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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1035021803|title=Core of EvilThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. It'"There are all kinds of horrible things in s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Christmas rose," English country village where she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear hergrew up. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I She've also used befores back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, but thereCarole. Freya's saporin former mentor and protoanemonin as well. ItCarole's a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - endclose friend, and Violet has become DaisyArthur Crockleford, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity is dead andthe circumstances seem suspicious, most importantly, a new victimto say the least. Daisy has problems with her memory - Arthur was the identities go reason why Freya had not been back so far that sometimes to the village: Arthur, she can barely remember who is she is nowfeels, let alone all her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the whos split, she's been beforeworked in a cafe, met and most certainly not married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who with whom she beganwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1398524085|title=Dead of WinterHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon LakeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely Paul and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderland. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life Ollie and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come homeher daughter, Etty. Life has are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not been easy for Kincaid. A troubledShortly afterwards, unhappy child Etty and Greg, find the body of mixed raceGreg's father, passed around various institutions and foster homesDuncan Ackerley, Louis figures in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that if Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he is going to put some integrity back into couldn't stand the world, he will need to wear a badge to guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do itbut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1529900360|title=Fear in the CotswoldsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and looks even after their animals and the propertyAlex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. This time it's winter His assertions that there were only open-and she-shut cases which didn's spending a month in t need the Cotswold village help of Hampnetta psychologist only worked for a while. It wouldnFinally, it was Robin, Delaware't be a job s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for all of us but Thea delights in getting to know the local people and the areahelp again. In the past she's also been involved with She knew that the police in solving various cases but it looks as though involvement was something that might have come to an end as the relationship man she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps Two lovers were murdered in the snow which lead to swimming pool of a body remote property in a nearby fieldBel Air. When He was the police finally arrive the body has disappeared heir to an Italian shoe empire and the police obviously wonder if sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's imagined it allnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores178763681X|title=Spade and ArcherKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, 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 way of getting both men and women to set up his one-man detective agencydo what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow's ' got the 1920s in San Francisco so we have impression that he'd be at the prohibition era and all that that entails. Many locals, of course, choose school to disobey the lawassist Paul, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as who had a result there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight awaybroken arm, but itdidn's evident t turn out that Sam is a man of few wordsway. He has The teaching - and the mannerisms of a cat problems - stealthy, quick on are all his feetown. HeThe one thing he hadn's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people weret expected was for someone to turn up dead. In that eraUnfortunately, holding a cigarette he was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changedthe person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1529421284|title=Stop MeLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most It was one of us will have had to deal with themthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. FortunatelyIn a gully, we can hit a human skeleton came to the delete button surface and forget about them as quickly as they cameforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'tconvinced. But I wonder how many of us would react if Geary was a spam E-Mail actually townie, so what was a matter he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of life Holly Gilbert and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1529425867|title=Blood Born|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victim, 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 and faces a battle against time to save her. In the panic, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girl's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apart. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free Lost and only hours later there is news of another attack. Never Found (A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Louise Penny |title=The Brutal TellingSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morningIn Oxford, in the village there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Three PinesNigerian descent, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephoneBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. There is a body in the bistro D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Olivier father of Ryan, is stunnednot. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but thereHe's no sign not any of those things. He's white, originated from a weapontrailer park, no obvious reason for the killing barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and no clues as to the identity his wardrobe consists mainly of the victimshell suits and trackies. Meanwhile, They're usually in Montreallime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, Chief Inspector Gamache you're not. The two men are just different sides of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacostesame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. TheySometimes it've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaoss problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey1529431735|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 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 (a demonic female spirit) 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>}} {{newreviewWinter Visitor|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeJames Henry|rating=2.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'Three Weeks to Say Goodbyereturn all the more surprising. He'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a hard-working, regular guy (more of that in wanted drug smuggler for a minute though)decade. Nine months previously, The return has come about because he and 's had a letter from his ex-wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say saying that there has been a mistake on the forms she's ill and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants hasn't long to take the baby backlive. Even worse news is that the boy It's father hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is an influential federal judge. They haveabducted, you've guessed it, three weeks stripped to say goodbye his underwear and sent to their daughtera watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie0861541774|title=Wasp-WaistedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to be one of the elite, dealing meet up with national securityan old ally, but after an incident Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in Corsica which left him badly wounded a street brawl - he's been moved into criminal investigations. His first case proves to be something of would later maintain that he was facing a problem when man armed with a young model is found dead in knife - and he killed a luxury hotel in ParisGhurka. WorryinglyInitially, he faced a stunning photograph charge of the body is delivered manslaughter but evidence came to Exposé, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered and it can only light that suggested that he might have been taken by planned to murder the murdererman. Despite the provenance of the picture it's difficult not to Now he could be in awe of facing the skill and artistry which produced itdeath penalty. All Guerin has Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to go on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling'help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1521129886|title=HustleThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the long con and the short conpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The long con is more elaborate It's a good job too because Greg and has more that can go wrong, takes Joyce will soon have a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightbaby and they're both delighted. This is Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at oncemorning sickness. It Greg is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman approached by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onan old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'find the lady'', which aims s struggling to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possiblemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The short con may police and the coroner have a lower returnaccepted that the death was suicide, but that return comes a lot quicker and this is the basis for Will FergusonStuart's ''Hustle''prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin B0CK3MYJ56|title=ConmanResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the success of the BBC TV show city but it wasn't satisfying so he'Hustles now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the art of life experience that backs up this profession? On the long con seems other hand, he has been asked to be more popular than I ever recalllook into something. IJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what've always liked the series, s been written off as it shows a battle of wits tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there is so much that can go wrong the outcome is - or how she could come to fall in doubt right until the endfront of a train. Until Richard AsplinGreg's ''Conman'', I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaver's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closebeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1838954481|title=The ComplaintsMisper|author=Kate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'The Complaints' is not s no doubt about that. He was the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they're fifteen-year-old holding the cops who investigate other copsgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and at the beginning manslaughter of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking officer. And so lives must go on a case against a serving policeman. Most people think For DI Sarah Collins that Glen Heaton is means leaving the capital and hoping for a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get quieter life in the right result countryside but when justice might not be served otherwise. They don't reckon that hea missing teenager is found on her territory she's bent drawn into a wider investigation - and there's a degree back into the orbit of resentment against FoxRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar1448309743|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane Novel|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on the case of a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into it. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do not really care very much. Most of the victims are homeless women with a history of drug problems and a life on the wrong side of the law.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=N J Cooper|title=No EscapeCaro 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=BloodlineA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54
|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 From the dead woman's handfirst page, and it is soon discovered we know that the womanNadine Walsh's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years beforeparty will not end well. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove that someone The victim - a man - is out dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to murder all call the children of Raymond Garvey's..ambulance he so desperately needs. That someone may just be Garvey What we don's bastard son, t know is who believes that the tumour man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killeryou can understand what's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 0008530025|title=The Dead Room|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick series, the Dead Room sees the head of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that the case is more complicated than she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her father's death Murder in the line of duty wasn't all that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husband's murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFamily|author=Kate Ellis |title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)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 next-door neighbour's son and his friend to main events of the park, but Sarlat tourist season is the young girl was petulant about re-enactment of the inclusion liberation of the second boy town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the wilfulness man playing one of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the bushes, where she knew that she must not goscript. In Luckily, his doctor is there she used a stick to stir up some leaves and uncovered the body of man is whisked away in a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elliott J Gorn |title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One|rating=4|genre=History|summary=John Dillinger was born and brought up in Indianahelicopter. His childhood was no better A local doctor (and no worse than most but the early part friend of Bruno) wonders about his adult life was to be blighted by a spell in prison when he was convicted chances of an attack on a man in a botched holdsurvival but -up. Hoping for leniency as he pleaded guilty but was sentenced to 's a lengthy term of imprisonmentsenior government employee, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentencewho runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. ItOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's easy to see where Dillinger's contempt friends for the law was spawneda pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</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 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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