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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barrie RobertsStuart Douglas|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man From Hell|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Noted West Country philanthropist Lord Backwater iskilled – by poachers, according to the police investigating. His sondisagrees, and calls in Sherlock Holmes, who quickly establishes thatthe true solution to the mystery is much stranger – involving a fearedcriminal brotherhood, crimes from many years past, Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Gates ofHell themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565089</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H Paul Jeffers|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Stalwart CompanionsDress Rehearsal
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|summary=After replying to an article written by the worldDuring location filming for his 1970's first consultingdetectivesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Sherlock Holmes, young Teddy Rooseveltleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about to study lawat Columbiathe whole thing bothers Lowe, strikes up and he enlists the help of a correspondence with fellow actor, John Le Breton to help himinvestigate matters further. They're pleased tofinally meet when Holmes is acting in America – travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and naturally,Roosevelt introduces him seemingly, a link to another friend, NYPD Detective WillHargreavesdeath during the Second World War. Of course, foul play But is in the air – and there really a link between the three men areled into an investigation which starts off as 'just' a dead body, butleads them deaths? And will they manage to discover a plot against the President himself,Rutherford Hayes.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848565097</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Lambert0008517061|title=Any Human FaceDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=1983: Alex enjoys Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the attention future of his latest lover. Bruno is generous life with his money vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his time; he lends Alex off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the flash car, dines him extravagantly, treats him well, takes him seriously. future she wants for herself and her daughter? "It was not that he was not fond of For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the older man… or that he didn't appreciate future on the longer term view of a leg-up into journalism…", it's just that he doesn't realise he is lying to himself. What he feels for Bruno is a bit more than affection, as he is about to discoverback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512994</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Rozan1786482126|title=Trail of BloodThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lydia Chin takes on a new case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarsky, to find missing jewellery which belonged to Builders were demolishing an Austrian Jewish refugee old house in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired for her ability Norwich - the site was going to operate in New York Cityhold seventy-five 'luxury's Chinese communityapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilder It's storydifficult as Ruth knows, told through letters written to her mother, and when Joel is shot dead the next day, being fired by the client but Nelson doesn't stop her wanting to find out more. She , that she is glad when her old associate Bill Smith, who has been out pregnant with his child as a result of touch for a whilethe one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, returns not least because Ruth is prone to help her. This detective story linking past and present is compulsive readingsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig Robertson0008551324|title=Random|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man is planning his first murder and he's doing it with some care. We'll gradually realise that he's been making preparations for some time but the oddest thing is that this murder must be completely random. He mustn't be diverted from his chosen system even if the person who is selected is someone he would rather not kill. It's not a whodunit – for the killer tells us the story as it progresses – or even a 'why did he do it' as even that will become obvious, but the suspense is in whether or not he will get caught.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Sophie Hannah|title=A Room Swept WhiteNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
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|summary=ThereIt's a classic Agatha Christie style hook at unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the start of this storypolice. TV producer Fliss Benson receives a card with no message Neither side likes or has any respect for the other than sixteen numbers arranged . But Davie Hardie is struggling in four rows prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of four. On the same day Fliss takes over work on a documentary about cot missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death mothers and miscarriages of justice. SimultaneouslyThis person, he promises, one of the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card in her pocket. Work out what the numbers mean someone big and you it will find be worth the killerpolice doing what he wants. But as this And what he wants is a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you will have to note every detail in every part be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of the book his sentence and to reach the right conclusionget an early parole date. The plot has more twists than a spiral staircaseNot much to ask, though there are clues that could help you, including one rather cheeky feature - if you can spot is it. ? Sadly, I didnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't until I was writing this review…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Stratford0008405026|title=Double JeopardyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Celebrating It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her release from 18 months under cover busting bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a drugs ganghalt. Now, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets her cherished Aunt Jo for dinner. Just across from the restaurantmother, Helena, and her father are dead in a dark alleytheir bed. Initially, it looks like a man stands watching. As straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the two women leave positioning of the restaurant, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a motorcycle rounds the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined to attract attention – shots ring outcomplex double murder. Two bodies hit Kerrigan is convinced that the groundexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0571379877|title=The Pull of the MoonKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The main storyEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, the events in Kateobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's memory, is set in summer 1972a theatre director. Simon He's uncle has gone away for a few months also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and Simon entitled and his friend Danny are meant uses Edward to be doing some work on the garden over the holidayrun errands for him. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate along, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Trudie invites herself he's drunkenly confided how he feels to join them a couple of weeks laterRobert. How did a summer of lounging around and drinking with a little work on the garden end Most men in murder? And what can Kate Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell DannyEdward that a relationship had begun between them but he's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerJo Callaghan|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His JudgeLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's rural France, and 2000 When a man is barely begun, when hunters come across found crucified on the top of a spread of human corpses hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the mountainscase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Several familiesIt's their first live case together, all in the same cult, seem to have killed themselves on their path to whereverhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. If so, this But when there is a problem, for the last time it happened, in Switzerland second body found crucified a few years previousdays later, nobody could work out why – Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and who was there a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to dispose of some of the evidencetheir AI Future Policing project. This isn't a problem for Will they be able to solve the policeman involvedcase in time, as he fell desperately in love with or will Kat find herself taken off the investigative judge in collaborating on the initial case. Combining againand, they see a link with everybody involved in both casespotentially, out of a famous conductor /composer.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Kelly1035021803|title=Death WatchThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen It's twenty years later since Freya Lockwood has been back to the dayEnglish country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, her twin brother BryanCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's body close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is found in dead and the hospital incinerator where he worked. There is no evidence circumstances seem suspicious, to suggest accident or suicide, and say the police quickly treat it as a murderleast. They Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only need been back to find out who did itthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but she has not felt able to work out be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the link between Bryan's murder split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the disappearance love of her life, who was murdered) and presumed death of his twin sister. The investigation takes them into the family Freya and a nearby hostel for homeless menJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson1398524085|title=The Ice Cream GirlsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and SerenaOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious pressEtty and Greg, have their young lives shattered by find the man they sharedbody of Greg's father, a teacher in a position of trustDuncan Ackerley, who controlled them in the worst possible waysriver. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has It was an easy assumption for the assertiveness or maturity police to handle make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the situationguilt. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on, the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though with their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesand wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)1529900360|title=The SnowmanGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's Norwayfault 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 help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a snowy and dark Novemberpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Women are disappearing, and/or being found horrifically killedShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The police have little to go onnext case did look simple, but with though. Two lovers were murdered in the help swimming pool of flashbacks across cases a remote property in Bel Air. He was the police could never hope heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to connect, we can see hints of a clever, but misogynistic an extremely rich man who seems to be and it's not the culprit, and on a mission against marital infidelityItalian. But what could be the connection with all those crimes and the American presidential elections? And why - and how - might which of them was the police, the victims, and the reader, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowmanprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird178763681X|title=Past TenseKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a funeral, not least because she had never met the deceased and was unaware that her husband was the next of kinresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He was working in South America didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and not expected home for sometimewomen to do what he wanted. Josephine Short has obviously been Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a feisty character thoughbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Despite being unmarried she had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) The teaching - and amassed a considerable fortunethe problems - are all his own. Her grandson Joe The one thing he hadn't expected was flying home from Lasserta for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the funeralprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529421284|title=The GuardsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate It was one of those flash downpours that the apparent suicide of her teenage daughter British weather often delivers in Galwaya heatwave. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) but also In a gully, a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his lifehuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. His approach to investigation is haphazard - he doesn He't really have d been a method beyond asking direct questions known drug user andhad learning disabilities, if necessary, using his fistsso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Predictably Geary was a townie, there is more so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide case than first meets of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the eye and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets time. Lockyer and levels DC Gemma Broad of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; itMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's darker cold cases to you and has a grim realismme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1529425867|title=All That Lost and Never Found (A D I HaveWilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As the internet grows 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 technology advancesfather of Ryan, itis not. He's seems there is nothing you cannot any of those things. He't do. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home s white, originated from another continent a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and cars are more automated than everhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact and play against each other They're usually in huge arenaslime green or acid yellow. Thanks You might wonder if you're being introduced to social networkinga police procedural written for laughs. Well, the internet can be addictive and, yes, Iyou'm aware re not. The two men are just different sides of the irony in writing that heresame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529431735|title=The Killing of the TinkersWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's d been lying low 'over exiled on the water' in London, licking his woundsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Jack (IThe return has come about because he'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him s had a more Irish name) is a middleletter from his ex-agedwife, washed-up, disgraced ex-cop. As if saying that wasnshe's ill and hasn't bad enough, he also has a lot of very bad habitslong to live. He acknowledges however that It'the new world s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely abducted, stripped to his underwear and openly that 'An alcoholic has dreams sent to rival that a watery grave in the boot of any Vietnam veta stolen Ford Sierra.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman0861541774|title=Killer|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Here at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to the heart A Nye of the story. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking to the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every time. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPheasants|author=Stephen Hunter|title=I, SniperSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You donDCI Domenic Jejeune't often find novels or films based on the art of the sniper. Hiding out for hours motionless s close friend 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 'Iformer colleague, Sniper'Danny Maik, Stephen Hunter has managed taken a short holiday in Singapore to combine the art of the sniper meet up with the art of the crime thriller an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a decent readstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Casey|title=The Missing|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In 1992 Initially, Sarah Finch's twelve year old brother Charlie says he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to her ''Tell mum I'll murder the man. Now he could be back soonfacing the death penalty.'' Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to find out what happened to him. Now in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at help as any interference from another police force could provoke a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charliediplomatic incident and wouldn's disappearance has slid into alcoholismt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett1521129886|title=The Godfather of KathmanduThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but itGreg Mason's the latter rather than the former which is likely just beginning to hold up get his promotion in confidence as an investigator to the Thai police force, point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a detectivegood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. He's also Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the part owner of a brothel where his mother, Nong, morning sickness. Greg is the madam approached by an old friend whose brother-in charge-law appears to have killed himself. ItStuart's no problem for concerned about his bosssister, Colonel VikornLucy, who has a few illegal interests of his own's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. HeLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's currently t in competition with his nature. The police and the head of coroner have accepted that the army, General Zinnadeath was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to see who can raise find out what happened on the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for salenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North PattersonB0CK3MYJ56|title=The SpireResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers It's the body of 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a black fellow student, Angela Hall, at the foot of the spire high-flying job in the centre city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of the college he attendsCameron Strike', he little suspects that his best friend will you might be charged with the murderthinking. NowNice bloke, sixteen years laterbut where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, Darrow is back, at the invitation of his mentor he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and now college provostHelen are half-sisters, Lionel Farror rather, to become president of the college they were until Helen was killed in order to rebuild its reputation after what's been written off as a case of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become tragic accident at an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years)unmanned level crossing. As Darrow digs into Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what happened with the college finances, he also begins she was doing there - or how she could come to look afresh at the trial fall in front of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as chargeda train. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provost Greg's troubled, but beautiful, daughterbeen asked to investigate. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp1838954481|title=Among ThievesThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in fifteen-year-old holding the United Statesgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The police investigation failed He pulled the trigger but due to find them the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and many felt they were lost foreverthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. But soon For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the paintings capital and their whereabouts would be impacting hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on many peopleher territory she's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1448309743|title=Dark EntriesThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie MeldonIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, ex-criminal-defence attorneyfive 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, now death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in private practicemany ways, leaves his office very late one night. Hethat's met by an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the FBIbody. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is dead pulled in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working out, trying to stay fit, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple of days' time. Perry was a cop. Under-cover, maverick and darn good at her job. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent downshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1529077699|title=The Chalk Circle ManRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, he''It's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Shortall bloody peculiar, ungainlyisn't it, 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>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1529427045|title=U is for UndertowThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined 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 I'd have to say about it. That book changed my literary life. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for all the other books in the series and read them quickly, one by one, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading list. And so now, years later, I find myself with the latest book in the alphabet series lying in my lap, a happy smile on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Black|title=Dishonour|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying Life has more to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job offer than people - prime numbers for a tendency to be a trifle too example''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from the sink estates. Thin, angry, rebellious, 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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1787636607|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter It'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a dinosaur way to get home. Some are lucky and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some manage to get one of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesthe few taxis available. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when Others squash onto the need arises, but this isn't night bus that will only go as far as one of the way of outlying villages. The woman all regret the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if hetaxi problem's to help his students through the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Kessler|title=Mercy|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In some ways, particularly in the first line light of this novel says it all: 'Itthe missing women's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hours.' From this moment For one young woman, the final stop on, the action comes thick bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and fast, leaving collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the reader with barely chance to beg the breath bus driver to murmer let her use his. There'is it really probable that all this was left s no option but to the last day?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists start walking - unsuitably clothed and twirls that are very satisfactoryin high-heeled shoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall1405957174|title=The DisappearedA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We From the first met Jenny Cooper in [[page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] victim - a man - is dying when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valleywe first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's now some months later and whilst she's settled into t know is who the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alison, man is uneven and she's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care or why Nadine prefers to admithave him die. SheI's d better give you a feisty woman though and determined little more background so that sheyou can understand what's going to do the job properlyhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross0008530025|title=CapturedMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying It was in December 2003 that fifteen- brain cancer is hitting him just as year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's barely turning fortynow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. As a result he compiles a short list A group of rights experts has been brought together to wrong, review the evidence and people to create closure withtake the investigation further. OneMore to the point, his ex-wifethey're going to do this live on camera, might not be easy, two concern a misguided sense episode by episode. There's no dump of a guilt the whole box set - and no shortage of oldcliffhangers. The fourth turns out to be a missing woman. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamishIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0241996104|title=The Merry MisogynistComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng Nancy's mother and despite the fact that they have a combined age of going on for a hundred step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and forty they're behaving like the newlyher step-weds they arebrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Even being We first meet Nancy outside the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos cancourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence't dampen Siri- she's enthusiasm not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. WellOf course, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and wedding girls in various parts of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. What he does to his victims leaves papers are making the morgue staff sickenedmost of it. There's a determination to find the man responsible 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and bring him to justice''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529413680|title=A Hard DeathChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno't read Jonathan Hayess there to see the show with some friends. It' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh readers all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, so to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover man playing one of the book main characters is impressiveseriously injured when he departs from the script. My expectations were high. All Luckily, his doctor is there and the ingredients are man is whisked away in place for a good thrillerhelicopter. The location is The Everglades A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in Florida. BroodingOne daughter lives nearby and another, enigmaticwho lives in California, aweis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-inspiring and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutesarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529196388|title=Curse of the Pogo StickThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to control his reactions in front of Judge Haengby just about everyone, but occasionally so there was public uproar when he forgot himself and was more insolent than usualmurdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. This time There's just one man in the Laos national coroner (reluctant)frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on a road trip charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the judge best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and the Justice Department. Nurse Dtui (pregnant it's Taylor-Cameron and marriedhis pupil, although not in the usual order of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr GeungAdam Green, who might, or might not be a help, but probably not in the way that you might expecteventually represent him. As if that wasnKnight't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a boobys determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-trapped corpse, thereCameron's a geriatric hit-person on recommendations to the loose and Siri is kidnappedcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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