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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin BrooksB0CYV674G2|title=Until the Darkness Comes|rating=4|genre=Crime |summary=Private detective John Craine has returned to Hale Island, the scene of many childhood holidays, to get away from a painful past, his guilt, and his loss. And there's another reason - the possibility that he has a half-sister he's never met. But within hours of arriving, Swanton Morley (John discovers the body of a dead girl concealed in a pill box on the beach. He calls 999 but when the police arrive the body has disappeared and the officers clearly see him as a drunken fool prone to hysterical imaginings. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553821</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTanner)|author=Daniel Silva|title=Portrait of a SpyDavid Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=Gabriel Allon It seemed like an open-and his wife-shut case. A man, Chiaracovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, decide to rent a nice little Cornish cottage; comes into the perfect hideaway in which to renovate art. A rosy domestic picture police station shouting that, as any spy thriller aficionado will tell you isnhe hasn't going to last longkilled the man. It lasts, in fact, as long as it takes some middleA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -eastern terrorists to bomb Paris and Copenhagen and then move on to Londonhe's Covent Gardenbeen stabbed to death. Gabriel and Chiara are there, about to have lunchDCI 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 Gabriel is unable to concentrate on the menu words 'perverse' and just let things happen'John Tanner' were made for each other. Mr and Mrs Allon end up being dragged back into He's sleep-deprived to the day job as they and their multi-national colleagues brandish a spectrum point of experience and talent in order falling asleep at work but he's determined to take on a rogue Yemeni cleric who, embarrassingly enough, had been supported by the Americanskeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000743331X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Sian Reynolds (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Bed of Nails|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When you're a policeman in Paris Lowe and your involvement in office politics takes a turn for the worse, you could end up in charge of suicides. That would make it your job to cope with all the jumpers, the pill-takers, the apparent suicide with two types of bullet through his head - even the naked men running into the flow of traffic around the ringLe Breton Mysteries -road. You might not get the case of the American junkie who dies performing a pierced-man act in a seedy club. No, looking into that is that man's closest friend, John, fresh from living in the French wilds as an outdoorsman. But in a Paris where cause of death can be so bizarre, a reason for death can have very far-reaching consequences...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050370</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barry Fantoni|title=Harry Lipkin, Private Eye: The Oldest Detective in the World|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Harry Lipkin may not be the fittest private investigator in Florida once you take into account his indigestion and his arthritis, but Death at 87 he's definitely the oldest. Despite this he still manages to make a steady living, picking up the little jobs that don't interest the police and Norma Weinberger's problem comes into that category. Small but expensive knick-knacks seem to be going missing from around the house so could it be a light-fingered member of staff? The suspects (the gardener, the butler, the maid and the chauffer) each have their own story and motive, leaving Harry to get the four down to a short list of one. A task that's perhaps a little harder than it sounds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972272</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danny Miller|title=The Gilded EdgeDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Crime|summary=London: 1965 These were the dark days, when the Krays had yet to be brought to justice and the underworld in London was based on protection rackets and armed robberies. These were the days when a politician getting caught with a call girl was a national scandal and generated genuine fear and outrage rather than a few front page headlines soon forgotten. The headlines generated then are still quoted now. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016917</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Ridpath|title=Meltwater (Fire and Ice)|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=A group of internet activists decided to base themselves in Iceland whilst they prepared their latest exposé. This time it was a video of a purported Israeli attrocity which needed verifying and preparing for publication. All would have been well - or as well as such things ever are - if one of the group hadn't been murdered on a visit to a volcano. It was a volcano which caused the second problem - not the erruption of the small, pretty one which the group had visited with fatal consequences, but the big, ugly one which no one could pronounce and which disrupted air traffic all over Europe in the spring of 2010. Yes. That one. Eyjafjallajokull meant that travel too and from Iceland was exceedingly difficult ''and'' it disrupted the investigation of the murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789644X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jason Dean|title=The Wrong Man|rating=4
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|summary=Ex-marine James Bishop worked During location filming for an elite protection companyhis 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The idea behind his last mission was police seem happy to protect multi-millionaire Randall Brennan and his daughter Natalie assign it as an accidental death, butsomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, insteadand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, he found himself framed for murder. Who? Why? These why may be questions that need answering but that's not going John Le Breton to happen whilst he's serving a life sentencehelp him investigate matters further. HoweverThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, where Bishop is concernedseemingly, that's only a minor blip compared link to death during the task aheadSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755382692</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Crow0008517061|title=My Dearest JonahDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=Jonah and Verity start to write to each other as part of a pen-pal schemeFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. They may only meet on paper butThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, as they reveal themselves Livia and their pasts through their lettersher daughter Diana, they become the only constant as moving in each together would mean a lot of their existences, compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and what existences. Jonah has a troubled past (relaxing life to put it mildly) including a stint move in prison and a father serving a life sentence. Verity with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the product of working class parents with aspirations which future she has failed or refused to meet, splitting wants for herself and her working daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life between in the local coffee shop present and putting the local strip joint. Their futures begin to appear a lot brighter than their pasts but then clouds gather to prove that appearances can be deceptivefuture on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248254</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1786482126|title=Funeral Note: A Bob Skinner MysteryThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|summary=When a man's body was exhumed from a shallow grave Builders were demolishing an old house in Edinburgh Norwich - the initial reaction site was that it going to hold 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 - I mean, why else would you dispose of the body in that way? But thenInevitably, why would you bury it Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with obvious care and tell the police where itDCI Harry Nelson. It's buried? When the postmortem showed that the man had died from natural causes it seemed that it was case closed - difficult as Ruth knows, but Chief Constable Bob Skinner didnNelson doesn't always think in straight lines. He had more pressing problems to deal , that she is pregnant with thoughhis child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. It seemed Her condition will be obvious that an Inspector on his force was corrupt and on the personal front it looked as though his marriage was heading for the rocksbefore long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Noble0008551324|title=Tears of a PhoenixThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|summary=It was almost inevitable that Jed Johnson would follow his brothers into crime. The slippery slope 's unusual for anyone from care the Hardie family to young offendersapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he' institute s prepared to an eventual life sentence tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was almost predictable despite his mother's attempts to raise him responsible for responsibilityher death. However This person, once serving he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the life sentence, Jed has time police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to think and, aided by Elisabeth, a an open prison service psychologist, he assesses to serve the remainder of his past sentence and decides how he'd like his future to lookget an early parole date. Decision Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't guarantee fulfilment though, think so and Jed has a long way she's even prepared to go before he knows how his story will enddo 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>1846949882</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Webster0008405026|title=A Death Stranger in Valenciathe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=Chief Inspector Max Camara of It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Cuerpo Nacional de Policia has rather investigation ground to a lot on his platehalt. A renowned local paella chef Now, her mother, Helena, and restaurant owner went missing and then his body turned up her father are dead in the seatheir bed. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the eve positioning of the Pope's visit bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to Valencia be an open-and there are threats against -shut case is now a local abortion cliniccomplex double murder. The mayor and the town hall are set on demolishing El Cabanyal, the colourful fisherman's quarter on Kerrigan is convinced that the seafront, to make way for modern development. To cap it all some ominous cracks have suddenly appeared explanation lies in the walls of his flat. Well, he thinks they've suddenly appeared, but heRosalie's not quite certain. Itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's not exactly what you might call a ''home''boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith0571379877|title=The Road to Hell: An Alice Rice MysteryKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|summary=DS Alice Rice Edward Jevons is facing a disciplinary hearing which could result in her dismissal from the police force. She knows that she's innocent working- that it wasn't her who'd been too free class young man, obsessed with some sensitive information his upper- but itclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's all going to come down to whose word is believed and whether a couple of witnesses can remember exactly who said what in a very tense situationtheatre director. ItHe's a difficult afternoon also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and when she gets home that evening, Ian - the man uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with whom she lives Stanza since their university days - has a visitor and forgets the importance of Alicehe's afternoondrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The resulting argument will Most men in Robert's position would stay in Aliceaway from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's mind for some not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of the worst reasonsthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972256</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christobel KentJo Callaghan|title=The Dead Season: A Sandro Cellini MysteryLeave No Trace
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|summary=It's August and Florence feels hotter than it usually does When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in August - if that's possible. Businesses are shut up as anyone who can migrates Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the coastcase alongside her sidekick, but Sandro Cellini isn't one of themthe AI detective Lock. He used to be a policeman but heIt's now a private investigator but even this business is running their first live case together, having previously been very slowlysuccessful with several cold cases. All he has to work on But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is the case of suddenly struggling with a young potential serial killer and a very pregnant woman whose fiancé is missinghigh profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The manager of Will they be able to solve the local Bank won't be holidaying either - his body is discovered case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the shrubbery on a normally busy roundabout - case and it looks as though it's been there for a few days. Then there's , potentially, out of a coincidence: it seems that the missing fiancé and the dead Bank manager both had the same name.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843549522</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henning Mankell1035021803|title=The White Lioness (Kurt Wallander)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=Louise Akerblom was 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 young housewiferequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, a motherArthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, pillar of to say the local Methodist church and an estate agentleast. It Arthur was the last which would cause Kurt Wallander to investigate her disappearance and which would gradually bring to light a chain of events which led reason why Freya had not been back to South Africathe village: Arthur, to renegade members of the South African Secret Service and an ex-KGB agent who would do ''anything'' to live in South Africashe feels, let her down badly. What Even though they have were in common is a determination business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to halt Nelson Mandela's rise to power even if be near the man or pursue the result is a blood bathprofession she loved. It didn't seem quite so complex After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on that Friday afternoon in 1992 but it would be one the rebound from the love of Wallander's most complex cases her life, who was murdered) and Freya and one which could cost him very dearlyJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571692</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Vernon1398524085|title=The Good Wife's CastleHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|summary=We start with a fatherCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's suicidefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, a child watching as he steps find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the chair in river. It was an easy assumption for the milking room with police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the noose around his neckguilt. A father who died for shameThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552775533</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olen Steinhauer1529900360|title=An American Spy|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Beijing Olympics approach and Xin Zhu has every reason to be proud: a high ranking position in China's espionage system, a beautiful new young wife and the satisfaction of having wiped out 33 American agents and so closing down their department. But the spy business is not a place for resting on laurels, especially when American Alan Drummond wants to avenge the death of his entire department. Meanwhile survivor of the massacre, Milo Weaver, just wants time to recover and space to be with his family. The unlikelihood of that happening is pretty high; however, it becomes a lot more remote when Alan disappears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848876025</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=Elizabeth Wilson|title=The Girl in BerlinJonathan Kellerman
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|summary=Set in 1950s It hadn'Austerity Britaint been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, with detour or two Sturgis was reluctant to Berlin, Elizabeth Wilsonask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's ''The Girl in Berlin'' is a stylish tale t need the help of espionage with a backdrop of the disappearance of Maclean and Burgess in psychologist only worked for a world where no one knows who to trustwhile. Jack McGovern works at Special Branch but when Colin Harris Finally, a known member of the Communist Party returns to the UKit was Robin, MI5Delaware's Miles Kingdom draws Jack partner, who nudged Milo into investigate his intentionsasking for help again. Add in She knew that the fact involvement was something that the wife of one of Harris's friendsman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Dinah Wentworth, works part time at though. Two lovers were murdered in the Courtauld Institute swimming pool of Art where Dr Anthony Blunt a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is the main married to an extremely rich man, neither Jack, nor and it's not the reader, knows who is working for whomItalian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688264</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Blake178763681X|title=A Question of ProofKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|summary=Wemyss was that boy - and all schools have them, even now - who is universally hatedChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Neither masters at Sudeley Hall, nor his fellow pupils could stand him He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to make matters worse do what he was wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the nephew and ward of impression that he'd be at the headmasterschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the Rev. Percival Valeproblems - are all his own. When the boy was found strangled on the school sports day there wasnThe one thing he hadn't exactly universal rejoicing but it expected was more because of the knowledge of the problems which this would cause for the school than because of any sorrowsomeone to turn up dead. The prime suspects were Michael Evans, the English teacher and Hero ValeUnfortunately, he was the young wife of the middle-aged headmaster person who had been kissing in discovered the haystack where the boy's body was found. Evans has one hope and everyone knows that the police consider that's his friend, Nigel Strangeways, nephew of person to be the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard and a renowned private investigatorprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565358</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1529421284|title=A Fine and Private Place (Sandro Cellini)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
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|summary=Sandro Cellini isn't too impressed with life as It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a private investigator human skeleton came to the surface and it's a big change from being in forensic testing proved the police forcebody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Somehow trailing He'd been a schoolgirl on the orders known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of her father who thinks she's mixing with bad company misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't quite how convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he'd seen his life working doing out. on Salisbury Plain alone? His wife, Luisa, is recovering from cancer, but it seems There are connections to have changed her attitude to life the suicide of Holly Gilbert 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 hertwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Then another case comes up Lockyer and itDC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's one which stirs some memories. Doctor Loni Meadows has been discovered dead after what seems like a tragic motor accident but her husband isn't convinced cold cases to you and he'd like Cellini to me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843549514</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|authortitle=Eva Joly Lost and Judith PerrignonNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=The Eyes of Lira KazanSimon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=The novel throws you straight into the action with three apparently unconnected eventsIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian fraud squad investigatordescent, Nwanko GanboBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, realises itson of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's time to get not ''really'' his thing) and his family out wardrobe consists mainly of the country when he finds a colleague shell suits and good friend trackies. They're usually in his car, very deadlime green or acid yellow. The solution is simple: the British government offer him You might wonder if you're being introduced to a new life as a lecturer in return police procedural written for silence about the corrupt regime he has spent so long investigatinglaughs. Meanwhile the wife of a rich Faroese banker accidentally drowns in full ball gown whilst in Nice but junior prosecutor Felix and his judicial colleague arenWell, you't as easily convinced about the accidental nature as their superiors seem to bere not. The third piece two men are just different sides of the jigsaw originates in Russia as local journalist Lira Kazan shows an interest in same policing coin. Sometimes the life and transactions of Russian millionaire Louchskycombination works brilliantly well. This isn't the healthiest thing sheSometimes it's ever done as people seem to have died for lessproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shamini Flint1529431735|title=Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian CadaverThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
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|summary=Inspector Singh was on sick leave It's February 1991 and rather boredEssex is bitingly cold, which was why he agreed to his wifemade Bruce Hopkins's suggestion (well, she was rather return all the more insistent than thatsurprising...) that they attend her niece He's wedding in Mumbaid been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ThereThe return has come about because he's had a little bit of history letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to this part of the familylive. The bride-It's hard to-be feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Ashu Singhabducted, granddaughter of Tara Singh, the wealthy industrialist stripped to his underwear and his acknowledged favourite. Tara's son ( Ashu's father) was murdered sent to a watery grave in the uprisings which followed the assassination boot of Indira Ghandia stolen Ford Sierra. He supported the family but made Is it a warning from a point that he would not do so beyond the level at which his son (Spanish gang or a rather lowly civil servant) could have achieved. Ashu and her two brothers have been secure but not wealthy - and as we join the story Ashu is going into an arranged marriage. There are two unfortunate circumstances here. Ashu is in love with another man - and she's disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074995342X</amazonuk>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillermo Orsi and Nick Caistor (translator)0861541774|title=Holy CityA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Honest policemen are not that common in Buenos AiresDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, it seemsDanny Maik, but Deputy Inspector Walter Carroza of the serious-crime squad does his best has taken a short holiday in Singapore to keep his head above the murky waters of corruptionmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Sometimes there just seems to be too much going on Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - even for and he killed a loner like Carroza without too much else in his life to absorb his timeGhurka. The lack Initially, he faced a charge of dredging in the Rio del Plata caused the cruise ship manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to run aground and murder the passengers were evacuated to man. Now he could be facing the city, where six - two French, two German and two Italians - of them were abducteddeath penalty. TheyDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn're wealthy business leaders and the kidnappings send stock markets into freefallt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050621</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly1521129886|title=The Sick RoseThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
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|summary=Paul had Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the passion point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and academic grades to become Joyce will soon have a teacherbaby and they're both delighted. However, his plans started Joyce will be more delighted about the slow slide away from his grasp after his father died and he and his mother were forced to move to baby when she gets past the rough, Grays Reach Estate and morning sickness. Greg is approached by an even rougher schoolold friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. It seemed that Stuart's concerned about his days as bullysister, Lucy, who's target had ended when Daniel, illiterate struggling to make ends meet and street-wise, stepped in as protectorher son is not thriving. All Paul had to do was cover for DanielLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's disability t in classhis nature... at least The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was all he needed suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to do at firstfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444703854</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin O'BrienB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Dying MinutesResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot is recovering after being shot after his last caseIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. His pregnant girlfriend is away when He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he receives news that he has been left 's now set himself up as a boat – Constance - by an old sailorprivate investigator. At about the same time'Shades of Cameron Strike', lawyeryou might be thinking. Nice bloke, Claude Dupont visits one of his unsuccessful defendants in prison. The man is dying and leaves his lawyer an unusual bequest on which he feels but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he needs has been asked to actlook into something. What follows starts to unnerve many of the criminal fraternity in the South of France Joyce and stirs up old rivalries between two of the most feared criminal families on the Cote d'Azur. It also raises questions about what happened to gold bullionHelen are half-sisters, stolen over twenty years previouslyor rather, and leads to they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a deadly race as both families seek the gold tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and also seek revenge. Amidst all of thisher parents, Jacquot seems to find his new acquisition at the heart of it all Oliver and starts Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to unravel the mysterious life fall in front of the boata train. Greg's former ownerbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090617</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1838954481|title=An Uncertain PlaceThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Only Adamsberg could be involved in these crimes. While innocently on Ryan Kennedy killed a stroll through London he and his colleagues, police officer: there for a conference, get told of nearly two dozen disembodied feet, and their shoes, left outside Highgate Cemetery's no doubt about that. Some of them are decades He was the fifteen-year-oldholding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Much fresher are He pulled the trigger but due to the ridiculously demolished remains vagaries of a legal journalist, in his rural French home. Only Adamsberg can approach either, the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and do it partly through the urban myth manslaughter of a bear hunter, a wardrobe-eater and more, and only in his world could they ever be linkedthe officer. And so lives must go on. It's a good job too, For DI Sarah Collins that Adamsberg is means leaving the one to solve them, capital and hoping for they have a much greater bearing quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on him, his colleagues her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and his life than he would ever expectback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955223X</amazonuk>
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Things have moved In the village of Cronchie on since we [[Killed at the Whim West coast of a Hat by Colin Cotterill|first met]] ex-crime reporter, Jimm JureeScotland, stranded at the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurant with most five members of her dysfunctional a wealthy familyare found murdered. I say 'most' because The only item missing from the home is the sister who used to be a brother and who has criminal tendencies isn't with them and when I say 'moved on' I mean Devil Stone: myth says that if the tide has been in and out quite a few timesstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. This time itThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's washed up something a little unusual: a headan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. Uncertain of what, exactly, you do The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when you find a head on the beachhe disappears, Jimm sets off DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to see the village head man. It's the start of a journey which will uncover piracy and slavery, violence and murder in what should be a beautiful part of the world, but isnshadow'thim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387081</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Bates1529077699|title=Cold ComfortThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Since we [[Frozen Out by Quentin Bates|last met]] Sergeant Gunnhildur she's been promoted and is now working in the Serious Crimes Unit in Reykjavik. 'It's quite a contrast to her previous job in Hvalvickall bloody peculiar, but Gunna is determined to make a go of it and isn't it, Sir?'s not long before she has responsibility for two very different cases. A convict has escaped and seems as though he's determined to settle old scores, but why did he need 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 and some of the people who knew her are rather well known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013616</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Corban Addison1529427045|title=A Walk Across The SunGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|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 ''Life has more to their school in the city, theyoffer than people - prime numbers for example''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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Xavier-Marie Bonnot and Justin Phipps (translator)1787636607|title=The Voice of the Spirits: A Commandant de Palma InvestigationTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1936 explorer Robert Ballancourt It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and his guide Kaingara visit looking for a tribe way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of head hunters the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in Papua New Guineathe light of 'the missing women'. BallancourtFor one young woman, seeking artefacts to sell the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to museums, is drawn ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the highly decorated skulls venerated by chance to beg the tribe as they hold the spirits of dead ancestors bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and conquered enemiesin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705077X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Pavone1405957174|title=The ExpatsA Death at the Party|sortauthor= ExpatsAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kate and Dexter Moore move to LuxembourgFrom the first page, along with their two young sons; a world away from their native Washington DCwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The incentive victim - a man - is Dexter's great new job which will mean an expat lifestyle for a year or two, but good money dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the chance to explore Europeambulance he so desperately needs. In What we don't know is who the process Kate will be turning her back on more than Dexter realises. Up till their move man is or why Nadine prefers to Luxembourg, Kate has led a secret double life as a CIA operativehave him die. As Kate comes to terms with the boredom of being I'd better give you a full-time housewife in an alien culture, they meet Bill and Julie, also expat Americans. They soon become friends, but Kate has her suspicions and discovers little more background so that the past is never far awayyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571279147</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes0008530025|title=Revenge of Murder in the TideFamily|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Genevieve worked as a sales executive by day It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and a pole dancer by night found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but her dream the vicious beating his face had taken was to buy and renovate a boat where she could liveobviously deliberate. That was why she persisted in the pressuredTwenty years later, chauvinistic world of software sales no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the increasingly sleazy world subject of the private gentleman's club where she could earn 'Infamous'', a four figure sum each evening as well as getting a good workouttrue-crime show. It was nip-A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and-tuck as to whether or not she made it but after a few months on take the boat at a marina on investigation further. More to the Medway she was feeling good enough about her life point, they're going to hold a boat-warming partydo this live on camera, episode by episode. It was planned as a mixture There's no dump of the people she'd met at the marina whole box set - and some no shortage of her sales colleagues from Londoncliffhangers. But on the night of the party a body washed up at the side of her boat and Genevieve knew the victimIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956792642</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)0241996104|title=Nights of Awe (Ariel Kafka Mystery)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Ari Kafka (no relation to One of the author or, indeed, main events of the local pawn shop owner) Sarlat tourist season is half the re-enactment of the liberation of the Jewish police officers town from the English in Finland which he1370 and Bruno's sure is due there to pay levels rather than religious conviction. Ari graduated 4th in his class at police academy which surprised his mother at see the timeshow with some friends. If his brother and sister could both graduate top of their university classes, whatIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong with him? His brother is always trying to encourage his attendance at family dinners and when, Kerquelin, the local rabbi has to remind him man playing one of the whereabouts of main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the local synagoguescript. All this pressure Luckily, his doctor is normally water off there and the man is whisked away in a duckhelicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's back to Kafkaa senior government employee, but this is about to changethe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. When two Arab bodies are found on a railway lineOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, he must choose between loyalties to those he loves and to those heis flying in with some of her father's sworn to servefriends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738923</amazonuk>
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