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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary==It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth RendellStuart Douglas|title=The Saint Zita SocietyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Hexam Place in Pimlico is an exclusive street During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of white-painted stucco Georgian houses lived in by a woman on the rich and by those who serve them, who are far from richedge of a reservoir. The help are a motley assortment of driverspolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, au pairsbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, cleaners and gardeners who decide to form he enlists the St Zita Society - Zita being the patron saint help of domestic servants - but its purpose is occasionally hard a fellow actor, John Le Breton to determinehelp him investigate matters further. There are minor problems they want to tackleThey travel across the country during their days off filming, such as dog excrement being bagged uncovering more possible murders and left in the street and situations where they have little hope of having any impact, such as none of seemingly, a link to death during the servants being invited to a particular social occasionSecond World War. Perhaps But is there really a link between the main purpose deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is to give an excuse for meeting in the pub.responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009194404X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter0008517061|title=CriminalDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=The apartment in Atlanta was particularly sordid but made horrifying by Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the brutally-murdered body future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a woman. Special agent Will Trent lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is ''almost'' involved in the investigation but his boss Amanda Wagner seems determined to keep him at arm's length. future she wants for herself and her daughter? The murder brings back memories for Wagner of a murder For the moment they’re enjoying life in the city more than thirty five years ago - before Will was born - but Trent receives some disturbing news which has him going present and putting the future on the back to the children's home where he grew upburner. How does it all fit together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057965</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikita Lalwani1786482126|title=The VillageJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=A BBC film crew is sent Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to India to make hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a documentary about an Indian prison with child beneath a differencedoorway. There are was no wallsskull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, the prisoners hold down jobs and their families live Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with them as a condition of acceptanceDCI Harry Nelson. In factIt's difficult as Ruth knows, to all intents and purposesbut Nelson doesn't, it seems like an ordinary village which that she is all pregnant with his child as a result of the more unusual when you consider that one night they all share the same crime category; all the prisoners have been convicted of murderspent together some three months ago. The programme makers (20-something British-born, Indian director Ray, ruthless producer Serena and ex-convict-turned-presenter, Nathan) are expecting an eventful shoot and, in return, the inhabitants are expecting a film unit exhibiting the standards for which the BBC has become world famous. Both parties Her condition will be sorely disappointedobvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cherie Priest0008551324|title=Eden Moore - Wings to the KingdomThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|summary=Dead soldiers It's unusual for anyone from the American Civil War have been seen wandering around Hardie family to approach the Chickamauga National Park police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Georgia, site prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a notable Confederate victory in 1863missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. They don't speakThis person, he promises, just point forlornly as locals turn is someone big and flee in it will be worth the opposite directionpolice doing what he wants. Eden Moore would rather ignore it completely, especially as show business psychics Tripp And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Diana Marshall have already started investigating, complete with camera crew and full entourageto get an early parole date. HoweverNot much to ask, eventually her curiosity (and her friendsis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn' unstinting nagging) gets to her t think so and she agrees 's even prepared to trespass after dark, quickly discovering do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that the gesticulating dead are a minor problem compared to the reason theyDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what've awokens happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687735</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Holt0008405026|title=The Blind GoddessA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Here is a rum do It's sixteen years since nine-year- a Nordic crime, old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the launch episode of investigation ground to a currently successful serieshalt. Now, her mother, Helena, that has sat untranslated for almost twenty years? and her father are dead in their bed. WhatInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's more, when you start reading you may think something about the main character positioning of the author would choose bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to use as her principal heroine in future books should not be Hanne Wilhemsen, the tooan open-goodand-to-be-true lipstick lesbian policewoman, but commercial lawyer Karen Borg, who shut case is thrust into now a world of criminal proceedings when a man who has clearly murdered another demands her and only her as the outlet of his truthcomplex double murder. Is this a wise move from him - and just what Kerrigan is convinced that the game afootexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and who Una Burt) are the other main players?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897055</amazonuk>less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Asa Larsson and Marlaine Delargy (translator)0571379877|title=The Black Path: A Rebeka Martinsson InvestigationKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=In the far north of Sweden the frozen body of Edward Jevons is a woman was found in fishing hut out on the lakeworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. She’d been tortured but the injury which killed her was clumsy, even amateurRobert's a theatre director. Identification isn’t easy but it’s faily quick He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and Anna-Maria Mella entitled and her colleagues hoped uses Edward to run errands for a speedy end to the casehim. Then it all turned complicated when the body of a sixEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -month-old suicide had and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be exhumed and Mella and Rebecka Martinsson were drawn further and further into the investigation of corruption at one the country’s major mining companiesRobert. And as if Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that wasn’t bad enough, a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the mining company had enemies two of its won - ones who would stop at nothingthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050311</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksJo Callaghan|title=Until the Darkness ComesLeave No Trace
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|summary=Gabriel Allon and his wife, Chiara, decide to rent When a nice little Cornish cottage; man is found crucified on the perfect hideaway top of a hill in which Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to renovate art. A rosy domestic picture thatthe case alongside her sidekick, as any spy thriller aficionado will tell you isn't going to last longthe AI detective Lock. It lasts, in fact, as long as it takes some middle-eastern terrorists to bomb Paris and Copenhagen and then move on to London's Covent Gardentheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Gabriel and Chiara are But when thereis a second body found crucified a few days later, about to have lunch, but Gabriel Kat is unable suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to concentrate on the menu and just let things happentheir AI Future Policing project. Mr and Mrs Allon end up being dragged back into Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the day job as they case and their multi-national colleagues brandish a spectrum , potentially, out of experience and talent in order to take on a rogue Yemeni cleric who, embarrassingly enough, had been supported by the Americans.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000743331X</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonin Varenne and Sian Reynolds (translator)1035021803|title=Bed of NailsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=When youIt're 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 policeman in Paris and your involvement in office politics takes a turn request for the worsehelp from her beloved aunt, you could end up in charge of suicidesCarole. That would make it your job to cope with all the jumpersFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the pill-takerscircumstances seem suspicious, to say the apparent suicide with two types of bullet through his head - even least. Arthur was the naked men running into reason why Freya had not been back to the flow of traffic around the ring-roadvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. You might Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not get felt able to be near the case of man or pursue the American junkie who dies performing a pierced-man act in a seedy clubprofession she loved. NoAfter the split, looking into that is that man's closest friendshe worked in a cafe, John, fresh met and married James (on the rebound from living in the French wilds as an outdoorsman. But in a Paris where cause love of death can be so bizarreher life, a reason for death can who was murdered) and Freya and James have very far-reaching consequences..now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050370</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barry Fantoni1398524085|title=Harry Lipkin, Private Eye: The Oldest Detective in the WorldHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|summary=Harry Lipkin may not be the fittest private investigator in Florida once you take into account his indigestion and his arthritis, but Charlotte Salter was expected at 87 heher husband's definitely the oldestfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Despite this he still manages to make a steady livingHer children, sons Niall, picking up the little jobs that don't interest the police Paul and Ollie and Norma Weinberger's problem comes into that categoryher daughter, Etty. Small are all worried but expensive knick-knacks seem to be going missing from around the house so could it be a lightstrangely -fingered member of staff? her husband, Alec, is not. The suspects (Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the gardenerbody of Greg's father, the butlerDuncan Ackerley, in the maid and river. It was an easy assumption for the chauffer) each have their own story police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and motive, leaving Harry to get then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the four down to a short list of oneguilt. A task thatThe Salter children are not convinced but there's perhaps a little harder than it sounds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972272</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danny Miller|title=The Gilded Edge|rating=4.5|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 else they can do but get on protection rackets and armed robberies. These were the days when a politician getting caught with a call girl was a national scandal their lives and generated genuine fear and outrage rather than a few front page headlines soon forgotten. The headlines generated then are still quoted nowwonder about what really happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath1529900360|title=Meltwater (Fire and Ice)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
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|summary=A group of internet activists decided 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 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 ask for publicationhis help on difficult cases. All would have been well His assertions that there were only open- or as well as such things ever are and- if one of the group hadnshut cases which didn't been murdered on need the help of a visit to psychologist only worked for a volcanowhile. It Finally, it was a volcano which caused the second problem - not the erruption of the smallRobin, pretty one which the group had visited with fatal consequencesDelaware's partner, but who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the big, ugly one which no one could pronounce and which disrupted air traffic all over Europe in involvement was something that the spring of 2010man she loved needed. YesThe next case did look simple, though. That oneTwo lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Eyjafjallajokull meant that travel too He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and from Iceland was exceedingly difficult ''she is married to an extremely rich man andit'' it disrupted s not the investigation Italian. But which of them was the murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789644X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Dean178763681X|title=The Wrong ManKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
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|summary=Ex-marine James Bishop worked for an elite protection companyChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. The idea behind his last mission was He didn't really want to protect multi-millionaire Randall Brennan but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and his daughter Natalie but, instead, women to do what he found himself framed for murderwanted. Who? Why? These why may Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be questions that need answering at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out thatway. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's not going t expected was for someone to happen whilst he's serving a life sentenceturn up dead. However, where Bishop is concernedUnfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that's only a minor blip compared person to be the task aheadprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755382692</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Crow1529421284|title=My Dearest Jonah|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Jonah and Verity start to write to each other as part of a pen-pal scheme. They may only meet on paper but, as they reveal themselves and their pasts through their letters, they become the only constant in each of their existences, and what existences. Jonah has a troubled past (to put it mildly) including a stint in prison and a father serving a life sentence. Verity is the product of working class parents with aspirations which she has failed or refused to meet, splitting her working life between the local coffee shop and Laying Out 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 deceptive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248254</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBones|author=Quintin Jardine|title=Funeral Note: A Bob Skinner MysteryKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man's body was exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh the initial reaction It was one of those flash downpours that it was murder - I mean, why else would you dispose of the body British weather often delivers in that way? a heatwave. But thenIn a gully, why would you bury it with obvious care a human skeleton came to the surface and tell forensic testing proved the police where itbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's buried? When the postmortem showed that the man d been a known drug user and had died from natural causes learning disabilities, so it seemed that it was could have been a simple case closed - of misadventure but Chief Constable Bob Skinner didnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't always think in straight linesconvinced. He had more pressing problems 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 deal with thoughtwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. It seemed obvious Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that an Inspector on his force was corrupt 's cold cases to you and on the personal front it looked as though his marriage was heading for the rocksme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Noble1529425867|title=Tears of a PhoenixLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was almost inevitable that Jed Johnson would follow his brothers into crimeIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. The slippery slope from care to young offenders' institute to an eventual life sentence was almost predictable despite his mother's attempts to raise him for responsibility Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. However, once serving the life sentence D I Ryan Wilkins, Jed has time to think son of Ryan andfather of Ryan, aided by Elisabethis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a prison service psychologisttrailer park, he assesses barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his past thing) and decides how hehis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They'd like his future re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to looka police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. Decision doesn The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it't guarantee fulfilment though, and Jed has a long way to go before he knows how his story will ends problematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846949882</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Webster1529431735|title=A Death in ValenciaThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chief Inspector Max Camara of It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Cuerpo Nacional de Policia has rather a lot on his platemore surprising. A renowned local paella chef and restaurant owner went missing and then his body turned up in He'd been exiled on the seaCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's the eve of the Popehad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's visit ill and hasn't long to Valencia and there are threats against a local abortion cliniclive. The mayor and the town hall are set on demolishing El Cabanyal, the colourful fishermanIt's quarter on the seafronthard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to make way for modern development. To cap it all some ominous cracks have suddenly appeared his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the walls boot of his flata stolen Ford Sierra. Well, he thinks they've suddenly appeared, but he's not quite certain. It's not exactly what you might call Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a ''problem closer to home''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185082</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith0861541774|title=The Road to Hell: An Alice Rice MysteryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Alice Rice is facing DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a disciplinary hearing which could result short holiday in her dismissal from the police forceSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She knows that she's innocent Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that it wasn't her who'd been too free he was facing a man armed with some sensitive information a knife - but it's all going to come down to whose word is believed and whether a couple of witnesses can remember exactly who said what in he killed a very tense situationGhurka. It's Initially, he faced a difficult afternoon and when she gets home charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that evening, Ian - he might have planned to murder the man with whom she lives - has a visitor and forgets . Now he could be facing the importance of Alice's afternoondeath penalty. The resulting argument will stay in AliceDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's mind for some of the worst reasonst help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972256</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1521129886|title=The Dead Season: A Sandro Cellini MysteryThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItGreg Mason's August and Florence feels hotter than it usually does in August - if that's possible. Businesses are shut up just beginning to get his confidence as anyone who can migrates an investigator to the coast, but Sandro Cellini isnpoint where he't one of themll warn someone about how much he charges. He used to be a policeman but heIt's now a private investigator but even this business good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is running very slowlyapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. All he has Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to work on is the case of a young make ends meet and very pregnant woman whose fiancé her son is missingnot thriving. The manager of the local Bank won't be holidaying either - his body Lucy, he says, is discovered in the shrubbery on a normally busy roundabout convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - and it looks as though itsimply wasn's been there for a few dayst in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Then therebut Stuart's a coincidence: it seems that the missing fiancé and the dead Bank manager both had prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the same namenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843549522</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henning MankellB0CK3MYJ56|title=The White Lioness Responsibilities (Kurt WallanderGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Louise Akerblom was a young housewife, a mother, pillar of It's the local Methodist church 1990s and an estate agentGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. It was the last which would cause Kurt Wallander He used to investigate her disappearance and which would gradually bring to light have a chain of events which led back to South Africa, to renegade members of high-flying job in the South African Secret Service and an ex-KGB agent who would do city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'anythingShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where' s the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to live in South Africalook into something. What Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they have were until Helen was killed in common is a determination to halt Nelson Mandelawhat's rise to power even if the result is been written off as a blood bathtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. It didnJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't seem quite so complex on that Friday afternoon understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in 1992 but it would be one front of Wallandera train. Greg's most complex cases and one which could cost him very dearlybeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571692</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Vernon1838954481|title=The Good Wife's CastleMisper|author=Kate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=We start with Ryan Kennedy killed a fatherpolice officer: there's suicide, a child watching as 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 steps was found not guilty of both the chair in murder and the milking room with manslaughter of the noose around his neckofficer. A father who died And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for shamea quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552775533</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olen Steinhauer1448309743|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>}} {{newreviewDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Elizabeth Wilson|title=The Girl in BerlinCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set in 1950s 'Austerity Britain', with detour or two to Berlin, Elizabeth Wilson's ''The Girl in Berlin'' is a stylish tale In the village of espionage with a backdrop Cronchie on the West coast of the disappearance Scotland, five members of Maclean and Burgess in a world where no one knows who to trustwealthy family are found murdered. Jack McGovern works at Special Branch but when Colin Harris The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, a death will follow. The only suspects are known member of the Communist Party returns to the UKSatanists but in many ways, MI5that's Miles Kingdom draws Jack into investigate his intentions. Add in the fact an easy conclusion given that the wife two of one of Harristhem 'discovered's friends, Dinah Wentworth, works part time at the Courtauld Institute of Art where Dr Anthony Blunt body. The Senior Investigating Office is the main man, neither Jack, nor the readerDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, knows who DCI Christine Caplan is working for whompulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688264</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Blake1529077699|title=A Question of ProofThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=Wemyss was that boy - and ''It's all schools have thembloody peculiar, even now - who is universally hated. Neither masters at Sudeley Hall, nor his fellow pupils could stand him and to make matters worse he was the nephew and ward of the headmaster, the Rev. Percival Vale. When the boy was found strangled on the school sports day there wasnisn't exactly universal rejoicing but it was more because of the knowledge of the problems which this would cause for the school than because of any sorrow. The prime suspects were Michael Evans, the English teacher and Hero Vale, the young wife of the middle-aged headmaster who had been kissing in the haystack where the boySir?'s body was found. Evans has one hope and that's his friend, Nigel Strangeways, nephew of the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard and a renowned private investigator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565358</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Joly and Judith Perrignon1529427045|title=The Eyes of Lira KazanGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The novel throws you straight into ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the action with three apparently unconnected events. Nigerian fraud squad investigatorsmall town of Gasskas, Nwanko Ganbo, realises it's time to get his family out where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the country when he finds area have sparked a colleague and good friend in his car, very deadgold rush. The solution is simple: the British government offer him a new life as a lecturer criminal underworld has not been slow in return for silence about the corrupt regime he has spent so long investigatingcoming forward. Meanwhile Salander's niece's mother is the wife of a rich Faroese banker accidentally drowns latest woman in full ball gown whilst in Nice but junior prosecutor Felix and his judicial colleague aren't as easily convinced about the accidental nature as their superiors seem area to behave vanished without trace. The third piece It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the jigsaw originates in Russia as local journalist Lira Kazan shows an interest part Salander played in the life and transactions of Russian millionaire Louchsky. This isn't the healthiest thing sheher father's ever done as people seem to have died for lessdeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shamini Flint1787636607|title=Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian CadaverThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Singh was on sick leave and rather bored, which was why he agreed to his wifeIt's suggestion (well, she was rather more insistent than that...) that they attend her niece's wedding a scene replicated all too often in Mumbaithe early hours of the morning. There's Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a little bit of history way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to this part get one of the familyfew taxis available. The bride-to-be is Ashu Singh, granddaughter Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of Tara Singh, the wealthy industrialist and his acknowledged favouriteoutlying villages. TaraThe woman all regret the 's son ( Ashutaxi problem's father) was murdered , particularly in the uprisings which followed light of 'the assassination of Indira Ghandimissing women'. He supported For one young woman, the family but made a point that he would not do so beyond final stop on the level at which his son (bus leaves her a rather lowly civil servant) could have achievedlong way short of her home. Ashu She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her two brothers have been secure - but not wealthy - and as we join her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the story Ashu is going into an arranged marriagebus driver to let her use his. There are two unfortunate circumstances here. Ashu is 's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in love with another man high- and she's disappearedheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074995342X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillermo Orsi and Nick Caistor (translator)1405957174|title=Holy CityA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Honest policemen are From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not that common in Buenos Aires, it seems, but Deputy Inspector Walter Carroza of the serious-crime squad does his best to keep his head above the murky waters of corruptionend well. Sometimes there just seems to be too much going on The victim - even for a loner like Carroza without too much else in his life man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to absorb his timecall the ambulance he so desperately needs. The lack of dredging in the Rio del Plata caused the cruise ship to run aground and What we don't know is who the passengers were evacuated man is or why Nadine prefers to the city, where six - two French, two German and two Italians - of them were abductedhave him die. TheyI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what're wealthy business leaders and the kidnappings send stock markets into freefalls happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050621</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly0008530025|title=The Sick RoseMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Paul had It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the passion and academic grades to become a teachergarden of their West London home. However, He had an injury on the back of his plans started head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the slow slide away from steps but the vicious beating his grasp after face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his father died murder and he it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and his mother were forced to move take the investigation further. More to the roughpoint, Grays Reach Estate and an even rougher schoolthey're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. It seemed that his days as bullyThere's target had ended when Daniel, illiterate no dump of the whole box set - and street-wise, stepped in as protectorno shortage of cliffhangers. All Paul had to do was cover for DanielIt's disability in class... at least that was all he needed to do at firstcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444703854</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin O'Brien0241996104|title=The Dying MinutesComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot is recovering after being shot after his last case. His pregnant girlfriend is away when he receives news that he Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been left a boat – Constance - by an old sailorconvicted of their murder. At about We first meet Nancy outside the same timecourt, lawyer, Claude Dupont visits one of his unsuccessful defendants in prisonafter Martin receives a life sentence. The man is dying and leaves his lawyer an unusual bequest on which he feels barrister tells her that he needs she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to act. What follows starts to unnerve many of live with what happened for the criminal fraternity in the South rest of France and stirs up old rivalries between two of the most feared criminal families on the Cote d'Azurher life. It also raises questions about what happened to gold bullion, stolen over twenty years previously Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and leads to a deadly race as both families seek the gold and also seek revenge. Amidst all of this, Jacquot seems to find his new acquisition at papers are making the heart most of it all . ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and starts to unravel the mysterious life of the boat's former owner'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090617</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1529413680|title=An Uncertain PlaceA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Only Adamsberg could be involved One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in these crimes1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. While innocently on a stroll through London he and his colleaguesIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, there for a conferenceKerquelin, get told the man playing one of nearly two dozen disembodied feetthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and their shoes, left outside Highgate Cemeterythe man is whisked away in a helicopter. Some A local doctor (and friend of them are decades old. Much fresher are the ridiculously demolished remains Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a legal journalistsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in his rural French home. Only Adamsberg can approach either, One daughter lives nearby and do it partly through the urban myth of a bear hunteranother, a wardrobe-eater and morewho lives in California, and only is flying in his world could they ever be linked. Itwith some of her father's a good job too, that Adamsberg is the one to solve them, friends for they have a much greater bearing on him, his colleagues and his life than he would ever expectpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955223X</amazonuk>
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