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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henning MankellB0CYV674G2|title=The White Lioness Swanton Morley (Kurt WallanderJohn Tanner)|author=David Blake
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|summary=Louise Akerblom was a young housewifeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a motherknife, pillar of comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the local Methodist church and an estate agentman. It was A body at the last which would cause Kurt Wallander bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to investigate her disappearance and which would gradually bring to light a chain of events which led death. DCI John Tanner is just back to South Africafrom his honeymoon, to renegade members which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the South African Secret Service and an ex-KGB agent who would do words 'perverse'anythingand 'John Tanner' to live in South Africawere made for each other. What they have in common is a determination to halt Nelson MandelaHe's rise sleep-deprived to power even if the result is a blood bath. It didn't seem quite so complex on that Friday afternoon in 1992 point of falling asleep at work but it would be one of Wallanderhe's most complex cases and one which could cost him very dearlydetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571692</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roland VernonStuart Douglas|title=The Good Wife's CastleLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=We start with a father's suicide, a child watching as he steps of the chair in the milking room with the noose around his neck. A father who died for shame3.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552775533</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Olen Steinhauer|title=An American Spy|rating=5
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|summary=The Beijing Olympics approach During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Xin Zhu has every reason to be proud: a high ranking position in ChinaLeggit's espionage system, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a beautiful new young wife and woman on the satisfaction edge of having wiped out 33 American agents and so closing down their departmenta reservoir. But The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the spy business is not help of a place for resting on laurelsfellow actor, especially when American Alan Drummond wants John Le Breton to avenge the death of his entire departmenthelp him investigate matters further. Meanwhile survivor of They travel across the massacrecountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, Milo Weaverseemingly, just wants time a link to recover and space to be with his familydeath during the Second World War. The unlikelihood of that happening But is pretty high; however, it becomes there really a lot link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more remote when Alan disappears.people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848876025</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Wilson0008517061|title=The Girl Death in Berlina Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set in 1950s 'Austerity Britain'Former Metropolitan Police detective, with detour or two to BerlinJake Johnson, Elizabeth Wilson's ''The Girl in Berlin'' is has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a stylish tale little uncertainty about the future of espionage his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a backdrop lot of the disappearance of Maclean compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Burgess relaxing life to move in a world where no one knows who with Livia or does Livia move to trust. Jack McGovern works at Special Branch but when Colin Harris, a known member of Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the Communist Party returns to future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the UK, MI5's Miles Kingdom draws Jack into investigate his intentions. Add moment they’re enjoying life in the fact that the wife of one of Harris's friends, Dinah Wentworth, works part time at present and putting the Courtauld Institute of Art where Dr Anthony Blunt is future on the main man, neither Jack, nor the reader, knows who is working for whomback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688264</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Blake1786482126|title=A Question of ProofThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Wemyss Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was that boy going to hold seventy- and all schools have them, even now five 'luxury' apartments - who is universally hatedwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Neither masters at Sudeley Hall, nor his fellow pupils could stand him and to make matters worse he There was the nephew and ward of the headmaster, the Rev. Percival Valeno skull. When the boy was found strangled on the school sports day there wasn't exactly universal rejoicing but it was more because of the knowledge of the problems which Was this would cause for the school than because of any sorrow. a ritual killing or murder? The prime suspects were Michael EvansInevitably, the English teacher and Hero Vale, the young wife of the middle-aged headmaster who had been kissing in the haystack where the boy's body was foundDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Evans has one hope and thatIt's his frienddifficult as Ruth knows, Nigel Strangewaysbut Nelson doesn't, nephew that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Assistant Commissioner one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Scotland Yard and a renowned private investigatorsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565358</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent0008551324|title=A Fine and Private Place The Devil You Know (Sandro CelliniD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Sandro Cellini isn't too impressed with life as a private investigator and itIt's a big change unusual for anyone from being in the Hardie family to approach the police force. Somehow trailing a schoolgirl on Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the orders body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her father who thinks she's mixing with bad company wasn't quite how he'd seen his life working outdeath. His wifeThis person, Luisahe promises, is recovering from cancer, but someone big and it seems will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to have changed her attitude be transferred to an open prison to life serve the remainder of his sentence and when she announces that she's going to New York on a business trip with her boss Cellini worries that he's going to lose herget an early parole date. Then another case comes up and Not much to ask, is it's one which stirs some memories. ? Doctor Loni Meadows has been discovered dead after what seems like a tragic motor accident but her husband isnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't convinced think so and heshe'd like Cellini s even prepared to investigatedo 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>1843549514</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Joly and Judith Perrignon0008405026|title=The Eyes of Lira KazanA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The novel throws you straight into It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the action with three apparently unconnected eventsinvestigation ground to a halt. Nigerian fraud squad investigatorNow, her mother, Nwanko GanboHelena, realises it's time to get his family out of the country when he finds a colleague and good friend in his car, very her father are dead. The solution is simple: the British government offer him a new life as a lecturer in return for silence about the corrupt regime he has spent so long investigatingtheir bed. Meanwhile the wife of Initially, it looks like a rich Faroese banker accidentally drowns in full ball gown whilst in Nice straightforward murder/suicide but junior prosecutor Felix and his judicial colleague arenthere't as easily convinced s something about the accidental nature positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as their superiors seem though it was going to be. The third piece of the jigsaw originates in Russia as local journalist Lira Kazan shows an interest in the life open-and transactions of Russian millionaire Louchsky-shut case is now a complex double murder. This isn't Kerrigan is convinced that the healthiest thing sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's ever done disappearance: others (such as people seem to have died for Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are lessconvinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shamini Flint0571379877|title=Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian CadaverThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Singh was on sick leave and rather boredEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, which was why he agreed to obsessed with his wife's suggestion (wellupper-class friends, she was rather more insistent than thatRobert and Stanza...) that they attend her niece Robert's wedding in Mumbaia theatre director. ThereHe's a little bit of history to this part of the family. The bridealso self-to-be is Ashu Singhobsessed, granddaughter of Tara Singhdemanding, the wealthy industrialist handsome and entitled and his acknowledged favouriteuses Edward to run errands for him. TaraEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's son ( Ashudrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's father) was murdered in the uprisings which followed the assassination of Indira Ghandi. He supported the family but made a point position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that he would not do so beyond the level at which his son (a rather lowly civil servant) could have achieved. Ashu and her two brothers have been secure relationship had begun between them but he's not wealthy - and as we join like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the story Ashu is going into an arranged marriage. There are two unfortunate circumstances here. Ashu is of them kissing in love with another man - and she's disappeareda dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074995342X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo Orsi and Nick Caistor (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=Holy CityLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Honest policemen are not that common When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Buenos AiresNuneaton, it seemsDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, but Deputy Inspector Walter Carroza of the serious-crime squad does his best to keep his head above the murky waters of corruptionAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Sometimes But when there just seems to be too much going on - even for is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a loner like Carroza without too much else in his life lot of unwanted attention to absorb his timetheir AI Future Policing project. The lack of dredging Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the Rio del Plata caused the cruise ship to run aground case and the passengers were evacuated to the city, where six - two Frenchpotentially, two German and two Italians - out of them were abducted. They're wealthy business leaders and the kidnappings send stock markets into freefall.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050621</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly1035021803|title=The Sick RoseAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Paul had It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the passion and academic grades to become English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a teacherrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. HoweverFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, his plans started Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the slow slide away from his grasp after his father died and he and his mother were forced to move circumstances seem suspicious, to say the rough, Grays Reach Estate and an even rougher schoolleast. It seemed that his days as bully's target Arthur was the reason why Freya had ended when Danielnot been back to the village: Arthur, illiterate and street-wiseshe feels, stepped let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as protectorantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. All Paul had to do was cover for Daniel's disability After the split, she worked in class... at least that a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was all he needed to do at firstmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444703854</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin O'Brien1398524085|title=The Dying MinutesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot is recovering after being shot after his last caseCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. His pregnant girlfriend is away when he receives news that he has been left a boat – Constance are all worried but - strangely - by an old sailor. At about the same timeher husband, lawyerAlec, Claude Dupont visits one of his unsuccessful defendants in prisonis not. The man is dying Shortly afterwards, Etty and leaves his lawyer an unusual bequest on which he feels that he needs to act. What follows starts to unnerve many of Greg, find the criminal fraternity in the South body of France and stirs up old rivalries between two of the most feared criminal families on the Cote dGreg'Azur. It also raises questions about what happened to gold bullions father, stolen over twenty years previouslyDuncan Ackerley, and leads to a deadly race as both families seek in the gold and also seek revengeriver. Amidst all of this, Jacquot seems It was an easy assumption for the police to find his new acquisition at the heart of it all make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and starts to unravel then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the mysterious life of the boatguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's former ownerlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090617</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1529900360|title=An Uncertain PlaceThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Only Adamsberg could be involved in these crimes. While innocently on a stroll through London It 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 colleagues, help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a conferencewhile. Finally, get told of nearly two dozen disembodied feetit was Robin, and their shoesDelaware's partner, left outside Highgate Cemeterywho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Some of them are decades oldThe next case did look simple, though. Much fresher are Two lovers were murdered in the ridiculously demolished remains swimming pool of a legal journalist, remote property in his rural French homeBel Air. Only Adamsberg can approach either, and do it partly through He was the urban myth of a bear hunter, a wardrobe-eater heir to an Italian shoe empire and more, she is married to an extremely rich man and only in his world could they ever be linked. Itit's a good job too, that Adamsberg is not the one to solve Italian. But which of them, for they have a much greater bearing on him, his colleagues and his life than he would ever expect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955223X</amazonuk>was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Hawley178763681X|title=The Good FatherKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Chef Paul Allen is more than happy with his lifeDelamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. His second wife, Fran, is efficient, He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a good manager, a good mother way of getting both men and women to their young twins and not overly emotional as Ellen (Wife No. 1) wasdo what he wanted. In fact you could say Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that his life runs like clockworkhe'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, which is just how he likes but itdidn't turn out that way. Paul hates chaos The teaching - and the unexpected, but problems - are all his own. The one thing hehadn's about t expected was for someone to be visited by bothturn up dead. As the Allens sit in horror watching news footage of the charismatic presidential front-runner being gunned downUnfortunately, there's a knock at he was the door. Their real horror is beginning; person who discovered the FBI believes body and everyone knows that the son he had with Ellen is the guy who pulled police consider that person to be the triggerprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444730363</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir1529421284|title=The Day is DarkLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
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|summary=All contact is lost with two Icelanders working It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a remote north-eastern coast of Greenlandheatwave. There are some signs of what might have happened In a gully, a human skeleton came to them - the surface and none of them good - but forensic testing proved the local villagers body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have no intention been a simple case of helping in any search and are hostile when theymisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn're approachedt convinced. Six months before Geary was a woman geologist had disappeared from the same site and although this townie, so what was written off as a potential suicide or dreadful accident no definitive explanation had been forthcoming. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Was her disappearance related There are connections to the disappearance suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the two men? time. Lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir was part Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the team hired Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate the disappearances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700103</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evonne Wareham1529425867|title=Lost and Never Coming HomeFound (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
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|summary=Kaz Elmore has almost come to terms with her daughter's deathIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. She died while on holiday in America with her father (Kaz's ex husband) Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and her ashes have been scattered on the riveralways exquisitely dressed. As tragic as it is D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, Kaz has no alternative but to accept that her daughter is never coming backnot. He's not any of those things. However He's white, one day she receives a visit originated from a man called Devlintrailer park, who witnessed the accident barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and was holding Jamie when she diedtrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. His sole intention is You might wonder if you're being introduced to provide some comfort a police procedural written for Kaz by telling her that her daughter was laughs. Well, you're not alone but when he spots photographs . The two men are just different sides of Jamie, he realises that she is not the child who died in his armssame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931704</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529431735|title=Grandad There's a Head on the BeachThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Things have moved on since we [[Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill|first met]] ex-crime reporterIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Jimm Juree, stranded at which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurant with most of her dysfunctional familymore surprising. I say He'most' because d been exiled on the sister who used to be Costa del Sol as a brother and who has criminal tendencies isn't with them and when I say 'moved on' I mean that the tide has been in and out quite wanted drug smuggler for a few timesdecade. This time itThe return has come about because he's washed up something had a little unusual: a head. Uncertain of whatletter from his ex-wife, exactly, you do when you find a head on the beach, Jimm sets off saying that she's ill and hasn't long to see the village head manlive. It's the start of a journey which will uncover piracy and slaveryhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, violence stripped to his underwear and murder sent to a watery grave in what should be the boot of a beautiful part of the world, but isn'tstolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387081</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Bates0861541774|title=Cold ComfortA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Since we [[Frozen Out by Quentin Bates|last met]] Sergeant Gunnhildur sheDCI Domenic Jejeune's been promoted close friend and is now working former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the Serious Crimes Unit in ReykjavikSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It's quite Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a contrast to her previous job in Hvalvick, but Gunna is determined to make man armed with a go of it knife - and it's not long before she has responsibility for two very different caseshe killed a Ghurka. A convict has escaped and seems as though Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he's determined might have planned to settle old scores, but why did murder the man. Now he need could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to escape when his ten-year sentence was almost up? The other case is rather more high profile: an ex-TV fitness presenter is murdered in her city apartment help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and some of the people who knew her are rather well knownwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013616</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Murphy1521129886|title=Weekend in WeightonThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eddie G (well, itGreg Mason's Eddie Greene, actually, but Eddie G sounds so just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much more street-wise, donhe charges. It't you think?) has s a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a hundred percent record of solving baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the cases he takes on as a private investigatorbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. That sounds very impressive until you find out that heStuart's only just taken on concerned about his first casesister, but itLucy, who's a mark of his determination struggling to succeedmake 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 his nature. The first blip on police and the radar which suggests coroner have accepted that all might not be well is finding the clap-cold body of his client on her living-room floor when itdeath was suicide, but Stuart's not fifteen minutes since he spoke prepared to pay Greg to her find out what happened on the phonenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0072Z5EHA</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Corban AddisonB0CK3MYJ56|title=A Walk Across The SunResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Chennai, India, 17 year old Ahalya It's the 1990s and her 15 year Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old sister. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', Sitayou might be thinking. Nice bloke, watch as their family and entire world is swept away by but where's the now infamous Christmas tsunami. life experience that backs up this profession? In On the aftermathother hand, Ahalya knows thathe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, if the sisters can get to their school in the cityor rather, theywere until Helen was killed in what'll be safes been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. HoweverJoyce - and her parents, not everyone is to be trusted Oliver and their trip Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to safety turns into fall in front of a drive towards a darker danger as the girls are kidnapped and sold train. Greg's been asked to a trafficking networkinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857388193</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elanor Dymott1838954481|title=Every Contact Leaves a TraceThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1936 explorer Robert Ballancourt Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and his guide Kaingara visit a tribe the manslaughter of head hunters in Papua New Guineathe officer. Ballancourt, seeking artefacts to sell And so lives must go on to museums, . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn to the highly decorated skulls venerated by the tribe as they hold into a wider investigation - and back into the spirits orbit of dead ancestors and conquered enemiesRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705077X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Pavone1448309743|title=The ExpatsDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|sortauthor= ExpatsCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kate and Dexter Moore move to LuxembourgIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, along with their two young sons; five members of a world away from their native Washington DCwealthy family are found murdered. The incentive only item missing from the home is Dexter's great new job which will mean an expat lifestyle for a year or two, but good money and the chance to explore Europe. In Devil Stone: myth says that if the process Kate stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will be turning her back on more than Dexter realisesfollow. Up till their move to LuxembourgThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Kate has led a secret double life as a CIA operative. As Kate comes to terms with that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the boredom of being a full-time housewife in an alien culture, they meet Bill and Julie, also expat Americansbody. They soon become friends The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but Kate has her suspicions and discovers that the past DCI Christine Caplan is never far awaypulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571279147</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1529077699|title=Revenge of the TideThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Genevieve worked as ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a sales executive by day month and a pole dancer by night but her dream was to buy then turned up, naked and renovate dead, in a small boat where she could live, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. That was why she persisted in Rosco had the pressuredstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, chauvinistic round the world of software sales sailor and the increasingly sleazy world of the private gentlemanall round ''celebrity''s club where she could earn a four figure sum each evening as well as getting a good workout. It was nipI ''nearly'' said 'all-and-tuck as to whether or not she made it round good egg' but after a few months on the boat at a marina on the Medway she was feeling good enough about her life to hold a boat-warming party. It was planned as we'll find out, he could be more than a mixture of the people shelittle bit close with money and his background isn'd met at the marina and some of her sales colleagues from Londont exactly an open book. But on Where did he get the night of the party a body washed up at the side of her money for his first boat and Genevieve knew ? How did he finance the victim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956792642</amazonuk>trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)1529427045|title=Nights of Awe (Ariel Kafka Mystery)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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 he's sure is due to pay levels rather than religious conviction. Ari graduated 4th in his class at police academy which surprised his mother at the time. If his brother and sister could both graduate top of their university classes, what's wrong with him? His brother is always trying to encourage his attendance at family dinners and the local rabbi Life has more to remind him of the whereabouts of the local synagogue. All this pressure is normally water off a duckoffer than people - prime numbers for example's back to Kafka, but this is about to change. When two Arab bodies are found on a railway line, he must choose between loyalties to those he loves and to those he's sworn to serve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738923</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Freeman1787636607|title=Spilled BloodThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=One night seventeen-year old Ashlynn is driving It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. She gets a flat tyre Some are lucky and manage to get one of all the places in few taxis available. Others squash onto the world finds herself stranded in the ghost town: an abandoned farm community night bus that no longer exists on the map and that no-will only go as far as one with any sense would be driving through at of the dead of nightoutlying villages. But there is more than one kind The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of sense'the missing women'. These daysFor one young woman, another kind says that if you are from the town final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of Barron (her home . She had intended to Mondamin Research) you donring someone to come and collect her - but her phone't drive through St Croix – a neighbouring community that is s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the focus of a recent cancer clusterbus driver to let her use his. The people of St Croix blame Mondamin There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and by extrapolation everyone in Barron. For the young people this has spilled over into an outright oldhigh-fashioned feudheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henning Mankell1405957174|title=The Troubled ManA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
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|summary=Hakan von Enke was a retired naval officer and a man of routine. Each morning he went for a long walk in From the forest near his Stockholm homefirst page, but one day he failed to returnwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. It's The victim - a long way from Ystad, Kurt Wallander's home town man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the only reason ambulance he became involved in the case was the fact that von Enkeso desperately needs. What we don's son Hans was t know is who the partner of Wallander's daughter Lindaman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Wallander became concerned about von Enke some months before when they had a long discussion at his seventy-fifth birthday party. HeI'd seemed worried and wary of better give you a stranger in the street. Von Enkelittle more background so that you can understand what's disappearance hit the family hard - and then his wife disappeared as wellhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548402</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig0008530025|title=Never Apologise, Never Explain - An Inspector Carlyle NovelMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Mills It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and her husband lived in a flat near found the British Museum and body of her body was found stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the kitchen one morninggarden of their West London home. There were no signs He had an injury on the back of a forced entry or of doors being left unlocked as an intruder left so her husband Henry his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was arrested and obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with her his murderand it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. His only defence is that Agatha had enemies: she had A group of experts has been pursuing brought together to review the disappearance of her brother in Chile in 1973 evidence and was hoping that there would be a trial which would provide an answer as to what happened to Williamtake the investigation further. The defence is outlandish and impossible More to investigatethe point, but could itthey're going to do this live on camera, just possibly, be true?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015848</amazonuk>episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Harkaway0241996104|title=AngelmakerComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Joshua Joseph Spork (Joe to his mates) is a clock maker Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and clockwork mender in London’s East End. He’s spent his life emulating his craftsman grandfatherher step-brother, DanielMartin, and avoiding the shadow has been convicted of his late father and crook, Mathewtheir murder. HoweverWe first meet Nancy outside the court, one day all that changes with after Martin receives a visit from heavies, Messrs Cummerbund and Titwhistle and the even more sinister black-veiled Ruskinite monklife sentence. They want something The barrister tells her that Joe only has she's received a fragment of: The Hakote Book ('silent sentence'Angelmaker'- she' s not been found guilty of the title). He discovers that the mysterious metal punch cards in his granddad’s box are just the beginning. Can he find the rest and literally put the world to rights before all his friends are murdered? Assisted by a 91 year old special agent, an aged, ugly pug and Polly the insatiable (anything but rather useful) lawyer, he’ll will have a jolly good try.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402094X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Hillier|title=Creep|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Dr. Sheila Tao is a psychology professor at Puget Sound State University in Seattle. She lives a double existence, having an affair to live with one what happened for the rest of her students, but then getting engaged to a banker and former American footballer, Morrislife. Knowing that this double life cannot last, she dumps the studentOf course, Ethan Wolfe, but canit't bring herself to confide in her fiancé that part of the reason she was seeing him is that shes made worse because Nancy's also a sex addict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549010</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in the gritty yet glamorous world of Modesty Blaise rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - at least, as gritty and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in papers are making the late 1980smost of it. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking to reproduce all the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and this latest covers three stories, all of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume I've reviewed - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline by Neville Colvin and Peter O'Donnell|Sweet Caroline]]rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cara Hoffman1529413680|title=So Much Pretty|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Haeden, New York is a small town of the type where nothing really happens. When 19 year old Wendy White goes missing, the local reporter, Stacy Flynn, thinks she’s found her big break, but her investigations lead her to a wall of silence which proves highly distressing to break through. Hoffman’s observations of small town life and small town personalities are compelling. No aspect is left unexaminedA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, from the painful tedium to the quite contentment experienced as part of a whole spectrum Chief of emotions experienced by visitors and residents alike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846059704</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Belinda Bauer|title=Finders KeepersMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set in Exmoor, plucky little Jess Took One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is kidnapped the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from her fatherthe English in 1370 and Bruno's vehicle while he is off managing there to see the local huntshow with some friends. Before you can say It'who took Took?' another little boy s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is plucked seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his parents' car. In both scenes doctor is there and the only evidence man is whisked away in a posthelicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but -it note saying as he'you don't love her' or hims a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. On the case is DI Reynolds One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is initially more concerned flying in with how his new hair transplant is taking until the crimes escalate to some of her father's friends for a full scale serial abduction casepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593066901</amazonuk>
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