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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily WinslowStuart Douglas|title= Look For HerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Annalise Wood disappeared leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on her journey home from school and instantly became the edge of a local celebrityreservoir. For decades The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the town whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of Lilling tried a fellow actor, John Le Breton to solve help him investigate matters further. They travel across the mystery of Annalise's disappearance untilcountry during their days off filming, almost twenty years lateruncovering more possible murders and, her body was discovered. Annalise's body was badly decomposed and there was lack of DNA availableseemingly, a link to death during the only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not match anyone on recordSecond World War. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder soon becomes But is there really a 'cold case' – but still link between the most famous Lilling has ever seen. deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte0008517061|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from establishedFormer Metropolitan Police detective, well-regarded author Daisy WaughJake Johnson, writing under has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a pseudonym. Butlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a selflot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-confessed chicklit fan, who's never read a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to like it...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.turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1786482126|title= From The Shadows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straight. I'll go with a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else fails. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Angela Marsons|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)Elly Griffiths

|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a field trip, but going to be honest a lot of the students didnhold seventy-five 'luxury't really look all that interested in apartments - when they discovered the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none bones of them would go into forensicsa child beneath a doorway. There was more excitement when the no skull was discovered but at that point the students were quickly escorted from the scene and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigation. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from the neighbouring force also arrived Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the same intention: the burial site was right on the border between the two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and the other beganDCI Harry Nelson. Stone assumed It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that it would be her case and was shocked and bewildered when she found that it was to be run is pregnant with his child as a joint investigationresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She nearly refused: she and Travis had historyHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz0008551324|title=The Word is MurderDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=An attractive, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in London, and makes plans for her own funeral. Within just a few hours, sheIt's had lunch, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own home. Could unusual for anyone have foreseen from the service Hardie family to have been needed so quickly? That's approach the initial premise of this thriller, this most intriguing mystery, and if you want to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprises, you should not read the book's blurb, or even the authorial biography, and perhaps not even the followingpolice. Just go in blind, and wait Neither side likes or has any respect for the surprises – that start, as it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clare Donoghue|title= The Night Stalker|rating= 4other.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turf. Lewishamhe's finest are sent prepared to tell the police where the country body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for this outing. There's been a her death down in Somerset. It's not the sort of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad to get involved in This person, it looks like a hit-and-run on a remote road in the Quantockshe promises, probably just some drunk driving a is someone big four-by-four who didn't even know he'd done and it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martin Edwards (editor)|title= The Long Arm of will be worth the Law|rating= 4police doing what he wants.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the 'golden age' remainder of crime fiction, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod his sentence and to shameget an early parole date. Miss MarpleNot much to ask, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and so on. Ishe'll admit s even prepared to being a fan of all of those, but they aren't do the whole story. The other side of the coin shows the official police doing their job thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and getting their mananyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid0008405026|title=Insidious Intent: A Stranger in the Family (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10Maeve Kerrigan 11) |author=Jane Casey

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheIt's got less than three weeks to livesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choicesShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. I've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at the weddingNow, her mother, Helena, but it was there that she met and her killerfather are dead in their bed. He said his name was David and he was charmingInitially, respectful, unwilling to rush anything as he was still getting over it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the death positioning of his wife. Kathryn was left with the feeling bodies that he was still more than a little bit in love with Triciamakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. They went on a couple of dates What looked as though it was going to be an open-and then David took her to -shut case is now a cottage in the Dales for the weekendcomplex double murder. By the end of Kerrigan is convinced that the weekend Kathryn would be dead explanation lies in her burned-out carRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker0571379877|title= All The Wicked GirlsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= In the small town of GraceEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, fifteenobsessed with his upper-yearclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know herobsessed, the incident rocks the entire town. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the yeardemanding, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper handsome and entitled and murderer responsible uses Edward to run errands for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and has so far evaded capturehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Whilst Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he roams 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the streets, no one is safetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim WeaverJo Callaghan|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker When a man is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over found crucified on the course of his work, he's seen plenty top of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You seehill in Nuneaton, Richard Kite isn't trying DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at case alongside her sidekick, the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can't remember anything about his lifeAI detective Lock. He It's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on their first live case together, having previously been very successful with his lifeseveral cold cases. Nobody seems to know who he But when there isa second body found crucified a few days later, despite news Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and press coverage a very high profile case that draws a lot of his unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the casein time, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'or will Kat find herself taken off the gridcase and,' unable to get a jobpotentially, pay tax or own out of a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1035021803|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Jane TennisonIt's a fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where shegrew up. She's back at Bow Street waiting now because of a request for help from her first postingbeloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya'd like the Flying Squad, but shes former mentor and Carole's not got close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the experiencecircumstances seem suspicious, nor, it has to be said, say the necessary physical attributesleast. This is 1976 and male chauvinism Arthur was rampantthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. It was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 and 75 and no one believes that it's going Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be over any time soonnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in After the latest incident split, she worked in which a bomb killed five people - cafe, met and she's one married James (on the rebound from the love of only two people her life, who got a good look at the bomberwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kate EllisNicci French|titlerating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The MermaidSalter children are not convinced but there's Scream (Wesley Peterson)little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. WeIt hadn'll follow the story of John Liptont been Lt Milo Sturgis's courtship through excerpts from fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his journalhelp on difficult cases. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the biography help of the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilanda psychologist only worked for a while. ItFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has to and is unwilling to discuss partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the one thing which involvement was something that the public will want to know about: his wife's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous bookman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest Two lovers were murdered in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was seemingly on his way the heir to one of these talks when he disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cara Black|title= Murder in Saint-Germain|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who an Italian shoe empire and she is Aimee Leduc? I have married to be honest an extremely rich man and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the best-selling Cara Black, it is in fact my first outing with 's not the deft Parisienne detectiveItalian. And so, if I'm honest, I wasn't sure what to expect. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those But which of us coming late to them was the partyprimary target? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)178763681X|title=Three Days and a LifeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't got the best really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses getting both men and women to let him waste his time ondo what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow''s built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo got the girl next door impression that he loves, but she's rejected it. And his best company, d be at the dog from the other house next doorschool to assist Paul, was injured in who had a hit and runbroken arm, and shot to be put but it didn't turn out of its miserythat way. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly The teaching - and adorable neighbour, the dog's sixproblems -year-old owner, and Antoineare all his own. The one thing he hadn's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweept expected was for someone to turn up dead. As the title suggestsUnfortunately, there will be a very tense few days and nights while he was the guilt amasses with person who discovered the lad – body and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead everyone knows that the police consider that person to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>be the prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1529421284|title=Leopard at Laying Out the DoorBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to Kenya after being away at school in England the surface and finds a lot can change in 6 forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine yearsearlier. Of course she realises her motherHe's death would alter things d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but she's not prepared for her father's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in RachelDI Matt Lockyer wasn's old roomt convinced. Michael Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though suicide of Holly Gilbert and now a man with his own ideasto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and about to blowme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529425867|title= Elena Varvello Lost and Alex Valente Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor= Can You Hear Me?Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978Oxford, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is sixteen of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and troubledalways exquisitely dressed. His mundanely stable D I Ryan Wilkins, loving and ordered life is rocked by the murder son of a young boy Ryan and the disappearance father of a young womanRyan, who vanishes into the woodsis not. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable father, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts He's not any of senseless violencethose things. Into this steps Anna, the mother of Elia He's friendwhite, originated from a woman bowed under the strain trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of life shell suits and haunted by her choicestrackies. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia They's certainty that something is desperately wrong re usually in his homelime green or acid yellow. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, You might wonder if you're being introduced to the mysteriously sensual and sad Annaa police procedural written for laughs. Well, Elia feels you're not. The two men are just different sides of the ground start to shift under his feet, to feel same policing coin. Sometimes the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge of adolescence and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)1529431735|title=The King of FoolsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Having sort of split up with his partnerIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the southern French coast, when he chances to meet Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a married English woman, Marjoriedecade. They meet in the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next to each otherThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she gets in the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behind's ill and hasn't long to live. Lo and behold they find each other at the casino, and the following day, It's hard to feel any sympathy when she arrives at his hotel to reclaim her bagHopkins is abducted, they meet heart stripped to heart. Jean-Marie sees her his underwear and sent to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even watery grave in the arrival boot of his partner and make-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjoriea stolen Ford Sierra. But finding her again will take him Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude0861541774|title= Death Makes A ProphetNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this DCI Domenic Jejeune''Crime Classic'' I had s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to check the first publication datemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Reading the first two pages, it could easily have been written Maik was involved in 1967, or '87, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Given Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal suggested that ithe 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's taken this long to resurfacet help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1521129886|title=Dead in the Dark They Had It Coming (Cooper and FryGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=ItGreg Mason's ten years since Reece Bower was accused of the murder of just beginning to get his wife, but confidence as an investigator to the case never came to trial: Annette Bowerpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's body was never found a good job too because Greg and although Joyce will soon have a murder can baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be prosecuted without a body there was more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an added problem hereold friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Annette Stuart's father said that he'd seen concerned about his daughter a couple of days after shesister, Lucy, who'd apparently disappeareds struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Had Annette Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply left wasn't in his nature. The police and the marriage coroner have accepted that the death was in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? Then, a decade latersuicide, Reece Bower disappears without trace. His new partner wants some answersbut Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles HarrisB0CK3MYJ56|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 34

|summary= A flawed It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediait wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. ThereNice bloke, but where's plenty here the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to likelook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and plenty not Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come tofall in front of a train. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying Greg's been asked to the final pageinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville1838954481|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)The Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Harry Garrick had been Ryan Kennedy killed a successful businessman until police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the car accident which cost him both legs gun and left him bedridden and beholden pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to his wife for even the most intimate functions, so there vagaries of the jury system he was found not a ''lot'' guilty of surprise when, six months later, he seemed to have taken his own life. One sachet both the murder and the manslaughter of morphine granules, mixed in a pot of yoghurt had given him a good night's sleepthe officer. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets of granules, if the empty packets were anything to And so lives must go byon. It seemed obvious For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute capital and hoping for a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that quieter life in the widow, Roberta Garrick, countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closeorbit of Ryan Kennedy. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1448309743|title= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineCaro Ramsay|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small townScotland, five members of a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faithwealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, in both God and justicedeath will follow. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple manonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's tenuously ordered life and drags him to the edge an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the abyssbody. McCarthy The Senior Investigating Office is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps FranckDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, a private detective with a shadowy agenda, a raging cocaine habit and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a wink'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Mark EllisAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-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. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe and France is occupied''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, there's something where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a lull gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in Britaincoming forward. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties and London is spared the nightly blitz, but no oneSalander's under any illusions that it could start again at any time. Thereniece's been a certain relaxation mother is the latest woman in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on the rise and not all of them go as they shouldarea to have vanished without trace. A young woman It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is found dead in a London hotel room as the result remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of a botched operation: she has no identification and no one knows who the part Salander played in her father of the baby was, or who performed the operation's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1787636607|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really a detective. HeIt's just a normal bloke - though that might depend on your definition scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of 'normal' - who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats clubs and looking for a collection way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of vinyl in a house the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that happens to be adjacent to will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the ''Abbey'taxi problem', a posh rehab place notorious for particularly in the celebrities it treats. He doesnlight of 't solve crimes or trace the missing peoplewomen'. For one young woman, even if he does search for rare records. So when an odd couple turn up the final stop on his doorstep requesting his help in tracing the bus leaves her a missing child long way short of a 1960her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says nodead. That is, until he is told that The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the job would also involve tracing a rare singlebus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson1405957174|title=Sleeping in A Death at the GroundParty|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=It was From the sort of display which would have been better in black and white and without a sound trackfirst page, but what happened at the Red Wedding, as it would come to be known, was noisy, brutal and fatalwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. A sniper on The victim - a distant hillside began shooting at man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the wedding party: three people, including the bride died immediatelyambulance he so desperately needs. Another two, including What we don't know is who the bridegroom would man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die soon afterwards. Terry Gilchrist saw the shooter disappearing over the hillside, but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word for it when they finally arrived and it was I'd better give you a further three-quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for the paramedics to come to the scene. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too longlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)0008530025|title=Suspicion (Inspector Barlach 2)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach is dying. We did know It was in December 2003 that, more or less, from [[The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Joel Agee (translator)|found the first book]] to feature himbody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, but it's confirmed here by us opening on him in a clinic bed, with a year left to livethe garden of their West London home. But He had an injury on the back of his doctor is helping him in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his lifeface had taken was obviously deliberate. When Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his doctor blanches at murder and it's now the sight subject of a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at work''Infamous'', a story slowly starts true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to emerge, one that may prove to be a wicked conspiracy review the evidence and to keep take the Nazi alive and still practicing, under someone else's nameinvestigation further. Barlach, clearly well suited to go under cover as someone needing More to go under the knifepoint, works up a plan they're going to check whether his suspicion is correctdo this live on camera, episode by episode. WhatThere's no dump of the worst that could happen after all? – even were he to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Donald E WestlakeJane Corry|rating=4.5|titlegenre=Thrillers|summary=Forever Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a Deathlife sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for 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 it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34

|summary=A lot One of the main events of time and effort goes into the average movie, but this Sarlat tourist season is at least double in the case re-enactment of Bond. Each one is part the liberation of a decadethe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's long institution and must excelthere to see the show with some friends. With this in mind there It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themes, wannabe-Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actorsseriously injured when he departs from the script. For every successful ''Garbage'' Bond themeLuckily, his doctor is there are numerous other indie bands that never made and the cutman is whisked away in a helicopter. Donald E Westlake was a successful thriller writer in A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his own right, chances of survival but once - as he jumped aboard 's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the good ship Bond his work never cut itmilitary has stepped in. The result was this adaptation One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of his failed Bond script, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification her father's friends for passing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>a pre-arranged holiday.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= L F Robertson1529196388|title= Two Lost BoysThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 24.5|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is Grant Cliveden was a hero: a seasoned death row appeals attorneypoliceman 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 plain sight at the Old Bailey. Overworked, lonely, and feeling like she There's drunk her fill of desperation just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and sadness, she takes on one final case, determined it will be her last. Marion 'Andys not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden' Hardy is sweet, polite, goods murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-natured, Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and a little slow, but according to the state, heit's also a rapist Taylor-Cameron and a murderer. Moodie must untangle his aging case against the clockpupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. She can Knight't save his innocences determined to plead not guilty, but maybe she despite all Taylor-Cameron''can'' save his lifes recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk>