132,625
edits
Changes
no edit summary
[[Category:Crime|*]]
[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=CloudlandSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Joseph OlshanDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Catherine WinslowIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a retired investigative journalistknife, writes household columns for various newspapers while she sits holed up in her house in Vermontcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. One day, when A body at the winter snow started melting, she discovered bottom of a body near her propertyfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. The discovery unearthed a series DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of killings which Catherine his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and her neighbour a forensic psychiatrist set out 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to solvekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906413924</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Quintin JardineStuart Douglas|title=As Serious As Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death (Primavera Blackstone Mystery)at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Primavera Blackstone is determined to live a quiet life. SheDuring location filming for his 1970's happy in her role as a single parent to the late Oz Blackstonesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's three children (one of hers, two leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of someone else's - don't ask, it's complicated...) and living in a village woman on the Spanish coast suits her perfectly. She's OK with Liam Matthews too. He's not the love edge of her life but they rub along well together until Liam mentions the M worda reservoir. Primavera doesn't want to get married and before long Liam is on his way. Problems never The police seem happy to come on their own - assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the next one is the arrival help of a retired policeman from her Scottish pastfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Ricky Ross is now a private detective They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and he's working for Jack Weighley, owner of seemingly, a budget airline and link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a man whose PR makes him seem nicer than link between the reality would prove.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755357132</amazonuk>1803368209
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=BinaryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Michael CrichtonStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Switch on TV over the holiday season and you will eventually stumble across Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a show little uncertainty about celebrities before they were famous. Sit back the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and watch Hollywood Royalty gurn on an advert or appear her daughter Diana, as moving in an early episode together would mean a lot of ‘Grange Hill’. Working before you hit the limelight compromise: does not happen solely to actors; authors often had a Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life before they put pen to paper (move in with Livia or finger does Livia move to keyboard). Indeed, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the likes of Stephen King, Jack Higgins future she wants for herself and many others had a prolific career under a nom de plume. her daughter? Michael Crichton is another such author For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and after his untimely death 1998 we will be unlikely to see any new works by him. Thankfully, putting the future on the publisher ''Titan Books'' has gone back to his earlier days under the name John Lange to re-release some of his hardboiled crime fictionburner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783291257</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=Monument to MurderThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Mari HannahElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Kate Daniels is working Builders were demolishing an old house in Northumberland, following Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the discovery bones of two bodies buried on a beach, overlooking child beneath a beautiful vistadoorway. With There was no knowledge of the local communityskull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Daniels and her loyal team have an overwhelming amount of work to dobut Nelson doesn't, as well that she is pregnant with his child as a strong sense result of justice powering them onthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Meanwhile Her condition will be obvious before long, recently widowed Emily McCann not least because Ruth is struggling prone to cope with a return to her prison work, as well as the added complication sudden bouts of a prisoner who has taken a shine to hersickness. And the two situations are about to collide with one hell of an impact…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447246047</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008551324|title=I Love Lucid|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Lucid is more than a full-immersion role play game; it's THE full-immersion role play game. Its inventor Seth Pascal has ensured that all that needs to be done is to plug in and the player's brain will take them to the virtual world while during sleep, providing perfect lucidity and an alternative life within an avatar. However it's also becoming the game to die for. Yes, literally die for as players are being murdered while they're connected. Detective Evan Waugh is the investigator given the case to prove that he still has what it takes. However there's an added complication for both he and Seth as the investigation continues. Her name is Ellen, the woman for whom Lucid isn't just a way of life, it ''is'' her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00G0T342Q</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=James Henry|title=Morning FrostNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1982 DS Jack Frost - not yet forty years old - is burying his wife, Mary. ThereIt's a good turnout unusual for anyone from the funeral from Hardie family to approach the police force . Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and the local Masons, which he''might'' be s prepared to tell the reason why police where the local ne'er-do-wells seem to be rather more active than usualbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Superintendent Mullett makes a day (This person, he promises, is someone big and rather a lot of the night) of it, whilst Jack finds himself back at will be worth the police station and taking a call about a foot found in a fielddoing what he wants. ('We're looking for someone with a very bad limp...') Add in a rape at And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the local comprehensive school (hot on the heels remainder of one near a pub) his sentence and a to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new computer system which seems designed to confuse Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and itshe's obvious even prepared to do the other thing that Jack isn't going to get much chance to grieve for his wife Hardie demanded - not make certain that she was at the top of his list of priorities before she diedDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059307100X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0008405026|title=Saints of A Stranger in the Shadow BibleFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlie Watts said that being in the Rolling Stones for fifty It's sixteen years consisted of a decade drumming since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and four decades waiting for something the investigation ground to happena halt. John Rebus - back Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in CID - is feeling much the same way as business is slowtheir bed. He's had to come back in as Initially, it looks like a sergeant, straightforward murder/suicide but being back was what was important. Hethere's not even ''that'' worried something about working for Siobhan Clarke when their positions used to be reversed. On the other hand he's not pleased when Inspector Malcolm Fox from Professional Standards (''or whatever they're calling themselves this week'') investigates what happened some thirty years before at a station where Rebus was positioning of the new sergeant (first time round...)bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Fox himself isn't in the best of positions What looked as though it was going to be an open- he's on his way back to CID where he knows and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's going to be loathed by everyone for the job hedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's been doingboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144747</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=Almost LoveThe Kellerby Code|author=Christina JamesJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you pick up Edward Jevons is a crime novel 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 it entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has the weight of a brick been in your hand, your suspicions arenlove with Stanza since their university days - and he't immediately alerteds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Many Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a gripping tale takes 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 while in the tellingdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773460</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CamilleriJo Callaghan|title=Montalbano's First CaseLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Montalbano was just thirty five and he was When a man is found crucified on the top of a deputy Inspector up hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the mountainscase alongside her sidekick, which he hated to the extent that they could put him off his foodAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But in the way that such things are knownwhen there is a second body found crucified a few days later, he knew Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that he would be promoted before longdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. What was not known was where he would Will they be promoted ''able to'' and this worried him. If it was another posting solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the mountains he would resign. His girlfriend's uncle told the couple that it was Vigatacase and, which delighted Montalbano and he went to visitpotentially, unfortunately witnessing an assault. The wiser traffic cop in the area was otherwise engaged (chatting to out of a couple of dogs, as it happened...) but Montalbano was quick to correct the car registration which he'd noted down wrongly.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00FJNMB6E</amazonuk>139851120X
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=Closed for WinterThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jorn Lier HorstC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On a remote stretch It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of the southern Norwegian coast sits a selection of holiday cottages – second homes request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the moderately wealthycircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. When a man turns up Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to close his the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down securely for the winter he finds he has been burgledbadly. What's more he finds what seems Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the culprit in man or pursue the neighbouring property – stone cold dead behind his balaclava and black clothingprofession she loved. The explanation may perhaps lie After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the fact that rebound from the secluded coastline has been often used for a different kind love of crimeher life, but even when Inspector Wisting factors drug-runners into the proceedings, his investigation will still not run according to plan…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737492</amazonuk>who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1398524085|title=Under A Silent MoonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On the morning of the first of November 2012 the police were called to a cottage just outside a small English villageCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. A popularHer children, attractive young woman had been found dead sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and murder was suspectedher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Was it a coincidence that there was then a report Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of an apparent suicide of a woman who lived close by? Her car had rolled down into a quarryGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. For DCI Louisa Smith this It was her first major incident an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and it was complicated then committed suicide when she found that he couldn't stand the DI on her team was Andy Hamiltonguilt. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd been in a relationship s little else they can do but get on with him their lives and it lasted until she discovered that he was married. Hamilton hadn't given up on her though - he was still convinced that she would come back to him. Not that he planned on it breaking up his marriage, of coursewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00ANOB8GS</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=Butterfly Grave (Murder Notebooks)The Ghost Orchid|author=Anne CassidyJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Just before ChristmasIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, JoshSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's uncle Stuart falls from t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a cliff in an horrific accidentwhile. Determined to help Finally, it was Robin, JoshDelaware's partner, Rose and friend Skeggsie head up to Newcastle who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the festive seasonman she loved needed. Things are awkward between The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the threeswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Josh is becoming increasingly paranoid He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is convinced they are being followed. Rose is becoming more married to an extremely rich man and more withdrawn, fixating on it's not the deaths she has witnessedItalian. And Skeggsie is resentful at being forever embroiled in other people's problems when he has challenges But which of his own. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>them was the primary target?
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Bronze GodsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=A A AguireOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One 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 do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the new worlds Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the authors have createdBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Where is In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the world? What kind creatures inhabit body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? What There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the customsMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, et ceterathere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, et ceteraBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and steampunk mixed with fantasy father of Ryan, is the double hitnot. He's not any of those things. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and we have the makings his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a really good timepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tarquin Hall1529431735|title=The Case of the Love Commandos (Vish Puri Mysteries)Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ram and Tulsi fell in love but their different castes meant that TulsiIt's family were completely against their marryingFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, with Tulsiwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's father locking her up and saying that he would hunt down Ramd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The Love Commandos - return has come about because he's had a group formed to help mixed-caste couples - came to their aid, but when they liberated Tulsi, Ram was snatched letter from his hiding place. For Vish Puriex-wife, Indiasaying that she's ill and hasn'Most Private Investigator', it was proving t long to be a difficult monthlive. HeIt'd failed s hard to retrieve some stolen jewelsfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, a pickpocket had removed stripped to his wallet (underwear and he had sent to depend his Mummy-ji to retrieve it) and this case just made everything worse. He could see a watery grave in the problem - but Vish wasn't ''that'' convinced about love matchesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Then he found that his arch rival, Hari Kumar, was also trying Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to find Ram - but for whomhome?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937426</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Corley0861541774|title=Dead A Nye of WinterPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Louise Nightingale is investigating DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a series of sexual attacks which are becoming increasingly violentshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The latest victim is Maik was involved in hospital a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Nightingale sees something of her younger self in the girl in the bed. Jenni has been sleeping roughhe killed a Ghurka. It's not her real nameInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but she's ''very'' insistent about evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the ''i''man. Superintendent Andrew Fenwick is brought in to investigate the disappearance of seventeen-year-old Isabel Mattias, Now he could be facing the daughter of an artist and a rock star who died five years ago in a car crashdeath penalty. She disappeared Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from her exclusive boarding school, but has she run away or been abducted? Her friends seem unwilling to provide much information another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and even the teachers feel that respecting Issiewouldn's privacy is importantt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749014776</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eileen Robertson1521129886|title=We'll be Watching YouThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasnGreg Mason't that Christine Brett was exactly nosy, but life hadns just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he't treated her particularly kindly recentlyll warn someone about how much he charges. Her marriage had ended in divorce It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and shethey'd lost her jobre both delighted. Here Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she was, middlegets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-aged and back living with her motherlaw appears to have killed himself. And checking that people were not breaking the law was a ''dutyStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who' s struggling to make ends meet and her son is not a ''pleasure''thriving. Admittedly some of her accusations had been wide of the markLucy, he says, but she had been a witness when the robbers left the hypermarket is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the face of coroner have accepted that the driver of the getaway car death was familiar - if only she could place it. suicide, Unfortunately Christine had cried wolf too often and the local police werenbut Stuart't too inclined s prepared to pay Greg to give her much credencefind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719810728</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrez BergenB0CK3MYJ56|title=Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In search It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of entertainmentCameron Strike', Jack crosses over from real world Melbourne to Heropayou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where he becomes (dah daaah!) Southern Cross. However there's not much time for him to acclimatise to his new lycra-clad role or his super-power. the life experience that backs up this profession? As On the new addition to The Equalizers other hand, he has work been asked to dolook into something. The heroes of Heropa Joyce and Helen are starting to die half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in a totally unprecedented manner so Jack joins forces with the quartet starting with an what'e' (but with s been written off as a symbol looking suspiciously like a 'z) in tragic accident at an attempt to restore law unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and order her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to remain alivefall in front of a train. 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 tooGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178279235X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Corban Addison1838954481|title=The Garden of Burning SandMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A little girl named Kuyeya is found in Lusaka, Zambia abused, deeply shocked and badly injuredRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. American lawyer Zoe Fleming is over there when her friend and local police officer Joseph receives He was the fifteen-year-old holding the call gun and so her involvement beginspointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. She's determined He pulled the trigger but due to help Joseph track down Kuyeya's attacker but the trail takes some surprising turns through vagaries of the underbelly jury system he was found not guilty of Zambia, alarming Zoe with both the extent murder and the manslaughter of the crusade she's taken officer. And so lives must go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063307</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Omens|author=Kelley Armstrong|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Olivia Taylor-Jones has For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a charmed quieter life. Her family in the countryside but when a missing teenager is rich, her fiance perfect and though she has some questions about found on her career, she knows that things will work themselves out. Until she learns that territory she's adopted drawn into a wider investigation - her true parents America's most infamous serial killers. Suddenly on and back into the run from the media, Olivia finds shelter in the small town orbit of Cainsville. It's a strange sort of place - full of oddball characters and gargoyles that seem to only appear at certain timesRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184744511X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Shadow CollectorDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Kate EllisCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A convicted murderess and alleged witch returns to Devil’s Tree CottageIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, after eighteen years in jail for butchering two teenage girlsdeath will follow. When bodies start falling The only suspects are known Satanists but in West Fretham just days after her releasemany ways, dispatched by Wiccan ceremonial blades, she is that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the obvious suspectbody. But The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, for DI Wesley Peterson, something strange DCI Christine Caplan is going on pulled in the village that casts doubt on the identity of the killer and on the validity of Lilith Benley’s original convictionto 'shadow' him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749958006</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Doll's HouseRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Tania CarverAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=There can be no confusion in the name of the latest Tania Carver novel. ''The Dolls HouseIt's all bloody peculiar, isn' well and truly sums t it up, which Sir?'' Well yes, it is made clear as . Jem Rosco blew into the book opens local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a very pinkmonth and then turned up, very well laid out lounge with naked and dead, in a living dollsmall boat, also dressed anchored in pinkScully Cove close to the village of Greystone, arranging in Devon. Rosco had the room until it is spotless. Aside from status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the slightly ominous undertones world sailor and the repetition that everything must be perfect; the reader could almost be forgiven for initially thinking they haven’t picked up a crime novel at allround ''celebrity''. It soon becomes obvious that this isn’t the case though I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we follow DI Phil Brennan back into that same room '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 doll sat straight-backed at the precisely laid out dinner table. This time though, money for his first boat? How did he finance the doll is dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550523</amazonuk>trip?
}}
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1787636607|title=The Treasure HuntTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life for Montalbano and his team was slow: it seemed that even It's a scene replicated all too often in the criminals were taking life easy and there was almost a sense early hours of relief when an elderly man and his sister began firing into the street below their Vigata apartmentmorning. There wasn't Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a lot way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of news either - which was why Montalbano found himself the reluctant hero of few taxis available. Others squash onto the news programmes night bus that will only go as far as he climbed up the outside one of the buildingoutlying villages. What he didn't realise was that a life-sized rubber doll (you know The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'exactly'' what I mean) found , particularly in the apartment would dominate his life, particularly when light of 'herthe missing women' twin was found in a rubbish bin. I meanFor one young woman, where do you keep such things? In the final stop on the bus leaves her a cupboard? long way short of her home. Under She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the bed? chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. Montalbano could tell you the drawbacks of both those locationsThere's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447228782</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=The Last Winter of Dani LancingA Death at the Party|author=P D VinerAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There’s From the 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 good way effort to deal with call the death of a childambulance he so desperately needs. When Dani Lancing What we don't know is killed her parents react in different ways, but neither way who the man is particularly helpful or healthy. And of course neither way will bring their daughter backwhy Nadine prefers to have him die. It’s now 20 years later and the mystery of whodunnit is still looming over Jim and Patty’s heads, though they’re no longer together. The murder of I'd better give you a child will do little more background so that to a marriageyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953294</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Bad Little FallsMurder in the Family|author=Paul DoironCara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Bad Little Falls'', set It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the wilds body of rural Maine her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in midwinter, shows the unravelling mystery garden of a man stumbling out their West London home. He had an injury on the back of a blizzard to his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the front door of an unsuspecting elderly couplevicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The man is frozen half to death Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and soon begins raving about a friend lost in it's now the stormsubject of ''Infamous'', which quickly causes a frenzied rescue missiontrue-crime show. Soon Mike Bowditch, a game warden A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and Doiron’s protagonist, uncovers to take the missing man under a snow drift, turning the hunt into a murder investigationfurther. Whilst More to the point, they're going to do this initially powerful mystery becomes gradually overshadowed live on camera, episode by Doiron’s portrayal episode. There's no dump of Bowditch’s love interest, the whole box set - and at least one too many descriptions no shortage of her anatomy, it is still an interesting and baffling mystery to be unravelledcliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780338198</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0241996104|title=Desert Heart: 2 (Ellen Martin Disasters)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Ten years have passed since [[Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters) by Mark Lingane|Chasing Heart]] Nancy's mother and that moment that Ellen Martin met step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and fell in love with Alex Heart while he was attempting to extricate her from South American impending doomstep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We now catch up with them to discover that Ellen has ditched Alexfirst meet Nancy outside the court, has become after Martin receives a partner in life sentence. The barrister tells her law firm and is about to fly out 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 Middle East for important business negotiations on behalf rest of a clienther life. Ellen isnOf course, it't known for staying out of trouble s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the Middle East isn't known for its tolerance papers are making the most of the mischievously danger-proneit. Therefore it's not long before Ellen needs a rescuer again 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and, yes, it's reunion time'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478656</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Broken AngelsA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Graham MastertonMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Despite One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the odd reservation, [[White Bones by Graham Masterton|town from the first book]] English in his 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It'Katie Maguire'' seriess all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, was good enough to have me eagerly reaching for the secondman playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, ''Broken Angels''his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. Whilst Masterton may have dipped into some A local doctor (and friend of the female detective clichés with Bruno) wonders about his debut crime thriller, chances of survival but - as he also dipped into his past as 's a great horror writer senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and the combination worked wellanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851182</amazonuk>
}}
Move on to [[Newest Crime (Historical) Reviews]]