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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances FyfieldStuart Douglas|title=A Painted SmileLowe 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

|summary=Diana Porteous is youngFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, rich and a widowhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She's reached There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the stage future of being over the initial grief after the death of her husbandhis life with his vet girlfriend, but Livia and her life lacks focus. It's then that her beloved step-grandsondaughter Diana, Patrick, comes as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with an idea: he suggests an exhibition of portraits entitled ''A Question of Guilt'' which encourages people Livia or does Livia move to really look at the pictures and work out what they think the subjects are doing. It began in a rather light-hearted way but it's Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not long before everyone this is caught up in the preparations future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the exhibition, to be presented moment they’re enjoying life in the large wine cellar under present and putting the future on the old schoolhouse. Not everyone is sure that it's suitable though..back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555207</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M L Longworth1786482126|title=The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary=Antoine Verlaque, investigating judge at Aix-en-Provence, is asked to visit a retired postman who has uncovered an old canvas in his apartment, which just happens to be the former home of famous nineteenth-century artist Paul Cezanne. When he gets there the old man is dead, there's no canvas to be seen, and an American art history professor is inexplicably in the living room. It's now up to Antoine and his team of policemen to find the murderer and the painting, and with the help of his girlfriend Marine Bonnet, work out who the woman in the painting is and if it could really be a hitherto unknown Cezanne.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128078</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gillian Flynn|title=The GrownupElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our narrator, a selfBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -confessed expert at giving, er, relief the site was going to men, is branching outhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Well, carpal tunnel syndrome at such a young age isn't greatThere was no skull. Instead of working at the back of Was this a dodgy tarot shopritual killing or murder? Inevitably, sheDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's out frontdifficult as Ruth knows, pretending to see aurasbut Nelson doesn't, and using her natural aptitude to read people (that she is pregnant with his child as a skill mastered begging for years with her result of the one-eyed mother), when a woman comes in with a serious demandnight they spent together some three months ago. Piecing the mystery of what it might Her condition will be together for usobvious before long, our heroine ends up in a very malevolent building, housing what might be the step-son from hell…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474603041</amazonuk>not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0008551324|title=Game of MirrorsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=Inspector Montalbano came It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the aid of his new neighbour when her car wouldn't startpolice. It wasn't ''justNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'' gallantry which led him s prepared to do this: tell the police where the fact that she body of a missing person is buried and who was stunningly beautiful didn't harm responsible for her chances at alldeath. Montalbano wasn't to know where this simpleThis person, courteous act would leadhe promises, although he knew something was wrong: is someone big and it wasn't that will be worth the car wouldn't start - it had been deliberately damagedpolice doing what he wants. Her husband, a computer salesman, seemed only And what he wants is to be around occasionally transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and obviously didn't care what Liliana got up to when he wasn't thereget an early parole date. And then Liliana began making advances Not much to Montalbanoask, whilst is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she was carrying on a relationship 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with a young assistant in a local clothes shophim is kept well away from what's happening. What was going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447249216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves0008405026|title=The Glass Room A Stranger in the Family (D I Vera StanhopeMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Inspector Vera Stanhope isnIt't big on friends but the hippy neighbours are good to s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her in terms of home-brew beer and conversation and when bed one of them goes missing she feels obliged to investigatesummer night. She knows that she'd be furious if one of was never found and the team was playing at private investigator investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and it leaves her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the embarrassing position positioning of being first on the scene after 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 complex double murder has been discovered. One of Kerrigan is convinced that the tutors has been brutally murdered at The Writers' House and the other residents have made an easy assumption about who wielded the knife, but Vera must act professionally even though she knows thatexplanation lies in Rosalie's shedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's hardly impartialboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007I5O6LE</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham Masterton0571379877|title= Blood SistersThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5

|summary= A Edward Jevons is a working-class young couple are walking on man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a clifftheatre director. He's also self-top when they hear obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a cry of anguish from below, which leads relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the discovery of not an injured person but horses – lots two of themkissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RankinJo Callaghan|title=Even Dogs in the Wild|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=There's a high-profile murder case in Edinburgh. Someone has broken into the home of Lord Minton, senior lawyer and former Lord Advocate, beaten him, strangled him and then beaten him some more when he was dead. A note was found at the scene of the crime which suggested that Minton had been threatened. DI Siobhan Clarke has been seconded to the enquiry and she calls on her old friend John Rebus, kicking his heels in retirement, when Big Ger Cafferty narrowly escapes death as a shot is fired into his house. Cafferty had received the same threatening note as Minton. Fearing a turf war, he's reluctant to open up to anyone but Rebus. Clarke's friend, DI Malcolm Fox has been seconded too - to a team from Glasgow who are undercover and need local expertise, only he's not quite so well received. His former posting in Complaints is well known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ann Cleeves|title=Harbour Street (D I Vera Stanhope)Leave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth was escorting his daughter home from When a pre-Christmas school concert using man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Newcastle metrocase alongside her sidekick, not least because the snow had startedAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. A rather smartBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, elderly woman took Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a seat but when the train was stopped because lot of the bad weather Jessie noticed that the old lady had not left her seat and went unwanted attention to wake her - only Margaret Krukowski had been fatally stabbed as she sat on the traintheir AI Future Policing project. Christmas wasn't D I Vera Stanhope's favourite time of year and she wasn't upset to have work to do to break up the festivities; far better to Will they be on her way able to solve the Northumberland seaside town of Mardle with Joe Ashworth. Margaret Krukowski had lived case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the boarding house at 1 Harbour Street as well as working there. In factcase and, potentially, she'd lived there before it became out of a boarding house.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00JPZMI88</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Stafford1035021803|title=BellebrookThe Antique Hunter's SecretsGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Trudy Hampstead It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a plan that will support request for help from her widowed mother beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and twin brother unwittingly involving their landlordCarole's son. Their landlord close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is local gentry and philanderer Alistair Burgoyne QC dead and the one person who can ensure security of tenurecircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Trudy thinks that Peter Arthur was the local curate should step in reason why Freya had not been back to speak to Trudythe village: Arthur, she feels, something he's more than happy to do since he has a secret agenda of his ownlet her down badly. Meanwhile up at Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the farm man or pursue the Lovestocks' marriage is coming apart at profession she loved. After the seamssplit, she worked in a fact that may partially threaten the peace of cafe, met and married James (on the village but not half as much as 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves1398524085|title=Hidden DepthsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1529900360|title=The Soul of Discretion (Simon Serrailler)Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|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 married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was here that DCS Serrailer went as Johno Miles, also a convicted paedophile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NJG7W7Q</amazonuk>the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Val McDermid178763681X|title= Splinter the Silence|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= I should probably be ashamed to say that I only know Val McDermid's Tony Hill series from the TV adaption ''Wire in the Blood''. And I'm afraid to say that if the latest offering is par Knife Skills for the series, then I'll remain content with that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140870689X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Matt Carrell|title=Blood Brothers... Thai StyleOrlando Murrin

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L J Ross1529421284|title=Holy Island: A DCI Ryan MysteryLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Esmahan Aykol1529425867|title=Divorce Turkish Style Lost and Never Found (Kati Hirschel Istanbul Murder A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|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 not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's only crime book shop while still supplying bed not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and board trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to her former lovera police procedural written for laughs. Well, Spanish lawyer Fofoyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. When Fofo dramatically points out Sometimes the news report surrounding a young political activistcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's natural deathFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Kati doesnwhich made Bruce Hopkins't pay much attentionreturn all the more surprising. But then she realises that He'd been exiled on the face of victim Sani is familiarCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she double takes's ill and hasn't long to live. There again this It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is nothing compared abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to Kati's next realisation: this death may not have been that naturala watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852457X</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margery Allingham0861541774|title= Police at the FuneralA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=When Andrew SeeleyDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, a member of the well-known Faraday family of Cambridge disappearsDanny Maik, gentleman adventurer Albert Campion agrees to look into it as has taken a favour short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a friend. He finds street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a dysfunctional family living in its glorious past, man armed with noa knife -one at all sure they want to find their missing relative who can be and he killed a bit tryingGhurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to say murder the leastman. Before long Now he could be facing the bodies start piling up, death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and both Campion and his old friend Inspector Stanislaus Oates of Scotland Yard are as baffled as each other. Until, naturally, Campion figures it wouldn't help Danny at all out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009950734X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title=Ann Cleeves They Had It Coming (editorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=The Starlings and Other StoriesKeith Redfern

|summary=Six authors, known collectively Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'The Murder Squadll warn someone about how much he charges. It', s a good job too because Greg and their six accomplices were given twelve photographs of the remote landscape of Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson Joyce will soon have a baby and asked to come up with a short story inspired by what they saw're both delighted. Some of the stories Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to your taste than othersmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, as is only to be expected convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in such a varied anthologyhis nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but none are weak and if you enjoy crime short stories then this book could be a real treatStuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909823740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin JardineB0CK3MYJ56|title=Last Resort Responsibilities (A Bob Skinner MysteryGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=In It's the space of a year life has changed dramatically for Bob Skinner1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He's not going used to be head of Police Service Scotland have a high- he withdrew his application - and his third marriage went to flying job in the wall quite dramatically. On the other hand city but it wasn't satisfying so he's back with his second wifenow set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', Sarahyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, whobut where's getting rather annoyed at the way he's moping around now life experience that he's on gardening leave. backs up this profession? She's On the one who persuades him to go other hand, he has been asked to his house in Spain to sort himself outlook into something. ItJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a cathartic trip: tragic accident at an old friend asks him to investigate the disappearance of a trusted employee unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Skinner discovers that he himself is the target of a 'true crimePam Hetherington - can' author. If nothing else he realises that t understand what he's been missing she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in the job front of late is the hands-on investigationa train. At least heGreg's not moping any more..been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00XJOQDDM</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Claver1838954481|title=Hider/SeekerThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Harry Bridger is an exRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-policeman who now makes his living helping people disappearold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. His clients aren't always whiter than white, He pulled the trigger but when a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks him due to help, his chivalrous instincts override the doubts vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that lurk means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the back of his mind. A few things about Angela Linehan don't chime right countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's been vouched for by an old friend and Harry's basic decency won't allow him to leave drawn into a woman wider investigation - and her child in danger. And there's another advantage 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 eyesRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate London1448309743|title= Post MortemThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I enjoyed this police crime novel by a talented new writerIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Kate London. It is five members of a well written and intelligently thought out bookwealthy family are found murdered. The characters are clearly drawn and you are able to see only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the drama unfold stone is removed from different perspectivesOtterburn House, death will follow. The action constantly shifts from the presentonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, back to the events that lead to the crime taking place and then forward to reveal a little more 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the plot with each shiftbody. This helps you engage immediately with the story and with the characters The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396136</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed McBain1529077699|title=So Nude, So DeadThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=What''It's in a nameall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir? A lot if you decide to call your book ''So Nude Well yes, So Dead''it is. This is Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a title small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to conjure withthe village of Greystone, what on Earth is it about? in Devon. As this is Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''Hard Casecelebrity'' title it is likely to be hardboiled and not adverse to a little violence and titillation. However, consider that the book was once call I ''nearly''said 'The Evil Sleep!all-round good egg'but as we' and has since been renamed; is this ll find out, he could be more than a case of little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the title selling money for his first boat? How did he finance the book rather than accurately portraying its contenttrip?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author= George MannKarin 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= Affinity BridgeThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=London, 1901: airships and automata herald It's a shining future scene replicated all too often in a city the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of steam-powered road trains clubs and carriageslooking for a way to get home. Queen Victoria is still alive (after a fashion) Some are lucky and manage to get one of her trusted Crown Agents has his work cut out investigating some decidedly odd goings-on in the capital alongside few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the chaps at Scotland Yardoutlying villages. Revenant corpses and vengeful The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', ghostly policemen particularly in the dense fog light of Whitechapel don't phase Newburythe missing women'. For one young woman, however, accustomed as he is the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to dabbling start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the occulthigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298278</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Granger1405957174|title=Dead in A Death at the Water (Campbell and Carter)Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=It was From the wettest winter on record and coming up to Christmas it wasnfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh't the floods that the residents of Weston Saint Ambrose were worried about - or even the forthcoming festivitiess party will not end well. On his way The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to a call the local vet had spotted something in the river and closer inspection showed that it was a body of what ambulance he thought was a young womanso desperately needs. When he managed to get back to the scene and meet the police the body had disappeared, but it drifted under What we don't know is who the landing stage of a large house down river and was spotted by a man delivering logsis or why Nadine prefers to have him die. The owner of the house, I'd better give you a reclusive writer, was shocked to realise little more background so that he recognised the girl. Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Campbell had to investigate the brutal killingyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00XJOQBIY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker0008530025|title=The Dying Season: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=It's said was in December 2003 that you should never meet your heroes but Bruno Courrègesfifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, chief of police in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the sleepy Dordogne town back of St Denis, has no such thoughts when his head which could have happened if he's invited to d slipped down the 90th birthday celebrations of steps but the man who has been vicious beating his hero since he face had taken was a childobviously deliberate. Marco Desaix is a war heroTwenty years later, flying ace and a man no one has been charged with high level political connections in France, Russia his murder and Israel - and heit's known as now the subject of ''The PatriarchInfamous'', a true-crime show. The party - if you can use such a mundane word for an occasion which includes a fly past by the air force - went well, with only one minor disruption when an old family friend accosted one A group of experts has been brought together to review the daughters of the Desaix family evidence and was disinclined to let gotake the investigation further. StillMore to the point, it was well known that he was an alcoholic they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no one seemed surprised when Gilbert was removed without ceremony by the gamekeepershortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848664052</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark (editor)0241996104|title= Manhattan Mayhem – New Crime Stories from the Mystery Writers of AmericaComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= I was unsure how to open this reviewNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. I heart Manhattan We first meet Nancy outside the court, big timeafter Martin receives a life sentence. I am always attracted to any work set in Manhattan, The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but I don’t want will have to pigeonhole this remarkable collection live with what happened for the rest of stories into a slot that says her life. Of course, it'only for Manhattan loverss made worse because Nancy'. Far s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it – it . ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is a superb collection featuring the highest standards of both mystery writing one favourite epithet and the form of short story''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474761X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Grisham1529413680|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 KofnerA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, take on the might Chief 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>}}{{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Mark Ellis|title=Stalin's Gold: A Frank Merlin NovelMartin Walker|rating=4.5

|summary=When we [[Frank Merlin: Princes Gate by Mark Ellis|last saw]] DCI Frank Merlin he was champing at One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the bit to enlist and do his bit but frustrated by re-enactment of the fact that he could not be released. On liberation of the positive side there were signs that he was recovering town from the death of his wife a couple of years earlier English in 1370 and heBruno's now in a relationship there to see the show with Soniasome friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, a refugee the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from Poland who's working in the dress department at Swan and Edgarscript. The phoney war Luckily, his doctor is well there and truly over and London is suffering daily bombing raids: the capital man is whisked away in a dangerous place to behelicopter. Some people are taking advantage A local doctor (and friend of the situation and looting is disappointingly frequent. It's one Bruno) wonders about his chances of the problems that have been dropped on Merlinsurvival but - as he's toes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YSZ9G4E</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kathy Reichs|title= Speaking in Bones|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes you really do need to start at a senior government employee, the beginning of a series to get into it. And sometimes it doesn't matter a jot. Kathy Reichs' Tempe Brennan novels fall into man who runs Frenchelon - the latter categorymilitary has stepped in. There's a bit of a back-story One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in thereCalifornia, but letis flying in with some of her father's be honest, it's only there to make Temperance Brennan seem halffriends for a pre-way humanarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021199</amazonuk>

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|summary=In the early part of the Second World War there Grant Cliveden was a lullhero: 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 hostilities didn't really seem to get going – he was murdered in plain sight at the so-called Phoney WarOld Bailey. Some Londoners, whoThere'd left s just one man in the capital frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in the expectation of early bombing raidscourt, began drifting back and there were still those who thought charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that peace could be negotiated – that we could stay out of the fight. Chief amongst those outside best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the political classes Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who supported this view was the American Ambassador, Joseph Kennedyeventually represent him. Kennedy was, perhaps fortunately but Knight's determined to plead not unusuallyguilty, out of the country when one of the staff at the residence was murdered and her body fished out of despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the Thamescontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YUUGEJ2</amazonuk>