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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John ConnollyB0CYV674G2|title=The Wolf in Winter Swanton Morley (Charlie Parker ThrillerJohn Tanner)|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum he's befriended and worked with in the past, is found hanged in a basement. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship and has just raised over $100 to help find her. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an even odder prospect when Annie herself goes missing after heading for the small Maine town of Prosperous. Charlie decides to drop in on the good citizens of the small town and starts poking beneath the respectable veneer. It doesn’t take him long but there is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charlie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Ellis|title=The Death Season (Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson)David Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=When Wesley Peterson was called to investigate the death of a It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man , covered in mud and blood - and carrying a hotel room he thought that it was going to be straightforwardknife, but then there were comes into the credit cards - in different names - and there wasnpolice station shouting that he hasn't a mobile phonekilled the man. He felt guilty about A body at the little time bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'd s been able stabbed to spend death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with his family (and about the fact that he was ever so slightly attracted to one birth of his colleaguesdaughter Samantha...) You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the job had to come first words 'perverse' and it wasn't long before John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he realised that there was a complex history 's determined to the dead man and that keep going - probably because he was almost certainly a murderercan't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham FulbrightStuart Douglas|title=The Man With A Charmed Life Lowe and his part in saving Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the planet from WWIIIDress Rehearsal
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by the Common Market (which would become the European Union in 1993) in Brussels and heDuring location filming for his 1970's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'should'' be an interpreter but he seems to be restricted to more administrative duties, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. He could refuse the offer he getsThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the chance to actually use his expertise in Russianwhole thing bothers Lowe, move across to and he enlists the USA and make help of a point fellow actor, John Le Breton to his employers is just too temptinghelp him investigate matters further. He's also rather taken by Alexy Geary, They travel across the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency who makes the offercountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and it's not long before he's on his way, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. Before he does he's peripherally involved in But is there really a shooting - and that's not something which usually happens link between the deaths? And will they manage to someone like him.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc0008517061|title=Forty Days Without Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from a museum in Kautokeino, a small, isolated village Death in the middle of the snowy tundra, tensions begin to rise between the residents. Local detective Klemet Nango and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon to investigate the disappearance, whereupon they discover a second crime: a local reindeer herder has been brutally murdered. Nina soon suspects that the two events are linked, and, together with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full of secrets, mystery and brutality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLonely Place|author=Donato Carrisi|title=The Vanished Ones|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Room 13 in the basement of the state morgue is where the sleepers are kept. These are the unclaimed bodies that have been classified as PHVs. Potential Homicide Victims. They are kept indefinitely, because they are evidence that a crime has been committed, possibly the only evidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Robinson|title=Abattoir BluesStig Abell
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|summary=When DCI Banks returned from a weekend away in Italy the theft of a tractor (even if it was a very expensive tractor) didn't seem all that importantFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It was difficult to be enthusiastic There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about what seemed to be simple case the future of rural crime. Then an ex-soldier walking his dog discovered what looked like life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a pool lot of blood compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in an abandoned warehouse with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the two young men who seemed to be moment they’re enjoying life in the prime suspects for present and putting the theft of future on the tractor both disappeared without trace. Suddenly 'another rural crime' began to take a very much more sinister turnback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1786482126|title=No Known Grave The Janus Stone (A Detective Inspector Tom Tyler MysteryDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|summary=By Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the middle site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of 1942 Detective Inspector Tom Tyler has had a difficult two years and he's making child beneath a fresh start in Ludlowdoorway. St Anne's Convalescent Hospital is on the outskirts of the town and it's staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns and they're there specifically to help people who have been maimed and injured by the warThere was no skull. It should be Was this a peaceful place of recovery but then a double ritual killing or murder in the grounds of the home shatters all that has been so carefully built up? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Many of the patients are blind or unable to walk and most are suffering from what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder - It's difficult as Ruth knows, but it seems Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as though one a result of the patients must one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be a murderer as this obvious before long, not least because Ruth is almost a classic 'locked room' mysteryprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116858X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina James0008551324|title=Sausage HallThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|summary=Kevan de Vries, food processing magnate It's 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 grandson he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a Dutch immigrant to Lincolnshire, missing person is trying to help his terminally ill wife Joanne relax on an exotic holidayburied and who was responsible for her death. Unfortunately This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the news police doing what he receives from home is less than relaxing: a random break-in committed by local opportunistic youths has uncovered a batch of counterfeit passportswants. Kevan travels back And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the UK remainder of his sentence and to answer questions but it gets worse. Skeletal remains are found in his cellar followed by a discovery elsewhere of get an all too fresh employee's dead bodyearly parole date. This Not much to ask, is bread it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and butter she's even prepared to DI Tim Yates of do the Lincolnshire Constabulary but it's another complication in Kevanother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's all too complicated lifehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773827</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley0008405026|title=Sins of A Stranger in the FatherFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rupert Moncrieff It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was beaten never found and the investigation ground to death in his waterside home early one Sunday morning in December 2013a halt. All his money had not saved him from his throat being cut Now, her mother, Helena, and his face slashed and hoodedher father are dead in their bed. One of his sons and his daughter still lived with himInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but during there's something about the past week an African had been staying with positioning of the familybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Strangely no one knew his name, but when the body What looked as though it was discovered the man had disappearedgoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. DS Jimmy Suttle Kerrigan is investigating the case but like convinced that the family explanation lies in the waterside mansion he has demons of his own to fight after the abduction and death of his daughter Grace and subsequent separation from his journalist wifeRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, LizzieUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409153371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke0571379877|title=The Cinderella MurderKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary='Under Suspicion' Edward Jevons is a TV show that aims to shed light on cold cases by reworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-enacting the crime class friends, Robert and interviewing those closest to the victimStanza. The pilot episode was Robert's a runaway success when it led to the successful apprehension of the murderer and now producer Laurie Moran has been given the green light to continue the seriestheatre director. Her curiosity is piqued by a 20 year old case dubbed the 'Cinderella Murder He's also self-obsessed, in which a bright young UCLA student was found dead in parklanddemanding, miles from her car handsome and entitled and wearing only one shoeuses Edward to run errands for him. The investigation will take Laurie Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and her team he's drunkenly confided how he feels to some of the most glamorous locations Robert. Most men in California, Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but it soon becomes clear that certain individuals will do anything he's not like most men: Edward is left to stop stumble upon the truth from being revealedtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147113847X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mette Ivie HarrisonJo Callaghan|title=The Bishop's WifeLeave No Trace|rating=34
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|summary=Linda WallheimWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to most who know the case alongside hersidekick, seems a woman who has everythingthe AI detective Lock. Loving mother to five beautiful children It's their first live case together, devoted Mormonhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and kindhearted wife a very high profile case that draws a lot of a Mormon Bishopunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, she lives at or will Kat find herself taken off the centre case and, potentially, out of her community and has little to be unhappy about.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616954760</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammy Cohen1035021803|title=Dying for ChristmasThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=The book starts off promisingly enough with an introduction by Jessica, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the narrator, who informs us that English country village where she is imprisoned by grew up. She's back now because of a stranger who request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is handsome dead and charming and extremely sadisticthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Jessica then recounts Arthur was the events leading up reason why Freya had not been back to and during the village: Arthur, she feels, let her incarcerationdown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, which takes place over she has not felt able to be near the Christmas periodman or pursue the profession she loved. Her jailer After the split, Dominicshe worked in a cafe, has prepared twelve presents for her, for met and married James (on the rebound from the Twelve Days love of Christmasher life, who was murdered) and each present-opening episode builds up a sense of dread while providing a deepening understanding of the sinister Freya and bitter mind at work. Genuinely creepy stuffJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Otto Penzler (editor)1398524085|title=The Big Book of Christmas MysteriesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|summary=Nostalgia 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 a big part not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Christmas experience, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and thatwonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's provided in sackfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-loads by this hefty tome shut cases which didn't need the help of short storiesa psychologist only worked for a while. Sherlock Holmes Finally, it was Robin, Hercule Poirot and Brother Cadfael jostle MorseDelaware's partner, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski who nudged Milo into asking for space on these tightly packed pageshelp again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, while lesser known 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 long since forgotten writers furnish new she is married to an extremely rich man and unexpected pleasures for even it's not the most well-read Italian. But which of book worms.them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1784082252</amazonuk>Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phillip Hunter1529421284|title=To Kill For (The Killing Machine)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
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|summary=** Contains ''To Die For'' spoilers**Ex Falkland Campaign para Joe is out for revengeIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. BrendaIn a gully, a woman he could have loved, is murdered human skeleton came to the surface and Joe himself may have been forensic testing proved the one forced body to kill Kidbe Lee Geary, an abused young girl hewho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd sworn to protectbeen a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Joe will find Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the name behind suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the deaths and make sure they too suffer fatallytime. The only thing is, in a world Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of fluctuating loyalties and deceit, he may not survive long enough to carry out his ambition, even if he was the only one searching… But heMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's not! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185338X</amazonuk>cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|authortitle=Herve Le Corre Lost and Frank Wynne Never Found (TranslatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Talking to GhostsSimon Mason
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|summary=French Police Commandant Pierre VilarIn 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 young son Pablo went missing white, originated from a while ago but he believes him trailer park, barely educated (reading's 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 be alive; a belief that has wrecked his marriagepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Meanwhile elsewhereSometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, 13-year-old Victor comes home to which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a brutally murdered motherdecade. Is there The return has come about because he's had a connection between these two tragedies? letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. ThatIt's something that Vilar hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is desperate abducted, stripped to find out, no matter what he has his underwear and sent to do a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or what it does a problem closer to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052063</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Doiron 0861541774|title=Massacre PondA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|summary=What is best for the great outdoors? Is leaving it DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to nature is the most sustainable option or does hunting help to protect the ecosystem? meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Each group has opposing viewpoints Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and are unlikely to reach common groundhe killed a Ghurka. Initially, therefore someone is going he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to stand between murder the man. Now he could be facing the two of them and make sure nothing bad happensdeath penalty. Something like murderDomenic 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>1472114655</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1521129886|title=The Fourth Secret They Had It Coming (Inspector MontalbanoGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54
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|summary=Early one morning Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an Albanian construction worker - investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a legal resident with good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a work permit - fell from scaffolding baby and was dead they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when his coshe gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-workers found himlaw appears to have killed himself. What struck Montalbano was that there had been rather a lot of what were described as Stuart''tragedies in the workplace'' - six in the last months concerned about his sister, in factLucy, although he was sure that there would be statistics who's struggling to prove that this was make ends meet and her son is not abnormal within the EUthriving. Strictly Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his case to deal with, but he received an anonymous letter telling him that Pashko Puka was going to be killednature. Admittedly The police and the letter arrived ''after'' coroner have accepted that the death due to a malfunction in the local postal systemwas suicide, but it did mean that it was difficult Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to think of find out what happened on the death as a 'tragic accident'night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NOC5JFW</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane CaseyB0CK3MYJ56|title=The KillResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
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|summary=IIt'm quite picky with crime fictions the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. This oversaturated market seems He used to teem with mediocre productshave a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. There are thrillers with excellent plots that are are badly written'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, some but where's the life experience that contain masterful prose but arebacks up this profession? On the other hand, well..he has been asked to look into something. boring, Joyce and others that Helen are so farhalf-fetched that I end up throwing the book away sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in disgustwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. I read Jane Casey′s highly enjoyable stand Joyce -alone [[The Missing by Jane Casey|The Missing]] several years ago. ''The Kill'' was my first foray into and her Maeve Kerrigan series parents, Oliver and I Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was keen doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to see how it would stand upinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194838X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1838954481|title=UnmannedThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Unmanned'', the title of FespermanRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's latest thriller, refers to no doubt about that. He was the drones, fifteen-year-old holding the Predators, that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, from a shed somewhere in Nevadagun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It also refers He pulled the trigger but due to the state that those missions left Cole in, after one vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of them went badly wrongthe officer. And so lives must go on. A poor call-down led to For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a misidentified target, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including two kids lying out quieter life in the open running away, and countryside but when a girl, not dead but wounded. Cole could see missing teenager is found on her from his thousands of miles away, moving, agonising, separated by territory she's drawn into a considerable distance from wider investigation - and back into the arm she would never use again. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long time to followorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzan Stainforth1448309743|title=The Secret LocketDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=24
|genre=Crime
|summary=Librarian Penny Knight was surprised when she came home In the village of Cronchie on day and found a jacket belonging to her twin brother Joseph hanging in the hall. He was ''supposed'' to be in Moscow for six monthsWest coast of Scotland, working as five members of a croupierwealthy family are found murdered. When she went through to The only item missing from the lounge he was lying on home is the sofa and her immediate reaction was that he was playing a trick on her - until she got closer and realised Devil Stone: myth says that there was something dreadfully wrong. And then she saw if the bloodstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. His last words were The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that he was innocent - and 's an easy conclusion given that she should look for a necklace in his jacket pockettwo of them 'discovered' the body. He died before The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he reached hospital. Penny and her parents were devastated - and then they realised that they were being watcheddisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767854</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Holt1529077699|title=The Lion's MouthRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
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|summary=This ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is . Jem Rosco blew into the first Anne Holt novel that I have read and I am going back for more. Jo Nesbo is quoted describing Holt as 'local pub one evening in the Godmother middle of modern Norwegian crime fiction' an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and judging only from identikit cover design – grey mistdead, lonelinessin a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, treacherous icein Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, snowround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-encrusted gunround good egg' but as we'll find out, red typeface to hint at fresh blood – readers he could be forgiven more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for expecting another volume of semi-standardised Scandinavian noir.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892282</amazonuk>his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A D Garrett1529427045|title=Believe No OneThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons in St Louis, just as Nick planned. Fennimore and Simms have worked together in the UK when Nick's wife was murdered and daughter kidnapped. In fact they were together the night they first went missing having a less than professional dinner. Nick's daughter is still missing but while he follows new leads, he and Kate have other things to work on. St Louis Life has a serial killer more to contend with: the victims are all mothers and their children are taken at the same timeoffer than people - prime numbers for example''. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try to make everyone else see them. Whether his tactics work or not remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1787636607|title=Tight-LippedThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a little bit different scene replicated all too often in the UK but in Paris intellectuals are lauded in much early hours of the same morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way as rock starsto get home. Jean-Jacques Marsay is a philosopher Some are lucky and equally manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as famous far as his wife, one of the beautiful and talented actress, Carine Dufouroutlying villages. Marsay is writing a book about The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'Appoghiu Terra, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' - an eco-terrorist organisation - and its leader Gabriel Agostini. His editor is Virginie Desmoulins - or rather was - because Virginie was murdered at For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her flat in a rather unusual long wayshort of her home. The case is being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin of the She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone''Brigade Criminelle'' and he and Agostini have a historys dead. Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin was with his previous employers, The bus had driven off before she had the French version of chance to beg the security servicesbus driver to let her use his. He was moved on to the There''Brigade Criminelle'' when it was thought that he might have become just a little too sympathetic s no option but to Agostini start walking - unsuitably clothed and Agostini to himin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Morris1405957174|title=The Wolves of London - The Obsidian Heart Trilogy (Book 1)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Alex Locke has grown from From the young petty criminal he once wasfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Now The victim - a psychology lecturer with a beautiful 5man -year-old daughter he has every incentive is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs to stay straight. It would take something devastating What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to make have him return to his former life but devastation happensdie. Alex is coerced into doing on last job: stealing I'd better give you a piece of heart shaped obsidian from someone it didn’t belong to in the first place. What are the consequences? Whatlittle more background so that you can understand what's so special about this piece of rock? As all hell breaks loose, Alex is about to find outhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168660</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Williams0008530025|title=Confidentially YoursMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
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|summary=Carthage It was what you might call 'backwoods' in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and there wasnfound the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't really all that much to do thered slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. For recreationTwenty years later, hunting probably came top no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of the list and John 'Duke' Warren went for an early morning duck shoot before going to workInfamous'', a true-crime show. Whilst in A group of experts has been brought together to review the shoot he heard two shots from an adjoining blind evidence and on to take the way out saw investigation further. More to the car of a fellow shoot memberpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. It was only later that he found out that There's no dump of the shots had caused the death whole box set - and no shortage of Dan Robertscliffhangers. At first it looked like suicide, but Warren and the police realised that itIt's not often that suicide victims shoot themselves twicecompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649116</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane 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=Black NoiseA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Pekka HiltunenMartin Walker
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|summary=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's there to see the show with some friends. It was just 's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of them quirky internet things to begin withthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Empty videos appearing on Luckily, his doctor is there and the internetman is whisked away in a helicopter. Dark expanses A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of time: no imagessurvival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, no soundis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.}}