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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mette Ivie HarrisonB0CYV674G2|title=The Bishop's WifeSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5
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|summary=Linda WallheimIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, to most who know hercovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, seems a woman who has everythingcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. Loving mother to five beautiful children, devoted Mormon, and kindhearted wife A body at the bottom of a Mormon Bishopfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, she lives at which coincided with the centre birth of her community his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and has little 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to be unhappy aboutthe point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954760</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tammy CohenStuart Douglas|title=Dying for ChristmasLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The book starts off promisingly enough with police seem happy to assign it as an introduction by Jessicaaccidental death, but something about the narratorwhole thing bothers Lowe, who informs us that she is imprisoned by and he enlists the help of a stranger who is handsome and charming and extremely sadisticfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Jessica then recounts They travel across the events leading up to and country during her incarcerationtheir days off filming, which takes place over the Christmas period. Her jaileruncovering more possible murders and, Dominicseemingly, has prepared twelve presents for her, for a link to death during the Twelve Days of Christmas, and each present-opening episode builds up a sense of dread while providing Second World War. But is there really a deepening understanding of link between the sinister and bitter mind at work. Genuinely creepy stuff.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Otto Penzler (editor)0008517061|title=The Big Book of Christmas MysteriesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54
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|summary=Nostalgia is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a big part little uncertainty about the future of the Christmas experiencehis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and that's provided her daughter Diana, as moving in sacktogether would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-loads by grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this hefty tome of short stories. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot is the future she wants for herself and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Vic Warshawski for space putting the future on these tightly packed pages, while lesser known and long since forgotten writers furnish new and unexpected pleasures for even the most well-read of book wormsback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phillip Hunter1786482126|title=To Kill For The Janus Stone (The Killing MachineDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
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|summary=** Contains Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'To Die For'' spoilers**Ex Falkland Campaign para Joe is out for revengeapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. BrendaIt's difficult as Ruth knows, a woman he could have lovedbut Nelson doesn't, that she is murdered and Joe himself may have been pregnant with his child as a result of the one forced to kill Kid, an abused young girl he'd sworn to protectnight they spent together some three months ago. Joe Her condition will find the name behind the deaths and make sure they too suffer fatally. The only thing is, in a world of fluctuating loyalties and deceitbe obvious before long, he may not survive long enough least because Ruth is prone to carry out his ambition, even if he was the only one searching… But he's not! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185338X</amazonuk>sudden bouts of sickness.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551324|authortitle=Herve Le Corre and Frank Wynne The Devil You Know (TranslatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Talking to GhostsNeil Lancaster
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|summary=French Police Commandant Pierre VilarIt's young son Pablo went missing a while ago but unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he believes him 's prepared to be alive; tell the police where the body of a belief that has wrecked his marriagemissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Meanwhile elsewhereThis person, he promises, 13-year-old Victor comes home is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to a brutally murdered motherget an early parole date. Is there a connection between these two tragediesNot much to ask, is it? ThatThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's something even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that Vilar DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is desperate to find out, no matter kept well away from what he has to do or what it does to him's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052063</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Doiron 0008405026|title=Massacre PondA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=What is best for the great outdoors? It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Is leaving it to nature is She was never found and the most sustainable option or does hunting help investigation ground to protect the ecosystem? a halt. Each group has opposing viewpoints Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are unlikely to reach common grounddead in their bed. Initially, therefore someone is going to have to stand between it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the two positioning of them the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and make sure nothing bad happensher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Something like What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114655</amazonuk> Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri0571379877|title=The Fourth Secret (Inspector Montalbano)Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning an Albanian construction worker Edward Jevons is a working- a legal resident class young man, obsessed with a work permit his upper- fell from scaffolding class friends, Robert and was dead when his co-workers found himStanza. What struck Montalbano was that there had been rather Robert's a lot of what were described as ''tragedies in the workplace'theatre director. He' s also self- six in the last monthobsessed, in factdemanding, although he was sure that there would be statistics handsome and entitled and uses Edward to prove that this was not abnormal within the EUrun errands for him. Strictly it wasnEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't his case to deal with, but s drunkenly confided how he received an anonymous letter telling him that Pashko Puka was going feels to be killedRobert. Admittedly the letter arrived Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'after'' the death due s not like most men: Edward is left to a malfunction in stumble upon the local postal system, but it did mean that it was difficult to think two of the death as them kissing in a 'tragic accident'dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NOC5JFW</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane CaseyJo Callaghan|title=The KillLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
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|summary=I'm quite picky with crime fiction. This oversaturated market seems When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to teem with mediocre productsthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. There are thrillers It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with excellent plots that are are badly written, some that contain masterful prose but are, well..several cold cases. boring But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and others a very high profile case that are so far-fetched that I end up throwing draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the book away case in disgust. I read Jane Casey′s highly enjoyable stand-alone [[The Missing by Jane Casey|The Missing]] several years ago. ''The Kill'' was my first foray into her Maeve Kerrigan series time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and I was keen to see how it would stand up., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009194838X</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1035021803|title=UnmannedThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Unmanneds back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the title of Fesperman's latest thrillercircumstances seem suspicious, refers to say the drones, least. Arthur was the Predators, that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, from a shed somewhere in Nevada. It also refers reason why Freya had not been back to the state that those missions left Cole invillage: Arthur, she feels, after one of them went let her down badly wrong. A poor call-down led to a misidentified target, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including two kids lying out Even though they were in the open running away, and a girlbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not dead but woundedfelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Cole could see her from his thousands of miles awayAfter the split, movingshe worked in a cafe, agonising, separated by a considerable distance met and married James (on the rebound from the arm she would never use again. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long time to followlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzan Stainforth1398524085|title=The Secret LocketHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=25
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|summary=Librarian Penny Knight Charlotte Salter was surprised when she came home on day and found a jacket belonging to expected at her twin brother Joseph hanging in the hallhusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He was ''supposed'' to be in Moscow for six monthsHer children, sons Niall, working as a croupier. When she went through to the lounge he was lying on the sofa Paul and Ollie and her immediate reaction was that he was playing a trick on daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her - until she got closer and realised that there was something dreadfully wronghusband, Alec, is not. And then she saw Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the bloodriver. His last words were It was an easy assumption for the police to make that he was innocent - Duncan had murdered Charlie and that she should look for a necklace in his jacket pocket. He died before then committed suicide when he reached hospitalcouldn't stand the guilt. Penny The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and her parents were devastated - and then they realised that they were being watchedwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767854</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Holt1529900360|title=The Lion's MouthGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is the first Anne Holt novel It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that I have read Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and I am going back even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for morehis help on difficult cases. Jo Nesbo is quoted describing Holt as His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the Godmother help of modern Norwegian crime fiction' and judging a psychologist only from identikit cover design – grey mistworked for a while. Finally, lonelinessit was Robin, treacherous iceDelaware's partner, snow-encrusted gunwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, red typeface though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to hint at fresh blood – readers could be forgiven for expecting another volume an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of semi-standardised Scandinavian noir.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892282</amazonuk>them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A D Garrett178763681X|title=Believe No OneKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in St Louis, just as Nick plannedBelgravia. Fennimore and Simms have worked together in the UK when NickHe didn's wife was murdered t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and daughter kidnappedwomen to do what he wanted. In fact they were together Paul ''somehow'' got the night they first went missing having impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a less than professional dinnerbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Nick's daughter is still missing but while he follows new leads, he The teaching - and Kate have other things to work on. St Louis has a serial killer to contend with: the victims problems - are all mothers and their children are taken at the same timehis own. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to make everyone else see themturn up dead. Whether his tactics work or not remains Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be seenthe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith1529421284|title=Troubled Waters: An Alice Rice MysteryLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
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|summary=When [[The Road to Hell: An Alice Rice Mystery by Gillian Galbraith|we left]] DI Alice Rice she It was newly widowedone of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, but time has moved on a little human skeleton came to the surface and she's thinking about what forensic testing proved the body to do with her lifebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Professionally sheHe's more settled d been a known drug user and now faced with an investigation into had learning disabilities, so it could have been a body washed up on the foundations simple case of the new bridge thatmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's being built across the Fortht convinced. Establishing Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the identity suicide of the young woman is the first problem Holly Gilbert and this leads Rice back to members of a religious sect with some very strange rulestwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. And then a second body - Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that of a young man - is washed up on a beach and it's difficult not cold cases to assume that there's a connection between the twoyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529425867|title=Tight-LippedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
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|summary=It's a little bit different in the UK but in Paris intellectuals In Oxford, there are lauded in much the same way as rock starstwo D I Wilkins. Jean-Jacques Marsay Raymond Wilkins is a philosopher of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and equally as famous as his wifealways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the beautiful son of Ryan and talented actressfather of Ryan, is not. Carine DufourHe's not any of those things. Marsay is writing He's white, originated from a book about trailer park, barely educated (reading's not 'Appoghiu Terra'really' - an eco-terrorist organisation - ' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and its leader Gabriel Agostinitrackies. His editor is Virginie Desmoulins - They're usually in lime green or rather was - because Virginie was murdered at her flat in a rather unusual wayacid yellow. The case is You might wonder if you're being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin of the ''Brigade Criminelle'' and he and Agostini have introduced to a historypolice procedural written for laughs. Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin was with his previous employersWell, the French version you're not. The two men are just different sides of the security servicessame policing coin. He was moved on to Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it''Brigade Criminelle'' when it was thought that he might have become just a little too sympathetic to Agostini - and Agostini to hims problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Morris1529431735|title=The Wolves of London - The Obsidian Heart Trilogy (Book 1)Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Alex Locke has grown from It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the young petty criminal he once wasmore surprising. Now He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a psychology lecturer with wanted drug smuggler for a beautiful 5-year-old daughter he decade. The return has every incentive come about because he needs 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to stay straightlive. It would take something devastating 's hard to make him return feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his former life but devastation happensunderwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Alex is coerced into doing on last job: stealing Is it a piece of heart shaped obsidian warning from someone it didn’t belong a Spanish gang or a problem closer to in the first place. What are the consequences? What's so special about this piece of rockhome? As all hell breaks loose, Alex is about to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168660</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Williams0861541774|title=Confidentially YoursA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=Carthage was what you might call 'backwoodsDCI Domenic Jejeune' s close friend and there wasn't really all that much former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to do there. For recreationmeet up with an old ally, hunting probably came top of the list and John 'Duke' Warren went for an early morning duck shoot before going to workGuy Trueman. Whilst Maik was involved in the shoot a street brawl - he would later maintain that he heard two shots from an adjoining blind was facing a man armed with a knife - and on the way out saw the car of he killed a fellow shoot memberGhurka. It was only later Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he found out that might have planned to murder the shots had caused man. Now he could be facing the death of Dan Robertspenalty. At first it looked like suicide, but Warren Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the police realised that itwouldn's not often that suicide victims shoot themselves twicet help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649116</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=Black NoiseThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Pekka HiltunenKeith Redfern
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|summary=It was Greg Mason's just one of them quirky internet things beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to begin withthe point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Empty videos appearing on Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the internetmorning sickness. Dark expanses of time: no images, no soundGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. They Stuart'd been uploaded from hacked accounts: teenagers s concerned about his sister, Lucy, who didn't know anything about it or about each others struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. There were ten of them altogether. If it had stopped there it Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have been one of those 9killed himself -days-wonders of it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the web. death was suicide, An oddity talked about for years, freaking a few people but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out, but sinking, ultimately without much tracewhat happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843915227</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leif G W PerssonB0CK3MYJ56|title=Falling Freely, As If In A DreamResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2007 Lars Martin Johansson, It's the head of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden, was approaching retirement 1990s and he had one unsolved case which he would dearly love Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to clear: have a high-flying job in the murder city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? PalmeOn the other hand, without bodyguards, had left a cinema in central Stockholm with his wife and was walking home when he was shot in the backhas been asked to look into something. He died almost instantly Joyce and his wife suffered a minor injuryHelen are half-sisters, or rather, whilst the assassin sprinted away into the people milling around they were until Helen was killed in the citywhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. There were witnesses to the killing Joyce - and people who saw the killer as he escaped. Some time after the death a man was convicted of the murderher parents, but he Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was later cleared and more than twenty years later the identity doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of the killer is still a mysterytrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385614217</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=This Little PiggyThe Misper|author=Bea DavenportKate London|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 1984 I turned two years Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old, unconcerned by what holding the miners were up to gun and more impressed by being served two different drinks at once pointing it at my birthday partyDI Kieran Shaw. I've seen He pulled the photos. For Clare Jackson, though, trigger but due to the summer vagaries of 1984 changes everything. A small town journalist, she gets the stuff dreams are made jury system he was found not guilty of: a both the murder on her patch, and the murder manslaughter of a baby, no lessthe officer. And so lives must go on. Set against For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the backdrop of the miners’ strike (the baby belongs to one of capital and hoping for a quieter life in the scabs), it’s countryside but when a tense time missing teenager is found on the troubled Sweetmeadows estate and her territory she's not drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the only one who needs a drink or two (like my 2 year old self) to get through itorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909878618</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell1448309743|title=Race to Death The Devil Stone (DI Ian Peterson 2DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
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|summary=A man falls to his death at York races, with In the wind whistling past his ears indistinguishable from village of Cronchie on the roar West coast of the crowdScotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. But The only item missing from the home is the death suicide or murder? For newly-promoted DI Ian Peterson Devil Stone: myth says that if the pressure stone is on and his team need to solve the case quicklyremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. Unfortunately The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the killer body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is also following events as they unfoldpulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843442930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=Black ChalkThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Christopher J YatesAnn Cleeves
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|summary=I think I have finally understood why ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is that over . Jem Rosco blew into the last few yearslocal pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, authors have increasingly insisted on non-linear structures stayed for their novelsabout a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. It is Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a deliberate renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and possibly conscious ploy to try to make them un-filmableall round ''celebrity''. The Hollywood rights are certainly lucrative, but if my theory doesnI ''nearly''t leak like the Jumbliessaid ' boat then our complexall-structure-loving writers are not just being too clever for their own round goodegg' but as we'll find out, they are trying to he could be true to more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the great works of literature that they aspire to emulate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581620</amazonuk>trip?
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{{Frontpage
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|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|isbn=1787636607|title=Bitterwash RoadThe Trap|author=Gary DisherCatherine Ryan Howard
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|summary=Shots fired on Bitter Wash Road, is It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the call night bus that comes in, three weeks after he arrivedwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Hirsch is The woman all regret the only cop 'taxi problem', particularly in townthe light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, so obviously itthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's up dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to him beg the bus driver to try let her use his. There's no option but to figure out exactly where 'the tin hut' might be start walking - unsuitably clothed and discover whether this is just a local looking for rabbit stew or something more sinisterin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079243</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Harvey1405957174|title=Darkness, Darkness: Resnick's Last CaseA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54
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|summary=It's difficult to believe From the first page, we know that itNadine Walsh's thirty years since the miners' strike, party will not least because a lot of the enmities still live onend well. It wasn't so much that it was the miners against the government and the police as the fact that it was neighbour against neighbour The victim - and sometimes the problem was within a family. The Nottinghamshire miners were less militant than some of their northern counterparts man - is dying when we first meet him and many continued Nadine consciously makes no effort to work. And call the ambulance he so it was in Bledwell Valedesperately needs. The pit there was just about played out and was scheduled for closure, so many men were continuing What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to work, despite the picketinghave him die. Six months after the end of the strike the pit did close, but there was no magic solution for Bledwell Vale and thirty years on another row of the old Coal Board houses was being demolished when the skeleton of I'd better give you a woman was discoveredlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590956</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Help for Murder in the HauntedFamily|author=John SearlesCara Hunter|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Rose It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Sylvester Mason make found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their living from helping West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the hauntedvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, performing exorcisms no one has been charged with his murder and running seminars across America on it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the paranormalinvestigation further. When More to the point, they are murdered in a church're going to do this live on camera, their daughters, Rose episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy their work has left behindno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Criminal EnterpriseComing to Find You|author=Owen LaukkanenJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=We all have bills to pay Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and many her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of us have felt that shiver down our spine as we realise we may be their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a little short this monthlife sentence. What we don’t do is take The barrister tells her that she's received a scribbled note saying you 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have a gun into a bank and force money out to live with what happened for the rest of the tillher life. For one out 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-work accountant, Carter Tomlin, this it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is the option he chooses over bankruptcy and one crime leads to another. Will spiky FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere favourite epithet and laidback local cop Kirk ''rich bitch'' might not be able to catch this white collar criminal before his cuffs become stained with blood?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393684</amazonuk>printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1529413680|title=RememberA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, RememberChief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=Detective Constable Nina Foster has just returned to work after after a stabbing which nearly killed her. Everyone One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re- even Nina - thinks that sheenactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's going there to be taking it gently and easing herself back into see the jobshow with some friends. She's working on cold cases - this time itIt's a train crash which happened in 1964 - all been very carefully choreographed but what she's given goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is just a little ''tame'' compared to seriously injured when he departs from the cases which her colleagues are struggling to cope withscript. Drugs deaths Luckily, his doctor is there and robberies are the man is whisked away in a lot more immediate, but then - with one helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of those peculiar quirks Bruno) wonders about his chances of fate survival but - evidence emerges which links as he's a senior government employee, the crash which happened half a century ago to man who runs Frenchelon - the current spate of drug deathsmilitary has stepped in. The woman One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is supposed to be taking it easy is back flying in the thick with some of ither father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434392</amazonuk>
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