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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus DalrympleStuart Douglas|title=Killing Time: True FictionLowe 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 in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=English university graduate James Cooper Brown is travelling around the US with Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his friend Toby. When Toby returns to England on family business, James decides to visit Mexicorustic life at Little Sky. Soon after arriving he's kidnapped by There’s perhaps a local drug baron. Elsewhere in little uncertainty about the country Monica Gonzalesfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a doctor, is looking forward to an evening lot of good company compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and pizza but it turns into an evening of other things as relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she too is taken. wants for herself and her daughter? Behind each of For the 402 kidnappings moment they’re enjoying life in Mexico during 2003 there is a story. This is the story of James, Monica present and putting the people fighting for their return; sometimes literallyfuture on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1477428534</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen Laukkanen1786482126|title=Kill FeeThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The internet has had one of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the most profound effects on humanity since site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the invention bones of the printing pressa child beneath a doorway. A world full of knowledge is at your fingertips and you can access anything from your homeThere was no skull. Want to order foodWas this a ritual killing or murder? Easy! Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. How about learning how to make It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a fake ID? It’s all on result of the net if you know where to look! one night they spent together some three months ago. Want someone killed by a professional for a reasonable fee? This may Her condition will be depressingly easier than you thinkobvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396012</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joakim Zander0008551324|title=The SwimmerDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It'On s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a remote Swedish islandmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, a little girlhe promises, Klara, grows up without a fatheris someone big and 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 his sentence and to get an early parole date. Now, twenty years later Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she discovers a secret: a secret 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that powerful men will kill to keep hiddenDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.'}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026The Swimmer begins |title=A Stranger in 1980the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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, with a bombing and her father are dead in Damascustheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the 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 now a tragedy complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that can be felt across decadesthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859175</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins 0571379877|title=Quarry's ChoiceThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you are fed up with reading books about Edward Jevons is a hit working-class young man , obsessed with a hearthis upper-class friends, why not try one of the Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Quarry'' series? s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. This is a man who is hired to kill Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and does not think too much about it; ithe's just a jobdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Usually Quarry arrives Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a town, makes a hit and gets out immediately, relationship had begun between them but there he's not like most men: Edward is something about left to stumble upon the world two of the Dixie Mafia that is making him stay them kissing in a little longerdark passageway. Is it the blackmail, the attractive young women, or the sense of revenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony J QuinnJo Callaghan|title=Border AngelsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lena Novak knew all about border countryWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. She was an illegal immigrant from Croatia and whilst she wasnIt't s their first live case together, having to cope previously been very successful with landminesseveral cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, bears Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and wolves, the Irish border had its own problemsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She had worked in Will they be able to solve the farmhouse brothel for two months when she met Jack Fowler but her plan to escape left bare footprints case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the snow case and more than one dead body. The investigating officer was Inspector Celcius Daly and it wasn't long before he found himself in the unprofessional situation , potentially, out of working with a prostitute and a hitman.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784082600</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)1035021803|title=Behind GodThe Antique Hunter's Back (Ariel Kafka Series)Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ariel Kafka, as the only Jewish detective in HelsinkiIt's violent crime unit, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has special insight into been back to the Jewish CommunityEnglish country village where she grew up. It goes without saying but it also provides Ari with She's back now because of a steady flow of casesrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Therefore when a local company director Freya's former mentor and Jewish congregation member Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is murdereddead and the circumstances seem suspicious, Ariel is first choice of investigatorto say the least. Unfortunately Arthur was the victim happens reason why Freya had not been back to be the man who could have become Ariel's father-village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in-law a couple of decades before but Ari feels enough removed by time business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to disqualify himself from be near the man or pursue the caseprofession she loved. Gradually as After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the web love of clues is carefully teased outher life, more worrying connections are discovered. The Mossad ''may'' be involved but then so may Ari's brother Eliwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524421</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shelley Harris1398524085|title=Vigilante|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jenny Pepper is a forty-something wife and mother who is stuck wondering where her life has gone. Privately, Jenny is jealous of her husband, he has a wonderful creative career that people can’t wait to hear more about, while Jenny’s work as a mother and her job at a charity bookshop seems to put a stopper on conversation. Jenny envies her daughter, with her youthful figure and a whole life stretched out in front of her. When tidying up one night, Jenny discovers her husband’s secret and just like that her life changes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297864610</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=John Connolly|title=The Wolf in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller)Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum heCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's befriended fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and worked with in the pastOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is found hanged in a basementnot. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship Shortly afterwards, Etty and has just raised over $100 to help Greg, find herthe body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Odd time for suicide? It becomes was an even odder prospect when Annie herself goes missing after heading easy assumption for the small Maine town of Prosperous. police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie decides to drop in on the good citizens of the small town and starts poking beneath then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the respectable veneerguilt. It doesn’t take him long The Salter children are not convinced but there is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charlie's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1529900360|title=The Death Season (Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson)Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Wesley Peterson It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was called reluctant to investigate the death of a man in a hotel room he thought ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that it was going to be straightforward, but then there were the credit cards only open- in different names and- and there wasnshut cases which didn't need the help of a mobile phonepsychologist only worked for a while. He felt guilty about the little time heFinally, it was Robin, Delaware'd been able to spend with his family (and about s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the fact involvement was something that he was ever so slightly attracted to one of his colleaguesthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air.) but He was the job had heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to come first an extremely rich man and it wasn't long before he realised that there s not the Italian. But which of them was a complex history to the dead man and that he was almost certainly a murderer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403139</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright178763681X|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIIIKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by the Common Market (which would become the European Union Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in 1993) in Brussels Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what hewanted. Paul 's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he 'somehow'should'got the impression that he' d be an interpreter but he seems at the school to be restricted to more administrative duties. He could refuse the offer he getsassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the chance to actually use problems - are all his expertise in Russian, move across to the USA and make a point own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to his employers is just too temptingturn up dead. He's also rather taken by Alexy GearyUnfortunately, he was the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency person who makes discovered the offer, and it's not long before he's on his way. Before he does he's peripherally involved in a shooting - body and everyone knows that the police consider that's not something which usually happens person to someone like himbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc1529421284|title=Forty Days Without ShadowLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a museum in Kautokeinogully, a small, isolated village in human skeleton came to the middle of surface and forensic testing proved the snowy tundrabody to be Lee Geary, tensions begin to rise between the residentswho had disappeared nine years earlier. Local detective Klemet Nango He'd been a known drug user and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon to investigate the disappearancehad learning disabilities, whereupon they discover so it could have been a second crime: simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a local reindeer herder has been brutally murdered. Nina soon suspects that townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two events are linked, other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and, together with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full DC Gemma Broad of secrets, mystery the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and brutalityme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi1529425867|title=The Vanished OnesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Room 13 in the basement In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of the state morgue Ryan, is where the sleepers are keptnot. These are the unclaimed bodies that have been classified as PHVsHe's not any of those things. Potential Homicide VictimsHe's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They are kept indefinitely're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, because they you're not. The two men are evidence that a crime has been committed, possibly just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the only evidencecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson1529431735|title=Abattoir BluesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When DCI Banks returned from It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a weekend away in Italy the theft of wanted drug smuggler for a tractor (even if it was decade. The return has come about because he's had a very expensive tractor) didnletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't seem all that importantlong to live. It was difficult 's hard to be enthusiastic about what seemed feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to be simple case of rural crime. Then an ex-soldier walking his dog discovered what looked like underwear and sent to a pool of blood watery grave in an abandoned warehouse and the two young men who seemed to be the prime suspects for the theft boot of the tractor both disappeared without tracea stolen Ford Sierra. Suddenly 'another rural crime' began Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to take a very much more sinister turn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704982</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0861541774|title=No Known Grave (A Detective Inspector Tom Tyler Mystery)Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=By the middle of 1942 Detective Inspector Tom Tyler DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has had taken a difficult two years 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 - and he's making killed a fresh start in LudlowGhurka. St Anne's Convalescent Hospital is on the outskirts Initially, he faced a charge of the town and it's staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns and they're there specifically manslaughter but evidence came to help people who light that suggested that he might have been maimed and injured by planned to murder the warman. It should Now he could be a peaceful place of recovery but then a double murder in facing the grounds of the home shatters all that has been so carefully built updeath penalty. Many of the patients are blind or unable Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to walk and most are suffering help as any interference from what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder - but it seems as though one of the patients must be another police force could provoke a murderer as this is almost a classic diplomatic incident and wouldn'locked room' mysteryt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116858X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina James1521129886|title=Sausage HallThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kevan de Vries, food processing magnate and grandson of a Dutch immigrant Greg Mason's just beginning to Lincolnshire, is trying to help get his terminally ill wife Joanne relax on confidence as an exotic holidayinvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Unfortunately the news he receives from home is less than relaxing: It's a random break-in committed by local opportunistic youths has uncovered good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a batch of counterfeit passportsbaby and they're both delighted. Kevan travels back to Joyce will be more delighted about the UK to answer questions but it baby when she gets worsepast the morning sickness. Skeletal remains are found Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in -law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his cellar followed by a discovery elsewhere of an all too fresh employeesister, Lucy, who's dead bodystruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. This Lucy, he says, is bread convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and butter to DI Tim Yates of the Lincolnshire Constabulary coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but itStuart's another complication in Kevan's all too complicated lifeprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773827</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham HurleyB0CK3MYJ56|title=Sins of the FatherResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Rupert Moncrieff was beaten It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to death have a high-flying job in his waterside home early one Sunday morning in December 2013the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. All his money had not saved him from his throat being cut and his face slashed and hooded'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. One of his sons and his daughter still lived with himNice bloke, but during where's the past week an African had life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been staying with the familyasked to look into something. Strangely no one knew his nameJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, but when the body they were until Helen was discovered the man had disappearedkilled in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. DS Jimmy Suttle is investigating the case but like the family Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in the waterside mansion he has demons front of his own a train. Greg's been asked to fight after the abduction and death of his daughter Grace and subsequent separation from his journalist wife, Lizzieinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409153371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1838954481|title=The Cinderella MurderMisper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'Under Suspicion' is a TV show s no doubt about that aims to shed light on cold cases by re. He was the fifteen-year-enacting old holding the crime gun and interviewing those closest pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the victim. The pilot episode vagaries of the jury system he was a runaway success when it led to the successful apprehension found not guilty of both the murderer murder and now producer Laurie Moran has been given the green light to continue manslaughter of the seriesofficer. Her curiosity is piqued by And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a 20 year old case dubbed quieter life in the 'Cinderella Murder', in which countryside but when a bright young UCLA student was missing teenager is found dead in parkland, miles from on her car and wearing only one shoe. The territory she's drawn into a wider investigation will take Laurie - and her team to some back into the orbit of the most glamorous locations in California, but it soon becomes clear that certain individuals will do anything to stop the truth from being revealedRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147113847X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mette Ivie Harrison1448309743|title=The Bishop's WifeDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Linda WallheimIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, to most who know her, seems five members of a woman who has everythingwealthy family are found murdered. Loving mother to five beautiful children The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, devoted Mormondeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and kindhearted wife that's an easy conclusion given that two of a Mormon Bishopthem 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, she lives at the centre of her community and has little DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be unhappy about'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954760</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Otto Penzler (editor)1529427045|title=The Big Book of Christmas MysteriesGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nostalgia is a big part of the Christmas experience, and that's provided in sack'Life has more to offer than people -loads by this hefty tome of short stories. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski prime numbers 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 wormsexample''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082252</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Herve Le Corre and Frank Wynne (Translator)1787636607|title=Talking to GhostsThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=French Police Commandant Pierre VilarIt's young son Pablo went missing a while ago but he believes him 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 be alive; a belief get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that has wrecked his marriagewill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Meanwhile elsewhereThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', 13-year-old Victor comes home to a brutally murdered motherparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. Is there For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a connection between these two tragedies? long way short of her home. ThatShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's something that Vilar is desperate dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to find out, let her use his. There's no matter what he has option but to do or what it does to himstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052063</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Doiron 1405957174|title=Massacre PondA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What is best for From the great outdoors? first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Is leaving it to nature The victim - a man - is the most sustainable option or does hunting help dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to protect call the ecosystem? ambulance he so desperately needs. Each group has opposing viewpoints and are unlikely to reach common ground, therefore someone What we don't know is who the man is going or why Nadine prefers to have to stand between the two of them and make sure nothing bad happenshim die. Something like murderI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114655</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0008530025|title=The Fourth Secret (Inspector Montalbano)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning an Albanian construction worker It was in December 2003 that fifteen- a legal resident with a work permit year- fell from scaffolding old Maura Howard came home and was dead when his co-workers found himthe body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. What struck Montalbano He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was that there had obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been rather a lot charged with his murder and it's now the subject of what were described as ''tragedies in the workplaceInfamous'' , a true- six in crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the last month, in fact, although he was sure that there would be statistics evidence and to prove that this was not abnormal within take the EUinvestigation further. Strictly it wasn't his case More to deal withthe point, but he received an anonymous letter telling him that Pashko Puka was they're going to be killeddo this live on camera, episode by episode. Admittedly the letter arrived ''after'There' s no dump of the death due to a malfunction in the local postal system, but it did mean that it was difficult to think whole box set - and no shortage of the death as a 'tragic accidentcliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NOC5JFW</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey0241996104|title=The KillComing 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=IOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno'm quite picky with crime fiction. This oversaturated market seems s there to teem see the show with mediocre productssome friends. There are thrillers with excellent plots that are are It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly writtenwrong when, some that contain masterful prose but areKerquelin, well.the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script.. boring Luckily, his doctor is there and others that are so far-fetched that I end up throwing the book man is whisked away in disgusta helicopter. I read Jane Casey′s highly enjoyable stand A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -alone [[The Missing by Jane Casey|The Missing]] several years agothe military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father''The Kill'' was my first foray into her Maeve Kerrigan series and I was keen to see how it would stand ups friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194838X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1529196388|title=UnmannedThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Unmanned''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 title of FespermanOld Bailey. There's latest thriller, refers to just one man in the drones, the Predatorsframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, from a shed somewhere in Nevada. It also refers to the state that those missions left Cole in, after one best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of them went badly wrong. A poor callStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-down led to a misidentified targetCameron and his pupil, a house destroyedAdam Green, civilians killed, including two kids lying out in the open running away, and a girl, not dead but woundedwho eventually represent him. Cole could see her from his thousands of miles away, movingKnight's determined to plead not guilty, agonising, separated by a considerable distance from the arm she would never use again. A onedespite all Taylor-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long time Cameron's recommendations to followthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>
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