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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harlan CobenB0CYV674G2|title=Shelter|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mickey Bolitar's girlfriend Ashley has disappeared, the latest in a long list of things to go wrong in his life. First his father died, then his junkie mother went into rehab, forcing him to move in with his uncle Myron, and now shy, beautiful Ashley has vanished.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620055</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Ian Rankin|title=The Impossible DeadDavid Blake|rating=3.5
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|summary=When it started it all It seemed so simplelike an open-and-shut case. A constable man, covered in CID had been found guilty of, ermud and blood - and carrying a knife, pressing his attentions on young women who came his way in the course of comes into the job. Just to make certain police station shouting that it wasnhe hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a wider problem 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 Professional Standards Unit (or whatever it was being called this week) from another force was asked to investigate three officers who might have been overly supportive birth of the miscreanthis daughter Samantha. Then You would think he'd be grateful for an ex-policeman was shot by a weapon which couldneasy answer but the words 'perverse't exist and from there it all got, well, rather messy and in 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the middle point of it all was Inspector Malcolm Fox of the Complaintsfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889532</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin CotterillStuart Douglas|title=Killed Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Whim of a HatDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Jimm Juree was a crime reporterDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', just a heartbeat away from getting leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the job dead body of her dreams when family circumstances forced her to quit her job and move to a fishing village woman on the Gulf edge of Siama reservoir. Forget all The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the up-market resorts like Phuket where whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the money goeshelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It never gets anywhere near Maprao. MairThey travel across the country during their days off filming, her daughter Jimm uncovering more possible murders and son Arny along with Granddad Jah have , seemingly, a link to try and grub death during the Second World War. But is there really a living out of link between the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurant. deaths? Jimm's sister, And will they manage to uncover who used to be her brother, has chosen to stay in the city, where she is responsible before more people lose their lives her life online and not always on the right side of the law.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849165548</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kjell Eriksson0008517061|title=The Hand That TremblesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=I read and reviewed recently Eriksson's Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. [[The Princess There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson|The Princess his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of Burundi]] compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and was rather disappointed. How will relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this book shape upis the future she wants for herself and her daughter? Sven-Arne Persson is an astute politician. He knows when to press For the moment they’re enjoying life in the flesh for best effect present and also when to turn putting the future on the smiles - even if those smiles don't quite reach his eyes. In short, he is a career politician. Calculated. And there's a great line on page 21 which sums him up beautifully - 'He was a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of county politics ..back burner.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074904019X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kjell Eriksson1786482126|title=The Princess of BurundiJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
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|summary=Berit and Justus (mother and son) are waiting for John before they eat supper. HeBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's late. Perhaps heluxury's popped in to see an exapartments -colleague or nipped into when they discovered the pub for bones of a child beneath a quick drinkdoorway. But neither of these options ring true for BeritThere was no skull. John is currently unemployed which is Was this a shame as he was very good at his last jobritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's also not difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the most social or chatty of menone night they spent together some three months ago. Some would even describe him as surly and a bit gruffHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749040092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell0008551324|title=Watson's ChoiceThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Sir Bohun (thatIt's pronounced 'Boon', in case you're wondering) Chantrey is not unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the brightest police. Neither side likes or most sensitive of men, but Sherlock Holmes has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is one of his great passions struggling in life is Sherlock Holmes. To celebrate the great manprison and he's anniversary he throws a party at which prepared to tell the guests are invited to come as characters from police where the storiesbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Our heroineThis person, Mrs Bradleyhe promises, is someone big and her secretary Laura Menzies are among it will be worth the guests but not everyone there is interested in Sherlock Holmespolice doing what he wants. Quite a few are interested in Chantrey's money and his announcement that And what he wants is to marry be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his poverty-stricken nursery governess provokes anger in certain quarterssentence and to get an early parole date. Then Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the Hound of the Baskervilles makes an unscheduled appearance..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>0099548593</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gianrico Carofiglio0008405026|title=Temporary PerfectionsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is the fourth book in the popular Guido Guerrieri seriesIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The front cover is eye-catching, as is She was never found and the titleinvestigation ground to a halt. As early as p.9 I could see that Carofiglio has a nice line Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in wit and ironytheir bed. Ergo - Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'When you appear before s something about the Court positioning of Cassation, you feel you're in an orderly world, part of a justice system the bodies that works makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious... the world is not orderly What looked as though it was going to be an open-and justice -shut case is not servednow a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738729</amazonuk>s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shuichi Yoshida0571379877|title=VillainThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WellEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, I suppose I'd better begin obsessed with the bad which was there were moments at the start of this novel when I thought I couldnhis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert't possibly read it right to the ends a theatre director. ItHe's written in such a stiltedalso self-obsessed, demanding, factual style with details about the road networks of the local area handsome and entitled and exactly how much anyone pays uses Edward to run errands for anything they eat or buy or rent! him. Faced, for example, Edward has been in love with the paragraph Stanza since their university days - and he''cars setting out from Nagasaki that take the pass road s drunkenly confided how he feels to save money take the Nagasaki Expressway from Nagasaki to Omura, then to Higashi-Sonogi and Takeo, and get off at the Saga Yamato interchangeRobert. Intersecting this east-west Nagasaki Expressway at the interchange is Route 263Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' I thought I'd never manage s not like most men: Edward is left to read more than stumble upon the two of them kissing in a couple of lines before falling asleep! Still, I persisted and actually, I'm glad I diddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526654</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan David JahnJo Callaghan|title=The DispatcherLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Ian Hunt works as When a dispatcher taking 911 calls in rural Texas. One day he takes man is found crucified on the top of a call from his 14 year old daughter. That would be enough to ruin your day hill in itselfNuneaton, but DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the daughter in question was kidnapped seven years agocase alongside her sidekick, presumed deadthe AI detective Lock. They have even held a funeral for her. That It's really going to mess their first live case together, having previously been very successful with your mindseveral cold cases. What ensues But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a desperate chase potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find her once more before herself taken off the kidnapper can escape or worse. case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230755968</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Andriacco1035021803|title=No Police Like HolmesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=At 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 request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Investigating s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Conan Doyle Crockleford, is dead and Sherlock Holmes' Colloquium (in the UK it would probably be a conference) the St Benignus College in Erincircumstances seem suspicious, Ohio is due to receive a donation of say the least. Arthur was the third largest collection of Sherlockiana in reason why Freya had not been back to the world – including some rare pieces of substantial valuevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The plan is that there should Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be good publicity for near the college and that man or pursue the attendees have a good time – deerstalker hats not being compulsoryprofession she loved. But even After the best-laid plans are derailed by theft split, she worked in a cafe, met and murder. Jeff Cody is married James (on the public relations director at rebound from the college love of her life, who was murdered) and he's determined to solve the crimes before his eccentric brother in law, Professor Sebastian McCabeFreya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178092206X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1398524085|title=The Shadows in the Street|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=This is the fifth novel in Susan Hill's series about the detective Simon Serrailler. Although you could probably follow the story without knowing the previous books I think it does help to have some background on who all the characters are. I really love the way Hill weaves her story around some wonderful character studies. Simon is actually hardly in this novel, and the focus instead is on the 'extras', with a lot of details being put into characters who will only be around for this particular novel but who live and breathe through it wonderfully well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099499282</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=David Enrique Spellman|title=Far SouthNicci French|rating=3.5
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|summary='Far South' is a highly unusual book. ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's published as 'crime fiction' fiftieth birthday party but this is really only part of the storynever turned up. It's also a collection of creative endeavours that combines narrative with web-based content Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. We are told that 'David Enrique Spellman all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the voice for the Far South Project. The Far South Collective is a loosely affiliated group body of artists, writersGreg's father, actorsDuncan Ackerley, filmmakers musicians and dancers. He works in close collaboration with Esko Tikanmäki Portogales, a Uruguayan web designer'the river. While I applaud its ambition in trying to add something more creative It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the novel concept, I have slightly more mixed views guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about the success of thiswhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688108</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Asa Larsson and Laurie Thompson (Translator)1529900360|title=Until Thy Wrath Be Past: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Crime
|summary=When we talk about It hadn'Scandinavian crime fictiont been Lt Milo Sturgis' s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and the name 'Larsson' even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there's an awful temptation to [[The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson were only open-and Reg Keeland (translator)|jump to conclusions]] about who ''exactly'-shut cases which didn' t need the author might behelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Slow down thoughFinally, it was Robin, because thereDelaware's another Swedish crime writer with that surname and this one is very much alive and writingpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Asa Larsson is not down with She knew that the southern softies in Stockholm but up in involvement was something that the far north, not far from Norway or Finlandman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in Kiruna, where she's placed Rebecca Martinsson, who works as the swimming pool of a prosecutor, and Inspector Anna-Maria Mellaremote property in Bel Air. Those in He was the know have met them [[The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson|before]] heir to an Italian shoe empire and this she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the third book in Italian. But which of them was the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050729</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronyca Bates178763681X|title=Dead on TimeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I reviewed Bates' earlier book [[Dead in the Water by Veronyca Bates|Dead Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the Water]] and enjoyed it for what it was - a light but enjoyable crime readBelgravia. This book has the same look He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and feel about itwomen to do what he wanted. Bates has decided to base her crime within Paul ''somehow'' got the corridors of power, local power impression that is, he'd be at the council chambers. And some of usschool to assist Paul, perhaps many of uswho had a broken arm, secretly would like to know the ins but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and outs, the deals made etc by our locallyproblems -elected councillors (even although we agree that much of their work can be a tad dull and a tad tedious)are all his own. But weThe one thing he hadn'll probably shout from the rafters if they happen t expected was for someone to get their comeuppance, as happens in this bookturn up dead. Mayor Boot has received his final comeuppance. He's deadUnfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin1529421284|title=A Kiss Before Dying|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I haven't read any of Levin's books to date although I know various titles from television and films etc. And what struck me straight away was the terrific introduction by Chelsea Cain. Most intros can be rather dull and pedantic but this one is refreshingly different. It starts with Laying Out the eye-catching line 'I could kill Ira Levin' and left me eager, very eager to get on and read the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015910</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBones|author=Simon Ings|title=Dead WaterKate Webb|rating=34.5
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|summary=The standard advice to artists has always been "don't gild It was one of those flash downpours that the lily"British weather often delivers in a heatwave. For those writers who appear not In a gully, a human skeleton came to understand how this relates the surface and forensic testing proved the body to their art formbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, let me offer up so it could have been a basic translation: donsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't complicate convinced. Geary was a brilliant plot! Dead Water suffers from such gildingtownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878885</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thierry Jonquet1529425867|title=Tarantula: The Skin Lost and Never Found (A D I Live In|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In a large French country house, an expert in facial reconstruction surgery keeps a beautiful woman locked up in her bedroom. He placates her with opium, but barks orders through hugely powerful speakers and an intercom. She tantalises him with her sexuality, which he tries to ignore, except for when he seems to abuse it in a sort of S/M way when he does let her into society, as he forces her to prostitute herself. Elsewhere, a young, inept bank robber holes himself up in a sunny house, waiting for the heat to die. And finally, a young man is held chained up in a cellar at the hands of an unknown possessor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWilkins Mystery)|author=Stuart Neville|title=CollusionSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When In Oxford, there are two D I read the back cover blurb carefullyWilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I discovered that most Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of the story Ryan, is located in Ireland and not New York as I'd previously thought so I was just a little disappointed before I'd even opened the book. IHe'm usually a sucker for anything American in the fiction stakess not any of those things. Policeman Jack Lennon (his proper name is John and thereHe's white, originated from a good piece later on illustrating the fact that hetrailer park, barely educated (reading's officially called John Lennonnot ''really'' his thing)and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. JackThey's on surveillance duty watching a couple of no-users as they sit and talk re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a local cafepolice procedural written for laughs. Jack's in the comfort of his vehicle but stillWell, heyou's re not impressed with his latest task and says in his own words . 'Yep, The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. shit work.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535351</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Magson1529431735|title=Death on the Rive Nord: An Inspector Lucas Rocco MysteryThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Illegal immigrants are not a recent phenomenonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Back in 1963, in Picardy, a truck dropped He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a group of illegal workers close to wanted drug smuggler for a deserted stretch of canal, at the dead of nightdecade. Seven people left the truckThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and it was only when the driver investigated that he found an eighth inside the truck, stabbed hasn't long to deathlive. It was 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a few days before the body surfaced watery grave in the canal and Inspector Lucas Rocco was given the job boot of investigating the deatha stolen Ford Sierra. The problems in Algeria were in the past but not forgotten and Rocco would find himself involved with notorious Is it a warning from a Spanish gang leaders from the former colony – and occasionally wondering if he has bitten off more than he can chew.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008393</amazonuk>or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ira Levin0861541774|title=The Boys From BrazilA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A small group of powerful Nazis gather for a convivial post-prandial meetingDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, and collect identities and orders from their leaderDanny Maik, who is sending them has taken a short holiday in Singapore to different corners of the world in order that many innocent people may be killedmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. But this isn't when you might expect Maik was involved in a street brawl - it's the midhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -1970sand he killed a Ghurka. It isn't where you might expectInitially, for these Nazis are remnants he faced a charge of Hitler's regime manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that fled he might have planned to south America for safetymurder the man. And Now he could be facing the deaths are being ordered for reasons you will never foretelldeath penalty. In that regard, then, you are Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as well-informed as chief Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman, who hears tantalising hints of the plot, but cannot fathom it - nor indeed find proof it has indeed startedany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015902</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gordon Ferris1521129886|title=The Hanging ShedThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This book is already Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'The No 1 eBook bestseller'' so I was expecting a good readll warn someone about how much he charges. Part of The Douglas Brodie Series, where Brodie, the central character, is a no-holds-barred journalist, although his past reveals that heIt's been a soldier good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a policeman. Ferris elaborates further baby and gives his readers some background on Brodiethey're both delighted. Brodie comes across, right from Joyce will be more delighted about the start, as a resourceful, likeable and forthright man who has not been afraid to break away from his small-town roots in baby when she gets past the west of Scotlandmorning sickness. His present job Greg is based approached by an old friend whose brother-in London but it-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's obvious that Brodieconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's heart's just struggling to make ends meet and her son is not in itthriving. He wants to return to ScotlandLucy, he says, Glasgow is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in particular and try his journalistic luck therenature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, An opportunity soon comes along - but itStuart's one he was never in a million years expectingprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark EllisB0CK3MYJ56|title=Frank Merlin: Princes GateResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In It's the early part of 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the Second World War there was a lull, when hostilities didncity but it wasn't really seem to get going – the satisfying so-called Phoney Warhe's now set himself up as a private investigator. Some Londoners, who'd left the capital in the expectation Shades of early bombing raidsCameron Strike', began drifting back and there were still those who thought that peace could you might be negotiated – that we could stay out of the fightthinking. Chief amongst those outside of Nice bloke, but where's the political classes who supported life experience that backs up this view was profession? On the American Ambassadorother hand, Joseph Kennedyhe has been asked to look into something. Kennedy wasJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, perhaps fortunately but not unusuallyor rather, out of the country when one of the staff they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at the residence was murdered an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her body fished out parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of the Thamesa train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766572</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1838954481|title=Bad IntentionsThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jon, Reilly and Axel had been friends for the best part of Ryan Kennedy killed a couple of decadespolice officer: there's no doubt about that. Axel He was the dominant one of fifteen-year-old holding the trio gun and Reilly was easily ledpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Jon - well Jon was vulnerable. Something had happened He pulled the trigger but due to them all at the end vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the previous year murder and Jon had recently been in a mental hospital, but now, at the beginning manslaughter of autumn, Axel and Reilly were taking him for a weekend at Dead Water Lakethe officer. The three young men went out in a boat and Jon went over the side And so lives must go on. Neither Axel nor Reilly made any attempt to help him and they didn't report his disappearnace until For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the following moring - capital and even then they said that he'd gone hoping for a walk quieter life in the forest countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and had not returnedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953584X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1448309743|title=The SirenDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read and reviewed Bruce's [[The Calling by Alison Bruce|The Calling]] and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was hoping that this book would be equally goodIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The location only item missing from the home is once again Cambridge. Two young women hastily meet up after hearing a local news item. A male body has been discovered in a gruesome and sorry state and has sent the two women into a right old flapDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Although both The only suspects are now known Satanists but in steady relationships and Kimberly is a mummany ways, they obviously share a shady past together. that'It was a joke between s an easy conclusion given that two of them: Kimberly gets them both into trouble'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Rachel gets them outDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1529077699|title=All YoursThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inés leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter. So ordinary in fact, the term 'desperate housewife' could have been invented exclusively for her. She is under no illusions about marriage as an institution - but is convinced she knows It's all about her husbandbloody peculiar, and all about men and how to handle them – with a little help from her motherisn't it, whose observations on losing a man are always at the front of InésSir?'' mind. When Inés follows her husband on an errand one night, she witnesses him having a violent argument with another woman; the woman then suffers a freak accident and dies. Inés takes charge of the ensuing trouble in her usual capable way, with the full confidence of someone who is always in control. But in trying to protect her husband, she comes up against much more than she bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190473880X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1529427045|title=FallenThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Faith Mitchell is not having a good day. A three-hour training seminar had stretched into four-and-a-half-hours, which meant that not only was she late picking up her baby daughter from her mothers' she was also starving hungry. This mattered 'Life has more to offer than it would people - prime numbers for most of us, because Faith is diabetic. She needs to eatexample''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057949</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1787636607|title=The CallingTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The storyIt's location is a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and around Cambridge looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and we manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the blow-by-blow account night bus that will only go as far as DC Goodhew meets one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the different members 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of Kaye's family in order to build up the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a picture long way short of her recent comings and goingshome. Kaye's mother seems particularly upset. A nice She had intended to ring someone to come and effective touch by Bruce is that each chapter heading is simply that daycollect her - but her phone's datedead. Kaye disappeared in March 2011 so that The bus had driven off before she had the reader feels a sense of chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. clock ticking There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and still no Kayein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1405957174|title=FreedomA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A short while agoFrom the first page, I read Daniel Suarezwe know that Nadine Walsh's debut novel [[Daemon by Daniel Suarez|Daemon]], which was a gripping technological thrillerparty will not end well. It may not have been The victim - a terribly original idea, but it was well written if a little lacking in character building man - is dying when we first meet him and it did seem Nadine consciously makes no effort to end a little abruptlycall the ambulance he so desperately needs. The reason for this abrupt end now becomes clear, as there What we don't know is who the man is now a sequel, ''Freedom™'or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381229</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wesley Stace|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as d better give you a Murderer|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary="Nothing in recent fiction prepared me for the power and the polish of this subtle tale of English music in the making, a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]" "His handling of dry comic dialogue and cynical affectation is reminiscent of P G Wodehouse… an intelligent, fun and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]" Just two of the previous reviews little more background so that adorn the back cover of you can understand what'Charles Jessold…'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>s happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Dugdall0008530025|title=The Sacrificial ManMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Synchronicity? Is It was in December 2003 that what they call itfifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, when unconnected events chime with each other in unavoidable significance? the garden of their West London home. Maybe it is just He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the human need to see patterns vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and make connections where there are none, but it's still weird when it happens. In a week that saw a storyline in now the subject of ''EmmerdaleInfamous'' echoed in , a very personal documentary by Terry Pratchett considering the possibility true-crime show. A group of choosing experts has been brought together to review the nature evidence and time of to take the investigation further. his own endMore to the point, I found myself reading they'The Sacrificial Man'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248009</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box|title=Out Of Range|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Will Jensenre going to do this live on camera, a Wyoming Game Warden of many years standing, had long held the respect of the townsfolk of Jacksonepisode by episode. Recently though he seemed to have been going off There's no dump of the rails. Not turning up for work on time; a couple of DUIs; his wife upped whole box set - and left. Then one day he cooks himself 14lb no shortage of meatcliffhangers. No vegetables. And slowly eats his way through it, washed down with whiskey, before he goes to fetch his .44 magnum from the pick-upIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878044</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0241996104|title=The Track of SandComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Inspector Montalbano awoke one morning Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and saw the body her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of a horse on their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the beach in front of his housecourt, but itafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's not long before it disappears, leaving only received a track in the sand. How is he to investigate this when he doesn't know where the horse came from? It isnsilent sentence' - she't long though before equestrian champion Rachele Esterman arrives at police headquarters to report her horse missing. It had s not been stabled at the home of Saverio Lo Duca, one found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the richest men in Sicily – and one rest of his horses is missing tooher life. When Montalbano finds that he Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and his home the papers are under threat he wonders who he has upset – and making the list most of possibilities is disturbingly large and influential.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507664</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ernesto Mallo and Katherine Silver|title=Sweet Money|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=A man whose nickname is Mole (and it suits him just perfectly) is released from prison. He's described as your average Joe Public, your man in the street so normal in every way that no one would look twice at him. And that's the point. HeFarmhouse slaughter daughter''s clever is one favourite epithet and resourceful enough to blend into any crowd and in any situation. Now that he's served his time behind bars, has he become a reformed man? Is he going to opt for a lawful way of life from now on? You'd perhaps think so, wouldnrich bitch''t you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738737</amazonuk>might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1529413680|title=Grievous AngelA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read (One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and reviewed) JardineBruno's [[The Loner by Quintin Jardine|The Loner]] and found it an engaging work of fiction, so I was looking forward there to dipping into my first see the show with some friends. It''Bob Skinner Mysterys all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script.'' I think Luckily, his doctor is there and the front cover alone may very well tempt readers with its attentionman is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but -grabbing graphics which shouts out as he'read mes a senior government employee, the 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 her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356934</amazonuk>
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