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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin MyersStuart Douglas|title=Turning BlueLowe 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=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in a particularly harsh winter. DI Jim Brindle from the elite Former Metropolitan Police detective unit, Cold StorageJake Johnson, was sent to investigate and he could have been helped by Roddy Mace, a local journalisthas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Only Brindle, There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the obsessive compulsivefuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, teetotalLivia and her daughter Diana, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with the writer. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging career. Well it's more than flagging: he left London as moving in disgrace, so it's the two men living on the outskirts together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life who are trying independently to trap move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the man they believe is responsible future she wants for Melanie's disappearance herself and that man is Steven Rutter, another loner, near destitute and living high on her daughter? For the moors, who knows all moment they’re enjoying life in the hiding places. He knows present and putting the secrets of future on the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be knownback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=All the ladies of O'Brian Fashion House are trying to do is to present their works Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the best of lights site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the best bones of Milanese and European society, but they're not going to find a dead person on their premises much helpchild beneath a doorway. Cristiana lives in Casa O'Brian, on the top floor of the building where everything key to her company happensThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and it's on her bed that she Dr Ruth Galloway finds the corpse – resplendent herself working with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot to herDCI Harry Nelson. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking sheIt'd seen some people she really didns difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't want to see back in her life, in that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the audience below? And who here might not actually be who one night they first appear? spent together some three months ago. It'll Her condition will be a tough case for Inspector de Vincenziobvious before long, that's for surenot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano0008551324|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move It's unusual for anyone from Bavaria the Hardie family to Sicily with approach the intention of drinking herself to deathpolice. She could, Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view missing person is buried and who was essentialresponsible for her death. Once thereThis person, new friendshe promises, family already resident on is someone big and it will be worth the island and police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the corpse remainder of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened sentence and to give her life some meaningget an early parole date. For a while Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she was a suspect, but 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that (DS Max Craigie and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana anyone who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting works with him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concernedis kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell0008405026|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas QuaidA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and imprisonment as occupational hazards and on the rare occasion he was nabbedinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, he'd raise his hands and ''come quiet''her father are dead in their bed. Turns out thatInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's not what his nickname meant at allsomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Turns out there What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that a lot of people didnthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't know. Even those who thought they knew him wells boss, who thought they were his friendsUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons0571379877|title= Silent Scream|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim Stone is called to investigate the body of a woman found dead in the bath of a house that has been set on fire. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be an isolated case and they are in a race against the clock to find out who could be next on the killer's hit list and why. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonathan Ames|title=You Were Never Really HereJonny Sweet

|summary=''He came up with Edward Jevons is a planworking-class young man, a solution, a way to liveobsessed with his upper-class friends, which was to get very small and very quiet Robert and leave no wakeStanza. So he had to be pureRobert's a theatre director. He had to be holy. He had to be contained.'' He is Joe, an exs also self-Marineobsessed, ex-FBIdemanding, who has had demons drummed into handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him by not only his work but his abusive father, with the help of a hammer. Having left one of his own hammers behind Edward has been in a hotel room, only love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a dark and grim place, relationship had begun between them but he moves on 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter two of them kissing in a Senatordark passageway. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael Hjorth and Hans RosenfeldtJo Callaghan|title= The Man Who Wasn't ThereLeave No Trace|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along When a man is found crucified on the line over top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become case alongside her sidekick, the mixed metaphor du jourAI detective Lock. It's hard to say where it started, the novels of Henning Mankell possiblytheir first live case together, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling having previously been very successful with social commentaryseveral cold cases. Stieg Larsson took it in But when there is a second body found crucified a different direction few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with his Salander trilogy – much darker a potential serial killer and much more violenta very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. For most Brits and Americans though Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the term really hit home when ''The Bridge'' case and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the books., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1035021803|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all of them are legal. Splashed across the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned with. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel, unseen, through the shadows; a power which they use to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them Antique Hunter's Guide to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMurder|author=T F Muir|title=Blood Torment (DCI Andy Gilchrist)C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Two-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her motherIt's home some time in twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the early hours of the morningEnglish country village where she grew up. ThereShe's something wrong though and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might have abducted - possibly even murdered - back now because of a request for help from her own childbeloved aunt, Carole. Then it starts to get political when Gilchrist discovers that DavisFreya's former mentor and Carole' father s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is Dougal Davisdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the former MSP who was forced to resign his seat when he was accused of physically abusing his third wifeleast. Even disgraced politicians have some clout and there's Arthur was the added complication of reason why Freya had not been back to the fact that Davis's first wife went to school Gilchrist's ultimate bossvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Just Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds that he could be working with DI Tosh MacIntosh - a near the man for whom he has no respector pursue the profession she loved. But could there be an answer to After the abduction split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the form rebound from the love of Sammie Bellher life, a convicted paedophile who had moved back to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1398524085|title=Secrets of Death (Cooper and Fry)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit the Peak DistrictCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. There Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are those who call it 'suicide tourism'all worried but - strangely - her husband, but it's frowned onAlec, although it does rather hit the nail on the headis not. There have been an number of suicides in reasonably publicShortly afterwards, but picturesque place Etty and all Greg, find the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what theybody of Greg've done and usually from outside s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the immediate areariver. It's almost as though they've been tutored. But whilst it's against was an easy assumption for the law police to ''assist'' someone to commit make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide, whatwhen he couldn's t stand the legal position about providing information and support? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues in E Division have to try and find some connection between the people who have diedguilt. But in what might almost be another world - the city of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness in a case sheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's involved little else they can do but get on with has vanishedtheir lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1529900360|title=The Murder Road (Cooper and Fry)Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=The locals will tell you that thereIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's only one road into fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and out of Shawhead and over the years they've become accustomed even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to being cut off by snow or floodsask for his help on difficult cases. The road passes under a railway line His assertions that there were only open-and one day in early February Mac Kelsey-shut cases which didn's curtain-sider jammed under t need the bridgehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. It Finally, it was Amanda Hibbert Robin, Delaware's partner, who discovered nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the obstruction as man she tried to return home to Shawheadloved needed. The next case did look simple, but there was no driver though. Two lovers were murdered in the cabswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. There ''He wasthe heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it'' a lot s not the Italian. But which of blood though.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker178763681X|title=Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Two young racing drivers come Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to the Perigord region to hunt for clues as but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the whereabouts of impression that he'd be at the missing Bugatti Type 57c Atlantic. Only four were made and three are accounted for - school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but stories would have it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the missing car is somewhere in the Perigordproblems - are all his own. ItThe one thing he hadn's more than seventy years since the car t expected was last seen and that was in war time - but it's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37,000,000 for one of the carssomeone to turn up dead. One of Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the young racing drivers has local connections body and another is in a relationship with Annette, a magistrate. The race to find everyone knows that the car is not going police consider that person to be kindthe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell1529421284|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy |summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's Laying Out the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sight, 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 to fight. They've been to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apart...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBones|author=Quintin Jardine|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)Kate Webb

|summary=When Bob Skinner's wife has It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a yearning for heatwave. In a particular cake from Marks and Spencer he thinks nothing of taking gully, a detour on his way human skeleton came to work, snatching the last one available surface and heading back forensic testing proved the body to the carbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. ItHe's then that the fates start being naughty. Reversing out d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of his parking space he's hit by a speeding BMW - only the driver doesnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't get out to exchange insurance details and offer apologiesconvinced. He gets Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the car and legs ittime. Checking his own car for damage Skinner notices that the boot Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the beemer is slightly open - something which presumably happened on impact - and his attempts Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to close it mean that it opens instead you and the body of a small child is revealedme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529425867|title=Little Sister Lost and Never Found (Detective Pieter VosA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=Late one nightIn Oxford, after a talent content on the waterfrontthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Kim Balliol educated and Mia Timmers returned to their home to find a scene always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of utter carnage Ryan and their motherfather of Ryan, father and sister deadis not. It would have hit He's not any eleven-year-old child hardof those things. He's white, but the dead girloriginated from a trailer park, Little Jo, was their triplet barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and there was a special bond between the three his wardrobe consists mainly of themshell suits and trackies. The girls then left the house and apparently murdered the lead singer of The Cupids, a world-famous band, They're usually in the belief that he had been responsible for the deaths of their familylime green or acid yellow. Officially there didnYou might wonder if you't seem re being introduced to be any doubt about what had happened to the musiciana police procedural written for laughs. Well, despite you're not. The two men are just different sides of the fact that there were certain points about same policing coin. Sometimes the murder scene which might have suggested that someone with more worldly experience was responsiblecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1529431735|title=Die of ShameThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=A group of addicts - the addictions differ - meet regularly at It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the home of their therapist, Tony De Silva, himself a former addictmore surprising. On the night we join them, Chris, Robin, Heather and Diana are surprised to see that there He's an extra chair in d been exiled on the circleCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It changes the dynamics of the group, but the newcomer is Caroline and sheThe return has come about because he's had a large lady letter from his ex- but although wife, saying that she likes her food it's painkillers that sheill and hasn's addicted t long tolive. ThereIt's no obvious reason why Caroline's arrival should make such a difference hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to the group - she's keen his underwear and sent to fit a watery grave in - but it does and before many weeks have passed one the boot of the group is murdereda stolen Ford Sierra. It's increasingly obvious that one of the group is responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)0861541774|title=Bird in a CageA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=A man returns DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to the flat he grew meet up in and where his mother died without his knowledgewith an old ally, and finds it too desolate for the time of year it is – Christmas EveGuy Trueman. Bursting for more life, despite being Maik was involved in a solitary character, street brawl - he would later maintain that he goes to was facing a man armed with a restaurant, knife - and finds he killed a connection with a mother with her daughterGhurka. They dineInitially, then go he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the cinema, and sit together, and things happen from there – in a gentle, no-pressure, no-names-no-packdrill wayman. Now he could be facing the death penalty. If this isn't a reasonable start Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to a novella, consider the tag it has help as any interference from another police force could provoke a noir classicdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. And consider the fact the strange woman is the spitting image of the man's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons1521129886|title=The Hanging ClubThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary= When Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the three yobbos who kick to death point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a young husband good job too because Greg and father are given Joyce will soon have a perfunctory sentence, DC Wolfe finds it hard to hold his true feelings in checkbaby and they're both delighted. Confounded by Joyce will be more delighted about the injustice of baby when she gets past the British Courts and legal systemmorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, DC Wolfe spends a good while soul searching and wondering why he invests so much of his life in fighting crimeLucy, finding murderers who's struggling to make ends meet and bringing them to justice when the integrity of the criminal justice system her son is so sorely lackingnot thriving. Luckily for DC Wolfe Lucy, he has says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his bright nature. The police and funny daughter Scout to keep him from looking too hard into the darkness coroner have accepted that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until the videos start being posted death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the internetnight Gil died. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert BarnardB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Case of the Missing BronteResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54

|summary=Superintendent Perry Trethowan was returning to London from Northumberland with his family when their car broke down in It's the Yorkshire Dales 1990s and they were stranded in a small village for the nightGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. When they had He used to have a drink high-flying job in the local pub they were joined by city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a local residentprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', Miss Edith Wing, who had what you might be an extraordinary document in her possessionthinking. Could Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this be a lost Bronte novelprofession? The provenance of On the manuscript suggested that it could well be genuineother hand, but was it - he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Miss wing Helen are half- the real thing sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was it killed in what's been written off as a very clever forgery? tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Perry suggested visiting a local expert for an opinion Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in doing so sends Miss wing into mortal dangerfront of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bill Beverly1838954481|title= DodgersThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Judging Ryan Kennedy killed a book by its cover can misleadpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. It can especially mislead if you don't look closely He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the cover and are just grabbed by trigger but due to the vagaries of the ''feel'' or ''style'' jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the design manslaughter of the thingofficer. Being misled is not necessarily a bad thingAnd so lives must go on. For reasons best left DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the depths of my addled brain, countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the styling orbit of Dodgers had me thinking 'noir'. I was expecting late fifties, early sixties. If I'd looked closer, I'd have seen that it is much more contemporary than thatRyan Kennedy. Then again…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Bude1448309743|title=Death on the RivieraThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Counterfeit currency was circulating In the village of Cronchie on the French Riviera and it was suspected that an Englishman was behind the crimeWest coast of Scotland, so DI Meredith was sent along with acting-Sergeant Strang to trace the whereabouts five members of Chalky Corbetta wealthy family are found murdered. It wasn't entirely an unpleasant assignment - The only item missing from the home is the warm of Devil Stone: myth says that if the south of France compared favourably with polluted London - and Meredith (whose French was far stone is removed from fluent) got on well with the local policemanOtterburn House, Inspector Blampignon of Nicedeath will follow. It wasnThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered't long before their interest settled on the Villa Polomabody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, home of an eccentric expatriate Englishwoman, Nesta Hedderwick and her band of bohemian house guestsDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356371</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Watson1529077699|title= The Place That Didn't ExistRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 24.5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book just leaves you wondering what ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it was trying to be. I, Sir?'m afraid Watson's sixth novel  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 dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of thoseGreystone, in Devon. I canRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity't compare it to his previous work because I've not been there. Or if I have I have forgotten ''nearly'' said 'all about it-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. I will quickly forget this one too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0155C65V0</amazonuk>Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shamini Flint1529427045|title=Inspector Singh Investigates: A Frightfully English ExecutionThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=Inspector Singh wasn't 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'completely'' insulted when he was told that he was . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in Londonthe small town of Gasskas, despite where the fact that he was so-far-untapped natural resources of the opinion that this was area have sparked a job for paper-pushers rather than real policemengold rush. He would goThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Then Mrs Singh decided that she too would go to London to visit Salander's niece's mother is the legions of unknown relatives who live latest woman in the metropolis and area to collect yet more essential souvenirshave vanished without trace. Things looked up It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece''slightly'' when Singh realised s guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that he would be looking at Svala is a cold case - the five-year-old unsolved murder remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of Fatima Daud - along with an Inspector from the Met. Only - Singh wasnpart Salander played in her father't there to ''solve'' or even ''investigate'' the case (that was forbidden) - he was there to consider how it could have been handled differentlys death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402728</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1787636607|title=The Bursar's WifeTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=Private investigator George Kocharyan struggles along on It's a scene replicated all too often in the seedy side early hours of Cambridge, following the odd unfaithful spouse or checking up on benefit claimants for the Department morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Work clubs and Pensions. This just about pays looking for his invaluable part-time assistant Sandra who knows how a way to work the office computer, get home. Some are lucky and her teenage son who George occasionally hires manage to do some get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the leg workoutlying villages. Into this grubby world walks Sylvia Booker The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', wife particularly in the light of 'the bursar at Morley Collegemissing women'. For one young woman, overprotective mother, glamorous middlethe 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 -aged womanbut her phone's dead. Worried that her daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd The bus had driven off before she hires George had the chance to beg the bus driver to look into itlet her use his. Then one of the unfaithful wives George had been following turns up dead, There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and life begins to get complicatedin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1405957174|title= Bryant and May: Strange TideA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will be their lastnot end well. Arthur Bryant The victim - a man - is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to confirm that call the ambulance he is suffering from Alzheimer'sso desperately needs. His condition What we don't know is worsening almost by who the day, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinationsman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A K Benedict0008530025|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Maria King sits by It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the Thames mudlarking - sifting through body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the washed up treasures - on a regular basisgarden of their West London home. Only today she finds a ring in a box with He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'Marry me Maria' on d slipped down the steps but the lid in braillevicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Blind from birth Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now blind by choicethe subject of ''Infamous'', the words can be for no one else but Ms Kinga true-crime show. However a greater surprise awaits inside A group of experts has been brought together to review the box: the ring is still on a finger belonging evidence and to take the last girl who received such a proposalinvestigation further. DI Jonathan Dark is assigned More to the casepoint, they're going to do this live on camera, not realising what heepisode by episode. There's taken on or no dump of the sort whole box set - and no shortage of help he'll need to call oncliffhangers. The dead are all around him, his plan is not to let Maria join themIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1409144550</amazonus>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue0241996104|title= Trust No OneComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= TheyNancy're an ordinary familys mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, by modern standardsMartin, has been convicted of their murder. Richard and wife Nicola have split upWe first meet Nancy outside the court, but are on reasonably amicable termsafter Martin receives a life sentence. The kids stay over barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with their Dad often enough. He makes time what happened for them and their friendsthe rest of her life. OkOf course, so fourteen year old Harvey is dyslexic and has been diagnosed as having ADHD. Heit's also got a quick temper. But hemade worse because Nancy's very protective of his little sister, 12rich -yearshe inherited five million pounds from her mother -old Oliveand the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284291</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Bates1529413680|title=Thin Ice A Chateau Under Siege (Officer GunnhildurA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Gunnhildur's family life One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is a bit complicated. Her son Gisli is now the father re-enactment of the liberation of two children, only they're not the traditional year or two apart, but just a few weeks town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there are - as you might have gathered - two mothers involvedto see the show with some friends. HeIt's now living not with all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one that Gunna might have expected but doing of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his best to maintain contact with doctor is there and the other, man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his other son, chances of course. At work, two smallsurvival but -time crooks have robbed Reykjavikas he's most infamous drug dealer of a couple of hundred thousand eurossenior government employee, but couldn't get away as their getaway driver failed to turn upthe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Two women - mother One daughter lives nearby and daughter - have disappeared along another, who lives in California, is flying in with the mothersome of her father's car and friends for a thief has died in suspicious circumstancespre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147212149X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Thorne1529196388|title= Promises of BloodThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I love getting Grant Cliveden was a hero: 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 he was murdered in on plain sight at the ground floorOld Bailey. Thanks to this very website I was There's just one of the first man in this country to read the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden'Twilight'' series and was smitten from the starts murder. We'll ignore the films, the books are worth a look! In a completely different genre, but no less a lucky fluke it Knight was through here told that I stumbled across [[East of Innocence by David Thorne]] and put in an old-fashioned baggsy the best barrister 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 against, or siding with, some kick-ass-don't-takewas Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it female.'' ''So far his women do tend to be 'birds or victims' ''. I'm pleased to say he's moving in the right direction… women are central to this story one way Taylor-Cameron and anotherhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. For the first time heKnight's given us female characters who (determined to plead not guilty, despite their plotall Taylor-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, heCameron's more subtle than thatrecommendations to the contrary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395911</amazonuk>