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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lawrence BlockElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=Sinner ManThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Everybody It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to start somewheretell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence Blockhe promises, you may no longer is someone big and it will be able to find worth the beginningpolice doing what he wants. His first crime publication came and went in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the early 60s remainder of his sentence and fifty years later he did not have a copy as the book had been published under to get an alias with a different title unknown early parole date. Not much to him. ask, is it? In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form of ''Sinner ManThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writeranyone who works with him is kept well away from what's early books; murder, dubious characters and a bit of pulp naughtinesshappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger0008405026|title=Ink and BoneA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her grandmother Eloise before her is bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a very powerful and gifted psychichalt. Sensitive to the unseenNow, her mother, Helena, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the father are deadin their bed. VisitedInitially, bothered, harassed it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. But life Kerrigan is not convinced that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors the explanation lies in the room who Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possibleless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=M C BeatonJo Callaghan|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)Leave No Trace

|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be When a haven man is found crucified on the top of peace and tranquilitya hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, but itthe AI detective Lock. It's surprising how often the reverse proves their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the casein time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3. The villagers of Carsley are up in arms because Lord Bellington has said that he5|genre=Crime|summary=It's going twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to sell off the allotments for a new housing developmentEnglish country village where she grew up. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry - and thereShe's no shortage back now because of suspects eithera request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Lord BellingtonFreya's sonformer mentor and Carole's close friend, DamianArthur Crockleford, employs Agatha Raisin is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her detective agency down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to discover be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered his father) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1398524085|title= BetrayalsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Liv TaylorCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -Jones has come a long way since she discovered her parents were husband, Alec, is not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while she Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's coming to father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an understanding about her fae heritage, easy assumption for the strange visions police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are a part of that, shenot convinced but there's not yet ready to make the choice that destiny would have her makelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1529900360|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had organised a house party at her home in Clonakiltybeen badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, IrelandSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. It was mainly family, plus the two partners from the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, but His assertions that there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other only open- Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard and -shut cases which didn't need the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirothelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. They weren't certain why they'd been invitedFinally, but Athie Playfordit was Robin, author of the popular childrenDelaware's detective novelspartner, ''Shrimp Seddon''who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, had though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a shock remote property in store for Bel Air. He was the assembled company heir to an Italian shoe empire and particularly for her two children, Harry she is married to an extremely rich man and Claudiait's not the Italian. She'd changed her will, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything to her secretary, Joseph Scotcher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane178763681X|title=The Gem ConnectionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=In the beginning it was simpleChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. C J Kavanaugh, formerly of the Drugs Enforcement Agency He didn't really want to but now making celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a living as Private Investigator was employed way of getting both men and women to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairdo what he wanted. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs whoPaul ''somehow''d been unable to prove got the impression that he was being unfaithful 'd be at the school to his wifeassist Paul, but CJ was determined to be the one who got the proof. Luck was on his sidehad a broken arm, but not, it would seem, on Fahrlettididn'st turn out that way. In The teaching - and the meantime Clinton Windell ''knew'' that luck was on problems - are all his side: he'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gemsown. The board one thing he hadn't believed that expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he could do it was the person who discovered the body and a large part of his pleasure was everyone knows that the police consider that he was proving them wrongperson to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1529421284|title= Dragon Games|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of ''Dragon Games'' ties it to the international bestseller ''The Art of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translation. I'm hoping that the final edition that hits the market will have the confidence to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequel. My hope is because Laying Out the step between the first two Burmese books and the modern China mystery ones is a significant one. Many readers will love both, but I think the less lyrical, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach of the Chinese stories has a wider readership. It is a readership Sendker deserves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBones|author= Francis Duncan|title= In at the DeathKate Webb|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconist, a fan of romantic fiction, and a wearer of pince-nez. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, you might think, but in In at the Death his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing and something of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail of a murderer in the city of Bridgton. The death of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor had a gun in his bag. As the detectives get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benjamin Myers|title=Turning Blue|rating=45

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a particularly harsh winterheatwave. DI Jim Brindle from the elite detective unitIn a gully, Cold Storage, was sent a human skeleton came to investigate the surface and he could have been helped by Roddy Mace, a local journalist. Only Brindle, forensic testing proved the obsessive compulsivebody to be Lee Geary, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with the writerwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging career. Well itHe's more than flagging: he left London in disgraced been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's the two men living t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on the outskirts of life who Salisbury Plain alone? There are trying independently connections to trap the man they believe is responsible for Melanie's disappearance suicide of Holly Gilbert and that man is Steven Rutter, another loner, near destitute and living high on to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the moors, who knows all the hiding placestime. He knows the secrets Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the local town too Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be knownme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529425867|title=Augusto de Angelis Lost and Jill Foulston Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsSimon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=All the ladies of O'Brian Fashion House In Oxford, there are trying to do two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is to present their works in the best of lights to the best Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Milanese Ryan and European societyfather of Ryan, but theyis not. He're s not going to find a dead person on their premises much helpany of those things. Cristiana lives in Casa OHe'Brians white, on the top floor of the building where everything key to her company happensoriginated from a trailer park, and itbarely educated (reading's on her bed that she finds the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot to hernot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking sheThey'd seen some people she really didn't want to see back re usually in her life, in the audience below? lime green or acid yellow. And who here You might not actually be who they first appear? Itwonder if you'll be re being introduced to a tough case police procedural written for Inspector de Vincenzilaughs. Well, thatyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's for sureproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1529431735|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the intention of drinking herself to deathmore surprising. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a sea view was essentialdecade. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of The return has come about because he's had a young man, letter from his face blown off by a shotgunex-wife, whom saying that she found on the local beach, intervened 's ill and hasn't long to give her life some meaninglive. For a while she was a suspectIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but that (stripped to his underwear and her wig) were no obstacle sent to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate a watery grave in the caseboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Assisting him (Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or having him assist her) came naturally a problem closer to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell0861541774|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest and imprisonment as occupational hazards and on the rare occasion he was nabbed, he'd raise his hands and ''come quiet''. Turns out that's not what his nickname meant at all. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot A Nye of people didn't know. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPheasants|author= Angela Marsons|title= Silent ScreamSteve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim Stone is called to investigate the body of a woman found dead in the bath of a house that has been set on fire. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be an isolated case and they are in a race against the clock to find out who could be next on the killer's hit list and why. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Ames|title=You Were Never Really Here|rating=3.5

|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''He came up with a plans close friend and former colleague, a solutionDanny Maik, has taken a way short holiday in Singapore to livemeet up with an old ally, which Guy Trueman. Maik was to get very small involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and very quiet and leave no wake. So he had to be purekilled a Ghurka. He had to be holy. He had to be contained.'' He is JoeInitially, an ex-Marine, ex-FBI, who has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive father, with the help of he faced a hammer. Having left one charge of his own hammers behind in a hotel room, only manslaughter but evidence came to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader in a dark and grim place, light that suggested that he moves on might have planned to murder the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter of a Senatorman. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to Now he could be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt|title= The Man Who Wasn't There|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become facing the mixed metaphor du jourdeath penalty. It's hard Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to say where it started, the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö help as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it in any interference from another police force could provoke a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits diplomatic incident and Americans though the term really hit home when wouldn''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christine Feehan|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not t help Danny at all of them are legal. Splashed across the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned with. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel, unseen, through the shadows; a power which they use to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T F Muir1521129886|title=Blood Torment They Had It Coming (DCI Andy GilchristGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Two-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her motherGreg Mason's home some time in just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the early hours of the morningpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. ThereIt's something wrong though a good job too because Greg and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might Joyce will soon have abducted - possibly even murdered - her own childa baby and they're both delighted. Then it starts to get political Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when Gilchrist discovers that Davis' father she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is Dougal Davis, the former MSP who was forced approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to resign his seat when he was accused of physically abusing his third wifehave killed himself. Even disgraced politicians have some clout and thereStuart's the added complication of the fact that Davisconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's first wife went struggling to school Gilchrist's ultimate bossmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Just to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds Lucy, he says, is convinced that he could be working with DI Tosh MacIntosh Gil would never have killed himself - a man for whom he has no respectit simply wasn't in his nature. But could there be an answer to The police and the abduction in coroner have accepted that the form of Sammie Belldeath was suicide, a convicted paedophile who had moved back but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>find out what happened on the night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen BoothB0CK3MYJ56|title=Secrets of Death Responsibilities (Cooper and FryGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit It's the Peak District. There are those who call it 'suicide tourism', but it1990s and Greg Mason's frowned on, although it does rather hit the nail on the headtwenty-eight years old. There He used to have been an number of suicides a high-flying job in reasonably public, the city but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what theyit wasn've done and usually from outside the immediate area. Itt satisfying so he's almost now set himself up as though they've been tutoreda private investigator. But whilst it's against the law to Shades of Cameron Strike''assist'' someone to commit suicide, whatyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the legal position about providing information and supportlife experience that backs up this profession? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues in E Division have On the other hand, he has been asked to try and find some connection between the people who have diedlook into something. But Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what might almost be another world 's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - the city of Nottingham can't understand what she was doing there - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness or how she could come to fall in front of a case shetrain. Greg's involved with has vanishedbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1838954481|title=The Murder Road (Cooper and Fry)Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=The locals will tell you that Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's only one road into and out of Shawhead and over the years they've become accustomed to being cut off by snow or floodsno doubt about that. The road passes under a railway line and one day in early February Mac Kelsey's curtainHe was the fifteen-year-sider jammed under old holding the bridgegun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered He pulled the obstruction as she tried trigger but due to return home to Shawhead, but there the vagaries of the jury system he was no driver in found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the cabofficer. And so lives must go on. There ''was'For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she' s drawn into a lot wider investigation - and back into the orbit of blood thoughRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1448309743|title=Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Two young racing drivers come to In the Perigord region to hunt for clues as to village of Cronchie on the whereabouts West coast of the missing Bugatti Type 57c AtlanticScotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Only four were made and three are accounted for - but stories would have it The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the missing car stone is somewhere in the Perigordremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's more than seventy years since the car was last seen and an easy conclusion given that was in war time - but ittwo of them 'discovered's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37,000,000 for one of the carsbody. One of the young racing drivers has local connections and another The Senior Investigating Office is in a relationship with AnnetteDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, a magistrate. The race to find the car DCI Christine Caplan is not going pulled in to be kind'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell1529077699|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy |summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sight, they'll pursue a criminial genius - who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze of clues and evidence. The team also have thier own demons to fight. They've been to Hell and back Raging Storm (literallyTwo Rivers) but now the unit is falling apart...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Quintin Jardine|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)Ann Cleeves

|summary=When Bob Skinner''It's wife has a yearning all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a particular cake from Marks month and then turned up, naked and Spencer he thinks nothing of taking dead, in a detour on his way to worksmall boat, snatching the last one available and heading back anchored in Scully Cove close to the carvillage of Greystone, in Devon. ItRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''s then that the fates start being naughty. Reversing I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out of his parking space , he's hit by could be more than a speeding BMW - only the driver doesnlittle bit close with money and his background isn't get out to exchange insurance details and offer apologiesexactly an open book. He gets out of Where did he get the car and legs it. Checking his own car money for damage Skinner notices that the boot of the beemer is slightly open - something which presumably happened on impact - and his attempts to close it mean that it opens instead and first boat? How did he finance the body of a small child is revealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529427045|title=Little Sister (Detective Pieter Vos)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|summary=Late one night, after a talent content on the waterfront, Kim and Mia Timmers returned ''Life has more to their home offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to find a scene the small town of utter carnage and their motherGasskas, father and sister dead. It would have hit any elevenwhere the so-yearfar-old child hard, but untapped natural resources of the dead girl, Little Jo, was their triplet and there was area have sparked a special bond between the three of themgold rush. The girls then left criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the house and apparently murdered the lead singer of The Cupids, a world-famous band, latest woman in the belief that he had been responsible for the deaths of their familyarea to have vanished without trace. Officially there didnIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece't seem to be any doubt about what had happened to the musician, despite the fact s guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that there were certain points about Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the murder scene which might have suggested that someone with more worldly experience was responsiblepart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1787636607|title=Die of ShameThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=A group It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of addicts - the addictions differ - meet regularly at 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 their therapist, Tony De Silva, himself a former addictthe few taxis available. On Others squash onto the night we join them, Chris, Robin, Heather and Diana are surprised to see bus that there's an extra chair in will only go as far as one of the circleoutlying villages. It changes The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the dynamics light of 'the groupmissing women'. For one young woman, but the newcomer is Caroline final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and she's a large lady collect her - but although she likes her food itphone's painkillers that dead. The bus had driven off before she's addicted had the chance to beg the bus driver tolet her use his. There's no obvious reason why Caroline's arrival should make such a difference option but to the group start walking - she's keen to fit unsuitably clothed and in high- but it does and before many weeks have passed one of the group is murdered. It's increasingly obvious that one of the group is responsibleheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)1405957174|title=Bird in a CageA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54

|summary=A man returns to From the flat he grew up in and where his mother died without his knowledgefirst page, and finds it too desolate for the time of year it is – Christmas Evewe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Bursting for more life, despite being The victim - a solitary character, he goes to a restaurant, man - is dying when we first meet him and finds a connection with a mother with her daughter. They dine, then go Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the cinema, and sit together, and things happen from there – in a gentle, no-pressure, no-names-no-packdrill wayambulance he so desperately needs. If this isnWhat we don't a reasonable start know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to a novella, consider the tag it has as a noir classichave him die. And consider the fact the strange woman is the spitting image of the manI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons0008530025|title=The Hanging ClubMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary= When It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the three yobbos who kick to death a young husband and father are given a perfunctory sentencebody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, DC Wolfe finds it hard to hold his true feelings in checkthe garden of their West London home. Confounded by He had an injury on the injustice back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the British Courts and legal systemsteps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, DC Wolfe spends a good while soul searching and wondering why he invests so much of no one has been charged with his life in fighting crime, finding murderers murder and bringing them to justice when it's now the integrity subject of the criminal justice system is so sorely lacking''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Luckily for DC Wolfe he A group of experts has his bright been brought together to review the evidence and funny daughter Scout to keep him from looking too hard into take the darkness that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until investigation further. More to the videos start being posted point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the internetwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Robert BarnardJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|titlesummary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The Case barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the Missing Bronterest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=Superintendent Perry Trethowan was returning to London One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from Northumberland with his family when their car broke down the English in the Yorkshire Dales 1370 and they were stranded in a small village for Bruno's there to see the nightshow with some friends. When they had a drink in the local pub they were joined by a local residentIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Miss Edith WingKerquelin, who had what might be an extraordinary document in her possessionthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Could this be Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a lost Bronte novel? helicopter. The provenance A local doctor (and friend of the manuscript suggested that it could well be genuine, Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but was it - and Miss wing as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the real thing or was it a very clever forgery? military has stepped in. Perry suggested visiting a local expert for an opinion One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in doing so sends Miss wing into mortal dangerCalifornia, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bill Beverly1529196388|title= Dodgers|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Judging a book by its cover can mislead. It can especially mislead if you don't look closely at the cover and are just grabbed by the ''feel'' or ''style'' of the design of the thing. Being misled is not necessarily a bad thing. For reasons best left in the depths of my addled brain, the styling of Dodgers had me thinking 'noir'. I was expecting late fifties, early sixties. If I'd looked closer, I'd have seen that it is much more contemporary than that. Then again…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Trial|author=John Bude|title=Death on the RivieraRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Counterfeit currency Grant Cliveden was circulating on the French Riviera and it was suspected a hero: a policeman who stood for all that an Englishman was behind the crimegood and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so DI Meredith there was public uproar when he was sent along with acting-Sergeant Strang to trace murdered in plain sight at the whereabouts of Chalky CorbettOld Bailey. It wasnThere't entirely an unpleasant assignment s just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the warm best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the south of France compared favourably with polluted London Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- Cameron and Meredith (whose French was far from fluent) got on well with the local policemanhis pupil, Adam Green, Inspector Blampignon of Nicewho eventually represent him. It wasnKnight't long before their interest settled on s determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the Villa Poloma, home of an eccentric expatriate Englishwoman, Nesta Hedderwick and her band of bohemian house guestscontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356371</amazonuk>