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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teresa Solana and Peter BushB0CYV674G2|title=A Shortcut to ParadiseSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=The characters are introduced to the reader one at a timeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. The main ones have a whole chapter or two to tell their storyA man, including covered in mud and blood - and carrying a bit of background information but aside from all of thisknife, they all seem to have some sort comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of connection to a swish, literary event. So, for example, there's a young, rather frazzled husband called Ernest. You can tell that freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's a kindly, mild personbeen stabbed to death. He takes DCI John Tanner is just back from his role as father, husband and (although meagre) breadwinner veryhoneymoon, very seriously. He's a translator. He's had some bad luck to contend which coincided with lately and the household bills are piling up but he spares birth of his wife the sorry details of their current financial statedaughter Samantha. But all You would think he's doing is piling on d be grateful for an easy answer but the pressure words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for himselfeach other. SomethingHe's got to give ... and it does. Bigsleep-time. And without wishing deprived to spoil the plot in any way, I think I can safely say that point of falling asleep at work but he ' ... decided s determined to put himself into the shoes of the heroes keep going - probably because he translated and, for the first time in his life, he took the bull by the hornscan't get any sleep at home.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738559</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane CaseyStuart Douglas|title=The Burning|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The book opens with a bunch of young women enjoying a drink-fuelled night out in the capital. And as often happens, there's always one absolutely paralytic Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - with drastic consequences. Casey gives her readers a sharp taste of danger early on as we accompany the unfortunate Kelly on a terrifying taxi ride. The media is stirring up a right old frenzy and calling this local serial killer ''The Burning Man''. And yes, it's a suitably horrible title and we hear it time and time again throughout Death at the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936004</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Massimo Carlotto|title=Bandit LoveDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2004 three criminals-turned-good are approached by During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a stranger to investigate woman on the edge of a drugs haul, stolen from a fully-secure institutereservoir. Rather than be pressurised into The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the job by whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a man who cannot state what info he needsfellow actor, nor for whom nor why, they let John Le Breton to help him die, leaving his ugly bling ring behind for his operatorsinvestigate matters further. In 2006 one of them has They travel across the nightmare of his girlfriend being kidnappedcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and replaced by , seemingly, a link to death during the same ringSecond World War. Can the trio work out the identity of But is there really a man dead two years, involved somehow in link between the federal theft, and counter the current crimedeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>193337280X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Miller0008517061|title=Kiss Me QuickDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The jacket cover is certainly eye-catchingFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, a nice sepia-tinged photograph of Brighton seafronthas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The Prologue opens in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the year 1939future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, also as moving in the Brighton area. A young Jack Regent is enjoying the start together would mean a lot of what appears compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to be a new life. He's apparently paid move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the price future she wants for previous 'events' herself and is now a reformed character. Or is heher daughter? The next couple of pages would suggest otherwise. But then again, Jack's smart, very smart. He makes sure that he doesn't get his hands dirty. He leaves that for others. For the mugsmoment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Talbot1786482126|title=Grandville Mon AmourThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a body Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was washed up on going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the beach bones of a rural Icelandic fishing village the powers-that-be were rather keen that the death should be written off as an accidentchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. After allWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, falling into the water when you've had far too much to drink is not unusualDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HvalvickIt's police sargeantdifficult as Ruth knows, Gunnhildur, isnbut Nelson doesn't convinced though. The 'drinking too much' was done in , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the bars of Reykjavik, one night they spent together some hundred kilometres awaythree months ago. If the man was too drunk Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to walk he was certainly in no position to drive a car – so who brought him to his death – and why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013608</amazonuk>sudden bouts of sickness.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Kolczynski0008551324|title=The Oxford VirusDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Dr Olembé discovers a potential cure It's unusual for cancer and is given anyone from the go-ahead Hardie family to begin human trials, approach the potential rewards are hugepolice. Sadly, his first human patient dies shortly afterwards Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. Medical neglect? Is Dr OlembéBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's reputation finished? Well, before we have much time prepared to consider these things, tell the police where the body of a second body missing person is discoveredburied and who was responsible for her death. This time person, he promises, is someone big and it's a career academic at will be worth the universitypolice doing what he wants. Was this suicide? Are And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the two deaths linkedremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? Part medical crime story, part academic satire, part speculative fiction, The Oxford Virus addresses this casenew 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 anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095658800X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spencer Quinn0008405026|title=Thereby Hangs a TailA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=I have 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 admit to both skepticism a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and curiosity when I realised that this novel is narrated by a dogher father are dead in their bed. It's crime fictionInitially, which isn't my usual genre of choice; I don't it looks like anything gorier or more suspenseful than Agatha Christiea straightforward murder/suicide but there's relatively tame workssomething about the positioning of 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 complex double murder. But Kerrigan is convinced that the pun explanation lies in the bookRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's title suggested that there might be an element of humourboss, so I succumbed to my instincts and requested this bookUna Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847398375</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael White0571379877|title=The Art of MurderKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Chief Inspector Jack Pendragon has had Edward Jevons is a lot of experience of murder but heworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's never experienced anything like the one he was called to on a wintery January morning in Whitechapeltheatre director. The man is horribly mutilated but heHe's held up in a chair also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and the scene uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been set as a nod in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the surrealist painter, MagritteRobert. This is art as murder. Back Most men in Whitechapel in the 1880s the man who was probably the most famous murderer of Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them all. Hebut he's planned not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the murder two of four local prostitutes with the bodies being horribly mutilated. Four, he feels, is them kissing in a satisfyingly balanced number. This is murder as artdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551446</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Maria's body was When a man is found by her friend Karen. It was hanging from crucified on the rafters top of her holiday home at Lake Thingvallavatn and when Detective Erlendur arrived it seemed like a straightforward case of suicide. Maria had been hill in a poor mental state since Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the death of case alongside her mother two years previously and there was a history of depressionsidekick, the AI detective Lock. It wasn't until Karen approached Erlendur s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a recording of potential serial killer and a séance which Maria had attended shortly before her death very high profile case that his curiosity was arouseddraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. There was no great pressure at work and he had Will they be able to solve the case in time to indulge himself, so he looked further into or will Kat find herself taken off the case along with the unsolved disappearances thirty years earlier and, potentially, out of two unconnected people.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099532271</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Dean1035021803|title=To Die AloneThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The bodies 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 a man request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and his dog are found in an isolated part of the northern hills. The injuriescircumstances seem suspicious, particularly to say the dog are horrific and although it initially looks though least. Arthur was the man might have died from accidental injuries it soon becomes obvious that he's reason why Freya had not been stabbedback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The victim – Trevor Meredith – has been acting strangely lately as it looks as Even though he might have been aware that he was they were in danger. And where business together as antique hunters, she has his girl friend disappeared not felt able to? be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. More to After the pointsplit, whoshe worked in a cafe, ''exactly''met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, is Trevor Meredith. Chief Inspector Jack Harris who was murdered) and Freya and his team James have their work cut outnow divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Sargeant1398524085|title=Long Time WaitingHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Pippa Adams is determined to do well on Charlotte Salter was expected at her first day as a CID detectivehusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, especially when she is plunged straight into a murder case. Howeversons Niall, an unfortunate comment about Agatha Christie plunges that into disarray Paul and Ollie and she becomes known as 'Agatha'her daughter, Etty. There are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is little time to dwell on this though; there is a murder to solvenot. Two men broke into the Brocks' home late one night Shortly afterwards, took Carl Brock away Etty and killed himGreg, and chained his wifefind the body of Greg's father, GabyDuncan Ackerley, to a chairin the river. Carl Brock It was a teacher an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and presumably above reproach - but as Pippa and her colleagues investigate, all sorts of issues come to then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the surface and it seems that Carl was guilt. The Salter children are not as innocent as convinced but there's little else they first presumedcan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Can Pippa find out the truth and persuade her disdainful colleagues that she is a capable detective?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091060</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Magson1529900360|title=Death on the MaraisThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We meet the central character, Inspector Rocco and are informed It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he's a city manfelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, happiest pounding the elegant streets of ParisSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. But suddenly His assertions that there were only open-and against his will, he finds himself in -shut cases which didn't need the stickshelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's not too happy about itpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. His new colleagues are more than happy to rib him a little, tell him She knew that the involvement was something that nothing much in the way of crime happens hereman she loved needed. One of these colleagues takes things a stage further - puffs up his cheeks before commenting 'we get the occasional punch-up over a game of bar billiards ...' Rocco thinks he'll be bored out of his skull in no timeThe next case did look simple, though. Big surprise then when on day one, yes, on day one he's involved Two lovers were murdered in the discovery swimming pool of a young womanremote property in Bel Air. And Magson wastes no time in giving his readers all He was the gory details of this womanheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's last few hours alivenot the Italian. We almost feel her slow, agonising death. And But which of them was the question is whyprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008342</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Buchan178763681X|title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay)|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Richard Hannay is feeling old. He looks at himself and his contemporaries and sees a spread of complacency. Luckily - or perhaps very unluckily - an old pledge will come to haunt him. His earlier career in Africa saw Hannay and his friends swear to protect a man from others - and now a second generation of animosity is ripe Knife Skills for Hannay to step in and be a protective detective. Add in a supposed treasure hoard, and who knows where his last journey might end up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697156X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeginners|author=Katherine Hall Page|title=The Body in the FjordOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Page gives us another ''The Body In The..Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn'' book within t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a tried way of getting both men and tested formatwomen to do what he wanted. The book jacket covers are always bright and jazzy and this one is no exception. We Paul ''somehow''re deep in Norway, its picturesque countryside and world-famous fjords. We are in got the company of two different but interesting women. Mother and daughter. Pix, impression that he'd be at the daughter (I think the name sounds as if it belongs school to someone young) is assist Paul, who had a mother in middle-age with teenage children. She has responsibilitiesbroken arm, but at times she behaves like a sixteen year old and I suppose it didn't turn out that is part of her appealway. She cannot seem to say ''no'' to anyone The teaching - and now finds herself enlisted to solve an unexplained death and a missing personthe problems - are all his own. The latter is the more important as the missing person, Kari, is related one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to Ursula's best friendturn up dead. Yes Unfortunately, perhaps a few too many names at he was the person who discovered the beginning of body and everyone knows that the book police consider that person to grapple with but it soon settles downbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall1529421284|title=The Case of Laying Out the Missing ServantBones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We concentrate It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in and around bustling Delhi and straight away Hall gives a great description of his main characterheatwave. Once seenIn a gully, never forgotten apparently. And as if that were not enough a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be going on withLee Geary, wewho had disappeared nine years earlier. He're also given the low-down on his 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'teamt convinced.' Their nicknames Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are very funny and all of this delightful information gives connections to the reader a taster suicide of what's Holly Gilbert and to come later in two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the booktime. I can't resist giving one explanation. Puri has several undercover operatives Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (Ithat'm smiling s cold cases to myself just recalling ityou and me) one of whom is called Flush. Why? Simple. '' ... he had a flush toilet in his home, a first for anyone in his remote village in ...'' You just cannot help but smile, you really can't. And this gentle humour runs throughout the bookinvestigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099525232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1529425867|title=OutsourcedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I loved Dave ZeltsermanWilkins. 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 trailer park, barely educated (reading's not 'man out of jail'really'' series, with both [[Pariah by Dave Zeltserrman|Pariah]] his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and [[Killer by Dave Zeltserman|Killer]] being among the best crime thrillers Itrackies. They've read re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a long timepolice procedural written for laughs. All good things must come to an end, howeverWell, and with you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it'Outsourced'' he has branched out slightlys problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687322</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1529431735|title=Paint It BlackThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The central characterIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, PI Louis Kincaid has decamped to Floridawhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He doesn't really want to be there but d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he has no job prospects elsewhere's had a letter from his ex-wife, hesaying that she's still young ill and he needs hasn't long to do something, fill his dayslive. Even It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a well-paid job as watery grave in the boot of a PI falls in his lap, he still hesitatesstolen Ford Sierra. Then he thinks, what the hell's he got to lose, Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a man's got problem closer to eat etc.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391338</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerio Varesi0861541774|title=River A Nye of Shadows: A Commissario Soneri MysteryPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Rain DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was falling heavily involved in the River Po catchment area in northern Italy and the old hands knew a street brawl - he would later maintain that it would burst its banks he was facing a man armed with a knife - and there would be floodinghe killed a Ghurka. But even they are surprised when they see Tonna's barge setting out downstream. He knows the river well Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but his course out of the mooring was erratic and when the barge was eventually found Tonna was nowhere evidence came to be seen; the barge was deserted. Was it coincidence or something more sinister when Tonna's brother appeared to commit suicide on the day of his brother's disappearance: Commisario Soneri is convinced light that suggested that there is more he might have planned to this than meets the eye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694273</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Thomson|title=A Kind of Vanishing|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The novel interweaves between the past (the 1960s) and the present (murder the 1990s)man. Thomson gives us the run-down on the two playmates, Now he could be facing the two young girls, Eleanor Ramsay and Alicedeath penalty. They have been instructed by their respective parents Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to play together nicely. The Ramsay family is middle-class, they live in help as any interference from another police force could provoke a big, rambling house diplomatic incident and are always busy doing things. Alice is an only child of working-class parents. They are over-protective and monitor her every waking momentwouldn't help Danny at all. Will a noisy tom-boy and an angelic Alice who wears impossibly shiny shoes get on, have things in common?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954930940</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Smith1521129886|title=Wake Up DeadThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away Smith plunges us into Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the underworld of Cape Town and the street chat of the localspoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Boozed up It's a good job too because Greg and drugged up most of the time, violence is Joyce will soon have a nightly occurrence. And when local baby and they'businessman' Joe is gunned down, it sparks off a whole chain of events for his American trophy wife, Roxyre both delighted. Strong language, strong violence and strong feelings from the local criminals and low-life are the order of the day in this uncompromising novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caspar Walsh|title=Blood Road|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The book opens with an extremely uncomfortable and graphically depicted scene of violence, made all the Joyce will be more so by delighted about the cool, calm and collected manner of baby when she gets past the perpetratorsmorning sickness. The episode ends Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in a bloody death-law appears to have killed himself. We're in London so straight away thereStuart's a smattering of East End humour with lots more to follow. We're introduced to the main male characterconcerned about his sister, NickLucy, who's really nothing better than low-life scumstruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. That's pretty clear from the outset. Even although Lucy, hesays, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's old enough to know better he's still scumt in his nature. Add in The police and the fact coroner have accepted that he's a husband (separated) and a father and the whole sorry saga starts to unfold. death was suicide, His wifebut Stuart's sick of him and his criminal interests - and so are Jake and Zeb, his two sons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755317505</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Frayn|title=Deceptions|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Life has not been easy for Annie Wray. Her husband died of leukaemia and she was left to bring up her two young children Dan and Rachel. She appears to have a second chance at happiness after meeting Julian who eventually proposes to her. Before they can set a date for the wedding though, twelve year old Dan fails prepared to return from school one day and appears pay Greg to have vanished without trace. This is the situation that is met by the reader at the start of 'Deceptions' and no one has a clue where he might be or find out what might have happened to himon the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0743268784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank TallisB0CK3MYJ56|title=Deadly CommunionResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt arrives at It's the Temple of Theseus in Vienna 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to investigate the murder of have a young woman at high-flying job in the hands of city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a deviant sexual predatorprivate investigator. Discovering the woman died by the unusual means 'Shades of a hatpin inserted into her brainCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, Rheinhardt soon turns to his friend but where's the young psychoanalyst Max Liebermann for assistance and life experience that backs up this profession? On the type of psychological insight that only Liebermannother hand, a disciple of Freud, can providehe has been asked to look into something. MeanwhileJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, Liebermann is already caught up they were until Helen was killed in his own investigations with what's been written off as a patient named Erstweilertragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, who believes he has seen his doppelganger Oliver and that this is Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a precursor of deathtrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099519720</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marek Krajewski and Danusia Stok1838954481|title=The Phantoms of Breslau: An Eberhard Mock InvestigationMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eberhard Mock (a name you would not easily forget) is Ryan Kennedy killed a police Criminal Assistantofficer: there's no doubt about that. He's a single man still living was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at home with his father and leading a rather ordinary, uneventful lifeDI Kieran Shaw. Until, one day, four young men who are apparently sailors, are He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found deadnot guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And Mock is asked by his superior to be part of the new murder commissionso lives must go on. He accepts For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and from there on his hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is one rollerfound on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation -coaster and back into the orbit of events and emotionsRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694737</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Lewis1448309743|title=Bank Of The Black Sheep Devil Stone (Robin Llywelyn TrilogyDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The alcoholic and self-destructive detective is common to In the point village of cliché in crime fiction, but most carry Cronchie on to take another casethe West coast of Scotland, and make five members of a livingwealthy family are found murdered. Robert Lewis' character's lifestyle has effectively ended his professional career – he was destitute and he The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is now terminally illremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. He has woken up The only suspects are known Satanists but in a hospicemany ways, and learns from a couple that's an easy conclusion given that two of visiting police detectives that he them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is a washed up Private Investigator, who is avoiding prosecution only because DCI Bob Oswald but when he perhaps has a couple of months leftdisappears, as he DCI Christine Caplan is dying of lung cancerpulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687454</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529077699|title=Black Diamond: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Perigord is rightly famed for its food and at the heart of the region's success lies the black truffle. They're exported all over the world because nothing else quite lives up to the subtlety and nuances of flavour and aroma. There are the first rumblings of trouble though – a few complaints that packs of truffles have been adulterated by cheaper ones from China - and there are ominous signs that Chinese organised crime might be behind the fraud. Intriguingly thereIt's anotherall bloody peculiar, possibly related problem for Bruno Courregesisn't it, the local chief of police. In St Denis market a Vietnamese familySir?''s stall is wrecked – and the attackers looked to be Chinese.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161216</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Hyland1529427045|title=Gunshot Road (Emily Tempest)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away the humour is apparent in this book, mainly coming from the mouth of Emily Tempest. And we're also hurled into Aboriginal country with lots of unforgettable characters with equally unforgettable names. Hyland 'Life has a lovely, flowing style with a strong Australian flavour. Tempest has the unenviable job of trying more to keep law and order. Sheoffer than people - prime numbers for example's travelled the world and has now returned to her roots. She seems to have a bit of an advantage in that she's of mixed race, so can understand both white folks and black folks. She certainly has her work cut out. Most of the locals see her job as a joke, not to be taken too seriously, until someone dies in suspicious circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916214X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler1787636607|title=The Herring In The LibraryTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tall, elegant Ethelred is It's a gentleman, scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a third-rate authorway to get home. Elsie, his literary agent, is short Some are lucky and dumpy, and not afraid manage to speak her mindget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. It is Elsie The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in factthe light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, who constantly assures the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her client he only occasionally aspires home. She had intended to ring someone to the giddy heights of being secondcome and collect her -ratebut her phone's dead. This could be The bus had driven off before she had the business partnership from hell, but not only do these two seem chance to get along, they even manage beg the bus driver to solve crimes togetherlet her use his. In this, the third outing for L C Tyler There's eccentric sleuths, we are provided with a locked room mystery, a cast of possible villains of the most stereotypical type, no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitchin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Brooke1405957174|title=A Darker NightDeath at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= The location is From the beautiful and historic city of Granadafirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The husbandvictim -a man - is dying when we first meet him and-wife writing duo, aka P J Brooke, impart their knowledge of this area Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the reader almost straight awayambulance he so desperately needs. The hot and dusty terrain What we don't know is described in detail, along with some tempting snippets of local history; for example, some of who the locals still choose man is or why Nadine prefers to live in old cave houseshave him die. Very primitive living indeed, as I'd better give you can imagine. And one inhabitant, a gypsy, is found dead. As his cave is little more background so bare and sparse therethat you can understand what's not too much evidence for Sub-Inspector Romero to go on. But, he does find something of interest..happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010455</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Lewis0008530025|title=Scent of a KillerMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=D I Stacey Collins is beginning to wonder if it It was such a good idea to introduce her teenage daughter to in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the father she's longed for all body of her life. Professional Standards at the Met are wondering about her links with the underworld and telling them that Jack Stanleystepfather, Luke Ryder, a major figure in the criminal world, is Sophie's father might well end her police career for goodgarden of their West London home. She gets away with what she says He had an injury on this occasion, but finds herself side-lined in the next major case – and dong jobs back of his head which could well have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been handled by charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a rookie constable. And what a case it istrue-crime show. Three headless corpses have A group of experts has been found in a parked car in a London street brought together to review the evidence and as their hands have been removed too to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the first major problem is identificationwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030119</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Caro RamsayJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. 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 of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Dark WaterA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=This One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is a big, meaty the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and satisfying read from Bruno's there to see the pen of Caro Ramsayshow with some friends. I havenIt't read any s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of her previous books to date but I will certainly look them out nowthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The location Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and around the city friend of Glasgow so lots Bruno) wonders about his chances of Scottish humour and survival but - as he's a nice line in senior government employee, the local dialect from several characters. This all helps to get man who runs Frenchelon - the reader involved early onmilitary has stepped in. And I wasOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141044349</amazonuk>
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