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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James HenryStuart Douglas|title=Morning FrostLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second 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?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=In 1982 DS Jack Frost Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would 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 yet forty years old - this is burying his wife, Mary. There's a good turnout the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the funeral from moment they’re enjoying life in the police force present and putting the local Masons, which ''might'' be future on the reason why back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the local nesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'erapartments -do-wells seem to be rather more active than usualwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Superintendent Mullett makes Was this a day (and rather a lot of the night) of itritual killing or murder? Inevitably, whilst Jack Dr Ruth Galloway finds himself back at the police station and taking a call about a foot found in a fieldherself working with DCI Harry Nelson. (It'Wes difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn're looking for someone t, that she is pregnant with his child as a very bad limpresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It') s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Add Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in a rape at prison and he's prepared to tell the local comprehensive school (hot on police where the heels body of one near a pub) missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and a new computer system which seems designed it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to confuse serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's obvious even prepared to do the other thing that Jack isn't going to get much chance to grieve for his wife Hardie demanded - not make certain that she was at the top of his list of priorities before she diedDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059307100X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0008405026|title=Saints of A Stranger in the Shadow BibleFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Charlie Watts said that being in the Rolling Stones for fifty It's sixteen years consisted of a decade drumming since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and four decades waiting for something the investigation ground to happena halt. John Rebus - back Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in CID - is feeling much the same way as business is slowtheir bed. He's had to come back in as Initially, it looks like a sergeant, straightforward murder/suicide but being back was what was important. Hethere's not even ''that'' worried something about working for Siobhan Clarke when their positions used to be reversed. On the other hand he's not pleased when Inspector Malcolm Fox from Professional Standards (''or whatever they're calling themselves this week'') investigates what happened some thirty years before at a station where Rebus was positioning of the new sergeant (first time round...)bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Fox himself isn't in the best of positions What looked as though it was going to be an open- he's on his way back to CID where he knows and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's going to be loathed by everyone for the job hedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's been doingboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144747</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=Almost LoveThe Kellerby Code|author=Christina JamesJonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=When you pick up Edward Jevons is a crime novel working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and it entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has the weight of a brick been in your hand, your suspicions arenlove with Stanza since their university days - and he't immediately alerteds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Many Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a gripping tale takes relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a while in the tellingdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773460</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CamilleriJo Callaghan|title=Montalbano's First CaseLeave No Trace

|summary=Montalbano was just thirty five and he was When a man is found crucified on the top of a deputy Inspector up hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the mountainscase alongside her sidekick, which he hated to the extent that they could put him off his foodAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But in the way that such things are knownwhen there is a second body found crucified a few days later, he knew Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that he would be promoted before longdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. What was not known was where he would Will they be promoted ''able to'' and this worried him. If it was another posting solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the mountains he would resign. His girlfriend's uncle told the couple that it was Vigatacase and, which delighted Montalbano and he went to visitpotentially, unfortunately witnessing an assault. The wiser traffic cop in the area was otherwise engaged (chatting to out of a couple of dogs, as it happened...) but Montalbano was quick to correct the car registration which he'd noted down wrongly.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00FJNMB6E</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=Closed for WinterThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jorn Lier HorstC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=On a remote stretch 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 the southern Norwegian coast sits a selection of holiday cottages – second homes request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the moderately wealthycircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. When a man turns up Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to close his the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down securely for the winter he finds he has been burgledbadly. What's more he finds what seems Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the culprit in man or pursue the neighbouring property – stone cold dead behind his balaclava and black clothingprofession she loved. The explanation may perhaps lie After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the fact that rebound from the secluded coastline has been often used for a different kind love of crimeher life, but even when Inspector Wisting factors drug-runners into the proceedings, his investigation will still not run according to plan…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737492</amazonuk>who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1398524085|title=Under A Silent MoonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=On the morning of the first of November 2012 the police were called to a cottage just outside a small English villageCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. A popularHer children, attractive young woman had been found dead sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and murder was suspectedher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Was it a coincidence that there was then a report Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of an apparent suicide of a woman who lived close by? Her car had rolled down into a quarryGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. For DCI Louisa Smith this It was her first major incident an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and it was complicated then committed suicide when she found that he couldn't stand the DI on her team was Andy Hamiltonguilt. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd been in a relationship s little else they can do but get on with him their lives and it lasted until she discovered that he was married. Hamilton hadn't given up on her though - he was still convinced that she would come back to him. Not that he planned on it breaking up his marriage, of coursewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00ANOB8GS</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Butterfly Grave (Murder Notebooks)|author=Anne Cassidy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Just before Christmas, Josh's uncle Stuart falls from a cliff in an horrific accident. Determined to help, Josh, Rose and friend Skeggsie head up to Newcastle for the festive season. Things are awkward between the three. Josh is becoming increasingly paranoid and is convinced they are being followed. Rose is becoming more and more withdrawn, fixating on the deaths she has witnessed. And Skeggsie is resentful at being forever embroiled in other people's problems when he has challenges of his own. Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1529900360|title=Bronze GodsThe Ghost Orchid|author=A A AguireJonathan Kellerman

|summary=One of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds 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 authors have createdhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit Finally, it? What are the customswas Robin, et ceteraDelaware's partner, et ceterawho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed with fantasy is She knew that the involvement was something that the double hitman she loved needed. Throw The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings swimming pool of a really good timeremote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall178763681X|title=The Case of the Love Commandos (Vish Puri Mysteries)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Ram and Tulsi fell Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in love but their different castes meant that Tulsi's family were completely against their marrying, with Tulsi's father locking her up and saying that he would hunt down RamBelgravia. The Love Commandos - He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a group formed way of getting both men and women to help mixed-caste couples - came to their aid, but when they liberated Tulsi, Ram was snatched from his hiding placedo what he wanted. For Vish Puri, IndiaPaul ''s somehow'Most Private Investigator', it was proving to be a difficult month. Hegot the impression that he'd failed be at the school to retrieve some stolen jewelsassist Paul, who had a pickpocket had removed his wallet (and he had to depend his Mummybroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -ji to retrieve it) and this case just made everything worse. He could see the problem problems - but Vish wasnare all his own. The one thing he hadn't ''that'' convinced about love matchesexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Then Unfortunately, he found was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that his arch rival, Hari Kumar, was also trying person to find Ram - but for whom?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937426</amazonuk>be the prime suspect.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Corley1529421284|title=Dead of WinterLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Inspector Louise Nightingale is investigating It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a series of sexual attacks which are becoming increasingly violentheatwave. The latest victim is in hospital In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and Nightingale sees something of her younger self in forensic testing proved the girl in the bedbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Jenni has He'd been sleeping rough. It's not her real namea known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but she's ''very'' insistent about the ''i'DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Superintendent Andrew Fenwick is brought in Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to investigate the disappearance suicide of seventeen-year-old Isabel Mattias, Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the daughter of an artist and a rock star who died five years ago in a car crashtime. She disappeared from her exclusive boarding school, but has she run away or been abducted? Her friends seem unwilling to provide much information Lockyer and even DC Gemma Broad of the teachers feel Major Crimes Review Unit (that respecting Issie's privacy is importantcold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014776</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eileen Robertson1529425867|title=We'll be Watching YouLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=It wasn't that Christine Brett was exactly nosyIn Oxford, but life hadn't treated her particularly kindly recentlythere are two D I Wilkins. Her marriage had ended in divorce Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and she'd lost her jobalways exquisitely dressed. Here she wasD I Ryan Wilkins, middle-aged son of Ryan and back living with her motherfather of Ryan, is not. And checking that people were He's not breaking the law was any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not 'duty'really' not a 'his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They'pleasurere usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. Admittedly some of her accusations had been wide The two men are just different sides of the mark, but she had been a witness when the robbers left the hypermarket and the face of the driver of same policing coin. Sometimes the getaway car was familiar - if only she could place itcombination works brilliantly well. Unfortunately Christine had cried wolf too often and the local police werenSometimes it't too inclined to give her much credences problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719810728</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrez Bergen1529431735|title=Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54

|summary=In search of entertainmentIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Jack crosses over from real world Melbourne to Heropa, where he becomes (dah daaah!) Southern Crosswhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. However thereHe's not much time d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for him to acclimatise to his new lycra-clad role or his super-powera decade. As the new addition to The Equalizers return has come about because he has work 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to dolive. The heroes of Heropa are starting It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to die a watery grave in the boot of a totally unprecedented manner so Jack joins forces with the quartet starting with an 'e' (but with stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a symbol looking suspiciously like Spanish gang or a 'z) in an attempt problem closer to restore law and order and to remain alive. For the rules have changed in this once-virtual world: death in Heropa now means death in real life too.in Heropa now means death in real life too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178279235X</amazonuk>home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Corban Addison0861541774|title=The Garden A Nye of Burning SandPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=A little girl named Kuyeya is found DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in LusakaSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Zambia abused, deeply shocked and badly injuredGuy Trueman. American lawyer Zoe Fleming is over there when her friend Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and local police officer Joseph receives the call and so her involvement beginshe killed a Ghurka. She's determined to help Joseph track down Kuyeya's attacker but the trail takes some surprising turns through the underbelly of ZambiaInitially, alarming Zoe with the extent he faced a charge of the crusade she's taken on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063307</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Omens|author=Kelley Armstrong|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has a charmed life. Her family is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about her career, she knows manslaughter but evidence came to light that things will work themselves out. Until she learns suggested that she's adopted - her true parents America's most infamous serial killershe might have planned to murder the man. Suddenly on Now he could be facing the run death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from the media, Olivia finds shelter in the small town of Cainsville. It's another police force could provoke a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters diplomatic incident and gargoyles that seem to only appear wouldn't help Danny at certain timesall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=The Shadow CollectorThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Kate EllisKeith Redfern

|summary=A convicted murderess 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 alleged witch returns Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to Devil’s Tree Cottage, after eighteen years in jail for butchering two teenage girlshave killed himself. When bodies start falling in West Fretham just days after her release Stuart's concerned about his sister, dispatched by Wiccan ceremonial bladesLucy, she who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is the obvious suspectnot thriving. But Lucy, for DI Wesley Petersonhe says, something strange is going on convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the village coroner have accepted that casts doubt on the identity of the killer and death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the validity of Lilith Benley’s original convictionnight Gil died. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958006</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Doll's HouseResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Tania CarverAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=There can be no confusion It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the name of the latest Tania Carver novel. 'city but it wasn'The Dolls Houset satisfying so he'' well and truly sums it s now set himself up, which is made clear as the book opens in a very pinkprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', very well laid out lounge with a living dollyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, also dressed in pink, arranging the room until it is spotless. Aside from but where's the slightly ominous undertones and the repetition life experience that everything must be perfect; the reader could almost be forgiven for initially thinking they haven’t picked backs up a crime novel at all. It soon becomes obvious that this isn’t profession? On the case though as we follow DI Phil Brennan back other hand, he has been asked to look into that same room with the doll sat straightsomething. Joyce and Helen are half-backed sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at the precisely laid out dinner tablean unmanned level crossing. This time though Joyce - and her parents, the doll is deadOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550523</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1838954481|title=The Treasure HuntMisper|author=Kate London

|summary=Life for Montalbano and his team was slowRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: it seemed there's no doubt about that even . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the criminals were taking life easy gun and there was almost a sense of relief when an elderly man and his sister began firing into the street below their Vigata apartmentpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. There wasn't a lot He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of news either - which the jury system he was why Montalbano found himself the reluctant hero not guilty of both the news programmes as he climbed up murder and the outside manslaughter of the buildingofficer. What he didn't realise was And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life-sized rubber doll (you know ''exactly'' what I mean) found in the apartment would dominate his life, particularly countryside but when 'a missing teenager is found on herterritory she' twin was found in s drawn into a rubbish bin. I mean, where do you keep such things? In a cupboard? Under the bed? Montalbano could tell you wider investigation - and back into the drawbacks orbit of both those locationsRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447228782</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Last Winter of Dani LancingDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=P D VinerCaro Ramsay

|summary=There’s no good way to deal with In the village of Cronchie on the death West coast of Scotland, five members of a childwealthy family are found murdered. When Dani Lancing The only item missing from the home is killed her parents react the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in different many ways, but neither way is particularly helpful or healthy. And that's an easy conclusion given that two of course neither way will bring their daughter backthem 'discovered' the body. It’s now 20 years later and the mystery of whodunnit The Senior Investigating Office is still looming over Jim and Patty’s headsDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, though they’re no longer together. The murder of a child will do that DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to a marriage'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953294</amazonuk>

Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=Bad Little FallsThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Paul DoironKarin Smirnoff|rating=35

|summary=''Bad Little FallsLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'', set in . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the wilds small town of rural Maine in midwinterGasskas, shows where the unravelling mystery of a man stumbling out so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a blizzard to the front door of an unsuspecting elderly couplegold rush. The man is frozen half to death and soon begins raving about a friend lost criminal underworld has not been slow in the storm, which quickly causes a frenzied rescue missioncoming forward. Soon Mike Bowditch, a game warden and Doiron’s protagonist, uncovers Salander's niece's mother is the missing man under a snow drift, turning latest woman in the hunt into a murder investigationarea to have vanished without trace. Whilst this initially powerful mystery It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes gradually overshadowed by Doiron’s portrayal of Bowditch’s love interest, and at least one too many descriptions obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her anatomy, it is still an interesting and baffling mystery to be unravelledfather's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338198</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1787636607|title=Desert Heart: 2 (Ellen Martin Disasters)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=Ten years have passed since [[Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters) by Mark Lingane|Chasing Heart]] It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and that moment that Ellen Martin met and fell in love with Alex Heart while he was attempting looking for a way to extricate her from South American impending doomget home. We now catch up with them to discover that Ellen has ditched Alex, has become a partner in her law firm Some are lucky and is about to fly out manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the Middle East for important business negotiations on behalf night bus that will only go as far as one of a clientthe outlying villages. Ellen isnThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem't known for staying out , particularly in the light of trouble and 'the Middle East isnmissing women't known for its tolerance . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of the mischievously danger-proneher home. Therefore itShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's not long dead. The bus had driven off before Ellen needs a rescuer again and, yes, itshe had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's reunion timeno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478656</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=Broken AngelsA Death at the Party|author=Graham MastertonAmy Stuart

|summary=Despite From the odd reservationfirst page, [[White Bones by Graham Masterton|we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the first book]] in his ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don''Katie Maguire'' series, was good enough t know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have me eagerly reaching for the second, ''Broken Angels''him die. Whilst Masterton may have dipped into some of the female detective clichés with his debut crime thriller, he also dipped into his past as I'd better give you a great horror writer and the combination worked welllittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851182</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=A Naked SingularityMurder in the Family|author=Sergio De La PavaCara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=You probably know It was in December 2003 that when you start fifteen-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 now the subject of ''Infamous'', a review true-crime show. A group of a book by quoting someone else that you are not really going experts has been brought together to have anything original review the evidence and to say about ittake the investigation further. Sometimes thatMore to the point, they's because itre going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's already been lauded to no dump of the skies whole box set - and you agree with every published wordno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}}

Sometimes it isn't{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she'Casis received a 's voice is astonishingsilent sentence'- she' is one s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the blurb quotesrest of her life. I agree. ItOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's just that you can still get tired rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of hearing it. And I did ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052802</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Never Go BackA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Lee ChildMartin Walker

|summary=Jack Reacher One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is calling on a lady friendthe re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. He It's never actually met herall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, they've just spoken on the phone, and man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he likes her voicedeparts from the script. For a drifter like Reacher with nothing better to do Luckily, that's a good enough reason to head to Virginia his doctor is there and maybe buy her the man is whisked away in a coffeehelicopter. Except when A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he arrives at his old unit's headquartersa senior government employee, the lady he wants to meet man who runs Frenchelon - new commanding officer Major Susan Turner - isn't therethe military has stepped in. Instead One daughter lives nearby and another, he finds himself accused of homicidewho lives in California, and brought back into the army. Someone is going to be very sorry about thisflying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.  And does anyone really think it'll be Jack?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593065743</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Silence Of The Lambs1529196388|authortitle=Thomas Harris|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Well, I suppose I know what all the fuss is about now. Except it isn’t fuss, not any more. It’s so famous that it’s become part of our language. People who’ve never read the book or seen the film can name at least one of the characters. At twenty five, I am the same age as Silence of the Lambs (the novel) and only three years older than the film, which is incidentally the same age as my brother. I cannot remember a time when Hannibal Lecter was not the bogey man. For some years I was under the impression that Buffalo Bill was a real serial killer. There is even a rather catchy and charming song entitled ''It Rubs The Lotion On It’s Skin''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099586576</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Pilgrim SoulTrial|author=Gordon FerrisRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=ItGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's 1947, just one man in the worst winter frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in memory is only just getting startedcourt, and Duncan Brodie is a crime reporter working charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the streets best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Glasgow for the Gazette. The reason heStag Court Chambers and it's good at reporting is probably just natural talent Taylor-Cameron and a decent educationhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. The reason heKnight's good at crime is that hedetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's a trained investigatorrecommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897624</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Dead Rich|author=Katia Lief|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=''Mac'' Macleary and his wife Karin are retired homicide detectives. He's set up in the private investigation business, while she is trying hard to be a full-time mother, while still having to actively resist having her name Move on the office name-plate, and not-quite-but-almost resenting not being able to join him on stake-outs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944791</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Crime (Historical) Reviews]]