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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1035021803|title=Tooth and ClawThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to connect the deathsEnglish country village where she grew up. Carl Whittley has just tortured She's back now because of a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. HeCarole's planning his next murder alreadyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered dead and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologistthe circumstances seem suspicious, there's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to change the colostomy bagvillage: Arthur, to cookshe feels, to cleanlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able tobe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, wellshe worked in a cafe, just to bear itmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, reallywho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1398524085|title=Acts of ViolenceHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on Charlotte Salter was expected at her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayhusband's workfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the nextHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasworried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. There is Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the draftee with a sick motherbody of Greg's father, the nurse who thinks she has run over a babyDuncan Ackerley, in the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and othersriver. We are shown what these characters were doing It was an easy assumption for the police to make that evening, Duncan had murdered Charlie and how these events drag through to then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the morningguilt. We The Salter children are shown how in the midst of not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their own interesting, poignant lives and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothingwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529900360|title=Core of EvilThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas rose," she saids fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, watching Sturgis was reluctant to see whether Daisy could still hear herask for his help on difficult cases. "Helleborin His assertions that there were only open-and hellebrin are both like digitalis, -shut cases which Ididn've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as well. It's t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a very nasty cocktailwhile."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end Finally, and Violet has become Daisyit was Robin, Daisy sets her sights on a new townDelaware's partner, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Daisy has problems with her memory - She knew that the identities go back so far involvement was something that sometimes the man she can barely remember who is she is nowloved needed. The next case did look simple, let alone all though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the whos heir to an Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganItalian. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish178763681X|title=Dead of WinterKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon LakeChef 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 do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, Michigan is picturewho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pineproblems -peppered winter wonderlandare all his own. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life and on arrival in Loon Lake The one thing he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy hadn't expected was for Kincaidsomeone to turn up dead. A troubledUnfortunately, unhappy child of mixed race, passed around various institutions he was the person who discovered the body and foster homes, Louis figures everyone knows that the police consider that if he is going person to put some integrity back into be the world, he will need to wear a badge to do itprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Rebecca TopeKate Webb|titlerating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Fear It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the Cotswoldsbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is a house sitter by professionof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. When people go away she moves into their homes D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and looks after their animals and the propertyfather of Ryan, is not. This time itHe's winter and she's spending a month in the Cotswold village not any of Hampnettthose things. It wouldnHe't be s white, originated from a job for all trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of us but Thea delights in getting to know the local people shell suits and the areatrackies. In the past sheThey's also been involved with the police re usually in solving various cases but it looks as though that lime green or acid yellow. You might have come wonder if you're being introduced to an end as a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledsame policing coin. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in Sometimes the snow which lead to a body in a nearby fieldcombination works brilliantly well. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if sheSometimes it's imagined it allproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1529431735|title=Spade and ArcherThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agency. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all that that entailsthe more surprising. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey He'd been exiled on the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and Costa del Sol as a result therewanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's lots of bootleg liquorill and hasn't long to live. Straight away, itIt's evident that Sam hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a man of few words. He has watery grave in the mannerisms boot of a cat - stealthy, quick on his feetstolen Ford Sierra. He's also Is it a warning from a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding Spanish gang or a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker0861541774|title=Stop MeA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam EDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl -Mails can be incredibly annoyinghe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but most of us will evidence came to light that suggested that he might have had planned to deal with themmurder the man. Fortunately, we can hit Now he could be facing the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they camedeath penalty. I certainly prefer not Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'thelp Danny at all. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1521129886|title=Blood BornThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support Greg Mason's just beginning to a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart get his confidence as an investigator to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brotherspoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death It's a good job too because Greg and faces Joyce will soon have a battle against time to save herbaby and they're both delighted. In Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the panic, Anya fails to take note of morning sickness. Greg is approached by an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, old friend whose brother-in trying -law appears to save the girlhave killed himself. Stuart's lifeconcerned about his sister, Lucy, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apart. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed who's struggling to walk free make ends meet and only hours later there her son is news of another attacknot thriving. A pair of sisters Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have been stabbed killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and raped resulting in the coroner have accepted that the death of onewas suicide, while but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the other clings to lifenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Brutal TellingResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning, in It's the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. There is He used to have a body high-flying job in the bistro and Olivier is stunnedcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? The man On the other hand, he has been bludgeoned asked to deathlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, but thereor rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's no sign of been written off as a weapontragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, no obvious reason for the killing Oliver and no clues as Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to the identity of the victim. Meanwhile, fall in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache front of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacostea train. TheyGreg've s been asked to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaosinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey1838954481|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)Misper|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summaryauthor=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in Kate 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>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say Goodbye|rating=2.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hard-working, regular guy (more of s no doubt about that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the adoption agency trigger but due to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and vagaries of the teenage biological father had jury system he was found not signed his consent guilty of both the murder and now wants to take the baby backmanslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Even worse news is For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the boycapital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughterdrawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1448309743|title=Wasp-WaistedThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one In the village of Cronchie on the eliteWest coast of Scotland, dealing with national security, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigations. His first case proves to be something five members of a problem when a young model is wealthy family are found dead in a luxury hotel in Parismurdered. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of The only item missing from the body home is delivered to Exposé, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murdererremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. Despite the provenance of the picture itThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's difficult not to be in awe an easy conclusion given that two of the skill and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go on is the ''verythem 'discovered' expensive underwear which the body . The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is wearing – or you might almost say ''modellingpulled in to 'shadow'him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529077699|title=HustleThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, the long con and the short con. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes right. This is the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at once. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard AsplinIt's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of all bloody peculiar, isn''find 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 returnt it, but that return comes a lot quicker and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''HustleSir?''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529427045|title=The ComplaintsGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The Complaints' is not the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they're the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox Life has been there more to offer than people - prime numbers 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 don't reckon that heexample's bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1787636607|title=No Escape|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=I've long had an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychology. The mind is a fascinating thing, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wrong. The same is true of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things don'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>}} {{newreviewTrap|author=Paul Charles|title=Family LifeCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at the family farm for Liam'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 wasn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe'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>}} {{newreview|author=Mehmet Murat Somer |title=The Gigolo Murder|rating=35
|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 to be able woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped 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 a second career doing the same thing on TV. 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 to go asked permission to leave his abbey. As the team gradually unpick the partymonk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, but it was given by the people from her drug rehabilitation centre brother, neighbour and she felt under an obligation as the social workers had done so much to help herfriend. It wasn't going to be easy though – the other guests would be drinking heavily whilst she had to remain clean and to make matters worse sheHe'd also been physically attacked that day at the travel agency where she workedvery wealthy but had given it all up for his faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571232949</amazonuk> Why would someone savagely murder him?
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