360|authortitle=Amy R Biddle|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with them. On the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? But, is it really that shocking? Nope. This is a story about how people deal with the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=David Mark|title=Original SkinJonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Aector McAvoy was rather hoping It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he might be getting a reputation felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his investigative skills but when we first meet him in ''Original Skin'help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn' t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's his ability with animals which is to the forepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. If you want a runaway horse stopping then he's your She knew that the involvement was something that the manshe loved needed. He's distracted about something else too: whilst other detectives are working on a The next case which involves travellers and violent drug-related crime he's unable to get did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the case swimming pool of Simon Appleyard out of his minda remote property in Bel Air. Simon He was deeply into the swinging scene heir to an Italian shoe empire and liked to live life she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the full, so why did this slender young man with Italian. But which of them was the peacock feathers tattooed on his back commit suicide one morningprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389785</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Beckett178763681X|title=Stone BruisesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we meet Sean itChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's obvious that he's on the run, t really want to but it will be celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a long time before we find out way of getting both men and women to do what fromhe wanted. HePaul ''somehow''s driving, in France and he knows got the impression that he has 'd be at the school to get rid of the carassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but when he does so he finds himself in far worse difficulty. Cutting across farmland he puts his foot in a metal mantrap and canit didn't free himselfturn out that way. The damage to his foot is considerable teaching - and he soon loses consciousness the problems - but when are all his own. The one thing he comes hadn't expected was for someone to he's in the hayloft at the farm, being looked after by the farmer's elder daughterturn up dead. The farmer is definitely not pleased when Unfortunately, he finds out, was the person who discovered the younger daughter in a mantrap in her own right body and there's a lot of animosity against everyone knows that the family in police consider that person to be the local villageprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=This Dark Road to MercyLaying Out the Bones|author=Wiley CashKate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Easter Quilby is twelve years old. She and her sister Ruth are It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a children's homeheatwave. Not so long ago they woke up In a gully, a human skeleton came to find their mother slouched across the bedsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, deadwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Drink He'd been a known drug user and drugs and a hard, sad life had finally got to herlearning disabilities, or maybe her body just gave up on so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Their fatherGeary was a townie, Wade Chesterfield, sometime baseball star, had lit so what was he doing out on them three years earlierSalisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752223X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=RespectLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Mandasue HellerSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Growing up In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is difficult in the best of circumstancesNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The council estate where Chantelle has grown up in isn't decaying - it D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is dead and rottennot. It has become a holding place for He's not any of those who are condemned to things. He's white, originated from a life of crimetrailer park, at least when they arenbarely educated (reading't serving time. It is the type s not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of place that saps ambition shell suits and hope from its unlucky inhabitantstrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. But Chantelle is determined You might wonder if you're being introduced to break outa police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. She has avoided all Sometimes the pitfalls waiting for children in her situation, avoiding drugs, alcohol, crime and dead end relationshipscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769472</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=East of InnocenceThe Winter Visitor|author=David ThorneJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary='WhatIt's the difference between God February 1991 and a lawyer? The man sitting across the desk from me, eyes fixed on my faceEssex is bitingly cold, doesnwhich made Bruce Hopkins't look like hereturn all the more surprising. He'd appreciate been exiled on the punch lineCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he' Terry Campion wouldns had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't even understand the punch line, but then his lawyer, Daniel Connell knows just how untrue it islong to live. He should. HeIt's a lawyer who has somehow lost hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is ability abducted, stripped to mete out his own salvation let alone anyone else'sunderwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782392203</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis0861541774|title=The Shroud MakerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a year on since the last Palkin Festival when Jenny Bercival disappeared and this time D I Wesley Peterson is called short holiday in when the body of a young woman is discovered floating out Singapore to sea in a dinghymeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The town is packed with visitors who've come to celebrate the life of the fourteenth century mayor of Tradmouth, but John Palkin Maik was no saint either, having made his fortune involved in trade a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and the odd bit of piracyhe killed a Ghurka. Jenny Bercival's mother is convinced Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that her daughter is still alive - she's even received some letters which back this up - but Peterson is concerned suggested that he might have planned to murder the two cases might man. Now he could be linkedfacing the death penalty. If one woman has been brutally murdered the outlook for the one who has been missing for Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a year doesndiplomatic incident and wouldn't look goodhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958049</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Lythell1521129886|title=The Lie Of You: I Will Have What Is MineThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'Kathy thinks she has everything: the ll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job; the too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby; and himthey're both delighted. But Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she doesn't gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have my willkilled himself. She has no hidden places.Stuart'' Thus speaks Hejas concerned about his sister, Lucy, Kathywho's colleague on the architecture magazine. Kathy is coming struggling to terms with a new husband, a new baby make ends meet and the inevitable return to her demanding career as an editorson is not thriving. Heja doesnLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't mind though; she's patient in his nature. The police and will use Kathythe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's preoccupation for her own devious purposes. Whether Kathy realises it or not, Heja is upset and unsettled with a vengeanceprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855293</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=RubberneckerResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Belinda BauerAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Anatomy students at Cardiff University It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have to work out a high-flying job in the correct cause city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of death of bodies Cameron Strike', you 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 dissect were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as part a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. 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 their studiesa train. This creates a problem for student Patrick Fort when he becomes increasingly convinced that his subject has Greg's been murderedasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779490</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Wrong Quarry Misper|author=Max Allan CollinsKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To create Ryan Kennedy killed a true antipolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-hero is no easy taskold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. I have read plenty He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of crime fiction that reports to have an unlikable son the jury system he was found not guilty of a gun at both the murder and the centre manslaughter of the story, but rarely are they actually that badofficer. You might get a detective with a gruff exterior, but a kind heartAnd so lives must go on. Or perhaps For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a career criminal whose sense of morals are actually better than quieter life in the cops. Thank goodness then for Max Allan Collin’s ''Quarry'countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she' novels. Old school murder mysteries that have s drawn into a hitman at their heart (usually pointing his gun at it)wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781162662</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Costello and Neil Richards1448309743|title=Cherringham - Murder on Thames: A Cozy Crime SeriesThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sarah Edwards returned with her two children to sleepy Cherringham in In the village of Cronchie on the Cotswolds after her marriage fell apartWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Jack Brennan was a homicide detective with NYPD and a year ago he lost his wifeThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. All he wants now is peace and quiet and to The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that end he's living on a canal boat in Cherringham. Both an easy conclusion given that two of them thought that what they needed was to get away from 'discovered' the stress and strain - body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but theywhen he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 're just beginning to realise that thereshadow's something missing in their lives. Excitementhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GFJ9UFG</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?''
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|isbn=1529427045|title=CloudlandThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Joseph OlshanKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Catherine Winslow, a retired investigative journalist, writes household columns ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for various newspapers while she sits holed up in her house in Vermontexample''. One day Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, when where the winter snow started melting, she discovered so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a body near her propertygold rush. The discovery unearthed criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a series remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of killings which Catherine and the part Salander played in her neighbour a forensic psychiatrist set out to solvefather's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906413924</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the 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 night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1405957174|title=As Serious As A Death (Primavera Blackstone Mystery)at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Primavera Blackstone is determined to live a quiet lifeFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. She's happy in her role as The victim - a single parent man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the late Oz Blackstone's three children (one of hers, two of someone else's - ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't ask, itknow is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's complicatedhappening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4..) 5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and living found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in a village on the Spanish coast suits her perfectlygarden of their West London home. SheHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's OK with Liam Matthews tood slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. HeTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's not now the love subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of her life but they rub along well experts has been brought together until Liam mentions to review the evidence and to take the M wordinvestigation further. Primavera doesnMore to the point, they't want re going to get married and before long Liam is do this live on his waycamera, episode by episode. Problems never seem to come on their own There's no dump of the whole box set - and the next one is the arrival no shortage of a retired policeman from her Scottish pastcliffhangers. Ricky Ross is now a private detective and heIt's working for Jack Weighley, owner of a budget airline and a man whose PR makes him seem nicer than the reality would provecompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first 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'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=BinaryA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Michael CrichtonMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Switch on TV over One of the main events of the holiday Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and you will eventually stumble across a Bruno's there to see the show about celebrities before they were famouswith some friends. Sit back and watch Hollywood Royalty gurn on an advert or appear in an early episode It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of ‘Grange Hill’. Working before you hit the limelight does not happen solely to actors; authors often had a life before they put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard)main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. IndeedLuckily, his doctor is there and the likes of Stephen King, Jack Higgins and many others had man is whisked away in a prolific career under a nom de plumehelicopter. Michael Crichton is another such author A local doctor (and after friend of Bruno) wonders about his untimely death 1998 we will be unlikely to see any new works by himchances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. ThankfullyOne daughter lives nearby and another, the publisher who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father''Titan Books'' has gone back to his earlier days under the name John Lange to res friends for a pre-release some of his hardboiled crime fictionarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783291257</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=Monument to MurderThe Trial|author=Mari HannahRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Kate Daniels is working in Northumberland, following the discovery of two bodies buried on Grant Cliveden was a beach, overlooking hero: a beautiful vista. With no knowledge of the local community, Daniels policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and her loyal team have an overwhelming amount of work looked up to doby just about everyone, as well as a strong sense of justice powering them onso there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. Meanwhile There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, recently widowed Emily McCann is struggling to cope charged with a return to her prison work, as well as Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the added complication best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a prisoner Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who has taken a shine eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to herthe contrary. And the two situations are about to collide with one hell of an impact…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447246047</amazonuk>
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