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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul CornellStuart Douglas|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Fantasy Crime|summary=The Great DetecitveDuring location filming for his 1970's ghost has walked Londonsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's woman on the motive? And who - or what - could kill edge of a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworldreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, eliminating but something about the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill whole thing bothers Lowe, and his detectives have learnt this he enlists the hard wayhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Gifted with They travel across the Sightcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, they'll pursue a criminial genius - who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze of clues and evidence. The team also have thier own demons link to fightdeath during the Second World War. They've been But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit uncover who is falling apart...responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine0008517061|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5

|summary=When Bob Skinner's wife Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a yearning for a particular cake from Marks and Spencer he thinks nothing little uncertainty about the future of taking a detour on his way to worklife with his vet girlfriend, snatching the last one available Livia and heading back to the car. It's then that the fates start being naughty. Reversing out her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his parking space he's hit by a speeding BMW off- only 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 driver doesn't get out to exchange insurance details future she wants for herself and offer apologies. her daughter? He gets out of For the moment they’re enjoying life in the car present and legs it. Checking his own car for damage Skinner notices that the boot of putting the beemer is slightly open - something which presumably happened future on impact - and his attempts to close it mean that it opens instead and the body of a small child is revealedback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1786482126|title=Little Sister The Janus Stone (Detective Pieter VosDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary=Late one night, after a talent content on Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the waterfront, Kim and Mia Timmers returned site was going to their home to find hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a scene of utter carnage and their motherritual killing or murder? Inevitably, father and sister deadDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It would have hit any eleven-year-old child hard's difficult as Ruth knows, but the dead girlNelson doesn't, Little Jo, was their triplet and there was that she is pregnant with his child as a special bond between result of the one night they spent together some three of themmonths ago. The girls then left the house and apparently murdered the lead singer of The CupidsHer condition will be obvious before long, a world-famous band, in the belief that he had been responsible for the deaths not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of their family. Officially there didn't seem to be any doubt about what had happened to the musician, despite the fact that there were certain points about the murder scene which might have suggested that someone with more worldly experience was responsiblesickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham0008551324|title=Die of ShameThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=A group of addicts - 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 addictions differ - meet regularly at police where the home body of their therapist, Tony De Silva, himself a former addictmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. On the night we join them This person, Chrishe promises, Robin, Heather is someone big and Diana are surprised it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to see that there's an extra chair in open prison to serve the circleremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. It changes the dynamics of the groupNot much to ask, but the newcomer is Caroline and she's a large lady - but although she likes her food it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's painkillers that t think so and she's addicted to. There's no obvious reason why Caroline's arrival should make such a difference even prepared to do the group other thing that Hardie demanded - she's keen to fit in - but it does make certain that DS Max Craigie and before many weeks have passed one of the group anyone who works with him is murdered. Itkept well away from what's increasingly obvious that one of the group is responsiblehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0008405026|title=Frederic Dard and David Bellos A Stranger in the Family (translatorMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=Bird in a CageJane Casey

|summary=A man returns to the flat he grew up in and where his mother died without his knowledge, It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and finds it too desolate for the time of year it is – Christmas Eveinvestigation ground to a halt. Bursting for more lifeNow, despite being a solitary characterher mother, he goes to a restaurantHelena, and finds a connection with a mother with her daughterfather are dead in their bed. They dineInitially, then go to it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the cinema, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and sit together, and things happen from there – in a gentle, no-pressure, no-names-no-packdrill wayher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. If this isn't a reasonable start What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a novella, consider the tag it has as a noir classiccomplex double murder. And consider the fact the strange woman Kerrigan is convinced that the spitting image of the manexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons0571379877|title=The Hanging ClubKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Crime|summary=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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4

|summary= When a man is found crucified on the three yobbos who kick to death top of a young husband and father are given a perfunctory sentencehill in Nuneaton, DC Wolfe DCS Kat Frank finds it hard herself assigned to hold his true feelings in checkthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Confounded by the injustice of the British Courts and legal systemBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, DC Wolfe spends Kat is suddenly struggling with a good while soul searching potential serial killer and wondering why he invests so much a very high profile case that draws a lot of his life in fighting crime, finding murderers and bringing them unwanted attention to justice when the integrity of the criminal justice system is so sorely lackingtheir AI Future Policing project. Luckily for DC Wolfe he has his bright and funny daughter Scout Will they be able to keep him from looking too hard into solve the darkness that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the videos start being posted on the internet. case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Barnard1035021803|title=The Case of the Missing BronteAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Superintendent Perry Trethowan was returning It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to London from Northumberland with his family when their car broke down in the Yorkshire Dales and they were stranded in English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a small village request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the nightcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. When they Arthur was the reason why Freya had a drink in not been back to the local pub they were joined by a local residentvillage: Arthur, Miss Edith Wingshe feels, who had what might be an extraordinary document in let her possessiondown badly. Could this Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be a lost Bronte novel? near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The provenance of After the manuscript suggested that it could well be genuinesplit, she worked in a cafe, but was it - met and Miss wing - married James (on the real thing or rebound from the love of her life, who was it a very clever forgery? Perry suggested visiting a local expert for an opinion murdered) and Freya and in doing so sends Miss wing into mortal dangerJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bill Beverly1398524085|title= DodgersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Judging a book by its cover can misleadCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It can especially mislead if you don't look closely at the cover Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are just grabbed by the ''feel'' or ''style'' of the design of the thing. Being misled all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not necessarily a bad thing. For reasons best left in Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the depths body of my addled brainGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the styling of Dodgers police to make that Duncan had me thinking 'noirmurdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. I was expecting late fifties, early sixties. If I The Salter children are not convinced but there'd looked closer, I'd have seen that it is much more contemporary than thats little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Then again…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Bude1529900360|title=Death on the RivieraThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Counterfeit currency was circulating on the French Riviera It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and it was suspected that an Englishman was behind the crimeeven after Alex recovered, so DI Meredith Sturgis was sent along with acting-Sergeant Strang reluctant to trace the whereabouts of Chalky Corbettask for his help on difficult cases. It wasnHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't entirely an unpleasant assignment - need the warm help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the south of France compared favourably with polluted London - and Meredith (whose French involvement was far from fluent) got on well with something that the local policemanman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Inspector Blampignon though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of Nicea remote property in Bel Air. It wasn't long before their interest settled on He was the Villa Poloma, home of heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an eccentric expatriate Englishwoman, Nesta Hedderwick extremely rich man and her band it's not the Italian. But which of bohemian house guests.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356371</amazonuk>them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Watson178763681X|title= The Place That Didn't Exist|rating= 2.5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book just leaves you wondering what it was trying to be. I'm afraid Watson's sixth novel is one of those. I can't compare it to his previous work because I've not been there. Or if I have I have forgotten all about it. I will quickly forget this one too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0155C65V0</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Shamini Flint|title=Inspector Singh Investigates: A Frightfully English ExecutionOrlando Murrin

|summary=Inspector Singh wasn't ''completely'' insulted when he was told that he was to attend Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a Commonwealth conference on policing residential cookery school in London, despite the fact that he was of the opinion that this was a job for paper-pushers rather than real policemenBelgravia. He would go. Then Mrs Singh decided that she too would go didn't really want to London to visit the legions but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of unknown relatives who live in the metropolis getting both men and women to collect yet more essential souvenirsdo what he wanted. Things looked up Paul ''slightlysomehow'' when Singh realised got the impression that he would 'd be looking at the school to assist Paul, who had a cold case broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the five-year-old unsolved murder of Fatima Daud problems - along with an Inspector from the Metare all his own. Only - Singh wasn The one thing he hadn't there expected was for someone to ''solve'' or even ''investigate'' turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the case (police consider that was forbidden) - he was there person to consider how it could have been handled differentlybe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402728</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1529421284|title=The Bursar's WifeLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=Private investigator George Kocharyan struggles along on It was one of those flash downpours that the seedy side of CambridgeBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, following a human skeleton came to the odd unfaithful spouse or checking up on benefit claimants for surface and forensic testing proved the Department body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of Work and Pensionsmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. This just about pays for his invaluable part-time assistant Sandra who knows how Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to work the office computer, suicide of Holly Gilbert and her teenage son who George occasionally hires to do some of two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the leg worktime. Into this grubby world walks Sylvia Booker, wife Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the bursar at Morley College, overprotective mother, glamorous middle-aged woman. Worried Major Crimes Review Unit (that her daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd she hires George 's cold cases to look into it. Then one of the unfaithful wives George had been following turns up dead, you and life begins to get complicatedme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1529425867|title= Bryant Lost and May: Strange TideNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and May father of Ryan, is looking very much like it will be their lastnot. He's not any of those things. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuingHe's white, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering originated from Alzheimera trailer park, barely educated (reading'snot ''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. His condition is worsening almost by the dayWell, memory lapses you're not. The two men are morphing into full-scale hallucinationsjust different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A K Benedict1529431735|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Maria King sits by the Thames mudlarking - sifting through the washed up treasures - on a regular basis. Only today she finds a ring in a box with It'Marry me Maria' on the lid in braille. Blind from birth s February 1991 and now blind by choiceEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the words can be for no one else but Ms Kingmore surprising. However a greater surprise awaits inside He'd been exiled on the box: the ring is still on Costa del Sol as a finger belonging to the last girl who received such wanted drug smuggler for a proposaldecade. DI Jonathan Dark is assigned to the caseThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, not realising what hesaying that she's taken on or the sort of help heill and hasn'll need t long to call onlive. The dead are all around himIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his plan is not underwear and sent to let Maria join thema watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1409144550</amazonus> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue0861541774|title= Trust No OneA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= TheyDCI Domenic Jejeune're an ordinary familys close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, by modern standards. Richard and wife Nicola have split has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet upwith an old ally, but are on reasonably amicable termsGuy Trueman. The kids stay over Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with their Dad often enough. He makes time for them a knife - and their friendshe killed a Ghurka. OkInitially, so fourteen year old Harvey is dyslexic and has been diagnosed as having he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. ADHDNow he could be facing the death penalty. He's also got Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a quick temper. But hediplomatic incident and wouldn's very protective of his little sister, 12-year-old Olivet help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284291</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Bates1521129886|title=Thin Ice They Had It Coming (Officer GunnhildurGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=GunnhildurGreg Mason's family life is a bit complicatedjust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Her son Gisli is now the father of two children, only It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're not both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the traditional year or two apart, but just a few weeks and there are morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in- as you might law appears to have gathered - two mothers involvedkilled himself. HeStuart's now living not with the one that Gunna might have expected but doing concerned about his best sister, Lucy, who's struggling to maintain contact with the other, make ends meet and his other her son, of courseis not thriving. At workLucy, two smallhe says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -time crooks have robbed Reykjavik's most infamous drug dealer of a couple of hundred thousand euros, but couldnit simply wasn't get away as their getaway driver failed to turn upin his nature. Two women - mother The police and daughter - the coroner have disappeared along with accepted that the motherdeath was suicide, but Stuart's car and a thief has prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died in suspicious circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147212149X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David ThorneB0CK3MYJ56|title= Promises of BloodResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I love getting in on It's the ground floor1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Thanks He used to this very website I was one of the first have a high-flying job in this country to read the city but it wasn't satisfying so he'Twilights now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike' series and was smitten from the start, you might be thinking. WeNice bloke, but where'll ignore s the life experience that backs up this profession? On the filmsother hand, the books are worth a he has been asked to look! into something. In a completely different genreJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, but no less a lucky fluke it they were until Helen was through here that I stumbled across [[East of Innocence by David Thorne]] and put killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an oldunmanned level crossing. Joyce -fashioned baggsy for whatever followed. On reading the second of the series [[Nothing Sacred by David Thorne]] I commented that I hoped that in the next outing Connell would see ''him up againstand her parents, or siding with, some kick-assOliver and Pam Hetherington -doncan'tunderstand what she was doing there -take-it female.'' ''So far his women do tend to be 'birds or victims' ''. I'm pleased how she could come to say he's moving fall in the right direction… women are central to this story one way and anotherfront of a train. For the first time heGreg's given us female characters who (despite their plot-device roles, which is varied and not always predictable) are stronger than they look – strong in a number of different ways – he hasn't simply opted for my "kick-ass" option, he's more subtle than thatbeen asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Augusto De Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)1838954481|title=The Murdered BankerMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=Inspector De Vincenzi is working against the clockRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. A body He was found in his the fifteen-year-old school-friend Giannetto Aurigi's apartment in holding the early hours of this morning gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the investigating magistrate wants trigger but due to take over as quickly as possible. The trouble is, Aurigi owed the dead man money, has been acting strangely, vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and isn't trying to defend himselfthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Unless De Vincenzi finds strong evidence to For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the contrary today, capital and hoping for a quieter life in the investigating magistrate will see it as an open countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and shut case, and that will be back into the end of Aurigi. But none orbit of the evidence seems to add upRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271708</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ruth Ware1448309743|title= In a Dark, Dark Wood|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Nora Shaw hasn't seen her friend Clare since Nora left school ten years ago and didn't look back. Now working as a crime writer and living in London, she is naturally surprised when she receives an invitation to Clare's hen party – a weekend in a woodland cottage in the Northumberland country. Curious as to why Clare would invite her after all these years Nora reluctantly agrees to come, but as the weekend unfolds something goes very wrong and old secrets are slowly revealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598248</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Mary Higgins Clark|title=Death Wears a Beauty MaskCaro Ramsay

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=In 1972the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Mary Higgins Clark began writing five members of a novella entitled ''Death Wears a Beauty Maskwealthy family are found murdered.'' She struggled with The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the story and put it asidestone is removed from Otterburn House, where it lay forgotton for several decadesdeath will follow. When the author rediscovered the manuscript amongst some old files The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, she decided that she liked it and was ready to complete the long-awaited ending. 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Death Wears a Beauty Maskdiscovered'' joins some of her other works, both old and newthe body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in an entertaining collection of short stories full of mystery and suspenseto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143228</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1529077699|title= City of the LostThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Detective Casey Duncan has a dark past''It's all bloody peculiar, and isn't it, Sir?'s ' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about to catch a month and then turned up with her. When her best friend Diana is attacked by an abusive ex, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the two women realise they have to disappearvillage of Greystone, fastin Devon. And they need sanctuary. Diana's heard Rosco had the status of a hidden town thatnational treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity's so remote it's almost impossible to reach. A town that desperately needs I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a new detectivelittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562521</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1529427045|title=The House of Eyes (Wesley Peterson)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=D I Wesley Peterson wasn't too worried when Darren Hatman reported his daughter missing. She'd been working at Eyecliffe Castle and it wasnLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''t difficult . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to sense that she'd been annoying the other staff with small town of Gasskas, where the stories so-far-untapped natural resources of what she'd be doing when she got her modelling contractthe area have sparked a gold rush. There was just one point which left Peterson uneasy: Hatman claimed that Leanne had The criminal underworld has not been stalked by a photographer and the case was obviously worth an enquiry or twoslow in coming forward. Eyecliffe Castle had been home to the wealthy DSalander's niece'Arles family, but was now a luxury hotel and spa, with the last remaining member of s mother is the family living latest woman in the Dower House in the groundsarea to have vanished without trace. Then Darren was found brutally murdered in the grounds of the castle: It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it possible quickly becomes obvious that Leanne had met Svala is a similar fate, and if so, why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403082</amazonuk>remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ngaio Marsh1787636607|title=Scales of Justice (DCI Roderick Alleyn)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Swevenings seems like one It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of those idyllic places to livethe morning. All that disrupts the tranquil lives Drunken revellers spilling out of the inhabitants is the fierce competition clubs and looking for a way to catch the Old Un, a large trout which lives under the bridge over the stream which meanders through the villageget home. Then Some are lucky and manage to get one day Nurse Kettle discovers the body of Colonel Carterette at edge of the stream and beside him is the Old Unfew taxis available. Carterette had been brutally murdered and he was not Others squash onto the fisherman who had landed night bus that will only go as far as one of the Old Unoutlying villages. He was, thoughThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', the man who was particularly in charge of publishing the controversial memoirs light of 'the local baronetmissing women'. The investigation is beyond For one young woman, the final stop on the capacity 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 local constabulary, and Scotland Yard, in chance to beg the person of Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called inbus driver to let her use his. And his primary interest is the fishThere's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AIK6U4Q</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1405957174|title=Behind Closed DoorsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=In 2003 Scarlett Rainsford was on holiday in Rhodes with her parents and sister when she met a boy. Her father wasn't at all keen on From the idea so Scarlett crept out at night to meet him and she first page, we know that Nadine Walsh''might'' have given him the idea that she wanted to run away from homes party will not end well. On the last night of the holiday Scarlett was bundled into The victim - a van man - and into a life of terror and prostitution. Ten years later she turned up in her hometown is dying when a brothel was raided. Where had she been all these years, how had she got back to the UK we first meet him and why did her parents not seem all that pleased to find that she was back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549630</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Seddon|title=Try Not To Breathe|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=In ''Try not to Breathe'' Holly Seddon offers an addition Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the somewhat overflowing thriller shelvesambulance he so desperately needs. Of course, the reason this particular segment What we don't know is bursting at who the seams man is because thrillers, especially psychological ones, are just so compellingor why Nadine prefers to have him die. And there have been some good - and hugely successful - books in this category out there of late (before-I-go-to-sleep- I'll-be-gone-with-d better give you a-girl-on-a-train)little more background so that you can understand what's happening. So how does Holly Seddon match up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke0008530025|title=All Dressed Murder in Whitethe Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=Following It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the success back of his head which could have happened if he''The Cinderella Murder'' cased slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, people are lining up to be featured on Laurie Moranno one has been charged with his murder and it's successful TV show: now the subject of ''Under Suspicion.Infamous'' Each episode revives , a 'cold case' by returning true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the scene of the crime, interviewing the friends evidence and family of to take the victim and reviewing new evidenceinvestigation further. The show has had 100% success record so far, which has resulted in an influx of potential new cases More to feature. Howeverthe point, when a desperate mother begs Laurie they're going to investigate the disappearance of her daughter do this live on her wedding daycamera, Laurie knows that her story will make great TV; especially as episode by episode. There's no dump of the scene whole box set - and no shortage of the cliffhangers. It'crime' is a luxurious hotel in Florida..s compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148688</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack O'Connell0241996104|title=Box NineComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=24.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The wind brushed against the review like a thousand kisses Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Sam knew that something out her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of the ordinary was happeningtheir murder. It wasn't since We first meet Nancy outside the long hot summer 1997 that he had the misfortune to read court, after Martin receives a book that had as much extraneous detail as thislife sentence. He felt to himself The barrister tells her that there was little point in actually getting she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the meat rest of a reviewher life. Of course, when instead he could witter on about something that had little to do with anything – perhaps this would get a little annoying over 352 pages? Welcome to it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the world most of Jack Oit. 'Connell's Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''Box Ninerich bitch''might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1453236775</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Torquil MacLeod1529413680|title=Missing in Malmo A Chateau Under Siege (Anita Sundstrom MysteriesA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Anita Sundstrom wasn't best pleased when she was told to look into One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the disappearance liberation of British heir hunter Graeme Todd: missing persons werenthe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno't really her thing and it seemed that it was only down s there to her because she was fluent in Englishsee the show with some friends. There was a similar reluctance It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when her ex-husband asked her to look into , Kerquelin, the disappearance man playing one of his girlfriendthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. But events took a sinister turn Luckily, his doctor is there and Anita found herself deeply entangled the man is whisked away in both casesa helicopter. The first case seemed to be linked to A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a robbery which took place senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in Newcastle some twenty years earlier . One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in the second case it seemed that Bjorn Sundstrom hadn't been entirely truthful with some of her about his relationship with Greta Janssonfather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857161156</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Thorogood1529196388|title= The Killing of Polly CarterTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=I'm Grant Cliveden was a fan of old-school murder mysteries…think [[hero:Category:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]], think [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]], Dorothy Sayers… These are stories as games. Usually on the very edge of plausibility, gruesomeness kept a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to a minimumby just about everyone, police procedure trodden all over so there was public uproar when he was murdered in hobnailed enthusiasm of insight and flashes of inspirationplain sight at the Old Bailey. So it follows that I enjoy TV series There's just one man in the same vein: Midsommer Murders, Poirot… frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and Death it's not too long before Knight appears in Paradisecourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. It Knight was because my enjoyment of told that the series best barrister for him was known that Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight'The Killing of Polly Carters determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'' was sent my ways recommendations to the contrary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454155</amazonuk>