==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Winslow
|title=The Whole World
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Whole World is a sort of crime/suspense novel set in Cambridge, England, told in turn from the viewpoint of five different characters. The first two narrators, Polly and Liv, are friends, and seem to have much in common – they are both American students with things to hide, and they are both attracted to the same young man, Nick. One night things come to a head as Nick somehow ends up kissing them both, then goes missing and is presumed dead. Then Nick, a blind woman called Gretchen and a local police officer, Morris, tell their stories, and the novel takes several weird twists. It is hard to say more without revealing too much about the plot.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385342888</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fred Saberhagen
|summary=As the internet grows and technology advances, it's seems there is nothing you can't do. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent and cars are more automated than ever. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact and play against each other in huge arenas. Thanks to social networking, the internet can be addictive and, yes, I'm aware of the irony in writing that here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ken Bruen
|title=The Killing of the Tinkers
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legs. He's been lying low 'over the water' in London, licking his wounds. Jack (I'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him a more Irish name) is a middle-aged, washed-up, disgraced ex-cop. As if that wasn't bad enough, he also has a lot of very bad habits. He acknowledges however that 'the new world is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely and openly that 'An alcoholic has dreams to rival that of any Vietnam vet.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dave Zeltserman
|title=Killer
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to the heart of the story. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking to the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every time. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephen Hunter
|title=I, Sniper
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You don't often find novels or films based on the art of the sniper. Hiding out for hours motionless and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for as interesting a story as a face to face shoot out. But with 'I, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed to combine the art of the sniper with the art of the crime thriller in a decent read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Casey
|title=The Missing
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah Finch's twelve year old brother Charlie says to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soon.''
Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting to find out what happened to him. Now in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholism.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Burdett
|title=The Godfather of Kathmandu
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but it's the latter rather than the former which is likely to hold up his promotion in the Thai police force, where he's a detective. He's also the part owner of a brothel where his mother, Nong, is the madam in charge. It's no problem for his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has a few illegal interests of his own. He's currently in competition with the head of the army, General Zinna, to see who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for sale.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard North Patterson
|title=The Spire
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers the body of a black fellow student, Angela Hall, at the foot of the spire in the centre of the college he attends, he little suspects that his best friend will be charged with the murder. Now, sixteen years later, Darrow is back, at the invitation of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farr, to become president of the college in order to rebuild its reputation after a case of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years). As Darrow digs into what happened with the college finances, he also begins to look afresh at the trial of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as charged. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provost's troubled, but beautiful, daughter. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Hosp
|title=Among Thieves
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in the United States. The police investigation failed to find them and many felt they were lost forever. But soon the paintings and their whereabouts would be impacting on many people's lives…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera
|title=Dark Entries
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, are worried. Yes the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with the TV producers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Baldacci
|title=True Blue
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie Meldon, ex-criminal-defence attorney, now in private practice, leaves his office very late one night. He's met by the FBI. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead in a dumpster.
Mace Perry is working out, trying to stay fit, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple of days' time. Perry was a cop. Under-cover, maverick and darn good at her job. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent down.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fred Vargas
|title=The Chalk Circle Man
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, he's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about the most obtuse things in his pursuit of the truth, and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes a surprisingly perceptive ability to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solve.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>
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