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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1035021803|title=Cold The Antique Hunter's Guide to the TouchMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=ThereIt's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlytwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a cold, dark London morning, sheShe's distraught back now because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing to do with of a request for help from herbeloved aunt, Carole. Jess is a talented chef but sheFreya's former mentor and Carole's short of work – close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over least. Arthur was the host at a dinner party did reason why Freya had not enhance been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighteddown badly. Sarah senses her vulnerabilityEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, but it's Jess who organises she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the let of one of her mother's cottages in profession she loved. After the sea-side town where split, she grew up so that Sarah can have worked in a long break cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the flat where she still smells a recent firelove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1398524085|title=Bloody WomenHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald Paul and by the title Ollie and blurbher daughter, I expected a standard crimeEtty. are all worried but - strangely -thriller novelher husband, Alec, is not. But early on Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, I realised this wasnin the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the caseguilt. The novel was a kind of black comedy and written Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with wit and humour, despite the theme of murder their lives and violencewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529900360|title=The Bodies Left BehindGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and her husband Steven decided even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity ask for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, his help on foreclosure – it seemed like difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the deal help of a lifetimepsychologist only worked for a while. But on their first evening in Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the placeman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outthough. They know they are Two lovers were murdered in real trouble when the swimming pool of a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their windowremote property in Bel Air. Another enters He was the building heir to an Italian shoe empire and the only hope they have she is that someone will take notice of Stevenmarried to an extremely rich man and it's phone call to not the police, cut off by Italian. But which of them was the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton178763681X|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34

|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not Chef Paul Delamare took a happy womanteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a much younger woman way of getting both men and Agatha has been invited women to the weddingdo what he wanted. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to Paul ''somehow'' got the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before impression that he'd be at the weddingschool to assist Paul, when he makes who had a broken arm, but it clear didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he has changed his mind and wants hadn't expected was for someone to pull out of the weddingturn up dead. Then Unfortunately, he was the bride is killed, by a bullet through person who discovered the window, body and James and Agatha are everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the primary suspectsprime suspect. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1529421284|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & Laying Out the Morpeth Train RobberyBones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=Two murders took place It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Edwardian England less than two years aparta heatwave. In a gully, one in a human skeleton came to the south-east surface and forensic testing proved the other in the north-eastbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. At first glance they seemed to He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have nothing to do with each other, been a simple case of misadventure but years later DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a link between them townie, so what was hinted 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 though never proved beyond doubtthe time. The author has investigated Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the connection Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and come up with a riveting bookme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|authortitle=Stieg Larsson Lost and Reg Keeland Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the first son of Ryan and father of Steig LarssonRyan, is not. He's Millennium trilogy not any of thrillersthose things. He's white, was originated from a fine stand-alone novel. The second in the seriestrailer park, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland barely educated (translatorreading's not ''really'' his thing)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures and his wardrobe consists mainly of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonshell suits and trackies. They's finely crafted anti-herore usually in lime green or acid yellow. If You might wonder if you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you re being introduced to stop reading this review nowa police procedural written for laughs. I Well, you'm about to spoil re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529431735|title=Tooth and ClawThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Another serial killer It's February 1991 and Essex is on the loosebitingly cold, and yet again which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the police have failed to connect more surprising. He'd been exiled on the deathsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Carl Whittley The return has just tortured come about because he's had a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau letter from his ex- wife, saying that she's ill and blown a hapless commuter hasn't long to smithereens at a railway stationlive. He It's planning hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his next murder already, secreted away underwear and sent to a watery grave in the shed at the bottom boot of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid fathera stolen Ford Sierra. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing Is it a warning from a career as Spanish gang or a forensic psychologist, there's only him problem closer to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, really. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 0861541774|title=Acts of Violence|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard day's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the next, all A Nye of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There is the draftee with a sick mother, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through to the morning. We are shown how in the midst 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, and how these people did nothing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPheasants|author=Nigel McCrery|title=Core of EvilSteve Burrows

|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. DCI Domenic Jejeune'"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas roses close friend and former colleague," she saidDanny Maik, watching has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalismeet up with an old ally, which I've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as wellGuy Trueman. It's Maik was involved in a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky street brawl - and graphically effluent he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on he killed a new townGhurka. Initially, he faced a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Daisy has problems with her memory - Now he could be facing the identities go back so far that sometimes she death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can barely remember who is she is now, let alone do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the whos she's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she began. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1521129886|title=Dead of WinterThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is pictureapproached by an old friend whose brother-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandlaw appears to have killed himself. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in Stuart's concerned about his life sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has her son is not been easy for Kincaidthriving. A troubledLucy, unhappy child of mixed racehe says, passed around various institutions is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and foster homes, Louis figures the coroner have accepted that if he is going to put some integrity back into the worlddeath was suicide, he will need but Stuart's prepared to wear a badge pay Greg to do itfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca TopeB0CK3MYJ56|title=Fear in the CotswoldsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|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 itIt's winter the 1990s and sheGreg Mason's spending twenty-eight years old. He used to have a month high-flying job in the Cotswold village of Hampnett. It wouldncity but it wasn't be satisfying so he's now set himself up as a job for all private investigator. 'Shades of us Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but Thea delights in getting to know where's the local people and life experience that backs up this profession? On the areaother hand, he has been asked to look into something. In the past sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks written off as though that might have come to a tragic accident at an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledunmanned level crossing. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and a foolish one Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - when or how she finds footsteps in the snow which lead could come to a body fall in front of a nearby fieldtrain. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if sheGreg's imagined it allbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1838954481|title=Spade and ArcherThe Misper|author=Kate London

|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 and all that that entails. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as Ryan Kennedy killed a result police officer: there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, it's evident no doubt about that Sam is a man of few words. He has was the mannerisms of a cat fifteen-year- stealthy, quick on his feetold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, pulled the trigger but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette due to the vagaries of the jury system he was an elegant, almost essential accessoryfound not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Jay Parker|title=Stop Me|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most of us will have had to deal with themAnd so lives must go on. Fortunately, we can hit For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the delete button capital and forget about them as quickly as they came. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donher 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, the sole proprietor 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 what 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 happen when 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 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 daughterWhat first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the next-door neighbour's son streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and his friend to the parkthen another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with the wilfulness of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into the bushesno fixed abode, where she knew that she must not goand he has been for years. In there she used At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a stick move to stir up some leaves a different police station, and uncovered the body arrival there 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 who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no better and no worse than most but record of the early part of his adult life was to boy having existed can be blighted by a spell in prison when he was convicted of an attack on a man in a botched hold-upfound. Hoping for leniency he pleaded guilty Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment, whilst also with the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentence. It's easy to see other officers where Dillinger's contempt for the law was spawned.he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia 1804545600|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 for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells the story of how he came 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 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 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Monk|author=Joseph Teller |title=The Tenth CaseTim 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]]