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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=John SandfordElly 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=Gathering PreyThe Devil You Know (D 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=Any fan of It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a long running series will dread the book that falls off the cliffhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. This is Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the story that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent positioning of previous outings the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it may as well not existwas going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'Prey'' series by John Sandford is overdue thiss boss, but will ''Gathering Prey'' be the moment that the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>Una Burt) are less convinced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner0571379877|title= The Knife SlippedKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am Edward Jevons is a hardboiled noir addict. Thereforeworking-class young man, I approach each grisly tale of murderobsessed with his upper-class friends, private detectives Robert and femme fatales with Stanza. Robert's a sense of wonder but also scepticismtheatre director. He''Surely''s also self-obsessed, I think ''this one can't be as good as the lastdemanding, it must have flaws, poor characters handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and lack the necessary grit he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?relationship had begun between them but he'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the essence two of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is them kissing in a marveldark passageway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa CuttsJo Callaghan|title=Mercy KillingLeave No Trace

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with When a man is found crucified on the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided that they would stage ''Annie'' and involve children from top of a local school hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophileAI detective Lock. A local widow It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with two young children had started several cold cases. But when there is a tentative relationship second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with him: she terminated the relationship a potential serial killer and the amdrams told him a very high profile case that he was no longer draws a memberlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. It was bad enoughWill they be able to solve the case in time, but deserved - then someone else took or will Kat find herself taken off the law into their own hands case and decided that the world would be , potentially, out of a better place without Albie Woodville in it. He was brutally murdered.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1035021803|title= Night SchoolThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back in timeto the English country village where she grew up. Reacher is still an US Army MP She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'In the morning they gave Reacher a medals close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and in the afternoon they sent him back circumstances seem suspicious, to schoolsay the least.'' The medal Arthur was a Legion of Meritthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Not his firstEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, probably she has not his last, just another bauble felt able to recognise what he'd done for his country and a plea for him not to talk about itbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The 'it' in this case was some police workAfter the split, she worked in the Balkansa cafe, met and a couple of shootings. ''Two weeks married James (on the rebound from the love of his her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1398524085|title=Rather be the DevilHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderedfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was beautifulHer children, sons Niall, a bright light Paul and Ollie and promiscuous her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and she was strangled in EdinburghGreg, find the body of Greg's Caledonian Hotel on father, Duncan Ackerley, in the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying thereriver. Her killer It was never found: it's been preying on John Rebus' mind and it comes into conversation on an easy assumption for the night police to make that Rebus Duncan had murdered Charlie and his lady friend are dining at then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Galvin Brasserie at the Callyguilt. It's better than thinking about his health: he's got COPD and The Salter children are not convinced but there's something little else they can do but get on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think with their lives and wonder about itwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley1529900360|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Coming 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 end help of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, a psychologist only there's some resistanceworked for a while. ItFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's never ''quite'' saidpartner, but you have a suspicion who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that it might come down to the fact involvement was something that the man she's a woman. But being female has its advantages when a decoy is loved needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coat. She is attacked and only just rescued in timeThe next case did look simple, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and a frightthough. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for Two lovers were murdered in the rape swimming pool of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Nair|title= Chain of Custody|rating= 4remote property in Bel Air.5|genre= Crime|summary= After the success of ''A Cut-like Wound'' published in He was the UK in 2014, ''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) police, called in when heir to an affluent lawyer Italian shoe empire and she is found dead at his home in a prestigious married to an extremely rich man and well-guarded gated communityit's not the Italian. However, that is the prologue jumping ahead But which of them was the story – as is the current vogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent178763681X|title=The Loving HusbandKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from Chef Paul Delamare took a lengthy stint teaching job at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablea residential cookery school in Belgravia. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel He didn't really want to that particular fire particularly from where Fran's best friend is standing. But when this is followed by but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a hasty wedding way of getting both men and a move women to an isolated farmhouse in do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the Fensschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, Fran feels sure but it didn't turn out that her new role as homeway. The teaching -maker and mother, so very different from the London partyproblems -girl she used to be, is the right are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for hersomeone to turn up dead. So when Fran wakes in Unfortunately, he was the middle of person who discovered the night to find Nathan's side of body and everyone knows that the bed completely cold, she goes police consider that person to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of be the bargainprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 1529421284|title=The StorykillerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=The first rule It was one of Super Injunctions is those flash downpours that you don't talk about Super Injunctionsthe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. These powerful legalese prevent In a gully, a human skeleton came to the likes of you, me surface and forensic testing proved the papers talking about certain storiesbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The richHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, powerful and meaningless use them to stop the type so it could have been a simple case of tittle tattle that fuels misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a million conversations at worktownie, but so what do you do if you was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not rich, powerful or meaningless enough considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529425867|title=NutshellLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet TrudyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Successfully living in a large and valuable London home, she Raymond Wilkins is heavily pregnantof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowneralways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, poet son of Ryan and publisher Johnfather of Ryan, for someone completely different, namely Claudeis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a nastytrailer park, brutish barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and short typehis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is the child sheYou might wonder if you's pregnant withre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. He is a very alert young thingWell, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might 're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly 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>. Sometimes it's problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529431735|title=Beneath the AshesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the kitchen floor of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livingmore surprising. SheHe'd no memory of what had happened the night before, but she was injured, the house had been broken into and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missing. The police had been called to exiled on the farm by the fire brigadeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ThereThe return has come about because he'd been s had a fire in one of the farmletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's barns ill and when they investigated a badly-burned body was discoveredhasn't long to live. It's up hard to DI Will Jackman feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to discover who's responsible - his underwear and before whoever sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey0861541774|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=In many ways it was horrificDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, but quite simpleGuy Trueman. On Christmas day Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a rifle shot knife - and he killed five people: the first was his ex-wife's new partnera Ghurka. Initially, he faced a local policeman, charge of manslaughter but the other four were simply people who happened evidence came to be around. He then went light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the local churchyard and turned the gun on himselfman. Six dead, no perpetrator on the loose and it looks as though all that needs to Now he could be done is to give evidence at facing the inquest, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at thatdeath penalty. She wants Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to know where Russell Fewell got the gun help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the bullets: shewouldn's also not convinced about the honesty of the dead policeman and that's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herot help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)1521129886|title=Crush|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this story of Thelma and Louise, it's Louise we meet first, through her narration. She's a seventeen year old, telling us of a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her company. She lives at home with her mother, complete with hare-lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wife. Impulsively, she asks to be their maid – and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy home. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lawrence Block|title=Sinner ManKeith 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 beginning. His first crime publication came and went in the early 60s and fifty years later point where he'll warn someone about how much he did not have a copy as the book had been published under an alias with a different title unknown to himcharges. In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form of ''Sinner Man'' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writerIt's early books; murder, dubious characters and a bit of pulp naughtiness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Unger|title=Ink good job too because Greg and Bone|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is Joyce will soon have a very powerful baby and gifted psychicthey're both delighted. Sensitive to Joyce will be more delighted about the unseen, unheard and unknowable, baby when she spends her days among gets past the deadmorning sickness. VisitedGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, botheredLucy, harassed who's struggling to make ends meet and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowson is not thriving. But life Lucy, he says, is not convinced that simple Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to get your attention in find out what happened on the loudest and most distracting way possiblenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C BeatonB0CK3MYJ56|title=Pushing Up Daisies Responsibilities (Agatha RaisinGreg Mason mysteries)|author=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 QuaidMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy QuaidIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest and imprisonment as occupational hazards and Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the rare occasion back of his head which could have happened if he 'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was nabbedobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, he'd raise no one has been charged with his hands murder and it's now the subject of 'come quiet'Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Turns out thatThere's not what his nickname meant at allno dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot of people didnIt't knows compelling viewing. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons0241996104|title= Silent ScreamComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In ''Silent Scream'Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, Dhas been convicted of their murder.I Kim Stone is called to investigate We first meet Nancy outside the body of court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a woman 'silent sentence' - she's not been found dead in guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the bath rest of a house that has been set on fireher life. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances Of course, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be an isolated case s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and they the papers are in a race against making the clock to find out who could be next on the killermost of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter''s hit list is one favourite epithet and why''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Ames1529413680|title=You Were Never Really HereA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It'He came up with a plans all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, a solutionKerquelin, a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wake. So the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he had to be pure. He had to be holydeparts from the script. He had to be contained.'' He is Joe, an ex-Marine, ex-FBILuckily, who has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive father, with doctor is there and the help of man is whisked away in a hammerhelicopter. Having left one A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his own hammers behind in chances of survival but - as he's a hotel roomsenior government employee, only to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in a dark . One daughter lives nearby and grim placeanother, he moves on to the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a Senatorpre-arranged holiday. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt1529196388|title= The Man Who Wasn't ThereTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along 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 line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become the mixed metaphor du jourOld Bailey. ItThere's hard to say where it started, just one man in the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it 's not too long before Knight appears in a different direction court, charged with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when Cliveden''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screenss murder. It Knight was through TV told 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 familybest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all Cameron of them are legal. Splashed across the gossip columns of every newspaper Stag Court Chambers and magazine in America the 4 brothers it's Taylor-Cameron 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 travelhis pupil, unseenAdam Green, through the shadows; a power which they use who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to serve justice when the legal system failsplead not guilty, allowing them despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworldcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>