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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard BeardStuart Douglas|title=Acts 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 in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his 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 future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the Assassinsback burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The rebellious cult leader is executed so thatBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's thatapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Then someone steals the bodyWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The police appoint Cassius Gallio to investigate It's difficult as Ruth knows, but it all goes terribly wrongNelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. He Her condition will be obvious before long, not only fails least because Ruth is prone to find sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the body, Hardie family to approach the police informant from the initial conviction is killed in a way that mimics suicide. Gallio's career and life both stall until Neither side likes or has any respect for the case other. But Davie Hardie is secretly re-opened struggling in prison and he's deemed prepared to tell the police where the man body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the investigation as police doing what he's already comparatively invisiblewants. It seems straightforward in that Gallio must uncover the truth but the people And what he needs wants is to be transferred to speak an open prison to are being culled one by one by serve the most innovative remainder of his sentence and bloodthirsty meansto get an early parole date. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558395</amazonuk>Not much to ask, 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 anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Thomas0008405026|title=Fallout A Stranger in the Family (Tito IhakaMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary= Maori Tito Ihaka may be disrespectfulIt'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, brash and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the sort positioning of police sergeant who ploughs his own furrow but he gets resultsthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He therefore seems the ideal investigating officer when the cold What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case of is now a complex double murder at the party of a political high flier is reopened. However heKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's also given time to investigate something more personaldisappearance: his father, union activist Jimmy Ihakaothers (such as Derwent's boss, may not have died through natural causes after allUna Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524499</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Kornegay0571379877|title=SoilThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jay Mize Edward Jevons is a scientific working-class young man , obsessed with a particular interest in soil his upper-class friends, Robert and agricultureStanza. He decides he is the one to pioneer Robert's a revolution in farming techniques and uproots his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot of land in the countrytheatre director. Jay is He's also an obsessive man self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and his plans take over, becoming his only focus entitled and causing his family uses Edward to leave run errands for him. Then flooding ruins his crops 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 relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left at to stumble upon the end two of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds them kissing in a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is releaseddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donna LeonJo Callaghan|title=By Its CoverLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prestigious library in When a man is found crucified on the heart of Venice discovered that pages had been cut from many top of its most valuable books and that several others were missing. This would normally have been investigated by a specialist department hill in RomeNuneaton, but Commissario Guido Brunetti agreed DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to look into the thefts - partly for personal reasons and partly because it was case alongside her sidekick, the simplest way to move the problem forwardAI detective Lock. The staff at the library were certain that an American researcher was responsibleIt's their first live case together, but having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there were quite is a second body found crucified a few factors which didn't quite add up for Brunetti days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and he decided a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to look at some of their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the other regular attenders at case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the library.case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099591286</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Christopher 1035021803|title=Elementary: The Ghost LineAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Once an author diesIt'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 characters village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they created are often left alone were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to live off this initial legacybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but it is increasingly normal to see past heroes rise again – quite literally she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the likes rebound from the love of [[Pride her life, who was murdered) and Prejudice Freya and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-SmithJames have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|Pride summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Prejudice Ollie and Zombies]]her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Once out Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of copyright you can do what you like to a character; a character just like Sherlock Holmes. Not only do we get numerous new books starring Holmes set Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Victorian era, but there are currently two separate TV shows about modern Sherlockian adventuresriver. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn''Elementary'' is set in America and is more liberal than most adaptations with t stand the lore, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can the tie in novel evoke any memories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169845</amazonuk>do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Winslow1529900360|title=The Red HouseGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=On the face of it, it seemed quite simple. It was just hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that as you started to unravel what Alex Delaware had happenedbeen badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, what might happen, there seemed Sturgis was reluctant to be more skins that ask for his help on an oniondifficult cases. Maxwell Gant had taken his fiancee to meet his motherHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. He and Imogen were hoping to move to CambridgeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, where Maxwell had applied who nudged Milo into asking for a job with one of help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the college choirsman she loved needed. Imogen had an unusual history - she had been adopted when she was eight after The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the deaths swimming pool of her parents a remote property in a car crashBel Air. She'd managed He was the heir to trace her two elder brothers after the four children had been adopted by different families, but an Italian shoe empire and she was still looking for her younger brother, Sebastian, who was only three at is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the time Italian. But which of them was the accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074901895X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright178763681X|title=The Khazar CodexKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's a brutal introduction to the story as a man is killed in the way that they did it in those days: two trees were pulled to the ground and the man lashed between them and then the trees were released. But that's only the background to the story which is set in the here and now and most of it is in The Kemble, a rather rundown theatre, which is presenting a revival of Tom Stoppard's ''Arcadia''. On the opening night there's apparently a fire, but whilst most of the hostages are shepherded out of the theatre a group of seven members of the audience, two cast members and the prime minister's son, Nigel Hastings, are taken hostage. The 'terrorists' (for what else can you call people who take others hostage?) represent New METRO, a group of activists who are campaigning for disused underground stations to be converted for use by the homeless.
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Kurt Unsworth
|title=The Devil's Detective
|rating=2.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=There are some obvious things in life (and death), but one of the most clear is that Hell will be Hellish. This is a place that sinners go to be punished. However, for every Dante’s Inferno, there is a depiction of hell that is not so bad. Who really wants to read something depressing about the desolation of souls, apart from those pesky 14th Century types? According to ''The Devil’s Detective'', people in the 21st Century do too.
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{{newreview
|author=M C Beaton
|title=Death of A Liar
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hamish Macbeth is still enjoying the relatively easy life of running the two-man station in remote Lochdubh Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the highlands of ScotlandBelgravia. He could maybe do without current side-kick Dick Fraserdidn's eternal presence on site, t really want to but has celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to admit do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the manschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's cooking skills t turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his tendency own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to whip out a stove and frying pan in the remotest of locations do have their advantagesturn up dead. Still Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and all, it's not doing our eternal Sergeant's love-life any favourseveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331096</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Kardos1529421284|title=Before He Finds HerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The newspaper reports at It was one of those flash downpours that the time were unanimous: British weather often delivers in September 1991 Ramsey Miller held a party for all his neighbours and thenheatwave. In a gully, when it ended, killed his wife Allie a human skeleton came to the surface and toddler daughter Megforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, then ran away, remaining a fugitive from justicewho had disappeared nine years earlier. The newspapers were wrong. Meg isnHe't dead but has d been kept hidden by her Uncle Wayne a known drug user and Aunt Kendrahad learning disabilities, had her name changed to Melanie and has led so it could have been a sheltered lifesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. No photosGeary was a townie, no internet, no friends after school, no holidays away from homeso what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. ThatLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's no way to live and now she approaches her 18th birthday, Melanie/Meg wants to end her half-life in order cold cases to live fully you and yet to do that she must risk any form of life. She must find her father before he finds herme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802123198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Watson1529425867|title=Second LifeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Julia lives In Oxford, there are two livesD I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Life 1: the wife D I Ryan Wilkins, son of surgeon Hugh Ryan and adopted parent father of her sister KateRyan, is not. He's son Connornot any of those things. He'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. Life 2: Secret erotic dating site surferThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. It seems You might wonder if you're being introduced to a bit extreme but she has good reason as Julia is searching police procedural written for information while posing under an assumed namelaughs. This is Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same site on which Kate hung outpolicing coin. Past tense? Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Yes, Kate's dead and Julia wants to find KateSometimes it's killerproblematic. Be careful what you wish for, Julia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520199</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Thorne1529431735|title=Nothing SacredThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Just over a year ago I described ThorneIt's first book [[East of Innocence by David Thorne|East of Innocence]] as ''Raymond Chandler meets Ray Winstone'February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. I gather that an eight-way auction saw Tiger Aspect securing He'd been exiled on the option rights Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a TV seriesdecade. IThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn'm looking forward t long to itlive. CanIt't help wondering if they roped Winstone in (s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and if I'm up for sent to a cut watery grave in the boot of the agent feesa stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Dalrymple0861541774|title=Killing Time: True FictionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=English university graduate James Cooper Brown is travelling around the US with his DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend Toby. When Toby returns and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to England on family businessmeet up with an old ally, James decides to visit MexicoGuy Trueman. Soon after arriving Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he's kidnapped by killed a local drug baronGhurka. Elsewhere in the country Monica GonzalesInitially, he faced a doctor, is looking forward to an evening charge of good company and pizza manslaughter but it turns into an evening of other things as she too is takenevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Behind each of Now he could be facing the 402 kidnappings in Mexico during 2003 there is a storydeath penalty. This is the story of James, Monica Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the people fighting for their return; sometimes literallywouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1477428534</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen Laukkanen1521129886|title=Kill FeeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The internet has had one of Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the most profound effects on humanity since point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the invention of baby when she gets past the printing pressmorning sickness. A world full of knowledge Greg is at your fingertips and you can access anything from your homeapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Want Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to order food? make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Easy! Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, How about learning how but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to make a fake ID? It’s all find out what happened on the net if you know where to look! Want someone killed by a professional for a reasonable fee? This may be depressingly easier than you thinknight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396012</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joakim ZanderB0CK3MYJ56|title=The SwimmerResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason'On s twenty-eight years old. He used to have a remote Swedish island, a little girl, Klara, grows high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up without as a fatherprivate investigator. Now'Shades of Cameron Strike', twenty years lateryou might be thinking. Nice bloke, she discovers a secret: a secret but where's the life experience that powerful men will kill backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to keep hiddenlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in whatThe Swimmer begins in 1980, with s been written off as a bombing in Damascustragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a tragedy that can be felt across decadestrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859175</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins 1838954481|title=Quarry's ChoiceThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you are fed up with reading books about Ryan Kennedy killed a hit man with a heart, why not try one of the police officer: there''Quarry'' series? s no doubt about that. This is a man who is hired to kill He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and does not think too much about it; pointing it's just a jobat DI Kieran Shaw. Usually Quarry arrives in a town, makes a hit He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and gets out immediately, but there is something about the world manslaughter of the Dixie Mafia that is making him stay a little longerofficer. And so lives must go on. Is it For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the blackmail, capital and hoping for a quieter life in the attractive young women, or countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the sense orbit of revenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290846</amazonuk>Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony J Quinn1448309743|title=Border AngelsThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lena Novak knew all about border countryIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. She was an illegal immigrant The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Croatia and whilst she wasn't having to cope with landminesOtterburn House, bears and wolves, the Irish border had its own problemsdeath will follow. She had worked The only suspects are known Satanists but in the farmhouse brothel for many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two months when she met Jack Fowler but her plan to escape left bare footprints in of them 'discovered' the snow and more than one dead body. The investigating officer was Inspector Celcius Daly and it wasn't long before Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he found himself disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the unprofessional situation of working with a prostitute and a hitmanto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082600</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)1529077699|title=Behind God's Back The Raging Storm (Ariel Kafka SeriesTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ariel Kafka, as the only Jewish detective in Helsinki''It's violent crime unitall bloody peculiar, has special insight into the Jewish Community. It goes without saying but isn't it also provides Ari with a steady flow of cases. Therefore when a local company director and Jewish congregation member is murdered, Ariel Sir?'' Well yes, it is first choice of investigator. Unfortunately Jem Rosco blew into the victim happens to be local pub one evening in the man who could have become Ariel's father-middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in-law a couple of decades before but Ari feels enough removed by time not small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to disqualify himself from the casevillage of Greystone, in Devon. Gradually as Rosco had the web status of clues is carefully teased outa national treasure: a renowned adventurer, more worrying connections are discoveredround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. The Mossad I ''maynearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be involved but then so may Arimore than a little bit close with money and his background isn's brother Elit exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524421</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Shelley HarrisKarin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=VigilanteThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jenny Pepper is It's a forty-something wife and mother who is stuck wondering where her life has gonescene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Privately, Jenny is jealous Drunken revellers spilling out 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 clubs and her job at looking for a charity bookshop seems way to put a stopper on conversationget home. Jenny envies her daughter, with her youthful figure Some are lucky and a whole life stretched out in front manage to get one of herthe few taxis available. When tidying up one Others squash onto the night, Jenny discovers her husband’s secret and just like bus that her life changeswill only go as far as one of the outlying villages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297864610</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Connolly|title= The Wolf woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller)|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum hethe light of 's befriended and worked with in the pastmissing women'. For one young woman, is found hanged in the final stop on the bus leaves her a basementlong way short of her home. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie She had intended to ring someone to rekindle their family relationship come and has just raised over $100 to help find collect her - but herphone's dead. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an even odder prospect when Annie herself goes missing after heading for The bus had driven off before she had the small Maine town of Prosperous. Charlie decides chance to drop in on beg the good citizens of the small town and starts poking beneath the respectable veneerbus driver to let her use his. It doesn’t take him long There's no option but there is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charlieto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1405957174|title=The A Death Season (Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson)at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Wesley Peterson was called to investigate From the death of first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man in a hotel room he thought that it was going to be straightforward, but then there were the credit cards - in different names - is dying when we first meet him and there wasn't a mobile phone. He felt guilty about the little time he'd been able Nadine consciously makes no effort to spend with his family (and about call the fact that ambulance he was ever so slightly attracted to one of his colleaguesdesperately needs...) but What we don't know is who the job had man is or why Nadine prefers to come first and it wasnhave him die. I't long before he realised that there was d better give you a complex history to the dead man and little more background so that he was almost certainly a murdereryou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright0008530025|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part Murder in saving the planet from WWIIIFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the Common Market (back of his head which would become could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the European Union in 1993) in Brussels vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and heit's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he now the subject of ''shouldInfamous'' be an interpreter but he seems to be restricted to more administrative duties, a true-crime show. He could refuse the offer he gets, but the chance to actually use his expertise in Russian, move across A group of experts has been brought together to review the USA evidence and make a point to his employers is just too temptingtake the investigation further. He's also rather taken by Alexy Geary, More to the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency who makes the offerpoint, and itthey's not long before he's re going to do this live on his waycamera, episode by episode. Before he does heThere's peripherally involved in a shooting no dump of the whole box set - and thatno shortage of cliffhangers. It's not something which usually happens to someone like himcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc0241996104|title=Forty Days Without ShadowComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from a museum in KautokeinoNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, a smallMartin, isolated village in the middle has been convicted of the snowy tundra, tensions begin to rise between the residentstheir murder. Local detective Klemet Nango and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon to investigate We first meet Nancy outside the disappearancecourt, whereupon they discover after Martin receives a second crime: life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a local reindeer herder has 'silent sentence' - she's not been brutally murderedfound guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Nina soon suspects that Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the two events papers are linked, and, together with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full making the most of secrets, mystery it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and brutality''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi1529413680|title=The Vanished Ones|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Room 13 in the basement A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of the state morgue is where the sleepers are kept. These are the unclaimed bodies that have been classified as PHVs. Potential Homicide Victims. They are kept indefinitely, because they are evidence that a crime has been committed, possibly the only evidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Peter Robinson|title=Abattoir BluesMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When DCI Banks returned One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from a weekend away the English in Italy 1370 and Bruno's there to see the theft of a tractor (even if it was a very expensive tractor) didn't seem all that importantshow with some friends. It was difficult to be enthusiastic about what seemed to be simple case 's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of rural crimethe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Then an ex-soldier walking Luckily, his dog discovered what looked like doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a pool helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of blood in an abandoned warehouse and Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the two young men man who seemed to be runs Frenchelon - the prime suspects for the theft of the tractor both disappeared without tracemilitary has stepped in. Suddenly 'One daughter lives nearby and another rural crime, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father' began to take s friends for a very much more sinister turnpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529196388|title=No Known Grave (A Detective Inspector Tom Tyler Mystery)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=By the middle of 1942 Detective Inspector Tom Tyler has had Grant Cliveden was a hero: a difficult two years 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's making a fresh start was murdered in Ludlowplain sight at the Old Bailey. St AnneThere's Convalescent Hospital is on just one man in the outskirts of the town frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns and theynot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden're there specifically to help people who have been maimed and injured by the wars murder. It should be a peaceful place of recovery but then a double murder in Knight was told that the grounds of the home shatters all that has been so carefully built up. Many best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the patients are blind or unable to walk Stag Court Chambers and most are suffering from 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' mystery.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116858X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christina James|title=Sausage Hall|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kevan de Vriess Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, food processing magnate and grandson of a Dutch immigrant to LincolnshireAdam Green, is trying to help his terminally ill wife Joanne relax on an exotic holidaywho eventually represent him. Unfortunately the news he receives from home is less than relaxing: a random break-in committed by local opportunistic youths has uncovered a batch of counterfeit passports. Kevan travels back Knight's determined to the UK to answer questions but it gets worse. Skeletal remains are found in his cellar followed by a discovery elsewhere of an plead not guilty, despite all too fresh employeeTaylor-Cameron's dead body. This is bread and butter recommendations to DI Tim Yates of the Lincolnshire Constabulary but it's another complication in Kevan's all too complicated lifecontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773827</amazonuk>
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