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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{adsense2Frontpage|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=Emily WinslowStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 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 Start police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of Everythinga fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second 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?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5
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|summary=After some floodingFormer Metropolitan Police detective, the badly decomposed body of a teenage girl was washed up in the fens outside CambridgeJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The major problem for DI Chloe Frohmann and DCI Morris Keene isn't how she got there - but ''who'' she is. There's no identification on her and despite There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the fact that she's obviously been dead for some time no one seems to have missed her. No family is in distress. No friends are worried about what has become future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her. No employer is concerned about what has happened. Meanwhiledaughter Diana, as moving in Cambridge Mathilde Oliver the daughter together would mean a lot of a don is trying compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to trace the ''Katja''. Letters are being delivered move in with Livia or does Livia move to Corpus Christi College addressed to her, but she doesn't seem to exist. Also at the university a student dropped out of Little Sky despite her course: Grace Rhys was uncertain reservations about whether or not this is the future she wanted to study Maths wants for herself and took a job as a nanny at Deeping House, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the home of three families, another nanny present and a young writerputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014059</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fuminori Nakamura1786482126|title=Evil and the MaskThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|summary=The novel begins when the protagonist is only eleven years Builders were demolishing an old, and spans the rest of his life, alternating between the past and the present house in Norwich - the first half of the novel, until we catch up with the present day. At the start young Fumihiro is summoned site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the room bones of his elderly father, the present president of the Kuki Group of interlinked corporations across Japana child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. What transpires next is Was this a monologue from Fumihiro's fatherritual killing or murder? Inevitably, telling the boy he was bred to be a cancer on the world and spread unhappinessDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Fumihiro It's father ends with introducing Fumihiro to his new adopted sisterdifficult as Ruth knows, Kaoribut Nelson doesn't, and informing them both that when she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they turn fourteen Kaori spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be an integral cog in the plan obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to break Fumihiro's spirit; to 'show him hell'sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616952121</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sahar Delijani0008551324|title=Children of the Jacaranda TreeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Azar is in labour and about It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to give birth to her first childapproach the police. Elsewhere she'd be looking forward to medical care Neither side likes or has any respect for as long as she needs it and a good chance of a safe deliverythe other. But this Davie Hardie is Iran struggling in 1983 prison and Azar he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is in the notorious Evin Prison buried and who was responsible for daring to believe in something different from the governmenther death. Amil saves date stones to make into a bracelet for his little baby as she grows into a child without him; This person, he too promises, is incarceratedsomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Even those on the outside need And what he wants is to be wary transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of what they say or do as Laila discovers when hair falls over her face while she's out walkinghis sentence and to get an early parole date. This isn’t the brave new world that the revolution was meant Not much to provideask, however is it is ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the world in which they, their children other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and childrenanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's children will need to survivehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297869027</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Smith0008405026|title=Invitation to DieA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=I must confess I feel It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a little apprehensive writing this reviewhalt. Why? It has to do with the subject matter of the book Now, her mother, Helena, a murder mystery set and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a London Hotel. The straightforward murder victim ''just'' ''happens'/suicide but there' s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be a blogger who writes book reviews [laughs to self nervously] an open-and one of the key suspects -shut case is now a writer who has taken offense at the poor reception that her book has received onlinecomplex double murder. I keep telling myself Kerrigan is convinced that this is only fiction. ''Only'' ''fictionthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1477807306</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts0571379877|title=Never ForgetThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=DC Nina Foster isn't ''that'' unusual in the police forceEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. SheRobert's perhaps a little overweight and a little too fond of winetheatre director. Her relationships donHe't tend to last but then the unpredictable hours which the job demands don't help in that area. She has some good friends within the force s also self- part camaraderieobsessed, demanding, part common interest handsome and a lot of knowledge that that these are the people you might be relying on in an emergency. Nina does have one secret though entitled and it relates back uses Edward to her childhoodrun errands for him. She does her best not to give what happened to her any room Edward has been in her head love with Stanza since their university days - and most of the time it workshe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most people have no idea about her history. Then men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a frenzied stabbing pulls Nina into her first murder investigation and relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the Major Incident Roomtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434260</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher FowlerJo Callaghan|title=Bryant and May and the Invisible CodeLeave No Trace
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|summary=Never judge When a book by its cover? Oh come man is found crucified on... Doesn't that do the top of a huge disservice hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the army of graphic designers designing those covers? To be faircase alongside her sidekick, the designers donAI detective Lock. It't get the final say s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and we've all read things a very high profile case that didn't do what draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they said on be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the tincase and, but I think it's time we started giving potentially, out of a bit of credit to those that do. career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857500953</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)1035021803|title=Plan DThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=October 2011 and It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Berlin wall is still intactEnglish country village where she grew up. Inspector Martin Wegener of the East German PeopleShe's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts back now because of his luscious ex-lover Karolina and worka request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. On this particular day Freya'works former mentor and Carole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is a body found hanging from dead and the GDR section of gas pipeline that joins Russian circumstances seem suspicious, to Europesay the least. Not only is he hanging, Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied togethervillage: a Stasi trademarkArthur, she feels, let her down badly. Who is he and why are the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and Even though they're sending a West Berlin detective were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to help him find them; not be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the best start to split, she worked in a daycafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Cruickshanks1398524085|title=The Trader of SaigonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=In the Saigon of the 1980s the Vietnam War is over Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but the traces remainnever turned up. Alexander has deserted from the US army and makes a comfortable living selling girls to local business men. Phuc used to be a business manHer children, sons Niall, complete with mansion Paul and the means to keep his wife Ollie and three children in affluenceher daughter, Etty. Now his family live in a shanty hutare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, afraid of the ruling government that spies through the eyes of childrenis not. At last he finds a way outShortly afterwards, his luck just needs to hold. Hanh also lives in povertyEtty and Greg, desperately trying to help her sick mother with find the pittance she earns from cleaning one body of the cityGreg's many open latrinesfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Then one day she meets someone who offers so much moreIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. His name is AlexanderThe 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>1782063218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)1529900360|title=What Lot's Wife SawThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been over 20 years since The Overflow camebadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, flooding half of EuropeSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Around His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the same time Violet Salt, help of a psychologist only worked for a new multi-functional mineral, appeared, its production now governed globally by the mysterious, all-powerful Consortiumwhile. Meanwhile back in Europe The ColonyFinally, a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justiceit was Robin, is ruled by Governor Bera and six officialsDelaware's partner, the 'Purple Stars'who nudged Milo into asking for help again. All seems to be well in a despotic, lawless way until the six wake up to She knew that the realisation involvement was something that the Governor has died mysteriously in the nightman she loved needed. The Consortium needs answers so choose next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the greatest crossword compiler swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the age, Phileas Book, heir to investigate, whether he wants an Italian shoe empire and she is married to or an extremely rich man and it's notthe Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A D Garrett178763681X|title=Everyone LiesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms has something of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a reputation within the forceresidential cookery school in Belgravia. It He didn's not t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a good one way of getting both men and probably best summed us as women to do what he wanted. Paul ''unreliablesomehow'': as she said herselfgot the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, she spent four years on the naughty step all because she helped who had a colleague when she shouldnbroken arm, but it didn't have doneturn out that way. There's something of a history between her The teaching - and Professor Nick Fennimore the problems - a certain sexual tension which definitely shouldn't be there - but despite are all his history of failures own. The one thing hehadn's the best there is when it comes t expected was for someone to forensics. He's been in academia rather than practicing in the mainstream since his wife and daughter disappearedturn up dead. His wife's body was foundUnfortunately, but he's still obsessed about what happened was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to his ten-year-old daughter - and it's been five yearsbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780339798</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Cadbury1529421284|title=To Catch a RabbitLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sean Denton's grandmother always said It was one of those flash downpours that his smile was his biggest assetthe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He 'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't overburdened with other qualificationsconvinced. Being Geary was a Police Community Support Officer townie, so what was OK for him but he was doing out of his depth when two young lads took him on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the body suicide of a young woman Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at a disused catering caravanthe time. He was even more confused when when no one seemed that worried about who she was or what had happened - Lockyer and deciding to look into it himself wasn't DC Gemma Broad of the cleverest thing heMajor Crimes Review Unit (that'd ever dones cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1901888878</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529425867|title=The Dance Of The Seagull Lost and Never Found (Inspector Montalbano MysteriesA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Montalbano was about to go on holiday with his girlfriend Livia In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and it was quite an event as they hadnfather of Ryan, is not. He't seen each other for three monthss not any of those things. As he sat on He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his verandah Montalbano saw the death throes wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a seagull - it was almost a macabre dance - and he couldnpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you't get what happened out re not. The two men are just different sides of his mind, convinced that it was an ill omenthe same policing coin. When he picked Livia up at Sometimes the airport he told her that he had to go into combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the office but that he would be home quicklymore surprising. He meant it too'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The first problem began when Fazioreturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife rang to say , saying that he hadnshe's ill and hasn't arrived home since going out long to meet Montalbano the night beforelive. The second problem was that there had been no arrangement It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to meet a watery grave in the previous eveningboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. In the context of what would happen that night the fact that Montalbano completely forgot about Livia was no more than Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a small blip.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447228715</amazonuk>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine0861541774|title=Pray for the Dying: A Bob Skinner MysteryNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chief Constable Bob Skinner is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in a very difficult situationSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. His race to prevent Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a murder didn't quite work out knife - and he's now outside the theatre where what he dreaded has happenedkilled a Ghurka. There's carnage outside too: the killers have shot two policemenInitially, one fatally and Skinner himself is responsible for the death of one he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the killersman. The other was killed by a member of the Security Services, but Now he'll need to could be quietly airbrushed out of facing the recorddeath penalty. Before long Skinner finds himself having Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to take on help as any interference from another police force could provoke a role which he has always said that he would never want. And that's besides investigating whether or not the victim was the intended target diplomatic incident and who was behind the operation because itwouldn's obvious that this was a professional hitt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356985</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arnaldur Indridason1521129886|title=Black SkiesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sigurdur Oli has worked himself into a difficult situation. It would be easy Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to ask the point where he''why'' he did what ll warn someone about how much he didcharges. Easier still to say that heIt's doing the a good job he wanted to do, but too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a school reunion left him over-awed by the success of some of his contemporaries baby and when one of them asked for his help in sorting out a small matter it was a way of demonstrating they''his'' position re both delighted. to Joyce will be able to say that he would helpmore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. A Greg is approached by an old friend of his friend was being blackmailed over some photographs taken at a wifewhose brother-in-swapping party and Sigurdur Oli agreed law appears to have a word with the blackmailers killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and retrieve the photographsher son is not thriving. It should Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have been simple killed himself - but when he arrived at their home the woman had just been brutally attacked it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and Sigurdur Oli only just avoided the same fate. He should coroner have come clean about exactly what he accepted that the death was doing there. suicide, He didnbut Stuart'ts prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin WalkerB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Resistance Man: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Old Murcoing passed on It's the priest called on Bruno Courreges, the chief of police in St Denis, as Murcoing had died clutching a bank note from the legendary Neuvic train robbery which happened in 19441990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Murcoing had battled He used to find out what really happened to the money from the robbery have a high- flying job in the reserves of the Banque de France - city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as the Resistance had certainly seen only a small part private investigator. 'Shades of itCameron Strike', you might be thinking. ThatNice bloke, but where's not the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's immediately concerning Bruno thoughbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. As a member of the Resistance Murcoing would have his funeral paid for by the state Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and it would be up Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to Bruno to organise thisfall in front of a train. HeGreg's also concerned with a series of burglaries on his patch - and it seems that one of them has led been asked to a brutal murderinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087071X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Crowther1838954481|title=PenitenceThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Phil Davis is Ryan Kennedy killed a detective in a small town in Texas and hepolice officer: there's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the body of an elderly road accident victim whose back is covered with scars which have obviously been inflicted over years if not decadesgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. There's no suggestion that He pulled the death was anything other than accidental trigger but Davis starts due to wonder when he hears the vagaries of other men with similar scars who have met an untimely - if seemingly innocent - death recently. And all his investigative instincts are alive when the jury system he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one was found not guilty of both the murder and the big beasts manslaughter of the agency who's spending time looking into a murder with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlierofficer. And so lives must go on. To cap it all, someone was tried for For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the crime capital and has been hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a mental institution since, so what missing teenager is Valdez doing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1448309743|title=A Darkness Descending The Devil Stone (Sandro CelliniDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a new political party and it seemed to have caught In the public's imagination, particularly village of Cronchie on the young and even some older peopleWest coast of Scotland, embarrassed by the antics five members of their prime ministera wealthy family are found murdered. Then The only item missing from the home is the leaderDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, Niccolo Rosselli collapsed at a rally - but there was worse to comedeath will follow. His partner, Flavia, disappeared leaving behind a devastated Niccolo - and a baby who was The only a matter of weeks old. She was found suspects are known Satanists but in a down-at-heel hotelmany ways, where shethat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'd ended her life in the bathroombody. But why would she do it? Why did she not leave a note? Sandro Cellini was called The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to investigate - but quite 'shadow'what'' was he investigating?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893262</amazonuk>him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1529077699|title=The Detective's DaughterRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Terry Darnell - formerly Detective Inspector Darnell - came out of ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the Co-op local pub one evening in a village on the south coast, with the makings middle of an impromptu breakfast in autumn gale, stayed for about a carrier bag month and died of then turned up, naked and dead, in a heart attack on small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the way back to his carvillage of Greystone, in Devon. He hadn't see Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a lot of his daughter in the last few yearsrenowned adventurer, but round the death saddened Stellaworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. She ran a cleaning company I ''nearly'' said 'all- Clean Slate - and was obsessive about cleaning and cleanlinessround good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with her life based on order money and it wasnhis background isn't long before she began clearing her father's houseexactly an open book. Hidden away in Where did he get the attic were case papers relating to money for his first boat? How did he finance the Rokesmith murder, which had occurred some thirty years earlier and which had never been solved. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800240</amazonuk>trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1529427045|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It would have been embarrassing for the shipowner to be found tied ''Life has more to his bed in one of Reykjavik's smartest hotels, abandoned in the middle of an obvious bondage session, but he was past caring. Death was from natural causes. It would have been easy offer than people - prime numbers for Sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir to write this off as an unfortunate accident, but instinct told her that things were not quite as they seemed. Some discreet questioning around the hotels in the city brought to light several similar incidents, with the victims relieved of their credit cards and cash and grateful to keep everything quiet. It's ''almostexample'' benign crime, but then some disturbing connections came to light.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100840</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elif Shafak1787636607|title=HonourThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamila It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Pembe looking for a way to get home. Some are twins who, growing up among lucky and manage to get one of 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 Kurdish in Turkey'taxi problem', are as wrapped particularly in the customs light of their Muslim faith and heritage as they are in 'the love of their familymissing women'. Jamila develops For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a talent that will make her the hub long way short of her communityhome. PembeShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's destiny lies over dead. The bus had driven off before she had the sea as she migrates chance to beg the bus driver to England with let her husband Adem in search of a better lifeuse his. However, the destiny they travel towards is oh so different from the destiny of which they dreamThere's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921165</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ace Atkins1405957174|title=The RangerA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Every so often I read a book which just confirms how little I From the first page, we know about the USAthat Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. I don't quite understand The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the political systemambulance he so desperately needs. I certainly What we don't understand know is who the law enforcement system (and don't like the bits I do 'get'; I fear that our UK leaders seem to think that the politicisation of law enforcement that seems man is or why Nadine prefers to be the norm over there is actually a good idea)have him die. And every so often I come across 'd better give you a branch of the military little more background so that Iyou can understand what'd never heard ofs happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147210031X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sabine Durrant0008530025|title=Under Your SkinMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When household name Gaby Mortimer finds a It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the common near her garden of their West London home, it is horrible and shocking, but . He had an injury on the one thing she doesn’t expect is to become back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the main suspect in steps but the murder casevicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. After all Twenty years later, she was just the no one who found has been charged with his murder and it's now the poor woman’s bodysubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Surely A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the Police should be spending their time searching for a more likely assailant than a perhaps past her prime TV presenter? But it soon becomes clear that Gaby is investigation further. More to the one point, they are fixating 're going to do this live oncamera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the one to whom they will try to make the limited evidence fitwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. And it’s going to take everything she’s got to convince them otherwise It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444762397</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van Lustbader0241996104|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Jack McClureNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, aide and friend to the US presidentMartin, is back at work after the death has been convicted of his daughter and their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughtercourt, Alliafter Martin receives a life sentence. However, Jack hasnThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence't fully recovered; he- she's still in mourning and full not been found guilty of self-recrimination anything but will have to live with what happened for the show must go onrest of her life. When an American senator is killed in Capri JackOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's on hand to investigate, starting a mission that will take him into rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the Ukraine and papers are making the seamier side of power on both sides most of the Atlanticit. Apparently not all the President's closest advisors can be trusted 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and that's not Jack's only complication. After Allirich bitch''s traumatic experiences at the hands of Morgan Herr Jack might not be printed but is the only person she trusts, so she's coming along for the ride, through hell, high water and a few murdersundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Esmahan Aykol and Ruth Whitehouse (translator)1529413680|title=Baksheesh A Chateau Under Siege (Kati Hirschel Murder MysteriesA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Kati Hirschel, daughter One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of German parents, still runs the only crime fiction bookshop town from the English in Istanbul 1370 and, when goodBruno's measured against bad, seems there to be having a rough timesee the show with some friends. Good that sheIt's about to buy her first apartmentall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. HoweverLuckily, looking at his doctor is there and the bad, she's just split up with her boyfriend (albeit after a very good dinner), man is strangled whisked away in a car park helicopter. A local doctor (though not to death… which is goodand friend of Bruno) and is wonders about to be arrested for her stranglerhis chances of survival but - as he's murder occurringa senior government employee, as it did, while she was eating strawberry ice creamthe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. The only way she can exonerate herself One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is to emulate flying in with some of her fictional heroes once again and do some sleuthingfather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524049</amazonuk>
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