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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Frederic Dard David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and David Bellos (translator)-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=Bird Death in a CageLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54

|summary=A man returns to the flat he grew up in and where Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his mother died without his knowledge, and finds it too desolate for rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the time future of year it is – Christmas Eve. Bursting for more his lifewith his vet girlfriend, despite being a solitary character, he goes to a restaurant, Livia and finds a connection with a mother with her daughter. They dineDiana, then go to the cinema, and sit as moving in together, would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and things happen from there – relaxing life to move in a gentle, no-pressure, no-names-no-packdrill way. If with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this isn't a reasonable start to a novella, consider is the tag it has as a noir classic. future she wants for herself and her daughter? And consider For the fact moment they’re enjoying life in the strange woman is present and putting the spitting image of future on the man's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>back burner.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons1786482126|title=The Hanging ClubJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary= When Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the three yobbos who kick site was going to death hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a young husband and father are given child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a perfunctory sentenceritual killing or murder? Inevitably, DC Wolfe Dr Ruth Galloway finds it hard to hold his true feelings in checkherself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Confounded by the injustice of the British Courts and legal systemIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, DC Wolfe spends that she is pregnant with his child as a good while soul searching and wondering why he invests so much result of his life in fighting crime, finding murderers and bringing them to justice when the integrity of the criminal justice system is so sorely lackingone night they spent together some three months ago. Luckily for DC Wolfe he has his bright and funny daughter Scout Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to keep him from looking too hard into the darkness that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until the videos start being posted on the internetsudden bouts of sickness. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Barnard0008551324|title=The Case of the Missing BronteDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=Superintendent Perry Trethowan was returning to London It's unusual for anyone from Northumberland with his the Hardie family when their car broke down in to approach the Yorkshire Dales and they were stranded in a small village police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the nightother. When they had a drink But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the local pub they were joined by police where the body of a local residentmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Miss Edith Winghe promises, who had is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what might he wants is to be transferred to an extraordinary document in her possessionopen prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Could this be a lost Bronte novelNot much to ask, is it? The provenance of new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the manuscript suggested other thing that it could well be genuine, but was it Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Miss wing - the real thing or was it a very clever forgery? Perry suggested visiting a local expert for an opinion and in doing so sends Miss wing into mortal dangeranyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bill Beverly0008405026|title= DodgersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Judging 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 a book by its cover can misleadhalt. It can especially mislead if you don't look closely at the cover Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are just grabbed by the ''feel'' or 'dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'style'' of s something about the design positioning of the thingbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Being misled What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is not necessarily now a bad thingcomplex double murder. For reasons best left Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in the depths of my addled brain, the styling of Dodgers had me thinking Rosalie'noirs disappearance: others (such as Derwent'. I was expecting late fiftiess boss, early sixties. If I'd looked closer, I'd have seen that it is much more contemporary than thatUna Burt) are less convinced. Then again…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Bude0571379877|title=Death on the RivieraThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Counterfeit currency was circulating on the French Riviera and it was suspected that an Englishman was behind the crimeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, so DI Meredith was sent along obsessed with actinghis upper-Sergeant Strang to trace the whereabouts of Chalky Corbettclass friends, Robert and Stanza. It wasnRobert't entirely an unpleasant assignment - the warm of the south of France compared favourably with polluted London - and Meredith (whose French was far from fluent) got on well with the local policeman, Inspector Blampignon of Nices a theatre director. It wasnHe't long before their interest settled on the Villa Polomas also self-obsessed, home of an eccentric expatriate Englishwomandemanding, Nesta Hedderwick handsome and her band of bohemian house guestsentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356371</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mark Watson|title= The Place That Didn Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't Exist|rating= 2.5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book just leaves you wondering what it was trying s drunkenly confided how he feels to beRobert. IMost men in Robert'm afraid Watsons position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's sixth novel not like most men: Edward is one left to stumble upon the two of those. I can't compare it to his previous work because I've not been there. Or if I have I have forgotten all about it. I will quickly forget this one toothem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0155C65V0</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shamini FlintJo Callaghan|title=Inspector Singh Investigates: A Frightfully English ExecutionLeave No Trace

|summary=Inspector Singh wasn't ''completely'' insulted when he was told that he was to attend When a Commonwealth conference man is found crucified on policing the top of a hill in LondonNuneaton, despite DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the fact that he was of case alongside her sidekick, the opinion that this was a job for paper-pushers rather than real policemenAI detective Lock. He would goIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Then Mrs Singh decided 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 she too would go to London to visit the legions draws a lot of unknown relatives who live in the metropolis and unwanted attention to collect yet more essential souvenirstheir AI Future Policing project. Things looked up ''slightly'' when Singh realised that he would Will they be looking at a cold case - the five-year-old unsolved murder of Fatima Daud - along with an Inspector from the Met. Only - Singh wasn't there able to ''solve'' the case in time, or even ''investigate'' will Kat find herself taken off the case (that was forbidden) - he was there to consider how it could have been handled differently.and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402728</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1035021803|title=The BursarAntique Hunter's WifeGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Private investigator George Kocharyan struggles along on It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the seedy side English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Cambridgea request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, following the odd unfaithful spouse or checking up on benefit claimants for the Department of Work Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Pensions. This just about pays for his invaluable part-time assistant Sandra who knows how to work the office computercircumstances seem suspicious, and her teenage son who George occasionally hires to do some of say the leg workleast. Into this grubby world walks Sylvia Booker, wife of Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the bursar at Morley Collegevillage: Arthur, overprotective mothershe feels, glamorous middle-aged womanlet her down badly. Worried that her daughter has fallen Even though they were in with a bad crowd business together as antique hunters, she hires George has not felt able to look into itbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Then one of After the unfaithful wives George had been following turns up deadsplit, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life begins to get complicated, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1398524085|title= Bryant and May: Strange TideHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and May her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is looking very much like it will be their lastnot. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuingShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, which are likely in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to confirm make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he is suffering from Alzheimercouldn'st stand the guilt. His condition is worsening almost by the day, memory lapses The Salter children are morphing into full-scale hallucinationsnot convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A K Benedict1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsKellerman

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Maria King sits by the Thames mudlarking - sifting through the washed up treasures - 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 ask for his help on a regular basisdifficult cases. Only today she finds His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a ring in psychologist only worked for a box with 'Marry me Maria' on the lid in braillewhile. Blind from birth and now blind by choiceFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, the words can be who nudged Milo into asking for no one else but Ms Kinghelp again. However a greater surprise awaits inside She knew that the box: involvement was something that the ring is still on a finger belonging to man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the last girl who received such swimming pool of a proposalremote property in Bel Air. DI Jonathan Dark He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is assigned married to the case, not realising what hean extremely rich man and it's taken on or not the sort of help he'll need to call onItalian. The dead are all around him, his plan is not to let Maria join But which of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1409144550</amazonus>was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue178763681X|title= Trust No One|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= They're an ordinary family, by modern standards. Richard and wife Nicola have split up, but are on reasonably amicable terms. The kids stay over with their Dad often enough. He makes time Knife Skills for them and their friends. Ok, so fourteen year old Harvey is dyslexic and has been diagnosed as having ADHD. He's also got a quick temper. But he's very protective of his little sister, 12-year-old Olive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284291</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Quentin Bates|title=Thin Ice (Officer Gunnhildur)Orlando Murrin

|summary=Gunnhildur's family life is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a bit complicatedresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Her son Gisli is now the father of two children, only theyHe didn're not the traditional year or two apart, t really want to but just celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a few weeks way of getting both men and there are - as you might have gathered - two mothers involvedwomen to do what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow''s now living not with got the one impression that Gunna might have expected but doing his best he'd be at the school to maintain contact with the otherassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his other son, of courseown. At work, two small-time crooks have robbed Reykjavik's most infamous drug dealer of a couple of hundred thousand euros, but couldnThe one thing he hadn't get away as their getaway driver failed expected was for someone to turn updead. Two women - mother Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and daughter - have disappeared along with everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the mother's car and a thief has died in suspicious circumstancesprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147212149X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Thorne1529421284|title= Promises of BloodLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I love getting in on the ground floor. Thanks to this very website I It was one of those flash downpours that the first British weather often delivers in this country a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to read the ''Twilight'' series surface and was smitten from forensic testing proved the startbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. We He'll ignore the films, the books are worth d been a look! In a completely different genreknown drug user and had learning disabilities, but no less so it could have been a lucky fluke it was through here that I stumbled across [[East simple case of Innocence by David Thorne]] and put in an old-fashioned baggsy for whatever followed. On reading the second of the series [[Nothing Sacred by David Thorne]] I commented that I hoped that in the next outing Connell would see ''him up against, or siding with, some kick-ass-donmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't-take-it femaleconvinced.'' ''So far his women do tend to be 'birds or victims' ''. I'm pleased to say Geary was a townie, so what was he's moving in the right direction… women doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are central connections to this story one way the suicide of Holly Gilbert and anotherto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. For Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the first time heMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's given us female characters who (despite their plot-device roles, which is varied cold cases to you and not always predictableme) are stronger than they look – strong in a number of different ways – he hasn't simply opted for my "kick-ass" option, he's more subtle than thatinvestigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529425867|title= Augusto De Angelis Lost and Jill Foulston Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=The Murdered BankerSimon Mason|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=Inspector De Vincenzi In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is working against the clockof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. A body was found in his old school-friend Giannetto Aurigi He's apartment in the early hours not any of this morning and the investigating magistrate wants to take over as quickly as possiblethose things. The trouble is He's white, Aurigi owed the dead man money, has been acting strangelyoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and isntrackies. They't trying re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to defend himselfa police procedural written for laughs. Unless De Vincenzi finds strong evidence to the contrary today Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the investigating magistrate will see it as an open and shut case, and that will be same policing coin. Sometimes the end of Aurigicombination works brilliantly well. But none of the evidence seems to add up Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271708</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ruth Ware1529431735|title= In a Dark, Dark WoodThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Nora Shaw hasnIt't seen her friend Clare since Nora left school ten years ago s February 1991 and didnEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins't look backreturn all the more surprising. Now working He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a crime writer and living in Londonwanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she is naturally surprised when she receives an invitation 's ill and hasn't long to Clarelive. It's hen party – hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a weekend watery grave in the boot of a woodland cottage in the Northumberland countrystolen Ford Sierra. Curious as to why Clare would invite her after all these years Nora reluctantly agrees Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to come, but as the weekend unfolds something goes very wrong and old secrets are slowly revealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598248</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark0861541774|title=Death Wears a Beauty MaskA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=In 1972DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, Mary Higgins Clark began writing has taken a novella entitled ''Death Wears 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 Beauty Mask.'' She struggled man armed with the story a knife - and put it aside, where it lay forgotton for several decadeshe killed a Ghurka. When the author rediscovered the manuscript amongst some old files Initially, she decided he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that she liked it and was ready he might have planned to complete murder the long-awaited endingman. Now he could be facing the death penalty. ''Death Wears Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a Beauty Maskdiplomatic incident and wouldn'' joins some of her other works, both old and new, in an entertaining collection of short stories full of mystery and suspenset help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143228</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1521129886|title= City of the Lost|rating= 3.5|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 an abusive ex, the two women realise they have to disappear, fast. And they need sanctuary. Diana's heard of a hidden town that's so remote it's almost impossible to reach. A town that desperately needs a new detective.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562521</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Kate Ellis|title=The House of Eyes (Wesley Peterson)Keith Redfern

|summary=D I Wesley Peterson wasnGreg Mason't too worried when Darren Hatman reported s just beginning to get his daughter missingconfidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. SheIt'd been working at Eyecliffe Castle s a good job too because Greg and it wasnJoyce will soon have a baby and they't difficult to sense that she'd been annoying re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the other staff with the stories of what she'd be doing baby when she got her modelling contractgets past the morning sickness. There was just one point which left Peterson uneasy: Hatman claimed that Leanne had been stalked Greg is approached by a photographer and the case was obviously worth an enquiry or twoold friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Eyecliffe Castle had been home to the wealthy DStuart'Arles familys concerned about his sister, Lucy, but was now a luxury hotel who's struggling to make ends meet and spaher son is not thriving. Lucy, with the last remaining member of the family living he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in the Dower House in the groundshis nature. Then Darren was found brutally murdered in The police and the grounds of coroner have accepted that the castle: death was it possible that Leanne had met a similar fatesuicide, and if so, why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403082</amazonuk> but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ngaio MarshB0CK3MYJ56|title=Scales of Justice Responsibilities (DCI Roderick AlleynGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=Swevenings seems like one of those idyllic places to liveIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. All that disrupts the tranquil lives of the inhabitants is the fierce competition He used to catch have a high-flying job in the Old Un, city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a large trout which lives under the bridge over the stream which meanders through the villageprivate investigator. Then one day Nurse Kettle discovers the body of Colonel Carterette at edge 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the stream and beside him is life experience that backs up this profession? On the Old Unother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Carterette had been brutally murdered Joyce and he was not the fisherman who had landed the Old Un. He wasHelen are half-sisters, thoughor rather, the man who they were until Helen was killed in charge of publishing the controversial memoirs of the local baronetwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The investigation is beyond the capacity of the local constabularyJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Scotland Yard, Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in the person front of Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called ina train. And his primary interest is the fishGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AIK6U4Q</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1838954481|title=Behind Closed DoorsThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=In 2003 Scarlett Rainsford was on holiday in Rhodes with her parents and sister when she met Ryan Kennedy killed a boypolice officer: there's no doubt about that. Her father wasn't at all keen on He was the fifteen-year-old holding the idea so Scarlett crept out gun and pointing it at night to meet him and she ''might'' have given him DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the idea that she wanted trigger but due to run away from home. On the last night vagaries of the holiday Scarlett jury system he was bundled into a van - found not guilty of both the murder and into a life the manslaughter of terror and prostitutionthe officer. Ten years later she turned up in her hometown when a brothel was raidedAnd so lives must go on. Where had she been all these years, how had she got back to For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the UK capital and why did hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her parents not seem all that pleased to find that territory she was 's drawn into a wider investigation - and back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549630</amazonuk>into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly Seddon1448309743|title=Try Not To BreatheThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=In ''Try not to Breathe'' Holly Seddon offers an addition to the somewhat overflowing thriller shelvesvillage of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Of course, The only item missing from the reason this particular segment home is bursting at the seams Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is because thrillersremoved from Otterburn House, especially psychological onesdeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, are just so compellingthat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. And there have been some good - and hugely successful - books The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in this category out there of late (before-I-go-to-sleep-I'll-be-gone-with-a-girl-on-a-train)shadow' him. So how does Holly Seddon match up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1529077699|title=All Dressed in WhiteThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=Following the success of ''The Cinderella MurderIt's all bloody peculiar, isn' caset it, people are lining up to be featured on Laurie Moran's successful TV show: Sir?''Under Suspicion Well yes, it is.'' Each episode revives a 'cold case' by returning to Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the scene middle of the crimean autumn gale, interviewing the friends stayed for about a month and family of the victim then turned up, naked and reviewing new evidence. The show has had 100% success record so fardead, which has resulted in an influx of potential new cases to feature. Howevera small boat, when a desperate mother begs Laurie anchored in Scully Cove close to investigate the disappearance village of her daughter on her wedding dayGreystone, Laurie knows that her story will make great TV; especially as in Devon. Rosco had the scene status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round 'crime' is celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a luxurious hotel in Floridalittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148688</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529427045|title=Jack OThe Girl in the Eagle'Connells Talons|titleauthor=Box NineKarin Smirnoff|rating=25

|summary=The wind brushed against ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the review like a thousand kisses and Sam knew that something out so-far-untapped natural resources of the ordinary was happeningarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. It wasnSalander's niece't since s mother is the long hot summer 1997 that he had latest woman in the misfortune area to read a book that had as much extraneous detail as thishave vanished without trace. He felt to himself It was only with reluctance that there was little point in actually getting to the meat of a review, when instead he could witter on about something Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that had little to do with anything – perhaps this would get Svala is a little annoying over 352 pages? Welcome to remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the world of Jack O'Connellpart Salander played in her father's ''Box Nine''death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1453236775</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Torquil MacLeodCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=Missing in Malmo (Anita Sundstrom Mysteries)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Anita Sundstrom wasn't best pleased when she was told to look into From the disappearance of British heir hunter Graeme Todd: missing persons werenfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh't really her thing and it seemed that it was only down to her because she was fluent in Englishs party will not end well. There was The victim - a similar reluctance man - is dying when her ex-husband asked her we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to look into call the disappearance of his girlfriend. But events took a sinister turn and Anita found herself deeply entangled in both casesambulance he so desperately needs. The first case seemed to be linked to a robbery which took place in Newcastle some twenty years earlier and in the second case it seemed that Bjorn Sundstrom hadnWhat we don't been entirely truthful with her about his relationship with Greta Jansson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857161156</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robert Thorogood|title= The Killing of Polly Carter|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=I'm a fan of old-school murder mysteries…think [[:Category:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]], think [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]], Dorothy Sayers… These are stories as games. Usually on know is who the very edge of plausibility, gruesomeness kept man is or why Nadine prefers to a minimum, police procedure trodden all over in hobnailed enthusiasm of insight and flashes of inspirationhave him die. So it follows that I enjoy TV series in the same vein: Midsommer Murders, Poirot… and Death in Paradise. It was because my enjoyment of the series was known 'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what''The Killing of Polly Carter'' was sent my ways happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454155</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill McGown0008530025|title=Murder at in the Old VicarageFamily|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=The vicar's daughterIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, JoannaLuke Ryder, had mixed feelings when her husband called at in the vicaragegarden of their West London home. The last time sheHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd seen him slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his violence face had put her in hospital and she'd been living with her parents ever sincetaken was obviously deliberate. She had her reasons for deciding to see himTwenty years later, even though her parents would have preferred just to send him packing. George Wheeler had more problems than no one has been charged with his daughtermurder and it's marriage to worry about: he was strangely attracted to now the subject of ''Infamous'', a young widow who had recently come true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the parish evidence and also had serious doubts about his vocationto take the investigation further. It was only his wifeMore to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, Marian who stopped the wheels from falling off his lifeepisode by episode. But Marian was There''always'' that sort s no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of womancliffhangers. Then - on Christmas Eve - his son in law was battered to death with a poker in his daughterIt's bedroom at the vicaragecompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509809635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins0241996104|title=Quarry's ListComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Quarry series is classic pulp fiction from Max Allan Collins that Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has spanned almost 50 yearsbeen convicted of their murder. The newest books in the series may be set in We first meet Nancy outside the pastcourt, but where actually written recentlyafter Martin receives a life sentence. The success barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. [[QuarryOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's Choice by Max Allan Collins|newer books]], has revitalised interest in rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the original 1970s run most of booksit. Once known as ''The BrokerFarmhouse slaughter daughter's Daughter'is one favourite epithet and ', 'rich bitch'Quarry's List'' is the second book in the series that may might not introduce you to the character, be printed but it does introduce you to why Quarry became a killer of killersis undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298855</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529413680|title=Blade A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of LightPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=When Mr di Marta arrived at MontalbanoOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's station there to report an armed robbery on his wife see the night before the most surprising point was not the robbery itself, but the fact that it had ended show with a kisssome friends. The InspectorIt's suspicions were aroused and he was convinced that all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he was not being told departs from the full storyscript. None of the witnesses' stories added up Luckily, his doctor is there and it was difficult not to come to the conclusion that they were not ''meant'' to. Then a body turned up man is whisked away in a burnt-out car which had all the hallmarks of a Mafia hithelicopter. This isn't Montalbano's only problem though A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - there's another case which keeps sneaking its way back into his attention even though as he should have nothing to do with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447264452</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May - London's Glory|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=In a senior government employee, the depths of man who runs Frenchelon - the last [[Bryant military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and May – The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler|B&M review I wrote]] I said '' Of courseanother, who lives in California, itis flying in with some of her father's unbelievable, farcical. But then you don't come to friends for a Bryant and May story for realism. You come for absurdity.'' Naturally, I stand by that comment. Fowler has concocted his characters and has no shame in shunting them up and down the timepre-line of British history as he sees fitarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523457</amazonuk>