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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1786482126|title=Mercy KillingThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the local amateur dramatic society and when it site was decided that they would stage going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Annie'' and involve children from apartments - when they discovered the bones of a local school the news was broken that he was child beneath a convicted paedophiledoorway. A local widow with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: she terminated the relationship and the amdrams told him that he There was no longer skull. Was this a memberritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It was bad enough's difficult as Ruth knows, but deserved - then someone else took the law into their own hands and decided Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the world would be a better place without Albie Woodville in itone night they spent together some three months ago. He was brutally murderedHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child0008551324|title= Night SchoolThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in timeIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. Reacher But Davie Hardie is still an US Army MP. struggling in prison and he''In s prepared to tell the police where the morning they gave Reacher body of a medal, missing person is buried and in the afternoon they sent him back to school.'' The medal who was a Legion of Meritresponsible for her death. Not his firstThis person, probably not his lasthe promises, just another bauble to recognise is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he'd done for wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his country sentence and a plea for him not to talk about get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it. ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'itt think so and she' in this case was some police work, in s even prepared to do the Balkans, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and a couple of shootings. 'anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'Two weeks of his lifes happening. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0008405026|title=Rather be A Stranger in the DevilFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=It's forty sixteen years since Maria Turquand was murderednine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was beautifulnever found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, a bright light and promiscuous - and she was strangled her father are dead in Edinburghtheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's Caledonian Hotel on something about the positioning of the night bodies that a famous rock star makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and his entourage were staying thereher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Her killer What looked as though it was never found: it's been preying on John Rebus' mind going to be an open-and it comes into conversation on the night -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that Rebus and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Cally. Itexplanation lies in Rosalie's better than thinking about his healthdisappearance: heothers (such as Derwent's got COPD and there's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about itboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley0571379877|title= ShootThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of Edward Jevons is a habit of being late to discover good writersworking-class young man, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer obsessed with ushis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. The result is that what is billed as Robert''an Fs a theatre director.X. Shepherd mystery He'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of beings also self-obsessed, if not the last of a short linedemanding, certainly one of a fewhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. F.X. Shepherd – Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnists drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. He Most men in Robert's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalism, relationship had begun between them but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherdhe's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn two of them kissing in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffa dark passageway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynda La PlanteJo Callaghan|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)Leave No Trace

|summary=Coming When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the end of case alongside her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CIDsidekick, only there's some resistancethe AI detective Lock. It's never ''quite'' saidtheir first live case together, but you have a suspicion that it might come down to the fact that she's a womanhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But being female has its advantages when there is a second body found crucified a decoy few days later, Kat is needed to entrap suddenly struggling with a man who has been attacking women potential serial killer and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing very high profile case that draws a blue rabbit-skin coatlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She is attacked and only just rescued Will they be able to solve the case in time, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip or will Kat find herself taken off the case and a fright. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for the rape potentially, out of a young girlcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair1035021803|title= Chain of CustodyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= After It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the success English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'A Cut-like Wound'' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, 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 down badly. published Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the UK man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in 2014a cafe, ''Chain of Custody'' sees met and married James (on the rebound from the return love of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangaloreher life, who was murdered) policeand Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, called in when an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home in a prestigious Paul and Ollie and wellher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -guarded gated communitystrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HoweverShortly afterwards, that is Etty and Greg, find the prologue jumping ahead body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the story – as is police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the current vogueguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1529900360|title=The Loving HusbandGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she 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 rebound from help of a lengthy stint at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablepsychologist only worked for a while. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where FranFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's best friend is standingpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding and a move to an isolated farmhouse in She knew that the Fens, Fran feels sure involvement was something that her new role as home-maker and mother, so very different from the London party-girl man she used to beloved needed. The next case did look simple, is the right one for herthough. So when Fran wakes Two lovers were murdered in the middle swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the night heir to find Nathanan Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's side of not the bed completely cold, she goes to look for himItalian. Finding him bloodied and very much dead But which of them was most definitely not part of the bargain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 178763681X|title=The StorykillerKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54

|summary=The first rule of Super Injunctions is that you donChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't talk about Super Injunctionsreally want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. These powerful legalese prevent Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the likes of youschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, me but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the papers talking about certain storiesproblems - are all his own. The richone thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, powerful he was the person who discovered the body and meaningless use them to stop everyone knows that the type of tittle tattle police consider that fuels a million conversations at work, but what do you do if you are not rich, powerful or meaningless enough person to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>be the prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529421284|title=NutshellLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet TrudyIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Successfully living in In a large and valuable London home, she is heavily pregnantgully, a human skeleton came to the surface and in between two men – she has swapped forensic testing proved the homeownerbody to be Lee Geary, poet who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claudehad learning disabilities, so it could have been a nasty, brutish and short typesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Some people cannot work Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorSalisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Oh, Lockyer and he himself, our narrator, is DC Gemma Broad of the child sheMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else cold cases to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529425867|title=Beneath the AshesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on the kitchen floor of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livingIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. She'd no memory Raymond Wilkins is of what had happened the night beforeNigerian descent, but she was injuredBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the house had been broken into son of Ryan and her boyfriendfather of Ryan, Evan Baker, was missingis not. The police had been called to the farm by the fire brigade He's not any of those things. ThereHe'd been s white, originated from a fire in one of the farmtrailer park, barely educated (reading's barns not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and when they investigated trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a badly-burned body was discoveredpolice procedural written for laughs. It Well, you's up to DI Will Jackman to discover whore not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's responsible - and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey1529431735|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=In many ways it was horrificIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, but quite simplewhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. On Christmas day He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a man with wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a rifle shot and killed five people: the first was letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's new partner, a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened ill and hasn't long to be aroundlive. He then went It's hard to the local churchyard and turned the gun on himself. Six dead, no perpetrator on the loose and it looks as though all that needs to be done feel any sympathy when Hopkins is to give evidence at the inquestabducted, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at that. She wants stripped to know where Russell Fewell got the gun his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the bullets: she's also not convinced about the honesty boot of the dead policeman and that's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herostolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)0861541774|title=CrushA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story of Thelma DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Louiseformer colleague, Danny Maik, it's Louise we has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet firstup with an old ally, through her narrationGuy Trueman. She's Maik was involved in a seventeen year old, telling us of street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, man armed with the sight of factories a knife - and stench of food processing plants keeping her companyhe killed a Ghurka. She lives at home with her motherInitially, complete with hare-lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one he faced a charge of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifeman. Impulsively, she asks to Now he could be their maid – and indeed moves into facing the couple's large, messy homedeath penalty. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>wouldn't help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence Block1521129886|title=Sinner ManThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Everybody has Greg Mason's just beginning to start somewhere, but if you are get his confidence as prolific a writer as Lawrence Block, you may no longer be able an investigator to find the beginningpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. His first crime publication came It's a good job too because Greg and went in the early 60s and fifty years later he did not Joyce will soon have a copy as baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the book had been published under morning sickness. Greg is approached by an alias with a different title unknown old friend whose brother-in-law appears to himhave killed himself. In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form of Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'Sinner Man's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn' t in his nature. The police and has all the hallmarks of coroner have accepted that the veteran crime writerdeath was suicide, but Stuart's early books; murder, dubious characters and a bit of pulp naughtinessprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa UngerB0CK3MYJ56|title=Ink and Bone|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychic. Sensitive to the unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the dead. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestow. 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 possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=M C Beaton|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)Ann Macarthur

|summary=It'Allotmentss the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he' sound s now set himself up as though they should be a haven private investigator. 'Shades of peace and tranquilityCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but itwhere's surprising how often the reverse proves life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to be the caselook into something. The villagers of Carsley Joyce and Helen are up half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in arms because Lord Bellington has said that hewhat's going to sell been written off the allotments for as a new housing developmenttragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry Joyce - and there's no shortage of suspects either. Lord Bellington's son, Damianher parents, employs Agatha Raisin Oliver and her detective agency to discover who murdered his father.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelley Armstrong|title= Betrayals|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv TaylorPam Hetherington -Jones has come a long way since can't understand what she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while was doing there - or how she's coming could come to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are fall in front of a part of that, shetrain. Greg's not yet ready been asked to make the choice that destiny would have her makeinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1838954481|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised Ryan Kennedy killed a house party police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at her home in Clonakilty, IrelandDI Kieran Shaw. It was mainly family, plus He pulled the two partners from trigger but due to the firm vagaries of solicitors who look after her affairs, but there are two extra guests who were the jury system he was found not expecting to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool guilty of Scotland Yard both the murder and the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirotmanslaughter of the officer. They weren't certain why they'd been invited, but Athie Playford, author of And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the popular children's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddon'', had capital and hoping for a shock quieter life in store for the assembled company and particularly for countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her two children, Harry and Claudia. Sheterritory she'd changed her will, disinheriting her son s drawn into a wider investigation - and daughter and leaving everything to her secretary, Joseph Scotcherback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1448309743|title=The Gem ConnectionDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In the beginning it was simple. C J Kavanaughvillage of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, formerly five members of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairwealthy family are found murdered. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs who'd been unable to prove The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that he was being unfaithful to his wifeif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, but CJ was determined to be the one who got the proofdeath will follow. Luck was on his side, The only suspects are known Satanists but notin many ways, it would seem, on Fahrlettithat's. In the meantime Clinton Windell an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'knew'' that luck was on his side: the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when hedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gems. The board hadnshadow't believed that he could do it and a large part of his pleasure was that he was proving them wronghim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1529077699|title= Dragon GamesThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of ''Dragon GamesIt's all bloody peculiar, isn' ties t it to the international bestseller , Sir?''The Art of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translation Well yes, it is. I'm hoping that Jem Rosco blew into the final edition that hits local pub one evening in the market will have the confidence middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequelvillage of Greystone, in Devon. My hope is because Rosco had the step between status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the first two Burmese books world sailor and the modern China mystery ones is a significant oneall round ''celebrity''. Many readers will love both, I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but I think the less lyrical, more prosaicas we'll find out, dare I say he could be more political approach of the Chinese stories has than a wider readershiplittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. It is a readership Sendker deserves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1529427045|title= In at the Death|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 Girl in his bag. As the detectives get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEagle's Talons|author=Benjamin Myers|title=Turning BlueKarin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in a particularly harsh winter''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. DI Jim Brindle from  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the elite detective unitsmall town of Gasskas, Cold Storage, was sent to investigate and he could where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have been helped by Roddy Mace, sparked a local journalistgold rush. Only Brindle, the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with the writerThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging career. Well itSalander's more than flagging: he left London in disgrace, so itniece's mother is the two men living on latest woman in the outskirts of life who are trying independently area to trap the man they believe is responsible for Melaniehave vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's disappearance and guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that man Svala is Steven Rutter, another loner, near destitute and living high on the moors, a remarkably gifted teenager who knows all the hiding places. He knows the secrets 's unaware of the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be knownpart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)1787636607|title=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=All the ladies of OIt'Brian Fashion House are trying to do is to present their works s a scene replicated all too often in the best early hours of lights to the best morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Milanese clubs and European society, but they're not going looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to find a dead person on their premises much helpget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Cristiana lives The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in Casa Othe light of 'Brianthe missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the top floor bus leaves her a long way short of the building where everything key her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her company happens, and it- but her phone's on her bed that dead. The bus had driven off before she finds had the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot chance to beg the bus driver to let heruse his. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking sheThere'd seen some people she really didn't want s no option but to see back start walking - unsuitably clothed and in her life, in 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 surehigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1405957174|title=Auntie Poldi and A Death at the Sicilian LionsParty|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with From the intention of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germanyfirst page, but she felt we know that a sea view was essentialNadine Walsh's party will not end well. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of The victim - a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while she was a suspect, but that (- is dying when we first meet him and her wig) were Nadine consciously makes no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned effort to investigate call the caseambulance he so desperately needs. Assisting him (What we don't know is who the man is or having why Nadine prefers to have him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnershipdie. At least I'd better give you a little more background so far as Poldi was concernedthat you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell0008530025|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 Murder in 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 of people didn't know. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author= Angela Marsons|title= Silent ScreamCara Hunter|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=''He It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came up with a planhome and found the body of her stepfather, a solutionLuke Ryder, a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wake. So he had to be purein the garden of their West London home. He had to be holy. He 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 to be containedtaken was obviously deliberate.'' He is JoeTwenty years later, an ex-Marine, ex-FBI, who no one has had demons drummed into him by not only been charged with his work but his abusive father, with murder and it's now the help subject of ''Infamous'', a hammertrue-crime show. Having left one A group of his own hammers behind in a hotel room, only experts has been brought together to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places review the reader in a dark evidence and grim placeto take the investigation further. More to the point, he moves on they're going to the next job do this live on his list – rescuing camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the daughter whole box set - and no shortage of a Senatorcliffhangers. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt0241996104|title= The Man Who Wasn't ThereComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'Nancy' s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has become been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the mixed metaphor du jourcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. ItThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's hard not been found guilty of anything but will have to say where it started, live with what happened for the novels rest of Henning Mankell possiblyher life. Of course, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took papers are making the most of it in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when ''The BridgeFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''The Killingrich bitch'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the booksmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>

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|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Peak DistrictOld Bailey. There are those who call it 'suicide tourism', but it's frowned on, although it does rather hit the nail on the head. There have been an number of suicides just one man in reasonably public, but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what they've done frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and usually from outside the immediate area. It's almost as though they've been tutored. But whilst it's against the law to ''assist'' someone to commit suicidenot too long before Knight appears in court, whatcharged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the legal position about providing information best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and support? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper it's Taylor-Cameron and his colleagues in E Division have to try and find some connection between the people pupil, Adam Green, who have diedeventually represent him. But in what might almost be another world Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor- the city of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness in a case sheCameron's involved with has vanishedrecommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>