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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp SendkerB0CYV674G2|title= Whispering Shadows|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Paul Leibovitz was a journalist. That was before. Before he had a small child, who did not survive as long as he should have. Before the end of the marriage that did not survive the loss of a child. Now Leibovitz himself, merely survives. He lives in a kind of self-imposed exile on Lamma, third largest of the Hong Kong islands, a place of greenery and solitude.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Roger Silverwood|title=Angel and the ActressDavid Blake|rating=3.5
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|summary=Joan MinterIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, awardcovered in mud and blood -winning actressand carrying a knife, was murdered in front comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a gathering of her closest friends, but no one saw who did it freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - or could possibly have he's been the one who did itstabbed to death. Inspector Angel and DCI John Tanner is just back from his team of detectives were called out to her homehoneymoon, at which coincided with the foot birth of the Pennines, in Bromersley. Angel was going to be kept busy though. A young man was found murdered in his homedaughter Samantha. His wife hadnYou would think he't expected him to d be there - grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and nor could she explain the new vacuum cleaner which had appeared since she left 'John Tanner' were made for work that morning, or the fact that the fridge door was wide openeach other. Then thereHe's sleep-deprived to the theft point of a handbag, which leads to a familyfalling asleep at work but he's two cars being stolen. And just determined to top it off, Angelkeep going - probably because he can's wife is away visiting her sistert get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719816157</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John PiperStuart Douglas|title=Hibernia Unanimis: "Pro Deo, Rege et Patricia, Hibernia Unanimis" (For God, King Lowe and Country, Ireland is United)Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary= Benedict Plunkett calls a meeting During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a small but select and distinguished group woman on the edge of Irish and US politicians, clergy and business men to whom he explains his plans for Hibernia Unanimis – a united Irelandreservoir. It will be raised up by and for the Irish in response The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the new UKIP government in London. Before the great whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the good leave Benedict's mansion they are asked to sign contracts if they want to be part help of his future. Some signa fellow actor, some don't but all think he's deluded and nothing will come of itJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Then They travel across the accident happens country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and everyone takes Benedict a little more seriously as, in timeseemingly, will a link to death during the English governmentSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00YGUSPOS</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Castle0008517061|title=Ultimate StormDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=As if it wasn’t complicated enough trying to figure out what was real and what wasn’t when reading [[Raging Heat (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6) by Richard Castle]] now I find myself reading another story written by this fictional television character that made him a bestselling authorFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. I do wonder, reading these, who There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the real writer (or writers) behind Richard Castle must be! Anywayfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, this time we’re with Castle’s fictional character (a fictional character’s fictional character!) Derrick StormLivia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a PI turned CIA agent, though lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this book he’s being called back into service after disappearing into early retirement is the future she wants for herself and officially being ‘dead’. her daughter? This book is actually a collection of 3 Storm stories, but they are all related For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and part of putting the future on the same overall arcback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783291869</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hakan Nesser1786482126|title=The Summer of Kim NovakJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Erik knew that Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the summer of 1962 site was going to be hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a bad onedoorway. His mother was seriously ill and there There was no hiding that she was likely to dieskull. SoWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Erik and his friend Edmund planned to spend their holiday, accompanied by ErikDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's elder brother Henrydifficult as Ruth knows, at the lake-side cottage. Both boys dreamed of their supply teacherbut Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as fourteen-year-old boys are wont to do, particularly when she's the spitting image a result of the actress Kim Novakone night they spent together some three months ago. But it wasn't just Erik's mother's health which was going Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to ruin the summer: The Terrible Thing was going to happen toosudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crompton0008551324|title=BunderlinThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As a child Martin had been fascinated 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 entranced by his neighbour Mrs Bundyhe's household menagerieprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Her son Peter was there too but on This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the periphery; Martin was just there police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to visit serve the animalsremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. In adulthood their paths cross again but this time Peter Bunderlin (as he's now known) isnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so easy to avoid – and Martinshe's tried! Perhaps if Martin could understand what even prepared to do the heck Peter other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is up to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>kept well away from what's happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero0008405026|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=It''Oh, such things just HAPPEN s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to that pair, Sira halt.'' The pair referred toNow, of courseher mother, are Modesty Blaise, sexy femme fatale with a head full of morals and a pair of legs full of kicking powerHelena, and Willy Garvin, the only man to call her ''Princess'' and get away with it – intelligent, practical and yet equally resilient father are dead in a fight with a baddytheir bed. The things that happen to them are legionInitially, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this is one of it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the better examples positioning of the current collections of the latterbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Where else can you get movie stunts What looked as though it was going wrong, pregnant women in danger on the high seas, to be an open-and people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all in shut case is now a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that smacks of pastiche and vintage ribaldry, were it not from the heady days of the mid-explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Wilson0571379877|title=The Wrong GirlKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Phoebe Piper went missing on Edward Jevons is a family holiday in 2006 when she was just three years old working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and no trace of her has ever been foundStanza. There was Robert's a lot of publicity at the time and there still is some - particularly those computer-generated pictures which show what Phoebe would probably look nowtheatre director. The He'now' is seven years on s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and tenuses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -year-old Molly Jackson is convinced that and he''she'' is Phoebe Piper: she seems s drunkenly confided how he feels to have the proofRobert. Life isnMost men in Robert't going well for her at the moment: shes position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's recently been uprooted from the life - and friends - she knew in London and not like most men: Edward is living in a Norfolk village, in left to stumble upon the home two of her great uncle Dan. Only, she's just found Dan dead them kissing in beda dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laurie R King and Leslie Klinger (editors)Jo Callaghan|title=In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes CanonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fans 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 sidekick, the television series AI detective Lock. It''Castle'' will come to this book ready-prepared for what’s going ons their first live case together, but for those unaware, in the series having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a character called Richard Castle who second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is an author. He observes suddenly struggling with a homicide detective, Kate Beckett, in her work potential serial killer and then writes a novel, ''Heat Wave'', based on her character, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and his own to Jameson Rook. After the book was written (in the television series) it was actually published in real life. Being very high profile case that draws a fan lot of ''Castle'' I immediately bought it and read itunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. To Will they be honest, I found that able to solve the concept messed with my head too much! I kept thinking about who was whocase in time, within or will Kat find herself taken off the book, translating Nikki’s name to Kate’s, case and Rook’s to Castle, and it all became very confusing because even though Kate and Castle are 'real' they arepotentially, out of course, fictional characters too! I didn’t read any more Nikki Heat books after that first one, until this one. It’s been a little while since I watched the TV series, and somehow coming at it fresh made a big difference and I thoroughly enjoyed it!career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295333</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1035021803|title= Half the World Away|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends the year after University travelling, and visits China – working as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her estranged parents follow her adventures on her blog, “Lori in the Orient”. When all communication stops and silence persists, the parents report her missing, and learning that there is little they can do from Manchester, set out The Antique Hunter's Guide to China in order to search for their daughter. Flying to Chengdu, they have no knowledge of the country, customs or language, and are forced to turn detective in order to save their daughter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMurder|author=Tony Parsons|title=The Slaughter ManC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= This is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the second novel by Tony ParsonsEnglish country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, which features DC Max WolfeCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, single parent to daughter ScoutArthur Crockleford, who first appeared inis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, ''The Murder Bag''to say the least. This book is, without a doubt, a huge step up from Arthur was the first in reason why Freya had not been back to the series – an extremely fast pacedvillage: Arthur, exciting crime novelshe feels, with a gripping plot and twisted characterslet her down badly. There is no guessing which turn the story will take Even though they were in business together as every page throws in another plot twist; it’s impossible antique hunters, she has not felt able to figure out who be near the man or pursue the killer isprofession she loved. On New Year’s Eve After the split, she worked in a rich, well established family living in Highgatecafe, London are brutally murdered met and married James (on the four-year-old son has been abducted. Now it is up to Max to track down rebound from the child and figure out love of her life, who was behind the murdersmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892357</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Mackintosh1398524085|title= I Let You GoHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= A hit Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and runher daughter, Etty. A young boy killedare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. A family devastated. How can a mother ever recover from seeing her child killed right in front Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of her? When there are no leadsGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, how can in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police know where to look to bring someone to justice?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554154</amazonuk>make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. 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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham1529900360|title=The Crime at Black DudleyGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Black Dudley was unprepossessing from the outside, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but imposinghe felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, if rather uncared Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on the insidedifficult cases. It was isolated in dreary landscape His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the location help of a psychologist only worked for a house party which George Abbershaw while. Finally, it was attendingRobin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. He hadn't particularly wanted to go and She knew that the involvement was convinced of the necessity only by the fact something that the woman he man she loved would be needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a part of the partyremote property in Bel Air. The host He was the heir to an invalid but apparently determined that his guests should enjoy themselves Italian shoe empire and was happy she is married to have them re-enact the ritual of an extremely rich man and it's not the Black Dudley DaggerItalian. All the candles were extinguished and the dagger was passed amongst the guests: the atmosphere But which of them was sinister but the game seemed harmless enough, except that they would shortly discover that their host was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593491</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Donoghue178763681X|title=No Place to DieKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= It starts with Chef Paul Delamare took a nightmareteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Maggie Hungerford wakes out He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of onegetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Into another. She is awakePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but this isnit didn't her bedturn out that way. This is The teaching - and the kind of place noproblems -are all his own. The one should ever wake thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn updead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447239342</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1529421284|title=As Chimney Sweepers Come To DustLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Flavia de Luce has left BuckshawIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the family home where she has lived all her life surface and has gone forensic testing proved the body to school in Canada (actuallybe Lee Geary, 'was sent' is more accurate - the decision was none of Flavia's making and she felt that shewho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been banished). On the trip over she was accompanied by Dr Rainsmith a known drug user and his wifehad learning disabilities, who were associated with Miss Bodycoteso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's Female Academy, the school which Flavia would be attendingt convinced. In factGeary was a townie, they delivered her there with scant ceremony late so what was he doing out on the night they arrived. Salisbury Plain alone? Flavia would have settled down There are connections to sleep, but first she was attacked by another pupil the suicide of Holly Gilbert and then a dead body fell down to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the chimneytime. She already felt quite at home..Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409149439</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Owen Laukkanen1529425867|title=The Stolen OnesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=By book four in 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 series of those things start to go one . He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of two ways; stagnation shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or consolidationacid yellow. Are these going You might wonder if you're being introduced to be a collection police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of books that slowly become the same story over policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and over againEssex is bitingly cold, or will which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the author distil what made more surprising. He'd been exiled on the first books so good and build upon them Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a strongerdecade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, richer saying that she's ill and varied series? hasn't long to live. Looking at the score for ‘‘Stolen Ones’’, it would appear that the future It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is brightabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the future is Owen Laukkanenboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178239639X</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler0861541774|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a new set of overlordsshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. For reasons Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that were explored in the previous couple he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of outings they manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have been transferred planned to murder the City Of London Policeman. The Met are still Now he could be facing the big players in the areadeath penalty. City of London Police only Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police the old city, the square mile, the financial district in other words, that has very little in the way of street crime, because no-one lives there anymore and the people who work there are, by force could provoke a diplomatic incident and large, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have to do so on the streetswouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen King1521129886|title=Mr MercedesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bill Hodges is 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 retired cop, spiralling down into good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a seemingly inescapable depressionbaby and they're both delighted. Stuck at home each day watching dreadful American daytime TV, toying with Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the idea of shooting 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, it who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is only with the sudden arrival of a letter claiming to be from someone who committed an unsolved multiple murdernot thriving. Lucy, one of Hodges’ old caseshe says, is convinced that he finds a new interest Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in staying alivehis nature. Is this actually The police and the coroner have accepted that the murderer? death was suicide, Why is he crawling but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out of what happened on the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788647</amazonuk>night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley ThomsonB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Detective's SecretResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two It'hurricaness the 1990s and Greg Mason' link this storys twenty-eight years old. There was He used to have a high-flying job in the one in October 1987 which city but it wasn't going to happen, but did and satisfying so he's now set himself up as it happened a man lay dyingprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', locked inside an old water tower in west Londonyou might be thinking. He had no identificationNice bloke, no one of his description was registered as missing and but where's the body was never claimed. life experience that backs up this profession? When On the body was discovered there was a singleother hand, black glove on his backhe has been asked to look into something. In October 2103 there Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was the St Judekilled in what's stormbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Late one night on the Piccadilly line Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a man seemed to jump beneath an oncoming train. Jack Harmon saw what happened and was sure that it was suicide, but the manGreg's brother was convinced that it was murderbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857709</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Carson1838954481|title=Orkney TwilightThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=18Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old Sam Coyle's dad Jim is an undercover policeman. When he suggests that they take a trip to Orkney, somewhere they've enjoyed holidays in holding the past, Sam doesn't have to think about gun and pointing it, especially as she can take a friendat DI Kieran Shaw. However for Jim it seems He pulled the trigger but due to be a working holiday, leaving Sam the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and her journalist student companion Tom to their own devicesthe manslaughter of the officer. Eventually they realise the same person is cropping up again and again, as if stalking themAnd so lives must go on. Who is For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the watcher capital and what does he want? Until now hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her fatherterritory she's doom drawn into a wider investigation - and gloom speeches have seemed a million miles from Sam's experience but now..back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784080942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna Leon1448309743|title=Falling in LoveThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Flavia PetrelliIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, who will be remembered by regular readers five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the Commissario Guido Brunetti series as one of home is the suspects in Devil Stone: myth says that if the first casestone is removed from Otterburn House, ''Death at La Fenice'', has returned to Venice to sing the lead in ''Tosca''death will follow. But this time itThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's Petrelli who feels an easy conclusion given that she is a victim and for the strangest two of reasons: shethem 'discovered's being inundated with giftsthe body. It began in other cities - the yellow roses thrown The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in abundance, on to the stage, but this time there are even more roses. Her dressing room is filled with them and there's even a massive bouquet inside the locked apartment building where she's staying. It was Brunetti who proved her innocence the last time and itshadow's to him that she turns with this latest problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023582</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=D A Mishani Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about 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. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and Todd Hasakall round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-Lowy (Translator)round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=A Possibility of Violence: An Inspector Avraham Avraham Novel (Inspector Avraham 2)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Someone leaves ''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 bomb outside a childrengold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's nursery mother is the latest woman in Tel Avivthe area to have vanished without trace. This time It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but itquickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a fakescene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Next time? Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Police Inspector Avraham Avraham wants Some are lucky and manage to find get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the bomber before next time night bus that will only go as far as then it may not be pretenceone of the outlying villages. Meanwhile Chaim Sara has a special interest The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the bomb as light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the 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 dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his two sons attends the nursery. But is that the only reason heThere's interested?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780876556</amazonuk>no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Dugdall1405957174|title=Humber Boy BA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh've all read s party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the stories in the papers: children who kill, particularly children who kill childrenambulance he so desperately needs. We What we don've always wondered what went through their minds as they did itt know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. We I've also wondered about d better give you a little more background so that you can understand what happens to them once they're no longer children, when they've grown up in prison and are then deemed fit to be freed back into real lifes happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910394599</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Torquil MacLeod0008530025|title=Meet Me In MalmoMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=British journalist Ewan Strachan It was invited to Malmo in Sweden to interview film director Mick RoslynDecember 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. TheyHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd been friends at University slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had drifted aparttaken was obviously deliberate. Strachan was holding on to Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his job in journalism by murder and it's now the skin subject of his teeth''Infamous'', but Roslyn had made it big time in Sweden a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and was married to Malin Lovgren, take the glamorous star of his latest filminvestigation further. It hadn More to the point, they't been easy re going to persuade his editor to fund the tripdo this live on camera, but when Strachan found himself at the door of Roslynepisode by episode. There's home at no dump of the appointed time there seemed to be whole box set - and no one thereshortage of cliffhangers. When he tried the door he walked in only to find Lovgren dead on the floorIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085716113X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Beard0241996104|title=Acts of the AssassinsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The rebellious cult leader is executed so thatNancy's thatmother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Then someone steals We first meet Nancy outside the bodycourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The police appoint Cassius Gallio to investigate barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but it all goes terribly wrong. He not only fails will have to find live with what happened for the body, the police informant from the initial conviction is killed in a way that mimics suiciderest of her life. GallioOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's career and life both stall until the case is secretly rerich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -opened and he's deemed the man for papers are making the investigation as he's already comparatively invisiblemost of it. It seems straightforward in that Gallio must uncover the truth but the people he needs to speak to are being culled ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one by one by the most innovative favourite epithet and bloodthirsty means''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Thomas1529413680|title=Fallout A Chateau Under Siege (Tito IhakaA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= Maori Tito Ihaka may be disrespectful, brash and One of the sort main events of police sergeant who ploughs his own furrow but he gets results. He therefore seems the ideal investigating officer when Sarlat tourist season is the cold case re-enactment of a murder at the party liberation of a political high flier is reopenedthe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. However heIt's also given time to investigate something more personal: his fatherall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, union activist Jimmy IhakaKerquelin, may not have died through natural causes after allthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524499</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jamie Kornegay|title=Soil|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jay Mize Luckily, his doctor is a scientific there and the man with is whisked away in a particular interest in soil and agriculturehelicopter. He decides he is the one to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques A local doctor (and uproots friend of Bruno) wonders about his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on chances of survival but - as he's a plot of land senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in the country. Jay is also an obsessive man One daughter lives nearby and his plans take overanother, who lives in California, becoming his only focus and causing his family to leave him. Then flooding ruins his crops and he is left at the end flying in with some of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds her father's friends for a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is releasedpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>
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