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|summary=Before reading It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Bloody Womens back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, I hadn't heard of to say the least. Arthur was the author Helen Fitzgerald and by reason why Freya had not been back to the title and blurbvillage: Arthur, she feels, I expected a standard crime-thriller novellet her down badly. But early on Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, I realised this wasn't she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the caseprofession she loved. The novel was After the split, she worked in a kind of black comedy cafe, met and written with wit and humour, despite married James (on the rebound from the theme love of murder her life, who was murdered) and Freya and violenceJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1398524085|title=The Bodies Left BehindHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsinsons Niall, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal of a lifetime. But on their first evening in the placePaul and Ollie and her daughter, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outEtty. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their windowall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Another enters the building Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the only hope they have is that someone will take notice body of StevenGreg's phone call to father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police, cut off by to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the intruders after he is able to guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get out only one word – Thison with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529900360|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=Diane Janes|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apartIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, one in the southSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-east and -shut cases which didn't need the other in help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the north-eastman she loved needed. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each otherThe next case did look simple, but years later though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtremote property in Bel Air. The author has investigated He was the connection heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and come up with a riveting bookit's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)178763681X|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the Dragon Tattoo]], impression that he'd be at the first of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of thrillersschool to assist Paul, was who had a fine stand-alone novelbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The second in the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson teaching - and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's finely crafted antiproblems -heroare all his own. If you haven The one thing he hadn't read this second volume yet I advise you expected was for someone to stop reading this review nowturn up dead. I'm about Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to spoil be the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>prime suspect.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529421284|title=Tooth and ClawLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Another serial killer is on It was one of those flash downpours that the looseBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and yet again forensic testing proved the police have failed body to connect the deathsbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Carl Whittley has just tortured He'd been a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - known drug user and blown had learning disabilities, so it could have been a hapless commuter to smithereens at simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a railway station. He's planning his next murder alreadytownie, secreted away in so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the shed suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the bottom of the garden time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, thereMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's only him cold cases to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallyyou and me) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529425867|title=Acts of ViolenceLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=Kat Marino 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 Ryan and father of Ryan, is stabbed on her way home from worknot. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayHe's worknot any of those things. From this point the novel skips nimbly He's white, originated from one neighbour to the nexta trailer park, all barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of whom are absorbed shell suits and trackies. They're usually in their own dilemmaslime green or acid yellow. There is the draftee with a sick mother, the nurse who thinks she has run over You might wonder if you're being introduced to a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and otherspolice procedural written for laughs. We are shown what these characters were doing that eveningWell, and how these events drag through to the morningyou're not. We The two men are shown how in the midst just different sides 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 same policing coin. Sometimes the attack, and how these people did nothingcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529431735|title=Core of EvilThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of teaIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, flavoured with Christmas roses. which made Bruce Hopkins'"There are return all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas rose," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear hermore surprising. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I He've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as wella wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It The return has come about because he's had a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky letter from his ex- and graphically effluent - endwife, saying that she's ill and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimhasn't long to live. Daisy has problems with her memory - the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all the whos she It's been beforehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and most certainly not sent to a watery grave in the who with whom she beganboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish0861541774|title=Dead A Nye of WinterPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Loon LakeDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an idyll that sits serenely and snugly old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the midst of a pinestreet brawl -peppered winter wonderland. Louis Kincaid needs he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a little serenity in his life knife - and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidkilled a Ghurka. A troubledInitially, unhappy child he faced a charge of mixed race, passed around various institutions and foster homes, Louis figures manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that if he is going might have planned to put some integrity back into murder the world, man. Now he will need could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to wear help as any interference from another police force could provoke a badge to do itdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1521129886|title=Fear in the CotswoldsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|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 itGreg Mason's winter and shejust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he's spending a month in the Cotswold village of Hampnettll warn someone about how much he charges. It wouldn't be s a good job for all of us but Thea delights in getting to know the local people too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and the areathey're both delighted. In Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past she's also been involved with the police morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in solving various cases but it looks as though that might -law appears to have come killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to a body it simply wasn't in a nearby fieldhis nature. When the The police finally arrive and the body has disappeared and coroner have accepted that the police obviously wonder if shedeath was suicide, but Stuart's imagined it allprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe GoresB0CK3MYJ56|title=Spade and ArcherResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|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 1990s and all that that entailsGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Many locals, of course, choose He used to disobey have a high-flying job in the law, stick two fingers city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up, so to speak and as a result thereprivate investigator. 's lots Shades of bootleg liquorCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Straight awayNice bloke, itbut where's evident the life experience that Sam is a man of few words. backs up this profession? He has On the mannerisms of a cat - stealthyother hand, quick on his feethe has been asked to look into something. He's also a compulsive chainJoyce and Helen are half-smokersisters, but then againor rather, most people they wereuntil Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. In that eraJoyce - and her parents, holding Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessorytrain. How times have changedGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1838954481|title=Stop MeThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54

|summary=Spam ERyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-Mails can be incredibly annoying, year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but most due to the vagaries of us will have had to deal with them. Fortunately, we can hit the delete button jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and forget about them as quickly as they camethe manslaughter of the officer. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish And so lives must go on, no matter how bad my luck . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is supposed to become if I donfound on her territory she't. But I wonder how many of us would react if s drawn into a spam Ewider investigation -Mail actually was a matter and back into the orbit of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>Ryan Kennedy.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1448309743|title=Blood BornThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to In the courthouse village of Cronchie on the day she West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at Devil Stone: myth says that if the house she finds Giverny close to stone is removed from Otterburn House, death and faces a battle against time to save herwill follow. In the panic The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Anya fails to take note that's an easy conclusion given that two of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girlthem 'discovered's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apartbody. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting pulled in the death of one, while the other clings to life'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529077699|title=The Brutal TellingRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=Early one morning, in the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there''It's no sign of a weaponall bloody peculiar, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues as to the identity of the victim. Meanwhileisn't it, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. TheySir?''ve been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living local pub one evening in Londonthe middle of an autumn gale, with zombies, ghosts stayed for about a month and succubi for friendsthen turned up, naked and the odd human. His best frienddead, Rafi, has been taken over by in a demon called Asmodeussmall boat, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back anchored in Scully Cove close to normal - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafivillage of Greystone, in Devon. Felix himself is probably on Rosco had the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, status of a succubus (national treasure: a demonic female spirit) renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and Sue, Julietall round ''celebrity''s lover. At the same time I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, there are horrible things going on in he could be more than a central London gym, little bit close with money and Castor must do something about it before people start to diehis background isn't exactly an open book. Can Where did he solve all get the money for his problems without losing any of his loved onesfirst boat? How did he finance the trip? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box 1529427045|title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=2.5

|summary=''Three Weeks Life has more to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hardoffer than people -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 the boyprime numbers for example's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=David Barrie|title=Wasp-Waisted|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Franck Guerin used Lisbeth Salander has headed north to be one of the elite, 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 small town of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Paris. WorryinglyGasskas, a stunning photograph of where the body is delivered to Exposé, a bigso-far-circulation scandal sheet, before untapped natural resources of the body is discovered and it can only area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been taken by the murdererslow in coming forward. Despite the provenance of the picture itSalander's niece's difficult not to be mother is the latest woman in awe of the skill and artistry which produced itarea to have vanished without trace. All Guerin has to go on It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is the a remarkably gifted teenager who''very'' expensive underwear which s unaware of the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling'part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1787636607|title=HustleThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Cons generally come It's a scene replicated all too often in two forms, the long con and early hours of the short conmorning. The long con is more elaborate Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and has more that can go wrong, takes looking for a lot longer way to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightget home. This is Some are lucky and manage to get one of the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at oncefew taxis available. It is this Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onoutlying villages. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of woman all regret the 'taxi problem'find , particularly in the ladylight of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, which aims to part as many people from the final stop on the bus leaves her a little bit long way short of money as quickly as possibleher home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker and this is bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the basis for Will Fergusonbus driver to let her use his. There's ''Hustle''no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1405957174|title=ConmanA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=34

|summary=Thanks to From the success of the BBC TV show first page, we know that Nadine Walsh''Hustle'', s party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recallambulance he so desperately needs. IWhat we don've always liked the series, as it shows a battle of wits and there t know is so much that can go wrong who the outcome man is in doubt right until the endor why Nadine prefers to have him die. Until Richard Asplin's ''Conman'', I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaverbetter give you a little more background so that you can understand what's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 0008530025|title=The ComplaintsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Working It was in 'The Complaints' is not December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the job for you back of his head which could have happened if personal popularity matters, because theyhe're d slipped down the steps but the cops who investigate other copsvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Inspector Malcolm Fox Twenty years later, no one has been there for some time charged with his murder and at it's now the beginning subject of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against ''Infamous'', a serving policemantrue-crime show. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who A group of experts has taken a few shortcuts been brought together to review the evidence and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get take the right result when justice might not be served otherwiseinvestigation further. They donMore to the point, they't reckon that here going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's bent no dump of the whole box set - and thereno shortage of cliffhangers. It's a degree of resentment against Foxcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0241996104|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on the case Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into ittheir murder. As he looks into it further We first meet Nancy outside the court, it becomes apparent that after Martin receives a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty waylife sentence. The case soon becomes very personal as barrister tells her that she's received a friend who seemed 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking live with what happened for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number the rest of very young women in an especially nasty wayher life. It becomes all too clear that Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the police do not really care very much. Most of papers are making the victims are homeless women with a history most of drug problems it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and a life on the wrong side of the law''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1529413680|title=No EscapeA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=IOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It've long had an interest in psychologys all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, particularly abnormal psychologythe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The mind Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a fascinating thingsenior government employee, but it the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has far more spectacular effects when things go wrongstepped in. The same One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is true flying in with some of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things donher father't work out too well s friends for the police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to mepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1529196388|title=Family LifeThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=The Sweeney family along with wivesGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, girlfriends and children were gathered so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the family farm for Liam's birthdayOld Bailey. There was 's just one empty seat at man in the table frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the family waited best barrister for Joe – the only one him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the children Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who wanted to farm – to return homeeventually represent him. It wasnKnight't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joes determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's body had been discovered on land by a disused warehouse. There were no injuries recommendations to the body and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murderedcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mehmet Murat Somer Andrew Cartmel|title=The Gigolo MurderDeath in Fine Condition

|summary=After a break-upCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and self-pity for too long, so his friend, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbulparticular a series called Sleuth Hound. While She spends her time hunting outcopies that she can sell on for profit, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attractedsometimes 'tweaking' them, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be married. Howeveradd value, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused of the murder of a gigolosomewhat fraudulent ways. Our hero suspects that the brother-in-law is not guilty... but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Lovesey |title=Skeleton Hill|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When the Sealed Knot re-enact One day she discovers a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one perfect collection of these books after seeing them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in the shade background of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that itphotograph on her drug dealer's a relic of the battle. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – living room wall, and it turns out that the bone so she sets about discovering where this collection 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 a bullet put paid to his career and ten years later hehow she can steal it! It's running a gamenext-fishing business on the Kenyan coast. Times are hard and there's every chance that the business will fold unless he and his partnerlevel step in her petty crime career, Harry, can find the money to pay their bills. Some strange things are happening in the game fishing business but has she reached 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>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Pynchon |title=Inherent Vice|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The close of the '60sfar, 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, what will happen when the sole proprietor owner of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point to 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 morecollection comes looking for their books?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>1789098947

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1448309379|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, Flesh 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 to murder all the children of Raymond Garvey's... That someone may just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that the tumour that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killer's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Chris Mooney |title=The Dead RoomDavid 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 chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a great fan of courtroom dramas, which is one of the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much 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 ''better than Grisham or your money back'few days and certainly hadn' 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's past it becomes clear that he'The Tenth Case'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friend. He' and I d also been very wealthy but had to read given it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that he writes lives up to expectationsfor his faith. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does Why would someone savagely murder him? Read on...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Steve Mosby |title=Still Bleeding|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Alex Connor has been trying Move on to negate the memory of his wife's suicide by running away. He's left all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them for years. But now Sarah, one of his closest friends, has been murdered and the prime suspect is her partner, Alex's brother James. For Alex, this is the one thing that could call 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=[[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]]