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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GraftonStuart Douglas|title=V is for VengeanceLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=AhDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', what bliss! To have leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a lovely fat copy woman on the edge of the latest in the Alphabet murder series sitting on my lapa reservoir. This latest is reassuringly weighty, although I still managed The police seem happy to read it - or devour assign it as my husband would have it - in an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a very short time! fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. I love They travel across the experience of reading these storiescountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, finding myself caught up in Kinsey's worldseemingly, unwilling a link to put death during the book down until I, along with Kinsey, have figured out what has been going onSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230745873</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley0008517061|title=The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=Bishop's LaceyFormer Metropolitan Police detective, the closest village to BuckshawJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the de Luce family homefuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, was the traditional sleepy English villageLivia and her daughter Diana, particularly as moving in the nineteen fifties when this story is set. The arrival together would mean a lot of a travelling puppet show causes some excitement, although it has compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to be admitted that the show Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is there because the van broke down rather than because there was an intention to stage a performance. future she wants for herself and her daughter? There's a need to raise money for For the repair of moment they’re enjoying life in the van so Rupert Porson, famed puppeteer from present and putting the BBC, agrees to put future on two shows in the village hall. There is, of course, a grisly murderback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911760X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Pastor1786482126|title=Liar Moon|rating=4|genre=Crime The Janus Stone (HistoricalDr Ruth Galloway)|summary=Near Verona, northern Italy, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is a German military policeman, known to have conducted previous murder investigations. He is asked to look into the death of one Vittorio Lisi, a prominent local fascist who was run over in his wheelchair on his own estate by a car. The number one suspect is his widow Claretta.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Damian McNicholl|title=Twisted Agendas|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Writing about Ireland and the Irish, especially the dimension of the Troubles and the IRA, from a third hand American perspective is a recipe for cliché and stereotype. Balancing and interweaving the story of American journalist Piper with that of Irishman Danny's search for independence in London does enable McNicholl in some part to achieve a wry and knowing stance, making us hope for a clever twist away from the predictably which always seems so close.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248025</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Bradley|title=I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce MysteryElly Griffiths
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|summary=The finances of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the de Luce family are in a dreadful state and Flaviasite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's father makes apartments - when they discovered the decision to allow bones of a film company to make use of the family stately home, Buckshaw, as child beneath a locationdoorway. Flavia is in her element with new people to investigateThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, new processes to mull over and her friendship Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Dogger, her fatherDCI Harry Nelson. It's manservantdifficult as Ruth knows, to progress. Therebut Nelson doesn's obviously something strange going on when the star t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the film persuades the director - much against his one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will - be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to put on a benefit performance for the village. When there's a snow storm which cuts Buckshaw and many sudden bouts of the residents of the local village off from the outside world - and then a murder - you have the makings of a classic 'locked room' mysterysickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409114201</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0008551324|title=Slash And Burn|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The front cover suggests an action-packed, thriller-type read. But I hadn't bargained for the charm similar to [[:Category:Alexander McCall Smith|Alexander McCall Smith]]. So, a light read then, fair enough. And I could tell from Cotterill's one page 'Acknowledgements' that he is a witty writer. And that is certainly underlined by the chapter headings, such as 'Another Fine Mess' and 'Lipstick and Too Tight Underwear.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381970</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Gregg Olsen|title=Victim SixNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'Olsen will have you on s prepared to tell the police where the edge body of your seat'' says Lee Childa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. I have read This person, he promises, is someone big and thoroughly enjoyed some it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of Child's books so I couldn't wait his sentence and to get started on this bookan early parole date. Would Not much to ask, is it be as good ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and as satisfying as Childanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331738</amazonuk>happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harlan Coben0008405026|title=Shelter|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mickey Bolitar's girlfriend Ashley has disappeared, A Stranger in the latest in a long list of things to go wrong in his life. First his father died, then his junkie mother went into rehab, forcing him to move in with his uncle Myron, and now shy, beautiful Ashley has vanished.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620055</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Ian Rankin|title=The Impossible DeadJane Casey
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|summary=When it started it all seemed so simple. A constable in CID had been found guilty of, er, pressing his attentions on young women who came his way in the course of the job. Just to make certain that it wasnIt't a wider problem the Professional Standards Unit (or whatever it was being called this week) from another force was asked to investigate three officers who might have been overly supportive of the miscreant. Then an exs sixteen years since nine-year-policeman was shot by a weapon which couldn't exist and old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from there it all got, well, rather messy and in the middle of it all was Inspector Malcolm Fox of the Complaints.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889532</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Cotterill|title=Killed at the Whim of a Hat|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Jimm Juree was a crime reporter, just a heartbeat away from getting the job of her dreams when family circumstances forced her to quit her job and move to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siambed one summer night. Forget all about the up-market resorts like Phuket where the money goes. It She was never gets anywhere near Maprao. Mair, her daughter Jimm found and son Arny along with Granddad Jah have the investigation ground to try and grub a living out of the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restauranthalt. Jimm's sisterNow, who used to be her brothermother, has chosen to stay in the cityHelena, where she lives and her life online and not always on the right side of the lawfather are dead in their bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849165548</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kjell Eriksson|title=The Hand That Trembles|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=I read and reviewed recently Eriksson's [[The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson|The Princess of Burundi]] and was rather disappointed. How will this book shape up? Sven-Arne Persson is an astute politician. He knows when to press the flesh for best effect and also when to turn on the smiles - even if those smiles don't quite reach his eyes. In shortInitially, he is it looks like a career politician. Calculated. And straightforward murder/suicide but there's a great line on page 21 which sums him up beautifully - 'He was a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde something about the positioning of county politics ...'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074904019X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kjell Eriksson|title=The Princess of Burundi|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Berit the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Justus (mother and son) are waiting for John before they eat supperher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He's late. Perhaps he's popped in What looked as though it was going to see be an exopen-colleague or nipped into the pub for and-shut case is now a quick drinkcomplex double murder. But neither of these options ring true for Berit. John Kerrigan is currently unemployed which is a shame as he was very good at his last job. He's also not convinced that the most social or chatty of men. Some would even describe him as surly and a bit gruff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749040092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gladys Mitchell|title=Watsonexplanation lies in Rosalie's Choice|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Sir Bohun disappearance: others (thatsuch as Derwent's pronounced 'Boon'boss, in case you're wonderingUna Burt) Chantrey is not the brightest or most sensitive of men, but Sherlock Holmes is one of his great passions in life. To celebrate the great man's anniversary he throws a party at which the guests are invited to come as characters from the stories. Our heroine, Mrs Bradley, and her secretary Laura Menzies are among the guests but not everyone there is interested in Sherlock Holmesless convinced. Quite a few are interested in Chantrey's money and his announcement that he is to marry his poverty-stricken nursery governess provokes anger in certain quarters. Then the Hound of the Baskervilles makes an unscheduled appearance...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548593</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gianrico Carofiglio|title=Temporary Perfections|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=This is the fourth book in the popular Guido Guerrieri series. The front cover is eye-catching, as is the title. As early as p.9 I could see that Carofiglio has a nice line in wit and irony. Ergo - 'When you appear before the Court of Cassation, you feel you're in an orderly world, part of a justice system that works ... the world is not orderly and justice is not served.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738729</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shuichi Yoshida0571379877|title=VillainThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|summary=WellEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, I suppose I'd better begin obsessed with the bad which was there were moments at the start of this novel when I thought I couldnhis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert't possibly read it right to the ends a theatre director. ItHe's written in such a stiltedalso self-obsessed, demanding, factual style with details about the road networks of the local area handsome and entitled and exactly how much anyone pays uses Edward to run errands for anything they eat or buy or rent! him. Faced, for example, Edward has been in love with the paragraph Stanza since their university days - and he''cars setting out from Nagasaki that take the pass road s drunkenly confided how he feels to save money take the Nagasaki Expressway from Nagasaki to Omura, then to Higashi-Sonogi and Takeo, and get off at the Saga Yamato interchangeRobert. Intersecting this east-west Nagasaki Expressway at the interchange is Route 263Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' I thought I'd never manage s not like most men: Edward is left to read more than stumble upon the two of them kissing in a couple of lines before falling asleep! Still, I persisted and actually, I'm glad I diddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526654</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan David JahnJo Callaghan|title=The DispatcherLeave No Trace
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|summary=Ian Hunt works as When a dispatcher taking 911 calls in rural Texas. One day he takes man is found crucified on the top of a call from his 14 year old daughter. That would be enough to ruin your day hill in itselfNuneaton, but DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the daughter in question was kidnapped seven years agocase alongside her sidekick, presumed deadthe AI detective Lock. They have even held a funeral for her. That It's really going to mess their first live case together, having previously been very successful with your mindseveral cold cases. What ensues But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a desperate chase potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find her once more before herself taken off the kidnapper can escape or worse. case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230755968</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Andriacco1035021803|title=No Police Like HolmesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=At It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Investigating s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Conan Doyle Crockleford, is dead and Sherlock Holmes' Colloquium (in the UK it would probably be a conference) the St Benignus College in Erincircumstances seem suspicious, Ohio is due to receive a donation of say the least. Arthur was the third largest collection of Sherlockiana in reason why Freya had not been back to the world – including some rare pieces of substantial valuevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The plan is that there should Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be good publicity for near the college and that man or pursue the attendees have a good time – deerstalker hats not being compulsoryprofession she loved. But even After the best-laid plans are derailed by theft split, she worked in a cafe, met and murder. Jeff Cody is married James (on the public relations director at rebound from the college love of her life, who was murdered) and he's determined to solve the crimes before his eccentric brother in law, Professor Sebastian McCabeFreya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178092206X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1398524085|title=The Shadows in the StreetHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
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|summary=This is the fifth novel in Susan HillCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's series about the detective Simon Serraillerfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Although you could probably follow the story without knowing the previous books I think it does help to have some background on who Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all the characters are. I really love the way Hill weaves worried but - strangely - her story around some wonderful character studieshusband, Alec, is not. Simon is actually hardly in this novelShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the focus instead is on body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'extrast stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there', s little else they can do but get on with a lot of details being put into characters who will only be around for this particular novel but who live their lives and breathe through it wonderfully wellwonder about what really happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099499282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Enrique Spellman1529900360|title=Far South|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary='Far South' is a highly unusual book. It's published as 'crime fiction' but this is really only part of the story. It's also a collection of creative endeavours that combines narrative with web-based content. We are told that 'David Enrique Spellman is the voice for the Far South Project. The Far South Collective is a loosely affiliated group of artists, writers, actors, filmmakers musicians and dancers. He works in close collaboration with Esko Tikanmäki Portogales, a Uruguayan web designer'. While I applaud its ambition in trying to add something more creative to the novel concept, I have slightly more mixed views about the success of this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688108</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=Asa Larsson and Laurie Thompson (Translator)|title=Until Thy Wrath Be Past: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationJonathan Kellerman
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|summary=When we talk about It hadn'Scandinavian crime fictiont been Lt Milo Sturgis' s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and the name 'Larsson' even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there's an awful temptation to [[The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson were only open-and Reg Keeland (translator)|jump to conclusions]] about who ''exactly'-shut cases which didn' t need the author might behelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Slow down thoughFinally, it was Robin, because thereDelaware's another Swedish crime writer with that surname and this one is very much alive and writingpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Asa Larsson is not down with She knew that the southern softies in Stockholm but up in involvement was something that the far north, not far from Norway or Finlandman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in Kiruna, where she's placed Rebecca Martinsson, who works as the swimming pool of a prosecutor, and Inspector Anna-Maria Mellaremote property in Bel Air. Those in He was the know have met them [[The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson|before]] heir to an Italian shoe empire and this she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the third book in Italian. But which of them was the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050729</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronyca Bates178763681X|title=Dead on TimeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|summary=I reviewed Bates' earlier book [[Dead in the Water by Veronyca Bates|Dead Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the Water]] and enjoyed it for what it was - a light but enjoyable crime readBelgravia. This book has the same look He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and feel about itwomen to do what he wanted. Bates has decided to base her crime within Paul ''somehow'' got the corridors of power, local power impression that is, he'd be at the council chambers. And some of usschool to assist Paul, perhaps many of uswho had a broken arm, secretly would like to know the ins but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and outs, the deals made etc by our locallyproblems -elected councillors (even although we agree that much of their work can be a tad dull and a tad tedious)are all his own. But weThe one thing he hadn'll probably shout from the rafters if they happen t expected was for someone to get their comeuppance, as happens in this bookturn up dead. Mayor Boot has received his final comeuppance. He's deadUnfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin1529421284|title=A Kiss Before DyingLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=I havenIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He't read any d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of Levinmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's books to date although I know various titles from television and films etct convinced. And Geary was a townie, so what struck me straight away was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the terrific introduction by Chelsea Cainsuicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Most intros can be rather dull Lockyer and pedantic but this one is refreshingly different. It starts with DC Gemma Broad of the eye-catching line 'I could kill Ira LevinMajor Crimes Review Unit (that' s cold cases to you and left me eager, very eager to get on and read the book) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015910</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Ings1529425867|title=Dead Water|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=The standard advice to artists has always been "don't gild the lily". For those writers who appear not to understand how this relates to their art form, let me offer up a basic translation: don't complicate a brilliant plot! Dead Water suffers from such gilding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878885</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thierry Jonquet|title=Tarantula: The Skin Lost and Never Found (A D I Live In|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In a large French country house, an expert in facial reconstruction surgery keeps a beautiful woman locked up in her bedroom. He placates her with opium, but barks orders through hugely powerful speakers and an intercom. She tantalises him with her sexuality, which he tries to ignore, except for when he seems to abuse it in a sort of S/M way when he does let her into society, as he forces her to prostitute herself. Elsewhere, a young, inept bank robber holes himself up in a sunny house, waiting for the heat to die. And finally, a young man is held chained up in a cellar at the hands of an unknown possessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWilkins Mystery)|author=Stuart Neville|title=CollusionSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
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|summary=When In Oxford, there are two D I read the back cover blurb carefullyWilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I discovered that most Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of the story Ryan, is located in Ireland and not New York as I'd previously thought so I was just a little disappointed before I'd even opened the book. IHe'm usually a sucker for anything American in the fiction stakess not any of those things. Policeman Jack Lennon (his proper name is John and thereHe's white, originated from a good piece later on illustrating the fact that hetrailer park, barely educated (reading's officially called John Lennonnot ''really'' his thing)and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. JackThey's on surveillance duty watching a couple of no-users as they sit and talk re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a local cafepolice procedural written for laughs. Jack's in the comfort of his vehicle but stillWell, heyou's re not impressed with his latest task and says in his own words . 'Yep, The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. shit work.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535351</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Magson1529431735|title=Death on the Rive Nord: An Inspector Lucas Rocco MysteryThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
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|summary=Illegal immigrants are not a recent phenomenonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Back in 1963, in Picardy, a truck dropped He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a group of illegal workers close to wanted drug smuggler for a deserted stretch of canal, at the dead of nightdecade. Seven people left the truckThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and it was only when the driver investigated that he found an eighth inside the truck, stabbed hasn't long to deathlive. It was 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a few days before the body surfaced watery grave in the canal and Inspector Lucas Rocco was given the job boot of investigating the deatha stolen Ford Sierra. The problems in Algeria were in the past but not forgotten and Rocco would find himself involved with notorious Is it a warning from a Spanish gang leaders from the former colony – and occasionally wondering if he has bitten off more than he can chew.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008393</amazonuk>or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin0861541774|title=The Boys From BrazilA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
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|summary=A small group of powerful Nazis gather for a convivial post-prandial meetingDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, and collect identities and orders from their leaderDanny Maik, who is sending them has taken a short holiday in Singapore to different corners of the world in order that many innocent people may be killedmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. But this isn't when you might expect Maik was involved in a street brawl - it's the midhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -1970sand he killed a Ghurka. It isn't where you might expectInitially, for these Nazis are remnants he faced a charge of Hitler's regime manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that fled he might have planned to south America for safetymurder the man. And Now he could be facing the deaths are being ordered for reasons you will never foretelldeath penalty. In that regard, then, you are Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as well-informed as chief Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman, who hears tantalising hints of the plot, but cannot fathom it - nor indeed find proof it has indeed startedany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015902</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Ferris1521129886|title=The Hanging ShedThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
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|summary=This book is already Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'The No 1 eBook bestseller'' so I was expecting a good readll warn someone about how much he charges. Part of The Douglas Brodie Series, where Brodie, the central character, is a no-holds-barred journalist, although his past reveals that heIt's been a soldier good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a policeman. Ferris elaborates further baby and gives his readers some background on Brodiethey're both delighted. Brodie comes across, right from Joyce will be more delighted about the start, as a resourceful, likeable and forthright man who has not been afraid to break away from his small-town roots in baby when she gets past the west of Scotlandmorning sickness. His present job Greg is based approached by an old friend whose brother-in London but it-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's obvious that Brodieconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's heart's just struggling to make ends meet and her son is not in itthriving. He wants to return to ScotlandLucy, he says, Glasgow is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in particular and try his journalistic luck therenature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, An opportunity soon comes along - but itStuart's one he was never in a million years expectingprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark EllisB0CK3MYJ56|title=Frank Merlin: Princes GateResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In It's the early part of 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the Second World War there was a lull, when hostilities didncity but it wasn't really seem to get going – the satisfying so-called Phoney Warhe's now set himself up as a private investigator. Some Londoners, who'd left the capital in the expectation Shades of early bombing raidsCameron Strike', began drifting back and there were still those who thought that peace could you might be negotiated – that we could stay out of the fightthinking. Chief amongst those outside of Nice bloke, but where's the political classes who supported life experience that backs up this view was profession? On the American Ambassadorother hand, Joseph Kennedyhe has been asked to look into something. Kennedy wasJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, perhaps fortunately but not unusuallyor rather, out of the country when one of the staff they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at the residence was murdered an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her body fished out parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of the Thamesa train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766572</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1838954481|title=Bad IntentionsThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jon, Reilly and Axel had been friends for the best part of Ryan Kennedy killed a couple of decadespolice officer: there's no doubt about that. Axel He was the dominant one of fifteen-year-old holding the trio gun and Reilly was easily ledpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Jon - well Jon was vulnerable. Something had happened He pulled the trigger but due to them all at the end vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the previous year murder and Jon had recently been in a mental hospital, but now, at the beginning manslaughter of autumn, Axel and Reilly were taking him for a weekend at Dead Water Lakethe officer. The three young men went out in a boat and Jon went over the side And so lives must go on. Neither Axel nor Reilly made any attempt to help him and they didn't report his disappearnace until For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the following moring - capital and even then they said that he'd gone hoping for a walk quieter life in the forest countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and had not returnedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953584X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1448309743|title=The SirenDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read and reviewed Bruce's [[The Calling by Alison Bruce|The Calling]] and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was hoping that this book would be equally goodIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The location only item missing from the home is once again Cambridge. Two young women hastily meet up after hearing a local news item. A male body has been discovered in a gruesome and sorry state and has sent the two women into a right old flapDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Although both The only suspects are now known Satanists but in steady relationships and Kimberly is a mummany ways, they obviously share a shady past together. that'It was a joke between s an easy conclusion given that two of them: Kimberly gets them both into trouble'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Rachel gets them outDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1529077699|title=All YoursThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inés leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter. So ordinary in fact, the term 'desperate housewife' could have been invented exclusively for her. She is under no illusions about marriage as an institution - but is convinced she knows It's all about her husbandbloody peculiar, and all about men and how to handle them – with a little help from her motherisn't it, whose observations on losing a man are always at the front of InésSir?'' mind. When Inés follows her husband on an errand one night, she witnesses him having a violent argument with another woman; the woman then suffers a freak accident and dies. Inés takes charge of the ensuing trouble in her usual capable way, with the full confidence of someone who is always in control. But in trying to protect her husband, she comes up against much more than she bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190473880X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1529427045|title=FallenThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Faith Mitchell is not having a good day. A three-hour training seminar had stretched into four-and-a-half-hours, which meant that not only was she late picking up her baby daughter from her mothers' she was also starving hungry. This mattered 'Life has more to offer than it would people - prime numbers for most of us, because Faith is diabetic. She needs to eatexample''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057949</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1787636607|title=The CallingTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The storyIt's location is a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and around Cambridge looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and we manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the blow-by-blow account night bus that will only go as far as DC Goodhew meets one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the different members 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of Kaye's family in order to build up the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a picture long way short of her recent comings and goingshome. Kaye's mother seems particularly upset. A nice She had intended to ring someone to come and effective touch by Bruce is that each chapter heading is simply that daycollect her - but her phone's datedead. Kaye disappeared in March 2011 so that The bus had driven off before she had the reader feels a sense of chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. clock ticking There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and still no Kayein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1405957174|title=FreedomA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A short while agoFrom the first page, I read Daniel Suarezwe know that Nadine Walsh's debut novel [[Daemon by Daniel Suarez|Daemon]], which was a gripping technological thrillerparty will not end well. It may not have been The victim - a terribly original idea, but it was well written if a little lacking in character building man - is dying when we first meet him and it did seem Nadine consciously makes no effort to end a little abruptlycall the ambulance he so desperately needs. The reason for this abrupt end now becomes clear, as there What we don't know is who the man is now or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a sequel, ''Freedom™'little more background so that you can understand what's happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381229</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wesley Stace0008530025|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary="Nothing in recent fiction prepared me for the power and the polish of this subtle tale of English music Murder in the making, a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]" "His handling of dry comic dialogue and cynical affectation is reminiscent of P G Wodehouse… an intelligent, fun and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]" Just two of the previous reviews that adorn the back cover of 'Charles Jessold…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily|author=Ruth Dugdall|title=The Sacrificial ManCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Synchronicity? Is It was in December 2003 that what they call itfifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, when unconnected events chime with each other in unavoidable significance? the garden of their West London home. Maybe it is just He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the human need to see patterns vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and make connections where there are none, but it's still weird when it happens. In a week that saw a storyline in now the subject of ''EmmerdaleInfamous'' echoed in , a very personal documentary by Terry Pratchett considering the possibility true-crime show. A group of choosing experts has been brought together to review the nature evidence and time of to take the investigation further. his own endMore to the point, I found myself reading they'The Sacrificial Man'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248009</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box|title=Out Of Range|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Will Jensenre going to do this live on camera, a Wyoming Game Warden of many years standing, had long held the respect of the townsfolk of Jacksonepisode by episode. Recently though he seemed to have been going off There's no dump of the rails. Not turning up for work on time; a couple of DUIs; his wife upped whole box set - and left. Then one day he cooks himself 14lb no shortage of meatcliffhangers. No vegetables. And slowly eats his way through it, washed down with whiskey, before he goes to fetch his .44 magnum from the pick-upIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878044</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0241996104|title=The Track of SandComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Inspector Montalbano awoke one morning Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and saw the body her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of a horse on their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the beach in front of his housecourt, but itafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's not long before it disappears, leaving only received a track in the sand. How is he to investigate this when he doesn't know where the horse came from? It isnsilent sentence' - she't long though before equestrian champion Rachele Esterman arrives at police headquarters to report her horse missing. It had s not been stabled at the home of Saverio Lo Duca, one found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the richest men in Sicily – and one rest of his horses is missing tooher life. When Montalbano finds that he Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and his home the papers are under threat he wonders who he has upset – and making the list most of possibilities it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is disturbingly large one favourite epithet and influential''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernesto Mallo and Katherine Silver1529413680|title=Sweet MoneyA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man whose nickname One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is Mole (the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and it suits him just perfectly) is released from prisonBruno's there to see the show with some friends. HeIt's described as your average Joe Publicall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, your the man in playing one of the street so normal in every way that no one would look twice at him. And that's main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the pointscript. He's clever and resourceful enough to blend into any crowd Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in any situationa helicopter. Now that A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's served his time behind barsa senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has he become a reformed man? stepped in. Is he going to opt One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a lawful way of life from now on? You'd perhaps think so, wouldn't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738737</amazonuk>pre-arranged holiday.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1529196388|title=Grievous AngelThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read (Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and reviewed) Jardinelooked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's [[The Loner by Quintin Jardine|The Loner]] just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and found it an engaging work of fiction's not too long before Knight appears in court, so I charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was looking forward to dipping into my first Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it''Bob Skinner Mysterys Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron' I think s recommendations to the front cover alone may very well tempt readers with its attention-grabbing graphics which shouts out 'read me'contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356934</amazonuk>
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