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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- Schaffhausen -->Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries -Death at the Dress Rehearsal| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|3.5[[image:Schaffhausen_Vanishing.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657135?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657135]]Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 Vanishing Season by Johanna Schaffhausen]]=== [[image:5starpolice 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Schaffhausen has been garnering They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a lot of attention for her first crime novel having already been crowned a ''First Crime Novel Award Winner'' by link to death during the Mystery Writers of AmericaSecond World War. My interest therefore was definitely piqued and I was excited to read this book. So, does it live up to all But is there really a link between the hypedeaths? In a word: yes. I was gripped from the outset (forgive the terrible pun, we are after all dealing with a serial killer who chops off the hands of his victims to keep as trophies!) [[The Vanishing Season by Johanna Schaffhausen And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|Full Review]]isbn=1803368209}}<!-- Parsons -->{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|-title=Death in a Lonely Place| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Stig Abell|rating=4[[image:178089595X.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5starFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with an air ambulance, the mess falls on as moving in together would mean a busy shopping centre and we are barely out lot of the first chapter. DC Max Wolfe's latest adventure looks at religion, radicalisation, hate compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to catching those responsible. The rest of Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the book gradually builds a web of intrigue future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and a virtual soap opera of family issuesputting the future on the back burner. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]}}<!-- Reynolds -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1786482126| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)[[image:Reynolds_Fire.jpg|leftauthor=Elly Griffiths|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -align: top; textthe site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -align: left;"|===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5starwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] What happens when Utopia Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is achieved? When everyone 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 linked neurologically prone to everyone else and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect sudden bouts of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be nextsickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4. In such a circumstance who can be trusted 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if approach the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]] <!-- Burrows police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Burrows_DovesThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants.jpg|left|link=http://www And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786074273/ref=nosim Not much to ask, is it?tag=thebookbag The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -21]]make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0008405026|title===[[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows]]=Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] The body of a senior attaché from the Mexican consulate summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found in and the investigation ground to a local bird sanctuaryhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, along with the body of the director. It was a strange tableau: the girl impaled on a branch and the man lying at her feet, both father are dead in a cagetheir bed. The fact that the man is Initially, it looks like a diplomat isnstraightforward murder/suicide but there't immediately evident - he was in s something about the positioning of the area under an assumed name. DCI (bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and birder enthusiast) Domenic Jejeune is conflictedher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The immediate problem is obviously What looked as though it was going to establish who murdered the man be an open-and the woman - and even shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's complicated by the political necessity of not to involving the Mexican consulateboss, thus tying his hands rather tightlyUna Burt) are less convinced. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The thoughts which are running in the back of his mind though are about the full-time research position studying birds which the director's death has opened upKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3. Could this be his escape route from the police force? [[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows5|Full Review]] <!-- Griffiths -->genre=Crime|-| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalEdward Jevons is a working-align: top; textclass young man, obsessed with his upper-align: center;"|[[image:Griffiths_Darkclass friends, Robert and Stanza.jpg|left|link=http://www Robert's a theatre director.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784296635/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag 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 -21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-alignand 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;"|===[[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]===to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime=4|genre=Crime]] Dr Ruth Galloway has got used to being |summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a published authorhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to being on televisionthe case alongside her sidekick, but shethe AI detective Lock. It's still flattered when Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli asks for her help their first live case together, having previously been very successful with some bones which he's discovered in several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a tiny hilltop village outside Romefew days later, but doesn't know what Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to make of themtheir AI Future Policing project. Ruth succumbs Will they be able to temptation: she and Angelo have some history (it was just solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the one night...) case and it's years since she, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's had a holidayGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3. Even a working holiday 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to be an improvementthe English country village where she grew up. Castello degli Angeli isn She't quite what she was expecting, but it will make s back now because of a reasonable break request for help from herbeloved aunt, her daughter Kate, friend Shona Carole. Freya's former mentor and ShonaCarole's son Louisclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. [[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths|Full Review]] <!-- Burrows -->|-| style="width Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Burrows_SiegeArthur, she feels, let her down badly.jpg|left|link=http://www Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780748434/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" After the split, she 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=[[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]===5[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is new to Saltmarsh, summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but his reputation has come before himnever turned up. Success in a high profile case has made him the poster boy for the policeHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. ThereShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's a snag though: Jejeune isnfather, 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 ''actually'' that keen on stand the jobguilt. He'd much rather be out birdwatching, The Salter children are not convinced but that doesn't bring in an income and there's a simple fact. Jejeune is ''very'' a very good detective, with insights which few other people possesslittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. There's one advantage to the job too: Saltmarsh is situated in North Norfolk, the UK's premier birding country but sometimes Jejeune's mind is more on the birds than the job. [[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1529900360 <!-- Durrenmatt -->|title=The Ghost Orchid|-author=Jonathan Kellerman| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Crime[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|linksummary=https://wwwIt 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.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag His assertions that there were only open-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]  | style="verticaland-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]=== [[image:2shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's 1957partner, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case on everyone's lips – the did look simple fact that a politician has gone into , though. Two lovers were murdered in the crowded room swimming pool of one of those 'a remote property in Bel Air. He was the place heir to go' restaurants, an Italian shoe empire and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, she is married to an extremely rich man and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rap. Of course heit's found guilty, even if not the gun involved has managed to disappearItalian. He's certainly But which of much interest, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in hand Belgravia. He didn't really want to look into things but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a second timeway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. But what Paul ''somehow's this, where he opens his testimony about the affair with ' got the conclusion, impression that he himself will need 'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn killer to redress the balance? [[out that way. The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt teaching - and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]] <!the problems -- Giordano -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Giordano Fruitsare all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.uk/gp/product/1473661919?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1529421284|title===[[Auntie Poldi and Laying Out the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]Bones|author===Kate Webb[[image:4star.jpg|linkrating=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime4.5|genre=Crime]] How to describe this book - well for starters it's unlike anything I've ever read before|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. It's chaotic In a gully, mada human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, funny, fast-pacedwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, confusing so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but once you get into it itDI Matt Lockyer wasn's really good fun t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and totally enjoyableto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. [[Auntie Poldi Lockyer and the Fruits DC Gemma Broad of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Major Crimes Review]]Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}<!-- Ellis -->|-{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1529425867[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Tudor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]] <!-- Mendoza -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mendoza Name.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857052632?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857052632]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Okay, so call me a traditionalist but I enjoy picking up a book and instantly recognising the genre to which the book belongs and from here making an immediate, if not altogether accurate, assumption about whether I am likely to enjoy said book. Quite often it is not until we are fully immersed in a story we start to recognise and appreciate the style and tone of the writer and decide whether we are want to continue the story to completion. This surely is the process by which us mere reading mortals decide whether or not we enjoyed a book? Well, after reading ''Name of the Dog'' I have to be honest and say I did not know what to make of it on initial inspection. Nor have I settled my state of flux wherein I am trying to decide whether or not I really did enjoy Mendoza's tale of corruption and crime in Cartel run Mexico. [[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records departmentLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |} {{newreview|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Buried SecretsSimon Mason

|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and 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 shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You never know what goes on in might wonder if you're being introduced to a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the ideal lifemore 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 beautiful letter from his ex-wife and a house , saying that had a mortgage which was smaller than most peopleshe's credit card billill and hasn't long to live. On It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the other handboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, there weren't that many people who had has taken a good word short holiday in Singapore to say about him and when he meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a leg knife - and with only 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 few hours 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|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to live, people were the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more worried delighted about the extra work than saddenedbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. When Stuart's concerned about his wifesister, Lucy, who's battered body was found struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in their kitchen, his nature. The police and the idea coroner have accepted that it the death was a murder/suicide seemed like , but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the obvious answernight Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where'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, 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 Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1838954481|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and his wife Deborah pointing it at their new home in the CotswoldsDI Kieran Shaw. Mrs Bradley is a well-known psychiatrist He pulled the trigger but she's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observation. She soon comes due to hear the story vagaries of a local ghost, that the jury system he was found not guilty of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over both the murder and the gate leading to Groaning Spinney: manslaughter of the ghost will play a part in what is about to happenofficer. And so lives must go on. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the local squire with capital and hoping for a quieter life in the acquisition of his property countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some back into the orbit of the locals as they visit to give festive wishesRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marjorie Orr1448309743|title=By the Light of a LieThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy 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, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when her best friendhe disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, Ericaisn't it, was killed 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 hit-month and then turned up, naked and-run accident (ifdead, in a small boat, indeedanchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, it was an accident) 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 she really couldnas we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't understand why she should exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in Hammersmithcoming forward. SheSalander's niece'd left s mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her getting into niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a taxi at 11 oremarkably gifted teenager who'clock the night before outside s unaware of the theatre part Salander played in St Martinher father's Lane death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and she was on her looking for a way to get home . Some are lucky and manage to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance get one of the following morningfew taxis available. Then she died three hours later and miles out Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of her waythe outlying villages. The police didnwoman all regret the 'taxi problem't seem likely to pursue , particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the case final stop on the grounds that it bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had probably been an accident, intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she wasnhad the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There't going s no option but to leave her friend unavengedstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed1405957174|title=Marty's MasterA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary=Margaret was nervous about going for From the walk around the lake on her ownfirst page, convinced until the very last moment we know that her husband would relent and go with herNadine Walsh's party will not end well. She made it The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the bar, relieved that sheambulance he so desperately needs. What we don'd managed to leave t know is who the drunken man who was Marty's master and some other suspicious-looking men behind heris or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterI's widower, Avel, had remarried and his new wife, Elena, was in the clubhouse with Avel's children - three teenage girls and d better give you a boy who was little more than a toddler. Elena didn't look in the least pleased to be there and despite Avelbackground so that you can understand what's promises to pick them up, he was nowhere to be seenhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann0008530025|title= WychwoodMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=ThirtyIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job year-old Maura Howard came home and left found the body of her partner. Much as she prefers Londonstepfather, Luke Ryder, she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for a short time to lick her wounds, but she arrives to find the neighbouring part garden of the Wychwood is a crime scenetheir West London home. Even broken-hearted journalists can't afford to pass up He had an injury on the chance back of a story, particularly his head which could have happened if they know they need to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth canhe't resist sticking her nose in. With her childhood friend Peter d slipped down the detective sergeant on steps but the case there's an extra interest in it for Elspethvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and once sheit's spotted now the connection between subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the ritualised murder evidence and to take the local myth about investigation further. More to the Carrion Kingpoint, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources they're going to try do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and uncover a serial killerno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton0241996104|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=For those Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she is essentially 's received a short'silent sentence' -tempered private investigator in she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her early 50s with an alcohollife. Of course, doughnut it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and man obsessionthe papers are making the most of it. Much like TV ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''s Midsomer Murders, the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farrich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1529413680|title=The Furthest StationA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re- spectres scaring commuters on a particular part enactment of the Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant liberation of the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Follytown from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. Stray river gods It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, missing Victorian childrenKerquelin, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, they are all his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a day’s helicopter. A local doctor (or and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a night’s) work senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for The Follya pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1529196388|title= The Happy EndingTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. He's Grant Cliveden was a hero: a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking framepoliceman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, has been known to have a fall or two – so makes sure there was public uproar when he has his panic button with him – but still he's managing well enough was murdered in plain sight at homethe Old Bailey. Mentally heThere's all there, even if he does have these conversations with just one man in the frame for his wife, whomurder - Jimmy Knight - and it's been dead the last 6 years. There's a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so oknot too long before Knight appears in court, a point when therecharged with Cliveden's clearly no purpose leftmurder. NoKnight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-one comes, even the paramedics seem to have shunted you to the bottom Cameron of the list, Stag Court Chambers and well, it's all becoming just a bit too undignifiedTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. To be honest Knight's determined to plead not guilty, when he found the morphine Bettydespite all Taylor-Cameron'd been stock-piling against s recommendations to the day her own illness got too much for her but never used as it turned out, Harry was on the point of using it himselfcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>