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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed McBainB0CYV674G2|title=So Nude, So DeadSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=What's It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a name? A lot if you decide to call your book ''So Nudeknife, So Deadcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. This DCI John Tanner is a title to conjure just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with, what on Earth is it about? As this is a the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'and 'Hard CaseJohn Tanner'were made for each other. He' title it is likely to be hardboiled and not adverse s sleep-deprived to a little violence and titillation. However, consider that the book was once call point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can'The Evil Sleep!'' and has since been renamed; is this more a case of the title selling the book rather than accurately portraying its content?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166064</amazonuk>t get any sleep at home.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George MannStuart Douglas|title= Affinity BridgeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=LondonDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', 1901: airships and automata herald a shining future in a city leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of steam-powered road trains and carriages. Queen Victoria is still alive (after a fashion) and one of her trusted Crown Agents has his work cut out investigating some decidedly odd goings-woman on in the capital alongside edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the chaps at Scotland Yard. Revenant corpses whole thing bothers Lowe, and vengefulhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, ghostly policemen in John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the dense fog of Whitechapel don't phase Newburycountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, howeverseemingly, accustomed as he is a link to dabbling in death during the occultSecond 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>1783298278</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Granger0008517061|title=Dead Death in the Water (Campbell and Carter)a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=It was the wettest winter on record and coming up to Christmas it wasn't the floods that the residents of Weston Saint Ambrose were worried about - or even the forthcoming festivitiesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. On his way to There’s perhaps a call little uncertainty about the local future of his life with his vet had spotted something girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in the river and closer inspection showed that it was together would mean a body lot of what he thought was a young woman. When he managed compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to get back move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the scene future she wants for herself and meet her daughter? For the police the body had disappeared, but it drifted under moment they’re enjoying life in the landing stage of a large house down river present and was spotted by a man delivering logs. The owner of putting the house, a reclusive writer, was shocked to realise that he recognised future on the girl. Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Campbell had to investigate the brutal killingback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00XJOQBIY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1786482126|title=The Dying Season: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's said that you should never meet your heroes but Bruno Courrèges, chief of police of the sleepy Dordogne town of St Denis, has no such thoughts apartments - when he's invited to they discovered the 90th birthday celebrations bones of the man who has been his hero since he was a childbeneath a doorway. There was no skull. Marco Desaix is Was this a war heroritual killing or murder? Inevitably, flying ace and a man Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with high level political connections in France, Russia and Israel - and heDCI Harry Nelson. It's known difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''The Patriarch''. The party - if you can use such a mundane word for an occasion which includes a fly past by the air force - went wellt, that she is pregnant with only one minor disruption when an old family friend accosted one his child as a result of the daughters of the Desaix family and was disinclined to let goone night they spent together some three months ago. StillHer condition will be obvious before long, it was well known that he was an alcoholic and no one seemed surprised when Gilbert was removed without ceremony by the gamekeepernot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848664052</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark (editor)0008551324|title= Manhattan Mayhem – New Crime Stories from the Mystery Writers of America|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I was unsure how to open this review. I heart Manhattan, big time. I am always attracted to any work set in Manhattan, but I don’t want to pigeonhole this remarkable collection of stories into a slot that says 'only for Manhattan lovers'. Far from it – it is a superb collection featuring the highest standards of both mystery writing and the form of short story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474761X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author= John Grisham|title= Gray Mountain |rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Gray Mountain is the latest exciting legal thriller from John Grisham. In this gripping book, two small town lawyers, Donovan Gray and Samantha Kofner, take on the might of some devious coal companies who have never played by the rules. As a result, many of their previous employees are both dying and destitute. All they ask for is some compensation and dignity to live with for the rest of their lives. However, the coal companies don’t see things the same way and are not prepared to give an inch. Will Donovan and Samantha be able to ensure that justice is done? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444765655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Ellis|title=Stalin's Gold: A Frank Merlin NovelNeil Lancaster

|summary=When we [[Frank Merlin: Princes Gate by Mark Ellis|last saw]] DCI Frank Merlin he was champing at It's unusual for anyone from the bit Hardie family to enlist and do his bit but frustrated by approach the fact that he could not be releasedpolice. On the positive Neither side there were signs that he was recovering from likes or has any respect for the death of his wife a couple of years earlier other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's now in prepared to tell the police where the body of a relationship with Sonia, a refugee from Poland missing person is buried and who's working in the dress department at Swan and Edgarwas responsible for her death. The phoney war This person, he promises, is well someone big and truly over and London is suffering daily bombing raids: it will be worth the capital police doing what he wants. And what he wants is a dangerous place to betransferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Some people are taking advantage of the situation and looting Not much to ask, is disappointingly frequent. it? ItThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's one of even prepared to do the problems other thing that have been dropped on MerlinHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's toeshappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YSZ9G4E</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kathy Reichs0008405026|title= Speaking A Stranger in Bonesthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes you really do need It'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 start at the beginning of a series to get into ithalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. And sometimes Initially, it doesn't matter looks like a jot. Kathy Reichsstraightforward murder/suicide but there' Tempe Brennan novels fall into s something about the positioning of the latter categorybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. There's What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a bit of a back-story complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in there, but letRosalie's be honest, itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's only there to make Temperance Brennan seem half-way humanboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021199</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis0571379877|title=Frank Merlin: Princes Gate The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=In the early part of the Second World War there was Edward Jevons is a lullworking-class young man, when hostilities didnobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert't really seem to get going – the so-called Phoney Wars a theatre director. Some LondonersHe's also self-obsessed, who'd left the capital in the expectation of early bombing raidsdemanding, began drifting back handsome and entitled and there were still those who thought that peace could be negotiated – that we could stay out of the fightuses Edward to run errands for him. Chief amongst those outside of the political classes who supported this view was the American Ambassador, Joseph KennedyEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Kennedy was, perhaps fortunately Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not unusually, out of like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the country when one two of the staff at the residence was murdered and her body fished out of the Thamesthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YUUGEJ2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jan-Philipp SendkerJo Callaghan|title= Whispering ShadowsLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Paul Leibovitz was When a journalist. That was before. Before he had man is found crucified on the top of a small childhill in Nuneaton, who did not survive as long as he should have. Before DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the end of case alongside her sidekick, the marriage that did not survive the loss of a childAI detective Lock. Now Leibovitz himselfIt's their first live case together, merely surviveshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. He lives in But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a kind lot of self-imposed exile on Lammaunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, third largest of or will Kat find herself taken off the Hong Kong islandscase and, potentially, out of a place of greenery and solitude.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Silverwood1035021803|title=Angel and the ActressThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Joan Minter, award-winning actress, was murdered in front It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a gathering of request for help from her closest friendsbeloved aunt, but no one saw who did it - or could possibly have been the one who did itCarole. Inspector Angel Freya's former mentor and his team of detectives were called out to her homeCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, at is dead and the foot of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the Pennines, in Bromersleyleast. Angel Arthur was going the reason why Freya had not been back to be kept busy thoughthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. A young man was found murdered Even though they were in his home. His wife hadn't expected him business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be there - and nor could she explain near the new vacuum cleaner which had appeared since she left for work that morning, man or pursue the fact that the fridge door was wide openprofession she loved. Then there's After the theft of a handbagsplit, which leads to she worked in a family's two cars being stolen. And just to top it offcafe, Angel's wife is away visiting met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her sisterlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719816157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Piper1398524085|title=Hibernia Unanimis: "Pro Deo, Rege et Patricia, Hibernia Unanimis" (For God, King and Country, Ireland is United)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary= Benedict Plunkett calls a meeting of a small Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but select never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and distinguished group of Irish Ollie and US politiciansher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, clergy and business men to whom he explains his plans for Hibernia Unanimis – a united Irelandis not. It will be raised up by Shortly afterwards, Etty and for Greg, find the Irish body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in response to the new UKIP government in Londonriver. Before It was an easy assumption for the great police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the good leave Benedict's mansion they are asked to sign contracts if they want to be part of his futureguilt. Some sign, some don't The Salter children are not convinced but all think hethere's deluded and nothing will come of it. Then the accident happens little else they can do but get on with their lives and everyone takes Benedict a little more seriously as, in time, will the English governmentwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YGUSPOS</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Castle1529900360|title=Ultimate StormThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=As if it wasn’t complicated enough trying It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to figure out what was real ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-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 -shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a bestselling authorwhile. I do wonderFinally, it was Robin, reading theseDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the real writer (or writers) behind Richard Castle must be! man she loved needed. AnywayThe next case did look simple, this time we’re with Castle’s fictional character (though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a fictional character’s fictional character!) Derrick Storm, a PI turned CIA agent, though remote property in this book he’s being called back into service after disappearing into early retirement and officially being ‘dead’Bel Air. This book He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is actually a collection of 3 Storm stories, but they are all related married to an extremely rich man and part it's not the Italian. But which of them was the same overall arc.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783291869</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hakan Nesser178763681X|title=The Summer of Kim NovakKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Erik knew that the summer of 1962 was going to be Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a bad oneresidential cookery school in Belgravia. His mother was seriously ill He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and there was no hiding that she was likely women to diedo what he wanted. SoPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, Erik and his friend Edmund planned to spend their holidaywho had a broken arm, accompanied by Erikbut it didn's elder brother Henry, at the lake-side cottaget turn out that way. Both boys dreamed of their supply teacher, as fourteenThe teaching -yearand the problems -old boys are wont to do, particularly when she's the spitting image of the actress Kim Novakall his own. But it wasnThe one thing he hadn't just Erik's mother's health which expected was going for someone to ruin turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the summer: The Terrible Thing was going body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to happen toobe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crompton1529421284|title=BunderlinLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=As It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a child Martin human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been fascinated a known drug user and entranced by his neighbour Mrs Bundyhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's household menageriet convinced. Her son Peter Geary was a townie, so what was there too but he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the periphery; Martin was just there suicide of Holly Gilbert and to visit two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the animalstime. In adulthood their paths cross again but this time Peter Bunderlin Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (as hethat's now known) isn't so easy cold cases to avoid – you and Martin's tried! Perhaps if Martin could understand what the heck Peter is up to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529425867|title=Peter O'Donnell Lost and Enric Badia RomeroNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceSimon Mason

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=''OhIn Oxford, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sirthere are two D I Wilkins.'' The pair referred to, Raymond Wilkins is of courseNigerian descent, are Modesty BlaiseBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, sexy femme fatale with a head full son of morals Ryan and a pair father of legs full Ryan, is not. He's not any of kicking powerthose things. He's white, and Willy Garvinoriginated from a trailer park, the only man to call her barely educated (reading's not ''Princessreally'' his thing) and get away with it – intelligent, practical his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and yet equally resilient trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a fight with a baddypolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The things that happen to them two men are legion, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this is one just different sides of the better examples of same policing coin. Sometimes the current collections of the lattercombination works brilliantly well. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrong, pregnant women in danger on the high seas, and people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all in a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood that smacks of pastiche and vintage ribaldry, were Sometimes it not from the heady days of the mid-'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>s problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Wilson1529431735|title=The Wrong GirlWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Phoebe Piper went missing on a family holiday in 2006 when she was just three years old It's February 1991 and no trace of her has ever been foundEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. There was He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a lot of publicity at the time and there still is some - particularly those computer-generated pictures which show what Phoebe would probably look nowdecade. The return has come about because he'now' is seven years on and tens had a letter from his ex-year-old Molly Jackson is convinced wife, saying that ''she's ill and hasn' is Phoebe Piper: she seems t long to have the prooflive. Life isn't going well for her at the moment: sheIt's recently been uprooted from the life - hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and friends - she knew in London and is living in sent to a Norfolk village, watery grave in the home boot of her great uncle Dana stolen Ford Sierra. Only, she's just found Dan dead in bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063099</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laurie R King and Leslie Klinger (editors)0861541774|title=In the Company A Nye of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes CanonPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Well, thatDCI Domenic Jejeune's one way to get close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a heck of a lot of attention to your series of short story collections, for sure – get the estate of the author you're respecting holiday in Singapore to take you to court meet up with the idea that the works cannot be published – the characters are so firmly established and entrenchedan old ally, but established and entrenched as their property and therefore cannot be artistically reinterpreted, revived or otherwise returned to at all until full and final copyright statutes have expiredGuy Trueman. Never mind Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that the characters – one S Holmes he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Dr JH Watson – hardly have parallels in how often they already have been mimickedhe killed a Ghurka. Never mind the fact Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the estate of Conan Doyle was paid off in order for the first book to releasedman. Still, Now he could be facing the case was won and this sequel is in our handsdeath penalty. Is it worth Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the legal documents? What is the important verdict, at the end of the reading day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329843X</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Castle 1521129886|title=Raging Heat They Had It Coming (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary=Fans of the television series Greg Mason''Castle'' will come s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to this book ready-prepared for what’s going on, but for those unaware, in the series there is a character called Richard Castle who is an authorpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. He observes It's a homicide detective, Kate Beckett, in her work good job too because Greg and then writes Joyce will soon have a novel, ''Heat Wave'baby and they', based on her character, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and his own to Jameson Rookre both delighted. After Joyce will be more delighted about the book was written (in baby when she gets past the television series) it was actually published morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in real life-law appears to have killed himself. Being a fan of Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'Castle'' I immediately bought it s struggling to make ends meet and read ither son is not thriving. To be honestLucy, he says, I found is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the concept messed with my head too much! I kept thinking about who death was whosuicide, within the book, translating Nikki’s name but Stuart's prepared to Kate’s, and Rook’s pay Greg to Castle, and it all became very confusing because even though Kate and Castle are 'real' they are, of course, fictional characters too! I didn’t read any more Nikki Heat books after that first one, until this onefind out what happened on the night Gil died. 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!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295333</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath StaincliffeB0CK3MYJ56|title= Half the World AwayResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends It's the year after University travelling, 1990s and visits China – working Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private English tutorinvestigator. Back in Manchester'Shades of Cameron Strike', her estranged parents follow her adventures on her blogyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, “Lori in but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the Orient”other hand, he has been asked to look into something. When all communication stops Joyce and silence persistsHelen are half-sisters, the parents report her missingor rather, and learning that there is little they can do from Manchester, set out to China were until Helen was killed in order to search for their daughterwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Flying to Chengdu Joyce - and her parents, they have no knowledge of the country, customs Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or language, and are forced how she could come to turn detective fall in order front of a train. Greg's been asked to save their daughter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons1838954481|title=The Slaughter ManMisper|author=Kate London

|summary= This is the second novel by Tony Parsons, which features DC Max Wolfe, single parent to daughter Scout, who first appeared in, ''The Murder Bag'Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. This book is, without a doubt, a huge step up from He was the first in fifteen-year-old holding the series – an extremely fast paced, exciting crime novel, with a gripping plot gun and twisted characterspointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. There is no guessing which turn He pulled the story will take as every page throws in another plot twist; it’s impossible trigger but due to figure out who the killer isvagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. On New Year’s Eve, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a rich, well established family living quieter life in Highgate, London are brutally murdered and the four-yearcountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation -old son has been abducted. Now it is up to Max to track down the child and figure out who was behind back into the murdersorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author= Clare MackintoshCaro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title= The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=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 all round ''celebrity''. I Let You Go''nearly'' said 'all-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=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary= A hit and run''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. A young boy killed 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. A family devastated The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. How can a Salander's niece's mother ever recover from seeing is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her child killed right niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in front of her? When there are no leads, how can the police know where to look to bring someone to justice?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554154</amazonuk>father's death.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham1787636607|title=The Crime at Black DudleyTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=Black Dudley was unprepossessing from It's a scene replicated all too often in the outside, but imposing, if rather uncared for on early hours of the insidemorning. It was isolated in dreary landscape Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and the location looking for a house party which George Abbershaw was attendingway to get home. He hadn't particularly wanted Some are lucky and manage to go and was convinced get one of the necessity only by few taxis available. Others squash onto the fact night bus that the woman he loved would be a part will only go as far as one of the partyoutlying villages. The host was an invalid but apparently determined that his guests should enjoy themselves and was happy to have them re-enact woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the ritual light of 'the Black Dudley Daggermissing women'. All For one young woman, the candles were extinguished 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 dagger was passed amongst chance to beg the guests: the atmosphere was sinister bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but the game seemed harmless enough, except that they would shortly discover that their host was deadto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593491</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Donoghue1405957174|title=No Place to DieA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary= It starts with a nightmareFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Maggie Hungerford wakes out of one. Into anotherThe victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. She is awake, but this isnWhat we don't her bedknow is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. This is the kind of place no-one should ever wake upI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447239342</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley0008530025|title=As Chimney Sweepers Come To DustMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=Flavia de Luce has left BuckshawIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the family garden of their West London home where she has lived all her life and has gone to school in Canada (actually, 'was sent' is more accurate - . He had an injury on the decision was none back of Flavia's making and she felt that shehis head which could have happened if he'd been banished). On slipped down the steps but the trip over she vicious beating his face had taken was accompanied by Dr Rainsmith and his wifeobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, who were associated no one has been charged with Miss Bodycotehis murder and it's Female Academynow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the school which Flavia would be attendingevidence and to take the investigation further. In factMore to the point, they delivered her there with scant ceremony late 're going to do this live on the night they arrivedcamera, episode by episode. Flavia would have settled down to sleep, but first she was attacked by another pupil There's no dump of the whole box set - and then a dead body fell down the chimneyno shortage of cliffhangers. She already felt quite at home..It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409149439</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Owen Laukkanen0241996104|title=The Stolen OnesComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=By book four in any series things start to go one Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of two ways; stagnation or consolidationtheir murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. Are these going to be The barrister tells her that she's received a collection 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of books that slowly become the same story over and over again, or anything but will the author distil have to live with what made happened for the first books so good and build upon them for a strongerrest of her life. Of course, richer it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and varied series? Looking at the score for ‘‘Stolen Ones’’, papers are making the most of it would appear that the future . ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is bright, the future one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is Owen Laukkanenundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178239639X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1529413680|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has a new set One of overlords. For reasons that were explored in the previous couple main events of outings they have been transferred to the City Of London Police. The Met are still Sarlat tourist season is the big players in re-enactment of the area. City liberation of London Police only police the old city, town from the square mile, the financial district in other words, that has very little English in the way of street crime, because no-one lives there anymore 1370 and the people who work Bruno's there are, by and large, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have to do so on see the streetsshow with some friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen King|title=Mr Mercedes|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Bill Hodges is a retired cop It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, spiralling down into a seemingly inescapable depression. Stuck at home each day watching dreadful American daytime TVKerquelin, toying with the idea man playing one of shooting himselfthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, it his doctor is only with there and the sudden arrival man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of a letter claiming to be from someone who committed an unsolved multiple murder, one Bruno) wonders about his chances of Hodges’ old cases, that survival but - as he finds 's a new interest senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in staying alive. Is this actually the murderer? Why One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is he crawling out flying in with some of the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788647</amazonuk>her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.