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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S J RozanStuart Douglas|title=Trail of BloodLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Lydia Chin takes on a new case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarsky, to find missing jewellery which belonged to an Austrian Jewish refugee in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired During location filming for her ability to operate in New York Cityhis 1970's Chinese community. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gildersitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's story, told through letters written leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to her motherassign it as an accidental death, and when Joel is shot dead but something about the next daywhole thing bothers Lowe, being fired by and he enlists the client doesn't stop her wanting to find out more. She is glad when her old associate Bill Smith, who has been out help of touch for a whilefellow actor, returns John Le Breton to help herhim investigate matters further. This detective story linking past They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and present , seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is compulsive reading.there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Robertson0008517061|title=RandomDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man is planning Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his first murder and he's doing it with some carerustic life at Little Sky. We'll gradually realise that he's been making preparations for some time but There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the oddest thing is that this murder must be completely random. He mustn't be diverted from future of his life with his chosen system even if the person who is selected is someone he vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would rather mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not kill. this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? It's not a whodunit – for For the moment they’re enjoying life in the killer tells us present and putting the story as it progresses – or even a 'why did he do it' as even that will become obvious, but future on the suspense is in whether or not he will get caughtback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1786482126|title=A Room Swept WhiteThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's a classic Agatha Christie style hook at apartments - when they discovered the start bones of this storya child beneath a doorway. TV producer Fliss Benson receives a card with There was no message other than sixteen numbers arranged in four rows of fourskull. On the same day Fliss takes over work on Was this a documentary about cot death mothers and miscarriages of justice. ritual killing or murder? SimultaneouslyInevitably, one of the mothers is found dead at her house Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with an identical numbered card in her pocketDCI Harry Nelson. Work out what the numbers mean and you will find the killer. But It's difficult as this Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you will have to note every detail in every part result of the book to reach the right conclusionone night they spent together some three months ago. The plot has more twists than a spiral staircaseHer condition will be obvious before long, though there are clues that could help you, including one rather cheeky feature - if you can spot itnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. Sadly, I didn't until I was writing this review…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Stratford0008551324|title=Double JeopardyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5
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|summary=Celebrating her release It's unusual for anyone from 18 months under cover busting the Hardie family to approach the 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 drugs gang, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets missing person is buried and who was responsible for her cherished Aunt Jo for dinnerdeath. Just across from the restaurant This person, in a dark alleyhe promises, a man stands watchingis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. As the two women leave the restaurant, a motorcycle rounds And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined remainder of his sentence and to attract attention – shots ring outget an early parole date. Two bodies hit Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the groundother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0008405026|title=The Pull of A Stranger in the MoonFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The main story, the events in KateIt's memory, is set in sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer 1972night. Simon's uncle has gone away for She was never found and the investigation ground to a few months halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and Simon and his friend Danny her father are meant to be doing some work on the garden over the holidaydead in their bed. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along Initially, and Trudie invites herself to join them it looks like a couple straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of weeks laterthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. How did a summer of lounging around What looked as though it was going to be an open-and drinking with -shut case is now a little work on complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the garden end explanation lies in murder? And what can Kate tell DannyRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Duncker0571379877|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's rural France, and 2000 is barely begun, when hunters come across a spread of human corpses in the mountains. Several families, all in the same cult, seem to have killed themselves on their path to wherever. If so, this is a problem, for the last time it happened, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody could work out why – and who was there to dispose of some of the evidence. This isn't a problem for the policeman involved, as he fell desperately in love with the investigative judge in collaborating on the initial case. Combining again, they see a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKellerby Code|author=Jim Kelly|title=Death WatchJonny Sweet|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen years later to the day, her twin brother Bryan's body is found in the hospital incinerator where he worked. There is no evidence to suggest accident or suicide, and the police quickly treat it as a murder. They not only need to find out who did it, but to work out the link between Bryan's murder and the disappearance and presumed death of his twin sister3. The investigation takes them into the family and a nearby hostel for homeless men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Ice Cream Girls|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy and Serena, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by Edward Jevons is a rapacious press, have their working-class young lives shattered by the man they shared, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a teacher in a position of trusttheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, who controlled them in the worst possible wayshandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. The girls are trapped as victims because neither Edward has the assertiveness or maturity been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to handle the situationRobert. Chance intervenes Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years on, the traumatic events have profoundly affected stumble upon the emotional stability two of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)Callaghan|title=The SnowmanLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Norway, and it's When a snowy and dark November. Women are disappearing, and/or being man is found horrifically killed. The police have little to go crucified on, but with the help of flashbacks across cases the police could never hope to connect, we can see hints top of a cleverhill in Nuneaton, but misogynistic man who seems DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be the culpritcase alongside her sidekick, and on a mission against marital infidelitythe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But what could be the connection when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with all those crimes a potential serial killer and the American presidential elections? a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And why - and how - might Will they be able to solve the policecase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the victimscase and, and the readerpotentially, all come to be so terrified out of a good old Scandinavian snowmancareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1035021803|title=Past TenseThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to find herself arranging the refreshments English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for mourners after a funeralhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, not least because she had never met is dead and the deceased and was unaware that her husband was circumstances seem suspicious, to say the next of kinleast. He Arthur was working in South America and the reason why Freya had not expected home for sometimebeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Josephine Short Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has obviously been a feisty character thoughnot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Despite being unmarried After the split, she had had worked in a child cafe, met and married James (at a time when this would have been frowned uponon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeralFreya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1398524085|title=The GuardsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate the apparent suicide of Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her teenage daughter in Galway, Etty. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) are all worried but also a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his life. His approach to investigation is haphazard - he doesn't really have a method beyond asking direct questions andstrangely - her husband, if necessaryAlec, using his fistsis not. Predictably Shortly afterwards, there is more to the suicide case than first meets the eye Etty and JackGreg, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets and levels find the body of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; itGreg's darker and has a grim realism.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Castle Freeman|title=All That I Have|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of a firm of provincial solicitors but thankfully this Castle Freeman is a man very skilled father, Duncan Ackerley, in writing about the law rather than practicing itriver. In his latest novel Freeman tells It was an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing and his practical yet low-key approach to maintaining order in rural Vermont. Not easy assumption for Wing the gung ho approach police to fighting crime. He doesnmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't wear a uniform, he drives a battered old car rather than stand the standard issue sheriffguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's wagon and his gun, so ubiquitous in US law enforcement, is safely tucked away in his bottom drawer. Everyone in the area knows the sheriff and by and large little else they respect him can do but get on with their lives and his slightly unorthodox way of doing businesswonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1529900360|title=DaemonThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=As 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 internet grows and technology advanceshelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's seems there is nothing you can't dopartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in your own home from another continent and cars are more automated than everBel Air. Huge online games allow users worldwide He was the heir to interact an Italian shoe empire and play against each other in huge arenas. Thanks she is married to social networking, the internet can be addictive an extremely rich man and, yes, Iit'm aware s not the Italian. But which of them was the irony in writing that here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen178763681X|title=The Killing of the TinkersKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsbut celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow's been lying low 'over got the waterimpression that he' in Londond be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, licking his wounds. Jack (I'm slightly surprised that Bruen but it didn't give him a more Irish name) is a middleturn out that way. The teaching -aged, washedand the problems -up, disgraced ex-copare all his own. As if that wasnThe one thing he hadn't bad enoughexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he also has a lot of very bad habits. He acknowledges however was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that 'the new world is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely and openly police consider that 'An alcoholic has dreams person to rival that of any Vietnam vetbe the prime suspect.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1529421284|title=KillerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here at It was one of those flash downpours that the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus farBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. He uses In a gully, a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight human skeleton came to the heart of surface and forensic testing proved the storybody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. His story telling is very straightforwardHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, not weighing down the story with too much styleso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, but sticking so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the substance suicide of Holly Gilbert and delivering a hard-hitting work every to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. With Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''Killer'', he has done the same agains cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Hunter1529425867|title=I, Sniper|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=You don't often find novels or films based on the art of the sniper. Hiding out for hours motionless Lost and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for as interesting a story as a face to face shoot out. But with 'Never Found (A D I, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed to combine the art of the sniper with the art of the crime thriller in a decent read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWilkins Mystery)|author=Jane Casey|title=The MissingSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992Oxford, Sarah Finchthere 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 twelve year old brother Charlie says to her not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not 'Tell mum I'll be back soon.really'' Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting to find out what happened to himthing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Now They're usually in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a local private school while looking after her uncaring motherpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, who since Charlieyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's disappearance has slid into alcoholismproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett1529431735|title=The Godfather of KathmanduWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half It'farang' the son of a brothel madam s February 1991 and an American GIEssex is bitingly cold, but itwhich made Bruce Hopkins's return all the latter rather than more surprising. He'd been exiled on the former which is likely to hold up his promotion in the Thai police force, where he's Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a detectivedecade. HeThe return has come about because he's also the part owner of had a brothel where letter from his motherex-wife, Nong, is the madam in chargesaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's no problem for hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has underwear and sent to a few illegal interests of his own. He's currently watery grave in competition with the head boot of the army, General Zinna, to see who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for salestolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson0861541774|title=The SpireA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers the body of a black fellow studentDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Angela HallDanny Maik, at the foot of the spire has taken a short holiday in the centre of the college he attendsSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he little suspects would later maintain that his best friend will be charged he was facing a man armed with the murdera knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Now Initially, sixteen years later, Darrow is back, at the invitation he faced a charge of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farr, manslaughter but evidence came to become president of the college in order light that suggested that he might have planned to rebuild its reputation after a case of embezzlement has left murder the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years)man. As Darrow digs into what happened with the college finances, Now he also begins to look afresh at could be facing the trial of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as chargeddeath penalty. He also finds time Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to start an emerging relationship with the provosthelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's troubled, but beautiful, daughtert help Danny at all. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp1521129886|title=Among ThievesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to 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 delighted about the baby when she gets past the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in Boston -law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's 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 the United Stateshis nature. The police investigation failed to find them and many felt they were lost forever. But soon the paintings and their whereabouts would be impacting on many peoplecoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera B0CK3MYJ56|title=Dark EntriesResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie Meldon, exIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-criminaleight years old. He used to have a high-defence attorney, flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now in set himself up as a private practiceinvestigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', leaves his office very late one nightyou might be thinking. HeNice bloke, but where's met by the FBI. life experience that backs up this profession? Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working outOn the other hand, trying he has been asked to stay fitlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, trying to stay saneor rather, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail they were until Helen was killed in a couple of dayswhat' time. Perry was s been written off as a coptragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. UnderJoyce -coverand her parents, maverick Oliver and darn good at her jobPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent downGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1838954481|title=The Chalk Circle Man|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, he's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about the most obtuse things in his pursuit of the truth, and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes a surprisingly perceptive ability to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMisper|author=Jean Rowden|title=More Deaths Than OneKate London|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Constable Thomas 'Thorny' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement in a case and so is taken by his wife, Mary, to recuperate in the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during the war. He expects to be bored - the most interesting thing on the horizon is a case of missing gnomes. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left the force in a haze of suspicion. Shortly afterwards, a body is found on the beach. Even stranger is that the dead man is someone that Thorny and his colleague thought had died during the war. It seems that things are not as they seem. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sue Grafton|title=U is for Undertow|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined Ryan Kennedy killed a funny little book group in London, and one of the first books we read was a Sue Grafton alphabet book. I had, up to this point, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such books, and so I was dubious about what Ipolice officer: there'd have to say s no doubt about itthat. That book changed my literary life. I devoured He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing itat DI Kieran Shaw. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for all He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the other books in jury system he was found not guilty of both the series murder and read them quickly, one by one, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world manslaughter of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading listthe officer. And so now, years later, I find myself with lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the latest book capital and hoping for a quieter life in the alphabet series lying in my lap, countryside but when a happy smile missing teenager is found on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1448309743|title=DishonourThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern livesIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Lily Valentine The only item missing from the home is heavily pregnant and trying to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is a boy removed from the sink estatesOtterburn House, death will follow. Thin, angry, rebellious, The only suspects are known Satanists but with an ability to charm and a serious talent for art that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girls. Hard-workingmany ways, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful to their families. Theythat're also English teenagers, with a fair dose s an easy conclusion given that two of what that normally impliesthem 'discovered' the body. Jack The Senior Investigating Office is a copper, overlooked for the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protectionDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in love with Lily, addicted to the job, always trying to do the right thing, and not always succeeding. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distraction'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1529077699|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something of a dinosaur and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobiles. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when the need arisesIt's all bloody peculiar, but this isn't the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that heit, Sir?'s going to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall1529427045|title=The DisappearedGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valley. It's now some months later and whilst she's settled into the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alison, is uneven and she's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills Life has more to a greater extent offer than she would care to admit. Shepeople - prime numbers for example's a feisty woman though and determined that she's going to do the job properly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1787636607|title=The Merry MisogynistTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng and despite the fact that they have a combined age of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like the newly-weds they are. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos can't dampen SiriIt's enthusiasm for life. Well, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls scene replicated all too often in various parts the early hours of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. What he does to his victims leaves the morgue staff sickenedmorning. There's a determination to find the man responsible Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and bring him to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Hayes |title=A Hard Death|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was looking for a fresh reader, so way to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover of the book is impressiveget home. My expectations were high. All the ingredients Some are in place for a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Florida. Brooding, enigmatic, awe-inspiring lucky and where we all seem to expect crocodiles manage to rear their heads out get one of the swampy waters every five minutesfew taxis available.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Cotterill|title=Curse Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the Pogo Stick|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usualoutlying villages. This time The woman all regret the Laos national coroner (reluctant)'taxi problem', communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on a road trip with particularly in the judge and light of 'the Justice Departmentmissing women'. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and marriedFor one young woman, although not in the usual order of events) is left to run final stop on the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be bus leaves her a help, but probably not in the long way that you might expectshort of her home. As if that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a boobyShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -trapped corpse, therebut her phone's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappeddead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathi Unsworth |title=Bad Penny Blues|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Step into The bus had driven off before she had the seedy underbelly of London on chance to beg the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiesbus driver to let her use his. There'Bad Penny Blues' is the story of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the west of the city, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitieshigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1405957174|title=Cold to A Death at the TouchParty|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlyparty will not end well. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on The victim - a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her - is dying when we first meet him and it seems that her mother wants nothing Nadine consciously makes no effort to do with hercall the ambulance he so desperately needs. Jess What we don't know is a talented chef but she's short of work – who the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Sarah senses her vulnerability, but itI's Jess who organises the let of one of her mother's cottages in the sea-side town where she grew up d better give you a little more background so that Sarah you can have a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent fireunderstand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald0008530025|title=Bloody WomenMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women'', I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald and by the title and blurb, I expected a standard crimeIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this wasn't the case. The novel was a kind of black comedy old Maura Howard came home and written with wit and humour, despite found the theme body of murder and violence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeffery Deaver|title=The Bodies Left Behind|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesstepfather, Luke Ryder, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal garden of a lifetimetheir West London home. But He had an injury on their first evening in the place, a series back of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the couple outvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. They know they are in real trouble when a man Twenty years later, no one has been charged with shotgun his murder and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters it's now the building and the only hope they have is that someone will take notice subject of Steven's phone call to the police'Infamous'', cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M C Beaton|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy womantrue-crime show. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha A group of experts has been invited brought together to review the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow evidence and looks forward to take the whole thing being over as soon as possibleinvestigation further. She sees James just before More to the weddingpoint, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants they're going to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killeddo this live on camera, episode by a bullet through episode. There's no dump of the window, whole box set - and James and Agatha are the primary suspectsno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0241996104|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in the southNancy's mother and step-east father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the other in the northher step-eastbrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. At We first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each othermeet Nancy outside the court, but years later after Martin receives a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtlife sentence. The author has investigated the connection and come up with barrister tells her that she's received a riveting book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=[[The Girl silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]rest of her life. Of course, the first of Steig Larssonit's made worse because Nancy's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, was a fine standrich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -alone novel. The second in and the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues papers are making the adventures most of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonit. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch's finely crafted anti-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review nowmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529413680|title=Tooth and ClawA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is on the loose, and yet again re-enactment of the liberation of the police have failed to connect town from the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - English in 1370 and blown a hapless commuter Bruno's there to smithereens at a railway stationsee the show with some friends. He It's planning his next murder alreadyall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, secreted away in the shed at the bottom man playing one of the garden of main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the house he shares with script. Luckily, his invalid father. Carl doctor is embittered there and lonely - with his mother living the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and pursuing a career friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a forensic psychologistsenior government employee, there's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bagman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, to cookwho lives in California, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallyis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529196388|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted Grant Cliveden was a hot bath after hero: a hard day's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to the nextby just about everyone, all of whom are absorbed so there was public uproar when he was murdered in their own dilemmasplain sight at the Old Bailey. There is 's just one man in the draftee frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with a sick motherCliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, the nurse who thinks she has run over a babyAdam Green, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and otherseventually represent him. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through Knight's determined to the morning. We are shown how in the midst of their own interestingplead not guilty, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which despite all their windows look, through which windows they witness Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the attack, and how these people did nothingcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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