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|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy womanIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She is concerned with the rate at which 's back now because of a request for help from her body is ageing; even worsebeloved aunt, her ex-husbandCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, JamesArthur Crockleford, is getting married dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to a much younger woman and Agatha has say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been invited back to the weddingvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She goes, with plenty of friends Even though they were in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon business together as possible. She sees James just before the weddingantique hunters, when he makes it clear that he she has changed his mind and wants not felt able to pull out of be near the man or pursue the weddingprofession she loved. Then After the bride is killedsplit, by she worked in a bullet through cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the windowlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James and Agatha are the primary suspectshave now divorced. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1398524085|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apartCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, one in the southEtty. are all worried but - strangely -east her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the other body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the north-eastriver. At first glance they seemed It was an easy assumption for the police to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The author has investigated the connection Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and come up with a riveting bookwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)1529900360|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the first help of Steig Larssona psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's Millennium trilogy of thrillerspartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was a fine stand-alone novelsomething that the man she loved needed. The second next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonit's finely crafted anti-heronot the Italian. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review now. I'm about to spoil But which of them was the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery178763681X|title=Tooth and ClawKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deathsChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter He didn't really want to death - leaving but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a singularly gruesome tableau - way of getting both men and blown a hapless commuter women to smithereens at a railway stationdo what he wanted. He Paul ''somehow''s planning his next murder already, secreted away in got the shed impression that he'd be at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid fatherschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Carl is embittered The teaching - and lonely the problems - with are all his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, thereown. The one thing he hadn's only him t expected was for someone to take care of his severely disabled father: turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to change be the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallyprime suspect. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529421284|title=Acts of ViolenceLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from workIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. All she wanted was In a hot bath after gully, a hard day's work. From this point human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour body to the nextbe Lee Geary, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmaswho had disappeared nine years earlier. There is the draftee with He'd been a sick motherknown drug user and had learning disabilities, the nurse who thinks she has run over so it could have been a baby, the woman who suspects her husband simple case of cheating and othersmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. We are shown Geary was a townie, so what these characters were was he doing that evening, out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and how these events drag through to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the morningtime. We are shown how in the midst Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and how these people did nothingme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529425867|title=Core of EvilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of teaRyan and father of Ryan, flavoured with Christmas rosesis not.  He'"There are all kinds s not any of horrible those things in the Christmas rose," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis He's white, which I've also used beforeoriginated from a trailer park, but therebarely educated (reading's saporin not ''really'' his thing) and protoanemonin as wellhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. It They's a very nasty cocktailre usually in lime green or acid yellow." You might wonder if you' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on re being introduced to a new townpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimyou're not. Daisy has problems with her memory - The two men are just different sides of the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all same policing coin. Sometimes the whos shecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganproblematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1529431735|title=Dead of The WinterVisitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Loon LakeIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the midst of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a pine-peppered winter wonderlanddecade. Louis Kincaid needs The return has come about because he's had a little serenity in letter from his life ex-wife, saying that she's ill and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidhasn't long to live. A troubledIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, unhappy child of mixed race, passed around various institutions stripped to his underwear and foster homes, Louis figures that if he is going sent to put some integrity back into a watery grave in the world, he will need to wear boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a badge problem closer to do it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope0861541774|title=Fear in the CotswoldsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time itDCI Domenic Jejeune's winter close friend and she's spending former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a month short holiday in the Cotswold village of HampnettSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It wouldn't be Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a job for all of us but Thea delights in getting to know the local people knife - and the areahe killed a Ghurka. In the past she's also been involved with the police in solving various cases Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but it looks as though evidence came to light that suggested that he might have come planned to an end as murder the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledman. For Now he could be facing the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to a body in a nearby fielddeath penalty. When the Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police finally arrive the body has disappeared force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the police obviously wonder if shewouldn's imagined it t help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1521129886|title=Spade and ArcherThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, Greg Mason's just beginning to set up get his one-man detective agencyconfidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have the prohibition era a baby and all that that entailsthey're both delighted. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law, stick two fingers up, so appears to speak and as a result therehave killed himself. Stuart's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight awayconcerned about his sister, Lucy, itwho's evident that Sam struggling to make ends meet and her son is a man of few wordsnot thriving. He has the mannerisms of a cat Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - stealthy, quick on it simply wasn't in his feetnature. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people were. In The police and the coroner have accepted that era, holding a cigarette the death was an elegantsuicide, almost essential accessory. How times have changedbut Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay ParkerB0CK3MYJ56|title=Stop MeResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54

|summary=Spam EIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-Mails can flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be incredibly annoyingthinking. Nice bloke, but most of us will have had where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to deal with themlook into something. FortunatelyJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, we can hit the delete button and forget about them they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as quickly as they camea tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onJoyce - and her parents, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't. But I wonder understand what she was doing there - or how many she could come to fall in front of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming train. Greg's been asked to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>investigate.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1838954481|title=Blood BornThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=To give support to Ryan Kennedy killed 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 brotherspolice officer: there's no doubt about that. 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 He 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 fifteen-year-old holding the case falls apart. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free gun and only hours later there is news of another attackpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting in He pulled the death of one, while the other clings trigger but due to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Penny |title=The Brutal Telling|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Early one morning, in the village vagaries of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing jury system he was found not guilty of both the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason for the killing murder and no clues as to the identity manslaughter of the victimofficer. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle LacosteAnd so lives must go on. They've been to Three Pines before, but this time For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is capital and hoping for a talented exorcist living quieter life in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by countryside but when a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem missing teenager is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably found 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, Juliether territory she'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=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as drawn into a hardwider investigation -working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news is that into the boy's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughterorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1448309743|title=Wasp-WaistedThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529077699|title=HustleThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|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>}}

{{newreview|author=Richard Asplin |title=Conman|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Thanks to the success of the BBC TV show ''Hustle''Well yes, the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recallit is. I've always liked Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the seriesmiddle of an autumn gale, as it shows stayed for about a battle of wits month and then turned up, naked and there is so much that can go wrong dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the outcome is village of Greystone, in doubt right until the endDevon. Until Richard AsplinRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round 's 'celebrity'Conman'. I ', I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deavernearly's 'said 'The Vanished Manall-round good egg'but as we' comes ll find out, he could be more than a little bit closewith money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529427045|title=The ComplaintsGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=Working in 'The Complaints' is not the job Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for you if personal popularity matters, because theyexample''re the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox  Lisbeth Salander has been there for some time and at headed north to the beginning small town of Gasskas, where the book so-far-untapped natural resources of the Procurator Fiscal is taking on area have sparked a case against a serving policemangold rush. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who The criminal underworld has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwisebeen slow in coming forward. They donSalander's niece't reckon s mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that heSalander became her niece's bent and thereguardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's a degree unaware of resentment against Foxthe part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar1787636607|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on It's a scene replicated all too often in the case early hours of a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itthe morning. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent that a number Drunken revellers spilling out of young women are being murdered in clubs and looking for a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victimget home. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted Some are lucky and murdered a number manage to get one of very young women in an especially nasty waythe few taxis available. It becomes all too clear Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the police do not really care very muchoutlying villages. Most The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the victims are homeless missing women with '. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a history long way short of drug problems her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and a life on collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the wrong side of chance to beg the lawbus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1405957174|title=No EscapeA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=IFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh've long had an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologys party will not end well. The mind victim - a man - is a fascinating thing, but it has far more spectacular effects dying when things go wrongwe first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. The same is true of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things What we don't work out too well for know is who the policeman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. So I'd better give you a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to melittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles0008530025|title=Murder in the Family Life|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=The Sweeney family along with wivesIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, girlfriends and children were gathered at in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the family farm for Liamback of his head which could have happened if he's birthdayd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. There was just Twenty years later, no one empty seat at the table has been charged with his murder and it's now the family waited for Joe – the only one subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the children who wanted evidence and to farm – to return hometake the investigation further. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with More to the news that Joepoint, they's body had been discovered re going to do this live on land camera, episode by a disused warehouseepisode. There were 's no injuries to dump of the body whole box set - and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murderedno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 0241996104|title=The Gigolo MurderComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=After a breakNancy's mother and step-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and selfher step-pity for too longbrother, so his friendMartin, Ponponhas been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbulafter Martin receives a life sentence. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but unfortunately Pekerdem happens will have to be marriedlive with what happened for the rest of her life. However Of course, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdemit's made worse because Nancy's brotherrich -inshe inherited five million pounds from her mother -law is accused of and the papers are making the murder most of a gigoloit. Our hero suspects that the brother-in-law ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not guilty... be printed but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>undoubtedly spoken.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529413680|title=Skeleton HillA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=When One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple enactment of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one the liberation of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no moreshow with some friends. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that itIt's a relic all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the battlemain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. One of the corpses goes missing – Luckily, his car left at the nearby racecourse – doctor is there and it turns out that the bone man is nowhere near whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as old as they thinkhe's a senior government employee, but the head of Bath CID still man who runs Frenchelon - the military has difficulty stepped in establishing . One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is buried flying in that lonely spotwith some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 1529196388|title=Bait|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jake Moore was in the Flying Squad but a bullet put paid to his career and ten years later he's running a game-fishing business on the Kenyan coast. Times are hard and there's every chance that the business will fold unless he and his partner, Harry, can find the money to pay their bills. 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 shouldn't have been aboard has been washed up on the shore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749928840</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Trial|author=Thomas Pynchon |title=Inherent ViceRob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=The close of the '60sGrant Cliveden was a 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 dawn of the '70sOld Bailey. San Francisco. Some people say There's just one man in the most influential people are Nixon frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and his cronies. Some people say theyit're Charlie Manson and his cronies. Some people call the smog surrounding everyone s not too long before Knight appears in the Bay Area air pollutioncourt, others a drug hazecharged with Cliveden's murder. Doc, Knight was told that the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of best barrister for him, which both point to the same bigwig property developer. One was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of these is from Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his expupil, now with said mogulAdam Green, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately dieswho eventually represent him. How will this escalate into a manic mysteryKnight's determined to plead not guilty, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>the contrary.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Billingham Andrew Cartmel|title=BloodlineDeath in Fine Condition|rating=3.5

|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murderparticular a series called Sleuth Hound. However She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add value, slivers in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of an X-Ray are found these books after seeing them in the dead womanbackground of a photograph on her drug dealer's handliving room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it is soon discovered that the woman! It'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 to murder all a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the children owner of Raymond Garvey's... That someone may just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that the tumour that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible collection comes looking for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killer's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknowntheir books? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>1789098947

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1448309379|title=The Dead RoomFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark

|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick series, the Dead Room sees the head of BostonIt's CSU investigating something of a horrific home invasion which leads surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a woman's death break with your wife and her sonchildren, but that's hospitalisationwhat happened to DS Aector McAvoy. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved Whilst he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, alive, she realises that it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the case is more complicated than she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people partially clad man who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that 'd dashed from her father's death flat in the line early hours of duty wasn't all the morning when it was obvious that it seemed to besomeone was tampering with her car, was not. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husband Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's murderdoppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 1529135389|title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan

|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub and Nicole Booth had spent the following morning at the body county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of one of them her husband but opera was found in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by playing on the cruellystate-treated children of long-defunct Ragged School. The teenager had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there was a Victorian doll – similarly mutilated. Back in the nineteen fifties there has been four murders -art music system installed in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled and mutilated and left with a doll by their side. The killer had never been brought to justiceGlass Barn. HeThey'd be likely to be not been in his seventies by now – was it possible that he was the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still fit enough getting used to return to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Dawes Green|title=Ravens|rating=4all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Shaw Some of them fought with each other and Romeo are two friends, moving across country for a new life, when didn't work as reliably as they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has just should. It had the only winning lottery ticket for all come about through a $318million jackpot. The family involved is very average ten-million- slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up for the weekly pound lottery win and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebookthey were still getting used to having that sort of money, boy glued to a PSP or somethingtoo. There are enough gaps within Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the family for the pair of guys swimming pool with a wound to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winningshis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leigh RussellAlan Parks|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)To Die in June

|summary=An au pair took her employer's young daughter, the next-door neighbour's son and his friend to What first seems like the parkunfortunate, but the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy and with the wilfulness accidental death of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into homeless man on the bushesstreets, where she knew that she must not go. In there she used a stick suddenly starts to stir up some leaves and uncovered the feel like something more sinister as another body 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 is discovered, and brought up in Indianathen another. His childhood was no better and no worse than most This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the early part of more so because his adult life was to be blighted by own father is 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 imprisonmentdown and out alcoholic, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty no fixed abode, and when convicted received a shorter sentence. It's easy to see where Dillinger's contempt for 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 the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes he has been for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells At the story of how he came same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enoughdifferent police station, 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 arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing in mysterious circumstances and , only no record of the local priest doesn't seem all that worriedboy having existed can be found. After a meal Something feels wrong - not just with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – woman’s story but how also with the other officers where he had got into the fort ion the first placehas been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. Kenya's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Teller 1804545600|title=The Tenth CaseMonk|author=Tim Sullivan

|summary=I am The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a great fan of courtroom dramas, which is one of the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and I pretty much look on him as the master of Major Crime Unit establish that this genreis Father Dominic. So, when I discover He'd been missing for a book that claims that it's few days and certainly hadn''better than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound t asked permission to be interestedleave his abbey. This was As the claim made by team gradually unpick the publishers of monk''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read s past it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all becomes clear that he writes lives up to expectations. So could this book beat'd been well-loved as an investment banker, or at least matchbrother, what Grisham does? Read on...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Mosby |title=Still Bleeding|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Alex Connor has been trying to negate the memory of his wife's suicide by running awayneighbour and friend. He's left d also been very wealthy but had given it all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them up for years. But now Sarah, one of his closest friends, has been murdered and the prime suspect is her partner, Alex's brother Jamesfaith. For Alex, this is the one thing that could call Why would someone savagely murder him home, as Sarah was the one who told him to confront death, not run from it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>?

{{newreview|author=Denise Mina|title=Still Midnight|rating=4.5|genre=Move on to [[Newest Crime|summary=On a quiet Sunday evening in the suburbs of Glasgow an old man is kidnapped from an unassuming house. The kidnappers are incompetent – they don't seem entirely certain who it is they're after and one of them fires his gun, badly injuring a teenage girl. As they leave, taking the old man with them, they demand a ransom of two million pounds. Have they got the right house and if so, why do they think that there's so much money to be had there? DS Alex Morrow is certain that this is going to be her case – after all, she was promised – but it goes to her arch rival, DS Grant Bannerman and she is to work under his command.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100529</amazonuk>}}(Historical) Reviews]]