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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)Stuart Douglas|title= Three Drops of Blood Lowe and a Cloud of CocaineLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small town, a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by During location filming for his faith, in both God and justice. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man1970's tenuously ordered life sitcom 'Floggit and drags him to Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of the abyssa reservoir. McCarthy is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about morality the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the nature help of existencea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Into this quagmire steps Franck, a private detective with a shadowy agenda They travel across the country during their days off filming, a raging cocaine habit uncovering more possible murders and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricketseemingly, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a wink.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis0008517061|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe and France is occupiedFormer Metropolitan Police detective, there's something of a lull in Britain. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties and London is spared the nightly blitzJake Johnson, but no one's under any illusions that it could start again has settled into his rustic life at any timeLittle Sky. There's been There’s perhaps a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on little uncertainty about the rise future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and not all of them go her daughter Diana, as they should. A young woman is found dead moving in together would mean a London hotel room as the result lot of a botched operationcompromise: 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 has no identification wants for herself and no one knows who her daughter? For the father of moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the baby was, or who performed future on the operationback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1786482126|title=The Vinyl Detective Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=The Vinyl Detective 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 not really a detective. Hestruggling in prison and he's just prepared to tell the police where the body of a normal bloke - though that might depend on your definition of 'normal' - missing person is buried and who lives with his girlfriend Nevadawas responsible for her death. This person, he promises, two cats is someone big and a collection of vinyl in a house that happens it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be adjacent transferred to an open prison to serve the ''Abbey''remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, a posh rehab place notorious for the celebrities is it treats. He ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't solve crimes or trace missing people, think so and she's even if he does search for rare records. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help in tracing a missing child of a 1960prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says no. That is, until he is told that the job would also involve tracing a rare singlehappening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson0008405026|title=Sleeping A Stranger in the GroundFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the sort of display which would have been better in black and white and without investigation ground to a sound trackhalt. Now, but what happened at the Red Weddingher mother, as it would come to be known, was noisyHelena, brutal and fatalher father are dead in their bed. A sniper on Initially, it looks like a distant hillside began shooting at straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the wedding party: three people, including positioning of the bride died immediatelybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Another two, including the bridegroom would die soon afterwards. Terry Gilchrist saw the shooter disappearing over the hillside, but the armed response officers were unwilling What looked as though it was going to take his word for it when they finally arrived be an open-and it was -shut case is now a further three-quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for the paramedics to come to the scenecomplex double murder. It would be this delay which made Kerrigan is convinced that the headlines before too longexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)0571379877|title=Suspicion (Inspector Barlach 2)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach Edward Jevons is dyinga working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. We did know thatHe's also self-obsessed, more or lessdemanding, from [[The Judge handsome and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt entitled and Joel Agee (translator)|the first book]] uses Edward to feature run errands for him, but it. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's confirmed here by us opening on him in a clinic bed, with a year left drunkenly confided how he feels to liveRobert. But his doctor is helping him Most men in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his life. When his doctor blanches at the sight of a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at work, a story slowly starts to emerge, one Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that may prove to be a wicked conspiracy to keep the Nazi alive and still practicing, under someone elserelationship had begun between them but he's name. Barlach, clearly well suited to go under cover as someone needing not like most men: Edward is left to go under stumble upon the knife, works up two of them kissing in a plan to check whether his suspicion is correctdark passageway. What's the worst that could happen after all? – even were he to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald E WestlakeJo Callaghan|title=Forever and a DeathLeave No Trace|rating=34

|summary=A lot When a man is found crucified on the top of time and effort goes into a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the average moviecase alongside her sidekick, but this is at least double in the case of BondAI detective Lock. Each one is part of a decadeIt's long institution and must exceltheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. With this in mind But when there is a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themessecond body found crucified a few days later, wannabe-Bond stories Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and wannabe-Bond actorsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. For every successful ''Garbage'' Bond theme, there are numerous other indie bands that never made Will they be able to solve the cut. Donald E Westlake was a successful thriller writer case in his own righttime, but once he jumped aboard or will Kat find herself taken off the good ship Bond his work never cut it. The result was this adaptation case and, potentially, out of his failed Bond script, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passinga career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= L F Robertson1035021803|title= Two Lost BoysThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 23.5|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is a seasoned death row appeals attorneyIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Overworked, lonely, and feeling like she She's drunk back now because of a request for help from her fill of desperation and sadness, she takes on one final casebeloved aunt, determined it will be her lastCarole. Marion Freya'Andys former mentor and Carole' Hardy is sweets close friend, polite, good-naturedArthur Crockleford, is dead and a little slowthe circumstances seem suspicious, but according to say the stateleast. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, he's also a rapist and a murdererlet her down badly. Moodie must untangle his aging case against Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the clockman or pursue the profession she loved. She can't save his innocence After the split, but maybe she ''can'' save his worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts1398524085|title=The ObsessionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but she hasn't always lived therenever turned up. Actually Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her name hasn't always been Naomi Carsonhusband, Alec, is not. NaomiShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's life had to start again whenfather, aged 11Duncan Ackerley, she sneakily followed her father into in the woods to see if he was hiding her birthday presentriver. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As It was an adult sheeasy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's now putting her life back together and even coping with t stand the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksguilt. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find sheSalter children are not convinced but there's the targetlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse1529900360|title= The Woman in the WoodGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the art of gardening: 'A seed help of a plot drops into my head, I plant it with psychologist only worked for a few chapterswhile. Finally, spend a great deal of time thinking it throughwas Robin, and once the green shoots come throughDelaware's partner, I water it with carewho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Hopefully several months later She knew that the involvement was something beautiful has grownthat the man she loved needed.' Certainly she carefully cultivates her characters The next case did look simple, meticulously researches though. Two lovers were murdered in the locations for her books and is an expert at creating swimming pool of a fast paced plot with heart remote property in Bel Air. He was the mouth moments. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds heir to an Italian shoe empire and draw on inner hidden strengths she is married to triumph over adversity. Invariably her well-crafted novels, whether they be historical fiction, family sagas or crime stories are captivating best sellers. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I had high expectations for her latest novel. Whilst it delivered on some levels, extremely rich man and it regrettably didn't leave me in disbelief at s not the denouementItalian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker178763681X|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=The body of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a woman was found beneath the ruined Templar chateau of Commarque, but what had she been doing there? residential cookery school in Belgravia. SheHe didn'd apparently been climbing the structure, t really want to but using some cheap celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and unsuitable ropewomen to do what he wanted. Sprayed on the wall in orange paint were the letter Paul ''somehow'IFTI'got the impression that he'. Had she been intending d be at the school to write more when she fellassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but if so, where was the paint it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the rope? problems - are all his own. Her neck had been brokenThe one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, but he was this an accidental fall when doing something stupid, or had she been pushed? She carried no identification the person who discovered the body and her fingerprints weren't known everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the French police or Interpolprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1529421284|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes awayIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, he makes a human skeleton came to the decision to return to his home in surface and forensic testing proved the Scottish Highlands body to take over control of his family's estatebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He has 'd been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued a career in the army known drug user and survived a posting in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city lifehad learning disabilities, so it seems village life back in Glencul is his only optioncould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. For most people in his position Geary was a townie, returning home so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the peaceful life suicide of lordship over a castle Holly Gilbert and village would sound like a dream come trueto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. But Duncul Castle Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars of Duncul, and some of GlenculMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's residents would kill for itcold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1529425867|title=HellfireLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood in the door Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the caravan shell suits and surveyed the scenetrackies. The mother - sheThey'd be re usually in her thirties - and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbedlime green or acid yellow. There was blood everywhere and the only clue as You might wonder if you're being introduced to who had murdered them was a bloody footprintpolice procedural written for laughs. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden and her son Simon? You seeWell, Bonnie is one of those people whom you feel is due some luck're not. As a child she wanted to be a doctor, but when we go back to December 2004 she was working as a home help and dealing with some The two men are just different sides of the most difficult invalids in same policing coin. Sometimes the areacombination works brilliantly well. SimonSometimes it's father had left them and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both of them hating the fact that Simon had to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to workproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=Mark BillinghamJames Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=Love Like BloodA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman.5 Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4

|summary=DI Nicola TannerGreg Mason's lover, Susan, was brutally murdered just beginning to get his confidence as she entered an investigator to the hallway of their homepoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She'd been driving NicolaIt's car a good job too because Greg and it seemed obvious that this was Joyce will soon have a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings baby and was convinced that many of they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the cases were contracted out to baby when she gets past the same peoplemorning sickness. Was she getting too close? Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Tanner wants the killers and the go-betweens, but itStuart's not as easy as it might be as thereconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's no obvious route struggling to take: several faiths are involved so it's make ends meet and her son is not just a case of tracking the killers down through a family's place of worshipthriving. After Susan's death Tanner Lucy, he says, is angry and wants revenge convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - then sheit simply wasn's frustrated when shet in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's taken off the honour killings cases and put on compassionate leave. She has a solution though: she calls prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the services of D I Tom Thorne who - in policing terms - is everything that she isn'tnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David HewsonB0CK3MYJ56|title=Sleep Baby Sleep Responsibilities (Detective Pieter VossGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=Annie Schrijver is just It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-two-eight years old and is known as '. He used to have a high-flying job in the flower girlcity but it wasn' in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market, where she works on her fathert satisfying so he's stallnow set himself up as a private investigator. It's almost impossible to believe that sheShades of Cameron Strike's missing as she, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's very personable and always popular with the customerslife experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. When sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's found she's barely alive though, tied to been written off as a stone angel in a graveyard and surrounded by a ring of firetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. In Joyce - and her body parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there are traces - or how she could come to fall in front of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to the Sleeping Beauty murderstrain. He had his doubts at the time as to whether or not everyone involved had Greg's been caught: now it seems that his doubts have come back asked to haunt himinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Harper1838954481|title= The DryMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes Ryan Kennedy killed a book takes a while to get into. Sometimes itpolice officer: there's quicker than no doubt about that. If Harper hadn't grabbed me in He was the first paragraph, she certainly had halffifteen-year-way down old holding the second page: ''So nothing reacted when deep inside gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the house, manslaughter of the baby started cryingofficer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>s drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Menczer1448309743|title= An Unlikely AgentThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=LondonIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in five members of a dreary boarding house in St John's Woodwealthy family are found murdered. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary item missing from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the recruitment pagestone is removed from Otterburn House, Margaret spots death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an advertisement easy conclusion given that promises to two of them 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!discovered'the body. After a gruelling interview The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as it seems; she DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of loveshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529077699|title= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski The Raging Storm (TranslatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor= Block 46 Ann Cleeves

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at a Cartier event presenting some of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious function. When a young woman''It's mutilated body is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéaall bloody peculiar, isn's holiday homet it, AlexisSir?' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa's death  Well yes, it is not unique; . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in factthe middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, she is only the latest in a string small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of similar gruesome murders that have occurred Greystone, in both London and FalkenbergDevon. Up until now Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the bodies have world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all belonged to young boys-round good egg' but as we'll find out, so what has caused he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the killer to change money for his or her MOfirst boat? How can Alexis help to find justice for her friend, and stop a serial killer before did he strikes againfinance the trip?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529427045|title= No Middle NameThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed and it 'Life has now put itself out more to grassoffer than people - prime numbers for example''. This is particularly true, some say, and I have been known  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to concurthe small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the crime and thriller genresarea have sparked a gold rush. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't The criminal underworld has not been paying attentionslow in coming forward. Not even Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to shorter offerings my by favourite authorshave vanished without trace. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'No Middle Name'' : a collection s unaware of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher'part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1787636607|title= The Silence Between BreathsTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= IIt'm always wary s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of author endorsements, even those from people I rate as writers, but the ''harrowing morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the front cover night bus that will only go as far as one of ''The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate the caseoutlying villages. This is an extremely powerful book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A P McGrath|title= A Burning in The woman all regret the Darkness|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airport'taxi problem', Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving particularly in the needs of some light of 'the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crimemissing women'. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious For one young woman confides a dark secret, he is motivated to redress the final stop on the bus leaves her a heart-breaking injusticelong way short of her home. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close She had intended to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses ring someone to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michaelcome and collect her - but her phone's past in Liberiadead. As he fights The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to prove let her use his innocence, Michael has . There's no option but to risk anything for the sake of love start walking - unsuitably clothed and truthin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Hawley1405957174|title=Before A Death at the FallParty|author=Amy Stuart

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept From the offer from the wife of a media mogul for a short plane ridefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not realising it will shape the rest of his lifeend well. The private jet falls out of the sky, making victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him a hero in and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the way ambulance he saved so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the only other survivor, the mogul's small son and heir JJman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises I'd better give you a little more background so that for some heyou can understand what's not so much the hero as the murdererhappening. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura0008530025|title=HereticsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is a child émigré to Cuba It was in 1939December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, looking forward to being joined from Germany by his parentsin the garden of their West London home. TheyHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he're on board d slipped down the St Louis in Havana docks steps but in a country and a time rife with politics and corruption, the ship is turned back without permitting any of their passengers to disembarkvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Now, nearly 80 Twenty years later, Danielno one has been charged with his murder and it's son wants now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that review the Kaminskys had with them on evidence and to take the ill-fated shipinvestigation further. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers More to something that may seem straightforward but the point, they soon realise it will prove 're going to be anything butdo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell0241996104|title= Rhyming RingsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= David Gemmell is a wellNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-known namebrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Until his death in 2006 he topped We first meet Nancy outside the UK author lists in fantasy and historical fiction…but some will suggest that this previously unpublished manuscript shows that he might have gone in court, after Martin receives a different direction entirelylife sentence. He might The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have opted to live with what happened for a the rest of her life . Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of crimeit. Crime fiction that ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is. Ione favourite epithet and ''rich bitch''ll come back to thatmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1529413680|title=The Dog A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers and dog walkers who went on to One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the Thames towpath after dark. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left town from the riverside cottage she shared with her husband English in 1370 and never came home. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wandering, but HelenBruno's body was never discoveredthere to see the show with some friends. In 2016 HelenIt's husband, Adam, still wants to know what happened. He has an alibiall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, albeit a somewhat dubious oneKerquelin, but another neighbour was suspected. Steve Lawson couldn't stand the constant suspicion and drowned himself in the Thames: over the years that came to be accepted as an admission of guilt and even man playing one of his children the main characters is certain that seriously injured when he was responsibledeparts from the script.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malin Persson Giolito|title= Quicksand|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something about Scandinavia Luckily, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? This his doctor is there and the second book with the same title by northern writers that I've read this year, and we're only into Aprilman is whisked away in a helicopter. For clarity from the outset, this has nothing to do with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on here, A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but we are back in territory - as he would probably have been familiar with. We're in s a Scandinavian courtroomsenior government employee, Swedish to be precise – we're about to begin the trial of Maja Norbergman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= C J Skuse|title= Sweetpea|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=In many ways, Rhiannon Lewis One daughter lives an ordinary life. She works at a local papernearby and another, who lives with her long term boyfriendin California, dotes on her dog and is part flying in with some of a large group of friends. There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannon, like that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families... and sheher father's in fact friends for a serial killer. She's harmless though... as long as you stay off her listpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529196388|title=The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1)Trial|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=We're in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after the Second World War. A man has been found on Grant Cliveden was a hero: a remote mountain road. It would appear he opened his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead. Leading the investigation is Inspector Barlach, an elderly and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness stood 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 all that was good and to share it, honest and not rely on gut instincts. Neither particularly want looked up to be out in all weathers sorting the crimeby just about everyone, but the victim so there was public uproar when he was certainly murdered in the wrong place plain sight at the wrong time, for he was a fellow policeman and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they aren't sayingOld Bailey. What had he been up to, and which way of policing the case will get to the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Ridpath|title= Amnesia|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair is in trouble. HeThere's had a nasty knock on just one man in the head frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and now he canit't remember anything about his life. In an attempt to recover his memoriess not too long before Knight appears in court, he is sent to convalesce in a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands in the company of his old friendcharged with Cliveden's niece, Clemencemurder. During their stay, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems to tell Knight was told that the story best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of her grandmotherStag Court Chambers and it's murder years before. Now Alastair Taylor-Cameron and Clemence must uncover the truth about his pupil, Adam Green, who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearereventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairdespite all Taylor-Cameron's past who wants recommendations to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with itcontrary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>