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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate EllisStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death Season (Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson)in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=When Wesley Peterson was called to investigate the death of a man in a hotel room he thought that it was going to be straightforwardFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, but then there were the credit cards - in different names - and there wasn't a mobile phonehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He felt guilty There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the little time he'd been able to spend future of his life with his family (vet girlfriend, Livia and about the fact that he was ever so slightly attracted to one her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his colleagues...) but off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the job had to come first future she wants for herself and it wasn't long before he realised that there was a complex history to her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the dead man present and that he was almost certainly a murdererputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright1786482126|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIIIJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Common Market (which would become the European Union in 1993) in Brussels and he's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'should'' be an interpreter but he seems to be restricted to more administrative dutiesapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He could refuse the offer he getsWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but the chance to actually use his expertise in Russian, move across to the USA and make a point to his employers is just too temptingDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's also rather taken by Alexy Gearydifficult as Ruth knows, the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency who makes the offerbut Nelson doesn't, and it's not long before he's on that she is pregnant with his waychild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Before he does he's peripherally involved in a shooting - and that's Her condition will be obvious before long, not something which usually happens least because Ruth is prone to someone like himsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc0008551324|title=Forty Days Without ShadowThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen It's unusual for anyone from a museum in Kautokeino, a small, isolated village in the middle of Hardie family to approach the snowy tundra, tensions begin to rise between police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the residentsother. Local detective Klemet Nango But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon he's prepared to investigate tell the police where the disappearance, whereupon they discover body of a second crime: a local reindeer herder has been brutally murderedmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Nina soon suspects that the two events are linked This person, he promises, is someone big and, together with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of secretshis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, mystery is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and brutalityanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi0008405026|title=The Vanished OnesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Room 13 It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the basement positioning of the state morgue bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is where the sleepers are keptnow a complex double murder. These are Kerrigan is convinced that the unclaimed bodies that have been classified explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as PHVsDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Potential Homicide VictimsRobert's a theatre director. They are kept indefinitelyHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, because they are evidence handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a crime has been committed, possibly relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the only evidencetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter RobinsonJo Callaghan|title=Abattoir BluesLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When DCI Banks returned from a weekend away in Italy man is found crucified on the theft top of a tractor (even if it was a very expensive tractor) didn't seem all that importanthill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It was difficult to be enthusiastic about what seemed to be simple 's their first live case of rural crimetogether, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Then an ex-soldier walking his dog discovered what looked like But when there is a pool second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of blood in an abandoned warehouse and the two young men who seemed unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the prime suspects for case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the theft case and, potentially, out of the tractor both disappeared without trace. Suddenly 'another rural crime' began to take a very much more sinister turn.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444704982</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Maureen JenningsC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|titlesummary=No Known Grave 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 request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (A Detective Inspector Tom Tyler Mysteryon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered)and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=By the middle of 1942 Detective Inspector Tom Tyler has had a difficult two years and heCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's making a fresh start in Ludlowfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. St Anne's Convalescent Hospital Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is on not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the outskirts body of the town and itGreg's staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns and they're there specifically to help people who have been maimed and injured by father, Duncan Ackerley, in the warriver. It should be a peaceful place of recovery but was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then a double murder in committed suicide when he couldn't stand the grounds of the home shatters all that has been so carefully built upguilt. Many of the patients The Salter children are blind or unable to walk not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and most are suffering from wonder about what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder - but it seems as though one of the patients must be a murderer as this is almost a classic 'locked room' mysteryreally happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116858X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina James1529900360|title=Sausage HallThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kevan de Vries, food processing magnate It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and grandson of a Dutch immigrant to Lincolnshireeven after Alex recovered, is trying Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help his terminally ill wife Joanne relax on an exotic holidaydifficult cases. Unfortunately His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the news he receives from home is less than relaxing: help of a random break-in committed by local opportunistic youths has uncovered psychologist only worked for a batch of counterfeit passportswhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Kevan travels back to She knew that the involvement was something that the UK to answer questions but it gets worseman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Skeletal remains are found Two lovers were murdered in his cellar followed by the swimming pool of a discovery elsewhere of an all too fresh employee's dead bodyremote property in Bel Air. This He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is bread married to an extremely rich man and butter to DI Tim Yates of the Lincolnshire Constabulary but it's another complication in Kevan's all too complicated lifenot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773827</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley178763681X|title=Sins of the FatherKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Rupert Moncrieff was beaten to death in his waterside home early one Sunday morning Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in December 2013Belgravia. All his money He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had not saved him from his throat being cut a way of getting both men and his face slashed and hoodedwomen to do what he wanted. One of his sons and his daughter still lived with himPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but during it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the past week an African had been staying with the familyproblems - are all his own. Strangely no The one knew his name, but when the body thing he hadn't expected was discovered the man had disappearedfor someone to turn up dead. DS Jimmy Suttle is investigating Unfortunately, he was the case but like person who discovered the family in body and everyone knows that the waterside mansion he has demons of his own police consider that person to fight after be the abduction and death of his daughter Grace and subsequent separation from his journalist wife, Lizzieprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409153371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1529421284|title=The Cinderella MurderLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary='Under Suspicion' is a TV show It was one of those flash downpours that aims to shed light on cold cases by re-enacting the crime and interviewing those closest to the victimBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. The pilot episode was In a gully, a runaway success when it led human skeleton came to the successful apprehension of the murderer surface and now producer Laurie Moran has been given forensic testing proved the green light body to continue the seriesbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Her curiosity is piqued by He'd been a 20 year old known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case dubbed the 'Cinderella Murderof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, in which a bright young UCLA student so what was found dead in parkland, miles from her car he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and wearing only one shoeto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The investigation will take Laurie Lockyer and her team to some DC Gemma Broad of the most glamorous locations in California, but it soon becomes clear Major Crimes Review Unit (that certain individuals will do anything 's cold cases to stop the truth from being revealedyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147113847X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mette Ivie Harrison1529425867|title=The Bishop's WifeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
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|summary=Linda WallheimIn Oxford, to most who know herthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, seems a woman who has everythingBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Loving mother to five beautiful children D I Ryan Wilkins, devoted Mormonson of Ryan and father of Ryan, and kindhearted wife is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a Mormon Bishoptrailer park, she lives at the centre barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of her community shell suits and has little trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to be unhappy abouta police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954760</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammy Cohen1529431735|title=Dying for ChristmasThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book starts off promisingly enough with an introduction by JessicaIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the narratorCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, who informs us saying that she is imprisoned by a stranger who is handsome 's ill and charming and extremely sadistichasn't long to live. Jessica then recounts the events leading up It's hard to and during her incarceration, which takes place over the Christmas period. Her jailer, Dominic, has prepared twelve presents for her, for the Twelve Days of Christmasfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and each present-opening episode builds up sent to a sense watery grave in the boot of dread while providing a deepening understanding of the sinister and bitter mind at workstolen Ford Sierra. Genuinely creepy stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Otto Penzler (editor)0861541774|title=The Big Book A Nye of Christmas MysteriesPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54
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|summary=Nostalgia is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a big part of the Christmas experienceshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, and Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that's provided in sackhe was facing a man armed with a knife -loads by this hefty tome and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of short storiesmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski for space on these tightly packed pages, while lesser known and long since forgotten writers furnish new and unexpected pleasures for even the most well-read of book wormswouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phillip Hunter1521129886|title=To Kill For They Had It Coming (The Killing MachineGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=** Contains Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'To Die For'' spoilers**Ex Falkland Campaign para Joe is out for revengell warn someone about how much he charges. Brenda, It's a woman he could good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have loved, is murdered a baby and Joe himself may have been the one forced to kill Kid, an abused young girl hethey'd sworn to protectre both delighted. Joe Joyce will find be more delighted about the name behind baby when she gets past the deaths and make sure they too suffer fatallymorning sickness. The only thing Greg isapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, in a world of fluctuating loyalties Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and deceither son is not thriving. Lucy, he may not survive long enough to carry out says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his ambitionnature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, even if he was the only one searching… But he but Stuart's not! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185338X</amazonuk>prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|authortitle=Herve Le Corre and Frank Wynne Responsibilities (TranslatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=Talking to GhostsAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=French Police Commandant Pierre VilarIt's young son Pablo went missing the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a while ago high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he believes him to 's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be alive; a belief thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has wrecked his marriagebeen asked to look into something. Meanwhile elsewhereJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, 13or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce -yearand her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington -old Victor comes home can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a brutally murdered mothertrain. Is there a connection between these two tragedies? ThatGreg's something that Vilar is desperate to find out, no matter what he has to do or what it does been asked to himinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052063</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Doiron 1838954481|title=Massacre PondThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What is best for Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the great outdoors? gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Is leaving it He pulled the trigger but due to nature is the most sustainable option or does hunting help to protect vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the ecosystem? officer. Each group has opposing viewpoints And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and are unlikely to reach common ground, therefore someone hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is going to have to stand between found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the two orbit of them and make sure nothing bad happens. Something like murderRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114655</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1448309743|title=The Fourth Secret Devil Stone (Inspector MontalbanoDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning an Albanian construction worker - a legal resident with In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a work permit - fell from scaffolding and was dead when his co-workers wealthy family are found himmurdered. What struck Montalbano was The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that there had been rather a lot of what were described as ''tragedies in if the workplace'' - six in the last monthstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in factmany ways, although he was sure that there would be statistics to prove that this was not abnormal within the EU. Strictly it wasn't his case to deal with, but he received s an anonymous letter telling him easy conclusion given that Pashko Puka was going to be killed. Admittedly the letter arrived ''aftertwo of them 'discovered' the death due to a malfunction body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the local postal system, but it did mean that it was difficult to think of the death as a 'tragic accidentshadow'him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NOC5JFW</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1529077699|title=The KillRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I'm quite picky with crime fiction. This oversaturated market seems to teem with mediocre products. There are thrillers with excellent plots that are are badly written, some that contain masterful prose but are, well... boring, and others that are so far-fetched that I end up throwing the book away in disgust. I read Jane Casey′s highly enjoyable stand-alone [[The Missing by Jane Casey|The Missing]] several years ago. 'It'The Kill's all bloody peculiar, isn' was my first foray into her Maeve Kerrigan series and I was keen to see how t it would stand up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194838X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Fesperman|title=Unmanned|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Unmanned', Sir?', the title of Fesperman's latest thriller, refers to the drones, the Predators, that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, from a shed somewhere in Nevada.
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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|authorisbn=Anne Holt1787636607|title=The Lion's MouthTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the first Anne Holt novel that I have read morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and I am going back looking for morea way to get home. Jo Nesbo is quoted describing Holt 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 Godmother light of modern Norwegian crime fiction' 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 judging only from identikit cover design – grey mist, loneliness, treacherous ice, snowcollect her -encrusted gun, red typeface 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 hint at fresh blood – readers could be forgiven for expecting another volume of semistart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-standardised Scandinavian noirheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A D Garrett1405957174|title=Believe No One|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons in St Louis, just as Nick planned. Fennimore and Simms have worked together in the UK when Nick's wife was murdered and daughter kidnapped. In fact they were together the night they first went missing having a less than professional dinner. Nick's daughter is still missing but while he follows new leads, he and Kate have other things to work on. St Louis has a serial killer to contend with: the victims are all mothers and their children are taken A Death at the same time. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try to make everyone else see them. Whether his tactics work or not remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParty|author=Gillian Galbraith|title=Troubled Waters: An Alice Rice MysteryAmy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When [[The Road to Hell: An Alice Rice Mystery by Gillian Galbraith|From the first page, we left]] DI Alice Rice she was newly widowed, but time has moved on a little and sheknow that Nadine Walsh's thinking about what to do with her lifeparty will not end well. Professionally she's more settled The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and now faced with an investigation into a body washed up on the foundations of the new bridge that's being built across Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Forthambulance he so desperately needs. Establishing What we don't know is who the identity of the young woman man is the first problem and this leads Rice back or why Nadine prefers to members of a religious sect with some very strange ruleshave him die. And then I'd better give you a second body - little more background so that of a young man - is washed up on a beach and ityou can understand what's difficult not to assume that there's a connection between the twohappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie0008530025|title=Tight-LippedMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a little bit different was in the UK but in Paris intellectuals are lauded in much the same way as rock stars. JeanDecember 2003 that fifteen-year-Jacques Marsay is a philosopher old Maura Howard came home and equally as famous as his wifefound the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the beautiful and talented actress, Carine Dufourgarden of their West London home. Marsay is writing a book about ''Appoghiu Terra'' - He had an eco-terrorist organisation - and its leader Gabriel Agostini. His editor is Virginie Desmoulins - or rather was - because Virginie was murdered at her flat in a rather unusual way. The case is being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the ''Brigade Criminelle'' and he and Agostini have a historysteps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin was Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his previous employers, murder and it's now the French version subject of the security services. He was moved on to the ''Brigade CriminelleInfamous'' when it was thought that he might have become just , a little too sympathetic to Agostini true- and Agostini to himcrime show.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Morris|title=The Wolves A group of London - The Obsidian Heart Trilogy (Book 1)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Alex Locke experts has grown from been brought together to review the young petty criminal he once was. Now a psychology lecturer with a beautiful 5-year-old daughter he has every incentive he needs evidence and to stay straighttake the investigation further. It would take something devastating More to make him return the point, they're going to his former life but devastation happensdo this live on camera, episode by episode. Alex is coerced into doing on last job: stealing a piece There's no dump of heart shaped obsidian from someone it didn’t belong to in the first placewhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. What are the consequences? WhatIt's so special about this piece of rock? As all hell breaks loose, Alex is about to find outcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168660</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Williams0241996104|title=Confidentially YoursComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Carthage was what you might call 'backwoodsNancy' s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and there wasn't really all that much to do there. For recreationher step-brother, Martin, hunting probably came top has been convicted of the list and John 'Duke' Warren went for an early morning duck shoot before going to worktheir murder. Whilst in We first meet Nancy outside the shoot he heard two shots from an adjoining blind and on the way out saw the car of court, after Martin receives a fellow shoot memberlife sentence. It was only later The barrister tells her that he she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found out that guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the shots had caused the death rest of Dan Robertsher life. At first Of course, it looked like suicide, but Warren 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the police realised that papers are making the most of it. 's 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not often that suicide victims shoot themselves twicebe printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649116</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Black NoiseA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Pekka HiltunenMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was just one One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of them quirky internet things the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to begin see the show withsome friends. Empty videos appearing on It's 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 internetscript. Dark expanses of time: no imagesLuckily, no sound. They'd been uploaded from hacked accounts: teenagers who didn't know anything about it or about each otherhis doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. There were ten A local doctor (and friend of them altogether. If it had stopped there it would have been one Bruno) wonders about his chances of those 9survival but -daysas he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -wonders of the webmilitary has stepped in. An oddity talked about One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for years, freaking a few people out, but sinking, ultimately without much tracepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843915227</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leif G W Persson1529196388|title=Falling Freely, As If In A DreamThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2007 Lars Martin Johansson, the head of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden, Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was approaching retirement good and he had one unsolved case which he would dearly love honest and looked up to clear: the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. Palmeby just about everyone, without bodyguards, had left a cinema in central Stockholm with his wife and so there was walking home public uproar when he was shot murdered in plain sight at the backOld Bailey. He died almost instantly There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and his wife suffered a minor injuryit's not too long before Knight appears in court, whilst the assassin sprinted away into the people milling around in the citycharged with Cliveden's murder. There were witnesses to Knight was told that the killing best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and people his pupil, Adam Green, who saw the killer as he escapedeventually represent him. Some time after the death a man was convicted of the murderKnight's determined to plead not guilty, but he was later cleared and more than twenty years later the identity of despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the killer is still a mysterycontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385614217</amazonuk>
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