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|summary=In October 1987It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, on comes into the morning after police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the great storm, Tania Mills left home to visit bottom of a friend and was never seen again. Twentyfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the Methe's Homicide Command has been stabbed to look into new information death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which might reveal what happened to coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the fifteen-year-old girlwords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. ItHe's not all she has to do though sleep- there are still current cases which have deprived to be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all together. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal with a case the point of domestic violence: the husband is vicious and volatile, falling asleep at work but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened he's determined to do anything but put up with his outburstskeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism between them: will they be able to work together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroStuart Douglas|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the publication dead body of this book leaves just a woman on the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksedge of a reservoir. So if you haven’t yet met with The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mindwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of course with her Williea fellow actor, this is the last-but-one chance for you John Le Breton to do sohelp him investigate matters further. And if you have any interest in quick little action talesThey travel across the country during their days off filming, or even dated kitschuncovering more possible murders and, for both apply hereseemingly, then you should eagerly be on board…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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford0008517061|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-Death in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLonely Place|author=Denzil Meyrick|title=Well of the Winds (DCI Daley)Stig Abell

|summary=It's not a happy time for DCI Jim DaleyFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The woman he loved is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his relationship life with Liz, his ex wifevet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his young son is deteriorating by the day. He's finding solace off-grid and relaxing life to move in the bottom of a glass, whilst the man who used with Livia or does Livia move to do that all too often, his friend DS Brian Scott Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is off alcohol completely the future she wants for herself and has found exercise. her daughter? There's a new officer For the moment they’re enjoying life in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - the present and whilst she might look young, it's unlikely that she got to that position without having a core of steelputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1786482126|title= Miraculous Mysteries The Janus Stone (British Library Crime ClassicsDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a house on child beneath a particular street, number 13, from where the noise is emanatingdoorway. There was no skull. When he peeps through the letterbox he discovers Was this a dead man in the hallway ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a knife in his throatDCI Harry Nelson. He goes to fetch help It's difficult as Ruth knows, but upon returningNelson doesn't, finds that the street does not have she is pregnant with his child as a number 13 and that the body and result of the room he saw have both mysteriously vanishedone 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..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Irvine Welsh0008551324|title= The Blade ArtistDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary=SoIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. In Neither side likes or has any respect for the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welshother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's work and I must confess prepared to tell the police where the body of a particularly gruesome fancy missing person is buried and who was responsible for Begbieher death. This person, the notoriously violenthe promises, terrifying protector/tormentor of is someone big and it will be worth the Trainspotting gangpolice doing what he wants. Whilst this means you are unlikely And what he wants is to be transferred to receive an unbiased review, it does mean you will open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get a passionate onean early parole date. It Not much to ask, is fair to say that I loved ''it? The Blade Artistnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and my only critique would be that it was over too quickly. For those of you anyone who may not be familiar works with Welshhim is kept well away from what's earlier manifestations have no fear, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, father, husband and elegant thug. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into the world of a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence and bloodhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Ould0008405026|title= The Killing BayA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= Between the ScandoIt's sixteen years since nine-year-noir old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Highlands-investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and-Islands crimeher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it was only looks like a matter straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of time until the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a series featuring a life-weary detective complex double murder. set Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Greenland, IcelandRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, or thereabouts appeared. And here we Una Burt) are, with a series based in the Faroesless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Bolton0571379877|title=The PicturesKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=It's the spring of 1939: in Hollywood ''The Wizard of Oz'' Edward Jevons is in production at MGM a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and itStanza. Robert's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for the actors or the studioa theatre director. The police department recognises that itHe's good for Hollywood that all goes smoothly also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and it's Detective Jonathan Crane's job uses Edward to see that the crimes and misdemeanours of the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetrun errands for him. The studio rewards him handsomely for this Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and there's perhaps a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Crainehe's got it easy and wouldn't know drunkenly confided how he feels to investigate a case if it came up and slapped him, but Robert. Most men in CraineRobert's mind all position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward thata relationship had begun between them but he's going not like most men: Edward is left to changestumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elmer MendozaJo Callaghan|title= The Acid TestLeave No Trace|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo When a man is dead. Murdered in cold blood in a desolate, dusty field by found crucified on the side top of the road. Once the most adoreda hill in Nuneaton, celebrated dancer at DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the local strip clubcase alongside her sidekick, she had a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to the deaths of various associates, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''The Acid Test'', following on from MendozaAI detective Lock. It's their first novel ''Silver Bullets''live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. I haven't read the first instalment of this series But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and don't believe a very high profile case that had any impact on this storydraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Lefty has a personal connection Will they be able to solve the casein time, forever haunted by or will Kat find herself taken off the memories of his brief but life changing night with Mayra case and uses his connections to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents and his consuming desire to avenge her death to track down this violent and deranged killer. Along the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos which erupt in explosive levels of violencepotentially, meet a host of damaged, humorous and violent residents out of Culiacán and follow Lefty on a trail of destruction, death and disorder.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Farris Smith1035021803|title= Desperation Road|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Maben is on the run. For a long while it's not clear whether sheThe Antique Hunter's running from something or towards something, or simply back Guide to where it all started. She's got her small daughter with her, and they've been walking for a very long time. It's hard on the child, but it's also clear that if it wasn't for the child Maben would stop running, and it's clear that that would not be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMurder|author=Steven Savile|title=Parallel LinesC L Miller

|summary=Books are full of coincidences, because if they were not, they would be pretty dullIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. The action takes place during an extraordinary timescale She's back now because of the characters – the time they were involved in a bank robberyrequest for help from her beloved aunt, or their loved one was murderedCarole. People are more likely Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to read this type of book than one about say the time they picked out their new curtainsleast. For Arthur was the intrigue reason why Freya had not been back to happenthe village: Arthur, links between characters have to be madeshe feels, but balancing coincidence is trickylet her down badly. Too little and the characters don't gelEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, too much and you start she has not felt able to think be near the book is supernaturalman or pursue the profession she loved. Did Steven Savile get After the balance right split, she worked in ''Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hilary1398524085|title=Quieter than Killing (D I Marnie Rome 4)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=The attacks Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all seemed to be quite randomworried but - strangely - her husband, but the nights were darkAlec, is not. the weather freezing Shortly afterwards, Etty and D I Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake were spending quite a lot of time on Greg, find the streets body of London. Then MarnieGreg's family home was ransacked and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on father, Duncan Ackerley, in the order of someone) who knew herriver. Normally Commander Welland would have been able It was an easy assumption for the police to give Marnie a degree of protection - he knew her history all too well - but his cancer make that Duncan had returned murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he was going to be away for four months. His couldn't stand-in was nowhere near as understanding in this or other mattersthe guilt. Then it was established that a child was missing - had been missing for ten weeks - The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but no one had reported itget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sam Blake1529900360|title= Little BonesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= It was a fairly ordinary break in. A young artisthadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's home fault that Alex Delaware had been given a going overbadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, but it Sturgis was hard reluctant to see that much had been takenask for his help on difficult cases. There His assertions that there were suspicions that it might have been one of the usual suspects, only the shoes werenopen-and-shut cases which didn't as theyneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'd have expected to find them if s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was to be something that the man she loved needed. The next casedid look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Something else He was not as you might expect the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to find it: a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by the look of extremely rich man and it, and in 's not the hem, stitched in there, tiny bonesItalian. Human bones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elly Griffiths178763681X|title=The Chalk Pit (Dr Ruth Galloway)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Norwich is - apparently - riddled with tunnels, many dating back Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to the time when chalk was mined theredo what he wanted. When bones are discovered in one of Paul ''somehow'' got the tunnels it seems obvious impression that theyhe've been there for hundreds of yearsd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, isnit didn't so certainturn out that way. The colour doesn't look right teaching - and she has a suspicion that the bones have been boiled: they've also not been there that longproblems - are all his own. DCI Harry Nelson has a murder case on his handsThe one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson is investigating Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the disappearance of a local rough sleeper body and there's not a lot everyone knows that the police consider that person to go on other than be the rumour that she's 'gone underground', but what, exactly, does that mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1529421284|title= DarktownLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta, GeorgiaIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. The Deep South. This is country that fought In a gully, a human skeleton came to keep the right to own slaves, surface and would continue fighting every last bastion of segregation as forensic testing proved the United States slowly clawed its way body to a humane system of governance of all her peoplebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. ThatHe's d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a history that todaysimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's southerners are variously proud or ashamed of, or choose to ignore, or hope to forget, or continue to strive againstt convinced. VariouslyGeary was a townie, because people so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are also individuals connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and we all hold to our own view of what is righttwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. For many Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of us, what is the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''right'' is sometimes hard s cold cases to draw the lines around…but what is ''wrong'' is much more clear-cutyou and me) investigate. Divisions based on skin colour, or race, or creed are wrong. No two ways about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susanna Beard1529425867|title= Dare to RememberLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Lisa FulbrookIn 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 best friend is dead – the victim not any of a brutal attack who fell to her death from her own apartment windowthose things. Lisa was there He's white, she too was originated from a victim of the attack that killed her best friendtrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and she is left with the physical his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and emotional scars to prove ittrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Traumatised by the events, Lisa flees You might wonder if you're being introduced to a country village to help settle her frightened mindpolice procedural written for laughs. But what happened that night still torments her; she is plagued by vicious flashbacks and questions surrounding why she and her best friend Ali were targeted Well, because you're not. The two men are just different sides of the one thing Lisa does know is that she can't remember what really happened that fateful nightsame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. How did their assailant know them? Was Sometimes it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>s problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harry Brett1529431735|title= Time To WinThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary= I have no idea what Great Yarmouth has ever done to Harry Brett, but, boy, It's February 1991 and Essex is he getting his own back! Now personallybitingly cold, I donwhich made Bruce Hopkins't much like return all the town, and I know it has its seedy side, like most places, but I can't believe it's quite this badmore surprising. According to Brett, He'd been exiled on the weather's Costa del Sol as dreary as the down'n'outs, the streets are grim, and the people worsea wanted drug smuggler for a decade. He makes the point that noThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-one comes to Yarmouth for their summer holidays anymore…if wife, saying that wasnshe's ill and hasn't true before this book, itlong to live. It's likely hard to be so afterwards. If a place could sue for defamation of characterfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, the town would want stripped to his underwear and sent to. The opening shot is of Richard Goodwin going down into a watery grave in the murky waters boot of the Yare out back of his officea stolen Ford Sierra. Goodwin was not Is it a warning from a good person... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147215262X</amazonuk>Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Mcdonald0861541774|title=SnatchA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's not often that you get two books for the price of oneclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, but if you are going has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see this anywhere it will likely be meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a reissuestreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Taking the back catalogue of an author and compiling Initially, he faced a larger book consisting charge of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that you already he might haveplanned to murder the man. Hard Case Crime have done this with two books by ''Fletch'' author Gregory McdonaldNow he could be facing the death penalty. Surely two books that centre on kidnapping by the same author would be similar enough Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be placed together? Think againhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=The PledgeKeith Redfern

|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerland, 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 girl has been murdered good job too because Greg and left for anyone to see in Joyce will soon have a forestbaby and they're both delighted. The police come, and soon find out who Joyce will be more delighted about the villagers already think is baby when she gets past the sole suspect – a man known for illegal liaisons with young girlsmorning sickness. They have, Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in fact, -law appears to put a compelling case against lynch mob rule just to get him back for investigationhave killed himself. He does confessStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, after a lengthy process – who's struggling to make ends meet and then hangs himselfher son is not thriving. But the leader of the investigationLucy, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to a different job elsewherehe says, is determined to follow up on convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the promise he made to coroner have accepted that the girldeath was suicide, but Stuart's parents, prepared to pay Greg to make find out what happened on the guilty person face justicenight Gil died. It's a promise, however, with far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico AxatB0CK3MYJ56|title= Kill the Next OneResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= After getting started with It's the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he'Kill the Next Ones now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales . Nice bloke, but where a middle-aged man with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of life experience that backs up this profession? On the pageother hand, he has been asked to look into something. The novel opens with Ted McKay Joyce and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect lifeHelen are half-sisters, including a beautiful wife and two adoring childrenor rather, but has discovered that he is also they were until Helen was killed in possession of what's been written off as a tragic accident at an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himunmanned level crossing. However Joyce - and her parents, right before he decides to take the shot Oliver and end his life, Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there is a knock on his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities or how she could come to correct the imbalances fall in front of the lawa train. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1838954481|title=Out of BoundsThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=54

|summary=When Ryan Kennedy killed a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and ended up in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection to an unsolved murder from years before his birthpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. On He pulled the face trigger but due to the vagaries of it, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforward, but it's jury system he was found notguilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in this case it looks as though the ''law'' itself might prove to be an insurmountable barrier. Shecountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn to another case too - one which she really has no business investigating into a wider investigation - and one which has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades earlier. Like back into the case orbit of the teenage joyrider ''nothing'' is quite as it seemsRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1448309743|title=Evil Games The Devil Stone (D I Kim StoneDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=When Ruth saw In the man who had raped her coming out village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a local pub she was traumatised. He'd served his time (albeit it was rather short) and now he was free - and she was frightenedwealthy family are found murdered. The rapist was murdered and DI Kim only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone and her team were called upon to solve : myth says that if the killing - and quicklystone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. There The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'wasdiscovered'' a little bit of a feeling that the man had got what was coming body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him and didn't deserve a lot of sympathy, but professionalism won the day. Then more revenge killings came to light and it was obvious to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1529077699|title=The Trophy ChildRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=We've all encountered pushy mothers - the ones who seem determined not to let their children have a moment'It's peace between all the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged for thembloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Karen Bloom is Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a different class though. Her sonmonth and then turned up, Ewannaked and dead, was something of in a disappointmentsmall boat, but she's not going anchored in Scully Cove close to allow that to happen to her daughterthe village of Greystone, the talented Brontein Devon. There's not Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a moment to spare between renowned adventurer, round the music lessons, dance classes world sailor and extra school work - sometimes they have to eat on the hoof from one lesson to anotherall round ''celebrity''. The rest of the family can see the cost to Bronte and to the family I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a whole, but Karen will not listen, will not change her wayslittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Then one day Bronte disappears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1529427045|title=Extreme PreyThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|genre=Crime |summary=Making a long running series evolve organically is a very tricky business; a character that ''Life has been around more to offer than people - prime numbers for 26 booksexample''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, and nearly as many years, is not going to be where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the same person that started outarea have sparked a gold rush. Age catches up with us all and many crime writer have come up against the problem of retirement; The criminal underworld has not their own, but that of their characterbeen slow in coming forward. Why Salander's niece's mother is a 70 year old still out chasing criminals and shooting things? the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. Lucas Davenport It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a character remarkably gifted teenager who has always been a maverick, doing what he wants, therefore quitting 's unaware of the police was never going to stop himpart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Dickinson1787636607|title=The Ad ManTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=Tim Collinwood is single and so, working in Morocco as an advertising creative, heIt's free to enjoy a scene replicated all his host country has to offer: too often in the expense accounts, early hours of the opulence 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 womenfew taxis available. Then it happensOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. He gets The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the contract light of his life'the missing women'. He just needs to create For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a PR campaign that will reassure Morocco that French business has long way short of her best interests at hearthome. The truth may be otherwise She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but creating the façade is what advertising is abouther phone's dead. Perhaps Tim should have noticed that there are clues from The bus had driven off before she had the beginning as chance to how shady this job is, including needing beg the bus driver to work under an assumed identitylet her use his. However, the secrecy becomes a side issue as something more important takes TimThere's concentration: survival for him no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and those around himin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)1405957174|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary=Strange things are happening, as they are most wont to do, in rural Iceland. In a very remote fjordside community in the NW a passing visitor has left From the legacy of a dangerous African virusfirst page, which has claimed two lives. Itwe know that Nadine Walsh's becoming national news, to the extent that a TV journalist is in touch for updatesparty will not end well. The community only has two policemen, trying victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to man their station round call the clock between them to make sure instant responses are possibleambulance he so desperately needs. But one of them has also been asked What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to look into a mysterious cold case from the 1950s, when a lady died from poisoning – and that in a community of only four adults and a babyhave him die. – Or was it five and I'd better give you a baby, as a newly-found photograph suggests? Elsewhere, in Reykjavik, a young couple are troubled by an intruder – but little more background so that wonyou can understand what't have any connection to the other cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>s happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A L Gaylin0008530025|title= What Remains of Me|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= On the hottest night of the year, June 28, 1980 teenager Kelly Lund walked into a wrap party and shot the director, John McFadden dead. Two to the chest, one to the head, dead and centre. She offered no defence, though her attorneys played up her drug use and the heat but she still got 25-to-life. A journalist saw something Murder in her nervous smile on the court steps, part of her defence mechanism others might have argued, called it the Mona Lisa Death Smile and set about building a demon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784756180</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Angela Marsons|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)Cara Hunter

|summary=Initially it looked like a robbery gone wrong, or possibly a carjack, only the car It was still there in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and so was found the expensive watch and body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the jewellrygarden of their West London home. Her wallet hadnHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't been d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken eitherwas obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, but sheno one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous''d been killed by , a single, precise stab to the hearttrue-crime show. There was no sign A group of anger: in fact there seemed experts has been brought together to be a complete lack emotion review the evidence and there was nothing to suggest that the victim had attracted take the violence - she was a caring mother and dedicated social workerinvestigation further. D I Kim Stone wasnMore to the point, they't alone in thinking that something didn't add up. Then a local drug addict was found with an identical woundre going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's nothing to link no dump of the two cases other than the wounds whole box set - and Stoneno shortage of cliffhangers. It's instinctscompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons0241996104|title=Lost Girls (D I Kim Stone)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Charlotte Nancy's mother and Amy step-father were best friends: they seemed to do everything together brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the trip to the swimming pool was no differenther step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. It was all carefully planned - they were to stay in We first meet Nancy outside the building until one of the parents arrived to pick them upcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. Only, it didn't work out like The barrister tells her that: the mothershe's car was disabled and before the pick up time both parents had received a text message to say that the girls had 'silent sentence' - she's not been abducted. It would get worse too - the next communication would tell them that they would found guilty of anything but will have to bid live with what happened for the rest of her life of their child. The parents who bid Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most would get their child backof it. The other would ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not return. It sounds unbelievable, be printed but it had happened beforeis undoubtedly spoken. One child was released, but not even the body of the other child had been found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1529413680|title=FinisterreA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54

|summary=The Second World War One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is almost lost the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but in a lastgoes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, desperate roll the man playing one of the dice main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the German High command launch Operation Finisterrescript. In America Luckily, his doctor is there and the apparent suicide of man is whisked away in a scientist working on the atom bomb helicopter. A local doctor (and off the coast friend of Spain the shipwreck Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a German submarinesenior government employee, become catalysts as the plans spiral out man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of control, leading to a shattering climax. 'Finisterreher father' is s friends for a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense and stylepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>