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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lynda La PlanteElly 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=Hidden Killers The Devil You Know (Tennison 2D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The 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 anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5

|summary=Coming to the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, only thereIt's some resistancesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It's She was never ''quite'' said, but you have a suspicion that it might come down found and the investigation ground to the fact that she's a womanhalt. But being female has its advantages when a decoy is needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women Now, her mother, Helena, and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a prostitute straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coather boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is attacked and only just rescued in time, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and now a frightcomplex double murder. It seems as though this Kerrigan is convinced that the man who has been attacking womenexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but is he also responsible for the rape of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>Una Burt) are less convinced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair0571379877|title= Chain of CustodyThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= After the success of Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'A Cuts also self-like Wound'' published in the UK in 2014obsessed, ''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) policedemanding, called handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in when an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home in a prestigious love with Stanza since their university days - and well-guarded gated communityhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. However, 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 prologue jumping ahead two of the story – as is the current voguethem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christobel KentJo Callaghan|title=The Loving HusbandLeave No Trace

|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was a man is found crucified on the rebound from top of a lengthy stint at hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the mercy of Nick The UnsuitableAI detective Lock. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where FranIt's best friend is standingtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when this there is followed by a hasty wedding and second body found crucified a move to an isolated farmhouse in the Fensfew days later, Fran feels sure that her new role as home-maker Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and mother, so a very different from the London party-girl she used high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be, is able to solve the right one for her. So when Fran wakes case in the middle of the night to time, or will Kat find Nathan's side of herself taken off the bed completely coldcase and, potentially, she goes to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part out of the bargain.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 1035021803|title=The StorykillerAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=The first rule of Super Injunctions is that you donIt't talk about Super Injunctionss twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. These powerful legalese prevent the likes She's back now because of youa request for help from her beloved aunt, me Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the papers talking about certain storiesleast. The rich, powerful and meaningless use them Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to stop the type of tittle tattle that fuels a million conversations at workvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but what do you do if you are she has not rich, powerful felt able to be near the man or meaningless enough to afford a Super Injunction? pursue the profession she loved. Perhaps you can hire someone called After the split, she worked in a Storykiller cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1398524085|title=NutshellHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet TrudyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Successfully living in a large and valuable London homeHer children, she is heavily pregnantsons Niall, Paul and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet Ollie and publisher Johnher daughter, for someone completely differentEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, namely ClaudeAlec, a nastyis not. Shortly afterwards, brutish Etty and short typeGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made It was an easy assumption for the police to make that decision, including our narrator. Oh, Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he himself, our narrator, is couldn't stand the child sheguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing little else to they can do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in get on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk with their way to plotting lives and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>wonder about what really happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529900360|title=Beneath the AshesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the kitchen floor help of the farmhouse where her boyfriend a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was livingRobin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She'd no memory of what had happened knew that the night before, but she involvement was injured, something that the house had been broken into and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missingman she loved needed.  The police had been called to the farm by the fire brigadenext case did look simple, though. There'd been a fire Two lovers were murdered in one the swimming pool of the farm's barns and when they investigated a badly-burned body remote property in Bel Air. He was discovered. It's up the heir to DI Will Jackman an Italian shoe empire and she is married to discover whoan extremely rich man and it's responsible - and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey178763681X|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=In many ways it was horrific, but quite simple. On Christmas day Chef Paul Delamare took a man with teaching job at a rifle shot and killed five people: the first was his ex-wife's new partner, a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened to be aroundresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He then went didn't really want to the local churchyard but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and turned the gun on himselfwomen to do what he wanted. Six dead, no perpetrator on Paul ''somehow'' got the loose and it looks as though all impression that needs to he'd be done is to give evidence at the inquestschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but DI Grace Fisher canit didn't leave it at turn out thatway. She wants to know where Russell Fewell got the gun The teaching - and the bullets: sheproblems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's also not convinced about t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the honesty of person who discovered the dead policeman body and everyone knows that's an unpopular attitude the police consider that person to have about a local herobe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)1529421284|title=CrushLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story It was one of Thelma and Louise, it's Louise we meet first, through her narrationthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She's In a seventeen year oldgully, telling us of a quite awful human skeleton came to the surface and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives inforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companywho had disappeared nine years earlier. She lives at home with her mother, complete with hare-lip, He'd been a known drug user and abusive step-fatherhad learning disabilities, and is working at one of those factories until she sees so it could have been a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life simple case of an American NATO worker and his wifemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. ImpulsivelyGeary was a townie, she asks so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to be their maid – the suicide of Holly Gilbert and indeed moves into to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the couple's large, messy hometime. But little does she know what lurks in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the shadows in Major Crimes Review Unit (that building, behind their gigantic car 's cold cases to you and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence Block1529425867|title=Sinner ManLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=Everybody has to start somewhereIn Oxford, but if you there are as prolific a writer as Lawrence Blocktwo D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, you may no longer be able to find the beginningBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. His first crime publication came D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and went in the early 60s and fifty years later he did father of Ryan, is not have a copy as the book had been published under an alias with a different title unknown to him. In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Sinner Manreally'' his thing) and has all the hallmarks his wardrobe consists mainly of the veteran crime writershell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's early books; murder, dubious characters and re being introduced to a bit of pulp naughtinesspolice procedural written for laughs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Unger|title=Ink and Bone|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Finlay Montgomery Well, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychicyou're not. Sensitive to The two men are just different sides of the unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the deadsame policing coin. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage Sometimes the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowcombination works brilliantly well. But life is not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possibleSometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529431735|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=It'Allotments' sound as though they should be a haven of peace s February 1991 and tranquilityEssex is bitingly cold, but itwhich made Bruce Hopkins's return all the more surprising how often . He'd been exiled on the reverse proves to be the caseCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The villagers of Carsley are up in arms return has come about because Lord Bellington has said that he's going to sell off the allotments for had a new housing development. When he turns up deadletter from his ex-wife, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry - saying that she's ill and therehasn's no shortage of suspects eithert long to live. Lord BellingtonIt's sonhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin stripped to his underwear and her detective agency sent to discover who murdered his father.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelley Armstrong|title= Betrayals|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come a long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were watery grave in fact convicted serials killersthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. But while she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a part of that, she's not yet ready problem closer to make the choice that destiny would have her make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah0861541774|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a house party at her home short holiday in ClonakiltySingapore to meet up with an old ally, IrelandGuy Trueman. It Maik was mainly familyinvolved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, plus the two partners from the firm he faced a charge of solicitors who look after her affairs, manslaughter but there are two extra guests who were not expecting evidence came to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard and light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirotman. They weren't certain why they'd been invited, but Athie Playford, author of Now he could be facing the popular children's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddon'', had death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a shock in store for the assembled company and particularly for her two children, Harry diplomatic incident and Claudia. Shewouldn'd changed her will, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything to her secretary, Joseph Scotchert help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1521129886|title=The Gem ConnectionThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=In the Greg Mason's just beginning it was simple. C J Kavanaugh, formerly of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living to get his confidence as Private Investigator was employed to prove that a man was having an adulterous affair. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs who'd been unable investigator to prove that the point where he was being unfaithful to his wife, but CJ was determined to be the one who got the proof. Luck was on his side, but not, it would seem, on Fahrletti's. In the meantime Clinton Windell ''knew'' that luck was on his side: ll warn someone about how much he'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gemscharges. The board hadnIt't believed that he could do it s a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a large part of his pleasure was that he was proving them wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jan-Philipp Sendker|title= Dragon Games|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of baby and they''Dragon Games'' ties it to the international bestseller ''The Art of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translationre both delighted. I'm hoping that the final edition that hits the market Joyce will have be more delighted about the confidence to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is baby when she gets past the direct sequelmorning sickness. My hope Greg is because the step between the first two Burmese books and the modern China mystery ones is a significant oneapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Many readers will love bothStuart's concerned about his sister, but I think the less lyricalLucy, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach of the Chinese stories has a wider readershipwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. It is a readership Sendker deserves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis Duncan|title= In at the Death|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconistLucy, a fan of romantic fictionhe says, and a wearer of pinceis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -nez. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, you might think, but it simply wasn't in In at the Death his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing nature. The police and something of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail of a murderer in coroner have accepted that the city of Bridgton. The death of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a trampwas suicide, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor had a gun in his bag. As the detectives get Stuart's prepared to work there are skeletons pay Greg to be found lurking in a few closetsfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin MyersB0CK3MYJ56|title=Turning BlueResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in a particularly harsh winter's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. DI Jim Brindle from the elite detective unit, Cold Storage, was sent He used to investigate and he could have been helped by Roddy Mace, a local journalist. Only Brindle, the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with high-flying job in the writer. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging career. Well city but itwasn't satisfying so he's more than flagging: he left London in disgracenow set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, so itbut where's the two men living on life experience that backs up this profession? On the outskirts of life who other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are trying independently to trap the man half-sisters, or rather, they believe is responsible for Melaniewere until Helen was killed in what's disappearance been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and that man is Steven Rutter, another lonerher parents, near destitute Oliver and living high on the moors, who knows all the hiding placesPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. He knows the secrets of the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be knownGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)1838954481|title=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsMisper|author=Kate London|rating=34

|summary=All Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the ladies of O'Brian Fashion House are trying trigger but due to do is to present their works in the best vagaries of lights to the best jury system he was found not guilty of Milanese both the murder and European society, but they're not going to find a dead person on their premises much helpthe manslaughter of the officer. Cristiana And so lives in Casa O'Brian, must go on . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the top floor of the building where everything key to her company happens, capital and it's on her bed that she finds hoping for a quieter life in the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means countryside but when a lot to missing teenager is found on her. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking territory she'd seen some people she really didn't want to see s drawn into a wider investigation - and back in her life, in into the audience below? And who here might not actually be who they first appear? It'll be a tough case for Inspector de Vincenzi, that's for sureorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1448309743|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with In the village of Cronchie on the intention West coast of drinking herself to death. She couldScotland, five members of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialwealthy family are found murdered. Once there, new friends, family already resident on The only item missing from the island and home is the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on Devil Stone: myth says that if the local beachstone is removed from Otterburn House, intervened to give her life some meaningdeath will follow. For a while she was a suspectThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the casebody. Assisting The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell1529077699|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas QuaidRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid''It's 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 professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest month and imprisonment as occupational hazards then turned up, naked and on dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the rare occasion he was nabbedvillage of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, he'd raise his hands round the world sailor and all round ''come quietcelebrity''. Turns out thatI ''nearly'' said 's not what his nickname meant at all. Turns -round good egg' but as we'll find out there was , he could be more than a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot of people didnlittle bit close with money and his background isn't knowexactly an open book. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were Where did he get the money for his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons1529427045|title= Silent ScreamThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent ScreamLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'', D.I Kim Stone is called  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to investigate the body small town of a woman found dead in Gasskas, where the bath so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a house that gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been set on fireslow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. As Stone and It was only with reluctance that Salander became her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, niece's guardian but it quickly becomes clear obvious that this isn't going to be an isolated case and they are in Svala is a race against the clock to find out remarkably gifted teenager who could be next on 's unaware of the killerpart Salander played in her father's hit list and whydeath. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Ames1787636607|title=You Were Never Really HereThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=It''He came up with s a plan, a solution, a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wake. So he had to be pure. He had to be holy. He had to be contained.'' He is Joe, an ex-Marine, ex-FBI, who has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive father, with scene replicated all too often in the help early hours of a hammerthe morning. Having left one Drunken revellers spilling out of his own hammers behind in clubs and looking for a hotel room, only way to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader in a dark and grim place, he moves on to the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter of a Senatorget home. But Some are that holy lack of wake lucky and his consummate survival skills actually going manage to 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 get one of the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become the mixed metaphor du jourtaxis available. It's hard to say where it started, Others squash onto the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series night bus that will only go as far as one of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentaryoutlying villages. Stieg Larsson took it in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits and Americans though The woman all regret the term really hit home when 'taxi problem'The Bridge, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found For one young woman, the books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christine Feehan|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Stefano Ferraro is final stop on the head bus leaves her a long way short of Italian family-run mega businessher home. From hotels She had intended to racing cars, the Ferraros seem ring someone to have their fingers in many pies, come and not all of them are legalcollect her - but her phone's dead. Splashed across The bus had driven off before she had the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America chance to beg the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings bus driver to be reckoned withlet her use his. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them There's no option but 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 underworldstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T F Muir1405957174|title=Blood Torment (DCI Andy Gilchrist)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Two-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her motherFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's home some time in the early hours of the morningparty will not end well. There's something wrong though and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might have abducted The victim - possibly even murdered a man - her own childis dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Then it starts to get political when Gilchrist discovers that DavisWhat we don' father t know is Dougal Davis, who the former MSP who was forced man is or why Nadine prefers to resign his seat when he was accused of physically abusing his third wifehave him die. Even disgraced politicians have some clout and thereI's the added complication of the fact d better give you a little more background so that Davis's first wife went to school Gilchristyou can understand what's ultimate bosshappening. Just to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds that he could be working with DI Tosh MacIntosh - a man for whom he has no respect. But could there be an answer to the abduction in the form of Sammie Bell, a convicted paedophile who had moved back to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0008530025|title=Secrets of Death (Cooper and Fry)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the Peak District. There are those who call it 'suicide tourism'body of her stepfather, but it's frowned onLuke Ryder, although it does rather hit in the nail garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head. There which could have been an number of suicides in reasonably public, happened if he'd slipped down the steps but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what they've done and usually from outside the immediate areavicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. It's almost as though they've Twenty years later, no one has been tutored. But whilst charged with his murder and it's against now the law to subject of ''assistInfamous'' someone , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to commit suicide, what's review the legal position about providing information evidence and support? to take the investigation further. Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues in E Division have More to try and find some connection between the people who have diedpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. But in what might almost be another world There's no dump of the whole box set - the city and no shortage of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness in a case shecliffhangers. It's involved with has vanishedcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0241996104|title=The Murder Road (Cooper and Fry)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The locals will tell you that thereNancy's only one road into mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and out her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of Shawhead and over their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the years they've become accustomed to being cut off by snow or floodscourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The road passes under barrister tells her that she's received a railway line and one day in early February Mac Kelsey'silent sentence' - she's curtain-sider jammed under not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the bridgerest of her life. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the obstruction as she tried to return home to Shawhead, but there was no driver in papers are making the cabmost of it. There ''wasFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' a lot of blood thoughis one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)

|summary=Two young racing drivers come to One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the Perigord region to hunt for clues as to re-enactment of the whereabouts liberation of the missing Bugatti Type 57c Atlantic. Only four were made and three are accounted for - but stories would have it that town from the missing car is somewhere English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the Perigordshow with some friends. It's more than seventy years since all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the car was last seen man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and that was the man is whisked away in war time a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - but itas he's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37senior government employee,000,000 for one of the carsman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One of the young racing drivers has local connections daughter lives nearby and another , who lives in California, is flying in a relationship with Annette, some of her father's friends for a magistrate. The race to find the car is not going to be kindpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell1529196388|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 (literally) but now the unit is falling apart...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrial|author=Quintin Jardine|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)Rob Rinder

|summary=When Bob Skinner's wife has Grant Cliveden was a hero: a yearning policeman who stood for a particular cake from Marks all that was good and honest and Spencer he thinks nothing of taking a detour on his way looked up to workby just about everyone, snatching so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the last one available and heading back to the carOld Bailey. ItThere's then that just one man in the fates start being naughty. Reversing out of frame for his parking space hemurder - Jimmy Knight - and it's hit by a speeding BMW - only the driver doesnnot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden't get out to exchange insurance details and offer apologiess murder. He gets out Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the car Stag Court Chambers and legs it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Checking his own car for damage Skinner notices that the boot of the beemer is slightly open Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor- something which presumably happened on impact - and his attempts Cameron's recommendations to close it mean that it opens instead and the body of a small child is revealedcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>