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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Butterfly Grave Swanton Morley (Murder NotebooksJohn Tanner)|author=Anne CassidyDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Just before Christmas, Josh's uncle Stuart falls from a cliff in It seemed like an horrific accidentopen-and-shut case. Determined to helpA man, Joshcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, Rose and friend Skeggsie head up to Newcastle for comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the festive seasonman. Things are awkward between A body at the threebottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Josh DCI John Tanner is becoming increasingly paranoid 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 is convinced they are being followed'John Tanner' were made for each other. Rose is becoming more and more withdrawn, fixating on He's sleep-deprived to the deaths she has witnessed. And Skeggsie is resentful point of falling asleep at being forever embroiled in other peoplework but he's problems when determined to keep going - probably because he has challenges of his owncan't get any sleep at home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bronze GodsStuart Douglas|authortitle=A A AguireLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=One 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 many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds that the authors have creatededge of a reservoir. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit The police seem happy to assign it? What are as an accidental death, but something about the customswhole thing bothers Lowe, et ceteraand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, et ceteraJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and steampunk mixed with fantasy is , seemingly, a link to death during the double hitSecond World War. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have But is there really a link between the makings of a really good time.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>1803368209

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall0008517061|title=The Case of the Love Commandos (Vish Puri Mysteries)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Ram and Tulsi fell in love but their different castes meant that Tulsi's family were completely against their marryingFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, with Tulsi's father locking her up and saying that he would hunt down Ramhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The Love Commandos - There’s perhaps a group formed to help mixed-caste couples - came to their aid, but when they liberated Tulsi, Ram was snatched from little uncertainty about the future of his life with his hiding place. For Vish Purivet girlfriend, India's 'Most Private Investigator'Livia and her daughter Diana, it was proving to be as moving in together would mean a difficult month. He'd failed to retrieve some stolen jewels, a pickpocket had removed lot of compromise: does Jake give up his wallet (off-grid and he had relaxing life to depend his Mummy-ji move in with Livia or does Livia move to retrieve it) and Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this case just made everything worse. He could see is the problem - but Vish wasn't ''that'' convinced about love matches. Then he found that his arch rival, Hari Kumar, was also trying to find Ram - but future she wants for whomherself and her daughter?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937426</amazonuk> For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Corley1786482126|title=Dead of WinterThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Inspector Louise Nightingale is investigating Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a series of sexual attacks which are becoming increasingly violentdoorway. The latest victim is in hospital and Nightingale sees something of her younger self in the girl in the bedThere was no skull. Jenni has been sleeping roughWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's not her real namedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she's ''very'' insistent about the ''i''. Superintendent Andrew Fenwick is brought in to investigate the disappearance pregnant with his child as a result of seventeen-year-old Isabel Mattias, the daughter of an artist and a rock star who died five years one night they spent together some three months ago in a car crash. She disappeared from her exclusive boarding schoolHer condition will be obvious before long, but has she run away or been abducted? Her friends seem unwilling not least because Ruth is prone to provide much information and even the teachers feel that respecting Issie's privacy is importantsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014776</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eileen Robertson0008551324|title=We'll be Watching The Devil YouKnow (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=It wasn't that Christine Brett was exactly nosy, but life hadn't treated her particularly kindly recentlys unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Her marriage had ended Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in divorce prison and shehe'd lost s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her jobdeath. Here she wasThis person, he promises, middle-aged is someone big and back living with her motherit will be worth the police doing what he wants. And checking that people were not breaking what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the law was a ''duty'' not a ''pleasure''remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Admittedly some of her accusations had been wide of the markNot much to ask, but is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she had been a witness when 's even prepared to do the robbers left the hypermarket and the face of the driver of the getaway car was familiar other thing that Hardie demanded - if only she could place it. Unfortunately Christine had cried wolf too often make certain that DS Max Craigie and the local police werenanyone who works with him is kept well away from what't too inclined to give her much credences happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719810728</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrez Bergen0008405026|title=Who is Killing A Stranger in the Great Capes of Heropa?Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=In search of entertainment, Jack crosses over from real world Melbourne to Heropa, where he becomes (dah daaah!) Southern Cross. However thereIt's not much time for him to acclimatise to his new lycrasixteen years since nine-clad role or his superyear-powerold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. As She was never found and the new addition investigation ground to The Equalizers he has work to doa halt. The heroes of Heropa Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are starting to die dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a totally unprecedented manner so Jack joins forces with the quartet starting with an 'e' (straightforward murder/suicide but with a symbol looking suspiciously like a there'z) in 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 an attempt to restore law open-and order and to remain alive-shut case is now a complex double murder. For Kerrigan is convinced that the rules have changed explanation lies in this once-virtual worldRosalie's disappearance: death in Heropa now means death in real life too.in Heropa now means death in real life tooothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178279235X</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. 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 two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Corban AddisonJo Callaghan|title=The Garden of Burning SandLeave No Trace

|summary=A little girl named Kuyeya When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in LusakaNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, Zambia abusedthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, deeply shocked and badly injuredhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. American lawyer Zoe Fleming But when there is over there when her friend a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and local police officer Joseph receives the call and so her involvement beginsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She's determined Will they be able to help Joseph track down Kuyeya's attacker but solve the trail takes some surprising turns through case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the underbelly of Zambiacase and, potentially, alarming Zoe with the extent out of the crusade she's taken on.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782063307</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Omens1035021803|authortitle=Kelley Armstrong|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has a charmed life. Her family is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about her career, she knows that things will work themselves out. Until she learns that she's adopted - her true parents AmericaThe Antique Hunter's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly on the run from the media, Olivia finds shelter in the small town of Cainsville. It's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem Guide to only appear at certain times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Shadow CollectorMurder|author=Kate EllisC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=A convicted murderess and alleged witch returns It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Devil’s Tree Cottagethe English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, after eighteen years in jail for butchering two teenage girlsCarole. When bodies start falling in West Fretham just days after her release Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, dispatched by Wiccan ceremonial bladesArthur Crockleford, she is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the obvious suspectleast. But Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, for DI Wesley Petersonshe feels, something strange is going on let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the village that casts doubt on man or pursue the identity of profession she loved. After the killer split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the validity rebound from the love of Lilith Benley’s original convictionher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958006</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=The Doll's HouseHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Tania CarverNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=There can be no confusion in the name of the latest Tania Carver novel. Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''The Dolls House'' well and truly sums it s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, which is made clear as the book opens in a very pinksons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, very well laid out lounge with a living dollEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, also dressed in pinkAlec, arranging the room until it is spotlessnot. Aside from the slightly ominous undertones Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the repetition that everything must be perfect; body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the reader could almost be forgiven for initially thinking they haven’t picked up a crime novel at allriver. It soon becomes obvious that this isn’t was an easy assumption for the case though as we follow DI Phil Brennan back into police to make that same room with Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the doll sat straight-backed at the precisely laid out dinner tableguilt. This time though, the doll is dead The 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>0751550523</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529900360|title=The Treasure HuntGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Life for Montalbano It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and his team was slow: it seemed that even the criminals were taking life easy and there after Alex recovered, Sturgis was almost a sense of relief when an elderly man and reluctant to ask for his sister began firing into the street below their Vigata apartmenthelp on difficult cases. There wasnHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't a lot of news either - which was why Montalbano found himself need the reluctant hero help of the news programmes as he climbed up the outside of the buildinga psychologist only worked for a while. What he didnFinally, it was Robin, Delaware't realise s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that a life-sized rubber doll (you know ''exactly'' what I mean) found in the apartment would dominate his life, particularly when 'her' twin was found in a rubbish binman she loved needed. I meanThe next case did look simple, where do you keep such things? though. In Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a cupboard? remote property in Bel Air. Under He was the bed? heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. Montalbano could tell you But which of them was the drawbacks of both those locations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447228782</amazonuk>primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=The Last Winter of Dani LancingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=P D VinerOrlando Murrin

|summary=There’s no good 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 way of getting both men and women to deal with do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the death of impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a child. When Dani Lancing is killed her parents react in different waysbroken arm, but neither it didn't turn out that way is particularly helpful or healthy. And of course neither way will bring their daughter back. It’s now 20 years later The teaching - and the mystery of whodunnit is still looming over Jim and Patty’s heads, though they’re no longer togetherproblems - are all his own. The murder of a child will do one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to a marriagebe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953294</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Bad Little FallsLaying Out the Bones|author=Paul DoironKate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=''Bad Little Falls'', set in It was one of those flash downpours that the wilds of rural Maine British weather often delivers in midwintera heatwave. In a gully, shows the unravelling mystery of a man stumbling out of a blizzard human skeleton came to the front door of an unsuspecting elderly couple. The man is frozen half to death surface and soon begins raving about a friend lost in forensic testing proved the stormbody to be Lee Geary, which quickly causes a frenzied rescue missionwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Soon Mike Bowditch, He'd been a game warden known drug user and Doiron’s protagonisthad learning disabilities, uncovers the missing man under so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a snow drifttownie, turning so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the hunt into a murder investigation. Whilst this initially powerful mystery becomes gradually overshadowed by Doiron’s portrayal suicide of Bowditch’s love interest, Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at least one too many descriptions the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of her anatomy, it is still an interesting the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and baffling mystery to be unravelledme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338198</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529425867|title=Desert Heart: 2 Lost and Never Found (Ellen Martin DisastersA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=Ten years have passed since [[Chasing Heart: 1 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 father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (Ellen Martin Disastersreading's not ''really'' his thing) by Mark Lingane|Chasing Heart]] and that moment that Ellen Martin met his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and fell trackies. They're usually in love with Alex Heart while he was attempting to extricate her from South American impending doomlime green or acid yellow. We now catch up with them You might wonder if you're being introduced to discover that Ellen has ditched Alex, has become a partner in her law firm and is about to fly out to the Middle East police procedural written for important business negotiations on behalf of a clientlaughs. Ellen isnWell, you't known for staying out re not. The two men are just different sides of trouble and the Middle East isn't known for its tolerance of same policing coin. Sometimes the mischievously danger-pronecombination works brilliantly well. Therefore it's not long before Ellen needs a rescuer again and, yes, Sometimes it's reunion timeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478656</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=Broken AngelsThe Winter Visitor|author=Graham MastertonJames Henry

|summary=Despite the odd reservationIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, [[White Bones by Graham Masterton|which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the first book]] in his more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he'Katie Maguires had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn' series, was good enough t long to have me eagerly reaching for the second, ''Broken Angels''live. Whilst Masterton may have dipped into some of the female detective clichés with his debut crime thrillerIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, he also dipped into stripped to his past as underwear and sent to a great horror writer and watery grave in the combination worked wellboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851182</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Naked SingularityNye of Pheasants|author=Sergio De La PavaSteve Burrows|rating=34

|summary=You probably know that when you start DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a review of a book by quoting someone else that you are not really going short holiday in Singapore to have anything original to say about itmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Sometimes Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that's because it's already been lauded to the skies he was facing a man armed with a knife - and you agree with every published wordhe killed a Ghurka. Sometimes it isn't. ''Casi's voice is astonishing'' is one Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the blurb quotesman. I agreeNow he could be facing the death penalty. ItDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's just that you can still get tired of hearing it. And I didt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052802</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=Never Go BackThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lee ChildKeith Redfern

|summary=Jack Reacher is calling on a lady friend. HeGreg Mason's never actually met her, they've just spoken on beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the phone, and point where he'll warn someone about how much he likes her voicecharges. For a drifter like Reacher with nothing better to do, that It's a good enough reason to head to Virginia job too because Greg and maybe buy her Joyce will soon have a coffeebaby and they're both delighted. Except Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when he arrives at his she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old unitfriend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's headquartersconcerned about his sister, the lady he wants Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - new commanding officer Major Susan Turner - isnit simply wasn't therein his nature. Instead, he finds himself accused of homicide, The police and brought back into the army. Someone is going coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to be very sorry about thisfind out what happened on the night Gil died.  And does anyone really think it'll be Jack?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593065743</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Silence Of The LambsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Thomas HarrisAnn Macarthur|rating=54

|summary=Well, I suppose I know what all It's the fuss is about now1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Except He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it isn’t fuss, not any morewasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. It’s so famous that it’s become part 'Shades of our languageCameron Strike', you might be thinking. People who’ve never read Nice bloke, but where's the book or seen life experience that backs up this profession? On the film can name at least one of the charactersother hand, he has been asked to look into something. At twenty fiveJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, I am the same age as Silence of the Lambs (the novel) and only three years older than the filmor rather, which is incidentally the same age they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as my brother. I cannot remember a time when Hannibal Lecter was not the bogey mantragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. For some years I was under the impression that Buffalo Bill Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a real serial killertrain. There is even a rather catchy and charming song entitled ''It Rubs The Lotion On It’s Skin' Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099586576</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=Pilgrim SoulThe Misper|author=Gordon FerrisKate London|rating=54

|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's 1947, no doubt about that. He was the worst winter in memory is only just getting started, fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Duncan pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Brodie is a crime reporter working He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the streets manslaughter of Glasgow for the Gazetteofficer. And so lives must go on. The reason he's good at reporting is probably just natural talent For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a decent education. The reason he's good at crime missing teenager is that hefound on her territory she's drawn into a trained investigatorwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897624</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=Dead RichThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Katia LiefCaro Ramsay

|summary=''Mac'' Macleary and his wife Karin In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are retired homicide detectivesfound murdered. 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. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's set up in an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the private investigation businessbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, while she DCI Christine Caplan is trying hard pulled in to be a full-time mother, while still having to actively resist having her name on the office name-plate, and not-quite-but-almost resenting not being able to join 'shadow' him on stake-outs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944791</amazonuk>

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=James Craig1529427045|title=Then We Die: An Inspector Carlyle NovelThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=If you were wondering ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where you might find Inspector John Carlyle, then having afternoon tea in the Palm Court at so-far-untapped natural resources of the Ritz might area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not be the first place which comes to mindbeen slow in coming forward. But don't worry - heSalander's not gone upmarket - heniece's treating his mother and it comes as a bit of a shock when she announces is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that sheSalander became her niece's divorcing his father after fifty years of marriage. Carlyle thinks guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that what looks like a bit of trouble kicking off might be Svala is a welcome diversion - heremarkably gifted teenager who's not ''big'' on family relationships - but he could never have imagined the ramifications unaware of slipping away from table whilst his mother went to the ladiespart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100395</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas H Cook1787636607|title=SandrineThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary= Sam 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 Sandrine Madison live manage to get one of the American dreamfew taxis available. Both have jobs Others squash onto the night bus that they love, lecturing at will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the same college'taxi problem', an adult daughter and many memories that include a beautiful holiday particularly in the Medlight of 'the missing women'. However For one young woman, the final stop on the dream goes tragically sourbus leaves her a long way short of her home. Sandrine is found She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead and Sam is charged with murder despite . The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his protestations that it was suicide. The court case begins There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and Sam starts a fight for his own life as the past catches up with him in unusual and unexpected wayshigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855137</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Maksik1405957174|title=A Marker to Measure DriftDeath at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54

|summary=Jacqueline roams From the beaches of first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Greek islands offering massages for money to ward off starvationambulance he so desperately needs. It helps but hunger What we don't know is always with her, lurking alongside who the memory of man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a former life in Liberia and the mindlittle more background so that you can understand what's ear voice of her motherhappening. Jacqueline is at least alive and existing, but at what cost?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548052</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Koethi Zan0008530025|title=The Never ListMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Friends since childhoodIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, Sarah and Jennifer in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had always admitted that they were so cautious it taken was daftobviously deliberate. TheyTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of 'd even composed their own 'Never ListInfamous'. As long as they stuck to it they'd be safe, and safe they were until that one nighta true-crime show. The night after A group of experts has been brought together to review the college party they forgot 'Never get into evidence and to take the car'investigation further. They did. The next thing More to the point, they're aware of is waking up in a dark cellar with two other girls; four of them altogether but only three of them will emerge. A decade later, Sarah is safe once againgoing to do this live on camera, living under a new name with all connections to the past wipedepisode by episode. But then the letter arrives; heThere's coming for herno dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's not over after allcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556554</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st DetectiveComing to Find You|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=AnthologiesThrillers|summary=CNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as the We first fictional detective and at meet Nancy outside the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was 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 blueprint for many sleuths to comerest of her life. Of course, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin is an eccentric genius it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from Paris whose use of logic her mother - and deduction aid the police on their papers are making the most baffling casesof it. The characters literary debut was in the short story ''The Murders in the Rue MorgueFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' in 1841 is one favourite epithet and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. ''Beyond Rue Morguerich bitch'' contains nine stories (in addition to the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on the same character or influenced by him. From samurai assassins and the apocalypse to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting to solve a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and the creativity of all keeps the character fresh from story to storymight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Last To DieA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Tess GerritsenMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=Somewhere One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in Italy 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one summer, a group of people are gathered to take down Icarusthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. They have no qualms about their mission of taking out this immensely wealthy Luckily, his doctor is there and the manis whisked away in a helicopter. His wife A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his children are merely bychances of survival but -standersas he's a senior government employee, not to be involvedthe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. His habits have been studied. He One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a monster, to be dealt withpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0553820524</amazonuk>