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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea CamilleriStuart Douglas|title=MontalbanoLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's First Casesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a 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
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|summary=Montalbano was just thirty five Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and he was her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a deputy Inspector lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in the mountains, which he hated with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the extent that they could put him off his food. future she wants for herself and her daughter? But For the moment they’re enjoying life in the way that such things are known, he knew that he would be promoted before longpresent and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. What 5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was not known was where he would be promoted ''going tohold seventy-five 'luxury' and this worried himapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. If it There was another posting in the mountains he would resignno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. His girlfriendIt's uncle told the couple that it was Vigatadifficult as Ruth knows, which delighted Montalbano and he went to visitbut Nelson doesn't, unfortunately witnessing an assaultthat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. The wiser traffic cop in the area was otherwise engaged (chatting Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to a couple sudden bouts of dogs, as it happenedsickness...) but Montalbano was quick to correct the car registration which he'd noted down wrongly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00FJNMB6E</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=Closed for WinterThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jorn Lier HorstNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=On a remote stretch of It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the southern Norwegian coast sits a selection of holiday cottages – second homes police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the moderately wealthyother. When But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a man turns up to close his down securely missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the winter he finds police doing what he has been burgledwants. What's more And what he finds what seems wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the culprit in the neighbouring property – stone cold dead behind remainder of his balaclava sentence and black clothingto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The explanation may perhaps lie in new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the fact other thing that the secluded coastline has been often used for a different kind of crime, but even when Inspector Wisting factors drugHardie demanded -runners into the proceedings, his investigation will still not run according to plan…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737492</amazonuk>make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes0008405026|title=Under A Silent MoonStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|summary=On the morning of the first of November 2012 It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the police were called investigation ground to a cottage just outside a small English villagehalt. A popularNow, attractive young woman had been found her mother, Helena, and her father are dead and murder was suspectedin their bed. Was Initially, it looks like a coincidence that straightforward murder/suicide but there was then a report 's something about the positioning of an apparent suicide of a woman who lived close by? Her car had rolled down into a quarry. For DCI Louisa Smith this was the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her first major incident and it was complicated when she found that the boss DI on her team was Andy HamiltonJosh Derwent suspicious. She'd been in a relationship with him and What looked as though it lasted until she discovered that he was marriedgoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Hamilton hadn't given up on her though - he was still Kerrigan is convinced that she would come back to him. Not that he planned on it breaking up his marriagethe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, of courseUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00ANOB8GS</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=Butterfly Grave (Murder Notebooks)The Kellerby Code|author=Anne CassidyJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Just before ChristmasEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, JoshRobert and Stanza. Robert's uncle Stuart falls from a cliff in an horrific accidenttheatre director. Determined to help He's also self-obsessed, Joshdemanding, Rose handsome and friend Skeggsie head up entitled and uses Edward to Newcastle run errands for the festive seasonhim. Things are awkward between the three. Josh is becoming increasingly paranoid Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and is convinced they are being followedhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Rose is becoming more and more withdrawn, fixating on the deaths she has witnessed. And Skeggsie is resentful at being forever embroiled Most men in other peopleRobert's problems when position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he has challenges 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of his ownthem kissing in a dark passageway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bronze GodsJo Callaghan|authortitle=A A AguireLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=One When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering case alongside her sidekick, the new worlds that the authors have createdAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Where But when there is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customsa second body found crucified a few days later, et cetera, et ceteraKat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed with fantasy is Will they be able to solve the double hit. Throw case in some murder most frighteningly horrid time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and we have the makings , potentially, out of a really good time.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall1035021803|title=The Case of the Love Commandos (Vish Puri Mysteries)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Ram and Tulsi fell in love but their different castes meant that TulsiIt's family were completely against their marrying, with Tulsi's father locking her twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up and saying that he would hunt down Ram. The Love Commandos - She's back now because of a group formed to request for help mixed-caste couples - came to their aid, but when they liberated Tulsifrom her beloved aunt, Ram was snatched from his hiding placeCarole. For Vish Puri, IndiaFreya's former mentor and Carole'Most Private Investigator's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, it to say the least. Arthur was proving the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be a difficult monthnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. He'd failed to retrieve some stolen jewelsAfter the split, she worked in a pickpocket had removed his wallet cafe, met and married James (and he had to depend his Mummy-ji to retrieve it) and this case just made everything worse. He could see on the rebound from the problem - but Vish wasn't ''that'' convinced about love matches. Then he found that his arch rival, Hari Kumarof her life, who was also trying to find Ram - but for whom?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937426</amazonuk>murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Corley1398524085|title=Dead of WinterHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Louise Nightingale is investigating a series of sexual attacks which are becoming increasingly violentCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The latest victim is in hospital Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Nightingale sees something of her younger self in the girl in the beddaughter, Etty. Jenni has been sleeping roughare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. ItShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's not her real namefather, Duncan Ackerley, but she's ''very'' insistent about in the ''i''river. Superintendent Andrew Fenwick is brought in It was an easy assumption for the police to investigate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the disappearance of seventeen-year-old Isabel Mattias, the daughter of an artist and a rock star who died five years ago in a car crashguilt. She disappeared from her exclusive boarding school, The Salter children are not convinced but has she run away or been abducted? Her friends seem unwilling to provide much information and even the teachers feel that respecting Issiethere's privacy is importantlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014776</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eileen Robertson1529900360|title=We'll be Watching YouThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34
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|summary=It wasnhadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Christine Brett Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was exactly nosy, but life hadn't treated her particularly kindly recentlyreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Her marriage had ended in divorce His assertions that there were only open-and she-shut cases which didn'd lost her jobt need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Here she Finally, it wasRobin, Delaware's partner, middle-aged and back living with her motherwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. And checking She knew that people were not breaking the law involvement was a ''duty'' not a ''pleasure''something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Admittedly some Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of her accusations had been wide of the mark, but she had been a witness when remote property in Bel Air. He was the robbers left the hypermarket heir to an Italian shoe empire and the face of the driver of the getaway car was familiar - if only she could place is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. Unfortunately Christine had cried wolf too often and But which of them was the local police weren't too inclined to give her much credence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719810728</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrez Bergen178763681X|title=Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=In search of entertainment, Jack crosses over from real world Melbourne to Heropa, where he becomes (dah daaah!) Southern Cross. However there's not much time Knife Skills for him to acclimatise to his new lycra-clad role or his super-power. As the new addition to The Equalizers he has work to do. The heroes of Heropa are starting to die in a totally unprecedented manner so Jack joins forces with the quartet starting with an 'e' (but with a symbol looking suspiciously like a 'z) in an attempt to restore law and order and to remain alive. For the rules have changed in this once-virtual world: death in Heropa now means death in real life too.in Heropa now means death in real life too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178279235X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeginners|author=Corban Addison|title=The Garden of Burning SandOrlando Murrin
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|summary=A little girl named Kuyeya is found Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in LusakaBelgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, Zambia abusedwho had a broken arm, deeply shocked and badly injuredbut it didn't turn out that way. American lawyer Zoe Fleming is over there when her friend The teaching - and local police officer Joseph receives the call and so her involvement beginsproblems - are all his own. SheThe one thing he hadn's determined t expected was for someone to help Joseph track down Kuyeya's attacker but turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the trail takes some surprising turns through person who discovered the underbelly of Zambia, alarming Zoe with body and everyone knows that the extent of police consider that person to be the crusade she's taken onprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063307</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Omens1529421284|author=Kelley Armstrong|rating=5|genretitle=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 America's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly on the run from Laying Out 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 to only appear at certain times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Shadow CollectorBones|author=Kate EllisWebb|rating=4.5
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|summary=A convicted murderess It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and alleged witch returns forensic testing proved the body to Devil’s Tree Cottagebe Lee Geary, after eighteen who had disappeared nine years in jail for butchering two teenage girlsearlier. When bodies start falling in West Fretham just days after her release He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, dispatched by Wiccan ceremonial blades, she is the obvious suspectso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. But, for DI Wesley Peterson Geary was a townie, something strange is going so what was he doing out on in Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the village that casts doubt on suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the identity time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the killer Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and on the validity of Lilith Benley’s original convictionme) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=The Doll's HouseLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Tania CarverSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=There can be no confusion in the name In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the latest Tania Carver novelNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. ''The Dolls House'' well D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and truly sums it upfather of Ryan, which is made clear as the book opens in a very pinknot. He's not any of those things. He's white, very well laid out lounge with originated from a living dolltrailer park, also dressed barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in pink, arranging the room until it is spotlesslime green or acid yellow. Aside from the slightly ominous undertones and the repetition that everything must be perfect; the reader could almost be forgiven You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for initially thinking they haven’t picked up a crime novel at alllaughs. Well, you're not. It soon becomes obvious that this isn’t The two men are just different sides of the case though as we follow DI Phil Brennan back into that same room with policing coin. Sometimes the doll sat straight-backed at the precisely laid out dinner tablecombination works brilliantly well. This time though, the doll is dead Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550523</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529431735|title=The Treasure HuntWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life for Montalbano It's February 1991 and his team was slow: it seemed that even the criminals were taking life easy and there was almost a sense of relief when an elderly man and his sister began firing into Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the street below their Vigata apartmentmore surprising. There wasnHe't a lot of news either - which was why Montalbano found himself the reluctant hero of d been exiled on the news programmes Costa del Sol as he climbed up the outside of the buildinga wanted drug smuggler for a decade. What The return has come about because he didn't realise was that s had a lifeletter from his ex-sized rubber doll (you know wife, saying that she's ill and hasn'exactlyt long to live. It'' what I mean) found s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the apartment would dominate his life, particularly when 'her' twin was found in boot of a rubbish binstolen Ford Sierra. I mean, where do you keep such things? In Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a cupboard? Under the bedproblem closer to home? Montalbano could tell you the drawbacks of both those locations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447228782</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=The Last Winter A Nye of Dani LancingPheasants|author=P D VinerSteve Burrows
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|summary=There’s no good way DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to deal meet up with the death of an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a childGhurka. When Dani Lancing is killed her parents react in different ways Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but neither way is particularly helpful or healthyevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. And of course neither way will bring their daughter back. It’s now 20 years later and Now he could be facing the mystery of whodunnit is still looming over Jim and Patty’s heads, though they’re no longer togetherdeath penalty. The murder of a child will Domenic Jejeune can do that nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a marriagediplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953294</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=Bad Little FallsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Paul DoironKeith Redfern|rating=34
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|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'Bad Little Fallsll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they', set in the wilds of rural Maine in midwinter, shows re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the unravelling mystery of a man stumbling out of a blizzard to baby when she gets past the front door of an unsuspecting elderly couplemorning sickness. The man Greg is frozen half approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to death and soon begins raving have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about a friend lost in the stormhis sister, which quickly causes a frenzied rescue mission. Soon Mike BowditchLucy, a game warden who's struggling to make ends meet and Doiron’s protagonisther son is not thriving. Lucy, uncovers the missing man under a snow drifthe says, turning the hunt into a murder investigationis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. Whilst this initially powerful mystery becomes gradually overshadowed by Doiron’s portrayal of Bowditch’s love interest, The police and at least one too many descriptions of her anatomythe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, it is still an interesting and baffling mystery but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to be unravelledfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark LinganeB0CK3MYJ56|title=Desert Heart: 2 Responsibilities (Ellen Martin DisastersGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
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|summary=Ten It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years have passed since [[Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters) by Mark Lingane|Chasing Heart]] and that moment that Ellen Martin met and fell in love with Alex Heart while he was attempting to extricate her from South American impending doomold. We now catch up with them He used to discover that Ellen has ditched Alex, has become have a partner high-flying job in her law firm and is about to fly out to the Middle East for important business negotiations on behalf of city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a clientprivate investigator. Ellen isn't known for staying out Shades of trouble and Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the Middle East isn't known for its tolerance of life experience that backs up this profession? On the mischievously danger-proneother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Therefore itJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's not long before Ellen needs been written off as a rescuer again tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - andher parents, yes, itOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's reunion timebeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=Broken AngelsThe Misper|author=Graham MastertonKate London
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|summary=Despite the odd reservation, [[White Bones by Graham Masterton|the first book]] in his Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''Katie Maguire'' series, s no doubt about that. He was good enough to have me eagerly reaching for the second, ''Broken Angels''fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Whilst Masterton may have dipped into some He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the female detective clichés with his debut crime thriller, jury system he also dipped was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into his past as a great horror writer wider investigation - and back into the combination worked wellorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851182</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=A Naked SingularityThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Sergio De La PavaCaro Ramsay|rating=34
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|summary=You probably know that when you start a review In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a book by quoting someone else that you wealthy family are not really going to have anything original to say about itfound murdered. Sometimes The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that's because it's already been lauded to if the skies and you agree with every published wordstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Sometimes it isn't. ''Casi The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's voice is astonishingan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' is one of the blurb quotesbody. I agree. It The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's just that you can still get tired of hearing it. And I didhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=Never Go BackThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Lee ChildAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jack Reacher is calling on a lady friend. He's never actually met her, they've just spoken on the phone, and he likes her voice. For a drifter like Reacher with nothing better to do, thatIt's a good enough reason to head to Virginia and maybe buy her a coffee. Except when he arrives at his old unit's headquartersall bloody peculiar, the lady he wants to meet - new commanding officer Major Susan Turner - isn't there. Insteadit, he finds himself accused of homicide, and brought back into the army. Someone is going to be very sorry about this. Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Silence Of The LambsGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Thomas HarrisKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Well, I suppose I know what all the fuss is about now. Except it isn’t fuss, not any ''Life has moreto offer than people - prime numbers for example''. It’s so famous that it’s become part Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of our language. People who’ve never read Gasskas, where the book or seen the film can name at least one so-far-untapped natural resources of the charactersarea have sparked a gold rush. At twenty five, I am the same age as Silence of the Lambs (the novel) and only three years older than the film, which The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is incidentally the same age as my brother. I cannot remember a time when Hannibal Lecter was not latest woman in the bogey manarea to have vanished without trace. For some years I It was under the impression only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Buffalo Bill was a real serial killer. There Svala is even a rather catchy and charming song entitled ''It Rubs The Lotion On It’s Skinremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099586576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Pilgrim SoulThe Trap|author=Gordon FerrisCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 1947, a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the worst winter in memory is only just getting started, morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and Duncan manage to get one of the few taxis available. Brodie is a crime reporter working Others squash onto the streets night bus that will only go as far as one of Glasgow for the Gazetteoutlying villages. The reason hewoman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 's good at reporting is probably just natural talent and the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a decent educationlong way short of her home. The reason heShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's good at crime is that hedead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's a trained investigatorno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897624</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=Dead RichA Death at the Party|author=Katia LiefAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh''Mac'' Macleary s party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and his wife Karin are retired homicide detectivesNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. HeWhat we don's set up in t know is who the private investigation business, while she man is trying hard or why Nadine prefers to be have him die. I'd better give you 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 him on stake-outslittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944791</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig0008530025|title=Then We Die: An Inspector Carlyle NovelMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
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|summary=If you were wondering where you might find Inspector John CarlyleIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, then having afternoon tea in the Palm Court at 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 Ritz might not be steps but the first place which comes to mindvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. But don't worry - he's not gone upmarket - he's treating Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his mother murder and it comes as a bit of a shock when she announces that she's divorcing his father after fifty years of marriage. Carlyle thinks that what looks like a bit now the subject of trouble kicking off might be a welcome diversion - he's not 'Infamous'big', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they' re going to do this live on family relationships camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - but he could never have imagined the ramifications and no shortage of slipping away from table whilst his mother went to the ladiescliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Thomas H CookJane 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=SandrineA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54
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|summary= Sam One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Sandrine Madison live Bruno's there to see the American dreamshow with some friends. Both have jobs that they loveIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, lecturing at the same college, an adult daughter and many memories that include a beautiful holiday in man playing one of the Med. However main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the dream goes tragically sourscript. Sandrine Luckily, his doctor is found dead there and Sam the man is charged with murder despite his protestations that it was suicidewhisked away in a helicopter. The court case begins A local doctor (and Sam starts a fight for friend of Bruno) wonders about his own life chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the past catches up with him military has stepped in unusual . One daughter lives nearby and unexpected waysanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855137</amazonuk>
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