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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1035021803|title=The Chalk Circle Man|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, heAntique Hunter's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about the most obtuse things in his pursuit of the truth, and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes a surprisingly perceptive ability Guide to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMurder|author=Jean Rowden|title=More Deaths Than OneC L Miller

|summary=Constable Thomas It'Thornys twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She' Deepbriar has s back now because of a broken leg after his involvement in a case request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and so Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is taken by his wife, Marydead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to recuperate in say the least. Arthur was the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during reason why Freya had not been back to the warvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He expects Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be bored - near the most interesting thing on man or pursue the horizon is a case of missing gnomesprofession she loved. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left After the force split, she worked in a haze of suspicion. Shortly afterwardscafe, a body is found met and married James (on the beach. Even stranger is that rebound from the dead man is someone that Thorny love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and his colleague thought had died during the war. It seems that things are not as they seemJames have now divorced. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1398524085|title=U is for UndertowHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in London, and one of the first books we read Charlotte Salter was a Sue Grafton alphabet bookexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I hadHer children, up to this pointsons Niall, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such booksPaul and Ollie and her daughter, and so I was dubious about what I'd have to say about itEtty. That book changed my literary life. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for are all the other books in the series and read them quicklyworried but - strangely - her husband, one by oneAlec, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading listis not. And so nowShortly afterwards, years laterEtty and Greg, I find myself with the latest book body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the alphabet series lying in my lap, a happy smile 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 guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1529900360|title=DishonourThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Modern lives.  Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and trying even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get her own law firm up ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and running (having been sacked from her previous job -shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised).  Ryan is a boy from the sink estateswhile. ThinFinally, angryit was Robin, rebelliousDelaware's partner, but with an ability to charm and a serious talent who nudged Milo into asking for art help again. She knew that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school.  Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girlsthe involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Hard-working, sober, appropriately dressedThe next case did look simple, dutiful to their familiesthough. They're also English teenagers, with Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a fair dose of what that normally impliesremote property in Bel Air.  Jack is a copper, overlooked for He was the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted heir to the job, always trying an Italian shoe empire and she is married to do the right thing, an extremely rich man and it's not always succeedingthe Italian. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distraction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>But which of them was the primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow178763681X|title=Maxwell's Retirement|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something of a dinosaur and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobiles. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when the need arises, but this isn't the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=David Kessler|title=Mercy|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In some ways, the first line of this novel says it all: 'It's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hours.' From this moment on, the action comes thick and fast, leaving the reader with barely the breath to murmer 'is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactory. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M R Hall|title=The DisappearedOrlando Murrin

|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valleya way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow's now some months later and whilst she's settled into got the impression that he'd be at the job school to some extent her relationship with her officerassist Paul, Alisonwho had a broken arm, is uneven but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and shethe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care t expected was for someone to admitturn up dead. She's a feisty woman though Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and determined everyone knows that she's going the police consider that person to do be the job properlyprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1529421284|title=CapturedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just as he's barely turning fortyIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. As In a result he compiles gully, a short list of rights human skeleton came to wrong, the surface and people forensic testing proved the body to create closure withbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. OneHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, his ex-wife, might not be easy, two concern so it could have been a misguided sense simple case of a guilt of oldmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The fourth turns Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to be a missing womanthe suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The journey he takes in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamish's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529425867|title=The Merry MisogynistLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is now married to Madame Daeng of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and despite the fact that they have father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a combined age trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of going on for a hundred shell suits and forty theytrackies. They're behaving like the newly-weds they areusually in lime green or acid yellow. Even You might wonder if you're being the reluctant coroner introduced to a police procedural written for the Republic of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for lifelaughs. Well, it canyou't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts re not. The two men are just different sides of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treessame policing coin. What he does to his victims leaves Sometimes the morgue staff sickenedcombination works brilliantly well. ThereSometimes it's a determination to find the man responsible and bring him to justiceproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529431735|title=A Hard DeathThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayess February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on return all the inside cover of the book is impressivemore surprising. My expectations were high. All He'd been exiled on the ingredients are in place Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a good thrillerdecade. The location is The Everglades in Floridareturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. BroodingIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, enigmatic, awe-inspiring stripped to his underwear and where we all seem sent to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out a watery grave in the boot of the swampy waters every five minutesa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0861541774|title=Curse A Nye of the Pogo StickPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to control his reactions meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally a street brawl - he would later maintain that he forgot himself and was more insolent than usual. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on facing a road trip man armed with the judge a knife - and the Justice Departmenthe killed a Ghurka. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and marriedInitially, although not in the usual order he faced a charge of events) is left manslaughter but evidence came to run light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not man. Now he could be a help, but probably not in facing the way that you might expectdeath penalty. As if that wasnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappedhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1521129886|title=Bad Penny BluesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Step into Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiespoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Bad Penny Bluess a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they' is re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the story of baby when she gets past the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the west of the city-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean who's struggling to make ends meet and Irelandher son is not thriving. Lucy, bohemian artists and media typeshe says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and even peers. Carnaby Street the coroner have accepted that the death was just becoming suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances FyfieldB0CK3MYJ56|title=Cold to the TouchResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=ThereIt's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlythe 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a coldprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', dark London morningyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, shebut where's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing been asked to do with herlook into something. Jess is a talented chef but sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's short of work – the occasion when she emptied been written off as a tureen of soup over the host tragic accident at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedan unmanned level crossing. Sarah senses Joyce - and her vulnerabilityparents, but itOliver and Pam Hetherington - can's Jess who organises the let t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of one of her mothera train. Greg's cottages in the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent firebeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Helen Fitzgerald|title=Bloody Women|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women'', I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald and by the title and blurb, I expected a standard crime-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this wasn't the case. The novel was a kind of black comedy and written with wit and humour, despite the theme of murder and violence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeffery Deaver|title=The Bodies Left Behind|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal of a lifetime. But on their first evening in the place, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple out. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and the only hope they have is that someone will take notice of Steven's phone call to the police, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1838954481|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>}} {{newreviewMisper|author=Diane Janes|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in the south-east and the other in the north-east. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt. The author has investigated the connection and come up with a riveting book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestKate London

|summary=[[The Girl with Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the Dragon Tattoo]], trigger but due to the first vagaries of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of thrillers, was a fine stand-alone novelthe officer. And so lives must go on. The second in For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson capital and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues hoping for a quieter life in the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larssoncountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's finely crafted antidrawn into a wider investigation -hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review nowand back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1448309743|title=Tooth and ClawThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Another serial killer is In the village of Cronchie on the looseWest coast of Scotland, and yet again five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the police have failed to connect home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to stone is removed from Otterburn House, death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway stationwill follow. He The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the house he shares with his invalid fatherbody. Carl The Senior Investigating Office is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologistDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, thereDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's only him 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529077699|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard day''It's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the next, all 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>}} {{newreview|author=Nigel McCrery|title=Core of Evil|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. '"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas rose," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalisbloody peculiar, which Iisn've also used beforet it, but thereSir?'s saporin and protoanemonin as well. It's a very nasty cocktail."'

And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and graphically effluent - endthen turned up, naked and Violet has become Daisydead, Daisy sets her sights on in a new townsmall boat, a new identity andanchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, most importantly, a new victimin Devon. Daisy has problems with her memory - Rosco had the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is nowstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, let alone round the world sailor and all the whos sheround ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we's been beforell find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and most certainly not his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the who with whom she began. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1529427045|title=Dead of WinterThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderland. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. ''Life has not been easy more to offer than people - prime numbers for Kincaid. A troubled, unhappy child of mixed race, passed around various institutions and foster homes, Louis figures that if he is going to put some integrity back into the world, he will need to wear a badge to do itexample''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Rebecca Tope|title=Fear in Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the Cotswolds|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Thea Osborne is area have sparked a house sitter by professiongold rush. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the propertyThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. This time itSalander's winter and sheniece's spending a month in mother is the Cotswold village of Hampnett. It wouldn't be a job for all of us but Thea delights latest woman in getting to know the local people and the areato have vanished without trace. In the past sheIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's also been involved with the police in solving various cases guardian but it looks as though quickly becomes obvious 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 Svala is a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the snow which lead to a body part Salander played in a nearby field. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if sheher father's imagined it alldeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1787636607|title=Spade and Archer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agency. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entails. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, it's evident that Sam is a man of few words. He has the mannerisms of a cat - stealthy, quick on his feet. He'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 changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Trap|author=Richard Jay Parker|title=Stop MeCatherine 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. IOne day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of a photograph on her drug dealer've always liked the seriess living room wall, as it shows a battle of wits and there so she sets about discovering where this collection is so much that , and how she can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the end. steal it! Until Richard AsplinIt's ''Conman''a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, I'd not read anything with quite and what will happen when the same level owner of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaver's ''The Vanished Man'' the collection comes close.looking for their books?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>1789098947

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1448309379|title=The Complaints|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Working in 'The Complaints' is not the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they're the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time Flesh and at the beginning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policeman. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwise. They don't reckon that he's bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Sam Millar|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelDavid 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]]