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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Andrea CamilleriDavid 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=The Treasure HuntLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Life During location filming for Montalbano and his team was slow: it seemed that even the criminals were taking life easy 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and there was almost a sense of relief when an elderly Leggit', leading man and his sister began firing into Edward Lowe stumbles across the street below their Vigata apartment. There wasn't dead body of a lot of news either - which was why Montalbano found himself woman on the reluctant hero edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the news programmes as whole thing bothers Lowe, and he climbed up enlists the outside help of the buildinga fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. What he didn't realise was that a life-sized rubber doll (you know ''exactly'' what I mean) found in They travel across the apartment would dominate his lifecountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, particularly when 'her' twin was found in a rubbish binlink to death during the Second World War. I mean, where do you keep such things? In But is there really a cupboardlink between the deaths? Under the bedAnd will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives? Montalbano could tell you the drawbacks of both those locations.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447228782</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=The Last Winter of Dani LancingDeath in a Lonely Place|author=P D VinerStig Abell
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|summary=Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s no good way to deal with perhaps a little uncertainty about the death future of a child. When Dani Lancing is killed his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her parents react daughter Diana, as moving in different ways, but neither way is particularly helpful or healthy. And together would mean a lot of course neither way will bring their daughter back. It’s now 20 years later 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 the mystery of whodunnit is still looming over Jim future she wants for herself and Patty’s heads, though her daughter? For the moment they’re no longer together. The murder of a child will do that to a marriageenjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953294</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=Bad Little FallsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Paul DoironElly Griffiths|rating=34.5
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|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Bad Little Falls'', set in the wilds of rural Maine in midwinter, shows apartments - when they discovered the unravelling mystery bones of a man stumbling out of child beneath a blizzard to the front door of an unsuspecting elderly coupledoorway. There was no skull. The man is frozen half to death and soon begins raving about Was this a friend lost in the stormritual killing or murder? Inevitably, which quickly causes a frenzied rescue missionDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Soon Mike Bowditch It's difficult as Ruth knows, a game warden and Doiron’s protagonistbut Nelson doesn't, uncovers the missing man under that she is pregnant with his child as a snow drift, turning result of the hunt into a murder investigationone night they spent together some three months ago. Whilst this initially powerful mystery becomes gradually overshadowed by Doiron’s portrayal of Bowditch’s love interest Her condition will be obvious before long, and at not least one too many descriptions of her anatomy, it because Ruth is still an interesting and baffling mystery prone to be unravelledsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008551324|title=Desert Heart: 2 The Devil You Know (Ellen Martin DisastersD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Ten years have passed since [[Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters) by Mark Lingane|Chasing Heart]] 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 that moment that Ellen Martin met he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and fell in love with Alex Heart while he who was attempting to extricate responsible for her from South American impending doomdeath. We now catch up with them to discover that Ellen has ditched AlexThis person, he promises, has become a partner in her law firm is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is about to fly out be transferred to an open prison to serve the Middle East for important business negotiations on behalf remainder of a clienthis sentence and to get an early parole date. Ellen isnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't known for staying out of trouble think so and the Middle East isnshe't known for its tolerance of s even prepared to do the mischievously dangerother thing that Hardie demanded -prone. Therefore it's not long before Ellen needs a rescuer again make certain that DS Max Craigie and, yes, itanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's reunion timehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=Broken AngelsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Graham MastertonJane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=Despite It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the odd reservationinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, [[White Bones by Graham Masterton|the first book]] in his ''Katie Maguire'' seriesher mother, was good enough to have me eagerly reaching for the secondHelena, ''Broken Angels''and her father are dead in their bed. Whilst Masterton may have dipped into some Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the female detective clichés with his debut crime thriller, he also dipped into his past bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a great horror writer and complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the combination worked wellexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851182</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=A Naked SingularityThe Kellerby Code|author=Sergio De La PavaJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=You probably know that when you start Edward Jevons is a review of a book by quoting someone else that you are not really going to have anything original to say about itworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Sometimes thatRobert's because ita theatre director. He's already also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been lauded to the skies in love with Stanza since their university days - and you agree with every published word. Sometimes it isnhe'ts drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert''Casis position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's voice not like most men: Edward is astonishing'' is one of left to stumble upon the blurb quotes. I agree. It's just that you can still get tired two of hearing it. And I didthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Never Go BackJo Callaghan|authortitle=Lee ChildLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Reacher When a man is calling found crucified on the top of a lady friendhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He It's never actually met hertheir first live case together, they've just spoken on the phonehaving 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 he likes her voice. For a drifter like Reacher with nothing better to do, very high profile case that's draws a good enough reason lot of unwanted attention to head their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to Virginia solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and maybe buy her a coffee. Except when he arrives at his old unit's headquarters, the lady he wants to meet - new commanding officer Major Susan Turner - isn't there. Insteadpotentially, he finds himself accused out of homicide, and brought back into the army. Someone is going to be very sorry about this. And does anyone really think it'll be Jacka career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593065743</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Silence Of The LambsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Thomas HarrisC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Well, I suppose I know what all It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the fuss is about English country village where she grew up. She's back nowbecause of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Except it isn’t fuss Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, not any more. It’s so famous that it’s become part of our language. People who’ve never read is dead and the book or seen circumstances seem suspicious, to say the film can name at least one of . Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the charactersvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. At twenty fiveEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, I am she has not felt able to be near the same age as Silence of man or pursue the Lambs (profession she loved. After the novel) and only three years older than the filmsplit, which is incidentally the same age as my brother. I cannot remember she worked in a time when Hannibal Lecter was not cafe, met and married James (on the bogey man. For some years I was under rebound from the impression that Buffalo Bill love of her life, who was a real serial killer. There is even a rather catchy murdered) and Freya and charming song entitled ''It Rubs The Lotion On It’s Skin''James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099586576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Pilgrim SoulHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Gordon FerrisNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 1947fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, the worst winter in memory is only just getting startednot. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Duncan Brodie is a crime reporter working Greg, find the streets body of Glasgow for Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Gazetteriver. The reason It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn's good at reporting is probably just natural talent and a decent educationt stand the guilt. The reason heSalter children are not convinced but there's good at crime is that he's a trained investigatorlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897624</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=Dead RichThe Ghost Orchid|author=Katia LiefJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Mac'' Macleary s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his wife Karin are retired homicide detectiveshelp on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's set up partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the private investigation business, while swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is trying hard to be a full-time mother, while still having married to actively resist having her name on the office name-plate, an extremely rich man and it's not-quite-but-almost resenting not being able to join him on stake-outsthe Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944791</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig178763681X|title=Then We Die: An Inspector Carlyle NovelKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54
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|summary=If you were wondering where you might find Inspector John Carlyle, then having afternoon tea Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the Palm Court at the Ritz might not be the first place which comes to mindBelgravia. But donHe didn't worry - really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what hewanted. Paul 's not gone upmarket - 'somehow'' got the impression that he's treating his mother and d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it comes as a bit of a shock when she announces didn't turn out that she's divorcing way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his father after fifty years of marriageown. Carlyle thinks that what looks like a bit of trouble kicking off might be a welcome diversion - The one thing hehadn's not ''big'' on family relationships - but t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he could never have imagined was the ramifications of slipping away from table whilst his mother went person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the ladiesprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas H Cook1529421284|title=SandrineLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary= Sam and Sandrine Madison live It was one of those flash downpours that the American dreamBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Both have jobs that they loveIn a gully, lecturing at a human skeleton came to the same college, an adult daughter surface and many memories that include a beautiful holiday in forensic testing proved the Medbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. However the dream goes tragically sourHe'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 convinced. Sandrine is found dead and Sam is charged with murder despite his protestations that it Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicideof Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The court case begins Lockyer and Sam starts a fight for his own life as DC Gemma Broad of the past catches up with him in unusual Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and unexpected waysme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855137</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Maksik1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Marker to Measure DriftD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jacqueline roams the beaches of the Greek islands offering massages for money to ward off starvationIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. It helps but hunger Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always with herexquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, lurking alongside the memory son of a former life in Liberia Ryan and the mindfather of Ryan, is not. He's ear voice not any of her motherthose things. Jacqueline is at least alive He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and existingtrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, but at what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548052</amazonuk>you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Koethi Zan1529431735|title=The Never ListWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54
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|summary=Friends since childhoodIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Sarah and Jennifer had always admitted that they were so cautious it was daftwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. TheyHe'd even composed their own 'Never List'been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. As long as they stuck to it theyThe return has come about because he'd be safes had a letter from his ex-wife, and safe they were until saying that one night. The night after the college party they forgot she'Never get into the cars ill and hasn't long to live. They did. The next thing theyIt're aware of s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is waking up abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a dark cellar with two other girls; four of them altogether but only three of them will emergestolen Ford Sierra. A decade later, Sarah is safe once again, living under Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a new name with all connections problem closer to the past wiped. But then the letter arrives; he's coming for her. It's not over after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556554</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales A Nye of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st DetectivePheasants|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)Steve Burrows|rating=3.54|genre=AnthologiesCrime|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as the first fictional detective DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to comemeet up with an old ally, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use of logic and deduction aid the police on their most baffling casesGuy Trueman. The characters literary debut Maik was involved in the short story ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' in 1841 a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploitshe killed a Ghurka. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' contains nine stories (in addition Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on man. Now he could be facing the same character or influenced by himdeath penalty. From samurai assassins and the apocalypse Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting to solve help as any interference from another police force could provoke a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect diplomatic incident and the creativity of wouldn't help Danny at all keeps the character fresh from story to story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=Last To DieThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Tess GerritsenKeith Redfern|rating=54
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|summary=Somewhere in Italy one summer, a group of people are gathered Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to take down Icarusthe point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. They It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have no qualms a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about their mission of taking out this immensely wealthy manthe baby when she gets past the morning sickness. His wife and his children are merely Greg is approached byan old friend whose brother-in-standerslaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not to be involvedthriving. His habits Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have been studiedkilled himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, He is a monster, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to be dealt withfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0553820524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin HallB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken Responsibilities (Vish Puri MysteriesGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those of us have not met Vish Puri before heIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's a private investigator, based in Delhitwenty-eight years old. Heused to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's also now set himself up as a gourmet and more than a little bit overweightprivate investigator. It's not for nothing that his wife calls him ''Chubby'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. His current case is a little unusual: heNice bloke, but where's called in to investigate the theft of a moustache. life experience that backs up this profession? Vish is no slouch in On the facial furniture stakesother hand, but his client is the champion he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and the loss is more than just Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an embarrassmentunmanned level crossing. ThenJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to complicate matters Vish is present at a post-match cricket dinner when the father fall in front of a top Pakistani player dies - from poison in his butter chickentrain. When Vish is called in to investigate he has to become involved with the continentGreg's mafias. And he has been asked to travel to Pakistan. Yes - it's ''that'' seriousinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561875</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=Cold HeartsThe Misper|author=Gunnar StaalesenKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=After refusing Ryan Kennedy killed a prospective client, who afterwards viciously assaulted another prostitute, Margrethe goes missingpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Her worried friend from He pulled the street visits Varg Veum, a local private investigator, in trigger but due to the vagaries of the hope that jury system he will take was found not guilty of both the case murder and get to the bottom manslaughter of it without the need for police involvementofficer. And so lives must go on. Varg then investigates every lead For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and attempts to discover all he can about hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing woman’s unusual upbringing, racking up more trouble teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and past cases as well as creating dangerous enemiesback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908129433</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The InterpretationsDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=David Shaw MackanzieCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Interpretations is In the second novel written by David Shaw Mackanzie. It's set in the Scottish Highlands, in village of Cronchie on the remote town West coast of DalmoreScotland, after the strange disappearance five members of one of its residentsa wealthy family are found murdered. The book only item missing from the home is split into two parts. Part one takes place in the late 1980s while part two takes place in the early 2000s. In Devil Stone: myth says that if the first part we meet Tom Kingsmillstone is removed from Otterburn House, born and bred in Dalmoredeath will follow. Tom participates The only suspects are known Satanists but in a race with his local running club. Part many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the race route Tom is expected to run leads over the newly-built bridge connecting Dalmore with the outside worldbody. This bridge The Senior Investigating Office is the one Reverend McFarren has an obsessive hatred for. He believes the bridge DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is a bad omen after two teenagers jumped pulled in to their deaths just the month before. No one could have predicted the way in which the reverend's hunch is proved correct. Tom fails to finish the race - in fact, he has vanished entirelyshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737263</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VM Giambanco1529427045|title=The Gift of DarknessGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thirteen days. These are the words etched into the door jamb of James and Annie Sinclair's bedroom while James, Annie and their two young sons lay on the bed, murdered. Newbie in the Seattle PD homicide division, Detective Alison Madison, gradually realises a truth as horrific as the scene with which she and her colleagues are faced. It all started with a historic kidnapping from 25 years earlier and now time is running out. Thirteen days… They aren't just carved words, they're a ticking clock. Thirteen days Life has more to solve the case. offer than people - prime numbers for example''Thirteen days before darkness descends.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878702</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=StolenThe Trap|author=Rebecca MuddimanCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 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 'Stolentaxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women' is a gripping tale about a child who is abducted. Her mother For one young woman, Abbie, was forced from the final stop on the bus leaves her car, taken off in a van long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and brutally attackedcollect her - but her phone's dead. Eventually, abandoned by her attackers, The bus had driven off before she found help from passing travellers but by had the chance to beg the time that she returned bus driver to let her car, Beth, her baby, had disappeareduse his. A police search ensued but neither Abbie’s attackers nor the baby could be found. Things are further complicated when Paul, Abbie’s husband, discovers that he is not Beth’s natural father. He leaves Abbie alone There's no option but she refuses to accept that her daughter might be deadstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190188886X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Blair1405957174|title=Midnight in HavanaA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It’s Christmas day in Havana and Inspector Ramirez is called to investigate From the murder of first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a young boy. All initial clues lead to one man - is dying when we first meet him and it seems almost an open and shut caseNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Canadian tourist and detective Mike Ellis What we don't know is who the prime suspect and man is apprehended very swiftly. Ellis has no choice but or why Nadine prefers to trust that the Cuban legal system with all its flaws and peculiarities will actually give have him the chance of a fair investigationdie. Midnight in Havana is the debut novel by Peggy Blair and presents us with a compelling mystery set within an exciting setting with I'd better give you a legal system little more background so that really adds to the suspense of the storyyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972345</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Winslow0008530025|title=The Start of EverythingMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After some flooding, It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the badly decomposed body of a teenage girl was washed up her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the fens outside Cambridgegarden of their West London home. The major problem for DI Chloe Frohmann and DCI Morris Keene isnHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't how she got there - d slipped down the steps but ''who'' she isthe vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. ThereTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's no identification on her and despite now the fact that shesubject of ''Infamous''s obviously been dead for some time no one seems to have missed her, a true-crime show. No family is in distress. No friends are worried about what has become A group of her. No employer is concerned about what experts has happened. Meanwhile, in Cambridge Mathilde Oliver been brought together to review the daughter of a don is trying evidence and to trace take the ''Katja''investigation further. Letters are being delivered More to Corpus Christi College addressed to herthe point, but she doesnthey't seem re going to existdo this live on camera, episode by episode. Also at There's no dump of the university a student dropped out of her course: Grace Rhys was uncertain about whether or not she wanted to study Maths whole box set - and took a job as a nanny at Deeping House, the home no shortage of three families, another nanny and a young writercliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014059</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fuminori Nakamura0241996104|title=Evil and the MaskComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The novel begins when One of the main events of the protagonist Sarlat tourist season is only eleven years old, and spans the rest re-enactment of the liberation of his life, alternating between the past town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the present in show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the first half man playing one of the novel, until we catch up with main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the present dayscript. At Luckily, his doctor is there and the start young Fumihiro man is summoned to the room whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his elderly father, the present president chances of the Kuki Group of interlinked corporations across Japan. What transpires next is a monologue from Fumihirosurvival but - as he's fathera senior government employee, telling the boy he was bred to be a cancer on man who runs Frenchelon - the world military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and spread unhappiness. Fumihiro's father ends with introducing Fumihiro to his new adopted sisteranother, Kaoriwho lives in California, and informing them both that when they turn fourteen Kaori will be an integral cog is flying in the plan to break Fumihirowith some of her father's spirit; to 'show him hell'friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616952121</amazonuk>
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