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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1035021803|title=Fear in the CotswoldsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by professionIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the propertyShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. This time itFreya's winter former mentor and sheCarole's spending a month in close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the Cotswold village of Hampnett. It wouldn't be a job for all of us but Thea delights in getting circumstances seem suspicious, to know the local people and say the arealeast. In Arthur was the past she's also reason why Freya had not been involved with back to the police village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in solving various cases but it looks business together as though that might have come antique hunters, she has not felt able to an end as be near the man or pursue the relationship profession she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledloved. For After the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when split, she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to a body worked in a nearby field. When cafe, met and married James (on the police finally arrive rebound from the body has disappeared love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it allJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1398524085|title=Spade and ArcherHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agency. ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entailsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Many localsHer children, of coursesons Niall, choose to disobey the lawPaul and Ollie and her daughter, stick two fingers upEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight awayAlec, it's evident that Sam is a man of few wordsnot. He has Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the mannerisms body of a cat - stealthy, quick on his feet. HeGreg's also a compulsive chain-smokerfather, but then againDuncan Ackerley, most people werein the river. In that era, holding a cigarette It was an elegant, almost essential accessoryeasy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. How times have changedThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1529900360|title=Stop MeThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam EIt 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 difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-Mails can be incredibly annoyingshut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, but most of us will have had to deal with themDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. FortunatelyThe next case did look simple, we can hit though. Two lovers were murdered in the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they cameswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. I certainly prefer not He was the heir to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck an Italian shoe empire and she is supposed married to become if I donan extremely rich man and it'ts not the Italian. But I wonder how many which of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually them was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to bethe primary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox178763681X|title=Blood BornKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives impression that he'd be at the house she finds Giverny close school to death and faces assist Paul, who had a battle against time to save her. In the panicbroken arm, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether but it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murderdidn't turn out that way. Worse still, in trying to save the girl's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene The teaching - and the case falls apartproblems - are all his own. She blames herself The one thing he hadn't expected was for the Harbourn brothers being allowed someone to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attackturn up dead. A pair of sisters have been stabbed Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and raped resulting in everyone knows that the death of one, while police consider that person to be the other clings to lifeprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529421284|title=The Brutal TellingLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early It was one morning, in the village of Three Pines, those flash downpours that the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephoneBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. There is In a gully, a body in human skeleton came to the bistro surface and Olivier is stunnedforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The man has He'd been bludgeoned to deatha known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but thereDI Matt Lockyer wasn's no sign of t convinced. Geary was a weapontownie, no obvious reason for so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the killing suicide of Holly Gilbert and no clues as to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the identity of the victimtime. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. TheyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that've been s cold cases to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaosyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey1529425867|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts Lost and succubi for friends, and the odd human. 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 - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus Never Found (a demonic female spiritA D I Wilkins Mystery) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At 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 die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeSimon Mason|rating=24.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is narrated by Jack McMcGuaneof Nigerian descent, who describes himself as a hard-workingBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, regular guy (more son of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he Ryan and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girlfather of Ryan, Angelinais not. He's not any of those things. He's white, when their world is shattered by a telephone call originated from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and now wants to take the baby backtrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Even worse news is that the boy You might wonder if you's father is an influential federal judgere being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. They have Well, you've guessed re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529431735|title=Wasp-WaistedThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the eliteIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, dealing with national security, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded hemade Bruce Hopkins's been moved into criminal investigationsreturn all the more surprising. His first case proves to be something of a problem when He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a young model is found dead in wanted drug smuggler for a luxury hotel in Parisdecade. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body is delivered to Exposé, The return has come about because he's had a bigletter from his ex-circulation scandal sheetwife, before the body is discovered saying that she's ill and it can only have been taken by the murdererhasn't long to live. Despite the provenance of the picture itIt's difficult not hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to be a watery grave in awe the boot of the skill and artistry which produced ita stolen Ford Sierra. All Guerin has Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to go on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 0861541774|title=HustleA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two formsDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, the long con and the short con. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes taken a lot longer short holiday in Singapore to set meet up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightwith an old ally, Guy Trueman. This is the art of fleecing Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a single person out of knife - and he killed a lot of money all at onceGhurka. It is this Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onman. The short con can Now he could be something as basic as a rigged game of ''find facing the lady'', which aims death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to part help as many people any interference from another police force could provoke a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker diplomatic incident and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle'wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1521129886|title=ConmanThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the success of the BBC TV show point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Hustles a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they'', re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the art of baby when she gets past the long con seems morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be more popular than I ever recallhave killed himself. IStuart've always liked the seriess concerned about his sister, Lucy, as it shows a battle of wits who's struggling to make ends meet and there her son is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endnot thriving. Until Richard Asplin's ''Conman''Lucy, he says, Iis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn'd not read anything with quite t in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the same level of intricacydeath was suicide, although Jeffery Deaver but Stuart's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin B0CK3MYJ56|title=The ComplaintsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in It'The Complaints' is not s the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they1990s and Greg Mason're the cops who investigate other copss twenty-eight years old. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time and at He used to have a high-flying job in the beginning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a case against a serving policemanprivate investigator. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps 'Shades of information just to get the right result when justice Cameron Strike', you might not be served otherwisethinking. They donNice bloke, but where't reckon s the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, hehas been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's bent been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there- or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's a degree of resentment against Foxbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar1838954481|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelMisper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on the case of Ryan Kennedy killed a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. As he looks into it further, He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty wayat DI Kieran Shaw. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed He pulled the trigger but due to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number the vagaries of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do jury system he was found not really care very much. Most guilty of both the victims are homeless women with a history murder and the manslaughter of drug problems the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the wrong side orbit of the lawRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1448309743|title=No EscapeThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I've long had an interest in psychologyIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, particularly abnormal psychologyfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The mind only item missing from the home is a fascinating thingthe Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wrongdeath will follow. The same is true only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things donthem 'discovered't work out too well for the policebody. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to appeal to me'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1529077699|title=Family LifeThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at the family farm for Liam''It's birthday. There was just one empty seat at the table and the family waited for Joe – the only one of the children who wanted to farm – to return home. It wasnall bloody peculiar, isn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe, Sir?''s body had been discovered on land by a disused warehouse. There were no injuries to the body and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529427045|title=Skeleton HillThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=When the Sealed Knot re''Life has more to offer than people -enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off prime numbers for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that itexample''s a relic of the battle. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Pynchon 1787636607|title=Inherent ViceThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The close of the It'60s, s a scene replicated all too often in the dawn early hours of the '70smorning. San FranciscoDrunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some people say the most influential people are Nixon lucky and his croniesmanage to get one of the few taxis available. Some people say they're Charlie Manson and his croniesOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Some people call The woman all regret the smog surrounding everyone 'taxi problem', particularly in the Bay Area air pollutionlight of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, others the final stop on the bus leaves her a drug hazelong way short of her home. Doc, 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 sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point chance to beg the same bigwig property developer. One of these is from bus driver to let her use his ex, now with said mogul, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately dies. How will this escalate into a manic mystery, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back There's no option but to life, unusual retreats, start walking - unsuitably clothed and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1405957174|title=Bloodline|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murder. However, slivers of an X-Ray are found in the dead woman's hand, and it is soon discovered that the woman's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with A Death at the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out to murder all the children of Raymond Garvey's... That someone may just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that the tumour that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killer's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParty|author=Chris Mooney |title=The Dead RoomAmy 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 step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Romeo are two friendsher step-brother, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GAMartin, and find that one family has just had been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the only winning lottery ticket for court, after Martin receives a $318million jackpotlife sentence. The family involved is very average barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the weekly lottery and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebook, boy glued to a PSP or somethingrest of her life. There Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are enough gaps within making the family for the pair most of guys to break in between them, it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and have them under threat for half the winnings''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell1529413680|title=Cut Short A Chateau Under Siege (DI Geraldine SteelA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=An au pair took her employer's young daughter, One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the nextre-door neighbourenactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's son and his friend there to see the parkshow with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, but the young girl was petulant about man playing one of the inclusion of main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the second boy script. Luckily, his doctor is there and with the wilfulness man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a child senior government employee, the man who finds herself less than runs Frenchelon - the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not gomilitary has stepped in. In there she used a stick to stir up One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some leaves and uncovered the body of her father's friends for a womanpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>
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|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 profit. If very lucky (or particularly weird, as was more often the case) they might get a second career doing the same thing on TVditch. But over in LA, where the process is known as He''flipping'', they do things much betterd been savagely beaten. There, a group of policemenIt's wives have formed a group with a well-known mystery author. She writes a murder book set in the house the others are working on, while before D S George Cross and when both hit the markets together the profit Major Crime Unit establish that this is exemplaryFather Dominic. Or so it is until someone starts bringing real life death to the houses - He'd been missing for the very women in the group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749079789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K O Dahl|title=The Last Fix|rating=4|genre=Crime |summary=Katrine Bratterud didna few days and certainly hadn't really want asked permission to go to the party, but it was given by the people from her drug rehabilitation centre and she felt under an obligation as the social workers had done so much to help herleave his abbey. It wasn't going to be easy though – As the other guests would be drinking heavily whilst she had to remain clean and to make matters worse she'd been physically attacked that day at team gradually unpick the travel agency where she worked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571232949</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Glen Peters |title=Mrs D'Silvamonk's Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta|rating=4.5|genre=Crime |summary=During a picnic excursion with his mother Joan and other families from Calcuttapast it becomes clear that he's Anglo Indian communityd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, ten year old Errol makes a gruesome discovery – the partly decomposed body of a young womanneighbour and friend. The victim turns out to be Agnes, brought He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up by nuns and lately married to a much older man. As witnesses, Joan and Errol are required to attend the inquest at which a verdict of suicide is implied. After the inquest, Anil, a former pupil at the school where Joan teaches, and Philomena, both friends of the dead girl, confide in Joan that they believe that Agnes was murdered and ask for Joan's help in finding out who was responsiblehis faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906998019</amazonuk> Why would someone savagely murder him?
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