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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --><!-- Durrenmatt -->{{Frontpage[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&campisbn=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]1035043092 ==|title=[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods Killing Stones (translatorJimmy Perez)]]|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime [[image:2.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[:Category:CrimeWild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|Crimeleft Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's 1957, and been seven years since we're somewhere in Switzerlandheard from him, and therebut he's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurantsnow living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have knownas well as Cassie, and ferried a British companion to the airport in daughter of his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rapformer partner. Of course he Willow's found guiltyalso his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, even if but when the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly body of much interesta popular islander, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such peopleArchie Stout, he is eager to know morefound, especially once he is actually tasked by in the man in hand to look into things aftermath of a second timestorm, she can't resist getting involved. But what He's this, where he opens his testimony d been battered about the affair head with the conclusion, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[The Execution a Neolithic stone - one of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!a pair -- Giordano -->[[image:Giordano Fruitswhich had been stolen from a museum.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]] ===[[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How to describe this book - well for starters it's unlike anything I've ever read before. It's chaotic, mad, funny, fast-paced, confusing but once you get into it it's really good fun and totally enjoyable. [[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]<br>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen EllishenleyA|title=A Map of the DarkUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley

|summary=FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing childrenEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. ThereUnfortunately, his daughter's defence against a link back to her childhood heremurder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, as she might not have has been missing but she was certainly losttrying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not to do anything been entirely up front about it: there might have been a bit the state of pretense but there was no protectiontheir savings. All that should be in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with When Jack Durban tries to persuade him, her boss has allocated her to a new take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missingjustice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147366277X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Tudor1529934753|title= The Chalk ManProtest|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Horror Crime|summary= The Chalk Man follows For a group little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectrehis retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, conjured during one fateful summer. By he arrived in the nick of time the new term begins, friendships will be fracturedcomplete with his two wives and six children, and a girl will be deadone of whom filmed what happened. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man Being an influencer, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer you tend to home? Thirty years laterdo things like that, Ed has tried to forget about but it was fortunate that summerthere was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, about all an intern at the poisonedRA, sinister memories grabbed a spray can of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him blue paint from under a chair and when the letters start proceeded to arrive, spray Bruce in the past followsface, plaguing him and dredging up whilst shouting ''Stop the fever dream nightmare War''. It seemed to be part of the summer an ongoing series of 1986, populated by fairs, ra'blue-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Edface's sleepy suburban lifeattacks, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is this was different. The Chalk Mancan had been laced with cyanide, and will he ever let Ed go?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718187431</amazonuk>Sir Max Bruce was dead.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza0008551375|title= Name of the DogWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= IfLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, like half seemingly the result of the country youa tragic accident. She've been glued to Netflix with series such d looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as ''Narcos'' and ''El Chapo'' then I think you'll really enjoy thisshe was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. The machismo of Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the cartelslast year. All were experienced climbers, the disillusionment of the police properly equipped for what they were doing and collusion sensible people. None of the military are all familiar territory and are well explored by Mendoza with the odd surprise provided such as 'what a female cartel boss at the heart of the story whose gumption and conniving matches any of the male charactersstupid thing to do' explanations applied. Lefty the detective, They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is the classic antihero of literature and is attractive ''despitecertain there'' himself so eliciting quick good will and s a sense of comradery from killer on the readerloose. If you're less set in your ways than me then I certainly think this book and series are worth a read - just give yourself a few chapters to acclimatise!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052632</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Jester0008643660|title= Forever After: a dark comedyThe Burial Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 4|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Michael Holland is A group of archaeologists are uncovering a cocky Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and brash young man who dies some of the excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortalitylandowner. It's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. We follow Michael Jake Jackson, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (former police detective, is trying to lead a stoner simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the records department) as they grapple with their long lives letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flateven the local police are keen that Jake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1529425905|title=Buried SecretsA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=You never know what goes on There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal good talk about work/lifebalance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He had a beautiful wife and a house that had a mortgage which was smaller than most people's credit card billmarried to Diane and has twin sons. On the other hand, there werenManagement't s opinion of him is that many people who had a good word to say about him he thinks too highly of himself and when his last boss felt that he was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg and with only a few hours to live, people were needed more worried about experience at what he called 'the extra work than saddenedwet end'. When his wifeRyan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's battered body was found never really left it. He lives in their kitchenshell suits and tracksuits, the idea always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that it was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answershe would be best shut of both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Gladys MitchellAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=Murder A Grave in the Snow: Woods (A Cotswold Christmas MysteryBruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan and his wife Deborah at their new home in Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the Cotswolds. Mrs Bradley is a well-known psychiatrist grave but she's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers when they found it, it came with three sets of observationbones. She soon comes They dated back to World War II and it fell to hear Bruno, the story Chief of a local ghostPolice for St Denis, that to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over the gate leading crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to Groaning Spinney: worry about, the ghost will play a part in what Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is about to happenflowing at record levels. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become It's not just the local squire with autumn rains that have caused the acquisition of his property problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some St Denis faces the possibility of the locals as they visit to give festive wishesa devastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marjorie Orr152919640X|title=By the Light of a LieThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friendThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, EricaJessica Holby, was killed in a hit-murdered live on television and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldnseems that there't understand why she should have been in Hammersmiths only one suspect. She'd left her getting into a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St MartinHe's Lane celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and she was on her way home to Hampstead his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morningJessica Holby. Then she died three hours later She's seriously allergic and miles out carries an EpiPen in case of her wayemergencies. The police didn't seem likely Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to pursue the case on the grounds be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that it had probably been an this was no accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going to leave her friend unavenged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth ReedB0CYV674G2|title=Marty's MasterSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake

|summary=Margaret was nervous about going for the walk around the lake on her ownIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent covered in mud and blood - and go with her. She made it to carrying a knife, comes into the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the bar, relieved police station shouting that shehe hasn'd managed to leave t killed the drunken man who was Marty. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's master and some other suspicious-looking men behind herbeen stabbed to death. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sister's widowerDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, Avel, had remarried and which coincided with the birth of his new wife, Elena, was in daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the clubhouse with Avelwords 'perverse's children - three teenage girls and a boy who was little more than a toddler'John Tanner' were made for each other. Elena didnHe't look in s sleep-deprived to the least pleased to be there and despite Avelpoint of falling asleep at work but he's promises determined to pick them up, keep going - probably because he was nowhere to be seencan't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George MannStuart Douglas|title= WychwoodLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary=Thirty-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and left her partner. Much as she prefers LondonLeggit', she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a short time to lick her wounds, but she arrives to find woman on the neighbouring part edge of the Wychwood is a crime scenereservoir. Even broken-hearted journalists can't afford The police seem happy to pass up assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the chance help of a storyfellow actor, particularly if they know they need John Le Breton to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth can't resist sticking her nose inhelp him investigate matters further. With her childhood friend Peter They travel across the detective sergeant on the case there's an extra interest in it for Elspethcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and once she's spotted , seemingly, a link to death during the connection Second World War. But is there really a link between the ritualised murder and the local myth about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources deaths? And will they manage to try and uncover a serial killer.who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton0008517061|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those 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 you not familiar his life with Agatha Raisin she is essentially his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a shortlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-tempered private investigator grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her early 50s with an alcohol, doughnut 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 man obsession. Much like TV's Midsomer Murders, putting the future on the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1786482126|title=The Furthest StationJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, for example site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they call for PC Peter Grant discovered the bones of the Special Assessment Unita child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, also known Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as The Folly. Stray river godsRuth knows, missing Victorian childrenbut Nelson doesn't, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersthat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, they are all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Follynot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes0008551324|title= The Happy EndingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. HeIt's a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to have a fall approach the police. Neither side likes or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's managing well enough at homeprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Mentally he's all thereThis person, even if he does have these conversations with his wifepromises, who's been dead is someone big and it will be worth the last 6 years. There's a point when 'police doing ok' stops being quite so ok, a point when there's clearly no purpose leftwhat he wants. No-one comes, even the paramedics seem And what he wants is to be transferred to have shunted you an open prison to serve the bottom remainder of the list, his sentence and wellto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's all becoming just a bit too undignified. To be honest, when he found even prepared to do the morphine Bettyother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd been stock-piling against the day her own illness got too much for her but never used as it turned out, Harry was on the point of using it himselfs happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0008405026|title=These Darkening DaysA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of the knife It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was a mistake, but he liked knives never found and had quite a collection until they were all taken away after the accident which had left him, well, not quite as he ought investigation ground to bea halt. The problem with this knife was that it was beside the woman who was lying in the ginnellNow, one leg twisted under her rather strangely mother, Helena, and with blood coursing down her facefather are dead in their bed. Tony thought Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about ringing the police but dismissed positioning of the idea quicklybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She What looked as though it was still alive going to be an open- just and- so an ambulance might have been shut case is now a good ideacomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going to catch him, so he dropped the knife down a drain and disappearedUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Anne MeredithJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|titlesummary=Portrait Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's 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 university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. 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 left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a Murderer: A Christmas Crime Storydark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|summary=Adrian Gray was not When a particularly pleasant man, but that was no reason why he should meet his death at is found crucified on the hands top of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars a hill in 1931Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. None of the six children were fond of It's their father and first live case together, having previously been very successful with several had cause to wish him deadcold cases. Richard was the eldest But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and was married a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to Lauratheir AI Future Policing project. He was a politician and keen Will they be able to advance himself - and to get a title other than solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the knighthood which he already had - but such endeavours cost money which he ''didn't'' have. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him case and was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him , potentially, out of the mess.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1035021803|title=Y is for YesterdayThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. My very first crime fiction book was She's back now because of a Kinsey Millhone storyrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from a crime avoider Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to a crime lover! say the least. Since that first story, I have Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been committed back to the alphabet mysteriesvillage: Arthur, she feels, so it I let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt both excited and a little sad able to be holding near the man or pursue the penultimate story profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1398524085|title= Look For HerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Annalise Wood disappeared on Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her journey home from school husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades Greg, find the town body of Lilling tried to solve the mystery of AnnaliseGreg's disappearance untilfather, almost twenty years laterDuncan Ackerley, her body was discoveredin the river. Annalise's body It was badly decomposed an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there was lack of DNA available, then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not match anyone on recordguilt. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder soon becomes a Salter children are not convinced but there'cold case' – s little else they can do but still the most famous Lilling has ever seenget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte1529900360|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I 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 excited reluctant to have ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the chance to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under help of a psychologist only worked for a pseudonymwhile. But Finally, as a self-confessed chicklit fanit was Robin, whoDelaware's never read a crime novel beforepartner, I wasn't sure if I who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was going to like itsomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White178763681X|title= From The ShadowsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm Chef Paul Delamare took a bit old-fashioned and therefore not teaching job at a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straightresidential cookery school in Belgravia. IHe didn'll go with t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of a story – but switching between getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''nowsomehow' and 'a fortnight agogot the impression that he' – just feels d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a little lazybroken arm, a but it didn't turn out that way of creating tension when . The teaching - and the problems - are all else failshis own. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'one thing he hadn' t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529421284|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a field tripheatwave. In a gully, but a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be honest Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a lot simple case of the students didnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none of them would go into forensicsconvinced. There Geary was more excitement when the skull a townie, so what was discovered but at that point he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the students were quickly escorted from the scene suicide of Holly Gilbert and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigation. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from the neighbouring force also arrived with the same intention: the burial site was right on the border between the two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the other begantime. Stone assumed that it would be her case Lockyer and was shocked and bewildered when she found DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that it was 's cold cases to be run as a joint investigation. She nearly refused: she you and Travis had historyme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1529425867|title=The Word is MurderLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=An attractiveIn Oxford, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in Londonthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and makes plans for her own funeralalways exquisitely dressed. Within just a few hoursD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, sheis not. He's had lunch, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own homenot any of those things. Could anyone have foreseen the service to have been needed so quickly? ThatHe's the initial premise of this thrillerwhite, this most intriguing mysteryoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you want 're being introduced to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprisesa police procedural written for laughs. Well, you should 're not read . The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the bookcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's blurbFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, or even which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the authorial biographyCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and perhaps not even the followinghasn't long to live. Just go in blindIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and wait for sent to a watery grave in the surprises – that start, as boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it happens, with chapter two…a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>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 knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1521129886|title= The Night StalkerThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turf. LewishamGreg Mason's finest are sent just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the country for this outingpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. There It's been a death down good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in Somerset-law appears to have killed himself. It Stuart's not the sort of thing youconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who'd expect the regional murder squad s struggling to get involved inmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it looks like a hit-simply wasn't in his nature. The police and-run on a remote road in the Quantockscoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four who didn but Stuart't even know he'd done its prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title= Martin Edwards Responsibilities (editorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor= The Long Arm of the LawAnn Macarthur|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn'golden aget satisfying so he' s now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of crime fictionCameron Strike', we think of you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the brilliant amateur forever putting life experience that backs up this profession? On the official P.C. Plod other hand, he has been asked to shamelook into something. Miss MarpleJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, Sherlock Holmesor rather, Poirotthey were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Father Brown Oliver and so on. IPam Hetherington - can'll admit t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to being fall in front of a fan of all of those, but they aren't the whole storytrain. The other side of the coin shows the official police doing their job and getting their manGreg's been asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1838954481|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's got less than three weeks to live. Had Kathryn known no doubt about that she might have made different choices. I've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at He was the fifteen-year-old holding the wedding, but gun and pointing it was there that she met her killerat DI Kieran Shaw. He said his name was David and he was charming, respectful, unwilling pulled the trigger but due to rush anything as he was still getting over the death vagaries of his wife. Kathryn was left with the feeling that jury system he was still more than a little bit in love with Tricia. They went on a couple found not guilty of dates both the murder and then David took her to a cottage in the Dales for manslaughter of the weekendofficer. And so lives must go on. By For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the end of capital and hoping for a quieter life in the weekend Kathryn would be dead in countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her burnedterritory she's drawn into a wider investigation -out carand back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker1448309743|title= All The Wicked GirlsDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In the small town village of Cronchie on the West coast of GraceScotland, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her, the incident rocks from the entire town. It home is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over Devil Stone: myth says that if the course stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the year, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar Countybody. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls Senior Investigating Office is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, and has so far evaded capture. Whilst DCI Bob Oswald but when he roams the streetsdisappears, no one DCI Christine Caplan is safepulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1529077699|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over the course of his work, he''It's seen plenty of unusual thingsall bloody peculiar, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A manisn't it, Richard Kite, has approached him for helpSir?'' Well yes, but explains that his request it is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS Jem Rosco blew into the missing person. Found unconscious at local pub one evening in the mouth middle of Southampton Water 10 months previouslyan autumn gale, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can't remember anything stayed for about his life. He's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he isa month and then turned up, despite news naked and press coverage of his casedead, and without in a National Insurance numbersmall boat, he is basically 'off anchored in Scully Cove close to the gridvillage of Greystone,' unable to get in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a jobrenowned adventurer, pay tax or own a home. This desperate round the world sailor and confused man needs Rakerall round ''celebrity''s help to discover the truth. But the truth can I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a dangerous thinglittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1529427045|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=Jane Tennison's a fully'Life has more to offer than people -fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: she's back at Bow Street waiting prime numbers for her first posting. Sheexample'd like the Flying Squad, but she's not got the experience, nor, it . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to be saidthe small town of Gasskas, where the necessary physical attributesso-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. This The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampantthe latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 and 75 and no one believes only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but itquickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's going to be over any time soon. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in unaware of the latest incident part Salander played in which a bomb killed five people - and sheher father's one of only two people who got a good look at the bomberdeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>