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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1035021803|title=The MissingAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah FinchIt's twelve year old brother Charlie says twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to her the English country village where she grew up. She''Tell mum I'll be s back soonnow because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' Sixteen years laters close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, his family are still waiting to find out what happened say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to himthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Now Even though they were in her twentiesbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, Sarah is teaching at she worked in a local private school while looking after cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her uncaring motherlife, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholismwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett1398524085|title=The Godfather of KathmanduHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, s fiftieth birthday party but it's the latter rather than the former which is likely to hold never turned up his promotion in the Thai police force. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, where he's a detectiveEtty. He's also the part owner of a brothel where his motherare all worried but - strangely - her husband, NongAlec, is the madam in chargenot. It's no problem for his bossShortly afterwards, Colonel VikornEtty and Greg, who has a few illegal interests find the body of his own. HeGreg's currently father, Duncan Ackerley, in competition with the head of river. It was an easy assumption for the army, General Zinna, police to see who can raise make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchaiguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's Kathmandu-based guru has for salelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson1529900360|title=The SpireGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers 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 difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the body help of a black fellow studentpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Angela Hallit was Robin, at Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the foot of the spire in the centre of the college he attends, he little suspects involvement was something that his best friend will be charged with the murderman she loved needed. Now The next case did look simple, sixteen years later, Darrow is back, at though. Two lovers were murdered in the invitation of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farr, to become president of the college in order to rebuild its reputation after a case swimming pool of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer remote property in the intervening years)Bel Air. As Darrow digs into what happened with He was the college finances, he also begins heir to look afresh at the trial of his friend an Italian shoe empire and questions if he really was guilty as charged. He also finds time she is married to start an emerging relationship with the provostextremely rich man and it's troubled, but beautiful, daughternot the Italian. Is the real killer still at large and are But which of them was the two crimes connectedprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp178763681X|title=Among ThievesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Boston in the United StatesBelgravia. The police investigation failed He didn't really want to find them but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and many felt they were lost foreverwomen to do what he wanted. But soon Paul ''somehow'' got the paintings and their whereabouts would impression that he'd be impacting on many peopleat the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Ian Rankin t turn out that way. The teaching - and Werther Dell'Edera |title=Dark Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, problems - are worriedall his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Yes Unfortunately, he was the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to person who discovered the one way out, body and the brilliant prize everyone knows that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but police consider that's nothing person to do with be the TV producersprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Baldacci1529421284|title=True BlueLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie Meldon, ex-criminal-defence attorney, now in private practice, leaves his office very late It was one night. He's met by of those flash downpours that the FBIBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead in In a dumpster. Mace Perry is working outgully, trying a human skeleton came to stay fitthe surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, trying to stay sanewho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in so it could have been a couple simple case of daysmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn' timet convinced. Perry Geary was a cop. townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Under-cover, maverick There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and darn good to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at her jobthe time. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and sent downme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1529425867|title=The Chalk Circle ManLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste AdamsbergIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. An unlikely police commissaireRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, he's an acquired taste for his colleaguesBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Short, ungainlyD I Ryan Wilkins, seemingly thinking about the most obtuse things in his pursuit son of the truth, Ryan and endlessly doodlingfather of Ryan, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes a surprisingly perceptive ability to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solvenot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Rowden|title=More Deaths Than One|rating=3 He's not any of those things.5|genre=Crime|summary=Constable Thomas He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'Thorny' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement in a case thing) and so is taken by his wife, Mary, to recuperate wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during the warlime green or acid yellow. He expects You might wonder if you're being introduced to be bored - the most interesting thing on the horizon is a case of missing gnomespolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left the force in a haze The two men are just different sides of suspicion. Shortly afterwards, a body is found on the beachsame policing coin. Even stranger is that Sometimes the dead man is someone that Thorny and his colleague thought had died during the warcombination works brilliantly well. It seems that things are not as they seem Sometimes it's problematic. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1529431735|title=U is for Undertow|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in London, and one of the first books we read was a Sue Grafton alphabet book. I had, up to this point, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such books, and so I was dubious about what I'd have to say about it. That book changed my literary life. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for all the other books in the series and read them quickly, one by one, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading list. And so now, years later, I find myself with 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>}} {{newreviewThe Winter Visitor|author=Helen Black|title=DishonourJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine It's February 1991 and Essex is heavily pregnant and trying to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency to be a trifle too bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from return all the sink estatesmore surprising. Thin, angry, rebellious, but with an ability to charm and He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a serious talent wanted drug smuggler for art that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girls. Hard-working, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful to their families. They're also English teenagers, with a fair dose of what that normally implies. Jack is a copper, overlooked for the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted to the job, always trying to do the right thing, and not always succeedingdecade. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distraction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M J Trow|title=MaxwellThe return has come about because he's Retirement|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something of had a dinosaur and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some of letter from 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 arisesex-wife, but this isn't the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers saying that heshe's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if heill and hasn's t long to help his students through the problemlive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 feel any sympathy when your client Hopkins is scheduled abducted, stripped to die his underwear and sent to a watery grave in fifteen hoursthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.' From this moment on, the action comes thick and fast, leaving the reader with barely the breath to murmer 'is Is it really probable that all this was left a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to the last dayhome?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactory. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall0861541774|title=The DisappearedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|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. ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's now some months later close friend and whilst she's settled into the job to some extent her relationship with her officerformer colleague, AlisonDanny Maik, is uneven and she's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to has taken a greater extent than she would care short holiday in Singapore to admitmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She's Maik was involved in a feisty woman though and determined street brawl - he would later maintain that she's going to do the job properly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Cross|title=Captured|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kenny is dying he was facing a man armed with a knife - brain cancer is hitting him just as and he's barely turning fortykilled a Ghurka. As a result Initially, he compiles faced a short list charge of rights manslaughter but evidence came to wrong, and people light that suggested that he might have planned to create closure withmurder the man. One, his ex-wife, might not Now he could be easy, two concern a misguided sense of a guilt of oldfacing the death penalty. The fourth turns out Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be help as any interference from another police force could provoke a missing woman. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamishdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1521129886|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>}} {{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jonathan Hayes |title=A Hard DeathKeith 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 in the Cotswolds|rating=4|genre=Crime|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 to know the local people and the area. In the past she'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 Death 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 ArcherFine Condition|rating=43
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|summary=Sam Spade decidesCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agencyand in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all She spends her time hunting out copies that that entails. Many localsshe can sell on for profit, of coursesometimes 'tweaking' them, choose to disobey the lawadd value, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquorin somewhat fraudulent ways. Straight away, it's evident that Sam is One day she discovers a man near perfect collection of few words. He has these books after seeing them in the mannerisms background of a cat - stealthyphotograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, quick on his feet. and how she can steal it! HeIt's also a compulsive chainnext-smokerlevel step in her petty crime career, but then againhas she reached too far, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed.and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>1789098947
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1448309379|title=Stop MeFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most It's something of us will have had a surprise to deal find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with them. Fortunatelyyour wife and children, we can hit the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they camebut that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. I certainly prefer not Whilst he was relieved to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onfind that he was still, officially, alive, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I don'tit was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam EHer protegee - McAvoy -Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathryn Fox|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 still alive but the courthouse on partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the day she is due to testify against early hours of the notorious Harbourn brothers. But morning when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death and faces a battle against time to save it was obvious that someone was tampering with her. In the paniccar, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murdernot. Worse still, in trying to save the girl Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene doppelganger - and the case falls apartnot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. 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 It had always been stabbed and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to lifesuspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529135389|title=The Brutal TellingFall|author=Gilly Macmillan
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|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
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|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
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|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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