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|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just as heIt's barely turning fortytwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. As She's back now because of a result he compiles a short list of rights to wrongrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and people the circumstances seem suspicious, to create closure withsay the least. One, his ex-wifeArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, might not be easyshe feels, two concern a misguided sense of a guilt of oldlet her down badly. The fourth turns out Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be a missing womannear the man or pursue the profession she loved. The journey he takes After the split, she worked in that redemptive exercise is not for a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the squeamishlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1398524085|title=The Merry Misogynist|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng and despite the fact that they have a combined age of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like the newly-weds they are. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for life. Well, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. What he does to his victims leaves the morgue staff sickened. There's a determination to find the man responsible and bring him to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jonathan Hayes |title=A Hard DeathNicci French|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover of the book is impressive. My expectations were high. All the ingredients are in place for a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Florida. Brooding, enigmatic, awe-inspiring and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Cotterill|title=Curse of the Pogo Stick|rating=45

|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usualnever turned up. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant)Her children, sons Niall, communist (even more reluctantly) Paul and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge Ollie and the Justice Departmenther daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Nurse Dtui (pregnant Shortly afterwards, Etty and marriedGreg, although not in find the usual order body of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who mightGreg's father, or might not be a helpDuncan Ackerley, but probably not in the way that you might expectriver. As if It was an easy assumption for the police to make that wasnDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's a geriatric hit-person little else they can do but get on the loose with their lives and Siri is kidnappedwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1529900360|title=Bad Penny BluesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiesdifficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'Bad Penny Blues' is t need the story help of the hunt a psychologist only worked for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the west of involvement was something that the cityman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, at though. Two lovers were murdered in the time swimming pool of a melting pot of immigrants from remote property in Bel Air. He was the Caribbean heir to an Italian shoe empire and Ireland, bohemian artists she is married to an extremely rich man and media types, and even peersit's not the Italian. Carnaby Street But which of them was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield178763681X|title=Cold to the TouchKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica HurlyChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her way of getting both men and it seems that her mother wants nothing women to do with herwhat he wanted. Jess is a talented chef but shePaul ''somehow''s short of work – got the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over impression that he'd be at the host at school to assist Paul, who had a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighted. Sarah senses her vulnerabilitybroken arm, but itdidn's Jess who organises t turn out that way. The teaching - and the let of problems - are all his own. The one of her motherthing he hadn's cottages in t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the sea-side town where she grew up so police consider that Sarah can have a long break from person to be the flat where she still smells a recent fireprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1529421284|title=Bloody WomenLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women''It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, I hadn't heard of a human skeleton came to the author Helen Fitzgerald surface and by forensic testing proved the title body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and blurbhad learning disabilities, I expected so it could have been a standard crime-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't the caseconvinced. The novel Geary was a kind townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of black comedy Holly Gilbert and written with wit to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and humour, despite DC Gemma Broad of the theme of murder Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and violenceme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529425867|title=The Bodies Left BehindLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsinson of Ryan and father of Ryan, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal is not. He's not any of a lifetimethose things. But on their first evening in the place He's white, originated from a series trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outshell suits and trackies. They know they are 're usually in real trouble when lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their windowpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. Another enters The two men are just different sides of the building and same policing coin. Sometimes the only hope they have is that someone will take notice of Stevencombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's phone call to the police, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – Thisproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529431735|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=34

|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin It's February 1991 and Essex is not bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a happy womandecade. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-husbandwife, James, is getting married to a much younger woman saying that she's ill and Agatha has been invited hasn't long to the weddinglive. She goes It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward stripped 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 underwear and wants sent to pull out a watery grave in the boot of the weddinga stolen Ford Sierra. Then the bride is killed, by Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or 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 isproblem closer to home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0861541774|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=Two murders took place DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Edwardian England less than two years apartSingapore to meet up with an old ally, one Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the southa street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -east and the other in the north-easthe killed a Ghurka. At first glance they seemed Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have nothing planned to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtmurder the man. The author has investigated Now he could be facing the connection death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and come up with a riveting bookwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1521129886|authortitle=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestKeith Redfern

|summary=[[The Girl with Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 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 Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the Dragon Tattoo]]morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, the first of Steig LarssonLucy, who's Millennium trilogy of thrillersstruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, was a fine standhe says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -alone novelit simply wasn't in his nature. The second in police and the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues coroner have accepted that the adventures of Lisbeth Salanderdeath was suicide, Larsson but Stuart's finely crafted anti-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you prepared to stop reading this review now. I'm about pay Greg to spoil find out what happened on the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>night Gil died.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCreryB0CK3MYJ56|title=Tooth and ClawResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=Another serial killer is on It's the loose, 1990s and yet again the police have failed to connect the deathsGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter He used to death - leaving have a singularly gruesome tableau high- and blown flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway stationprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. HeNice bloke, but where's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at life experience that backs up this profession? On the bottom of the garden of the house other hand, he shares with his invalid fatherhas been asked to look into something. Carl is embittered Joyce and lonely Helen are half- with his mother living away and pursuing a career sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a forensic psychologisttragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there- or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: been asked to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallyinvestigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1838954481|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5

|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was Ryan Kennedy killed a hot bath after a hard daypolice officer: there's workno doubt about that. From this point He was the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to fifteen-year-old holding the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. There is He pulled the draftee with a sick mother, trigger but due to the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, vagaries of the woman who suspects her husband jury system he was found not guilty of cheating both the murder and othersthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. We are shown what these characters were doing For DI Sarah Collins that evening, means leaving the capital and how these events drag through to the morning. We are shown how hoping for a quieter life in the midst of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns countryside but when a woman missing teenager is stabbed in found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothingorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1448309743|title=Core of EvilThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of teaScotland, flavoured with Christmas rosesfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. '"There are all kinds of horrible things in The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the Christmas rosestone is removed from Otterburn House," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear herdeath will follow. "Helleborin and hellebrin The only suspects are both like digitalisknown Satanists but in many ways, which I've also used before, but therethat's saporin and protoanemonin as well. Itan easy conclusion given that two of them 's a very nasty cocktail."discovered' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimthe body. Daisy has problems with her memory - the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who The Senior Investigating Office is she DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is now, let alone all the whos shepulled in to 'shadow's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganhim. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=P J Parrish|title=Dead of Winter|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Loon LakeWell yes, Michigan it is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the midst middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a pine-peppered winter wonderland. Louis Kincaid needs month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a little serenity small boat, anchored in his life and on arrival Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for KincaidDevon. A troubled, unhappy child Rosco had the status of mixed race, passed around various institutions and foster homesa national treasure: a renowned adventurer, Louis figures that if he is going to put some integrity back into round the worldsailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he will need to wear could be more than a badge to do itlittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1529427045|title=Fear The Girl in the CotswoldsEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45

|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 it's winter and she's spending a month in the Cotswold village of Hampnett. It wouldn't be a job for all of us but Thea delights in getting Life has more to know the local offer than people and the area. In the past she- prime numbers for example's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks as though that might have come to an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For 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 field. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Joe Gores|title=Spade and Archer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Sam Spade decidesLisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, bravely, to set up his onewhere the so-far-man detective agencyuntapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. ItThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the 1920s latest woman in San Francisco so we the area to have the prohibition era and all that that entailsvanished without trace. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result thereIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, guardian but it's evident quickly becomes obvious that Sam Svala is a man remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of few words. He has the mannerisms of a cat - stealthy, quick on his feet. Hepart Salander played in her father's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changeddeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1787636607|title=Stop MeThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of us will have had clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to deal with themget one of the few taxis available. Fortunately, we can hit Others squash onto the delete button and forget about them night bus that will only go as quickly far as they cameone of the outlying villages. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donparticularly in the light of 'the missing women't. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a matter long way short of life her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and death, rather than just claiming collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1405957174|title=Blood BornA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=To give support to From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a vulnerable gangman -rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to testify against call the notorious Harbourn brothersambulance he so desperately needs. But when Anya arrives at What we don't know is who the house she finds Giverny close man is or why Nadine prefers to death and faces a battle against time to save herhave him die. In the panic, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or I'd better give you a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girllittle more background so that you can understand what's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apart. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to lifehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 0008530025|title=The Brutal TellingMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=Early one morning, It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the village body of Three Pinesher stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the local restaurateur is woken by garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the ringing back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the telephone. There is a body in steps but the bistro and Olivier is stunnedvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The man Twenty years later, no one has been bludgeoned to death, but therecharged with his murder and it's no sign now the subject of ''Infamous'', a weapon, no obvious reason for true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the killing evidence and no clues as to take the identity of the victiminvestigation further. MeanwhileMore to the point, in Montrealthey're going to do this live on camera, Chief Inspector Gamache episode by episode. There's no dump of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir whole box set - and Agent Isabelle Lacosteno shortage of cliffhangers. TheyIt've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaoss compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey0241996104|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts Nancy's mother and succubi for friends, step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the odd human. His best friendher step-brother, RafiMartin, has been taken over by convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsiblelife sentence. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is The barrister tells her that Asmodeus has other ideas she's received a 'silent sentence' - basically to kill everyone who has she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to do live with Rafiwhat happened for the rest of her life. Felix himself is probably on the list Of course, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there papers are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about making the most of 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 GoodbyeFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hard-working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he one favourite epithet 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 ''rich bitch'' might not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news be printed but is that the boy's father is an influential federal judgeundoubtedly spoken. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529413680|title=Wasp-WaistedA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident town from the English in Corsica which left him badly wounded he1370 and Bruno's been moved into criminal investigationsthere to see the show with some friends. His first case proves to be something of a problem It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Paris. Worryingly, a stunning photograph Kerquelin, the man playing one of the body main characters is delivered to Exposéseriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body his doctor is discovered there and it can only have been taken by the murdererman is whisked away in a helicopter. Despite the provenance A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of the picture itsurvival but - as he's difficult not to be a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in awe of the skill and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go on One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling'flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529196388|title=HustleThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder

|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 Grant Cliveden was a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes right. This is the art of fleecing hero: a single person out of a lot of money policeman who stood for all at once. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' was good and honest and Richard Asplin's [[Conman looked up to by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onjust about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of There''find s just one man in the ladyframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden', which aims to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possibles murder. The short con may have a lower return, but Knight was told that return comes a lot quicker and this is the basis best barrister for Will Fergusonhim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'Hustle''s recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Asplin Andrew Cartmel|title=ConmanDeath in Fine Condition

|summary=Thanks to the success of the BBC TV show ''HustleCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking'them, the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recalladd value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. I've always liked the series, as it shows One day she discovers a battle near perfect collection of wits and there is so much that can go wrong the outcome is these books after seeing them in doubt right until the end. Until Richard Asplinbackground of a photograph on her drug dealer's ''Conman''living room wall, I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacyand so she sets about discovering where this collection is, although Jeffery Deaverand how she can steal it! It's ''The Vanished Man'' comes close.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Rankin |title=The Complaints|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Working a next-level step in 'The Complaints' is not the job for you if personal popularity mattersher petty crime career, because they're the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox but has been there for some time she reached too far, and at what will happen when the beginning owner of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policeman. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwise. They don't reckon that he's bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.collection comes looking for their books?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>1789098947

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar1448309379|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark

|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant It's something of a surprise to take find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on the case of a missing teenagerbreak with your wife and children, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itthat's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. As Whilst he looks into it furtherwas relieved to find that he was still, officially, alive, it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty waywas difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who seemed to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number of very young women 'd dashed from her flat in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do not really care very much. Most early hours of the victims are homeless women morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with a history of drug problems her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and a life not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on the wrong side of the lawAector.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1529135389|title=No EscapeThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5

|summary=I've long Nicole Booth had an interest spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologyThe Glass Barn. The mind is a fascinating thing, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wrongThey'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. The same is true Some of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things donthem fought with each other and didn't work out too well for the policeas reliably as they should. So It had all come about through a combination of abnormal psychology ten-million-pound lottery win and crime thriller was always going they were still getting used to appeal having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to mehis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul CharlesAlan Parks|title=Family LifeTo Die in June

|summary=The Sweeney family along What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with wivesno fixed abode, girlfriends and children were gathered at the family farm he has been for Liam's birthdayyears. There was just one empty seat at At the table same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the family waited for Joe – the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only one no record of the children who wanted to farm – to return homeboy having existed can be found. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the news that Joe's body had other officers where he has been discovered stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on land by a disused warehouse. There were no injuries to the body and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murdered.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1804545600|title=The Gigolo Murder|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=After a break-up, 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 Istanbul. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be married. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused of the murder of a gigolo. 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 a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that it's a relic of the battle. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Brownlee |title=Bait|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jake Moore was in the Flying Squad but 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>}} {{newreviewMonk|author=Thomas Pynchon |title=Inherent ViceTim Sullivan|rating=3.5

|summary=The close of body in the '60s, the dawn of the '70swoods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. San FranciscoHe'd been savagely beaten. Some people say It's a while before D S George Cross and the most influential people are Nixon and his croniesMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Some people say theyHe're Charlie Manson d been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his croniesabbey. Some people call As the smog surrounding everyone in team gradually unpick the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug haze. Doc, the sole proprietor of LSD Investigationsmonk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, is approached by different peoplebrother, requesting two jobs of him, which both point to the same bigwig property developerneighbour and friend. One of these is from He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his ex, now with said mogul, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately diesfaith. 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 moreWhy would someone savagely murder him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Mark Billingham |title=Bloodline|rating=3.5|genre=Move on to [[Newest Crime|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murder. However, slivers of an X-Ray are found in the dead woman's hand, and it is soon discovered that the woman's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out 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>}}(Historical) Reviews]]