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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burglar Who Counted The SpoonsStuart Douglas|authortitle=Lawrence BlockLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=The return of Lawrence BlockDuring location filming for his 1970's wonderful burglarsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Bernie Rhodenbarr, 9 years after leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the tenth novel in dead body of a woman on the series, was my most-anticipated book release for an awfully long timeedge of a reservoir. It is The police seem happy to assign it as an absolute pleasure to report that accidental death, but something about the character has lost none of his charm, Block's writing is as superb as everwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the plot is as ingenious as in any help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the previous 10. I say that having reread them all in country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the twelve months before reading this oneSecond World War. This But is up there along with ''The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart'' as my favourite in really a link between the series. For newcomers deaths? And will they manage to the series, I'd definitely recommend starting at the beginning, but if you do want to dive into this one, you definitely can without feeling too lost.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140915355X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Rendell0008517061|title=The Girl Next DoorDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before the Second World War Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a series of tunnels were dug under little uncertainty about the green fields future of Loughton in Essex. As children will they played in themhis life with his vet girlfriend, acted out small dramas Livia and made them their own - until they were told not to go there again by the father of one of the children. He was known her daughter Diana, as Woody - a man with moving in together would mean a sharp temper along with a disinclination to work, which he managed to achieve because lot of the money which compromise: does Jake give up his wife had inherited off-grid and which was supplemented by some inheritances of his own. There was a child relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the family - Michael - but neither parent took any interest in him future she wants for herself and his mother spent most of her time indulging herself. daughter? When Woody discovered that she was being unfaithful to him he murdered her For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and her lover, cut off one of their hands and buried both in a tin box far out in putting the future on the fieldsback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958830</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0008551324|title=The Axe FactorDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jimm JureeIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family is beyond dysfunctionalto approach the police. Her mother apparently hired her father, one brother Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is her sister as well as struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a computer genius missing person is buried and who was responsible for her other brother death. This person, he promises, is dating a body builder old enough to someone big and it will be his motherworth the police doing what he wants. Jimm And what he wants is relatively normal: a thirty-four-year-old crime reporter living in - and helping to run - a dilapidated beach resort on be transferred to an open prison to serve the Gulf remainder of Thailand - but without a crime his sentence and to report onget an early parole date. Until Not much to ask, that is, she was approached by Nurse Da about the fact that the Doctor from the health centre had gone missing. it? There The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't actually seem think so and she's even prepared to be a crime, but Jimm agrees to find out do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what has happened to Dr. Somluk's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780877005</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|authortitle=Andrea Maria Schenkel and Anthea Bell A Stranger in the Family (translatorMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=The Dark MeadowJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was at the end of the war that Afra Zauner returned to 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her parents' cottage in Finsteraubed one summer night. She'd lost her job as was never found and the investigation ground to a waitress and it was some time before she realised that she was pregnanthalt. When Albert was born her father turned against Now, her mother, Helena, and the boy and there was little sympathy for her father are dead in the village - their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but they didnthere't expect that Afra would be murdered. The obvious suspect was Johann Zauner. It was no secret s something about the positioning of the bodies that there had been constant arguments between him makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and his daughter and he had some injuries which he couldn't entirely explainher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. When a policeman 'obtained' a confession What looked as though it seemed that this was going to be an open-and-shut caseis now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780877730</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W Scott Beaven0571379877|title=Train That Carried The Girl: 2 (Riccarton Junction)Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=A few years have passed since we last met KikarinEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, the then teenager growing up in the wilds of the Scottish borders surrounded by some pretty wild peopleRobert and Stanza. Her parents have gone back to live in Japan while her brother has fled abroad as Robert's a result of the familytheatre director. He's near fatal brush with the criminal underworldalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. This leaves Kiri to continue her life Edward has been in love with her friends Ainslie Stanza since their university days - and Melanie filling the voidhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Although disappointed Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to have missed out stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on her honours degree the top of a hill in archaeologyNuneaton, Kiri DCS Kat Frank finds alternative employment selling double glazing for commercial premisesherself 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. Some things change but Kiri But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is still scarred by the pastsuddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She wants Will they be able to settle down but solve the case in time, or will this past let herKat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1494874601</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Fergusson1035021803|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Germany may be defeated as the embers of World War II grow cold but Kasper Meier is making It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the most of itEnglish country village where she grew up. His trade in black market goods and casual private investigation work augment the meagre rations She's back now because of a request for him and his dying fatherhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. When a woman asks him to find a missing British airman he refuses – itFreya's former mentor and Carole's not really his lineclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. She blackmails Kasper and still he refuses but then Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the note arrivesvillage:''This is bigger than you. You don't have a choiceArthur, she feels, let her down badly. Queers still die Even though they were in Berlinbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Find After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the pilot.'' It seems that he's been seen with another man rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now he has a decision to make that will either cost or save his lifedivorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=The ProfessionalsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Owen LaukkanenNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The professional criminal is the type of person who gets inCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, does the job Paul and Ollie and then gets out againher daughter, Etty. Sounds like the perfect way to stay undetected as a lifelong miscreantare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, but does is not sound like the most exciting narrative for a story. InsteadShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, take a bunch find the body of young kidnappers who are drunk on their own successGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up in the wrong markriver. Watching their lives spiral out of control would be a much more thrilling readIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. A read just like ''The Professionals'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>1782393668</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1529900360|title=The Killing Room: A Sandro Cellini MysteryGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Work It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been a bit thin badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the ground help of a psychologist only worked for private investigator Sandro Cellini and a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the only reason involvement was something that he agreed to become head of security for a luxurious private residence which overlooked Florencethe man she loved needed. The previous occupant of the job had been 'let go'next case did look simple, though. It wasn't long before Sandro realised that his predecessor had also been Two lovers were murderedin the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. It He was this that worried his wife, Luisa - but Sandro was more concerned with establishing who was responsible for a series of dirty tricks which had occurred at the Palazzo San Giorgioheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. And on top But which of this he has to sort out them was the problems without antagonising the wealthy residents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893300</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Before You DieKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Samantha HayesOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=A stolen bike, Chef Paul Delamare took a crash, teaching job at a deathresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Anywhere else it would be He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a catastrophic accidentway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Here, itPaul ''somehow''s suicide. Another one. Please dongot the impression that he't let it d be starting all over again. D.I. Lorraine Fisher is one of those rare creatures in modern detective fiction. She's normal. Marriedat the school to assist Paul, with two daughters who she only partly understands, and a husband who she loves to bits, and not enough time to spend with any of them. She has had a good careerbroken arm, because but itdidn's clearly what she was born to dot turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. No quirks, no hang-ups, she's just good at her job, because she thinks like a copper – which means she doesnThe one thing he hadn't give expected was for someone to turn up at the first hurdledead. When things nag at herUnfortunately, she lets them, until she can hear what it is they are trying he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to tell herbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529421284|title=Angelica's SmileLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's quite possible was one of those flash downpours that Inspector Montalbano would not have been sent the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to investigate the perfectly-executed robberies had it not been that it was surface and forensic testing proved the richbody to be Lee Geary, the elite of Vigata who had been targeteddisappeared nine years earlier. Initially he was reluctant to take on the investigation He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but it soon became clear that it DI Matt Lockyer wasn't just convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the fact that they'd been burgled that linked suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the victimstime. And then there was Angelica..Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447249119</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1529425867|title=The Murder of Harriet KrohnLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was early November 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 Charlo Torpfather of Ryan, an obsessive gambler who was so deep in debt to the people he should is not owe money to that he feared for his life, set out to solve his problems. An expensive bunch He's not any of flowers which needed those things. He's white, originated from a signature on delivery would get him into the house trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Harriet Krohn - shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a spot police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of burglary would net him enough to pay off his debtsthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. All goes according to plan up to a point - but then Sometimes it 's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all goes wrong when Harriet Krohn fights back and Torp uses the butt of more surprising. He'd been exiled on the revolver Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he brought to frighten her to bludgeon her about the head and 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's found dead the following morningill and hasn't long to live. The only clue for Inspector Konrad Sejer It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the abandoned bunch boot of flowersa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655795X</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreview <!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, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl -he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - 19/5 -->and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|authorisbn=W Scott Beaven1521129886|title=Riccarton Junction: 1They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kikarin (Kiri Greg Mason's just beginning to her friends), moves with her family from cosmopolitan London get his confidence as an investigator to the wilds of the Scottish borders point where not all accept her Japanese/English mixed heritagehe'll warn someone about how much he charges. Her father works in forestry for the local laird It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and her mother lives for they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the day baby when Kirishe gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's brotherconcerned about his sister, KeithLucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is released from the Young Offenders' Institutenot thriving. HoweverLucy, he says, bringing Keith home again doesnis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't mean the end of their problems or indeed in hisnature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1493571427</amazonuk>but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=BorderlineResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lawrence BlockAnn Macarthur|rating=24
|genre=Crime
|summary=I can imagine It's the scene back 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in 1950s Americathe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? The Hays Code was at full force meaning that movies where forced On the other hand, he has been asked to dull their more exuberant edgeslook into something. Comic books had Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been vilified written off as perverting the minds of the youth; horror had turned to All American Superheroesa tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. That left the hidden Dime NovelJoyce - and her parents, a book you Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could pick up for only 10 cents come to revel fall in its vicarious pleasuresfront of a train. Anyone could don an old Macintosh coat and pick up something like Lawrence Block’s ‘Borderline’, a book that purports Greg's been asked to be crime noir, but is something very different indeedinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290579</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=Complex 90The Misper|author=Mickey Spillane and Max Allan CollinsKate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you ever decide to revisit Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Film Noir genre of fifteen-year-old holding the 40s and 50s may I suggest ‘Kiss Me Deadly’, a pretty looney film about a shining briefcase gun and the maverick PI sent out to recover pointing itat DI Kieran Shaw. This Private Investigator He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was none other than Mike Hammer, star found not guilty of a series both the murder and the manslaughter of books written by Mickey Spillanethe officer. Unfortunately, Spillane is no longer with us, but before his death he gave some unfinished manuscripts to prolific crime writer Max Allan CollinsAnd so lives must go on. ‘Complex 90’ is For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the result of one of their collaborations capital and you may be glad to know that it hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is almost as insane as found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the movieorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689770</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1448309743|title=Hour of Darkness: A Bob Skinner MysteryThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The naked body In the village of a woman was washed up Cronchie on an island in the Firth West coast of Scotland, five members of Fortha wealthy family are found murdered. The mutilation had obviously come only item missing from a ship's propeller but the result was home is the Devil Stone: myth says that there was no means of identificationif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Several days later detectives were called to a flat The only suspects are known Satanists but in Edinburgh: a meter reader had found the kitchen covered in blood and it wasnmany ways, that't long before a connection was made between the missing occupant s an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the property and the unidentified body. The name - Isabella Spreckley - didn't ring immediate bells Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but she had been Bella Watson and that was a name which many peoplewhen he disappears, not least Bob Skinner, would have preferred not DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to hear again - even if she was dead'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357027</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=A Dark And Twisted TideThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Sharon BoltonAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lacey Flint. Lacey is ''soft and pretty''; Flint is It's all bloody peculiar, isn'sharp and hardt it, Sir?''. Lacey Flint is all of those things.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Bryant and May: The Bleeding HeartTrap|author=Christopher FowlerCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''The Bleeding Heart'' is s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the eleventh outing morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for Fowler's distinctive detectives from a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the Peculiar Case Unitfew taxis available. If you've been along for Others squash onto the ride so night bus that will only go as far youas one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'll either have fallen taxi problem', particularly in love with themthe light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, or really not be able to see the joy final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of themher home. Either way, this review isn't going She had intended to ring someone to tell you anything you don't already know, other than, yes, Fowlercome and collect her - but her phone's still on formdead. Forgive me then, if I address The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the rest of my thoughts bus driver to those wholet her use his. There've yet s no option but to stumble into the is backwater of the Metropolitan Policestart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Jaquiery1405957174|title=The Lying-Down Room (Commandant Serge Morel)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There is a reason why everyone who can leave Paris in August does so: itFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's swelteringly hot party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and deeply unpleasantNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Commandant Serge Morel and his assistant, Lila Markov What we don't have know is who the choice and man is or why Nadine prefers to add to their problems they're short-staffedhave him die. The murder of the old woman seemed strange from the beginning: she was frail, inoffensive but sheI'd apparently been drowned and then laid out with care, garishly made up and adorned with better give you a red wig. The bed sheet was tucked in tightly around her. Why would anyone want to murder her? And why was Faurélittle more background so that you can understand what's ''Requiem'' playing whilst the murderer worked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447244419</amazonuk>happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson0008530025|title=Ghost GirlMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Stella Darnell It was in [[The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson|The Detective's Daughter]] December 2003 that fifteen-year- a book which seemed to take everyone by surpriseold Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. I didnHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't expect to meet her again d slipped down the steps but a year after her father's death Stella hasn't moved onthe vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. She's still visiting Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his house regularly murder and cleaning it as though he could return any day's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Cleaning is what she does best - A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and she runs her own cleaning companyto take the investigation further. Her father was Terry DarnellMore to the point, Detective Chief Superintendent at Hammersmith police station and therethey's a folder of photographs in his darkroomre going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. TheyThere're all unlabeled s no dump of the whole box set - and they're no shortage of deserted streetscliffhangers. Is a crime involved - and why are the photographs at TerryIt's home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857679</amazonuk>compelling viewing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Kendal0241996104|title=The Book of Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Clarissa is 38Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, secretary to a university department head and just emerging from a broken relationshiphas been convicted of their murder. Rafe also works for We first meet Nancy outside the universitycourt, wants Clarissa and Clarissa wants himafter Martin receives a life sentence. HeThe barrister tells her that she's absolutely certain received a 'silent sentence' - she does's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, no matter how vehemently she denies it, no matter how fast 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she runs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Dog Will Have His Day|author=Fred Vargas|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Despite losing his official post, Louis Kehlweiler still has inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the contacts, papers are making the drive, and seemingly nothing else to do, to keep him solving crimesmost of it. While using a certain park bench to trail a potentially suspect connection between someone nefarious ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and a politician's relative, he finds something else to spark his interest. Where, hours before, there had just been dog mess, now there is also a human toe bone. Clearly there is a crime, although nobody 'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is reporting anything like having a half a toe missingundoubtedly spoken. But not even he could predict what the simple legwork of trailing passing dog-owners would lead to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558190</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1529413680|title=Promises to Keep: A Short StoryChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Many eleven year olds would be excited at One of the thought main events of a fivethe Sarlat tourist season is the re-hundred-year-old tomb being opened to (hopefully) reveal enactment of the bones liberation of the local saint, but Flavia de Luce had what might almost be called a professional interesttown from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. Before It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the opening man playing one of the tomb she'd been associated with four dead bodies (to say that she was instrumental main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in solving the murders sounds just a little too much like ''bragging'' doesn't it?helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but this time she really wasn- as he't expecting to find Mr Collicuts a senior government employee, the church organist man who had been missing for six weeksruns Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Still One daughter lives nearby and another, there he waswho lives in California, dead is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre- and wearing a gas maskarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409118185</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Welsh1529196388|title=A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder
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|summary=The summer of the great heat wave is also Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the summer of deathOld Bailey. Stevie thought nothing of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news There's just didn't register. Then one man in the illness came: plagueframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight -like symptoms sweeping across the world. When Stevieand it's boyfriend dies itnot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's easy to put it down to murder. Knight was told that the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and she wonit't stop till shes Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's followed itdetermined to plead not guilty, no matter what happens or who tries despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to stop herthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>
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