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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin FossumB0CYV674G2|title=The Murder of Harriet Krohn|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was early November and Charlo Torp, an obsessive gambler who was so deep in debt to the people he should not owe money to that he feared for his life, set out to solve his problems. An expensive bunch of flowers which needed a signature on delivery would get him into the house of Harriet Krohn - and a spot of burglary would net him enough to pay off his debts. All goes according to plan up to a point - but then it all goes wrong when Harriet Krohn fights back and Torp uses the butt of the revolver he brought to frighten her to bludgeon her about the head and she's found dead the following morning. The only clue for Inspector Konrad Sejer is the abandoned bunch of flowers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655795X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview <!-- 19/5 -->|author=W Scott Beaven|title=Riccarton Junction: 1|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Kikarin Swanton Morley (Kiri to her friendsJohn Tanner), moves with her family from cosmopolitan London to the wilds of the Scottish borders where not all accept her Japanese/English mixed heritage. Her father works in forestry for the local laird and her mother lives for the day when Kiri's brother, Keith, is released from the Young Offenders' Institute. However, bringing Keith home again doesn't mean the end of their problems or indeed his. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1493571427</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Borderline|author=Lawrence BlockDavid Blake|rating=23.5
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|summary=I can imagine 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 scene back in 1950s Americaman. The Hays Code was A body at full force meaning that movies where forced the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to dull their more exuberant edgesdeath. Comic books had been vilified as perverting DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the minds birth of the youth; horror had turned to All American Superheroeshis daughter Samantha. That left You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the hidden Dime Novel, a book you could pick up words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for only 10 cents to revel in its vicarious pleasureseach other. Anyone could don an old Macintosh coat and pick up something like Lawrence Block’s ‘Borderline’, a book that purports He's sleep-deprived to be crime noir, the point of falling asleep at work but is something very different indeedhe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290579</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Complex 90Stuart Douglas|authortitle=Mickey Spillane Lowe and Max Allan CollinsLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|summary=If you ever decide to revisit During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the Film Noir genre dead body of a woman on the 40s and 50s may I suggest ‘Kiss Me Deadly’edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, a pretty looney film but something about a shining briefcase the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the maverick PI sent out help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to recover ithelp him investigate matters further. This Private Investigator was none other than Mike HammerThey travel across the country during their days off filming, star of a series of books written by Mickey Spillane. Unfortunatelyuncovering more possible murders and, Spillane is no longer with usseemingly, but before his a link to death he gave some unfinished manuscripts to prolific crime writer Max Allan Collinsduring the Second World War. ‘Complex 90’ But is there really a link between the result of one of their collaborations and you may be glad deaths? And will they manage to know that it uncover who is almost as insane as the movie.responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689770</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine0008517061|title=Hour of Darkness: A Bob Skinner MysteryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
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|summary=The naked body of Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a woman was washed up on an island in little uncertainty about the Firth future of Forth. The mutilation had obviously come from his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a ship's propeller but the result was that there was no means lot of identification. Several days later detectives were called compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to a flat move in Edinburgh: a meter reader had found with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the kitchen covered in blood future she wants for herself and it wasn't long before a connection was made between her daughter? For the missing occupant of moment they’re enjoying life in the property present and putting the future on the unidentified body. The name - Isabella Spreckley - didn't ring immediate bells but she had been Bella Watson and that was a name which many people, not least Bob Skinner, would have preferred not to hear again - even if she was deadback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357027</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=A Dark And Twisted TideThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Sharon BoltonElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lacey FlintBuilders 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 doorway. Lacey is ''soft and pretty''; Flint is ''sharp and hard''There was no skull. Lacey Flint is all of those thingsWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. She is also It's difficult as Ruth knows, nowbut Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a Constable in result of the Met's Marine Unitone night they spent together some three months ago. Lacey had fought hard against whatever traumas lie in her past to get into the police forceHer condition will be obvious before long, and harder still not least because Ruth is prone to get into plain clothes. A couple sudden bouts of years as a DC were enough to make both her and her bosses think it was all way too much for hersickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069188</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De Cataldo0008551324|title=JudgesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'll confess that it was s unusual for anyone from the name of [[:Category:Andrea Camilleri|Andrea Camilleri]] which brought me Hardie family to this bookapproach the police. INeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'm s prepared to tell the police where the body of a long-time fan of his Inspector Montalbano series missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and a recent reading of a spin-off [[Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri|novella]] had proved it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to me that serve the concise nature remainder of his full-length novels was no flukesentence and to get an early parole date. In Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Judgess even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It' we had another novella s sixteen years since nine- worth buying for its own sake year- old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the bonus investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of two more stories from better-than-decent Italian authorsthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. All that What looked as though it was needed was a glass of wine going to be an open-and -shut case is now a comfortable chaircomplex double murder. Did Kerrigan is convinced that the book live up to expectation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052977</amazonuk>explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=Bryant and May: The Bleeding HeartKellerby Code|author=Christopher FowlerJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=''The Bleeding Heart'' Edward Jevons is the eleventh outing for Fowlera working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's distinctive detectives from the Peculiar Case Unita theatre director. If youHe've s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been along for the ride so far you'll either have fallen in love with them, or really not be able Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to see the joy of themRobert. Either way, this review isnMost men in Robert't going to s position would stay away from Stanza or tell you anything you don't already know, other than, yes, FowlerEdward that a relationship had begun between them but he's still on form. Forgive me then, if I address the rest of my thoughts to those who've yet not like most men: Edward is left to stumble into upon the is backwater two of the Metropolitan Policethem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna JaquieryJo Callaghan|title=The Lying-Down Room (Commandant Serge Morel)Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There When a man is found crucified on the top of a reason why everyone who can leave Paris hill in August does so: itNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's swelteringly hot and deeply unpleasanttheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Commandant Serge Morel and his assistant But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Lila Markov don't have the choice Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and to add a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their problems they're short-staffedAI Future Policing project. The murder of Will they be able to solve the old woman seemed strange from case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the beginning: she was frailcase and, potentially, inoffensive but she'd apparently been drowned and then laid out with care, garishly made up and adorned with of a red wig. The bed sheet was tucked in tightly around her. Why would anyone want to murder her? And why was Fauré's ''Requiem'' playing whilst the murderer workedcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447244419</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1035021803|title=Ghost GirlThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Stella Darnell in [[The DetectiveIt's Daughter by Lesley Thomson|The Detective's Daughter]] - a book which seemed twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to take everyone by surprisethe English country village where she grew up. I didnShe't expect to meet her again but s back now because of a year after request for help from her father's death Stella hasn't moved onbeloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's still visiting his house regularly former mentor and cleaning it as though he could return any day. Cleaning Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is what she does best - dead and she runs her own cleaning companythe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Her father Arthur was Terry Darnellthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, Detective Chief Superintendent at Hammersmith police station and there's a folder of photographs in his darkroomlet her down badly. They're all unlabeled and Even though they're of deserted streetswere in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Is After the split, she worked in a crime involved - cafe, met and why are married James (on the rebound from the photographs at Terry's home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857679</amazonuk>love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Kendal1398524085|title=The Book of YouHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Clarissa Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is 38not. Shortly afterwards, secretary to a university department head Etty and just emerging from a broken relationshipGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Rafe also works It was an easy assumption for the university, wants Clarissa police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Clarissa wants himthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's absolutely certain she does, no matter how vehemently she denies it, no matter how fast she runslittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=Dog Will Have His DayThe Ghost Orchid|author=Fred VargasJonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54
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|summary=Despite losing his official post, Louis Kehlweiler still has the contacts, the drive, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and seemingly nothing else to doeven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to keep him solving crimesask for his help on difficult cases. While using His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a certain park bench to trail psychologist only worked for a potentially suspect connection between someone nefarious and a politicianwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's relativepartner, he finds who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something else to spark his interestthat the man she loved needed. WhereThe next case did look simple, hours before, there had just been dog mess, now there is also though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a human toe boneremote property in Bel Air. Clearly there He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is a crime, although nobody is reporting anything like having a half a toe missingmarried to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But not even he could predict what which of them was the simple legwork of trailing passing dog-owners would lead to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558190</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes178763681X|title=Promises to Keep: A Short StoryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Jo is haunted by the death of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a teenage asylum seeker whilst residential cookery school in police custody Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and she only hangs on women to her fragile sanity by runningdo what he wanted. Whilst shePaul 's out in the woods (where she'd been warned that she 'somehow'really'got the impression that he' shouldnd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't go) she discovered a young boy living rough and she knew turn out that she had to do everything in her power to keep him safe. There were complicationsway. Her partner was DS Sam Hollands who had a direct involvement with asylum seekers The teaching - and the boy living rough in the woods problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was the younger brother of the for someone to turn up dead teenager. Sam wanted to get her relationship with Jo back onto an even keelUnfortunately, but one night she returned from work he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to find a stranger in her housebe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00I9GXP2M</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1529421284|title=Speaking from Among Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Many eleven year olds would be excited at It was one of those flash downpours that the thought of British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a five-hundred-year-old tomb being opened human skeleton came to (hopefully) reveal the bones of surface and forensic testing proved the local saintbody to be Lee Geary, but Flavia de Luce who had what might almost be called a professional interestdisappeared nine years earlier. Before the opening of the tomb sheHe'd been associated with four dead bodies (to say that she was instrumental in solving the murders sounds just a little too much like ''bragging'' doesn't known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it?) could have been a simple case of misadventure but this time she really DI Matt Lockyer wasn't expecting convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to find Mr Collicut, two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the church organist who had been missing for six weekstime. Still, there he was, dead - Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and wearing a gas maskme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409118185</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Welsh1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Lovely Way to Burn (Plague Times Trilogy 1D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
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|summary=The summer of the great heat wave In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is also the summer of deathNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Stevie thought nothing D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didn't registerRyan, is not. Then the illness came: plague-like symptoms sweeping across the worldHe's not any of those things. When StevieHe's boyfriend dies itwhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's easy to put it down not ''really'' his thing) and 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 the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch and she wonpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you't stop till shere not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's followed it, no matter what happens or who tries to stop herproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=Water MusicThe Winter Visitor|author=Margie OrfordJames Henry|rating=4.5
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|summary=Cassie It's February 1991 and Essex is out riding bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a bridle path hardly used in the height of summer, totally deserted in winterwanted drug smuggler for a decade. Her horse takes The return has come about because he's had a tumbleletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and she goes with ithasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and stumbles into sent to a tiny, plastic-wrapped child, maybe three-years old, and painfully thin, foot-soles like marble and skin blue with coldwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857849</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=PoppetA Nye of Pheasants|author=Mo HayderSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=DI Jack Caffrey DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has been around for taken a while nowshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, I just haven't previously stumbled into his deep dark worldGuy Trueman. This is the sixth Maik was involved in the series of books featuring the plain clothed Detective Inspector a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Team, manslaughter but you don't need evidence came to light that suggested that he might have read any of the others planned to enjoy - if enjoy is murder the right word - this (not quite man. Now he could be facing the) latest offeringdeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857500767</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1521129886|title=The Dead in Their Vaulted ArchesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Flavia de Luce is nearly twelve but sheGreg Mason's grown up without just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the presence of her mother who is presumed to point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have died in a mountaineering accident in Tibet when Flavia was just a babyand they're both delighted. The loss has left its mark on Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the family: Colonel de Luce morning sickness. Greg is a broken man and as it was Harriet who owned the family home approached by an old friend whose brother- Buckshaw in- they've lived in a financial limbolaw appears to have killed himself. But now HarrietStuart's body has been found and we join the family as itconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's brought back struggling to the village on a train commissioned by the governmentmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The great police and the good are there - including Winston Churchill - coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but thereStuart's also a mysterious death. And prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the man who has night Gil died whispered a warning to Flavia just before he went under the wheels of the train.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409118193</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James NaughtieB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Madness of JulyResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A dead body is found 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 Houses private investigator. 'Shades of Parliament broom cupboard on a hot 1970s summer dayCameron Strike', you might be thinking. A sinister enough event normally Nice bloke, but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concerns. where's the life experience that backs up this profession? The fact On the deceased other hand, he has Willbeen asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's phone number in his pocket triggers been written off as a series of events that not only tests his loyalty to worktragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, country Oliver and family but will take Will from the everyday political cut and thrust Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to his old jobfall in front of a train. The job he hoped heGreg'd walked away from: spyings been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Purser1838954481|title=Scandal at Six: A Lois Meade MysteryThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=34
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|summary=Lois Meade leads Ryan Kennedy killed a busy lifepolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. As if running her own cleaning company isn't sufficient she can never resist doing a bit He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of ''ferretin' '' when something strange happens in both the murder and the village manslaughter of Long Farndenthe officer. She's And so good that local police inspector Hunter Cowgill is only too pleased to involve her as his assistantlives must go on. Mind you, it probably helps For DI Sarah Collins that Cowgill is very fond of Lois means leaving the capital and his nephew (also hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a policeman) missing teenager is married to Loisfound on her territory she' daughter, Josie. This time, local zookeeper, Robert Pettinson s drawn into a wider investigation - and his nephew, Justin Brookes are involved in trading endangered animals and they'd prefer that Lois and her family kept their noses out back into the orbit of their businessRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>042526176X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig1448309743|title=A Man of Sorrows: An Inspector Carlyle NovelThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector John Carlyle has a lot In the village of Cronchie on his plate. His attack on a paedophile priest left Father McGowan injured and angry and Carlyle in the West coast of Scotland, five members of a vulnerable positionwealthy family are found murdered. The fact only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the Pope stone is due to visit ups the political pressure and brings Carlyle into conflict with his old nemesisremoved from Otterburn House, Christian Holyroddeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, the Mayor of London. Then therethat's the armed robbery at a very upmarket Mayfair jeweller when tens of millions of pounds worth of stock goes missing - along with one an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the assistantsbody. Normally The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he'd have had some support from his bossdisappears, but she's on secondment DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in Canada and the man replacing her has great hopes for Carlyle - mainly that he can get him dismissed. Then Carlyle's wife has a serious health scare and his daughter is growing up to 'shadow'very'' fasthim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100417</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
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|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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{{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=Laura Wilson1787636607|title=The RiotTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
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|summary=DI Stratton has moved to It's a new posting scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Notting Hill is fresh territory looking for a way to him, but he’s going to have get home. Some are lucky and manage to get to know it fast when a rent collector is stabbedone of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. There’s a sense The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of loss from 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the people who knew final stop on the man - he was inclined bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to help if he could come and with landlords wanting to oust rentcollect her -controlled tenants so that they could put ‘coloured’ people or prostitutes in their place (higher rents, you see) any help was welcomebut her phone's dead. Added The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to this there are increasing numbers of street fights involving teddy boyslet her use his. It’s 1958 There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and there’s a heatwavein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=The Atheist's PrayerA Death at the Party|author=Amy R BiddleStuart|rating=3.54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] man - is one of my favourite authors dying when we first meet him and his books can be Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so sharp you can shave with themdesperately needs. On What we don't know is who the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem man is or why Nadine prefers to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? But, is it really that shocking? Nopehim die. This is I'd better give you a story about how people deal with the modern world and little more background so that you can understand what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable group's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Mark0008530025|title=Original SkinMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Aector McAvoy It was rather hoping in December 2003 that he might be getting a reputation for his investigative skills but when we first meet him fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in ''Original Skin'' it's his ability with animals which is to the foregarden of their West London home. If you want a runaway horse stopping then He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's your mand slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. HeTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's distracted about something else too: whilst other detectives are working on now the subject of ''Infamous'', a case which involves travellers and violent drugtrue-related crime he's unable to get the case of Simon Appleyard out of his mindshow. Simon was deeply into A group of experts has been brought together to review the swinging scene evidence and liked to live life take the investigation further. More to the fullpoint, so why did they're going to do this slender young man with live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the peacock feathers tattooed on his back commit suicide one morning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389785</amazonuk>whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Simon BeckettJane 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=Stone BruisesA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=When we meet Sean itOne 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 Bruno's obvious that he's on there to see the run, but it will be a long time before we find out what fromshow with some friends. HeIt's drivingall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, in France and he knows that he has to get rid the man playing one of the car, but main characters is seriously injured when he does so he finds himself in far worse difficultydeparts from the script. Cutting across farmland he puts Luckily, his foot doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a metal mantrap and can't free himselfhelicopter. The damage to A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his foot is considerable and he soon loses consciousness chances of survival but - but when he comes to as he's in a senior government employee, the hayloft at man who runs Frenchelon - the farm, being looked after by the farmer's elder daughtermilitary has stepped in. The farmer is definitely not pleased when he finds outOne daughter lives nearby and another, the younger daughter who lives in a mantrap California, is flying in with some of her own right and therefather's friends for a lot of animosity against the family in the local villagepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073282</amazonuk>
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