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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson1035021803|title=The SpireAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the body English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a black fellow studentrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Angela Hall, at the foot of the spire in the centre of the college he attends, he little suspects that his best Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend will be charged with the murder. Now, sixteen years laterArthur Crockleford, Darrow is back, at dead and the invitation of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farrcircumstances seem suspicious, to become president of say the least. Arthur was the college in order reason why Freya had not been back to rebuild its reputation after a case of embezzlement has left the college village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in a precarious position (convenientlybusiness together as antique hunters, Darrow she has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in not felt able to be near the man or pursue the intervening years)profession she loved. As Darrow digs into what happened with After the college financessplit, he also begins to look afresh at she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the trial love of his friend her life, who was murdered) and Freya and questions if he really was guilty as chargedJames have now divorced. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provost's troubled, but beautiful, daughter. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp1398524085|title=Among ThievesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, some valuable paintings were stolen from is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the United Statesriver. The It was an easy assumption for the police investigation failed to find them make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and many felt they were lost foreverthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. But soon the paintings and their whereabouts would be impacting on many people The Salter children are not convinced but there's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1529900360|title=Dark EntriesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in LondonIt 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 difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and one -shut cases which didn't need the help of the first books we read was a Sue Grafton alphabet bookpsychologist only worked for a while. I hadFinally, up to this pointit was Robin, never read any crime fictionDelaware's partner, foolishly feeling myself above such books, and so I was dubious about what I'd have to say about itwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. That book changed my literary lifeShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. I devoured itThe next case did look simple, though. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for all Two lovers were murdered in the other books swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the series heir to an Italian shoe empire and read them quickly, one by one, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the world of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading listItalian. And so now, years later, I find myself with But which of them was the latest book in the alphabet series lying in my lap, a happy smile on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black178763681X|title=DishonourKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern livesChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying He didn't really want to get her own law firm up but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency women to be a trifle too do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'independent'got the impression that he' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from d be at the sink estates. Thinschool to assist Paul, angry, rebelliouswho had a broken arm, but with an ability to charm and a serious talent for art it didn't turn out that gets lost in his ganstaway. The teaching -speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha the problems - are good Muslim girlsall his own. Hard-working, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to their familiesturn up dead. They're also English teenagersUnfortunately, with a fair dose of what he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that normally implies. Jack is a copper, overlooked for the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted police consider that person to be the job, always trying to do the right thing, and not always succeeding. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distractionprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1529421284|title=Maxwell's RetirementLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a dinosaur human skeleton came to the surface and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He might prefer to make 'd been a phone call or send known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a note when the need arises, simple case of misadventure but this isnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the way suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the younger generation time. Lockyer and Maxwell discovers DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that he's going cold cases to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problemyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler1529425867|title=MercyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In some waysOxford, the first line there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of this novel says it all: 'ItRyan, is not. He's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hoursnot any of those things. He' From this moment ons white, the action comes thick and fastoriginated from a trailer park, leaving the reader with barely the breath to murmer educated (reading's not ''is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?' ' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. However, You might wonder if you suspend your disbelief're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, then you're not. The two men are just different sides of the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactorysame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall1529431735|title=The DisappearedWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valley. It's now some months later February 1991 and whilst sheEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's settled into return all the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alison, is uneven and shemore surprising. He's still shaky mentally and dependant d been exiled on pills to the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a greater extent than she would care to admitdecade. SheThe return has come about because he's had a feisty woman though and determined letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's going ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to do his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the job properlyboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross0861541774|title=Captured|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just as he's barely turning forty. As a result he compiles a short list A Nye of rights to wrong, and people to create closure with. One, his ex-wife, might not be easy, two concern a misguided sense of a guilt of old. The fourth turns out to be a missing woman. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamish.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPheasants|author=Colin Cotterill|title=The Merry MisogynistSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to Madame Daeng and despite the fact meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that they have he was facing a combined age of going on for man armed with a hundred knife - and forty they're behaving like the newly-weds they arehe killed a Ghurka. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for life. WellInitially, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that faced a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treesman. What Now he does to his victims leaves could be facing the morgue staff sickeneddeath penalty. There's Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a determination to find the man responsible diplomatic incident and bring him to justicewouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1521129886|title=A Hard DeathThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenGreg Mason't read Jonathan Hayess just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he' bestseller ll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Precious Bloods a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they' so I was a fresh reader, so to speakre both delighted. His writing biography on Joyce will be more delighted about the inside cover of baby when she gets past the book is impressivemorning sickness. My expectations were high. All the ingredients are Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in place for a good thriller-law appears to have killed himself. The location Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is The Everglades in Floridanot thriving. BroodingLucy, enigmatiche says, aweis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -inspiring it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and where we all seem the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to expect crocodiles pay Greg to rear their heads find out of what happened on the swampy waters every five minutesnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin CotterillB0CK3MYJ56|title=Curse of the Pogo StickResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to control his reactions have a high-flying job in front of Judge Haeng, the city but occasionally it wasn't satisfying so he forgot 's now set himself and was more insolent than usual. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on up as a road trip with the judge and the Justice Departmentprivate investigator. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and married, although not in the usual order 'Shades of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr GeungCameron Strike', who you might, or might not be a helpthinking. Nice bloke, but probably not in where's the way life experience that you might expectbacks up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. As if that wasnJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what't enough Nurse Dtui discovers s been written off as a boobytragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce -trapped corpseand 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 a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappedbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1838954481|title=Bad Penny BluesThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the seedy underbelly vagaries of London on the cusp jury system he was found not guilty of both the Swinging Sixties. 'Bad Penny Blues' is murder and the story manslaughter of the hunt officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes quieter life in the west of the city, at the time countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean wider investigation - and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming back into the fashion centre orbit of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1448309743|title=Cold to the TouchThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica Hurly. When Sarah Fortune encounters her In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing to do with herwealthy family are found murdered. Jess The only item missing from the home is a talented chef but she's short of work – the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even Devil Stone: myth says that if all the other guests were secretly delightedstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Sarah senses her vulnerabilityThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, but itthat's Jess who organises the let an easy conclusion given that two of one of her motherthem 'discovered's cottages the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled 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 fireto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1529077699|title=Bloody WomenThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody WomenIt's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, I hadnSir?''t heard Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of the author Helen Fitzgerald an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and by the title then turned up, naked and blurbdead, I expected in a standard crime-thriller novelsmall boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. But early on Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I realised this wasn't the case. The novel was 'nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a kind of black comedy and written little bit close with wit money and humour, despite his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the theme of murder and violence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529427045|title=The Bodies Left BehindGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided ''Life has more to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity offer than people - prime numbers 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 Stevenexample''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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1787636607|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place It's a scene replicated all too often in Edwardian England less than two years apartthe early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', one particularly in the south-east and light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the other in final stop on the north-eastbus leaves her a long way short of her home. At first glance they seemed She had intended to have nothing ring someone to do with each other, come and collect her - but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubther phone's dead. The author has investigated bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the connection bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and come up with a riveting bookin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)1405957174|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with From the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]first page, the first of Steig Larssonwe know that Nadine Walsh's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, was party will not end well. The victim - a fine standman -alone novel. The second in the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson is dying when we first meet him and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's finely crafted anti-heroambulance he so desperately needs. If you haven What we don't read this second volume yet I advise you know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to stop reading this review nowhave him die. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>d better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0008530025|title=Tooth and ClawMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to death It was in December 2003 that fifteen- leaving a singularly gruesome tableau year- old Maura Howard came home and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. He's planning his next murder alreadyfound the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, secreted away in the shed at garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the bottom back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the garden of steps but the house he shares with vicious beating his invalid fatherface had taken was obviously deliberate. Carl is embittered and lonely - Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his mother living away murder and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, thereit's only him to take care now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of his severely disabled father: experts has been brought together to change review the colostomy bag, evidence and to cook, take the investigation further. More to cleanthe point, they're going todo this live on camera, well, just to bear it, reallyepisode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 0241996104|title=Acts of ViolenceComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Kat Marino is Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed on at their Sussex farmhouse and her way home from workstep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. All The barrister tells her that she wanted was 's received a hot bath after a hard day'silent sentence' - she's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the next, all rest of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasher life. There is the draftee with a sick motherOf course, the nurse who thinks it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects inherited five million pounds from her husband of cheating and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, mother - and how these events drag through to the morning. We papers are shown how in making the midst most of their own interesting, poignant it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and dangerous concerns a woman ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothingundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529413680|title=Core A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of EvilPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup One of tea, flavoured 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 Christmas rosessome friends. It'"There are s all kinds been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of horrible things in the Christmas rosemain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear herhis doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. "Helleborin A local doctor (and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I've also used before, friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but there's saporin and protoanemonin - as well. Ithe's a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet the military has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity stepped in. One daughter lives nearby andanother, most importantlywho lives in California, a new victim. Daisy has problems is flying in with some of her memory - the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all the whos shefather's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganfriends for a pre-arranged holiday. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1529196388|title=Dead of WinterThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that sits serenely was good and honest and snugly looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandOld Bailey. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity There's just one man in the frame for his life murder - Jimmy Knight - and on arrival it's not too long before Knight appears in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come homecourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. Life has not been easy Knight was told that the best barrister for Kincaid. A troubled, unhappy child him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of mixed raceStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, passed around various institutions and foster homesAdam Green, Louis figures that if he is going who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to put some integrity back into the worldplead not guilty, he will need despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to wear a badge to do itthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca TopeAndrew Cartmel|title=Fear Death in the CotswoldsFine Condition|rating=43
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a house sitter by professionseries called Sleuth Hound. When people go away She spends her time hunting out copies that she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time itcan sell on for profit, sometimes 's winter and shetweaking's spending a month them, to add value, in the Cotswold village of Hampnettsomewhat fraudulent ways. It wouldn't be One day she discovers a job for all near perfect collection of us but Thea delights these books after seeing them in getting to know the local people background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and the area. so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! In the past sheIt's also been involved with the police a next-level step in solving various cases her petty crime career, but it looks as though that might have come to an end as the relationship has she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – reached too far, and a foolish one - what will happen when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to a body in a nearby field. When owner of the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it all.collection comes looking for their books?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>1789098947
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1448309379|title=Spade Flesh 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>}} {{newreviewBlood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Richard Jay Parker|title=Stop MeDavid Mark
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingIt's something of a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife and children, but most of us will have had that's what happened to deal with themDS Aector McAvoy. FortunatelyWhilst he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, alive, we can hit it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they camemorning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. I certainly prefer Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish everyone who commented on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I don'tthis was doing so kindly. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually It had always been suspected that Pharoah was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>sweet on Aector.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1529135389|title=Blood Born|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death and faces a battle against time to save her. In the panic, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girl's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and 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 life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Fall|author=Louise Penny |title=The Brutal TellingGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one Nicole Booth had spent the morning, in at the village county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by her husband but opera was playing on the ringing state-of -the telephone-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. There is a body They'd not been in the bistro architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Olivier is stunnedwere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but thereSome of them fought with each other and didn's no sign of t work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a weapon, no obvious reason for the killing ten-million-pound lottery win and no clues as they were still getting used to the identity having that sort of the victimmoney, too. MeanwhileEventually, Nicole found Tom dead in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along swimming pool with a wound to his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. They've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaoshead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike CareyAlan Parks|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living To Die in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeJune|rating=2.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuaneWhat first seems like the unfortunate, who describes himself as accidental death of a hard-workinghomeless man on the streets, regular guy (suddenly starts to feel like something more of that in a minute though)sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Nine months previously This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, he and but all the more so because his wife Melissa had adopted own father is a baby girldown and out alcoholic, Angelinawith no fixed abode, when their world and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is shattered by also dealing with a move to a telephone call from different police station, and the adoption agency to say that arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has been a mistake on gone missing, only no record of the forms and the teenage biological father had boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not signed his consent and now wants to take just with the baby back. Even worse news is that woman’s story but also with the boy's father other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1804545600|title=Wasp-WaistedThe Monk|author=Tim Sullivan|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of The body in 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 woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to be something of a problem when a young model is found dead chair and dumped in a luxury hotel in Parisditch. Worryingly, He'd been savagely beaten. It's a stunning photograph of while before D S George Cross and the body Major Crime Unit establish that this is delivered to Exposé, Father Dominic. He'd been missing for a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered few days and it can only have been taken by the murderercertainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey. Despite As the provenance of team gradually unpick the picture monk's past itbecomes clear that he's difficult not to be in awe of the skill d been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and artistry which produced itfriend. All Guerin has to go on is the 'He'd also been very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''wealthy but had given it all up for his faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk> Why would someone savagely murder him?
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