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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ruth WareB0CYV674G2|title= In a Dark, Dark WoodSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 43.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Nora Shaw 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 seen her friend Clare since Nora left school ten years ago 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 didn'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 look backget any sleep at home. Now working as a crime writer }}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and living in London, she is naturally surprised when she receives an invitation to ClareLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's hen party – sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a weekend in woman on the edge of a woodland cottage in the Northumberland countryreservoir. Curious The police seem happy to assign it as to why Clare would invite her after all these years Nora reluctantly agrees to comean accidental death, but as 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 weekend unfolds something goes very wrong country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and old secrets are slowly revealed, 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099598248</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark0008517061|title=Death Wears in a Beauty MaskLonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=In 1972Former Metropolitan Police detective, Mary Higgins Clark began writing a novella entitled ''Death Wears a Beauty Mask.'' She struggled with the story and put it asideJake Johnson, where it lay forgotton for several decadeshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. When There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the author rediscovered the manuscript amongst some old filesfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, she decided that she liked it Livia and was ready to complete the long-awaited ending. ''Death Wears her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a Beauty Mask'' joins some 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 other works, both old reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and new, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in an entertaining collection of short stories full of mystery the present and suspenseputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143228</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1786482126|title= City of the LostThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Detective Casey Duncan has a dark past, and it's about to catch up with her. When her best friend Diana is attacked by Builders were demolishing an abusive ex, old house in Norwich - the two women realise site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they have to disappear, fastdiscovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. And they need sanctuary There was no skull. Diana's heard of Was this a hidden town thatritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's so remote itdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's almost impossible to reach. A town t, that desperately needs she is pregnant with his child as a new detectiveresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562521</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis0008551324|title=The House of Eyes Devil You Know (Wesley PetersonD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=D I Wesley Peterson wasnIt't too worried when Darren Hatman reported his daughter missings unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She'd been working at Eyecliffe Castle Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and it wasnhe't difficult s prepared to sense that she'd been annoying tell the other staff with police where the stories body of what she'd be doing when she got a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her modelling contractdeath. There was just one point which left Peterson uneasy: Hatman claimed that Leanne had been stalked by a photographer This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the case was obviously worth an enquiry or twopolice doing what he wants. Eyecliffe Castle had been home And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the wealthy D'Arles family, but was now a luxury hotel remainder of his sentence and spato get an early parole date. Not much to ask, with the last remaining member of the family living in the Dower House in the grounds. is it? Then Darren was found brutally murdered in The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the grounds of the castle: was it possible other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that Leanne had met a similar fate, DS Max Craigie and if so, why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403082</amazonuk>anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ngaio Marsh0008405026|title=Scales of Justice A Stranger in the Family (DCI Roderick AlleynMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=Swevenings seems like It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of those idyllic places to livesummer night. All that disrupts She was never found and the tranquil lives of the inhabitants is the fierce competition investigation ground to catch the Old Un, a large trout which lives under the bridge over the stream which meanders through the villagehalt. Then one day Nurse Kettle discovers the body of Colonel Carterette at edge of the stream Now, her mother, Helena, and beside him is the Old Unher father are dead in their bed. Carterette had been brutally murdered and he was not Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the fisherman who had landed positioning of the Old Unbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He was, What looked as though, the man who it was in charge of publishing the controversial memoirs of the local baronet. The investigation is beyond the capacity of the local constabulary, going to be an open-and Scotland Yard, in the person of Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn -shut case is called innow a complex double murder. And his primary interest Kerrigan is convinced that the fishexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AIK6U4Q</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes0571379877|title=Behind Closed DoorsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=In 2003 Scarlett Rainsford was on holiday in Rhodes Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with her parents his upper-class friends, Robert and sister when she met Stanza. Robert's a boytheatre director. Her father wasnHe't at all keen on the idea so Scarlett crept out at night to meet him s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and she ''might'' have given him the idea that she wanted uses Edward to run away from homeerrands for him. On the last night of the holiday Scarlett was bundled into a van Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and into a life of terror and prostitutionhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Ten years later she turned up Most men in her hometown when Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a brothel was raided. Where relationship had she been all these years, how had she got back begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the UK and why did her parents not seem all that pleased to find that she was back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549630</amazonuk>two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SeddonJo Callaghan|title=Try Not To BreatheLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=In ''Try not to Breathe'' Holly Seddon offers an addition When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the somewhat overflowing thriller shelves. Of coursecase alongside her sidekick, the reason this particular segment is bursting at the seams is because thrillersAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, especially psychological ones, are just so compellinghaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. And But when there have been some good - is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and hugely successful - books a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in this category time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out there of late (before-I-go-to-sleep-I'll-be-gone-with-a-girl-on-a-train). So how does Holly Seddon match upcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782399453</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1035021803|title=All Dressed in WhiteThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Following It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the success of ''The Cinderella Murder'' case, people are lining English country village where she grew up to be featured on Laurie Moran. She's successful TV show: ''Under Suspicionback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' Each episode revives a 'cold case' by returning s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the scene of least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the crimevillage: Arthur, she feels, interviewing the friends and family of the victim and reviewing new evidencelet her down badly. The show has had 100% success record so far Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, which she has resulted in an influx of potential new cases not felt able to featurebe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. However After the split, when she worked in a desperate mother begs Laurie to investigate cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the disappearance love of her daughter on her wedding daylife, Laurie knows that her story will make great TV; especially as the scene of the 'crime' is a luxurious hotel in Florida..who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148688</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack O'Connell1398524085|title=Box NineHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=25

|summary=The wind brushed against Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the review like a thousand kisses and Sam knew that something out body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the ordinary was happeningriver. It wasn't since was an easy assumption for the long hot summer 1997 police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he had couldn't stand the misfortune to read a book that had as much extraneous detail as thisguilt. He felt to himself that The Salter children are not convinced but there was 's little point in actually getting to the meat of a review, when instead he could witter else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about something that had little to do with anything – perhaps this would get a little annoying over 352 pages? Welcome to the world of Jack O'Connell's ''Box Nine''what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1453236775</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Torquil MacLeod1529900360|title=Missing in Malmo (Anita Sundstrom Mysteries)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Anita Sundstrom wasnIt hadn't best pleased when she been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was told reluctant to look into ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the disappearance help of British heir hunter Graeme Todd: missing persons werena psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware't really her thing and it seemed s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that it the involvement was only down to her because something that the man she was fluent in Englishloved needed. There was a similar reluctance when her ex-husband asked her to The next case did look into simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the disappearance swimming pool of his girlfriend. But events took a sinister turn and Anita found herself deeply entangled remote property in both casesBel Air. The first case seemed He was the heir to be linked an Italian shoe empire and she is married to a robbery which took place in Newcastle some twenty years earlier an extremely rich man and in the second case it seemed that Bjorn Sundstrom hadn't been entirely truthful with her about his relationship with Greta Janssons not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857161156</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Thorogood178763681X|title= The Killing of Polly CarterKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=I'm Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a fan of old-residential cookery school murder mysteries…think [[:Category:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]], think [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]], Dorothy Sayers… These are stories as gamesin Belgravia. Usually on the very edge of plausibility, gruesomeness kept He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a minimum, police procedure trodden all over in hobnailed enthusiasm way of insight getting both men and flashes of inspirationwomen to do what he wanted. So it follows Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that I enjoy TV series in he'd be at the same vein: Midsommer Murdersschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, Poirot… but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and Death in Paradisethe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. It Unfortunately, he was because my enjoyment of the series was known person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that ''The Killing of Polly Carter'' was sent my wayperson to be the prime suspect. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454155</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill McGown1529421284|title=Murder at Laying Out the Old VicarageBones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=The vicar's daughterIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, Joannaa human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had mixed feelings when her husband called at the vicaragedisappeared nine years earlier. The last time sheHe'd seen him his violence had put her in hospital been a known drug user and she'd been living with her parents ever since. She had her reasons for deciding to see himlearning disabilities, even though her parents would so it could have preferred just to send him packingbeen a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. George Wheeler had more problems than his daughter's marriage to worry about: he Geary was strangely attracted to a young widow who had recently come townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the parish suicide of Holly Gilbert and also had serious doubts about his vocationto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. It was only his wife, Marian who stopped Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the wheels from falling off his life. But Marian was ''always'' Major Crimes Review Unit (that sort of woman. Then - on Christmas Eve - his son in law was battered to death with a poker in his daughter's bedroom at the vicaragecold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509809635</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins1529425867|title=Quarry's ListLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=The Quarry series is classic pulp fiction from Max Allan Collins that has spanned almost 50 yearsIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. The newest books in the series may be set in the pastRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, but where actually written recentlyBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The success D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of the Ryan, is not. [[QuarryHe's Choice by Max Allan Collins|newer books]], has revitalised interest in the original 1970s run not any of booksthose things. Once known as He''The Brokers white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's Daughternot '', really''Quarryhis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They's List'' is the second book re usually in the series that may not introduce lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you 're being introduced to the charactera police procedural written for laughs. Well, but it does introduce you to why Quarry became a killer 're not. The two men are just different sides of killersthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298855</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529431735|title=Blade of LightThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=When Mr di Marta arrived at MontalbanoIt's station to report an armed robbery on his wife February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the night before the most more surprising point was not . He'd been exiled on the robbery itself, but the fact that it had ended with Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a kissdecade. The Inspectorreturn has come about because he's suspicions were aroused had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and he was convinced that he was not being told the full storyhasn't long to live. None of the witnessesIt' stories added up and it was difficult not s hard to come feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to the conclusion that they were not ''meant'' his underwear and sent to. Then a body turned up watery grave in a burnt-out car which had all the hallmarks boot of a Mafia hitstolen Ford Sierra. This isn't Montalbano's only Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem though - there's another case which keeps sneaking its way back into his attention even though he should have nothing closer to do with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447264452</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler0861541774|title= Bryant and May - London's GloryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=In the depths of the last [[Bryant DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and May – The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler|B&M review I wrote]] I said '' Of courseformer colleague, Danny Maik, it's unbelievablehas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, farcicalGuy Trueman. But then you don't come to Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a Bryant knife - and May story for realismhe killed a Ghurka. You come for absurdity.'' NaturallyInitially, I stand by he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that commentsuggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Fowler has concocted his characters and has no shame in shunting them up and down Now he could be facing the time-line of British history death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as he sees fitany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis Duncan1521129886|title=Murder For ChristmasThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Mordecai Tremaine used Greg Mason's just beginning to be a tobacconist and he was a lover of romance novels, but these were not get his main claim confidence as an investigator to fame: the point where he has 'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a reputation as good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a sleuthbaby and they're both delighted. He was somewhat surprised to Joyce will be invited to spend Christmas in more delighted about the peaceful village of Sherbroome at baby when she gets past the country home of Benedict Gramemorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not knowing the man wellthriving. When Lucy, he arrived on Christmas Eve the festivities were in full swingsays, but is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - observer of people as he was - he sensed tensions amongst the odd assortment of guestsit simply wasn't in his nature. In The police and the early hours of Christmas Day coroner have accepted that the household is woken by screams and as everyone assembles downstairs they discover a dead body under the Christmas tree - and he looks decidedly like Father Christmas. death was suicide, Itbut Stuart's up prepared to Tremaine pay Greg to establish who committed find out what happened on the murdernight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703451</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina JamesB0CK3MYJ56|title=The CrossingResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54

|summary=When DI Tim Yates is called It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to investigate have a tragic collision between high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a train private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a council lorry on a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, he expects it Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to be fall in front of a straightforward investigationtrain. However, he soon realises thereGreg's nothing straightforward about itbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630411</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1838954481|title=A Painted SmileThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Diana Porteous is young, rich and Ryan Kennedy killed a widowpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. She's reached He was the fifteen-year-old holding the stage of being over gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the initial grief after trigger but due to the death vagaries of her husband, but her life lacks focus. It's then that her beloved step-grandson, Patrick, comes up with an idea: the jury system he suggests an exhibition was found not guilty of portraits entitled ''A Question of Guilt'' which encourages people to really look at both the pictures murder and work out what they think the subjects are doingmanslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. It began in a rather light-hearted way but it's not long before everyone is caught up in For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the preparations capital and hoping for the exhibition, to be presented a quieter life in the large wine cellar under the old schoolhouse. Not everyone countryside but when a missing teenager is sure that itfound on her territory she's suitable though..drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555207</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M L Longworth1448309743|title=The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary=Antoine Verlaque, investigating judge at Aix-en-Provence, is asked to visit a retired postman who has uncovered an old canvas in his apartment, which just happens to be the former home of famous nineteenth-century artist Paul Cezanne. When he gets there the old man is dead, there's no canvas to be seen, and an American art history professor is inexplicably in the living room. It's now up to Antoine and his team of policemen to find the murderer and the painting, and with the help of his girlfriend Marine Bonnet, work out who the woman in the painting is and if it could really be a hitherto unknown Cezanne.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128078</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gillian Flynn|title=The Grownup|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our narrator, a self-confessed expert at giving, er, relief to men, is branching out. Well, carpal tunnel syndrome at such a young age isn't great. Instead of working at the back of a dodgy tarot shop, she's out front, pretending to see auras, and using her natural aptitude to read people Devil Stone (a skill mastered begging for years with her one-eyed motherDCI Christine Caplan), when a woman comes in with a serious demand. Piecing the mystery of what it might be together for us, our heroine ends up in a very malevolent building, housing what might be the step-son from hell…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474603041</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrea Camilleri|title=Game of MirrorsCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=Inspector Montalbano came to In the village of Cronchie on the aid West coast of Scotland, five members of his new neighbour when her car wouldn't starta wealthy family are found murdered. It wasn't ''just'' gallantry which led him to do thisThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the fact that she was stunningly beautiful didn't harm her chances at allstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Montalbano wasn't to know where this simpleThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, courteous act would lead, although he knew something was wrong: it wasnthat't s an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the car wouldn't start - it had been deliberately damagedbody. Her husband The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, a computer salesman, seemed only DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be around occasionally and obviously didn't care what Liliana got up to when he wasnshadow't there. And then Liliana began making advances to Montalbano, whilst she was carrying on a relationship with a young assistant in a local clothes shophim. What was going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447249216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)

|title=The Glass Room (D I Vera Stanhope)|rating=4.5

|summary=Inspector Vera Stanhope ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't big on friends but it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the hippy neighbours are good to her local pub one evening in terms the middle of home-brew beer an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and conversation then turned up, naked and when one dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of them goes missing she feels obliged to investigateGreystone, in Devon. She knows that she'd be furious if one Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the team was playing at private investigator world sailor and it leaves her in the embarrassing position of being first on the scene after a murder has been discoveredall round ''celebrity''. One of the tutors has been brutally murdered at The WritersI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we' House ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and the other residents have made his background isn't exactly an easy assumption about who wielded open book. Where did he get the knife, but Vera money for his first boat? must act professionally even though she knows that's she's hardly impartial.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007I5O6LE</amazonuk>How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham Masterton1529427045|title= Blood Sisters|rating= 3|genre=Crime|summary= A young couple are walking on a cliff-top when they hear a cry of anguish from below, which leads to The Girl in the discovery of not an injured person but horses – lots of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081337</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEagle's Talons|author=Ian Rankin|title=Even Dogs in the WildKarin Smirnoff

|summary=There's a high'Life has more to offer than people -profile murder case in Edinburghprime numbers for example''. Someone  Lisbeth Salander has broken into headed north to the home small town of Lord MintonGasskas, senior lawyer and former Lord Advocate, beaten him, strangled him and then beaten him some more when he was dead. A note was found at where the scene so-far-untapped natural resources of the crime which suggested that Minton had been threatenedarea have sparked a gold rush. DI Siobhan Clarke The criminal underworld has not been seconded to the enquiry and she calls on her old friend John Rebus, kicking his heels slow in retirement, when Big Ger Cafferty narrowly escapes death as a shot is fired into his housecoming forward. Cafferty had received the same threatening note as Minton. Fearing a turf war, heSalander's niece's reluctant to open up mother is the latest woman in the area to anyone but Rebushave vanished without trace. ClarkeIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's friend, DI Malcolm Fox has been seconded too - to guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a team from Glasgow remarkably gifted teenager who are undercover and need local expertise, only he's not quite so well received. His former posting unaware of the part Salander played in Complaints is well knownher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves1787636607|title=Harbour Street (D I Vera Stanhope)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth was escorting his daughter home from It's a pre-Christmas school concert using scene replicated all too often in the Newcastle metro, not least because early hours of the snow had startedmorning. A rather smart, elderly woman took Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a seat but when way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the train was stopped because of few taxis available. Others squash onto the bad weather Jessie noticed night bus that the old lady had not left her seat and went to wake her - will only Margaret Krukowski had been fatally stabbed go as far as she sat on one of the trainoutlying villages. Christmas wasnThe woman all regret the 't D I Vera Stanhopetaxi problem's favourite time , particularly in the light of year and she wasn't upset to have work to do to break up the festivities; far better to be 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 the Northumberland seaside town of Mardle with Joe Ashworthring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. Margaret Krukowski The bus had driven off before she had lived in the boarding house at 1 Harbour Street as well as working therechance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. In fact, sheThere'd lived there before it became a boarding houses no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JPZMI88</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Stafford1405957174|title=Bellebrook's SecretsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Trudy Hampstead has a plan From the first page, we know that will support her widowed mother and twin brother unwittingly involving their landlordNadine Walsh's sonparty will not end well. Their landlord The victim - a man - is local gentry and philanderer Alistair Burgoyne QC dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the one person who can ensure security of tenureambulance he so desperately needs. Trudy thinks that Peter What we don't know is who the local curate should step in to speak to Trudy, something he's more than happy man is or why Nadine prefers to do since he has a secret agenda of his ownhave him die. Meanwhile up at the farm the LovestocksI' marriage is coming apart at the seams, d better give you a fact little more background so that may partially threaten the peace of the village but not half as much as the anonymous random acts of violence that are about to hit Bellebrookyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783063327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves0008530025|title=Hidden DepthsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Julie ArmstrongIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, left on her own with two childrenin the garden of their West London home. Her son Luke 'He had an injury on the back of his difficulties' too, probably best summarised as a learning disorder, and head which could have happened if he absorbed a lot of Julie's timed slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. She felt guilty that she neglected her daughter Laura who was brightTwenty years later, but rather withdrawn: being Lukeno one has been charged with his murder and it's sister had never been easy and keeping herself to herself was now the best way subject of dealing with the jibes about what he'd done 'Infamous'now', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There weren't many opportunities for Julie to get out without s no dump of the kids whole box set - and the chance no shortage of a night out with cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her girlfriends had step-brother, Martin, has been too good to pass upconvicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, but when after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she came home, perhaps 's received a little drunk and high from meeting up with a man 'silent sentence' - she felt attracted 's not been found guilty of anything but will have tolive with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she found Luke dead in a flowerinherited five million pounds from her mother -strewn bath full and the papers are making the most of waterit. He'd been strangled'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B002SPXO8U</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1529413680|title=The Soul A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Discretion (Simon SerraillerPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=The story begins with hints: an old lady hears children screaming in One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the middle liberation of the night, sees children being bundled away town from a property she thought was uninhabitedthe English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. A teacher It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is horrified by a drawing seriously injured when he departs from a child which suggests that she is aware of brutal sexual activitythe script. For Simon Serrailler Luckily, his doctor is there and the knowledge had come more directly: he was approached to go undercover man is whisked away in prison with the aim of getting close to Will Fearnley, a convicted paedophile who had consistently refused to divulge any information about his contactshelicopter. He was currently in a therapy centre A local doctor (and is was here that DCS Serrailer went friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as Johno Mileshe's a senior government employee, also a convicted paedophile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NJG7W7Q</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Val McDermid|title= Splinter the Silence|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= I should probably be ashamed to say that I only know Val McDermid's Tony Hill series from man who runs Frenchelon - the TV adaption ''Wire military has stepped in the Blood''. And IOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father'm afraid to say that if the latest offering is par s friends for the series, then I'll remain content with thata pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140870689X</amazonuk>