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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Joel Agee (translator)her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Judge and His Hangman Janus Stone (Inspector Barlach 1Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary=WeBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 're in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after luxury' apartments - when they discovered the Second World Warbones of a child beneath a doorway. A man has been found on a remote mountain roadThere was no skull. It would appear he opened his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Leading the investigation is Inspector Barlach, an elderly and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness for new-fangled ideas of criminology, but he has employed Tschanz to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence and to share itInevitably, and not rely on gut instinctsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Neither particularly want to be out in all weathers sorting the crimeIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but the victim was certainly in the wrong place at the wrong timeNelson doesn't, for he was that she is pregnant with his child as a fellow policeman and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do result of the one night they aren't sayingspent together some three months ago. What had he been up Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to, and which way sudden bouts of policing the case will get to the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>sickness.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath0008551324|title= AmnesiaThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair 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 trouble. Heprison and he's had prepared to tell the police where the body of a nasty knock on missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the head and now police doing what he can't remember anything about his lifewants. In an attempt to recover his memories, And what he wants is sent to convalesce in a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands in be transferred to an open prison to serve the company remainder of his old friend's niece, Clemencesentence and to get an early parole date. During their stay Not much to ask, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems to tell the story of her grandmotheris it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's murder years before. Now Alastair t think so and Clemence must uncover the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearer, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairshe's past who wants even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make sure the past stays buried, even if certain that means burying Alastair along DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with ithim is kept well away from what's happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler0008405026|title= Bryant and May: Wild ChamberA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and May the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are back! dead in their bed. So the slow decline into old ageInitially, with it looks like a side helping straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of dementia, isn't quite the Reichenbach Falls: bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it did give Fowler was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a cleaner and clearer way to have Arthur Bryant return to workcomplex double murder. A simple Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie''he hasn't been well but hes disappearance: others (such as Derwent's back now'' and no more need be said about itboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|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=Kate LondonJo Callaghan|title=Death MessageLeave No Trace

|summary=In October 1987, When a man is found crucified on the morning after the great stormtop of a hill in Nuneaton, Tania Mills left home DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to visit a friend and was never seen again. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the Met's Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened to case alongside her sidekick, the fifteen-year-old girlAI detective Lock. It's not all she has to do though - there are still current their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases which have to be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all together. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of domestic violence: the husband is vicious and volatile, but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened unwanted attention to do anything but put up with his outburststheir AI Future Policing project. Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism between them: will Will they be able to work togethersolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1035021803|title=Peter OThe Antique Hunter'Donnell and Enric Badia Romeros Guide to Murder|titleauthor=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseC L Miller

|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesa request for help from her beloved aunt, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksCarole. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves Freya's former mentor and her great crime-solving mindCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and of course with her Williethe circumstances seem suspicious, this is to say the least. Arthur was the last-but-one chance for you reason why Freya had not been back to do sothe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. And if you have any interest Even though they were in quick little action talesbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or even dated kitschpursue the profession she loved. After the split, for both apply hereshe worked in a cafe, then you should eagerly be met and married James (on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1398524085|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this seriesCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a wellEtty. are all worried but - strangely -known local man to track down some missing valuablesher husband, Alec, is not. Bill Galbraith Shortly afterwards, a world-famous surgeon at CambridgeEtty and Greg, find the body of Greg's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmefather, Duncan Ackerley, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurorathe river. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning It was an important patient of his at easy assumption for the hospital. George agrees police to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and straightforward case – little does he know, then committed suicide when hecouldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctionwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick1529900360|title=Well of the Winds (DCI Daley)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's not a happy time fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for DCI Jim Daleyhis help on difficult cases. The woman he loved is dead - His assertions that there are those who blame him for what happened were only open- and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and his young son is deteriorating by -shut cases which didn't need the dayhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's finding solace in partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the bottom of a glass, whilst involvement was something that the man who used to do that all too oftenshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and has found exercisethough. There's Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a new officer remote property in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and whilst she might look young, is married to an extremely rich man and it's unlikely that she got to that position without having a core not the Italian. But which of steel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)178763681X|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenario: Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a policeman hears someone screaming way of getting both men and runs women to a house on a particular street, number 13, from where do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the noise is emanating. When impression that he peeps through 'd be at the letterbox he discovers school to assist Paul, who had a dead man in broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the hallway with a knife in problems - are all his throatown. He goes The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to fetch helpturn up dead. Unfortunately, but upon returning, finds that he was the person who discovered the street does not have a number 13 body and everyone knows that the body and police consider that person to be the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished.prime suspect..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Irvine Welsh1529421284|title= The Blade ArtistLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary=So. In the interest It was one of honest disclosure I should tell you those flash downpours that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess to the British weather often delivers in a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbie, the notoriously violent, terrifying protector/tormentor of the Trainspotting gangheatwave. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased review In a gully, it does mean you will get a passionate one. It is fair human skeleton came to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist'' the surface and my only critique would forensic testing proved the body to be that it was over too quickly. For those of you Lee Geary, who may not be familiar with Welsh's had disappeared nine years earlier manifestations have no fear, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'. He' d been a known drug user and be transfixed by Jim Francishad learning disabilities, artist, father, husband and elegant thug. For those so it could have been a simple case of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie youmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'll be instantly drawn back into the world of t convinced. Geary was a man previously defined by petty vengeancetownie, violence and blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Chris Ould|title= The Killing Bay|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Between so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the Scando-noir suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Highlands-time. Lockyer and-Islands crime, it was only a matter DC Gemma Broad of time until a series featuring a life-weary detective set in Greenland, Iceland, or thereabouts appeared. And here we are, with a series based in the FaroesMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Bolton1529425867|title=The PicturesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=It's the spring 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 1939: in Hollywood ''The Wizard Ryan and father of Oz'' Ryan, is in production at MGM and itnot. He's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for the actors or the studionot any of those things. The police department recognises that itHe's good for Hollywood that all goes smoothly and itwhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's Detective Jonathan Cranenot 's job to see that the crimes 'really'' his thing) and misdemeanours his wardrobe consists mainly of the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetshell suits and trackies. The studio rewards him handsomely for this and thereThey's perhaps a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Crainere usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's got it easy and wouldn't know how re being introduced to investigate a case if it came up and slapped himpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but in Craineyou's mind all thatre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's going to changeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza1529431735|title= The Acid TestWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo It's February 1991 and Essex is dead. Murdered in bitingly cold blood in a desolate, dusty field by the side of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the roadmore surprising. Once He'd been exiled on the most adored, celebrated dancer at the local strip club, she had Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to the deaths of various associates, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''decade. The Acid Test'return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, following on from Mendozasaying that she's first novel ''Silver Bullets''. I haven't read the first instalment of this series ill and donhasn't believe that had any impact on this storylong to live. Lefty has a personal connection It's hard to the casefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, forever haunted by the memories of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections stripped to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents underwear and his consuming desire sent to avenge her death to track down this violent and deranged killer. Along a watery grave in the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos which erupt in explosive levels boot of violence, meet a host of damaged, humorous and violent residents of Culiacán and follow Lefty on stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a trail of destruction, death and disorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Farris Smith0861541774|title= Desperation Road|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Maben is on the run. For a long while it's not clear whether she's running from something or towards something, or simply back to where it all started. She's got her small daughter with her, and they've been walking for a very long time. It's hard on the child, but it's also clear that if it wasn't for the child Maben would stop running, and it's clear that that would not be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steven Savile|title=Parallel LinesSteve Burrows|rating=3.54

|summary=Books are full of coincidencesDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, because if they were notDanny Maik, they would be pretty dullhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The action takes place during an extraordinary timescale of the characters – the time they were Maik was involved in a bank robbery, or their loved one street brawl - he would later maintain that he was murderedfacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. People are more likely Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to read this type of book than one about murder the time they picked out their new curtainsman. For Now he could be facing the intrigue to happen, links between characters have to be made, but balancing coincidence is trickydeath penalty. Too little Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the characters donwouldn't gel, too much and you start to think the book is supernaturalhelp Danny at all. Did Steven Savile get the balance right in ''Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hilary1521129886|title=Quieter than Killing They Had It Coming (D I Marnie Rome 4Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary=The attacks all seemed Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to be quite random, but the nights were dark, point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. the weather freezing It's a good job too because Greg and D I Marnie Rome Joyce will soon have a baby and DS Noah Jake were spending quite a lot of time on they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the streets of Londonmorning sickness. Then MarnieGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's family home was ransacked concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on the order of someone) who knew herson is not thriving. Normally Commander Welland Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have been able to give Marnie a degree of protection killed himself - he knew her history all too well - but it simply wasn't in his cancer had returned nature. The police and he the coroner have accepted that the death was going to be away for four months. suicide, His stand-in was nowhere near as understanding in this or other matters. Then it was established that a child was missing - had been missing for ten weeks - but no one had reported itStuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sam BlakeB0CK3MYJ56|title= Little Bones|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= It was a fairly ordinary break in. A young artist's home had been given a going over, but it was hard to see that much had been taken. There were suspicions that it might have been one of the usual suspects, only the shoes weren't as they'd have expected to find them if that was to be the case. Something else was not as you might expect to find it: a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by the look of it, and in the hem, stitched in there, tiny bones. Human bones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Elly Griffiths|title=The Chalk Pit (Dr Ruth Galloway)Ann Macarthur

|summary=Norwich is It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty- apparently - riddled with tunnels, many dating back to the time when chalk was mined thereeight years old. When bones are discovered He used to have a high-flying job in one of the tunnels city but it seems obvious that theywasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 've been there for hundreds Shades of yearsCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but Dr Ruth Gallowaywhere's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, forensic archaeologistor rather, isnthey were until Helen was killed in what't so certains been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The colour doesnJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't look right and understand what she has a suspicion that the bones have been boiled: they've also not been was doing there that long. DCI Harry Nelson has - or how she could come to fall in front of a murder case on his handstrain. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a local rough sleeper and thereGreg's not a lot been asked to go on other than the rumour that she's 'gone underground', but what, exactly, does that mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1838954481|title= Darktown|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta, Georgia. The Deep South. This is country that fought to keep the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion of segregation as the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system of governance of all her people. That's a history that today's southerners are variously proud or ashamed of, or choose to ignore, or hope to forget, or continue to strive against. Variously, because people are also individuals and we all hold to our own view of what is right. For many of us, what is ''right'' is sometimes hard to draw the lines around…but what is ''wrong'' is much more clear-cut. Divisions based on skin colour, or race, or creed are wrong. No two ways about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMisper|author= Susanna Beard|title= Dare to RememberKate London|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Lisa Fulbrook's best friend is dead – the victim of a brutal attack who fell to her death from her own apartment window. Lisa was there, she too was a victim of the attack that killed her best friend, and she is left with the physical and emotional scars to prove it. Traumatised by the events, Lisa flees to a country village to help settle her frightened mind. But what happened that night still torments her; she is plagued by vicious flashbacks and questions surrounding why she and her best friend Ali were targeted, because the one thing Lisa does know is that she can't remember what really happened that fateful night. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Harry Brett|title= Time To Win|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary= I have no idea what Great Yarmouth has ever done to Harry Brett, but, boy, is he getting his own back! Now personally, I don't much like the town, and I know it has its seedy side, like most places, but I can't believe it's quite this bad. According to Brett, the weather's as dreary as the down'n'outs, the streets are grim, and the people worse. He makes the point that no-one comes to Yarmouth for their summer holidays anymore…if that wasn't true before this book, it's likely to be so afterwards. If a place could sue for defamation of character, the town would want to. The opening shot is of Richard Goodwin going down into the murky waters of the Yare out back of his office. Goodwin was not a good person... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147215262X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gregory Mcdonald|title=Snatch|rating=3.5

|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's not often no doubt about that you get two books for . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the price of one, but if you are going to see this anywhere gun and pointing it will likely be in a reissueat DI Kieran Shaw. Taking He pulled the back catalogue trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of an author both the murder and compiling a larger book consisting the manslaughter of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already havethe officer. Hard Case Crime have done this with two books by ''Fletch'' author Gregory McdonaldAnd so lives must go on. Surely two books For DI Sarah Collins that centre means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on kidnapping by her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? Think againorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=The PledgeCaro Ramsay

|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerlandthe village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a girl has been wealthy family are found murdered and left for anyone to see in a forest. The police come, and soon find out who only item missing from the villagers already think home is the sole suspect – a man known for illegal liaisons with young girlsDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. They have, The only suspects are known Satanists but in factmany ways, to put a compelling case against lynch mob rule just to get him back for investigation. He does confess, after a lengthy process – and then hangs himself. But the leader that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the investigation, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to a different job elsewherebody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is determined pulled in to follow up on the promise he made to the girl's parents, to make the guilty person face justiceshadow' him. It's a promise, however, with far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1529077699|title= Kill the Next OneThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat''It's all bloody peculiar, isn''Kill the Next Onet it, Sir?'' Well yes, you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of those machismo riddled tales where an autumn gale, stayed for about a middle-aged man with month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a mysterious past is forced small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre village of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping Greystone, in around Devon. Rosco had the edges status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay world sailor and his Browning pointed to his templeall round ''celebrity''. He has the perfect life I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, including he could be more than a beautiful wife little bit close with money and two adoring children, but has discovered that he is also in possession of his background isn't exactly an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himopen book. However, right before Where did he decides to take get the shot and end his life, there is a knock on money for his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that first boat? How did he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of finance the law. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1529427045|title=Out of BoundsThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=When a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car and ended up in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection ''Life has more to an unsolved murder from years before his birthoffer than people - prime numbers for example''. On  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the face small town of itGasskas, it looked as though solving where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the cold case should be straightforward, but it's area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has notbeen slow in coming forward. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie Salander's niece's mother is an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but the latest woman in this case it looks as though the ''law'' itself might prove area to be an insurmountable barrierhave vanished without trace. SheIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's drawn to another case too - one which she really has no business investigating - and one which has its roots in guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a terrorist bombing two decades earlier. Like the case remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the teenage joyrider part Salander played in her father''nothing'' is quite as it seemss death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1787636607|title=Evil Games (D I Kim Stone)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=When Ruth saw It's a scene replicated all too often in the man who had raped her coming early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a local pub she was traumatisedway to get home. He'd served his time (albeit it was rather short) Some are lucky and now he was free - and she was frightenedmanage to get one of the few taxis available. The rapist was murdered and DI Kim Stone and her team were called upon to solve Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the killing - and quicklyoutlying villages. There The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'was, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a little bit long way short of a feeling that the man her home. She had got what was coming intended to him ring someone to come and didncollect her - but her phone't deserve a lot of sympathy, but professionalism won s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the daybus driver to let her use his. Then more revenge killings came There's no option but to light start walking - unsuitably clothed and it was obvious to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happeningin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the Party|author=Paula DalyAmy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=The Trophy ChildMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=We've all encountered pushy mothers It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year- old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the ones who seem determined not to let garden of their children West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have a momenthappened if he's peace between all d slipped down the steps but the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged for themvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Karen Bloom is in Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a different class thoughtrue-crime show. Her son, Ewan, was something A group of a disappointment, but she's not going experts has been brought together to allow that review the evidence and to happen to her daughter, take the talented Bronteinvestigation further. There's not a moment More to spare between the music lessonspoint, dance classes and extra school work - sometimes they have 're going to eat do this live on the hoof from one lesson to anothercamera, episode by episode. The rest There's no dump of the family can see the cost to Bronte whole box set - and to the family as a whole, but Karen will not listen, will not change her waysno shortage of cliffhangers. Then one day Bronte disappearsIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford0241996104|title=Extreme PreyComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Crime Thrillers|summary=Making a long running series evolve organically is a very tricky business; a character that Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been around for 26 booksconvicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, and nearly as many years, is after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not going been found guilty of anything but will have to be live with what happened for the same person that started outrest of her life. Age catches up with us all Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and many crime writer have come up against the problem papers are making the most of retirement; not their own, but that of their characterit. Why ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is a 70 year old still out chasing criminals one favourite epithet and shooting things? Lucas Davenport ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is a character who has always been a maverick, doing what he wants, therefore quitting the police was never going to stop himundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Dickinson1529413680|title=The Ad ManA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Tim Collinwood One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is single the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and so, working in Morocco as an advertising creative, heBruno's free there to enjoy see the show with some friends. It's all his host country has to offer: been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the expense accounts, man playing one of the opulence and main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the womenscript. Then it happensLuckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. He gets the contract A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his lifechances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. He just needs to create One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a PR campaign that will reassure Morocco that French business has her best interests at heartpre-arranged holiday. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The truth may be otherwise but creating the façade is what advertising is aboutTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4. Perhaps Tim should have noticed 5|genre=Crime|summary=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 are clues from was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the beginning as to how shady this job is, including needing to work under an assumed identityOld Bailey. HoweverThere's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, the secrecy becomes a side issue as something more important takes Timcharged with Cliveden's concentration: survival murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and those around it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk> Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.