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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben FergussonB0CYV674G2|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Germany may be defeated as the embers of World War II grow cold but Kasper Meier is making the most of itIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. His trade A man, covered in black market goods mud and blood - and casual private investigation work augment carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the meagre rations for him and his dying fatherman. When a woman asks him to find A body at the bottom of a missing British airman freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he refuses – it's not really been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his linehoneymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. She blackmails Kasper and still You would think he refuses 'd be grateful for an easy answer but then the note arrives:words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner'This is bigger than youwere made for each other. You donHe't have a choice. Queers still die in Berlin. Find s sleep-deprived to the pilot.'' It seems that point of falling asleep at work but he's been seen with another man and now determined to keep going - probably because he has a decision to make that will either cost or save his lifecan't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The ProfessionalsStuart Douglas|authortitle=Owen LaukkanenLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=The professional criminal is During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the type dead body of person who gets in, does a woman on the job and then gets out againedge of a reservoir. Sounds like the perfect way The police seem happy to stay undetected assign it as a lifelong miscreantan accidental death, but does not sound like something about the most exciting narrative for whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a storyfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. InsteadThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, take a bunch of young kidnappers who are drunk on their own success, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up link to death during the wrong markSecond World War. Watching But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives spiral out of control would be a much more thrilling read. A read just like ''The Professionals''.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782393668</amazonuk>1803368209

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent0008517061|title=The Killing Room: A Sandro Cellini MysteryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Work had been Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a bit thin on little uncertainty about the ground for private investigator Sandro Cellini future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and it was the only reason that he agreed to become head of security for her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a luxurious private residence which overlooked Florence. The previous occupant lot of the job had been 'let go'. It wasn't long before Sandro realised that compromise: does Jake give up his predecessor had also been murdered. It was this that worried his wife, Luisa off- but Sandro was more concerned grid and relaxing life to move in with establishing who was responsible Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for a series of dirty tricks which had occurred at herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the Palazzo San Giorgio. And future on top of this he has to sort out the problems without antagonising the wealthy residentsback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893300</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=Before You DieThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Samantha HayesElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=A stolen bike, a crash, a death.  Anywhere else it would be a catastrophic accident. Here, itBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's suicide. Another one. Please donluxury't let it be starting all over again. D.I. Lorraine Fisher is one apartments - when they discovered the bones of those rare creatures in modern detective fictiona child beneath a doorway. She's normalThere was no skull. Married, with two daughters who she only partly understands, and Was this a husband who she loves to bitsritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and not enough time to spend Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with any of themDCI Harry Nelson. She has a good career, because itIt's clearly what she was born to do. No quirksdifficult as Ruth knows, no hang-ups, shebut Nelson doesn's just good at her jobt, because that she thinks like is pregnant with his child as a copper – which means she doesn't give up at result of the first hurdleone night they spent together some three months ago. When things nag at herHer condition will be obvious before long, she lets them, until she can hear what it not least because Ruth is they are trying prone to tell hersudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891504</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0008551324|title=Angelica's SmileThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=It's quite possible that Inspector Montalbano would not have been sent unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to investigate approach the perfectly-executed robberies had it not been that it was police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the rich, police where the elite body of Vigata a missing person is buried and who had been targetedwas responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Initially And what he was reluctant wants is to be transferred to an open prison to take on serve the investigation but remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it soon became clear that it wasn? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't just think so and she's even prepared to do the fact other thing that theyHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd been burgled that linked s happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the victimsinvestigation ground to a halt. And then 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 the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was Angelicagoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447249119</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum0571379877|title=The Murder of Harriet KrohnKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=It was early November and Charlo TorpEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, an obsessive gambler who was so deep in debt to the people he should not owe money to that he feared for obsessed with his lifeupper-class friends, set out to solve his problemsRobert and Stanza. An expensive bunch of flowers which needed Robert's a signature on delivery would get theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him into the house of Harriet Krohn . Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and a spot of burglary would net him enough he's drunkenly confided how he feels to pay off his debtsRobert. All goes according to plan up to Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a point - relationship had begun between them 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 not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the abandoned bunch two of flowersthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655795X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview <!-- 19/5 -->Frontpage|author=W Scott BeavenJo Callaghan|title=Riccarton Junction: 1Leave No Trace

|summary=Kikarin (Kiri When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her friends)sidekick, moves with her family from cosmopolitan London to the wilds of the Scottish borders where not all accept her Japanese/English mixed heritageAI detective Lock. Her father works in forestry for the local laird and her mother lives for the day when KiriIt's brothertheir first live case together, Keithhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is released from the Young Offenders' Institutesuddenly 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. HoweverWill they be able to solve the case in time, bringing Keith home again doesn't mean or will Kat find herself taken off the end case and, potentially, out of their problems or indeed his. a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1493571427</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=BorderlineThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lawrence BlockC L Miller|rating=23.5

|summary=I can imagine It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the scene English country village where she grew up. She's back in 1950s Americanow because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. The Hays Code was at full force meaning that movies where forced Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to dull their more exuberant edgessay the least. Comic books Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been vilified back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as perverting antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the minds of man or pursue the youth; horror had turned to All American Superheroesprofession she loved. That left After the hidden Dime Novelsplit, she worked in a book you could pick up for only 10 cents to revel in its vicarious pleasures. Anyone could don an old Macintosh coat cafe, met and pick up something like Lawrence Block’s ‘Borderline’married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, a book that purports to be crime noir, but is something very different indeedwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290579</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Complex 90Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Mickey Spillane and Max Allan CollinsNicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=If you ever decide to revisit the Film Noir genre of the 40s Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and 50s may I suggest ‘Kiss Me Deadly’her daughter, a pretty looney film about a shining briefcase and the maverick PI sent out to recover itEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. This Private Investigator was none other than Mike HammerShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, star of a series find the body of books written by Mickey Spillane. UnfortunatelyGreg's father, Spillane is no longer with usDuncan Ackerley, but before his death he gave some unfinished manuscripts to prolific crime writer Max Allan Collinsin the river. ‘Complex 90’ is It was an easy assumption for the result of one of their collaborations and you may be glad police to know make that it is almost as insane as Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the movieguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689770</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1529900360|title=Hour of Darkness: A Bob Skinner MysteryThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=The naked body of a woman It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was washed up reluctant to ask for his help on an island in difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the Firth help of Fortha psychologist only worked for a while. The mutilation had obviously come from a shipFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's propeller but partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the result involvement was something that there was no means of identificationthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Several days later detectives Two lovers were called to murdered in the swimming pool of a flat remote property in Edinburgh: a meter reader had found Bel Air. He was the kitchen covered in blood heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it wasn't long before a connection was made between the missing occupant of s not the property and the unidentified bodyItalian. The name - Isabella Spreckley - didn't ring immediate bells but she had been Bella Watson and that was a name But which many people, not least Bob Skinner, would have preferred not to hear again - even if she of them was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357027</amazonuk>the primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=A Dark And Twisted TideKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Sharon BoltonOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Lacey FlintChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Lacey is He didn''soft t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and prettywomen to do what he wanted. Paul ''; Flint is somehow''sharp and hardgot 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. Lacey Flint is The teaching - and the problems - are all of those thingshis own.  She is also, now, a Constable in the Met The one thing he hadn's Marine Unitt expected was for someone to turn up dead. Lacey had fought hard against whatever traumas lie in her past to get into Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police force, and harder still consider that person to get into plain clothes. A couple of years as a DC were enough to make both her and her bosses think it was all way too much for herbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069188</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De Cataldo1529421284|title=JudgesLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=I'll confess It was one of those flash downpours that it was the name of [[:Category:Andrea Camilleri|Andrea Camilleri]] which brought me to this bookBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. I'm In a gully, a long-time fan of his Inspector Montalbano series human skeleton came to the surface and a recent reading of a spin-off [[Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri|novella]] had forensic testing proved the body to me that the concise nature of his full-length novels was no flukebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. In He''Judges'' we d been a known drug user and had another novella - worth buying for its own sake - and the bonus learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of two more stories from better-than-decent Italian authorsmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. All that Geary was needed a townie, so what was a glass he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of wine Holly Gilbert and a comfortable chairto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Did Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the book live up Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to expectation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052977</amazonuk>you and me) investigate.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Bryant Lost and May: The Bleeding HeartNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Christopher FowlerSimon Mason

|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not 'The Bleeding Heart'really' is the eleventh outing for Fowler's distinctive detectives from the Peculiar Case Unithis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. If youThey've been along for the ride so far re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'll either have fallen in love with them, or really not be able re being introduced to see the joy of thema police procedural written for laughs. Either wayWell, this review isn't going to tell you anything you don't already know, other than, yes, Fowler's still on formre not. Forgive me then, if I address the rest The two men are just different sides of my thoughts to those who've yet to stumble into the is backwater of same policing coin. Sometimes the Metropolitan Policecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522035</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Jaquiery1529431735|title=The Lying-Down Room (Commandant Serge Morel)Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=There is a reason why everyone who can leave Paris in August does so: itIt's swelteringly hot February 1991 and deeply unpleasant. Commandant Serge Morel and his assistantEssex is bitingly cold, Lila Markov donwhich made Bruce Hopkins't have return all the choice and to add to their problems theymore surprising. He're short-staffedd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The murder of the old woman seemed strange return has come about because he's had a letter from the beginning: she was frailhis ex-wife, inoffensive but saying that she'd apparently been drowned s ill and then laid out with carehasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, garishly made up stripped to his underwear and adorned with sent to a red wig. The bed sheet was tucked watery grave in tightly around herthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Why would anyone want Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to murder her? And why was Fauré's ''Requiem'' playing whilst the murderer workedhome?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447244419</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson0861541774|title=Ghost GirlA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54

|summary=We first met Stella Darnell in [[The DetectiveDCI Domenic Jejeune's Daughter by Lesley Thomson|The Detective's Daughter]] - close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a book which seemed short holiday in Singapore to take everyone by surprisemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I didn't expect to meet her again but Maik was involved in a year after her father's death Stella hasn't moved on. She's still visiting his house regularly and cleaning it as though street brawl - he would later maintain that he could return any day. Cleaning is what she does best was facing a man armed with a knife - and she runs her own cleaning companyhe killed a Ghurka. Her father was Terry DarnellInitially, Detective Chief Superintendent at Hammersmith police station and there's he faced a folder charge of photographs in his darkroommanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. They're all unlabeled and they're of deserted streetsNow he could be facing the death penalty. Is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a crime involved - diplomatic incident and why are the photographs wouldn't help Danny at Terry's home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857679</amazonuk>all.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Kendal1521129886|title=The Book of YouThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Clarissa is 38, secretary Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a university department head good job too because Greg and just emerging from Joyce will soon have a broken relationshipbaby and they're both delighted. Rafe also works for Joyce will be more delighted about the universitybaby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, wants Clarissa who's struggling to make ends meet and Clarissa wants himher son is not thriving. He's absolutely certain she doesLucy, he says, no matter how vehemently she denies is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - itsimply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, no matter how fast she runs but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Dog Will Have His DayResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Fred VargasAnn Macarthur|rating=3.54

|summary=Despite losing his official post, Louis Kehlweiler still has It's the contacts, the drive, 1990s and seemingly nothing else to do, to keep him solving crimesGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. While using a certain park bench He used to trail have a potentially suspect connection between someone nefarious and high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a politicianprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's relativethe life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he finds has been asked to look into something else to spark his interest. WhereJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, hours beforeor rather, there had just they were until Helen was killed in what's been dog mess, now there is also written off as a human toe bonetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Clearly Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there is - or how she could come to fall in front of a crime, although nobody is reporting anything like having a half a toe missingtrain. But not even he could predict what the simple legwork of trailing passing dog-owners would lead to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558190</amazonuk>Greg's been asked to investigate.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1838954481|title=Promises to Keep: A Short StoryThe Misper|author=Kate London

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Jo is haunted by the death of Ryan Kennedy killed a teenage asylum seeker whilst in police custody and she only hangs on to her fragile sanity by running. Whilst sheofficer: there's out in the woods (where she'd been warned that she ''really'' shouldn't go) she discovered a young boy living rough and she knew no doubt about that she had to do everything in her power to keep him safe. There were complications. Her partner He was DS Sam Hollands who had a direct involvement with asylum seekers the fifteen-year- old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the boy living rough in trigger but due to the vagaries of the woods jury system he was found not guilty of both the younger brother murder and the manslaughter of the dead teenagerofficer. Sam wanted to get her relationship with Jo back onto an even keel, but one And so lives must go on. night she returned from work to find For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a stranger quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her houseterritory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00I9GXP2M</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1448309743|title=Speaking from Among the BonesThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=Many eleven year olds would be excited at In the thought village of a five-hundred-year-old tomb being opened to (hopefully) reveal Cronchie on the bones West coast of the local saintScotland, but Flavia de Luce had what might almost be called five members of a professional interestwealthy family are found murdered. Before The only item missing from the opening of home is the tomb she'd been associated with four dead bodies (to say Devil Stone: myth says that she was instrumental if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in solving the murders sounds just a little too much like many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'braggingdiscovered'' doesn't it?) but this time she really wasn't expecting to find Mr Collicut, the church organist who had been missing for six weeksbody. Still, there The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he wasdisappears, dead - and wearing a gas maskDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409118185</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Welsh1529077699|title=A Lovely Way to Burn The Raging Storm (Plague Times Trilogy 1Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=The summer of the great heat wave ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is also the summer of death. Stevie thought nothing Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of the three establishment pillars an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned snipers; up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the news just didn't registervillage of Greystone, in Devon. Then Rosco had the illness camestatus of a national treasure: plague-like symptoms sweeping across a renowned adventurer, round the worldsailor and all round ''celebrity''. When StevieI ''nearly'' said 's boyfriend dies itall-round good egg's easy to put it down to the pandemic but Stevie has as we'll find out, he could be more than a hunch little bit close with money and she wonhis background isn't stop till she's followed it, no matter what happens or who tries to stop herexactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

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|isbn=1787636607|title=Water MusicThe Trap|author=Margie OrfordCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Cassie is It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out riding on of clubs and looking for a bridle path hardly used in way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the height night bus that will only go as far as one of summerthe outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', totally deserted particularly in winterthe light of 'the missing women'. Her horse takes For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a tumble, long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she goes with it, and stumbles into a tiny, plastic-wrapped child, maybe threehad the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking -years old, unsuitably clothed and painfully thin, footin high-soles like marble and skin blue with coldheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857849</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=PoppetA Death at the Party|author=Mo HayderAmy Stuart|rating=4.5

|summary=DI Jack Caffrey has been around for a while nowFrom the first page, I just havenwe know that Nadine Walsh't previously stumbled into his deep dark worlds party will not end well. This The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the sixth in the series of books featuring the plain clothed Detective Inspector of Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Team, but you ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't need know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have read any of the others to enjoy - if enjoy is the right word - this (not quite the) latest offeringhim die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857500767</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley0008530025|title=The Dead Murder in Their Vaulted Archesthe Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Flavia de Luce is nearly twelve but she's grown up without It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the presence body of her mother who is presumed to stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have died in a mountaineering accident in Tibet when Flavia happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was just a babyobviously deliberate. The loss Twenty years later, no one has left its mark on the family: Colonel de Luce is a broken man been charged with his murder and as it was Harriet who owned 's now the family home - Buckshaw - theysubject of ''Infamous''ve lived in , a financial limbotrue-crime show. But now Harriet's body A group of experts has been found brought together to review the evidence and we join to take the investigation further. More to the family as itpoint, they's brought back re going to the village do this live on a train commissioned camera, episode by the governmentepisode. The great and There's no dump of the good are there whole box set - including Winston Churchill - but thereand no shortage of cliffhangers. It's also a mysterious death. And the man who has died whispered a warning to Flavia just before he went under the wheels of the traincompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409118193</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie0241996104|title=The Madness of JulyComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=A dead body is found in a Houses Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of Parliament broom cupboard on a hot 1970s summer daytheir murder. A sinister enough event normally but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concernsWe first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The fact the deceased has Willbarrister tells her that she's phone number in his pocket triggers received a series 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of events that not only tests his loyalty anything but will have to worklive with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, country it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and family but will take Will from the everyday political cut and thrust to his old jobpapers are making the most of it. The job he hoped he'd walked away from: spying'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Purser1529413680|title=Scandal at Six: A Lois Meade MysteryChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34

|summary=Lois Meade leads a busy life. As if running her own cleaning company isn't sufficient she can never resist doing a bit 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 Bruno''ferretin' '' when something strange happens in s there to see the village of Long Farndenshow with some friends. SheIt's so good that local police inspector Hunter Cowgill all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is only too pleased to involve her as his assistantseriously injured when he departs from the script. Mind youLuckily, it probably helps that Cowgill his doctor is very fond of Lois there and his nephew the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (also a policemanand friend of Bruno) is married to Loiswonders about his chances of survival but - as he' daughters a senior government employee, Josiethe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. This timeOne daughter lives nearby and another, local zookeeperwho lives in California, Robert Pettinson and his nephew, Justin Brookes are involved is flying in trading endangered animals and theywith some of her father'd prefer that Lois and her family kept their noses out of their businesss friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>042526176X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=James Craig|title=A Man of Sorrows: An Inspector Carlyle Novel|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Inspector John Carlyle has a lot on his plate. His attack Move on a paedophile priest left Father McGowan injured and angry and Carlyle in a vulnerable position. The fact that the Pope is due to visit ups the political pressure and brings Carlyle into conflict with his old nemesis, Christian Holyrod, the Mayor of London. Then there's the armed robbery at a very upmarket Mayfair jeweller when tens of millions of pounds worth of stock goes missing - along with one of the assistants. Normally he'd have had some support from his boss, but she's on secondment 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 ''very'' fast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100417</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Crime (Historical) Reviews]]