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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Frederic Dard David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The King police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of Foolsa fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Having sort of split up with his partnerFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coastJake Johnson, when he chances to meet a married English woman, Marjoriehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. They meet in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the most unusual ways – future of his life with two identical cars parked next to each otherhis vet girlfriend, she gets in the wrong one by mistake, then leaves Livia and her beach bag behind. Lo and behold they find each other at the casinodaughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and the following day, when she arrives at his hotel relaxing life to reclaim her bag, they meet heart move in with Livia or does Livia move to heart. Jean-Marie sees Little Sky despite her to be a very unhappily married woman, and reservations about whether or not even this is the arrival of his partner future she wants for herself and make-up sex can convince him he is not her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in love with Marjoriethe present and putting the future on the back burner. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude1786482126|title= Death Makes A ProphetThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Crime Classic'' I had to check apartments - when they discovered the first publication datebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Reading the first two pagesWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, it could easily have been written in 1967Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, or but Nelson doesn'87t, or even (possibly that she is pregnant with his child as a pasticheresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie) in 2017|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Given that BudeNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's witty caper originally came out in 1947prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's slightly criminal even prepared to do the other thing that itHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's taken this long to resurfacehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0008405026|title=Dead A Stranger in the Dark Family (Cooper and FryMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5

|summary=It's ten sixteen years since Reece Bower nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was accused of never found and the murder of his wifeinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, but the case never came to trial: Annette Bower's body was never found and although her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder can be prosecuted without a body /suicide but there was an added problem here. Annette's father said something about the positioning of the bodies that he'd seen his daughter a couple of days after she'd apparently disappearedmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Had Annette simply left the marriage that What looked as though it was in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? Then, to be an open-and-shut case is now a decade later, Reece Bower disappears without tracecomplex double murder. His new partner wants some answersKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris0571379877|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5

|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediaEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. There He's plenty here to likealso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and plenty not entitled and uses Edward torun errands for him. But good structure Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and scramjet pace keep this one flying he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the final pagetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart NevilleJo Callaghan|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)Leave No Trace

|summary=Harry Garrick had been When a successful businessman until man is found crucified on the car accident which cost him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to his wife for even the most intimate functionscase alongside her sidekick, so there was not a the AI detective Lock. It''lot'' of surprise whens their first live case together, six months later, he seemed to have taken his own lifehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. One sachet of morphine granulesBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, mixed in Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a pot of yoghurt had given him very high profile case that draws a good night's sleep. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets lot of granules, if the empty packets were anything unwanted attention to go bytheir AI Future Policing project. It seemed obvious that Will they be able to solve the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the widowcase and, Roberta Garrickpotentially, and the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously close. Perhaps out of a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closedcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)1035021803|title= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small townrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a good husband father Carole. Freya's former mentor and neighbourCarole's close friend, he moves through life buoyed by his faithArthur Crockleford, in both God is dead and justicethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man's tenuously ordered life and drags him 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 antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the edge of man or pursue the abyssprofession she loved. McCarthy is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and After the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps Francksplit, she worked in a private detective with a shadowy agendacafe, a raging cocaine habit met and a twisted sense married James (on the rebound from the love of morality. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crimeher life, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality who was murdered) and depravity into his ear with a kiss Freya and a winkJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis1398524085|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe and France is occupied, thereCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's something of a lull in Britainfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and London is spared the nightly blitzher daughter, Etty. are all worried but no one's under any illusions that it could start again at any time- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. ThereShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's been a certain relaxation father, Duncan Ackerley, in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on the rise and not all of them go as they shouldriver. A young woman is found dead in a London hotel room as It was an easy assumption for the result of a botched operation: she has no identification police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and no one knows who then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the father of the baby was, or who performed the operationguilt. The 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>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529900360|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really a detective. HeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's just a normal bloke - though fault that might depend Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on your definition of 'normal' difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a collection of vinyl in psychologist only worked for a house that happens to be adjacent to the ''Abbey'while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, a posh rehab place notorious who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the celebrities it treatsinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing people The next case did look simple, even if he does search for rare recordsthough. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help Two lovers were murdered in tracing a missing child the swimming pool of a 1960's female rock star whose own death was shrouded remote property in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says noBel Air. That He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is, until he is told that married to an extremely rich man and it's not the job would also involve tracing a rare singleItalian. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson178763681X|title=Sleeping in the GroundKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=It was the sort 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 display which would have been better in black getting both men and white and without a sound track, but women to do what happened he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the Red Wedding, as it would come school to be knownassist Paul, was noisywho had a broken arm, brutal but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and fatalthe problems - are all his own. A sniper on a distant hillside began shooting at the wedding party: three people, including the bride died immediatelyThe one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Another twoUnfortunately, including the bridegroom would die soon afterwards. Terry Gilchrist saw he was the shooter disappearing over person who discovered the hillside, but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word for it when they finally arrived body and it was a further three-quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for everyone knows that the paramedics police consider that person to come to the scene. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too longprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529421284|title=Suspicion (Inspector Barlach 2)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach is dying. We did know It was one of those flash downpours that, more or less, from [[The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|the first book]] to feature him, but it's confirmed here by us opening on him British weather often delivers in a clinic bed, with a year left to live. But his doctor is helping him in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his lifeheatwave. When his doctor blanches at the sight of a magazine photograph featuring In a Nazi camp doctor at workgully, a story slowly starts human skeleton came to emerge, one that may prove the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a wicked conspiracy to keep the Nazi alive known drug user and still practicinghad learning disabilities, under someone elseso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's namet convinced. BarlachGeary was a townie, clearly well suited so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to go under cover as someone needing the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to go under two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the knife, works up a plan to check whether his suspicion is correcttime. WhatLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's the worst that could happen after all? – even were he cold cases to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>you and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1529425867|title=Forever Lost and a DeathNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=A lot 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 time Ryan and effort goes into the average moviefather of Ryan, but this is at least double in the case not. He's not any of Bondthose things. Each one is part of He's white, originated from a decadetrailer park, barely educated (reading's long institution not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and must exceltrackies. With this They're usually in mind there is lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themespolice procedural written for laughs. Well, wannabe-Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actorsyou're not. For every successful ''Garbage'' Bond theme, there The two men are numerous other indie bands that never made just different sides of the cutsame policing coin. Donald E Westlake was a successful thriller writer in his own right, but once he jumped aboard Sometimes the good ship Bond his work never cut combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. The result was this adaptation of his failed Bond script, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= L F Robertson1529431735|title= Two Lost BoysThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 24|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is a seasoned death row appeals attorney. Overworked, lonely, and feeling like sheIt's drunk her fill of desperation February 1991 and sadnessEssex is bitingly cold, she takes on one final case, determined it will be her lastwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Marion He'Andy' Hardy is sweet, polite, good-natured, and d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a little slow, but according to the state, decade. The return has come about because he's also had a rapist and a murderer. Moodie must untangle letter from his aging case against the clock. She can't save his innocenceex-wife, but maybe saying that she 's ill and hasn'cant long to live. It'' save s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his lifeunderwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts0861541774|title=The ObsessionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasn't always lived there. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi Carson. NaomiDCI Domenic Jejeune's life had to start again whenclose friend and former colleague, aged 11Danny Maik, she sneakily followed her father into the woods has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see if meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was hiding her birthday presentfacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. That night she saw something no child… no person... should seeInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. As an adult she's now putting her life back together and even coping with Now he could be facing the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksdeath penalty. The past will one day repeat itself Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and this time Naomi will find shewouldn's the targett help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse1521129886|title= The Woman in the WoodThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the art of gardening: point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'A seed of s a plot drops into my head, I plant it with good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking it through, baby and once they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the green shoots come through, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grown.' Certainly baby when she carefully cultivates her characters, meticulously researches gets past the locations for her books and morning sickness. Greg is approached by an expert at creating a fast paced plot with heart old friend whose brother-in the mouth moments. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds and draw on inner hidden strengths -law appears to triumph over adversityhave killed himself. Invariably her well-crafted novels Stuart's concerned about his sister, whether they be historical fictionLucy, family sagas or crime stories are captivating best sellers. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I had high expectations for who's struggling to make ends meet and her latest novelson is not thriving. Whilst it delivered on some levels Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it regrettably didnsimply wasn't leave me in disbelief at his nature. The police and the denouementcoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin WalkerB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=The body of a woman was found beneath the ruined Templar chateau of Commarque, but what had she been doing there? SheIt'd apparently been climbing s the structure, but using some cheap 1990s and unsuitable ropeGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Sprayed on the wall He used to have a high-flying job in orange paint were the letter city but it wasn't satisfying so he'IFTIs now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Had she been intending to write more when she fellNice bloke, but if so, where was 's the paint - and the ropelife experience that backs up this profession? Her neck had On the other hand, he has been broken, but was this an accidental fall when doing asked to look into something stupid. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or had she rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been pushed? written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. She carried no identification Joyce - and her fingerprints werenparents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't known understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to the French police or Interpolfall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1838954481|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)The Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon AnsgarRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's father passes away, he makes no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the decision to return trigger but due to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control vagaries of his family's estate. He has been gone for many years, during which time the jury system he has pursued a career in was found not guilty of both the army murder and survived a posting in Afghanistanthe manslaughter of the officer. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option And so lives must go on. For most people DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in his position, returning home to the peaceful life of lordship over countryside but when a castle and village would sound like missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a dream come true. But Duncul Castle wider investigation - and back into the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars orbit of Duncul, and some of Glencul's residents would kill for itRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1448309743|title=HellfireThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood in the door village of Cronchie on the caravan and surveyed the sceneWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The mother - she'd be in her thirties - and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbed. There was blood everywhere and only item missing from the only clue as to who had murdered them was a bloody footprint. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden and her son Simon? You see, Bonnie home is one of those people whom you feel the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is due some luckremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. As a child she wanted to be a doctor, The only suspects are known Satanists but when we go back to December 2004 she was working as a home help and dealing with some of the most difficult invalids in the area. Simonmany ways, that's father had left them and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both an easy conclusion given that two of them hating 'discovered' the fact that Simon had body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to work'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1529077699|title=Love Like BloodThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=DI Nicola Tanner''It's loverall bloody peculiar, Susanisn't it, was brutally murdered as she entered the hallway of their home. SheSir?'d been driving Nicola's car and  Well yes, it seemed obvious that this was is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings month and then turned up, naked and was convinced that many of the cases were contracted out dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the same peoplevillage of Greystone, in Devon. Was she getting too close? Tanner wants Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the killers world sailor and the go-betweens, but itall round 's not as easy as it might be as there's no obvious route to take: several faiths are involved so itcelebrity's not just a case of tracking the killers down through a family's place of worship. After SusanI ''nearly'' said 's death Tanner is angry and wants revenge all- then sheround good egg's frustrated when shebut as we's taken off the honour killings cases ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and put on compassionate leave. She has a solution though: she calls on the services of D I Tom Thorne who - in policing terms - is everything that she his background isn'texactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529427045|title=Sleep Baby Sleep (Detective Pieter Voss)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|summary=Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years old and is known as 'the flower girl' in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market, where she works on her father's stall. It's almost impossible Life has more to believe that she's missing as sheoffer than people - prime numbers for example's very personable and always popular with the customers. When she's found she's barely alive though, tied to a stone angel in a graveyard and surrounded by a ring of fire. In her body there are traces of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to the Sleeping Beauty murders. He had his doubts at the time as to whether or not everyone involved had been caught: now it seems that his doubts have come back to haunt him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author= Jane Harper|title= The Dry|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book takes a while Lisbeth Salander has headed north to get into. Sometimes it's quicker than that. If Harper hadn't grabbed me in the first paragraphsmall town of Gasskas, she certainly had halfwhere the so-far-way down untapped natural resources of the second page: ''So nothing reacted when deep inside the house, the baby started cryingarea have sparked a gold rush.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Menczer|title= An Unlikely Agent|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1905 The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John Salander's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaretniece's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on mother is the tram hands her a newspaper open at latest woman in the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that promises to Salander became her niece'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as s guardian but it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission quickly becomes obvious that Svala is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaretremarkably gifted teenager who's guilty love unaware of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and part Salander played in her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of lovefather's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)1787636607|title= Block 46 The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to appear at a Cartier event presenting some get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of her new creationsthe few taxis available. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept Others squash onto the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionnight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. When a young The womanall regret the 's mutilated body is discovered taxi problem', particularly in a Swedish marina near Linnéathe light of 's holiday home, Alexisthe missing women' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa's death is not unique; in fact For one young woman, she is only the latest in final stop on the bus leaves her a string long way short of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Falkenbergcollect her - but her phone's dead. Up until now, The bus had driven off before she had the bodies have all belonged chance to young boys, so what has caused beg the killer bus driver to change let her use his or her MO? How can Alexis help . There's no option but to find justice for her friend, start walking - unsuitably clothed and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1405957174|title= No Middle NameA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theoryFrom the first page, to which those who regularly read my reviews will we know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short storyNadine Walsh's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grassparty will not end well. This The victim - a man - is particularly true, some say, dying when we first meet him and I have been known Nadine consciously makes no effort to concur, of call the crime and thriller genresambulance he so desperately needs. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply havenWhat we don't been paying attention. Not even know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to shorter offerings my by favourite authorshave him die. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'I' : d better give you a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher'little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe0008530025|title= The Silence Between BreathsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm always wary It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of author endorsementsher stepfather, even those from people I rate as writersLuke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the ''harrowing vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and humaneit'' quote from Ian Rankin on s now the front cover subject of ''The Silence Between BreathsInfamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There' does not overstate s no dump of the casewhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. This is an extremely powerful bookIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath0241996104|title= A Burning in the DarknessComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= At a busy airportNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the 80 million passengerscourt, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in after Martin receives a terrible crimelife sentence. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey The barrister tells her that pitches love against revenge. When she's received a mysterious woman confides a dark secret, he is motivated to redress a heart'silent sentence' -breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to unmasking a past crimelive with what happened for the rest of her life. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness Of course, sparking memories of Michaelit's made worse because Nancy's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the sake most of love it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and truth''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Hawley1529413680|title=Before the FallA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is a child émigré to Cuba in 1939, looking forward to being joined the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from Germany by his parents. They're on board the St Louis in Havana docks but English in a country 1370 and a time rife with politics and corruption, the ship is turned back without permitting any of their passengers to disembark. Now, nearly 80 years later, DanielBruno's son wants there to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that see the Kaminskys had show with them on the ill-fated shipsome friends. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers to something that may seem straightforward It's all been very carefully choreographed but they soon realise it will prove to be anything but.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Gemmell|title= Rhyming Rings|rating=3.5|genre= Crime|summary= David Gemmell goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is a well-known nameseriously injured when he departs from the script. Until Luckily, his death in 2006 he topped doctor is there and the UK author lists in fantasy and historical fiction…but some will suggest that this previously unpublished manuscript shows that he might have gone man is whisked away in a different direction entirelyhelicopter. He might have opted for A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a life of crimesenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Crime fiction that One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is. Iflying in with some of her father'll come back to thats friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>