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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann CleevesStuart 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 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 back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Glass Room Janus Stone (D I Vera StanhopeDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=Inspector Vera Stanhope isn't big on friends but Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the hippy neighbours are good site was going to her in terms of homehold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -brew beer and conversation and when one they discovered the bones of them goes missing she feels obliged to investigatea child beneath a doorway. She knows that she'd be furious if one of the team There was playing at private investigator and it leaves her in the embarrassing position of being first on the scene after no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder has been discovered? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. One of the tutors has been brutally murdered at The WritersIt' House and the other residents have made an easy assumption about who wielded the knifes difficult as Ruth knows, but Vera must act professionally even though she knows Nelson doesn't, that's she's hardly impartialis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007I5O6LE</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham Masterton0008551324|title= Blood SistersThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5
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|summary= A young couple are walking on It'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 cliff-top when they hear a cry of anguish from belowmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, which leads is 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 discovery remainder of not his sentence and to get an injured person but horses – lots of themearly parole date. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081337</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0008405026|title=Even Dogs A Stranger in the WildFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|summary=ThereIt's a highsixteen years since nine-year-profile murder case in Edinburghold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Someone has broken into She was never found and the home of Lord Mintoninvestigation ground to a halt. Now, senior lawyer and former Lord Advocateher mother, beaten himHelena, strangled him and then beaten him some more when he was her father are deadin their bed. A note was found at Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the scene positioning of the crime which suggested bodies that Minton had been threatenedmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. DI Siobhan Clarke has been seconded What looked as though it was going to the enquiry be an open-and she calls on her old friend John Rebus, kicking his heels in retirement, when Big Ger Cafferty narrowly escapes death as -shut case is now a shot is fired into his housecomplex double murder. Cafferty had received Kerrigan is convinced that the same threatening note as Minton. Fearing a turf war, heexplanation lies in Rosalie's reluctant to open up to anyone but Rebus. Clarkedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's friendboss, DI Malcolm Fox has been seconded too - to a team from Glasgow who Una Burt) are undercover and need local expertise, only he's not quite so well receivedless convinced. His former posting in Complaints is well known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159361</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves0571379877|title=Harbour Street (D I Vera Stanhope)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth was escorting Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his daughter home from a preupper-Christmas school concert using the Newcastle metroclass friends, not least because the snow had startedRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. A rather smartHe's also self-obsessed, elderly woman took a seat but when the train was stopped because of the bad weather Jessie noticed that the old lady had not left her seat demanding, handsome and entitled and went uses Edward to wake her run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - only Margaret Krukowski had been fatally stabbed as she sat on the trainand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Christmas wasnMost men in Robert't D I Vera Stanhopes position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's favourite time of year and she wasn't upset not like most men: Edward is left to have work to do to break up stumble upon the festivities; far better to be on her way to the Northumberland seaside town two of Mardle with Joe Ashworth. Margaret Krukowski had lived them kissing in the boarding house at 1 Harbour Street as well as working there. In fact, she'd lived there before it became a boarding housedark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JPZMI88</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen StaffordJo Callaghan|title=Bellebrook's SecretsLeave No Trace
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|summary=Trudy Hampstead has When a man is found crucified on the top of a plan that will support hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her widowed mother and twin brother unwittingly involving their landlordsidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's sontheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Their landlord But when there is local gentry a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and philanderer Alistair Burgoyne QC and the one person who can ensure security a very high profile case that draws a lot of tenureunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Trudy thinks that Peter Will they be able to solve the local curate should step case in to speak to Trudytime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, something heout of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's more than happy Guide to do Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since he Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a secret agenda of his ownrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Meanwhile up at the farm the LovestocksFreya's former mentor and Carole' marriage s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is coming apart at dead and the seamscircumstances seem suspicious, a fact that may partially threaten to say the least. Arthur was the peace of reason why Freya had not been back to the village but : Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not half as much as 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 (on the rebound from the anonymous random acts love of violence that are about to hit Bellebrookher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783063327</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves1398524085|title=Hidden DepthsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|summary=Life hadnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't been easy for Julie Armstrong, left on her own with two childrens fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her son Luke 'had his difficulties' toochildren, probably best summarised as a learning disordersons Niall, Paul and Ollie and he absorbed a lot of Julie's time. She felt guilty that she neglected her daughter Laura who was bright, Etty. are all worried but rather withdrawn: being Luke's sister had never been easy - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and keeping herself to herself was Greg, find the best way body of dealing with Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the jibes about what he'd done ''now''river. There weren't many opportunities It was an easy assumption for Julie the police to get out without the kids make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the chance of a night out with her girlfriends had been too good to pass up, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but when she came home, perhaps a there's little drunk else they can do but get on with their lives and high from meeting up with a man she felt attracted to, she found Luke dead in a flower-strewn bath full of water. He'd been strangledwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B002SPXO8U</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1529900360|title=The Soul of Discretion (Simon Serrailler)Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
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|summary=The story begins with hints: an old lady hears children screaming in 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 reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the middle help of the nighta psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, sees children being bundled away from a property she thought it was uninhabitedRobin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. A teacher is horrified by a drawing from a child which suggests She knew that the involvement was something that the man she is aware of brutal sexual activityloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. For Simon Serrailler the knowledge had come more directly: he was approached to go undercover Two lovers were murdered in prison with the aim swimming pool of getting close to Will Fearnley, a convicted paedophile who had consistently refused to divulge any information about his contactsremote property in Bel Air. He was currently in a therapy centre the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is was here that DCS Serrailer went as Johno Miles, also a convicted paedophile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NJG7W7Q</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Val McDermid|title= Splinter the Silence|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= I should probably be ashamed married to say that I only know Val McDermidan extremely rich man and it's Tony Hill series from not the TV adaption ''Wire in the Blood''Italian. And I'm afraid to say that if the latest offering is par for But which of them was the series, then I'll remain content with that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140870689X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Carrell178763681X|title=Blood Brothers... Thai StyleKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|summary=Chatri Aromanadee and Daeng Khasajamsarun are friends, Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but in celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a rather unequal wayof getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Daeng very much has Paul ''somehow'' got the upper hand despite impression that he'd be at the fact that Chatri is school to assist Paul, who had a policeman: Daeng is manipulative and broken arm, but itdidn's difficult to be polite enough to say t turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'sails close t expected was for someone to the wind'turn up dead. The man is a criminalUnfortunately, but he turned a problem of his own (and of his own making) into a hold over Chatri, which still holds firm even when Chatri becomes was the chief of police in Baan Chailai, with its lively bar scene, on person who discovered the Gulf of Thailand. Their sons have a similar relationship: Daeng's son Tong is brutal in his relationships with women body and Chatri's son Sunan has everyone knows that the misfortune police consider that person to work in be the hotel complex owned by Daengprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1502880806</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L J Ross1529421284|title=Holy Island: A DCI Ryan MysteryLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
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|summary=DCI Ryan has decided It was one of those flash downpours that the Holy Island of Lindisfarne British weather often delivers in Northumberland is the ideal place for him to wait out his three months' sabbatical from the policea heatwave. Sea air, peace and quiet... The sort of peace and quiet that evaporates when LucyIn a gully, a young islander, is found murdered, her body curiously arranged at the Priory ruins. Ryan volunteers human skeleton came to lead the investigation, enlisting surface and forensic testing proved the assistance of Dr Anna Taylorbody to be Lee Geary, expert on ancient religious practiceswho had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe'll be helpful d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but something gradually dawns on Ryan that isnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't going convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to help the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at all: the murderer must be an island residenttime. Not something Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that will endear Ryan 's cold cases to the locals!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1514642824</amazonuk>you and me) investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Esmahan Aykol1529425867|title=Divorce Turkish Style Lost and Never Found (Kati Hirschel Istanbul Murder A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
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|summary=Kati Hirschel still owns IstanbulIn 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 Ryan, is not. He's only crime book shop while still supplying bed and board to her former lover, Spanish lawyer Fofonot any of those things. When Fofo dramatically points out the news report surrounding He's white, originated from a young political activisttrailer park, barely educated (reading's natural deathnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, Kati doesnyou't pay much attentionre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. But then she realises that Sometimes the face of victim Sani is familiar, she double takescombination works brilliantly well. There again this is nothing compared to KatiSometimes it's next realisation: this death may not have been that naturalproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852457X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margery Allingham1529431735|title= Police at the FuneralThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=When Andrew SeeleyIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, a member of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the well-known Faraday family of Cambridge disappears, gentleman adventurer Albert Campion agrees to look into it Costa del Sol as a favour to wanted drug smuggler for a frienddecade. He finds The return has come about because he's had a dysfunctional family living in its glorious past, with noletter from his ex-one at all sure they want to find their missing relative who can be a bit tryingwife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to say the leastlive. Before long the bodies start piling up It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and both Campion and his old friend Inspector Stanislaus Oates sent to a watery grave in the boot of Scotland Yard are as baffled as each othera stolen Ford Sierra. Until, naturally, Campion figures Is it all out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009950734X</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves (editor)0861541774|title=The Starlings and Other StoriesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|summary=Six authorsDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, known collectively as 'The Murder Squad'Danny Maik, and their six accomplices were given twelve photographs of the remote landscape of Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and asked has taken a short holiday in Singapore to come meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a short story inspired by what they sawstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Some Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the stories will man. Now he could be more facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to your taste than others, help as is only to be expected in such any interference from another police force could provoke a varied anthology, but none are weak diplomatic incident and if you enjoy crime short stories then this book could be a real treatwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909823740</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1521129886|title=Last Resort They Had It Coming (A Bob Skinner MysteryGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
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|summary=In the space of a year life has changed dramatically for Bob Skinner. HeGreg Mason's not going just beginning to be head of Police Service Scotland - he withdrew get his application - and his third marriage went confidence as an investigator to the wall quite dramatically. On the other hand point where he's back with his second wife, Sarah, who's getting rather annoyed at the way ll warn someone about how much hecharges. It's moping around now that hea good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they's on gardening leavere both delighted. She's Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the one who persuades him to go to his house morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in Spain -law appears to sort have killed himself out. ItStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's a cathartic trip: an old friend asks him struggling to investigate the disappearance of a trusted employee make ends meet and Skinner discovers that he himself her son is the target of a 'true crime' authornot thriving. If nothing else Lucy, he realises says, is convinced that what heGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's been missing t in his nature. The police and the job of late is coroner have accepted that the hands-on investigation. death was suicide, At least hebut Stuart's not moping any more..prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00XJOQDDM</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom ClaverB0CK3MYJ56|title=Hider/SeekerResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
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|summary=Harry Bridger is an exIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-policeman who flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now makes his living helping people disappearset himself up as a private investigator. His clients aren't always whiter than whiteShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but when a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks him to help, his chivalrous instincts override where's the doubts life experience that lurk in backs up this profession? On the back of his mindother hand, he has been asked to look into something. A few things about Angela Linehan don't chime right but she Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been vouched for by written off as a tragic accident at an old friend unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Harry's basic decency wonPam Hetherington - can't allow him understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to leave fall in front of a woman and her child in dangertrain. And there Greg's another advantage been asked to helping Angela. It brings Harry back into the orbit of his ex-wife Bethany. And Harry would do almost anything to redeem himself in her eyesinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate London1838954481|title= Post MortemThe Misper|rating= 4.5|genreauthor= Crime|summary= I enjoyed this police crime novel by a talented new writer, Kate London. It is a well written and intelligently thought out book. The characters are clearly drawn and you are able to see the drama unfold from different perspectives. The action constantly shifts from the present, back to the events that lead to the crime taking place and then forward to reveal a little more of the plot with each shift. This helps you engage immediately with the story and with the characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ed McBain|title=So Nude, So Dead|rating=4.5
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|summary=WhatRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's in a name? A lot if you decide to call your book ''So Nude, So Dead''no doubt about that. This is a title to conjure with, what on Earth is He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it about? at DI Kieran Shaw. As this is a ''Hard Case'' title it is likely He pulled the trigger but due to be hardboiled and the vagaries of the jury system he was found not adverse to a little violence guilty of both the murder and titillationthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. However, consider For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the book was once call ''The Evil Sleep!'' capital and has since been renamed; hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is this more found on her territory she's drawn into a case wider investigation - and back into the orbit of the title selling the book rather than accurately portraying its content?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166064</amazonuk>Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1448309743|title= Affinity Bridge|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=London, 1901: airships and automata herald a shining future in a city of steam-powered road trains and carriages. Queen Victoria is still alive The Devil Stone (after a fashionDCI Christine Caplan) and one of her trusted Crown Agents has his work cut out investigating some decidedly odd goings-on in the capital alongside the chaps at Scotland Yard. Revenant corpses and vengeful, ghostly policemen in the dense fog of Whitechapel don't phase Newbury, however, accustomed as he is to dabbling in the occult.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ann Granger|title=Dead in the Water (Campbell and Carter)Caro Ramsay
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|summary=It was In the wettest winter village of Cronchie on record and coming up to Christmas it wasn't the floods that the residents West coast of Weston Saint Ambrose were worried about - or even the forthcoming festivities. On his way to a call the local vet had spotted something in the river and closer inspection showed that it was a body Scotland, five members of what he thought was a young womanwealthy family are found murdered. When he managed to get back to The only item missing from the scene and meet home is the police Devil Stone: myth says that if the body had disappearedstone is removed from Otterburn House, but it drifted under the landing stage of a large house down river and was spotted by a man delivering logsdeath will follow. The owner of the houseonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, a reclusive writer, was shocked to realise that he recognised 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the girlbody. Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Campbell had The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to investigate the brutal killing'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00XJOQBIY</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529077699|title=The Dying Season: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|summary=''It's said that you should never meet your heroes but Bruno Courrègesall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, chief of police of it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the sleepy Dordogne town middle of St Denisan autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, has no such thoughts when he's invited anchored in Scully Cove close to the 90th birthday celebrations village of the man who has been his hero since he was a childGreystone, in Devon. Marco Desaix is Rosco had the status of a war hero, flying ace and national treasure: a man with high level political connections in Francerenowned adventurer, Russia and Israel - round the world sailor and he's known as all round ''The Patriarchcelebrity''. The party I ''nearly'' said 'all- if you can use such a mundane word for an occasion which includes round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a fly past by the air force - went well, little bit close with only one minor disruption when money and his background isn't exactly an old family friend accosted one of open book. Where did he get the daughters of the Desaix family and was disinclined to let go. money for his first boat? Still, it was well known that How did he was an alcoholic and no one seemed surprised when Gilbert was removed without ceremony by finance the gamekeeper.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848664052</amazonuk>trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark (editor)1529427045|title= Manhattan Mayhem – New Crime Stories from The Girl in the Mystery Writers of AmericaEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I was unsure how ''Life has more to open this reviewoffer than people - prime numbers for example''. I heart Manhattan Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, big timewhere the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. I am always attracted to any work set The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in Manhattan, but I don’t want the area to pigeonhole this remarkable collection of stories into a slot have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that says Salander became her niece'only for Manhattan lovers'. Far from it – s guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a superb collection featuring the highest standards remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of both mystery writing and the form of short storypart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474761X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Grisham1787636607|title= Gray Mountain |rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Gray Mountain is the latest exciting legal thriller from John Grisham. In this gripping book, two small town lawyers, Donovan Gray and Samantha Kofner, take on the might of some devious coal companies who have never played by the rules. As a result, many of their previous employees are both dying and destitute. All they ask for is some compensation and dignity to live with for the rest of their lives. However, the coal companies don’t see things the same way and are not prepared to give an inch. Will Donovan and Samantha be able to ensure that justice is done? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444765655</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Trap|author=Mark Ellis|title=Stalin's Gold: A Frank Merlin NovelCatherine Ryan Howard
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|summary=When we [[Frank Merlin: Princes Gate by Mark Ellis|last saw]] DCI Frank Merlin he was champing at It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the bit morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to enlist get home. Some are lucky and do his bit but frustrated by manage to get one of the fact that he could not be releasedfew taxis available. On Others squash onto the positive side there were signs night bus that he was recovering from will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the death of his wife a couple of years earlier and he's now taxi problem', particularly in a relationship with Sonia, a refugee from Poland whothe light of 's working in the dress department at Swan and Edgarmissing women'. The phoney war is well and truly over and London is suffering daily bombing raids: For one young woman, the final stop on the capital is bus leaves her a dangerous place to belong way short of her home. Some people are taking advantage of the situation She had intended to ring someone to come and looting is disappointingly frequent. Itcollect her - but her phone's one of dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the problems that have been dropped on Merlinbus driver to let her use his. There's toesno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YSZ9G4E</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kathy Reichs1405957174|title= Speaking in BonesA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes you really do need to start at From the beginning of first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a series man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to get into itcall the ambulance he so desperately needs. And sometimes it doesnWhat we don't matter a jot. Kathy Reichs' Tempe Brennan novels fall into know is who the latter categoryman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. ThereI's d better give you a bit of a back-story in there, but letlittle more background so that you can understand what's be honest, it's only there to make Temperance Brennan seem half-way humanhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021199</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis0008530025|title=Frank Merlin: Princes Gate Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
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|summary=In It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the early part body of the Second World War there was a lullher stepfather, Luke Ryder, when hostilities didn't really seem to get going – in the so-called Phoney Wargarden of their West London home. Some Londoners, whoHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd left slipped down the capital in steps but the expectation of early bombing raidsvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, began drifting back no one has been charged with his murder and there were still those who thought that peace could be negotiated – that we could stay out it's now the subject of the fight''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Chief amongst those outside A group of experts has been brought together to review the political classes who supported this view was evidence and to take the American Ambassador, Joseph Kennedyinvestigation further. Kennedy wasMore to the point, perhaps fortunately but not unusuallythey're going to do this live on camera, out episode by episode. There's no dump of the country when one of the staff at the residence was murdered whole box set - and her body fished out no shortage of the Thamescliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YUUGEJ2</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker0241996104|title= Whispering ShadowsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionThrillers|summary= Paul Leibovitz was a journalistNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. That was before. Before he had We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a small child, who did not survive as long as he should havelife sentence. Before the end of the marriage The barrister tells her that did she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not survive been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the loss rest of a childher life. Now Leibovitz himselfOf course, merely survives. He lives in a kind of selfit's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -imposed exile on Lamma, third largest of and the papers are making the Hong Kong islands, a place most of greenery it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and solitude''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Silverwood1529413680|title=Angel and the Actress|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Joan Minter, award-winning actress, was murdered in front of a gathering of her closest friends, but no one saw who did it - or could possibly have been the one who did it. Inspector Angel and his team of detectives were called out to her home, at the foot of the Pennines, in Bromersley. Angel was going to be kept busy though. A young man was found murdered in his home. His wife hadn't expected him to be there - and nor could she explain the new vacuum cleaner which had appeared since she left for work that morningChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, or the fact that the fridge door was wide open. Then there's the theft Chief of a handbag, which leads to a family's two cars being stolen. And just to top it off, Angel's wife is away visiting her sister.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719816157</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=John Piper|title=Hibernia Unanimis: "Pro Deo, Rege et Patricia, Hibernia Unanimis" (For God, King and Country, Ireland is United)Martin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary= Benedict Plunkett calls a meeting One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of a small but select and distinguished group the liberation of Irish the town from the English in 1370 and US politiciansBruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, clergy and business men to whom the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he explains his plans for Hibernia Unanimis – a united Irelanddeparts from the script. It will be raised up by Luckily, his doctor is there and for the Irish man is whisked away in response to the new UKIP government in Londona helicopter. Before the great A local doctor (and the good leave Benedict's mansion they are asked to sign contracts if they want to be part friend of Bruno) wonders about his future. Some sign, some don't chances of survival but all think - as he's deluded and nothing will come of ita senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Then the accident happens One daughter lives nearby and everyone takes Benedict a little more seriously asanother, who lives in timeCalifornia, will the English governmentis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YGUSPOS</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Castle1529196388|title=Ultimate StormThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As if it wasn’t complicated enough trying Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to figure out what by just about everyone, so there was real and what wasn’t public uproar when reading [[Raging Heat (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6) by Richard Castle]] now I find myself reading another story written by this fictional television character that made him a bestselling authorhe was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. I do wonder, reading these, who There's just one man in the real writer (or writers) behind Richard Castle must be! Anywayframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, this time we’re charged with Castle’s fictional character (a fictional character’s fictional character!) Derrick StormCliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, a PI turned CIA agentAdam Green, though in this book he’s being called back into service after disappearing into early retirement and officially being ‘dead’who eventually represent him. This book is actually a collection of 3 Storm storiesKnight's determined to plead not guilty, but they are despite all related and part of Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the same overall arccontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783291869</amazonuk>
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