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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CamilleriStuart Douglas|title=Blade 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 Lighta 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=When Mr di Marta arrived Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Montalbano's station to report an armed robbery on Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his wife the night before the most surprising point was not the robbery itselfvet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, but the fact that it had ended with as moving in together would mean a kiss. The Inspector's suspicions were aroused and he was convinced that he was not being told the full story. None lot of the witnesses' stories added compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and it was difficult not relaxing life to come move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the conclusion that they were not ''meant'' to. future she wants for herself and her daughter? Then a body turned up For the moment they’re enjoying life in a burnt-out car which had all the hallmarks of a Mafia hit. This isn't Montalbano's only problem though - there's another case which keeps sneaking its way present and putting the future on the back into his attention even though he should have nothing to do with itburner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447264452</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1786482126|title= Bryant and May - London's GloryThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=In Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the depths of the last [[Bryant and May – The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler|B&M review I wrote]] I said site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' Of course, it's unbelievable, farcicalapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But then you don't come to Was this a Bryant and May story for realismritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. You come for absurdity.It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' Naturallyt, I stand by that commentshe is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Fowler has concocted his characters and has no shame in shunting them up and down the time-line Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of British history as he sees fitsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis Duncan0008551324|title=Murder For ChristmasThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Mordecai Tremaine used It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be a tobacconist approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he was a lover of romance novels, but these were not his main claim to fame: he has a reputation as a sleuth. He was somewhat surprised 's prepared to be invited to spend Christmas in tell the peaceful village of Sherbroome at police where the country home body of Benedict Grame, not knowing the man wella missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. When This person, he arrived on Christmas Eve promises, is someone big and it will be worth the festivities were in full swing, but - observer of people as police doing what he was - wants. And what he sensed tensions amongst wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the odd assortment remainder of guestshis sentence and to get an early parole date. In the early hours of Christmas Day the household Not much to ask, is woken by screams it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and as everyone assembles downstairs they discover a dead body under she's even prepared to do the Christmas tree other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he looks decidedly like Father Christmas. Itanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's up to Tremaine to establish who committed the murderhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703451</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina James0008405026|title=The CrossingA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=When DI Tim Yates is called It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to investigate a tragic collision between halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a train straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and a council lorry on a level crossing, he expects her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a straightforward investigationcomplex double murder. However, he soon realises thereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's nothing straightforward about itboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1784630411</amazonuk>Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-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 relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances FyfieldJo Callaghan|title=A Painted SmileLeave No Trace

|summary=Diana Porteous When a man is young, rich and a widow. She's reached found crucified on the stage top of being over a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the initial grief after the death of case alongside her husbandsidekick, but her life lacks focusthe AI detective Lock. It's then that her beloved step-grandsontheir first live case together, Patrickhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, comes up Kat is suddenly struggling with an idea: he suggests an exhibition a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of portraits entitled ''A Question of Guilt'' which encourages people unwanted attention to really look at the pictures and work out what their AI Future Policing project. Will they think be able to solve the subjects are doing. It began in a rather light-hearted way but it's not long before everyone is caught up case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the preparations for the exhibitioncase and, potentially, to be presented in the large wine cellar under the old schoolhouse. Not everyone is sure that it's suitable though...out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555207</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M L Longworth1035021803|title=The Mystery of the Lost CezanneAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Antoine Verlaque, investigating judge at Aix-en-Provence, is asked to visit a retired postman who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has uncovered an old canvas in his apartment, which just happens been back to be the former home English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of famous nineteenth-century artist Paul Cezannea request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. When he gets there the old man Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is deadand the circumstances seem suspicious, there's no canvas to be seen, and an American art history professor is inexplicably in say the living roomleast. It's now up Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to Antoine and his team of policemen the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to find be near the man or pursue the murderer and profession she loved. After the paintingsplit, she worked in a cafe, met and with married James (on the help rebound from the love of his girlfriend Marine Bonnether life, work out who the woman in the painting is was murdered) and Freya and if it could really be a hitherto unknown CezanneJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128078</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Flynn1398524085|title=The Grownup|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our narrator, a self-confessed expert at giving, er, relief to men, is branching out. Well, carpal tunnel syndrome at such a young age isn't great. Instead of working at the back of a dodgy tarot shop, she's out front, pretending to see auras, and using her natural aptitude to read people (a skill mastered begging for years with her one-eyed mother), when a woman comes in with a serious demand. Piecing the mystery of what it might be together for us, our heroine ends up in a very malevolent building, housing what might be the step-son from hell…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474603041</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Andrea Camilleri|title=Game of MirrorsNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Inspector Montalbano came to the aid of his new neighbour when Charlotte Salter was expected at her car wouldnhusband't starts fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It wasn't ''just'' gallantry which led him to do this: the fact that she was stunningly beautiful didn't harm Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her chances at daughter, Etty. are allworried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Montalbano wasnShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg't to know where this simples father, courteous act would leadDuncan Ackerley, although he knew something was wrong: it wasn't that in the car wouldn't start - it had been deliberately damagedriver. Her husband, a computer salesman, seemed only It was an easy assumption for the police to be around occasionally make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and obviously didn't care what Liliana got up to then committed suicide when he wasncouldn't therestand the guilt. And then Liliana began making advances to Montalbano, whilst she was carrying The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on a relationship with a young assistant in a local clothes shoptheir lives and wonder about what really happened. What was going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447249216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves1529900360|title=The Glass Room (D I Vera Stanhope)Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54

|summary=Inspector Vera Stanhope isnIt hadn't big on friends been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but the hippy neighbours are good he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to her in terms of homeask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-brew beer and conversation and when one -shut cases which didn't need the help of them goes missing she feels obliged to investigatea psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knows knew that she'd be furious if one of the team involvement was playing at private investigator and it leaves her something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the embarrassing position swimming pool of being first on the scene after a murder has been discoveredremote property in Bel Air. One of He was the tutors has been brutally murdered at The Writers' House heir to an Italian shoe empire and the other residents have made she is married to an easy assumption about who wielded the knife, but Vera must act professionally even though she knows thatextremely rich man and it's she's hardly impartialnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007I5O6LE</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham Masterton178763681X|title= Blood SistersKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 34

|summary= A young couple are walking on Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a cliff-top when they hear residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a cry way of anguish from belowgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, which leads who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the discovery of not an injured person but horses – lots of themwho discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1529421284|title=Even Dogs in Laying Out the WildBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=There's It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a high-profile murder case in Edinburghheatwave. Someone has broken into In a gully, a human skeleton came to the home of Lord Minton, senior lawyer surface and former Lord Advocateforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, 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 who had been threateneddisappeared nine years earlier. DI Siobhan Clarke has He'd been seconded to the enquiry a known drug user and she calls on her old friend John Rebushad learning disabilities, kicking his heels in retirement, when Big Ger Cafferty narrowly escapes death as so it could have been a shot is fired into his housesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Cafferty had received the same threatening note as Minton. Fearing Geary was a turf wartownie, so what was he's reluctant doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to open up the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to anyone but Rebustwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. ClarkeLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's friend, DI Malcolm Fox has been seconded too - cold cases to a team from Glasgow who are undercover you and need local expertise, only he's not quite so well received. His former posting in Complaints is well knownme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves1529425867|title=Harbour Street Lost and Never Found (A D I Vera StanhopeWilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth was escorting his daughter home from a pre-Christmas school concert using the Newcastle metroIn Oxford, not least because the snow had startedthere are two D I Wilkins. A rather smartRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, 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 Balliol educated and went to wake her - only Margaret Krukowski had been fatally stabbed as she sat on the trainalways exquisitely dressed. Christmas wasn't D I Vera StanhopeRyan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's favourite time not any of year those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and she wasnhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They't upset re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to have work to do to break up a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the festivities; far better to be on her way to the Northumberland seaside town of Mardle with Joe Ashworthsame policing coin. Margaret Krukowski had lived in Sometimes the boarding house at 1 Harbour Street as combination works brilliantly well as working there. In fact, sheSometimes it'd lived there before it became a boarding houses problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JPZMI88</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Stafford1529431735|title=Bellebrook's SecretsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Trudy Hampstead has a plan that will support her widowed mother It's February 1991 and twin brother unwittingly involving their landlordEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's sonreturn all the more surprising. Their landlord is local gentry and philanderer Alistair Burgoyne QC and He'd been exiled on the one person who can ensure security of tenureCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Trudy thinks that Peter the local curate should step in to speak to Trudy, something The return has come about because he's more than happy to do since he has had a secret agenda of letter from his ownex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. Meanwhile up at the farm the LovestocksIt' marriage s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is coming apart at the seamsabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a fact that may partially threaten watery grave in the peace boot of the village but not half as much as the anonymous random acts of violence that are about a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to hit Bellebrook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783063327</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves0861541774|title=Hidden DepthsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=Life hadnDCI Domenic Jejeune't been easy for Julie Armstrongs close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, left on her own has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with two childrenan old ally, Guy Trueman. Her son Luke 'had his difficulties' too, probably best summarised as Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a learning disorder, knife - and he absorbed killed a lot of Julie's timeGhurka. She felt guilty that she neglected her daughter Laura who was brightInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but rather withdrawn: being Luke's sister had never been easy and keeping herself evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to herself was murder the best way of dealing with man. Now he could be facing the jibes about what he'd done ''now''death penalty. There weren't many opportunities for Julie Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to get out without the kids and the chance of a night out with her girlfriends had been too good to pass up, but when she came home, perhaps help as any interference from another police force could provoke a little drunk diplomatic incident and high from meeting up with a man she felt attracted to, she found Luke dead in a flower-strewn bath full of water. Hewouldn'd been strangledt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B002SPXO8U</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1521129886|title=The Soul of Discretion They Had It Coming (Simon SerraillerGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=The story begins with hints: Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an old lady hears children screaming in investigator to the middle of the night, sees children being bundled away from a property she thought was uninhabitedpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. A teacher is horrified by It's a drawing from good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a child which suggests that baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she is aware of brutal sexual activitygets past the morning sickness. For Simon Serrailler the knowledge had come more directly: he was Greg is approached to go undercover by an old friend whose brother-in prison with the aim of getting close -law appears to Will Fearnleyhave killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, a convicted paedophile who had consistently refused 's struggling to divulge any information about his contactsmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. He was currently Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in a therapy centre his nature. The police and is the coroner have accepted that the death was here that DCS Serrailer went as Johno Milessuicide, also a convicted paedophile but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NJG7W7Q</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Val McDermidB0CK3MYJ56|title= Splinter the SilenceResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= I should probably be ashamed to say that I only know Val McDermidIt's Tony Hill series from the TV adaption 1990s and Greg Mason''Wire s twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the Bloodcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. And INice bloke, but where'm afraid to say s the life experience that if backs up this profession? On the latest offering is par for the seriesother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, then IOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg'll remain content with thats been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140870689X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Carrell1838954481|title=Blood Brothers... Thai StyleThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Chatri Aromanadee and Daeng Khasajamsarun are friends, but in Ryan Kennedy killed a rather unequal waypolice officer: there's no doubt about that. Daeng very much has He was the upper hand despite fifteen-year-old holding the fact that Chatri is a policeman: Daeng is manipulative gun and pointing it's difficult to be polite enough to say that he 'sails close to the wind'at DI Kieran Shaw. The man is a criminal, He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he turned a problem was found not guilty of his own (both the murder and the manslaughter of his own making) into a hold over Chatri, which still holds firm even when Chatri becomes the chief of police in Baan Chailai, with its lively bar scene, officer. And so lives must go on the Gulf of Thailand. Their sons have For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a similar relationship: Daengquieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's son Tong is brutal in his relationships with women drawn into a wider investigation - and Chatri's son Sunan has back into the misfortune to work in the hotel complex owned by Daengorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1502880806</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L J Ross1448309743|title=Holy Island: A The Devil Stone (DCI Ryan MysteryChristine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=DCI Ryan has decided In the Holy Island village of Lindisfarne in Northumberland is Cronchie on the ideal place for him to wait out his three months' sabbatical from the police. Sea airWest coast of Scotland, peace and quiet... The sort five members of peace and quiet that evaporates when Lucy, a young islander, is wealthy family are found murdered, her body curiously arranged at the Priory ruins. Ryan volunteers to lead The only item missing from the home is the investigation, enlisting Devil Stone: myth says that if the assistance of Dr Anna Taylorstone is removed from Otterburn House, expert on ancient religious practicesdeath will follow. SheThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that'll be helpful but something gradually dawns on Ryan s an easy conclusion given that isntwo of them 'discovered't going to help at all: the murderer must be an island residentbody. Not something that will endear Ryan The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to the locals!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1514642824</amazonuk>'shadow' him.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Esmahan Aykol1529077699|title=Divorce Turkish Style The Raging Storm (Kati Hirschel Istanbul Murder MysteryTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=Kati Hirschel still owns Istanbul''It's only crime book shop while still supplying bed all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it 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 board dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to her former loverthe village of Greystone, Spanish lawyer Fofoin Devon. When Fofo dramatically points out Rosco had the news report surrounding status of a national treasure: a young political activistrenowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we's natural deathll find out, Kati doesnhe could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't pay much attentionexactly an open book. But then she realises that Where did he get the face of victim Sani is familiar, she double takes. money for his first boat? There again this is nothing compared to Kati's next realisation: this death may not have been that natural.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852457X</amazonuk>How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margery Allingham1529427045|title= Police at the Funeral|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=When Andrew Seeley, a member of the well-known Faraday family of Cambridge disappears, gentleman adventurer Albert Campion agrees to look into it as a favour to a friend. He finds a dysfunctional family living The Girl in its glorious past, with no-one at all sure they want to find their missing relative who can be a bit trying, to say the least. Before long the bodies start piling up, and both Campion and his old friend Inspector Stanislaus Oates of Scotland Yard are as baffled as each other. Until, naturally, Campion figures it all out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009950734X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEagle's Talons|author=Ann Cleeves (editor)|title=The Starlings and Other StoriesKarin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=Six authors, known collectively as 'The Murder Squad'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, and their six accomplices were given twelve photographs where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the remote landscape of Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and asked to come up with area have sparked a short story inspired by what they sawgold rush. Some of The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the stories will be more area to your taste than others, as is have vanished without trace. It was only to be expected in such a varied anthology, with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but none are weak and if you enjoy crime short stories then this book could be it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a real treatremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909823740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1787636607|title=Last Resort (A Bob Skinner Mystery)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=In It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the space morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a year life has changed dramatically for Bob Skinnerway to get home. He's not going Some are lucky and manage to be head get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of Police Service Scotland - he withdrew his application - and his third marriage went to the wall quite dramaticallyoutlying villages. On The woman all regret the other hand he's back with his second wifetaxi problem', Sarah, whoparticularly in the light of 's getting rather annoyed at the way hemissing women's moping around now that he's . For one young woman, the final stop on gardening leavethe bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Shehad intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the one who persuades him chance to go beg the bus driver to let her use his house in Spain to sort himself out. ItThere's a cathartic trip: an old friend asks him no option but to investigate the disappearance of a trusted employee start walking - unsuitably clothed and Skinner discovers that he himself is the target of a 'true crime' author. If nothing else he realises that what he's been missing in the job of late is the handshigh-on investigation. At least he's not moping any more..heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00XJOQDDM</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Claver1405957174|title=Hider/SeekerA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Harry Bridger From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is an ex-policeman who now makes his living helping people disappear. His clients aren't always whiter than white, but dying when a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to help, his chivalrous instincts override call the doubts that lurk in the back of his mindambulance he so desperately needs. A few things about Angela Linehan What we don't chime right but she's been vouched for by an old friend and Harry's basic decency won't allow him to leave a woman and her child in danger. And there's another advantage to helping Angela. It brings Harry back into know is who the orbit of his ex-wife Bethany. And Harry would do almost anything man is or why Nadine prefers to redeem himself in her eyeshave him die.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kate London|title= Post Mortem|rating= 4.5|genre= 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 'd better give 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 background so that you engage immediately with the story and with the characterscan understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396136</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed McBain0008530025|title=So Nude, So DeadMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=What's It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in a name? the garden of their West London home. A lot He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if you decide to call your book ''So Nude, So Dead'he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. This is a title to conjure Twenty years later, no one has been charged with, what on Earth is his murder and it about? As this is a 's now the subject of ''Hard CaseInfamous'' title it is likely , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to be hardboiled review the evidence and not adverse to a little violence and titillationtake the investigation further. HoweverMore to the point, consider that the book was once call ''The Evil Sleep!they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There' s no dump of the whole box set - and has since been renamed; is this more a case no shortage of the title selling the book rather than accurately portraying its content?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166064</amazonuk>cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann0241996104|title= Affinity BridgeComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=London, 1901: airships Nancy's mother and automata herald a shining future in a city of steamstep-powered road trains father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and carriagesher step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Queen Victoria is still alive ( We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a fashion) and one 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her trusted Crown Agents has his work cut out investigating some decidedly odd goingslife. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -on in and the capital alongside papers are making the chaps at Scotland Yardmost of it. Revenant corpses ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and vengeful, ghostly policemen in the dense fog of Whitechapel don't phase Newbury, however, accustomed as he 'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is to dabbling in the occultundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298278</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Granger1529413680|title=Dead in the Water A Chateau Under Siege (Campbell and CarterA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=It was One of the main events of the wettest winter on record and coming up to Christmas it wasn't Sarlat tourist season is the floods that re-enactment of the residents liberation of Weston Saint Ambrose were worried about - or even the forthcoming festivities. On his way to a call town from the local vet had spotted something English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the river and closer inspection showed that it was a body of what he thought was a young womanshow with some friends. When he managed to get back to It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the scene and meet man playing one of the police main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the body had disappearedscript. Luckily, but it drifted under his doctor is there and the landing stage of man is whisked away in a large house down river and was spotted by a man delivering logshelicopter. The owner A local doctor (and friend of the house, Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a reclusive writersenior government employee, was shocked to realise that he recognised the girlman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Inspector Jess Campbell One daughter lives nearby and Superintendent Ian Campbell had to investigate the brutal killinganother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00XJOQBIY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529196388|title=The Dying Season: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationTrial|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=It's said Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that you should never meet your heroes but Bruno Courrègeswas good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, chief of police of the sleepy Dordogne town of St Denis, has no such thoughts so there was public uproar when he's invited to was murdered in plain sight at the 90th birthday celebrations of the man who has been his hero since he was a childOld Bailey. Marco Desaix is a war hero, flying ace and a There's just one man with high level political connections in France, Russia and Israel the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and heit's known as ''The Patriarch'not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. The party - if you can use such a mundane word Knight was told that the best barrister for an occasion which includes a fly past by the air force him was Jonathan Taylor- went well, with only one minor disruption when an old family friend accosted one Cameron of the daughters of the Desaix family Stag Court Chambers and was disinclined to let go. Still, it was well known that he was an alcoholic 's Taylor-Cameron and no one seemed surprised when Gilbert was removed without ceremony by the gamekeeper.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848664052</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary Higgins Clark (editor)|title= Manhattan Mayhem – New Crime Stories from the Mystery Writers of America|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I was unsure how to open this review. I heart Manhattanhis pupil, Adam Green, big timewho eventually represent him. I am always attracted Knight's determined to any work set in Manhattanplead not guilty, but I don’t want despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to pigeonhole this remarkable collection of stories into a slot that says 'only for Manhattan lovers'. Far from it – it is a superb collection featuring the highest standards of both mystery writing and the form of short storycontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474761X</amazonuk>