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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)1035021803|title=The SnowmanAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=It's Norway, and ittwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a snowy and dark Novemberrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Women are disappearingFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and/or being found horrifically killedthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The police have little Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to go on, but with the help of flashbacks across cases the police could never hope to connectvillage: Arthur, we can see hints of a clevershe feels, but misogynistic man who seems to be the culprit, and on a mission against marital infidelitylet her down badly. But what could Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the connection with all those crimes and man or pursue the American presidential elections? profession she loved. And why - and how - might After the policesplit, the victimsshe worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the readerlove of her life, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1398524085|title=Past TenseHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jan Wakefield Charlotte Salter was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after a funeralexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, not least because she had never met the deceased Paul and Ollie and was unaware that her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband was , Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the next body of kinGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. He It was working in South America and not expected home an easy assumption for sometime. Josephine Short has obviously been a feisty character though. Despite being unmarried she the police to make that Duncan had had a child (at a time murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when this would have been frowned upon) and amassed a considerable fortunehe couldn't stand the guilt. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeralThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529900360|title=The GuardsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor 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 investigate the apparent suicide of her teenage daughter in Galway. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) but also a known alcoholic with nothing much else in ask for his lifehelp on difficult cases. His approach to investigation is haphazard assertions that there were only open-and- he doesnshut cases which didn't really have need the help of a psychologist only worked for a method beyond asking direct questions andwhile. Finally, if necessaryit was Robin, using his fistsDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Predictably, there is more to She knew that the involvement was something that the suicide man she loved needed. The next case than first meets did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the eye and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets and levels swimming pool of corruption within a remote property in Bel Air. He was the city. ''The Guards'' heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is not your conventional crime thriller; married to an extremely rich man and it's darker and has a grim realismnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman178763681X|title=All That I Have|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of a firm of provincial solicitors but thankfully this Castle Freeman is a man very skilled in writing about the law rather than practicing it. In his latest novel Freeman tells an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing and his practical yet low-key approach to maintaining order in rural Vermont. Not Knife Skills for Wing the gung ho approach to fighting crime. He doesn't wear a uniform, he drives a battered old car rather than the standard issue sheriff's wagon and his gun, so ubiquitous in US law enforcement, is safely tucked away in his bottom drawer. Everyone in the area knows the sheriff and by and large they respect him and his slightly unorthodox way of doing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeginners|author=Daniel Suarez|title=DaemonOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=As Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the internet grows and technology advancesimpression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it's seems there is nothing you candidn't doturn out that way. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent The teaching - and cars the problems - are more automated than everall his own. Huge online games allow users worldwide The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to interact and play against each other in huge arenasturn up dead. Thanks to social networkingUnfortunately, he was the internet can be addictive person who discovered the body and, yes, I'm aware of everyone knows that the irony in writing police consider that hereperson to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529421284|title=The Killing of Laying Out the TinkersBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. He's been lying low 'over In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the water' in Londonbody to be Lee Geary, licking his woundswho had disappeared nine years earlier. Jack (IHe'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him d been a more Irish name) is known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a middle-aged, washed-up, disgraced ex-cop. As if that simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't bad enoughconvinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he also has a lot doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of very bad habits. He acknowledges however that 'Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the new world is designed for non-smokerstime.' He also admits quite freely Lockyer and openly DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that 'An alcoholic has dreams s cold cases to rival that of any Vietnam vetyou and me) investigate.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1529425867|title=KillerLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here at the BookbagIn Oxford, 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 Ryan, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltsermanis not. He's work thus farnot any of those things. He uses 's white, originated from a wonderful noirish narrative that takes trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you straight 're being introduced to the heart of the storya police procedural written for laughs. His story telling is very straightforwardWell, you're not weighing down . The two men are just different sides of the story with too much style, but sticking to same policing coin. Sometimes the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every timecombination works brilliantly well. With Sometimes it''Killer'', he has done the same agains problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Hunter1529431735|title=I, SniperThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You donIt't often find novels or films based on the art of s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the snipermore surprising. Hiding out for hours motionless and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesnHe't make for d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as interesting a story as wanted drug smuggler for a face to face shoot outdecade. But with The return has come about because he'Is had a letter from his ex-wife, Snipersaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Stephen Hunter has managed stripped to his underwear and sent to combine a watery grave in the art boot of the sniper with the art of the crime thriller in a decent readstolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey0861541774|title=The MissingA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah FinchDCI Domenic Jejeune's twelve year close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old brother Charlie says to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soonally, Guy Trueman.'' Sixteen years Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would latermaintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, his family are still waiting he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to find out what happened light that suggested that he might have planned to himmurder the man. Now in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charliediplomatic incident and wouldn's disappearance has slid into alcoholismt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett1521129886|title=The Godfather of KathmanduThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but itGreg Mason's the latter rather than the former which is likely just beginning to hold up get his promotion in confidence as an investigator to the Thai police force, point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a detectivegood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. He's also Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the part owner of a brothel where his mother, Nong, morning sickness. Greg is the madam approached by an old friend whose brother-in charge-law appears to have killed himself. ItStuart's no problem for concerned about his bosssister, Colonel VikornLucy, who has a few illegal interests of his own's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. HeLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's currently t in competition with his nature. The police and the head of coroner have accepted that the army, General Zinnadeath was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to see who can raise find out what happened on the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for salenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North PattersonB0CK3MYJ56|title=The SpireResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers It's the body of 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a black fellow student, Angela Hall, at the foot of the spire high-flying job in the centre city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of the college he attendsCameron Strike', he little suspects that his best friend will you might be charged with the murderthinking. NowNice bloke, sixteen years laterbut where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, Darrow is back, at the invitation of his mentor he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and now college provostHelen are half-sisters, Lionel Farror rather, to become president of the college they were until Helen was killed in order to rebuild its reputation after what's been written off as a case of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become tragic accident at an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years)unmanned level crossing. As Darrow digs into Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what happened with the college finances, he also begins she was doing there - or how she could come to look afresh at the trial fall in front of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as chargeda train. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provost Greg's troubled, but beautiful, daughterbeen asked to investigate. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp1838954481|title=Among ThievesThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in fifteen-year-old holding the United Statesgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The police investigation failed He pulled the trigger but due to find them the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and many felt they were lost foreverthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. But soon For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the paintings capital and their whereabouts would be impacting hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on many peopleher territory she's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1448309743|title=Dark EntriesThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie MeldonIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, ex-criminal-defence attorneyfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, now death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in private practicemany ways, leaves his office very late one night. Hethat's met by an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the FBIbody. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is dead pulled in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working out, trying to stay fit, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple of days' time. Perry was a cop. Under-cover, maverick and darn good at her job. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent downshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1529077699|title=The Chalk Circle ManRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, he''It's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Shortall bloody peculiar, ungainlyisn't it, 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 to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1529427045|title=U is for UndertowThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|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 ''Life has more to this point, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such books, and so I was dubious about what Ioffer than people - prime numbers for example'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>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Black|title=Dishonour|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Modern lives.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1787636607|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter It'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a dinosaur way to get home. Some are lucky and even he realises just how manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far adrift he is when some as one of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesthe outlying villages. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when The woman all regret the need arises'taxi problem', but this isnparticularly in the light of 'the missing women't . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of the younger generation her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Maxwell discovers that hecollect her - but her phone's going dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to have beg the bus driver to climb a steep learning curve if helet her use his. There's no option but to help his students through the problemstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler1405957174|title=Mercy|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In some ways, A Death at 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>}} {{newreviewParty|author=M R Hall|title=The DisappearedAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We From the first met Jenny Cooper in [[page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] victim - a man - is dying when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valleywe first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's now some months later and whilst she's settled into t know is who the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alison, man is uneven and she's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care or why Nadine prefers to admithave him die. SheI's d better give you a feisty woman though and determined little more background so that sheyou can understand what's going to do the job properlyhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross0008530025|title=CapturedMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying It was in December 2003 that fifteen- brain cancer is hitting him just as year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's barely turning fortynow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. As a result he compiles a short list A group of rights experts has been brought together to wrong, review the evidence and people to create closure withtake the investigation further. OneMore to the point, his ex-wifethey're going to do this live on camera, might not be easy, two concern a misguided sense episode by episode. There's no dump of a guilt the whole box set - and no shortage of oldcliffhangers. The fourth turns out to be a missing woman. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamishIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0241996104|title=The Merry MisogynistComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng Nancy's mother and despite the fact that they have a combined age of going on for a hundred step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and forty they're behaving like the newlyher step-weds they arebrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Even being We first meet Nancy outside the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos cancourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence't dampen Siri- she's enthusiasm not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. WellOf course, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - 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 papers are making the morgue staff sickenedmost of it. There's a determination to find the man responsible 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and bring him to justice''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529413680|title=A Hard DeathChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno't read Jonathan Hayess there to see the show with some friends. It' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh readers all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, so to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover man playing one of the book main characters is impressiveseriously injured when he departs from the script. My expectations were high. All Luckily, his doctor is there and the ingredients are man is whisked away in place for a good thrillerhelicopter. The location is The Everglades A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in Florida. BroodingOne daughter lives nearby and another, enigmaticwho lives in California, aweis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-inspiring and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutesarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529196388|title=Curse of the Pogo Stick|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally 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 a road trip with the judge and the Justice Department. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and married, although not in the usual order of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be a help, but probably not in the way that you might expect. As if that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnapped.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Trial|author=Cathi Unsworth |title=Bad Penny Blues|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties. 'Bad Penny Blues' is the story of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in the west of the city, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Fyfield|title=Cold to the Touch|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica Hurly. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on 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 her. Jess 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 if all the other guests were secretly delighted. Sarah senses her vulnerability, but it's Jess who organises the let of one of her mother'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 fire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Fitzgerald|title=Bloody WomenRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women''Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, I hadnso there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There't heard of s just one man in the author Helen Fitzgerald frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and by the title and blurbit's not too long before Knight appears in court, I expected a standard crime-thriller novelcharged with Cliveden's murder. But early on, I realised this wasn't Knight was told that the case. The novel best barrister for him was a kind Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of black comedy Stag Court Chambers and written with wit it's Taylor-Cameron and humourhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the theme of murder and violencecontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffery DeaverAndrew Cartmel|title=The Bodies Left BehindDeath in Fine Condition|rating=4.53
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her husband Steven decided time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to buy add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a holiday home to give near perfect collection of these books after seeing 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 background of a lifetime. But photograph on their first evening in the placeher drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! It's a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple out. They know they are next-level step in real trouble her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen 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 owner of Steven's phone call to the police, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.collection comes looking for their books?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>1789098947
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1448309379|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not It's something of a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worsesurprise to find that you're dead, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a much younger woman break with your wife and Agatha has been invited children, but that's what happened to the weddingDS Aector McAvoy. She goes Whilst he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, alive, with plenty of friends 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 tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before early hours of the wedding, morning when he makes it clear was obvious that he has changed his mind someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and wants to pull out of the weddingnot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1529135389|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place Nicole Booth had 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 Edwardian England less than two years apart, one The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the southarchitect-east designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the other in the northhigh-easttech systems Tom had insisted upon. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do Some of them fought with each otherand didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubttoo. The author has investigated Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the connection and come up swimming pool with a riveting bookwound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)Alan Parks|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestTo Die in June
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|summary=[[The Girl with 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 Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson more so because his own father is a down and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl out alcoholic, with the Dragon Tattoo]]no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the first of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of thrillerssame time as facing these possible murders, was Harry is also dealing with a move to a fine stand-alone novel. The second in the seriesdifferent police station, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures arrival there of Lisbeth Salandera woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, Larsson's finely crafted antionly no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong -hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review now. I'm about to spoil not just with the woman’s story but also with the ending for you…other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1804545600|title=Tooth and Claw|rating=4|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 - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. He's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, there'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>}} {{newreviewThe Monk|author=Ryan David Jahn |title=Acts of ViolenceTim Sullivan|rating=4.5
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|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted The body in the woods near Bristol was a hot bath after nasty shock - a hard day's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour monk strapped to the next, all of whom are absorbed a chair and dumped in their own dilemmasa ditch. There is the draftee with He'd been savagely beaten. It's a sick mother, while before D S George Cross and the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and othersMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, He'd been missing for a few days and how these events drag through certainly hadn't asked permission to the morningleave his abbey. We are shown how in As the midst of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in team gradually unpick the courtyard onto which all their windows lookmonk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, through which windows they witness the attackbrother, neighbour and how these people did nothingfriend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk> He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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