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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin BatesB0CYV674G2|title=Cold ComfortSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=Since we [[Frozen Out by Quentin Bates|last met]] Sergeant Gunnhildur she's been promoted It seemed like an open-and is now working -shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the Serious Crimes Unit in Reykjavikpolice station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. ItA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's quite a contrast been stabbed to her previous job in Hvalvickdeath. 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 Gunna is determined to make a go of it the words 'perverse' and it's not long before she has responsibility John Tanner' were made for two very different caseseach other. A convict has escaped and seems as though heHe's determined sleep-deprived to settle old scores, the point of falling asleep at work but why did he need 's determined to escape when his tenkeep going -year sentence was almost up? The other case is rather more high profile: an ex-TV fitness presenter is murdered in her city apartment and some of the people who knew her are rather well knownprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013616</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry MurphyStuart Douglas|title=Weekend in WeightonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Eddie G (well, itDuring location filming for his 1970's Eddie Greenesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', actuallyleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but Eddie G sounds so much more street-wisesomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, don't you think?) has a hundred percent record and he enlists the help of solving the cases he takes on as a private investigatorfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. That sounds very impressive until you find out that he's only just taken on his first caseThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, but it's a mark of his determination link to succeeddeath during the Second World War. The first blip on the radar which suggests that all might not be well But is finding there really a link between the clap-cold body of his client on her living-room floor when it's not fifteen minutes since he spoke deaths? And will they manage to her on the phone.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0072Z5EHA</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Corban Addison0008517061|title=A Walk Across The Sun|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=In Chennai, India, 17 year old Ahalya and her 15 year old sister, Sita, watch as their family and entire world is swept away by the now infamous Christmas tsunami. In the aftermath, Ahalya knows that, if the sisters can get to their school Death in the city, they'll be safe. However, not everyone is to be trusted and their trip to safety turns into a drive towards a darker danger as the girls are kidnapped and sold to a trafficking network.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857388193</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLonely Place|author=Elanor Dymott|title=Every Contact Leaves a TraceStig Abell
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|summary=In 1936 explorer Robert Ballancourt and Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his guide Kaingara visit rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a tribe little uncertainty about the future of head hunters his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in Papua New Guinea. Ballancourt, seeking artefacts together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to sell on move in with Livia or does Livia move to museums, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is drawn to the highly decorated skulls venerated by future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the tribe as they hold moment they’re enjoying life in the spirits of dead ancestors present and conquered enemiesputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705077X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Pavone1786482126|title=The ExpatsJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|sortauthor= ExpatsElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=Kate and Dexter Moore move Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to Luxembourghold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, along Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with their two young sons; a world away from their native Washington DCDCI Harry Nelson. The incentive is DexterIt's great new job which will mean an expat lifestyle for a year or twodifficult as Ruth knows, but good money and the chance to explore Europe. In the process Kate will be turning her back on more than Dexter realises. Up till their move to LuxembourgNelson doesn't, Kate has led a secret double life that she is pregnant with his child as a CIA operative. As Kate comes to terms with result of the boredom of being a full-time housewife in an alien culture, one night they meet Bill and Julie, also expat Americansspent together some three months ago. They soon become friendsHer condition will be obvious before long, but Kate has her suspicions and discovers that the past not least because Ruth is never far awayprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571279147</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes0008551324|title=Revenge of the TideThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Genevieve worked as a sales executive by day and a pole dancer by night but her dream was It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to buy and renovate a boat where she could liveapproach the police. That was why she persisted Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in the pressured, chauvinistic world of software sales prison and the increasingly sleazy world of the private gentlemanhe's club prepared to tell the police where she could earn the body of a four figure sum each evening as well as getting a good workoutmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It was nip-This person, he promises, is someone big and-tuck as to whether or not she made it but after a few months on will be worth the boat at a marina on police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the Medway she was feeling good enough about her life remainder of his sentence and to hold a boat-warming partyget an early parole date. It was planned as a mixture of the people Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'd met at s even prepared to do the marina other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and some of her sales colleagues anyone who works with him is kept well away from London. But on the night of the party a body washed up at the side of her boat and Genevieve knew the victimwhat's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956792642</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)0008405026|title=Nights of Awe A Stranger in the Family (Ariel Kafka MysteryMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Inspector Ari Kafka (no relation to the author or, indeed, the local pawn shop owner) is half of the Jewish police officers in Finland which heIt's sure is due to pay levels rather than religious convictionsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Ari graduated 4th in his class at police academy which surprised his mother at She was never found and the timeinvestigation ground to a halt. If his brother Now, her mother, Helena, and sister could both graduate top of her father are dead in their university classesbed. Initially, whatit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's wrong with him? His brother is always trying to encourage his attendance at family dinners and something about the local rabbi has to remind him positioning of the whereabouts of the local synagoguebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. All this pressure What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is normally water off now a duckcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's back to Kafkadisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but this is about to change. When two Arab bodies Una Burt) are found on a railway line, he must choose between loyalties to those he loves and to those he's sworn to serveless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738923</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Jon Williams0571379877|title=The Fourth Wall|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Sean Makin was a cute, much demanded child actor. Then he grew up and the cute became creepy as the baby face that had made him famous remained (due to a physical condition) but was unsuited to an adult's body. So the demand dried up and Sean tries to come to terms with his change of fortunes by writing a 'how to act' blog, intoxicating substances and appearances on a reality celebrity martial arts fight show. One day, whilst being beaten up for the cameras in a wrestling ring full of cottage cheese, he realises the depths to which he's sunk. Something has to change! Luckily change soon arrives in the form of 'Alternate Reality' magnate, Dagmar Shaw.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498254</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKellerby Code|author=Brian Freeman|title=Spilled BloodJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=One night seventeenEdward Jevons is a working-year old Ashlynn is driving homeclass young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. She gets Robert's a flat tyre theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and of all the places in the world finds herself stranded in the ghost town: an abandoned farm community that no longer exists on the map entitled and that no-one with any sense would be driving through at the dead of nightuses Edward to run errands for him. But there is more than one kind of senseEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. These days, another kind says Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that if you are from the town of Barron (home to Mondamin Research) you dona relationship had begun between them but he't drive through St Croix – a neighbouring community that s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the focus two of them kissing in a recent cancer cluster. The people of St Croix blame Mondamin and by extrapolation everyone in Barron. For the young people this has spilled over into an outright old-fashioned feuddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Henning MankellJo Callaghan|title=The Troubled ManLeave No Trace
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|summary=Hakan von Enke was a retired naval officer and When a man is found crucified on the top of routine. Each morning he went for a long walk hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the forest near his Stockholm homecase alongside her sidekick, but one day he failed to returnthe AI detective Lock. It'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 long way from Ystadfew days later, Kurt Wallander's home town Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the only reason he became involved in the a very high profile case was the fact that von Enke's son Hans was the partner draws a lot of Wallander's daughter Lindaunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Wallander became concerned about von Enke some months before when Will they had a long discussion at his seventy-fifth birthday party. He'd seemed worried be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and wary , potentially, out of a stranger in the street. Von Enke's disappearance hit the family hard - and then his wife disappeared as well.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548402</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig1035021803|title=Never Apologise, Never Explain - An Inspector Carlyle NovelThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=Agatha Mills and her husband lived in a flat near It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the British Museum and her body was found in the kitchen one morningEnglish country village where she grew up. There were no signs She's back now because of a forced entry or of doors being left unlocked as an intruder left so request for help from her husband Henry was arrested beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and charged with her murderthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. His only defence is that Agatha Arthur was the reason why Freya had enemiesnot been back to the village: Arthur, she had been pursuing the disappearance of feels, let her brother down badly. Even though they were in Chile in 1973 and was hoping that there would be a trial which would provide an answer business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to what happened to Williambe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The defence is outlandish and impossible to investigateAfter the split, but could itshe worked in a cafe, just possiblymet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, be true?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015848</amazonuk>who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Harkaway1398524085|title=AngelmakerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Joshua Joseph Spork (Joe to his mates) is a clock maker and clockwork mender in London’s East EndCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He’s spent his life emulating his craftsman grandfatherHer children, Danielsons Niall, Paul and avoiding the shadow of his late father Ollie and crookher daughter, MathewEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HoweverShortly afterwards, one day all that changes with a visit from heaviesEtty and Greg, Messrs Cummerbund and Titwhistle and find the even more sinister black-veiled Ruskinite monk. They want something that Joe only has a fragment body of: The Hakote Book (Greg''Angelmaker'' of the title). He discovers that the mysterious metal punch cards s father, Duncan Ackerley, in his granddad’s box are just the beginningriver. Can he find the rest and literally put It was an easy assumption for the world police to rights before all his friends are make that Duncan had murdered? Assisted by a 91 year old special agent, an aged, ugly pug Charlie and Polly then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the insatiable (guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but rather useful) lawyer, he’ll have a jolly good tryget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402094X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Hillier1529900360|title=CreepThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|summary=DrIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Sheila Tao is His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a psychology professor at Puget Sound State University in Seattlewhile. She lives a double existenceFinally, having an affair with one of her studentsit was Robin, but then getting engaged to a banker and former American footballerDelaware's partner, Morriswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Knowing She knew that the involvement was something that this double life cannot last, the man she dumps the studentloved needed. The next case did look simple, Ethan Wolfe, but can't bring herself to confide though. Two lovers were murdered in her fiancé that part the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the reason heir to an Italian shoe empire and she was seeing him is that shemarried to an extremely rich man and it's also a sex addictnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549010</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell178763681X|title=Modesty Blaise: Live BaitKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
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|summary=Haeden, New York is 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 small town way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the type where nothing really happens. When 19 year old Wendy White goes missing, impression that he'd be at the local reporterschool to assist Paul, Stacy Flynn, thinks she’s found her big breakwho had a broken arm, but her investigations lead her to a wall of silence which proves highly distressing to break throughit didn't turn out that way. Hoffman’s observations of small town life The teaching - and small town personalities the problems - are compellingall his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. No aspect is left unexamined Unfortunately, from he was the painful tedium person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the quite contentment experienced as part of a whole spectrum of emotions experienced by visitors and residents alikeprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846059704</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Belinda Bauer1529421284|title=Finders KeepersLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=Set It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Exmoora heatwave. In a gully, plucky little Jess Took is kidnapped from her father's vehicle while he is off managing a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the local huntbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Before you can say He'who took Took?' another little boy is plucked from his parents' car. In both scenes the only evidence is d been a post-known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it note saying 'you doncould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't love her' or himconvinced. On Geary was a townie, 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 case is DI Reynolds who is initially more concerned with how his new hair transplant is taking until time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the crimes escalate Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to a full scale serial abduction caseyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593066901</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Harvey1529425867|title=Good BaitLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Karen Shields runs the over-stretched Homicide In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Serious Crimes Unit always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and itfather of Ryan, is not. He's an early-morning call which takes her to Hampstead Heath and a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy who's dead under the ice in the pondnot any of those things. Even working out who he was is difficult and sheHe's got no idea that shewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's at the edge not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of a web of organised crime shell suits and gang warfare which will take up much of her timetrackies. Hundreds of miles away DI Trevor Cordon lives They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a sail loft in Newlyn and his day-to-day duties arepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, well, undemanding but heyou's shaken out re not. The two men are just different sides of his rut when an old acquaintance dies in London and he heads off to the capital to find same policing coin. Sometimes the friend's daughtercombination works brilliantly well. It's going to be a lot more complicated than he realises - and Sometimes it touches on Karen Shield's problems in a way that neither of them could ever have imaginedproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021628</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian McKinty1529431735|title=The Cold Cold GroundWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
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|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'The Cold Cold Groundreturn all the more surprising. He'' is d been exiled on the first of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a planned trilogy of police procedural novels featuring Sean Duffydecade. Set in 1980s Northern Ireland it The return has come about because he's had a little reminiscent of the TV show letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn'Life on Mars't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, full of reminders of the music stripped to his underwear and events of the period that evokes nostalgia sent to a watery grave in those who lived through it. In all good police procedural novels, the hero has to have boot of a 'thing' that sets him apartstolen Ford Sierra. With Duffy Is it is that he is a Catholic in warning from a Spanish gang or a predominantly Protestant police force. What this means is that no one trusts him on either side of the religious divide. And as this is set during the worst of the 'troubles' with hunger strikes and rioting on the streets, not problem closer to mention car bombs and other acts of violence, this is a big issue for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688221</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0861541774|title=The Terracotta DogA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=Montalbano was somewhat surprised to find himself having DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a heart-short holiday in Singapore to-heart conversation meet up with one of the most feared Mafioso an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in Sicily a street brawl - and even more surprised when Tano the Greek indicated he would later maintain that he'd like to be caught was facing a man armed with a knife - and arrestedhe killed a Ghurka. He wasn't giving himself upInitially, you note - he wanted it faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to look as though what had happened was outside his controlmurder the man. Meanwhile, the rest of the team were dealing with a supermarket heist - Now he could be facing the proceeds of which were inexplicably abandoned at a filling stationdeath penalty. To cap it all, Montalbano discovers Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a secret grotto in a mountain cave, with two young lovers, dead some fifty years but still embracing - diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. It's not a normal day for the detective - but then what is normal for him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330492918</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1521129886|title=V is for VengeanceThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54
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|summary=Ah, what bliss! Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. To It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a lovely fat copy of baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the latest in baby when she gets past the Alphabet murder series sitting on my lapmorning sickness. This latest Greg is reassuringly weightyapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, although I still managed Lucy, who's struggling to read it - or devour it as my husband make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it - simply wasn't in a very short time! I love his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the experience of reading these storiesdeath was suicide, finding myself caught up in Kinsey but Stuart's world, unwilling prepared to pay Greg to put the book down until I, along with Kinsey, have figured find out what has been going happened onthe night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745873</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan BradleyB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=BishopIt's Lacey, the closest village 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to Buckshaw, the de Luce family home, was the traditional sleepy English village, particularly have a high-flying job in the nineteen fifties when this story is city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now sethimself up as a private investigator. The arrival 'Shades of a travelling puppet show causes some excitementCameron Strike', although it has to you might be admitted thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the show is there because the van broke down rather than because there was an intention other hand, he has been asked to stage a performancelook into something. ThereJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a need to raise money for the repair of the van so Rupert Porsontragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, famed puppeteer from the BBC, agrees Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to put on two shows fall in the village hallfront of a train. There is, of course, a grisly murderGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911760X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Pastor1838954481|title=Liar MoonThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The finances of the de Luce family are in Ryan Kennedy killed a dreadful state and Flaviapolice officer: there's father makes no doubt about that. He was the decision to allow a film company to make use of fifteen-year-old holding the family stately home, Buckshaw, as a locationgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Flavia is in her element with new people He pulled the trigger but due to investigate, new processes to mull over the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and her friendship with Dogger, her father's manservant, to progressthe manslaughter of the officer. There's obviously something strange going And so lives must go on when . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the star of capital and hoping for a quieter life in the film persuades the director - much against his will - to put countryside but when a missing teenager is found on a benefit performance for the village. When thereher territory she's drawn into a snow storm which cuts Buckshaw and many of the residents of the local village off from the outside world wider investigation - and then a murder - you have back into the makings orbit of a classic 'locked room' mysteryRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409114201</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1448309743|title=Slash And BurnThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The front cover suggests an action-packedIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, thriller-type readfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. But I hadn't bargained for The only item missing from the home is the charm similar to [[Devil Stone:Category:Alexander McCall Smith|Alexander McCall Smith]]myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. SoThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, a light read then, fair enough. And I could tell from Cotterillthat's one page an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Acknowledgementsdiscovered' that he is a witty writerthe body. And that The Senior Investigating Office is certainly underlined by the chapter headingsDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, such as DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'Another Fine Messshadow' and 'Lipstick and Too Tight Underwearhim.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381970</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregg Olsen1529077699|title=Victim SixThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat'' says Lee Child. I have read and thoroughly enjoyed some of ChildIt's books so I couldnall bloody peculiar, isn't wait to get started on this book. Would it be as good and as satisfying as Child, Sir?''s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331738</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1529427045|title=The Impossible DeadGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When it started it all seemed so simple''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. A constable in CID had been found guilty Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town ofGasskas, er, pressing his attentions on young women who came his way in where the course so-far-untapped natural resources of the jobarea have sparked a gold rush. Just to make certain that it wasnThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece't a wider problem s mother is the latest woman in the Professional Standards Unit (or whatever it was being called this week) from another force was asked area to investigate three officers who might have been overly supportive of the miscreantvanished without trace. Then an ex-policeman It was shot by only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a weapon which couldnremarkably gifted teenager who't exist and from there it all got, well, rather messy and in the middle of it all was Inspector Malcolm Fox s unaware of the Complaintspart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889532</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1787636607|title=Killed at the Whim of a HatThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jimm Juree was It's a crime reporter, just a heartbeat away from getting scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the job morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of her dreams when family circumstances forced her clubs and looking for a way to quit her job get home. Some are lucky and move manage to a fishing village on get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the Gulf night bus that will only go as far as one of Siamthe outlying villages. Forget The woman all about regret the up-market resorts like Phuket where 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the money goesmissing women'. It never gets anywhere near Maprao. MairFor one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her daughter Jimm and son Arny along with Granddad Jah have to try and grub a living out long way short of the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restauranther home. JimmShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's sister, who used dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to be let her brother, has chosen use his. There's no option but to stay start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the city, where she lives her life online and not always on the right side of the lawhigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849165548</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kjell Eriksson1405957174|title=The Hand That TremblesA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I read and reviewed recently ErikssonFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. [[The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson|The Princess of Burundi]] and was rather disappointed. How will this book shape up? Svenvictim - a man -Arne Persson is an astute politician. He knows dying when to press the flesh for best effect we first meet him and also when Nadine consciously makes no effort to turn on call the smiles - even if those smiles ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't quite reach his eyes. In short, he know is who the man is a career politicianor why Nadine prefers to have him die. Calculated. And thereI's d better give you a great line on page 21 which sums him up beautifully - little more background so that you can understand what'He was a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of county politics s happening...'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074904019X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kjell Eriksson0008530025|title=The Princess of BurundiMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Berit It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Justus (mother and son) are waiting for John before they eat supperfound the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. Hehad an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's lated slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Perhaps heTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's popped in to see an ex-colleague or nipped into now the pub for subject of ''Infamous'', a quick drinktrue-crime show. But neither A group of these options ring true for Beritexperts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. John is currently unemployed which is a shame as he was very good at his last jobMore to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. HeThere's also not no dump of the most social or chatty whole box set - and no shortage of mencliffhangers. Some would even describe him as surly and a bit gruffIt's compelling viewing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749040092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell0241996104|title=Watson's Choice|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Sir Bohun (that's pronounced 'Boon', in case you're wondering) Chantrey is not the brightest or most sensitive of men, but Sherlock Holmes is one of his great passions in life. To celebrate the great man's anniversary he throws a party at which the guests are invited Coming to come as characters from the stories. Our heroine, Mrs Bradley, and her secretary Laura Menzies are among the guests but not everyone there is interested in Sherlock Holmes. Quite a few are interested in Chantrey's money and his announcement that he is to marry his poverty-stricken nursery governess provokes anger in certain quarters. Then the Hound of the Baskervilles makes an unscheduled appearance...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548593</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFind You|author=Gianrico Carofiglio|title=Temporary PerfectionsJane Corry
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=This is the fourth book in the popular Guido Guerrieri seriesNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. The front cover is eye-catchingWe first meet Nancy outside the court, as is the titleafter Martin receives a life sentence. As early as p.9 I could see The barrister tells her that Carofiglio has she's received a nice line in wit and irony. Ergo 'silent sentence' - she'When you appear before s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the Court rest of Cassationher life. Of course, you feel youit's made worse because Nancy're in an orderly world, part s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of a justice system that works it... the world ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not orderly and justice be printed but is not servedundoubtedly spoken.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738729</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shuichi Yoshida1529413680|title=Villain|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Well, I suppose I'd better begin with the bad which was there were moments at the start of this novel when I thought I couldn't possibly read it right to the end. It's written in such a stilted, factual style with details about the road networks of the local area and exactly how much anyone pays for anything they eat or buy or rent! Faced, for example, with the paragraph ''cars setting out from Nagasaki that take the pass road to save money take the Nagasaki Expressway from Nagasaki to Omura, then to Higashi-Sonogi and TakeoA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, and get off at the Saga Yamato interchange. Intersecting this east-west Nagasaki Expressway at the interchange is Route 263'' I thought I'd never manage to read more than a couple Chief of lines before falling asleep! Still, I persisted and actually, I'm glad I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526654</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Ryan David Jahn|title=The DispatcherMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ian Hunt works as a dispatcher taking 911 calls in rural Texas. One day he takes a call of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from his 14 year old daughter. That would be enough to ruin your day in itself, but the daughter English in question was kidnapped seven years ago, presumed dead. They have even held a funeral for her. That1370 and Bruno's really going there to mess see the show with your mindsome friends. What ensues is a desperate chase to find her once more before the kidnapper can escape or worse. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230755968</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Andriacco|title=No Police Like Holmes|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=At the It'Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes' Colloquium (in s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the UK it would probably be a conference) man playing one of the St Benignus College in Erin, Ohio main characters is due to receive a donation of the third largest collection of Sherlockiana in seriously injured when he departs from the world – including some rare pieces of substantial valuescript. The plan Luckily, his doctor is that there should be good publicity for the college and that the attendees have man is whisked away in a good time – deerstalker hats not being compulsoryhelicopter. But even the best A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but -laid plans are derailed by theft and murder. Jeff Cody is the public relations director at the college and as he's determined to solve a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the crimes before his eccentric brother military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in lawCalifornia, Professor Sebastian McCabeis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178092206X</amazonuk>
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