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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bonnie NadzamB0CYV674G2|title=LambSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5
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|summary=David Lamb is anchored to his life by his career, his affairIt seemed like an open-ridden marriage and caring for his father-shut case. Over timeA man, his wife divorces himcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, his father dies and his employers insist comes into the police station shouting that he takes hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a period of enforced leave. So whatfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's left? There been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just one constant remaining: back from his friendship honeymoon, which coincided with Tommie who, the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he feels, would 'd be grateful for an ideal holiday companioneasy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He suggests that they both take a short trip as it would do them both good and Tommie agrees eagerly. The adventure then begins in 's sleep-deprived to the form point of a journey falling asleep at work but he's determined to a beautiful, remote cabin. David is 54 years old and Tommie? Shekeep going - probably because he can's 11t get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa SigurdardottirStuart Douglas|title=I Remember YouLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=Too oftenDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', people – such as myself – refer to leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a book as being a rollercoaster read, mostly down to a simply topsy-turvy plot. But this is woman on the true embodiment edge of a white-knuckle ridereservoir. It has The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the anxiety of the queue as we watch three people – a couple whole thing bothers Lowe, and another young woman – get ferried across he enlists the fjord to one help of western Iceland's most remote outpostsa fellow actor, with the aim being John Le Breton to renovate an old building as a guesthousehelp him investigate matters further. There's They travel across the crunch of country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find that something very malevolent Second World War. But is hiding in there really a link between the tiny settlement. deaths? And just as the car starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbs-up from those leaving the ride, telling us all will they manage to uncover who is well and all survived.responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Mark0008517061|title=The Dark WinterDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
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|summary=Just Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a couple little uncertainty about the future of weeks before Christmas Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy was his life with his young son vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in the centre together would mean a lot of Hull when he was alerted by screaming. The noise was coming from the church compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and McAvoy so nearly caught the man responsible. He'd brutally murdered a young girl who had already escaped as the only survivor when relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her family was slaughtered during reservations about whether or not this is the conflict in Sierra Leone. It's a difficult time future she wants for the police with a relatively new team at the Serious herself and Organised Crime Squad and it's a little while before the links to two other deaths emerge. her daughter? Fred Stein had been the sole survivor of the loss of one of For the three trawlers from Hull which went down moment they’re enjoying life in early 1968. He'd been part of a documentary about the loss but had disappeared - off Iceland - in present and putting the course of future on the filming. He was later discovered - dead in a drifting lifeboatback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389181</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Corbin1786482126|title=Do Me No HarmThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Dr Olivia Somers is minding her own business, trying Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to raise two kids alone in hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the wake bones of her divorcea child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, when everything goes wrong and her son, Robbie, ends up in hospitalDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It’s hard to work out what really happened, or even if Robbie is giving her the full story It's difficult as Ruth knows, but when there’s a further incident, this time involving a break in at their homeNelson doesn't, it becomes clear that these are no random attacks, and someone she is out to get them. With pregnant with his child as a result of the help of a friendly (and handsome) detective, Olivia tries to piece one night they spent together the puzzle to work some three months ago. who Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is behind the trouble, and it’s a race against time prone to figure it out before the next unwelcome surprise from the culpritsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler0008551324|title=Herring on the NileThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=A motley crowd It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. 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 body of oddball characters (few of whom end up being a missing person is buried and who they say they are)was responsible for her death. This person, find themselves as travelling companions on a luxury paddle steamerhe promises, cruising up is someone big and it will be worth the Nilepolice doing what he wants. And when a murder occurs, it soon becomes clear that only a member of what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the crew or one remainder of the guests could have done the dastardly deedhis sentence and to get an early parole date. A couple of amateur detectives have Not much to work fast ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to discover do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who pulled the triggerworks with him is kept well away from what's happening. Sound familiar?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330472151</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill0008405026|title=The Betrayal of Trust: A Simon Serrailler Novel Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=After It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the wettest summer for investigation ground to a hundred years we'll all be familiar with what happened in Laffertonhalt. Heavy rain caused a landslip on the moorsNow, her mother, Helena, blocking the nearby roadand her father are dead in their bed. ThankfullyInitially, what weit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there're not familiar with was s something about the presence positioning of a shallow grave and the skeleton of a teenage girl. The sharp eyes of one of the forensic team spotted bodies that something wasn't quite right in another area - makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and a second grave was revealedher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It What looked as though it was easy going to identify the first body be an open- the young girl had gone missing from the town sixteen years before and- but the second body proved more difficultshut case is now a complex double murder. And, Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in a time of financial cuts and staff shortages itRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's down to Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler to tackle the cold case on his own with just a little help on the new murder caseboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099499347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fuminori Nakamura0571379877|title=The ThiefKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Thief Edward Jevons is content roaming the streets of Tokyo, living on the contents of its wealthier citizens' pockets untila working-class young man, obsessed with his original partner in crime (literally) introduces him to Kizakiupper-class friends, a local shady big shotRobert and Stanza. Kizaki wants the ThiefRobert's help on a straightforward jobtheatre director. He will just be one of a team tasked with breaking into a rich speculator's homealso self-obsessed, scaring him a littledemanding, taking the contents of his safe handsome and entitled and departinguses Edward to run errands for him. No rough stuff Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the financial settlement Kizaki offers will more than compensate the pickpocket for his timetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780339135</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luis SepulvedaJo Callaghan|title=The Shadow of What we WereLeave No Trace
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ChileWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the modern daycase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Four elderly men meet for one last time, planning something suspiciously underhandIt's their first live case together, having made arrangements - and discussed Internet dating - onlinepreviously been very successful with several cold cases. We're let into the fact But when there 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 the grandfather of one was a bank robber in draws a classic tale lot of Robin Hood-style wealth distribution, but as unwanted attention to what the outcome of their plans might be we're forced to waitAI Future Policing project. Elsewhere a domestic incident leads Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a bizarre death - by record player. And you can just tell I'm suggesting you wait to discover the link...career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609450027</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cath Staincliffe1035021803|title=Split Second|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=On a late December evening, Emma Curtis is on a bus travelling home from work when she becomes aware of a young lad being picked on by three others. Too scared to intervene, she sits alone feeling guilty but taking everything in. To her shame, nineteen year old student, Jason Barnes, comes downstairs on the bus and immediately challenges the three youths. Luke, the young victim, leaps off the bus and a chase follows. Jason continues to try and defend Luke, and they end up in JasonThe Antique Hunter's front garden where his parents witness the brutal attack. Eventually the trio run off leaving Luke unconscious on the snowy ground. Worse still, is the realisation that Jason has been stabbed and tragically it turns out Guide to be fatal. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013462</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMurder|author=JM Shaw|title=Ten Weeks in AfricaC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Stephen It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Martha Odinga live with their younger siblings Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and ailing mother in the Makera slumscircumstances seem suspicious, near Kisuru in Batanga, Africato say the least. Their father Arthur was killed by the Army of Celestial Peace so reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they try were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to make a living on be near the man or pursue the streetsprofession she loved. Corruption flows through Batanga like sewage through Makera thoughAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the protection payments they need to pay rebound from the police to continue trading are becoming prohibitive so Stephen searches for better paid employment in questionable career areaslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340934050</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Grieves1398524085|title=SleepwalkersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ben is the devoted proud father of two young children, the happily married Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband of Carrie and a skilled car mechanic. He has all the makings of a wonderful life that would actually become one if he could just get a decent night's sleepfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The problem is that he's haunted by vividHer children, violent nightmares. Meanwhile across townsons Niall, 15 year old Toby also has nightmares Paul andOllie and her daughter, on top of thisEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, a body scarred with abuse, a fact his teacher, AnnaAlec, is determined to do something aboutnot. His parents have Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the appearance body of people who love him butGreg's father, where child abuse is concernedDuncan Ackerley, that means nothingin the river. Anna cares enough It was an easy assumption for the police to get involved, not realising make that itDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's an involvement that could cost her lifet stand the guilt. Indeed, as all three of them The Salter children are about to find out, not all nightmares end convinced but there's little else they can do but get on wakingwith their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529900360|title=The Devil's Cave: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Easter 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 just two weeks away when Satanism came reluctant to St Denisask for his help on difficult cases. The naked body His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a woman psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was spotted in an old punt drifting down the riverRobin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. There looked to be a tattoo of a pentagram on her body and there were black candles at each end of She knew that the punt – but there involvement was nothing to indicate the identity of something that the woman or where man she had come fromloved needed. Bruno CourregesThe next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the Chief swimming pool of Police had enough on his plate without this: he'd had a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an anonymous letter about some domestic abuse which had Italian shoe empire and she is married to be looked into an extremely rich man and it's not the town held a development proposal Italian. But which seemed just too good to be true – even though it might mean that Bruno got of them was the sports hall which he'd been after for quite a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870671</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Conrad178763681X|title=No SaleKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first suspect Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a wifeway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''s murder is always somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the husbandschool to assist Paul, and so it is with Shelley Coxwho had a broken arm, but Victor, a film professor, claims it must have been suicidedidn't turn out that way. A picture emerges of a sad, alcoholic woman, who had an almost different identity The teaching - and personality while out drinking in Antwerp's docklands areathe problems - are all his own. Victor is happy enough The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to replace her with an enveloping relationship with a student who matches his knowledge and mimics his idolsturn up dead. But stillUnfortunately, Shelley he was the victim person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a crimeheatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and if forensic testing proved the police body to be Lee Geary, who keep calling on Victor are correcthad disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could be have been a simple case of misadventure but one DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a seriesHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738974</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie Hauxwell1529425867|title=In Her BloodLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=Catherine Berlin In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is known to everyone simply as 'Berlinof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. SheHe's in her mid fiftieswhite, originated from a civilian investigator with the Financial Services Agency - and shetrailer park, barely educated (reading's been a heroin addict for more than twenty yearsnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. ItThey's largely controlled by her GP - one of the few understanding ones left - who prescribes pharmaceutical-grade heroin on her weekly visit to his surgeryre usually in lime green or acid yellow. HeYou might wonder if you's taught her re being introduced to manage her addictiona police procedural written for laughs. Then two problems come togetherWell, you're not. On a pre-arranged meet with an informant who has information about a loan shark she finds the woman's body floating in Limehouse Basin - with the head nearly severed from The two men are just different sides of the bodysame policing coin. And when she visits her GP's surgery she finds another bodySometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Then Sometimes it's not just her job that's at riskproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021806</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Bruce1529431735|title=The SilenceWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It seemed to begin when Joey McCarthy was stabbed to death in a pub car park's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd arrived in his posh (if not quite new) car and lost his life in been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a random attack of violencedecade. Charlotte StoneThe return has come about because he's mother died not had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long afterwardsto live. There wasnIt't really anything suspicious about this (although her children thought that their father hadn't really done enough s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to help) his underwear and soon after two teenage friends committed suicidesent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Then DC Gary Goodhew found the body of another suicide victim and Is it brought to mind another investigation which had a profound effect on him - and warning from a Spanish gang or a connection was made between him and Charlotte Stone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012032</amazonuk>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum0861541774|title=The CallerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=LilyDCI Domenic Jejeune's baby daughter was asleep close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the garden when her husband came home and it was so peaceful that they allowed her Singapore to sleep on a little longermeet up with an old ally, but when they went to bring her in she Guy Trueman. Maik was covered involved in blood. It seemed to be coming from her mouth a street brawl - but when they got her to hospital there he would later maintain that he was no injury facing a man armed with a knife - and it was apparently he killed a practical jokeGhurka. But Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that evening a message was left on Inspector Konrad Sejer's mat: 'Hell begins now'he might have planned to murder the man. It was Now he could be facing the first in a series of such incidentsdeath penalty. They werenDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't planned to cause physical harm but they left the victims shaken, feeling harassed and worriedhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Sakey1521129886|title=The Two Deaths of Daniel HayesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
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|genre=Crime
|summary=A man struggles onto a deserted beach in Maine, United States, after almost drowning but, far from feeling relieved, Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he realises that something has been left behind – his memorycharges. He finds an unlocked prestige car, It's a set of dry clothes that fit, some money, good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a gun baby and an urge to leavethey're both delighted. (I know - if it had been a British beach, I'd have given it 5 minutes before it was empty and Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the wheels were off! Sorry... I digress..morning sickness.) So, driving Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to a local motel, he tries to find some glimmer of a past or an identityhave killed himself. The car belongs to a Daniel HayesStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, so thatwho's what he'll call himself for nowstruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. ThenLucy, by coincidencehe says, it becomes more than is convinced that; Gil would never have killed himself - itsimply wasn's becomes t in his nature. The police and the name coroner have accepted that the armed police yell as they surround his room. death was suicide, Can a man discover his past whilst outrunning his present? Someone is about but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find outwhat happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David BarrieB0CK3MYJ56|title=Hard-HeartedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was difficult to think that anything was other than odd's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. A beautiful woman was savagely attacked He used to have a high-flying job in one the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of ParisCameron Strike' most elegant neighbourhoods, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but all she took with her as she ran from where's the house was an old book - and a shawl. Even stranger was life experience that she was a Sorbonne professor and she was dating a hedge fund manager. backs up this profession? Then there was On the influential Bank which did its best other hand, he has been asked to persuade Captain Franck Guerin to carry out a couple of arrests look into something. Joyce and Helen are half- not necessarily because it would aid the case he sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was working on, but because it would help them. Throw killed in what's been written off as a billionaire who sleeps in the poorest hotels rather than tragic accident at the beautiful home which he half owns an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and a serial seductress with an unusual line in honesty her parents, Oliver and you Pam Hetherington - can see why Guerin is finding life 't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a little confusingtrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Rendell1838954481|title=The Saint Zita SocietyMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hexam Place in Pimlico is an exclusive street of whiteRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-painted stucco Georgian houses lived in by old holding the rich gun and by those who serve them, who are far from richpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The help are a motley assortment of drivers, au pairs, cleaners and gardeners who decide He pulled the trigger but due to form the St Zita Society - Zita being vagaries of the patron saint jury system he was found not guilty of domestic servants - but its purpose is occasionally hard to determine. There are minor problems they want to tackle, such as dog excrement being bagged both the murder and left in the street and situations where they have little hope of having any impact, such as none manslaughter of the servants being invited to a particular social occasionofficer. And so lives must go on. Perhaps For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the main purpose is to give an excuse capital and hoping for meeting a quieter life in the pubcountryside 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>009194404X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1448309743|title=CriminalThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The apartment in Atlanta was particularly sordid but made horrifying by In the village of Cronchie on the brutally-murdered body West coast of Scotland, five members of a womanwealthy family are found murdered. Special agent Will Trent The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'almostdiscovered'' involved in the investigation but his boss Amanda Wagner seems determined to keep him at arm's lengthbody. The murder brings back memories for Wagner of a murder Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the city more than thirty five years ago - before Will was born - but Trent receives some disturbing news which has him going back to the children's home where he grew upshadow' him. How does it all fit together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057965</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikita Lalwani1529077699|title=The Village|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=A BBC film crew is sent to India to make a documentary about an Indian prison with a difference. There are no walls, the prisoners hold down jobs and their families live with them as a condition of acceptance. In fact, to all intents and purposes, it seems like an ordinary village which is all the more unusual when you consider that they all share the same crime category; all the prisoners have been convicted of murder. The programme makers Raging Storm (20-something British-born, Indian director Ray, ruthless producer Serena and ex-convict-turned-presenter, NathanTwo Rivers) 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 will be sorely disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cherie Priest|title=Eden Moore - Wings to the KingdomAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dead soldiers from the American Civil War have been seen wandering around the Chickamauga National Park in Georgia''It's all bloody peculiar, site of a notable Confederate victory in 1863. They donisn't speak, just point forlornly as locals turn and flee in the opposite direction. Eden Moore would rather ignore it completely, especially as show business psychics Tripp and Diana Marshall have already started investigating, complete with camera crew and full entourage. However, eventually her curiosity (and her friendsSir?' unstinting nagging) gets to her and she agrees to trespass after dark, quickly discovering that the gesticulating dead are a minor problem compared to the reason they've awoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687735</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Asa Larsson and Marlaine Delargy (translator)1529427045|title=The Black Path: A Rebeka Martinsson InvestigationGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the far north of Sweden the frozen body of a woman was found in fishing hut out on the lake. She’d been tortured but the injury which killed her was clumsy, even amateur. Identification isn’t easy but it’s faily quick and Anna''Life has more to offer than people -Maria Mella and her colleagues hoped prime numbers for a speedy end to the case. Then it all turned complicated when the body of a six-month-old suicide had 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 companies. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the mining company had enemies of its won - ones who would stop at nothingexample''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050311</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Silva1787636607|title=Portrait of a SpyThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gabriel Allon 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. Some are lucky and his wife, Chiara, decide manage to rent a nice little Cornish cottage; get one of the perfect hideaway in which to renovate artfew taxis available. A rosy domestic picture Others squash onto the night bus that, will only go as far as any spy thriller aficionado will tell you isn't going to last longone of the outlying villages. It lastsThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in factthe light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, as the final stop on the bus leaves her a long as it takes some middle-eastern terrorists way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to bomb Paris come and Copenhagen and then move on to Londoncollect her - but her phone's Covent Gardendead. Gabriel and Chiara are there, about The bus had driven off before she had the chance to have lunch, but Gabriel is unable beg the bus driver to concentrate on the menu and just let things happenher use his. Mr and Mrs Allon end up being dragged back into the day job as they and their multiThere's no option but to start walking -national colleagues brandish a spectrum of experience unsuitably clothed and talent in order to take on a rogue Yemeni cleric who, embarrassingly enough, had been supported by the Americanshigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000743331X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonin Varenne and Sian Reynolds (translator)1405957174|title=Bed of NailsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
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|genre=Crime
|summary=When you're a policeman in Paris and your involvement in office politics takes a turn for From the worsefirst page, you could we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end up in charge of suicideswell. That would make it your job to cope with all the jumpers, the pillThe victim -takers, the apparent suicide with two types of bullet through his head a man - even is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the naked men running into the flow of traffic around the ring-roadambulance he so desperately needs. You might not get the case of What we don't know is who the American junkie who dies performing a pierced-man act in a seedy clubis or why Nadine prefers to have him die. No, looking into that is that manI's closest friend, John, fresh from living in the French wilds as an outdoorsman. But in d better give you a Paris where cause of death can be little more background so bizarre, a reason for death that you can have very far-reaching consequences..understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050370</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barry Fantoni0008530025|title=Harry Lipkin, Private Eye: The Oldest Detective Murder in the WorldFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Harry Lipkin may not be It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the fittest private investigator body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Florida once you take into account the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his indigestion and his arthritis, but at 87 head which could have happened if he's definitely d slipped down the steps but the oldestvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Despite this he still manages to make a steady livingTwenty years later, picking up no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the little jobs that donsubject of ''Infamous't interest the police and Norma Weinberger's problem comes into that category, a true-crime show. Small but expensive knick-knacks seem A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to be going missing from around take the house so could it be a light-fingered member of staff? investigation further. The suspects (More to the gardenerpoint, the butlerthey're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the maid and the chauffer) each have their own story whole box set - and motive, leaving Harry to get the four down to a short list no shortage of onecliffhangers. A task thatIt's perhaps a little harder than it soundscompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972272</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Miller0241996104|title=The Gilded EdgeComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=London: 1965 These 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 dark dayscourt, when 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 Krays had yet to be brought to justice rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the underworld in London was based on protection rackets and armed robberiespapers are making the most of it. These were the days when a politician getting caught with a call girl was a national scandal ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and generated genuine fear and outrage rather than a few front page headlines soon forgotten''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. The headlines generated then are still quoted now. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath1529413680|title=Meltwater A Chateau Under Siege (Fire and IceA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A group One of internet activists decided to base themselves in Iceland whilst they prepared their latest exposé. This time it was a video the main events of a purported Israeli attrocity which needed verifying and preparing for publication. All would have been well the Sarlat tourist season is the re- or as well as such things ever are - if one enactment of the liberation of the group hadntown from the English in 1370 and Bruno't been murdered on a visit s there to a volcanosee the show with some friends. It was a volcano which caused 's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the second problem - not the erruption man playing one of the small, pretty one which main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the group had visited with fatal consequencesscript. Luckily, but his doctor is there and the big, ugly one which no one could pronounce and which disrupted air traffic all over Europe man is whisked away in the spring of 2010a helicopter. Yes. That oneA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Eyjafjallajokull meant that travel too One daughter lives nearby and from Iceland was exceedingly difficult another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father''and'' it disrupted the investigation of the murders friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789644X</amazonuk>
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