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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1035021803|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from workIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayShe's workback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. From this point Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour circumstances seem suspicious, to say the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasleast. There is Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the draftee with a sick mothervillage: Arthur, the nurse who thinks she has run over a babyfeels, the woman who suspects let her husband of cheating and othersdown badly. We are shown what these characters Even though they were doing that eveningin business together as antique hunters, and how these events drag through she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the morningprofession she loved. We are shown how After the split, she worked in the midst of their own interestinga cafe, poignant met and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in married James (on the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness rebound from the attacklove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and how these people did nothingJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1398524085|title=Core of EvilHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas rosesCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. '"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas rose Her children," she saidsons Niall, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear Paul and Ollie and herdaughter, Etty. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I've also used before, all worried but there's saporin and protoanemonin as well. It's a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent strangely - endher husband, and Violet has become DaisyAlec, Daisy sets her sights on a new townis not. Shortly afterwards, a new identity Etty andGreg, find the body of Greg's father, most importantlyDuncan Ackerley, a new victimin the river. Daisy has problems with her memory - It was an easy assumption for the identities go back so far police to make that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the whos sheguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's been before, little else they can do but get on with their lives and most certainly not the who with whom she beganwonder about what really happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1529900360|title=Dead of WinterThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon LakeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Michigan is pictureSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in -shut cases which didn't need the midst help of a pine-peppered winter wonderland. Louis Kincaid needs psychologist only worked for a little serenity in his life and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidwhile. A troubledFinally, unhappy child of mixed raceit was Robin, passed around various institutions and foster homesDelaware's partner, Louis figures who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that if he is going to put some integrity back into the worldman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, he will need though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to wear a badge an Italian shoe empire and she is married to do an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope178763681X|title=Fear in the CotswoldsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is Chef Paul Delamare took a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time it's winter and she's spending teaching job at a month residential cookery school in the Cotswold village of HampnettBelgravia. It wouldnHe didn't be really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a job for all way of us but Thea delights in getting both men and women to know the local people and the areado what he wanted. In Paul ''somehow'' got the past sheimpression that he's also been involved with d be at the police in solving various cases school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it looks as though didn't turn out that might have come to an end as way. The teaching - and the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledproblems - are all his own. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish The one - when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead thing he hadn't expected was for someone to a body in a nearby fieldturn up dead. When Unfortunately, he was the police finally arrive person who discovered the body has disappeared and everyone knows that the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it allconsider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1529421284|title=Spade and ArcherLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his It was one-man detective agency. It's of those flash downpours that the 1920s British weather often delivers in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entailsa heatwave. Many localsIn a gully, of course, choose a human skeleton came to disobey the lawsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquorwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Straight awayHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it's evident that Sam is could have been a man simple case of few wordsmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. He has the mannerisms of Geary was a cat - stealthytownie, quick so what was he doing out on his feet. Salisbury Plain alone? He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which werenot considered suspicious at the time. In Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1529425867|title=Stop MeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingIn Oxford, but most there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of us will have had to deal with themNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. FortunatelyD I Ryan Wilkins, we can hit the delete button son of Ryan and forget about them as quickly as they camefather of Ryan, is not. I certainly prefer He's not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onany of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donbarely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They'tre usually in lime green or acid yellow. But I You might wonder how many of us would react if you're being introduced to a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and deathpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, rather than you're not. The two men are just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1529431735|title=Blood BornThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the courthouse more surprising. He'd been exiled 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 Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a battle against time to save herdecade. In the panic, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or The return has come about because he's had a cleverly staged murder. Worse stillletter from his ex-wife, in trying to save the girlsaying that she's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene ill and the case falls aparthasn't long to live. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed It's hard to walk free and only hours later there feel any sympathy when Hopkins is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed abducted, stripped to his underwear and raped resulting sent to a watery grave in the death boot of one, while the other clings a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 0861541774|title=The Brutal TellingA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morningDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the village of Three PinesSingapore to meet up with an old ally, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephoneGuy Trueman. There is Maik was involved in a body in the bistro street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Olivier is stunnedhe killed a Ghurka. The man has been bludgeoned to deathInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but there's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues as evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the identity of the victimman. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of Now he could be facing the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacostedeath penalty. TheyDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaost help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey1521129886|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 They Had It Coming (a demonic female spiritGreg Mason mysteries) 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 GoodbyeKeith Redfern|rating=2.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'Three Weeks to Say Goodbyell warn someone about how much he charges. It's 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 baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is narrated approached by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hardan old friend whose brother-working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though)-law appears to have killed himself. Nine months previously, he and Stuart's concerned about his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girlsister, AngelinaLucy, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency who's struggling to say that there has been a mistake on the forms make ends meet and the teenage biological father had her son is not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby backthriving. Even worse news Lucy, he says, is convinced that the boyGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's father is an influential federal judget in his nature. They The police and the coroner haveaccepted that the death was suicide, you but Stuart've guessed it, three weeks s prepared to say goodbye pay Greg to their daughterfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David BarrieB0CK3MYJ56|title=Wasp-WaistedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to be one have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of the eliteCameron Strike', dealing with national securityyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded hewhere's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been moved asked to look into criminal investigationssomething. His first case proves to be something of a problem when a young model is found dead Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a luxury hotel in Paristragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body is delivered to Exposé, a bigJoyce -circulation scandal sheetand her parents, before the body is discovered Oliver and it Pam Hetherington - can only have been taken by the murderer. Despite the provenance of the picture it's difficult not t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to be fall in awe front of the skill and artistry which produced ita train. All Guerin has Greg's been asked to go on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1838954481|title=HustleThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the long con gun and the short conpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes a lot longer He pulled the trigger but due to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes right. This is the art vagaries of fleecing a single person out the jury system he was found not guilty of a lot both the murder and the manslaughter of money all at oncethe officer. And so lives must go on. It is this For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' capital and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as hoping for a rigged game of ''find quieter life in the lady'', which aims to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, countryside but that return comes when a lot quicker and this missing teenager is the basis for Will Fergusonfound on her territory she's ''Hustle''drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1448309743|title=ConmanThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks to In the success village of Cronchie on the BBC TV show ''Hustle''West coast of Scotland, the art five members of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recalla wealthy family are found murdered. I've always liked The only item missing from the series, as it shows a battle of wits and there home is so much the Devil Stone: myth says that can go wrong if the outcome stone is in doubt right until the endremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. Until Richard AsplinThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'Conman'', I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacybody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, although Jeffery Deaver's ''The Vanished ManDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' comes closehim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529077699|title=The ComplaintsRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The Complaints' is not the job for you if personal popularity mattersIt's all bloody peculiar, because they're the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time and at the beginning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policeman. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwise. They donisn't reckon that heit, Sir?'s bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1529427045|title=No EscapeThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=I've long had an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychology. The mind is a fascinating thing, but it 'Life has far more spectacular effects when things go wrong. The same is true of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things donto offer than people - prime numbers for example''t work out too well for the police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1787636607|title=The Gigolo MurderTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After It's a break-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing scene replicated all too often in depression the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and self-pity looking for too longa way to get home. Some are 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 outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', so his friendparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening the final stop on the town in Istanbulbus leaves her a long way short of her home. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem She had intended to ring someone to whom he is immediately attracted, come and collect her - but unfortunately Pekerdem happens her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to be marriedlet her use his. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem There's brother-in-law is accused of the murder of a gigolo. Our hero suspects that the brotherno option but to start walking -unsuitably clothed and inhigh-law is not guilty.heeled shoes.. but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1405957174|title=Skeleton HillA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When From the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off 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 coolfirst page, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced we know that itNadine Walsh's a relic of the battleparty will not end well. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Brownlee |title=Bait|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jake Moore was in the Flying Squad but The victim - a bullet put paid to his career and ten years later he's running a gameman -fishing business on the Kenyan coast. Times are hard is dying when we first meet him and there's every chance that Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the business will fold unless ambulance he and his partner, Harry, can find the money to pay their billsso desperately needs. Some strange things are happening in the game fishing business too – one of their number has died in a mysterious explosion on his boat and the body of a man who shouldnWhat we don't have been aboard has been washed up on the shore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749928840</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Pynchon |title=Inherent Vice|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The close of the '60s, the dawn of the '70s. San Francisco. Some people say the most influential people are Nixon and his cronies. Some people say they're Charlie Manson and his cronies. Some people call the smog surrounding everyone in the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug haze. Doc, the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, know is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point to who the same bigwig property developer. One of these is from 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 to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Billingham |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 the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out or why Nadine prefers to murder all the children of Raymond Garvey'shave him die... 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 I's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Mooney |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 d better give you a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes little more deeply involved, she realises background so 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 fatheryou can understand what's death 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 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 friendsstep-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, 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 to the park, but the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy and with the wilfulness of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not go. In there she used a stick to stir up some leaves and uncovered the body been found guilty of 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 Indiana. His childhood was no better and no worse than most anything but will have to live with what happened for the early part rest of his adult her 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 imprisonmentOf course, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentence. Itit's easy to see where Dillingermade worse because Nancy's contempt for rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the law was spawned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia |title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for papers are making the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one most of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for yearsit. In ''Making Jack FalconeFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' he tells the story of how he came to infiltrate the Mafia in New York is one favourite epithet 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>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Brownlee |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 hasnrich bitch'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 pursuitmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Teller 1529413680|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. SoA Chateau 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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