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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Duncker1035021803|title=The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=ItAntique Hunter's rural France, and 2000 is barely begun, when hunters come across a spread of human corpses in the mountains. Several families, all in the same cult, seem to have killed themselves on their path to wherever. If so, this is a problem, for the last time it happened, in Switzerland a few years previous, nobody could work out why – and who was there Guide to dispose of some of the evidence. This isn't a problem for the policeman involved, as he fell desperately in love with the investigative judge in collaborating on the initial case. Combining again, they see a link with everybody involved in both cases, a famous conductor /composer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807041</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMurder|author=Jim Kelly|title=Death WatchC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen It's twenty years later since Freya Lockwood has been back to the dayEnglish country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, her twin brother BryanCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's body close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is found in dead and the hospital incinerator where he worked. There is no evidence circumstances seem suspicious, to suggest accident or suicide, and say the police quickly treat it as a murderleast. They Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only need been back to find out who did itthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but she has not felt able to work out be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the link between Bryan's murder split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the disappearance love of her life, who was murdered) and presumed death of his twin sister. The investigation takes them into the family Freya and a nearby hostel for homeless menJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson1398524085|title=The Ice Cream GirlsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and SerenaOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious pressEtty and Greg, have their young lives shattered by find the man they sharedbody of Greg's father, a teacher in a position of trustDuncan Ackerley, who controlled them in the worst possible waysriver. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has It was an easy assumption for the assertiveness or maturity police to handle make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the situationguilt. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on, the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though with their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesand wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)1529900360|title=The SnowmanGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's Norwayfault 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 help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a snowy and dark Novemberpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Women are disappearing, and/or being found horrifically killedShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The police have little to go onnext case did look simple, but with though. Two lovers were murdered in the help swimming pool of flashbacks across cases a remote property in Bel Air. He was the police could never hope heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to connect, we can see hints of a clever, but misogynistic an extremely rich man who seems to be and it's not the culprit, and on a mission against marital infidelityItalian. But what could be the connection with all those crimes and the American presidential elections? And why - and how - might which of them was the police, the victims, and the reader, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowmanprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird178763681X|title=Past TenseKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a funeral, not least because she had never met the deceased and was unaware that her husband was the next of kinresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He was working in South America didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and not expected home for sometimewomen to do what he wanted. Josephine Short has obviously been Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a feisty character thoughbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Despite being unmarried she had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) The teaching - and amassed a considerable fortunethe problems - are all his own. Her grandson Joe The one thing he hadn't expected was flying home from Lasserta for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the funeralprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529421284|title=The GuardsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate It was one of those flash downpours that the apparent suicide of her teenage daughter British weather often delivers in Galwaya heatwave. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) but also In a gully, a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his lifehuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. His approach to investigation is haphazard - he doesn He't really have d been a method beyond asking direct questions known drug user andhad learning disabilities, if necessary, using his fistsso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Predictably Geary was a townie, there is more so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide case than first meets of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the eye and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets time. Lockyer and levels DC Gemma Broad of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; itMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's darker cold cases to you and has a grim realismme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1529425867|title=All That Lost and Never Found (A D I HaveWilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As the internet grows In 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 technology advancesfather of Ryan, itis not. He's seems there is nothing you cannot any of those things. He't do. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home s white, originated from another continent a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and cars are more automated than everhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact and play against each other They're usually in huge arenaslime green or acid yellow. Thanks You might wonder if you're being introduced to social networkinga police procedural written for laughs. Well, the internet can be addictive and, yes, Iyou'm aware re not. The two men are just different sides of the irony in writing that heresame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529431735|title=The Killing of the TinkersWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's d been lying low 'over exiled on the water' in London, licking his woundsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Jack (IThe return has come about because he'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him s had a more Irish name) is a middleletter from his ex-agedwife, washed-up, disgraced ex-cop. As if saying that wasnshe's ill and hasn't bad enough, he also has a lot of very bad habitslong to live. He acknowledges however that It'the new world s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely abducted, stripped to his underwear and openly that 'An alcoholic has dreams sent to rival that a watery grave in the boot of any Vietnam veta stolen Ford Sierra.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman0861541774|title=Killer|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Here at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to the heart A Nye of the story. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking to the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every time. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPheasants|author=Stephen Hunter|title=I, SniperSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You donDCI Domenic Jejeune't often find novels or films based on the art of the snipers close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hiding out for hours motionless Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for as interesting a story as he killed a face to face shoot outGhurka. But with 'IInitially, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to combine murder the art of man. Now he could be facing the sniper with the art of the crime thriller in death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a decent readdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1521129886|title=The Missing|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In 1992, Sarah Finch's twelve year old brother Charlie says to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soon.'' Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting to find out what happened to him. Now in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholism.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=John Burdett|title=The Godfather of KathmanduKeith 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 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>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Black|title=Dishonour|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying Life has more to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job offer than people - prime numbers for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'example' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from the sink estates. Thin, angry, rebellious, but with an ability to charm and a serious talent 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.
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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 far adrift he is when some manage to get one of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesthe few taxis available. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when Others squash onto the need arises, but this isn't night bus that will only go as far as one of the way of outlying villages. The woman all regret the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if hetaxi problem's to help his students through the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Kessler|title=Mercy|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In some ways, particularly in the first line light of this novel says it all: 'Itthe missing women's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hours.' From this moment For one young woman, the final stop on, the action comes thick bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and fast, leaving collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the reader with barely chance to beg the breath bus driver to murmer let her use his. There'is it really probable that all this was left s no option but to the last day?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists start walking - unsuitably clothed and twirls that are very satisfactoryin high-heeled shoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall1405957174|title=The DisappearedA Death at the Party|author=Amy 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
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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
|genre=Crime
|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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