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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=L J RossDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes 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. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second 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?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Holy IslandDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: A DCI Ryan Mysterydoes 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 is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|summary=DCI Ryan has decided the Holy Island of Lindisfarne Builders were demolishing an old house in Northumberland is Norwich - the ideal place for him site was going to wait out his three monthshold seventy-five 'luxury' sabbatical from apartments - when they discovered the policebones of a child beneath a doorway. Sea air, peace and quietThere was no skull... The sort of peace and quiet that evaporates when Lucy, Was this a young islander, is found murdered, her body curiously arranged at the Priory ruins. ritual killing or murder? Ryan volunteers to lead the investigationInevitably, enlisting the assistance of Dr Anna Taylor, expert on ancient religious practicesRuth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. SheIt'll be helpful s difficult as Ruth knows, but something gradually dawns on Ryan that isnNelson doesn't going to help at all: , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the murderer must be an island residentone night they spent together some three months ago. Not something that Her condition will endear Ryan be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to the locals!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1514642824</amazonuk>sudden bouts of sickness.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Esmahan Aykol0008551324|title=Divorce Turkish Style The Devil You Know (Kati Hirschel Istanbul Murder MysteryD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kati Hirschel still owns IstanbulIt's only crime book shop while still supplying bed and board unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to her former lover, Spanish lawyer Fofoapproach the police. When Fofo dramatically points out Neither side likes or has any respect for the news report surrounding a young political activistother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's natural prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Kati doesn't pay much attentionhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. But then she realises that And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the face remainder of victim Sani is familiar, she double takeshis sentence and to get an early parole date. There again this Not much to ask, is nothing compared it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to Katido the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's next realisation: this death may not have been that naturalhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852457X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margery Allingham0008405026|title= Police at A Stranger in the FuneralFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=When Andrew Seeley, a member of It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the well-known Faraday family of Cambridge disappears, gentleman adventurer Albert Campion agrees to look into it as a favour investigation ground to a friendhalt. He finds a dysfunctional family living Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in its glorious pasttheir bed. Initially, with no-one at all sure they want to find their missing relative who can be it looks like a bit trying, to say straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the least. Before long positioning of the bodies start piling up, that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and both Campion her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and his old friend Inspector Stanislaus Oates of Scotland Yard are as baffled -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as each other. UntilDerwent's boss, naturally, Campion figures it all outUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009950734X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves (editor)0571379877|title=The Starlings and Other StoriesKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=Six authorsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, known collectively as obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'The Murder Squads a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their six accomplices were given twelve photographs of the remote landscape of Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson university days - and asked he's drunkenly confided how he feels to come up with a short story inspired by what they sawRobert. Some of the stories will be more to your taste than others, as 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 like most men: Edward is only left to be expected stumble upon the two of them kissing in such a varied anthology, but none are weak and if you enjoy crime short stories then this book could be a real treatdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909823740</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Quintin JardineJo Callaghan|title=Last Resort (A Bob Skinner Mystery)Leave No Trace
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|summary=In When a man is found crucified on the space top of a year life has changed dramatically for Bob Skinner. He's not going hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be head of Police Service Scotland - he withdrew his application - and his third marriage went to the wall quite dramatically. On the other hand he's back with his second wifecase alongside her sidekick, Sarah, who's getting rather annoyed at the way he's moping around now that he's on gardening leaveAI detective Lock. SheIt's the one who persuades him to go to his house in Spain to sort himself outtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. It's But when there is a second body found crucified a cathartic trip: an old friend asks him to investigate the disappearance of few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a trusted employee potential serial killer and Skinner discovers a very high profile case that he himself is the target draws a lot of a 'true crime' authorunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. If nothing else he realises that what he's been missing Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the job case and, potentially, out of late is the hands-on investigation. At least he's not moping any more...a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00XJOQDDM</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Claver1035021803|title=Hider/SeekerThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Harry Bridger is an ex-policeman who now makes his living helping people disappearIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. His clients aren She't always whiter than white, but when s back now because of a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks him to request for helpfrom her beloved aunt, his chivalrous instincts override the doubts that lurk in the back of his mindCarole. A few things about Angela Linehan don't chime right but she Freya's been vouched for by an old friend former mentor and HarryCarole's basic decency won't allow him to leave a woman close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and her child in danger. And there's another advantage the circumstances seem suspicious, to helping Angelasay the least. It brings Harry Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back into to the orbit of his ex-wife Bethanyvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. And Harry would do almost anything Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to redeem himself be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her eyeslife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate London1398524085|title= Post MortemHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I enjoyed this police crime novel by a talented new writerCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Kate LondonEtty. It are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is a well written and intelligently thought out booknot. The characters are clearly drawn Shortly afterwards, Etty and you are able to see Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the drama unfold from different perspectivesriver. The action constantly shifts from It was an easy assumption for the present, back police to the events make that lead to the crime taking place Duncan had murdered Charlie and then forward to reveal a little more of committed suicide when he couldn't stand the plot with each shiftguilt. This helps you engage immediately The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with the story their lives and with the characterswonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396136</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ed McBain1529900360|title=So Nude, So DeadThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WhatIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's in fault 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-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a name? while. A lot if you decide to call your book Finally, it was Robin, Delaware''So Nudes partner, So Dead''who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. This is a title to conjure withThe next case did look simple, what on Earth is it about? though. As this is Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a ''Hard Case'' title it remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is likely married to be hardboiled an extremely rich man and it's not adverse to a little violence and titillationthe Italian. However, consider that the book But which of them was once call ''The Evil Sleep!'' and has since been renamed; is this more a case of the title selling the book rather than accurately portraying its contentprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166064</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann178763681X|title= Affinity Bridge|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=London, 1901: airships and automata herald a shining future in a city 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-on in the capital alongside the chaps at Scotland Yard. Revenant corpses and vengeful, ghostly policemen in the dense fog of Whitechapel don't phase Newbury, however, accustomed as he is to dabbling in the occult.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298278</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Ann Granger|title=Dead in the Water (Campbell and Carter)Orlando Murrin
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|summary=It was the wettest winter on record and coming up to Christmas it wasnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't the floods that the residents of Weston Saint Ambrose were worried about - or even the forthcoming festivities. On his way really want to a call the local vet but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had spotted something in the river and closer inspection showed that it was a body way of getting both men and women to do what he thought was a young womanwanted. When Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he managed 'd be at the school to get back to the scene and meet the police the body assist Paul, who had disappeareda broken arm, but it drifted under didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the landing stage of a large house down river and was spotted by a man delivering logsproblems - are all his own. The owner of the house, a reclusive writer, one thing he hadn't expected was shocked for someone to realise that turn up dead. Unfortunately, he recognised was the person who discovered the girl. Inspector Jess Campbell body and Superintendent Ian Campbell had everyone knows that the police consider that person to investigate be the brutal killingprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00XJOQBIY</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529421284|title=The Dying Season: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's said was one of those flash downpours that you should never meet your heroes but Bruno Courrèges, chief of police of the sleepy Dordogne town of St DenisBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, has no such thoughts when he's invited a human skeleton came to the 90th birthday celebrations of surface and forensic testing proved the man body to be Lee Geary, who has been his hero since he was a childhad disappeared nine years earlier. Marco Desaix is He'd been a war heroknown drug user and had learning disabilities, flying ace and so it could have been a man with high level political connections in France, Russia and Israel - and he's known as ''The Patriarch'simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The party - if you can use such a mundane word for an occasion which includes Geary was a fly past by the air force - went welltownie, with only one minor disruption when an old family friend accosted one of so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the daughters suicide of the Desaix family Holly Gilbert and was disinclined to let gotwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Still, it was well known that he was an alcoholic Lockyer and no one seemed surprised when Gilbert was removed without ceremony by DC Gemma Broad of the gamekeeper.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848664052</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary Higgins Clark Major Crimes Review Unit (editor)|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 s cold cases to you and the form of short storyme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474761X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Grisham1529425867|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 Lost 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>}}{{newreviewNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Mark Ellis|title=Stalin's Gold: A Frank Merlin NovelSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we [[Frank Merlin: Princes Gate by Mark Ellis|last saw]] DCI Frank Merlin he was champing at the bit to enlist 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 do his bit but frustrated by the fact that he could father of Ryan, is not be released. On the positive side there were signs that he was recovering from the death He's not any of his wife a couple of years earlier and hethose things. He's now in white, originated from a relationship with Soniatrailer park, a refugee from Poland whobarely educated (reading's working not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in the dress department at Swan and Edgarlime green or acid yellow. The phoney war is well and truly over and London is suffering daily bombing raids: the capital is You might wonder if you're being introduced to a dangerous place to bepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. Some people The two men are taking advantage just different sides of the situation and looting is disappointingly frequentsame policing coin. It's one of Sometimes the problems that have been dropped on Merlincombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's toesproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YSZ9G4E</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kathy Reichs1529431735|title= Speaking in BonesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes you really do need to start at It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the beginning of a series to get into itmore surprising. And sometimes it doesnHe't matter d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a jotdecade. Kathy Reichs' Tempe Brennan novels fall into the latter category. ThereThe return has come about because he's had a bit of a backletter from his ex-story in therewife, but letsaying that she's be honest, itill and hasn't long to live. It's only there hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to make Temperance Brennan seem half-way humana watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021199</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis0861541774|title=Frank Merlin: Princes Gate A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the early part of the Second World War there DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a lull, when hostilities didn't really seem to get going – the soknife -called Phoney Warand he killed a Ghurka. Some LondonersInitially, who'd left the capital in the expectation he faced a charge of early bombing raids, began drifting back and there were still those who thought manslaughter but evidence came to light that peace could be negotiated – suggested that we could stay out of he might have planned to murder the fightman. Chief amongst those outside of the political classes who supported this view was Now he could be facing the American Ambassador, Joseph Kennedydeath penalty. Kennedy was, perhaps fortunately but not unusually, out of the country when one of the staff 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 the residence was murdered and her body fished out of the Thamesall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YUUGEJ2</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1521129886|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>}}{{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Roger Silverwood|title=Angel and the ActressKeith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Joan Minter, award-winning actress, was murdered in front of 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 gathering of her closest friends, but no one saw who did it - or could possibly good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have been the one who did ita baby and they're both delighted. Inspector Angel and his team of detectives were called out to her home, at Joyce will be more delighted about the foot of baby when she gets past the Pennines, in Bromersleymorning sickness. Angel was going Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be kept busy thoughhave killed himself. A young man was found murdered in Stuart's concerned about his homesister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. His wife hadnLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't expected him to be there - in his nature. The police and nor could she explain the new vacuum cleaner which had appeared since she left for work that morning, or the fact coroner have accepted that the fridge door death was wide open. suicide, Then therebut Stuart's the theft of a handbag, which leads prepared to a family's two cars being stolen. And just pay Greg to top it off, Angel's wife is away visiting her sisterfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719816157</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John PiperB0CK3MYJ56|title=Hibernia Unanimis: "Pro Deo, Rege et Patricia, Hibernia Unanimis" Responsibilities (For God, King and Country, Ireland is UnitedGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= Benedict Plunkett calls It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a meeting of a small high-flying job in the city but select and distinguished group of Irish and US politicians, clergy and business men to whom it wasn't satisfying so he explains his plans for Hibernia Unanimis – 's now set himself up as a united Irelandprivate investigator. It will 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be raised thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up by and for this profession? On the Irish in response other hand, he has been asked to the new UKIP government in Londonlook into something. Before the great Joyce and the good leave BenedictHelen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's mansion they are asked to sign contracts if they want to be part of his futurebeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Some signJoyce - and her parents, some donOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't but all think he's deluded and nothing will understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of ita train. Then the accident happens and everyone takes Benedict a little more seriously as, in time, will the English governmentGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YGUSPOS</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Castle1838954481|title=Ultimate StormThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=As if Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it wasn’t complicated enough trying at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to figure out what the vagaries of the jury system he was real found not guilty of both the murder 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 authorthe manslaughter of the officer. I do wonder, reading these, who the real writer (or writers) behind Richard Castle And so lives must be! go on. Anyway, this time we’re with Castle’s fictional character (For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a fictional character’s fictional character!) Derrick Storm, quieter life in the countryside but when a PI turned CIA agent, though in this book he’s being called back missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into service after disappearing into early retirement and officially being ‘dead’. This book is actually a collection of 3 Storm stories, but they are all related wider investigation - and part back into the orbit of the same overall arcRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783291869</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hakan Nesser1448309743|title=The Summer of Kim NovakDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Erik knew that In the village of Cronchie on the summer West coast of Scotland, five members of 1962 was going to be a bad onewealthy family are found murdered. His mother was seriously ill and there was no hiding The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that she was likely to die. So, Erik and his friend Edmund planned to spend their holidayif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, accompanied by Erik's elder brother Henry, at the lake-side cottagedeath will follow. Both boys dreamed of their supply teacher, as fourteen-year-old boys The only suspects are wont to doknown Satanists but in many ways, particularly when shethat's the spitting image an easy conclusion given that two of the actress Kim Novak. But it wasnthem 't just Erikdiscovered's mother's health which was going to ruin the summer: body. The Terrible Thing was going Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to happen too'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crompton1529077699|title=BunderlinThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As a child Martin had been fascinated and entranced by his neighbour Mrs Bundy''It's household menagerieall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Her son Peter was there too but on Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the periphery; Martin was just there 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 visit the animalsvillage of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. In adulthood their paths cross again I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but this time Peter Bunderlin (as we'll find out, he's now known) could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't so easy to avoid – and Martin's tried! exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? Perhaps if Martin could understand what How did he finance the heck Peter is up totrip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1787636607|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=It''Oh, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sirs a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning.'' The pair referred to, of course, are Modesty Blaise, sexy femme fatale with a head full Drunken revellers spilling out of morals clubs and looking for a pair of legs full of kicking power, and Willy Garvin, the only man way to call her ''Princess'' and get away with it – intelligent, practical and yet equally resilient in a fight with a baddyhome. The things that happen to them Some are legion, over many novels lucky and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this is manage to get one of the better examples few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the current collections outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the lattermissing women'. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrongFor one young woman, pregnant women in danger the final stop on the high seas, and people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all in bus leaves her a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood that smacks long way short of pastiche her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and vintage ribaldry, were it not from collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the heady days of chance to beg the midbus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking -'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Wilson1405957174|title=The Wrong GirlA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Phoebe Piper went missing on a family holiday in 2006 when she was just three years old and no trace of her has ever been found. There was a lot of publicity at From the time and there still is some - particularly those computer-generated pictures which show what Phoebe would probably look nowfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The 'now' is seven years on and tenvictim -yeara man -old Molly Jackson is convinced that ''she'' is Phoebe Piper: she seems dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to have call the proofambulance he so desperately needs. Life isnWhat we don't going well for her at the moment: she's recently been uprooted from know is who the life - and friends - she knew in London and man is living in a Norfolk village, in the home of her great uncle Danor why Nadine prefers to have him die. Only, sheI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's just found Dan dead in bedhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laurie R King and Leslie Klinger (editors)0008530025|title=In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Well, that's one way to get 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 to take you to court with the idea that the works cannot be published – the characters are so firmly established and entrenched, 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 expired. Never mind that the characters – one S Holmes and Dr JH Watson – hardly have parallels Murder in how often they already have been mimicked. Never mind the fact that the estate of Conan Doyle was paid off in order for the first book to released. Still, the case was won and this sequel is in our hands. Is it worth all the legal documents? What is the important verdict, at the end of the reading day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329843X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Richard Castle |title=Raging Heat (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6)Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
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|summary=Fans It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of the television series ''Castle'' will come to this book ready-prepared for what’s going onher stepfather, but for those unawareLuke Ryder, in the series there is a character called Richard Castle who is an authorgarden of their West London home. He observes a homicide detective, Kate Beckett, in her work and then writes a novel, ''Heat Wave'', based had an injury on her character, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and the back of his own to Jameson Rook. After head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the book was written (in steps but the television series) it vicious beating his face had taken was actually published in real lifeobviously deliberate. Being a fan Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''CastleInfamous'' I immediately bought it and read it, a true-crime show. To be honest, I found that A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the concept messed with my head too much! investigation further. I kept thinking about who was who, within More to the bookpoint, translating Nikki’s name they're going to Kate’sdo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and Rook’s to Castle, and it all became very confusing because even though Kate and Castle are 'real' they are, no shortage of course, fictional characters too! cliffhangers. I didn’t read any more Nikki Heat books after that first one, until this oneIt's compelling viewing. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe0241996104|title= Half the World AwayComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends the year after University travelling, Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and visits China – working as a private English tutor. Back in Manchesterher step-brother, her estranged parents follow her adventures on her blogMartin, “Lori in has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the Orient”court, after Martin receives a life sentence. When all communication stops and silence persists, the parents report The barrister tells her missing, and learning that there is little they can do from Manchester, set out to China in order she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to search live with what happened for their daughterthe rest of her life. Flying to Chengdu Of course, they have no knowledge it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of the country, customs or language, it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and are forced to turn detective in order to save their daughter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons1529413680|title=The Slaughter ManA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|summary= This One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the second novel by Tony Parsons, which features DC Max Wolfe, single parent to daughter Scout, who first appeared 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'The Murder Bag''. This book iss all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, without a doubtKerquelin, a huge step up from the first in man playing one of the series – an extremely fast paced, exciting crime novel, with a gripping plot and twisted main charactersis seriously injured when he departs from the script. There Luckily, his doctor is no guessing which turn there and the story will take as every page throws man is whisked away in another plot twist; it’s impossible to figure out who the killer isa helicopter. On New Year’s Eve, A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a rich, well established family living in Highgatesenior government employee, London are brutally murdered and the fourman who runs Frenchelon -year-old son the military has been abductedstepped in. Now it is up to Max to track down the child One daughter lives nearby and figure out another, who was behind the murders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892357</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clare Mackintosh|title= I Let You Go|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= A hit and run. A young boy killed. A family devastated. How can a mother ever recover from seeing her child killed right lives in California, is flying in front with some 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 friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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