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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1035021803|title=Stop MeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, but most of us will have had to deal with themCarole. FortunatelyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, we can hit Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they cameleast. I certainly prefer Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, no matter how bad my luck is supposed she has not felt able to become if I don'tbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But I wonder how many of us would react if After the split, she worked in a spam E-Mail actually was a matter cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life , who was murdered) and Freya and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1398524085|title=Blood BornHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death Paul and Ollie and faces a battle against time to save herdaughter, Etty. In the panicare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murderis not. Worse still Shortly afterwards, in trying to save Etty and Greg, find the girlbody of Greg's lifefather, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and Duncan Ackerley, in the case falls apartriver. She blames herself It was an easy assumption for the Harbourn brothers being allowed police to walk free make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and only hours later then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed 's little else they can do but get on with their lives and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to lifewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529900360|title=The Brutal TellingGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morningIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, in Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the village help of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunnedpsychologist only worked for a while. The man has been bludgeoned to deathFinally, it was Robin, but thereDelaware's no sign of a weaponpartner, no obvious reason who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the killing and no clues as to involvement was something that the identity of the victimman she loved needed. MeanwhileThe next case did look simple, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacostethough. They've been to Three Pines before, but this time Two lovers were murdered in the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming swimming pool of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living remote property in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd humanBel Air. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - He was the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically heir to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself an Italian shoe empire and she is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs married to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) an extremely rich man and Sue, Julietit's lover. At not the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to dieItalian. Can he solve all his problems without losing any But which of his loved onesthem was the primary target? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box 178763681X|title=Three Weeks to Say Goodbye|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hard-working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news is that the boy's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=David Barrie|title=Wasp-WaistedOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigationsBelgravia. His first case proves He didn't really want to be something but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Parisgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the body is delivered school to Exposéassist Paul, who had a bigbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murdererproblems - are all his own. Despite the provenance of the picture itThe one thing he hadn's difficult not t expected was for someone to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced itturn up dead. All Guerin has to go on is Unfortunately, he was the ''very'' expensive underwear which person who discovered the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529421284|title=HustleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in two formsa heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the long con surface and forensic testing proved the short conbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The long con is more elaborate He'd been a known drug user and has more that can go wronghad learning disabilities, takes so it could have been a lot longer to set up simple case of misadventure but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. This is the art of fleecing Geary was a single person townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a lot of money all Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at oncethe time. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' Lockyer and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game DC Gemma Broad of ''find the ladyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that'', which aims s cold cases to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker you and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1529425867|title=ConmanLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks to the success In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the BBC TV show ''Hustle''Nigerian descent, the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recallBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I've always liked the seriesRyan Wilkins, as it shows a battle son of wits Ryan and there father of Ryan, is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endnot. Until Richard AsplinHe's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Conmanreally''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're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, Iyou'd re not read anything with quite . The two men are just different sides of the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaverpolicing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529431735|title=The ComplaintsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The ComplaintsIt' s February 1991 and Essex is not the job for you if personal popularity mattersbitingly cold, because theywhich made Bruce Hopkins're return all the cops who investigate other copsmore surprising. Inspector Malcolm Fox has He'd been there for some time and at the beginning of the book exiled on the Procurator Fiscal is taking on Costa del Sol as a case against wanted drug smuggler for a serving policemandecade. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who The return has taken come about because he's had a few shortcuts letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and done some unorthodox swaps of information just hasn't long to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwiselive. They don't reckon that heIt's bent hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and there's sent to a degree watery grave in the boot of resentment against Foxa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0861541774|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to take on the case of a missing teenagermeet up with an old ally, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itGuy Trueman. As Maik was involved in a street brawl - he looks into it further, it becomes apparent would later maintain that he was facing a number of young women are being murdered in man armed with a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as knife - and he killed a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victimGhurka. Karl finds himself looking for Initially, he faced a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number charge of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the police do not really care very muchman. Most of Now he could be facing the victims are homeless women with death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a history of drug problems diplomatic incident and a life on the wrong side of the lawwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1521129886|title=No EscapeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=IGreg Mason've long had s just beginning to get his confidence as an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologyinvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The mind is It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a fascinating thing, but it has far baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more spectacular effects delighted about the baby when things go wrongshe gets past the morning sickness. The same 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 true of crime thrillersnot thriving. Lucy, he says, which are a lot more entertaining when things donis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't work out too well for the in his nature. The police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller the coroner have accepted that the death was always going suicide, but Stuart's prepared to appeal pay Greg to mefind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul CharlesB0CK3MYJ56|title=Family LifeResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends It's the 1990s and children were gathered at the family farm for LiamGreg Mason's birthdaytwenty-eight years old. There was just one empty seat at He used to have a high-flying job in the table and city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the family waited for Joe – life experience that backs up this profession? On the only one of the children who wanted to farm – other hand, he has been asked to return homelook into something. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joekilled in what's body had been discovered on land by written off as a disused warehousetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. There were no injuries to the body Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Starrett Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could only assume that Joe had come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been murderedasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1838954481|title=The Gigolo MurderMisper|author=Kate London|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=After Ryan Kennedy killed a breakpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and selfyear-pity for too long, so his friend, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on old holding the town in Istanbulgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem He pulled the trigger but due to whom the vagaries of the jury system he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be married. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of a gigolothe officer. And so lives must go on. Our hero suspects For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the brother-capital and hoping for a quieter life in-law is not guilty... the countryside but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1448309743|title=Skeleton HillThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When In the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle village of Cronchie on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple the West coast of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one Scotland, five members of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay coolstone is removed from Otterburn House, but after unearthing two can he can find no moredeath will follow. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that it's a relic an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the battlebody. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone The Senior Investigating Office is nowhere near as old as they thinkDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who DCI Christine Caplan is buried pulled in that lonely spotto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1787636607|title=BloodlineThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved It's a scene replicated all too often in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murderthe early hours of the morning. However, slivers Drunken revellers spilling out of an X-Ray clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are found in 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 dead outlying villages. The womanall regret the 'taxi problem's hand, and it is soon discovered that particularly in the womanlight of 's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years beforemissing women'. Other deaths with For one young woman, the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out to murder all final stop on the children bus leaves her a long way short of Raymond Garvey'sher home... That She had intended to ring someone may just be Garveyto come and collect her - but her phone's bastard son, who believes that dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the tumour that killed bus driver to let her use his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killer There's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1405957174|title=The Dead RoomA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third in From the Darby McCormick seriesfirst page, the Dead Room sees the head of Bostonwe know that Nadine Walsh's CSU investigating party will not end well. The victim - a horrific home invasion which leads man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to a womancall the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that t know is who the case man is more complicated than she could possibly or why Nadine prefers to have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her fatherhim die. I's death in the line of duty wasn't all d better give you a little more background so that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husbandyou can understand what's murderhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 0008530025|title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and the following morning found the body of one of them was found her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children garden of long-defunct Ragged Schooltheir West London home. The teenager He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there taken was a Victorian doll – similarly mutilatedobviously deliberate. Back in the nineteen fifties there Twenty years later, no one has been four murders in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled charged with his murder and mutilated and left with it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a doll by their sidetrue-crime show. The killer had never A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to justicetake the investigation further. HeMore to the point, they'd be likely re going to be in his seventies do this live on camera, episode by now – was it possible that he was still fit enough to return to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Dawes Green0241996104|title=RavensComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Shaw Nancy's mother and Romeo are two friends, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresvillestep-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, GAMartin, and find that one family has just had the only winning lottery ticket for a $318million jackpotbeen convicted of their murder. The family involved is very average - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up for We first meet Nancy outside the weekly lottery and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebookcourt, boy glued to after Martin receives a PSP or somethinglife sentence. There are enough gaps within the family for the pair of guys to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winnings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leigh Russell|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=An au pair took The barrister tells her employerthat she's young daughter, the nextreceived a 'silent sentence' -door neighbourshe's son and his friend not been found guilty of anything but will have to the park, but the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy and live with what happened for the wilfulness rest of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not goher life. In there she used a stick to stir up some leaves and uncovered the body of a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elliott J Gorn |title=DillingerOf course, it's Wild Ride: The Year That Made Americamade worse because Nancy's Public Enemy Number One|rating=4|genre=History|summary=John Dillinger was born rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and brought up in Indiana. His childhood was no better and no worse than the papers are making the most but the early part of his adult life was to be blighted by a spell in prison when he was convicted of an attack on a man in a botched hold-up. Hoping for leniency he pleaded guilty but was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentenceit. It's easy to see where Dillinger's contempt for the law was spawned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joaquin Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and 'Jack' Garcia |title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Joaquin rich bitch'Jack' Garcia worked for the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time be printed but sometimes for yearsis undoubtedly spoken. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells the story of how he came to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 1529413680|title=Burn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa the problems start mounting up again. A nun has gone missing in mysterious circumstances and the local priest doesn't seem all that worried. After a meal with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – but how he had got into the fort ion the first place? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. Kenya's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joseph Teller |title=The Tenth Case|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I am a great fan of courtroom dramas, which is one of the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much and I pretty much look on him as the master of this genre. SoChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, when I discover a book that claims that it's ''better than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound to be interested. This was the claim made by the publishers Chief of ''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that he writes lives up to expectations. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does? Read on...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Steve Mosby |title=Still BleedingMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alex Connor has been trying to negate One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the memory liberation of his wifethe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's suicide by running awaythere to see the show with some friends. HeIt's left all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them for yearsvery carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. But now SarahLuckily, one of his closest friends, has been murdered doctor is there and the prime suspect man is her partner, Alexwhisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's brother Jamesa senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. For Alex, this is the one thing that could call him homeOne daughter lives nearby and another, as Sarah was the one who told him to confront deathlives in California, not run from itis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina1529196388|title=Still MidnightThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On Grant Cliveden was a quiet Sunday evening hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the suburbs of Glasgow an old man is kidnapped from an unassuming houseOld Bailey. The kidnappers are incompetent – they donThere's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it't seem entirely certain who s not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it is they're after s Taylor-Cameron and one of them fires his gunpupil, badly injuring a teenage girl. As they leaveAdam Green, taking the old man with them, they demand a ransom of two million poundswho eventually represent him. Have they got the right house and if so, why do they think that thereKnight's so much money determined to be had there? DS Alex Morrow is certain that this is going to be her case – after plead not guilty, despite all, she was promised – but it goes Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to her arch rival, DS Grant Bannerman and she is to work under his commandthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100529</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony Black Andrew Cartmel|title=GuttedDeath in Fine Condition|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's always Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a risk in taking series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on a new authorfor profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add value, even in a genre that suggests you should enjoy the booksomewhat fraudulent ways. The quotes on the backs One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books are usually unanimous after seeing them in their praise the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she cansteal it! It't be relied upon to be an accurate judge s a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the quality between the covers. But when an author is compared to others you already know are great writers, this does raise the expectation level a little. This is not always a good thing.collection comes looking for their books?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848090528</amazonuk>1789098947
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine 1448309379|title=Inhuman RemainsFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Primavera Blackstone wants It's something of a surprise to keep find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a low profile. After an apparent attempt on her life by her ex-husband, she is still feeling fragile, even though Mr Blackstone is now dead. Living in Spain break with her seven year old son, Tom, she thinks she is safe from prying eyesyour wife and children, but then her Aunt Adrienne comes that's what happened to visit and all hell lets loseDS Aector McAvoy. Adrienne asks Prim Whilst he was relieved to find her sonthat he was still, Prim's cousinofficially, Frankalive, who has been out of contact it was difficult for some time and Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who she suspects is in some kind of trouble. Prim eventually tracks Frank down, or rather, Frank finds 'd dashed from her, but by then Adrienne is flat in the hands early hours of his enemiesthe morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, the perpetrators of a massive commercial fraudwas not. Can Prim help Frank to safety, find Adrienne and solve the mystery, all without putting her son Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's life in danger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348990</amazonuk>doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol O'Connell 1529135389|title=Bone by BoneThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty years ago two teenage boys went into Nicole Booth had spent the woods outside morning at the northern Californian town county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of Coventry her husband but only one opera was playing on the state-of them came home-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. The Some of them fought with each other was sent away by his father, Judge Hobbs and hedidn's only just returned home because he believes t work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that his father might be dyingsort of money, too. During Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the first night there's swimming pool with a thump as a human jawbone – complete with teeth – lands on the front porch. Josh Hobbs is coming home – bone by bonewound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535298X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda CastilloAlan Parks|title=Sworn to SilenceTo Die in June|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Called out yet again in What first seems like the freezing cold unfortunate, accidental death of an Ohio winter night a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to deal with stray cows in the roadfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, Officer Tand then another.J. Banks This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, newcomer to but all the Painters Mill police department, more so because his own father is not a happy mandown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. His night, howeverAt the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is going also dealing with a move to get a whole lot worse. From different police station, and the hole in the wire fence when the cattle escaped, arrival there of a trail of blood leads him across the snow to an unknown womanwho claims her little boy has gone missing, ''naked as only no record of the day she came into this'' ''world, and deader than Elvis''boy having existed can be found. With Something feels wrong - not just with the understatement of woman’s story but also with the yearother officers where he has been stationed, Banks tells dispatch that ''this was no'' ''accident…I think we got us a murder.''but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230736408</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Gardner1804545600|title=The NeighbourMonk|author=Tim Sullivan
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In The body in the UK, when people used woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to be able to afford it, people might form a career chair and dumped in taking run-down houses, doing them up and selling them on for a profitditch. If very lucky (or particularly weird, as was more often the case) they might get He'd been savagely beaten. It's a second career doing while before D S George Cross and the same thing on TVMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. But over in LA, where the process is known as He'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn'flipping'', they do things much bettert asked permission to leave his abbey. There, a group of policemenAs the team gradually unpick the monk's wives have formed a group with a past it becomes clear that he'd been well-known mystery author. She writes a murder book set in the house the others are working onloved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and when both hit the markets together the profit is exemplaryfriend. Or so He'd also been very wealthy but had given it is until someone starts bringing real life death to the houses - all up for the very women in the grouphis faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749079789</amazonuk> Why would someone savagely murder him?
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