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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew Costello and Neil RichardsStuart Douglas|title=Cherringham Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Murder on Thames: A Cozy Crime SeriesDeath at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sarah Edwards returned with her two children to sleepy Cherringham in 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 Cotswolds after her marriage fell apartedge of a reservoir. Jack Brennan was a homicide detective with NYPD 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 year ago he lost his wifefellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. All he wants now is peace and quiet They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and , seemingly, a link to that end he's living on a canal boat in Cherringhamdeath during the Second World War. Both of them thought that what they needed was to get away from But is there really a link between the stress and strain - but deaths? And will they're just beginning manage to realise that there's something missing in uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives. Excitement.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00GFJ9UFG</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=CloudlandDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Joseph OlshanStig Abell|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Catherine WinslowFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a retired investigative journalistlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, writes household columns for various newspapers while she sits holed 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 house in Vermont. One day, when reservations about whether or not this is the winter snow started melting, future she discovered a body near wants for herself and her property. The discovery unearthed a series of killings which Catherine daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and her neighbour a forensic psychiatrist set out to solveputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906413924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1786482126|title=As Serious As Death The Janus Stone (Primavera Blackstone MysteryDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Primavera Blackstone is determined to live a quiet life. She's happy Builders were demolishing an old house in her role as a single parent Norwich - the site was going to the late Oz Blackstonehold seventy-five 's three children (one of hers, two of someone elseluxury's apartments - don't ask, it's complicatedwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull..) and living in Was this a village on the Spanish coast suits her perfectly. ritual killing or murder? She's OK Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Liam Matthews tooDCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's not the love of her life difficult as Ruth knows, but they rub along well together until Liam mentions the M word. Primavera Nelson doesn't want to get married and before long Liam , that she is on pregnant with his way. Problems never seem to come on their own - and child as a result of the next one is the arrival of a retired policeman from her Scottish pastnight they spent together some three months ago. Ricky Ross Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is now a private detective and he's working for Jack Weighley, owner prone to sudden bouts of a budget airline and a man whose PR makes him seem nicer than the reality would provesickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=BinaryThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Michael CrichtonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Switch on TV over It's unusual for anyone from the holiday season and you will eventually stumble across a show about celebrities before they were famousHardie family to approach the police. Sit back and watch Hollywood Royalty gurn on an advert Neither side likes or appear has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in an early episode prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of ‘Grange Hill’. Working before you hit the limelight does not happen solely to actors; authors often had a life before they put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard)missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. IndeedThis person, the likes of Stephen Kinghe promises, Jack Higgins is someone big and many others had a prolific career under a nom de plumeit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Michael Crichton And what he wants is another such author to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and after his untimely death 1998 we will be unlikely to see any new works by himget an early parole date. ThankfullyNot much to ask, the publisher is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Titan Books'' has gone back s even prepared to his earlier days under do the name John Lange to reother thing that Hardie demanded -release some of his hardboiled crime fictionmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783291257</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=Monument to MurderA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Mari HannahJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Kate Daniels is working in Northumberland, following It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the discovery of two bodies buried on investigation ground to a beachhalt. Now, overlooking a beautiful vista. With no knowledge of the local communityher mother, Helena, Daniels and her loyal team have an overwhelming amount of work to dofather are dead in their bed. Initially, as well as it looks like a strong sense straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of justice powering them onthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Meanwhile, recently widowed Emily McCann What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is struggling to cope with a return to her prison work, as well as the added complication of a prisoner who has taken now a shine to hercomplex double murder. And Kerrigan is convinced that the two situations explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are about to collide with one hell of an impact…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447246047</amazonuk>less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0571379877|title=I Love LucidThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Lucid Edward Jevons is more than a fullworking-immersion role play game; it's THE fullclass young man, obsessed with his upper-immersion role play gameclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs to be done is to plug in and the playerRobert's brain will take them to the virtual world while during sleep, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatara theatre director. However itHe's also becoming the game self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to die run errands forhim. Yes, literally die for as players are being murdered while theyEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he're connecteds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Detective Evan Waugh is the investigator given the case to prove Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he still has what it takes. However there's an added complication for both he and Seth as the investigation continues. Her name not like most men: Edward is Ellen, left to stumble upon the woman for whom Lucid isn't just two of them kissing in a way of life, it ''is'' her lifedark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James HenryJo Callaghan|title=Morning FrostLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1982 DS Jack Frost - not yet forty years old - When a man is burying his wife, Mary. There's found crucified on the top of a good turnout for the funeral from the police force and the local Masonshill in Nuneaton, which ''might'' be the reason why the local ne'er-do-wells seem DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be rather more active than usual. Superintendent Mullett makes a day (and rather a lot of the night) of itcase alongside her sidekick, whilst Jack finds himself back at the police station and taking a call about a foot found in a fieldAI detective Lock. (It'We're looking for someone s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with a very bad limpseveral cold cases...') Add in But when there is a second body found crucified a rape at the local comprehensive school (hot on the heels of one near few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a pub) potential serial killer and a new computer system which seems designed to confuse and it's obvious very high profile case that Jack isn't going draws a lot of unwanted attention to get much chance their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to grieve for his wife - not that she was at solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the top case and, potentially, out of his list of priorities before she died.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>059307100X</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1035021803|title=Saints of the Shadow BibleThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlie Watts said that being in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Rolling Stones for fifty years consisted English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a decade drumming and four decades waiting request for something to happenhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. John Rebus - back in CID - Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is feeling much dead and the same way as business is slowcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. He's Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to come back the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as a sergeantantique hunters, but being back was what was important. He's she has not even ''that'' worried about working for Siobhan Clarke when their positions used felt able to be reversed. On near the other hand he's not pleased when Inspector Malcolm Fox from Professional Standards (''man or whatever they're calling themselves this week'') investigates what happened some thirty years before at a station where Rebus was pursue the new sergeant (first time round...)profession she loved. Fox himself isn't After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the best love of positions though - he's on his way back to CID where he knows that he's going to be loathed by everyone for the job he's been doingher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144747</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Almost LoveHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Christina JamesNicci French|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you pick Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up a crime novel . Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and it has her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the weight body of a brick Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in your hand, your suspicions arenthe river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't immediately alertedstand the guilt. Many a gripping tale takes a while in the tellingThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773460</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529900360|title=Montalbano's First CaseThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Montalbano was just thirty five It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and he even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was a deputy Inspector up in the mountains, which he hated reluctant to the extent that they could put him off ask for his foodhelp on difficult cases. But in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the way that such things are known, he knew that he would be promoted before longhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. What Finally, it was not known was where he would be promoted Robin, Delaware''to'' and this worried hims partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. If it She knew that the involvement was another posting in something that the mountains he would resignman she loved needed. His girlfriend's uncle told the couple that it was VigataThe next case did look simple, which delighted Montalbano and he went to visit, unfortunately witnessing an assaultthough. The wiser traffic cop Two lovers were murdered in the area swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was otherwise engaged (chatting the heir to a couple of dogs, as an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it happened's not the Italian...) but Montalbano But which of them was quick to correct the car registration which he'd noted down wrongly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00FJNMB6E</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Closed Knife Skills for WinterBeginners|author=Jorn Lier HorstOrlando Murrin|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=On Chef Paul Delamare took a remote stretch of the southern Norwegian coast sits teaching job at a selection of holiday cottages – second homes for the moderately wealthyresidential cookery school in Belgravia. When He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a man turns up way of getting both men and women to close his down securely for the winter do what he finds he has been burgledwanted. WhatPaul 's more 'somehow'' got the impression that he finds what seems to 'd be at the culprit in school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the neighbouring property – stone cold dead behind problems - are all his balaclava and black clothingown. The explanation may perhaps lie in one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the fact body and everyone knows that the secluded coastline has been often used for a different kind of crime, but even when Inspector Wisting factors drug-runners into police consider that person to be the proceedings, his investigation will still not run according to plan…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737492</amazonuk>prime suspect.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1529421284|title=Under A Silent MoonLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=On the morning It was one of those flash downpours that the first of November 2012 the police were called to British weather often delivers in a cottage just outside a small English villageheatwave. A popularIn a gully, attractive young woman had been found dead a human skeleton came to the surface and murder was suspected. Was it a coincidence that there was then a report of an apparent suicide of a woman forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who lived close by? Her car had rolled down into a quarry. For DCI Louisa Smith this was her first major incident and it was complicated when she found that the DI on her team was Andy Hamiltondisappeared nine years earlier. SheHe'd been in a relationship with him known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it lasted until she discovered that he was married. Hamilton hadncould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't given up on her though - he was still convinced that she would come back to him. Not that Geary was a townie, so what was he planned doing out on it breaking up his marriage, Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of coursethe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00ANOB8GS</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Butterfly Grave Lost and Never Found (Murder NotebooksA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Anne CassidySimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Just before ChristmasIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, Joshis not. He's uncle Stuart falls not any of those things. He's white, originated from a cliff trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in an horrific accidentlime green or acid yellow. Determined You might wonder if you're being introduced to helpa police procedural written for laughs. Well, Josh, Rose and friend Skeggsie head up to Newcastle for the festive seasonyou're not. Things The two men are awkward between just different sides of the threesame policing coin. Josh is becoming increasingly paranoid and is convinced they are being followed. Rose is becoming more and more withdrawn, fixating on Sometimes the deaths she has witnessedcombination works brilliantly well. And Skeggsie is resentful at being forever embroiled in other people Sometimes it's problems when he has challenges of his ownproblematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=Bronze GodsThe Winter Visitor|author=A A AguireJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One of It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering more surprising. He'd been exiled on the new worlds Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that the authors have createdshe's ill and hasn't long to live. Where It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customs, et ceteraabducted, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating stripped to his underwear and steampunk mixed with fantasy is the double hit. Throw sent to a watery grave in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings boot of a really good timestolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall0861541774|title=The Case A Nye of the Love Commandos (Vish Puri Mysteries)Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Ram DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Tulsi fell former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in love but their different castes meant Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that Tulsi's family were completely against their marrying, he was facing a man armed with Tulsi's father locking her up a knife - and saying that he would hunt down Ramkilled a Ghurka. The Love Commandos - Initially, he faced a group formed charge of manslaughter but evidence came to help mixed-caste couples - came light that suggested that he might have planned to their aid, but when they liberated Tulsi, Ram was snatched from his hiding placemurder the man. For Vish Puri, India's 'Most Private Investigator', it was proving to Now he could be a difficult monthfacing the death penalty. He'd failed Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to retrieve some stolen jewels, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a pickpocket had removed his wallet (and he had to depend his Mummy-ji to retrieve it) diplomatic incident and this case just made everything worse. He could see the problem - but Vish wasnwouldn't ''that'' convinced about love matcheshelp Danny at all. Then he found that his arch rival, Hari Kumar, was also trying to find Ram - but for whom?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Corley1521129886|title=Dead of WinterThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Louise Nightingale is investigating Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a series of sexual attacks which are becoming increasingly violentbaby and they're both delighted. The latest victim is in hospital and Nightingale sees something of her younger self in Joyce will be more delighted about the girl in baby when she gets past the bedmorning sickness. Jenni has been sleeping roughGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. ItStuart's not her real nameconcerned about his sister, Lucy, but shewho's ''very'' insistent about the ''i''struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Superintendent Andrew Fenwick Lucy, he says, is brought in to investigate the disappearance of seventeenconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself -year-old Isabel Mattias, the daughter of an artist and a rock star who died five years ago it simply wasn't in a car crashhis nature. She disappeared from her exclusive boarding school, but has she run away or been abducted? Her friends seem unwilling to provide much information The police and even the teachers feel coroner have accepted that respecting Issiethe death was suicide, but Stuart's privacy is importantprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014776</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eileen RobertsonB0CK3MYJ56|title=We'll be Watching YouResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=It 's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't that Christine Brett was exactly nosy, but life hadnsatisfying so he't treated her particularly kindly recentlys now set himself up as a private investigator. Her marriage had ended in divorce and she'd lost her jobShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Here she wasOn the other hand, middle-aged and back living with her motherhe has been asked to look into something. And checking that people Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were not breaking the law until Helen was a killed in what''duty'' not s been written off as a ''pleasure''tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Admittedly some of Joyce - and her accusations had been wide of the markparents, but Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she had been a witness when the robbers left the hypermarket and the face of the driver of the getaway car was familiar doing there - if only or how she could place itcome to fall in front of a train. Unfortunately Christine had cried wolf too often and the local police werenGreg't too inclined s been asked to give her much credenceinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719810728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrez Bergen1838954481|title=Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In search of entertainment, Jack crosses over from real world Melbourne to Heropa, where he becomes (dah daaah!) Southern Cross. However Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's not much time for him to acclimatise to his new lycrano doubt about that. He was the fifteen-clad role or his superyear-powerold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. As He pulled the new addition trigger but due to The Equalizers the vagaries of the jury system he has work to dowas found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. The heroes of Heropa are starting to die For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in a totally unprecedented manner so Jack joins forces with the quartet starting with an 'e' (countryside but with when a symbol looking suspiciously like missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a 'z) in an attempt to restore law and order wider investigation - and to remain alive. For back into 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 tooorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178279235X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Corban Addison1448309743|title=The Garden of Burning SandDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A little girl named Kuyeya is In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found in Lusaka, Zambia abused, deeply shocked and badly injuredmurdered. American lawyer Zoe Fleming The only item missing from the home is over there when her friend and local police officer Joseph receives the call and so her involvement beginsDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. SheThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's determined to help Joseph track down Kuyeyaan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's attacker the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but the trail takes some surprising turns through the underbelly of Zambiawhen he disappears, alarming Zoe with the extent of the crusade sheDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's taken onhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063307</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a 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=OmensThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Kelley ArmstrongKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Olivia Taylor''Life has more to offer than people -Jones prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a charmed lifegold rush. Her family The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is rich, the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about her career, she knows niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that things will work themselves out. Until she learns that sheSvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's adopted - unaware of the part Salander played in her true parents Americafather's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's most infamous serial killersa scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Suddenly on Others squash onto the run from night bus that will only go as far as one of the mediaoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', Olivia finds shelter particularly in the small town light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of Cainsvilleher home. It She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's a strange sort of place no option but to start walking - full of oddball characters unsuitably clothed and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain timesin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=The Shadow CollectorA Death at the Party|author=Kate EllisAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A convicted murderess and alleged witch returns to Devil’s Tree CottageFrom the first page, after eighteen years in jail for butchering two teenage girlswe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. When bodies start falling in West Fretham just days after her release, dispatched by Wiccan ceremonial blades, she The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the obvious suspectambulance he so desperately needs. But, for DI Wesley Peterson, something strange What we don't know is going on in who the village man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that casts doubt on the identity of the killer and on the validity of Lilith Benley’s original convictionyou can understand what's happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=The Doll's HouseMurder in the Family|author=Tania CarverCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=There can be no confusion It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the name 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 latest Tania Carver novelsteps 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 ''The Dolls HouseInfamous'' well and truly sums it up, which is made clear as the book opens in a very pink, very well laid out lounge with a living doll, also dressed in pink, arranging the room until it is spotlesstrue-crime show. Aside from A group of experts has been brought together to review the slightly ominous undertones evidence and to take the repetition that everything must be perfect; investigation further. More to the reader could almost be forgiven for initially thinking point, they haven’t picked up a crime novel at all're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. It soon becomes obvious that this isn’t the case though as we follow DI Phil Brennan back into that same room with There's no dump of the doll sat straightwhole box set -backed at the precisely laid out dinner tableand no shortage of cliffhangers. This time though, the doll is dead It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550523</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0241996104|title=The Treasure HuntComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Life for Montalbano Nancy's mother and his team was slow: it seemed that even the criminals step-father were taking life easy brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and there was almost a sense her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of relief when an elderly man and his sister began firing into their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the street below their Vigata apartmentcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. There wasnThe barrister tells her that she't s received a lot of news either 'silent sentence' - which was why Montalbano she's not been found himself guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the reluctant hero rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the news programmes as he climbed up papers are making the outside most of the buildingit. What he didn't realise was that a life-sized rubber doll (you know 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter''exactlyis one favourite epithet and '' what I mean) found in the apartment would dominate his life, particularly when rich bitch'her' twin was found in a rubbish bin. I mean, where do you keep such things? In a cupboard? Under the bed? Montalbano could tell you the drawbacks of both those locationsmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447228782</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=The Last Winter A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Dani LancingPolice Novel)|author=P D VinerMartin Walker
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|summary=There’s no good way One 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's there to deal see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the death man playing one of a childthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. When Dani Lancing is killed her parents react in different ways Luckily, but neither way his doctor is particularly helpful or healthy. And of course neither way will bring their daughter back. It’s now 20 years later there and the mystery of whodunnit man is still looming over Jim whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and Patty’s headsfriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, though they’re no longer togetherthe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. The murder One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a child will do that to a marriagepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953294</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=Bad Little FallsThe Trial|author=Paul DoironRob Rinder|rating=34.5
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|summary=''Bad Little Falls'', set in the wilds of rural Maine in midwinter, shows the unravelling mystery of Grant Cliveden was a man stumbling out of hero: a blizzard 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 front door of an unsuspecting elderly coupleOld Bailey. The There's just one man is frozen half to death and soon begins raving about a friend lost in the storm, which quickly causes a frenzied rescue mission. Soon Mike Bowditch, a game warden frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and Doiron’s protagonistit's not too long before Knight appears in court, uncovers the missing man under a snow drift, turning the hunt into a charged with Cliveden's murder investigation. Whilst this initially powerful mystery becomes gradually overshadowed by Doiron’s portrayal Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Bowditch’s love interest, Stag Court Chambers and at least one too many descriptions of her anatomy, it is still an interesting 's Taylor-Cameron and baffling mystery his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to be unravelledplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338198</amazonuk>
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