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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane LythellStuart Douglas|title=The Lie Of You: I Will Have What Is MineLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Kathy thinks she has everything: the job; the baby; Floggit and him. But she doesnLeggit't have my will. She has no hidden places.'' Thus speaks Heja, Kathy's colleague leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the architecture magazineedge of a reservoir. Kathy is coming The police seem happy to terms with a new husbandassign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, a new baby and he enlists the inevitable return help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to her demanding career as an editorhelp him investigate matters further. Heja doesn't mind though; she's patient They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and will use Kathy's preoccupation for her own devious purposes, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. Whether Kathy realises it or not, Heja But is upset and unsettled with there really a vengeance.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855293</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=RubberneckerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Belinda BauerStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Anatomy students Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Cardiff University have to work out Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the correct cause future of death of bodies they dissect his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as part moving in together would mean a lot of their studies. 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 this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? This creates a problem for student Patrick Fort when he becomes increasingly convinced that his subject has been murderedFor the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779490</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Wrong Quarry Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Max Allan CollinsElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=To create a true antiBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -hero is no easy task. I have read plenty of crime fiction that reports the site was going to have an unlikable son hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a gun at the centre of the story, but rarely are they actually that badchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. You might get Was this a detective ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a gruff exteriorDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a kind heart. Or perhaps a career criminal whose sense result of morals are actually better than the cops. Thank goodness then for Max Allan Collin’s ''Quarry'' novelsone night they spent together some three months ago. Old school murder mysteries that have a hitman at their heart (usually pointing his gun at it)Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781162662</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Costello and Neil Richards0008551324|title=Cherringham - Murder on Thames: A Cozy Crime SeriesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Sarah Edwards returned with her two children It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to sleepy Cherringham approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the Cotswolds after body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her marriage fell apartdeath. Jack Brennan was a homicide detective with NYPD This person, he promises, is someone big and a year ago it will be worth the police doing what he lost his wifewants. All And what he wants now is peace and quiet to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to that end he's living on a canal boat in Cherringhamget an early parole date. Both of them thought that what they needed was Not much to get away from the stress ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and strain - but theyshe're just beginning s even prepared to realise do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that thereDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's something missing in their lives. Excitementhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GFJ9UFG</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=CloudlandA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Joseph OlshanJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Catherine Winslow, It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a retired investigative journalisthalt. Now, writes household columns for various newspapers while she sits holed up in her house in Vermont. One daymother, when the winter snow started meltingHelena, she discovered a body near and her propertyfather are dead in their bed. The discovery unearthed Initially, it looks like a series straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of killings which Catherine the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her neighbour boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a forensic psychiatrist set out to solvecomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906413924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine0571379877|title=As Serious As Death (Primavera Blackstone Mystery)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Primavera Blackstone Edward Jevons is determined to live a quiet life. She's happy in her role as a single parent to the late Oz Blackstone's three children (one of hersworking-class young man, two of someone else's obsessed with his upper- don't askclass friends, it's complicated...) Robert and living in a village on the Spanish coast suits her perfectlyStanza. SheRobert's OK with Liam Matthews tooa theatre director. He's not the love of her life but they rub along well together until Liam mentions the M word. Primavera doesn't want also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to get married and before long Liam is on his wayrun errands for him. Problems never seem to come on Edward has been in love with Stanza since their own university days - and the next one is the arrival of a retired policeman from her Scottish pasthe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Ricky Ross is now Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a private detective and relationship had begun between them but he's working for Jack Weighley, owner not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a budget airline and a man whose PR makes him seem nicer than the reality would provedark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BinaryJo Callaghan|authortitle=Michael CrichtonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Switch When a man is found crucified on TV over the holiday season and you will eventually stumble across top of a show about celebrities before they were famoushill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Sit back and watch Hollywood Royalty gurn on an advert or appear in an early episode of ‘Grange Hill’It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Working before you hit the limelight does not happen solely to actors; authors often had But when there is a second body found crucified a life before they put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard). Indeedfew days later, the likes of Stephen King, Jack Higgins Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and many others had a prolific career under very high profile case that draws a nom de plumelot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Michael Crichton is another such author and after his untimely death 1998 we will Will they be unlikely able to see any new works by him. Thankfullysolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the publisher ''Titan Books'' has gone back to his earlier days under the name John Lange to re-release some case and, potentially, out of his hardboiled crime fiction.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783291257</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=Monument The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Mari HannahC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Kate Daniels is working in Northumberland, following It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the discovery English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of two bodies buried on a beachrequest for help from her beloved aunt, overlooking a beautiful vistaCarole. With no knowledge of Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the local communitycircumstances seem suspicious, Daniels and her loyal team have an overwhelming amount of work to dosay the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as well as a strong sense of justice powering them onantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Meanwhile After the split, recently widowed Emily McCann is struggling to cope with she worked in a return to her prison workcafe, as well as met and married James (on the rebound from the added complication love of a prisoner her life, who has taken a shine to herwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. And the two situations are about to collide with one hell of an impact…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447246047</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1398524085|title=I Love LucidHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Lucid is more than a full-immersion role play game; itCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's THE full-immersion role play gamefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all that needs to be done worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is to plug in not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the playerbody of Greg's brain will take them to the virtual world while during sleepfather, Duncan Ackerley, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatar. However it's also becoming in the game to die forriver. Yes, literally die It was an easy assumption for as players are being murdered while they're connected. Detective Evan Waugh is the investigator given the case police to prove make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he still has what it takescouldn't stand the guilt. However The Salter children are not convinced but there's an added complication for both he little else they can do but get on with their lives and Seth as the investigation continues. Her name is Ellen, the woman for whom Lucid isn't just a way of life, it ''is'' her lifewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Henry1529900360|title=Morning FrostThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1982 DS Jack Frost - not yet forty years old - is burying his wife, Mary. ThereIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's a good turnout for the funeral from the police force fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and the local Masonseven after Alex recovered, which ''might'' be the reason why the local ne'er-do-wells seem Sturgis was reluctant to be rather more active than usualask for his help on difficult cases. Superintendent Mullett makes a day (His assertions that there were only open-and rather a lot of -shut cases which didn't need the night) help of it, whilst Jack finds himself back at the police station and taking a call about a foot found in psychologist only worked for a fieldwhile. (Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'We're looking s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for someone with a very bad limphelp again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though.') Add Two lovers were murdered in a rape at the local comprehensive school (hot on the heels swimming pool of one near a pub) remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and a new computer system which seems designed she is married to confuse an extremely rich man and it's obvious that Jack isn't going to get much chance to grieve for his wife - not that she the Italian. But which of them was at the top of his list of priorities before she died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059307100X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin178763681X|title=Saints of the Shadow BibleKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlie Watts said that being in the Rolling Stones for fifty years consisted of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a decade drumming and four decades waiting for something to happen. John Rebus - back residential cookery school in CID - is feeling much the same way as business is slowBelgravia. Hedidn's t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to come back in as a sergeant, but being back was do what was importanthe wanted. He Paul ''s not even somehow''got the impression thathe'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn' worried about working t expected was for Siobhan Clarke when their positions used someone to be reversedturn up dead. On the other hand Unfortunately, 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 the new sergeant (first time roundperson who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It 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. Fox himself isnHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't in convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the best suicide of positions though - he's on his way back Holly Gilbert and to CID where he knows two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that he's going cold cases to be loathed by everyone for the job he's been doingyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144747</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Almost LoveLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Christina JamesSimon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you pick up In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a crime novel trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and it has the weight his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a brick in your handpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, your suspicions arenyou't immediately alertedre not. Many a gripping tale takes a while in The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the tellingcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773460</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529431735|title=Montalbano's First CaseThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Montalbano was just thirty five It's February 1991 and he was a deputy Inspector up in the mountainsEssex is bitingly cold, which he hated to made Bruce Hopkins' return all the extent that they could put him off his foodmore surprising. But in He'd been exiled on the way that such things are known, he knew that he would be promoted before longCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. What was not known was where The return has come about because he would be promoted 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to'' and this worried him. If it was another posting in the mountains he would resignlive. His girlfriendIt's uncle told the couple that it was Vigatahard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, which delighted Montalbano stripped to his underwear and he went sent to visit, unfortunately witnessing an assault. The wiser traffic cop a watery grave in the area was otherwise engaged (chatting to boot of a couple of dogs, as stolen Ford Sierra. Is it happened...) but Montalbano was quick a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to correct the car registration which he'd noted down wrongly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00FJNMB6E</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=Closed for WinterA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jorn Lier HorstSteve Burrows|rating=34
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|summary=On DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a remote stretch of the southern Norwegian coast sits a selection of short holiday cottages – second homes for the moderately wealthyin Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man turns up armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to close his down securely for murder the winter he finds he has been burgledman. What's more Now he finds what seems to could be facing the culprit in the neighbouring property – stone cold dead behind his balaclava and black clothingdeath penalty. The explanation may perhaps lie in the fact that the secluded coastline has been often used for Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a different kind of crime, but even when Inspector Wisting factors drug-runners into the proceedings, his investigation will still not run according to plan…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737492</amazonuk>diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1521129886|title=Under A Silent MoonThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=On Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the morning of the first of November 2012 the police were called to a cottage just outside a small English villagepoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. A popular, attractive young woman had been found dead It's a good job too because Greg and murder was suspected. Was it Joyce will soon have a coincidence that there was then a report of an apparent suicide of a woman who lived close by? Her car had rolled down into a quarrybaby and they're both delighted. For DCI Louisa Smith this was her first major incident and it was complicated Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she found that gets past the DI on her team was Andy Hamiltonmorning sickness. She'd been Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in a relationship with him and it lasted until she discovered that he was married-law appears to have killed himself. Hamilton hadnStuart't given up on s concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her though - son is not thriving. Lucy, he was still says, is convinced that she Gil would come back to himnever have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Not that he planned but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on it breaking up his marriage, of coursethe night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00ANOB8GS</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Butterfly Grave Responsibilities (Murder NotebooksGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Anne CassidyAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Just before Christmas, JoshIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's uncle Stuart falls from twenty-eight years old. He used to have a cliff high-flying job in an horrific accidentthe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Determined to help'Shades of Cameron Strike', Joshyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, Rose and friend Skeggsie head but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to Newcastle for the festive seasonlook into something. Things Joyce and Helen are awkward between the three. Josh is becoming increasingly paranoid and is convinced half-sisters, or rather, they are being followedwere until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Rose is becoming more Joyce - and more withdrawnher parents, fixating on the deaths Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she has witnessedcould come to fall in front of a train. And Skeggsie is resentful at being forever embroiled in other people Greg's problems when he has challenges of his ownbeen asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=Bronze GodsThe Misper|author=A A AguireKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One of Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the new worlds that trigger but due to the authors have created. Where is vagaries of the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are jury system he was found not guilty of both the customs, et cetera, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating murder and steampunk mixed with fantasy is the double hitmanslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Throw For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in some murder most frighteningly horrid the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and we have back into the makings orbit of a really good timeRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall1448309743|title=The Case of the Love Commandos Devil Stone (Vish Puri MysteriesDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ram and Tulsi fell in love but their different castes meant that Tulsi's In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family were completely against their marrying, with Tulsi's father locking her up and saying that he would hunt down Ramare found murdered. The Love Commandos - a group formed to help mixed-caste couples - came to their aid, but when they liberated Tulsionly item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, Ram was snatched from his hiding placedeath will follow. For Vish PuriThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Indiathat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Most Private Investigatordiscovered', it was proving to be a difficult monththe body. He'd failed to retrieve some stolen jewels The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, a pickpocket had removed his wallet (and he had to depend his Mummy-ji DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to retrieve it) and this case just made everything worse. He could see the problem - but Vish wasn't ''that'shadow' convinced about love matcheshim. 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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{{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|authorisbn=Elizabeth Corley1529427045|title=Dead of WinterThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Louise Nightingale is investigating a series of sexual attacks which are becoming increasingly violent''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. The latest victim is in hospital and Nightingale sees something Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of her younger self in Gasskas, where the girl in so-far-untapped natural resources of the bedarea have sparked a gold rush. Jenni The criminal underworld has not been sleeping roughslow in coming forward. ItSalander's not her real name, but sheniece's ''very'' insistent about mother is the latest woman in the ''i''area to have vanished without trace. Superintendent Andrew Fenwick It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is brought in to investigate the disappearance a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of seventeen-year-old Isabel Mattias, the daughter of an artist and a rock star who died five years ago part Salander played in a car crash. She disappeared from her exclusive boarding school, but has she run away or been abducted? Her friends seem unwilling to provide much information and even the teachers feel that respecting Issiefather's privacy is importantdeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014776</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eileen Robertson1787636607|title=We'll be Watching YouThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't that Christine Brett was exactly nosy, but life hadn't treated her particularly kindly recentlys a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Her marriage had ended in divorce Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and she'd lost her joblooking for a way to get home. Here she was, middle-aged Some are lucky and back living with her mothermanage to get one of the few taxis available. And checking Others squash onto the night bus that people were not breaking will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the law was a 'taxi problem'duty'' not a ''pleasure, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. Admittedly some For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her accusations home. She had been wide of the mark, intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had been a witness when the robbers left the hypermarket and the face of chance to beg the bus driver of the getaway car was familiar - if only she could place itto let her use his. Unfortunately Christine had cried wolf too often and the local police werenThere't too inclined s no option but to give her much credencestart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719810728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrez Bergen1405957174|title=Who is Killing A Death at the Great Capes of Heropa?Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54
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|summary=In search of entertainment, Jack crosses over from real world Melbourne to HeropaFrom the first page, where he becomes (dah daaah!) Southern Cross. However therewe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not much time for end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to acclimatise to his new lycra-clad role or his super-powercall the ambulance he so desperately needs. As What we don't know is who the new addition man is or why Nadine prefers to The Equalizers he has work to dohave him die. The heroes of Heropa are starting to die in I'd better give you a totally unprecedented manner little more background so Jack joins forces with the quartet starting with an that you can understand what'e' (but with a symbol looking suspiciously like a 'z) in an attempt 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 toos happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178279235X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Corban Addison0008530025|title=The Garden of Burning SandMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A little girl named Kuyeya is It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Lusakathe 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, Zambia abusedno one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', deeply shocked and badly injureda true-crime show. American lawyer Zoe Fleming is over there when her friend A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and local police officer Joseph receives to take the call and so her involvement beginsinvestigation further. SheMore to the point, they's determined re going to help Joseph track down Kuyeyado this live on camera, episode by episode. There's attacker but the trail takes some surprising turns through the underbelly no dump of Zambia, alarming Zoe with the extent whole box set - and no shortage of the crusade shecliffhangers. It's taken oncompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063307</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=OmensComing to Find You|author=Kelley ArmstrongJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Olivia TaylorNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-Jones brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a charmed lifesentence. Her family is rich, The barrister tells her fiance perfect and though that she has some questions about her career, 's received a 'silent sentence' - she knows that things 's not been found guilty of anything but will work themselves outhave to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Until she learns that she Of course, it's adopted - her true parents Americamade worse because Nancy's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly on the run rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the media, Olivia finds shelter in papers are making the small town most of Cainsvilleit. It 's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain times''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=The Shadow CollectorA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Kate EllisMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A convicted murderess 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 alleged witch returns Bruno's there to Devil’s Tree Cottage, after eighteen years in jail for butchering two teenage girlssee the show with some friends. When bodies start falling in West Fretham just days after her release It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, dispatched by Wiccan ceremonial bladesKerquelin, she the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the obvious suspectscript. But Luckily, for DI Wesley Peterson, something strange his doctor is there and the man is going on whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the village that casts doubt on man who runs Frenchelon - the identity of the killer military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and on the validity another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of Lilith Benley’s original convictionher father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Doll's HouseTrial|author=Tania CarverRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=There can be no confusion Grant 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 name of the latest Tania Carver novelOld Bailey. There''The Dolls House'' well s just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and truly sums it up, which is made clear as the book opens 's not too long before Knight appears in a very pinkcourt, very well laid out lounge charged with a living doll, also dressed in pink, arranging the room until it is spotlessCliveden's murder. Aside from the slightly ominous undertones and the repetition Knight was told that everything must be perfect; the reader could almost be forgiven best barrister for initially thinking they haven’t picked up a crime novel at all. It soon becomes obvious that this isn’t the case though as we follow DI Phil Brennan back into that same room with the doll sat straighthim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-backed at the precisely laid out dinner tableCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. This time though Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the doll is deadcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550523</amazonuk>
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