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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Douglas1786482126|title= Tokyo NightsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Colin McCannBuilders 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, private detectiveDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, chronic smoker and dog loverbut Nelson doesn't, that she is charged pregnant with solving the mysterious death his child as a result of the young and beautiful daughter 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 a wealthy businessmansickness. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The key facts of this case apparently hinge on 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 testimony body of Charlie Davis, a ne'er do well dreamer with quick fists missing person is buried and a poet's heartwho was responsible for her death. The only problem This person, he promises, is that Charlie Davis has disappeared someone big and appears it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be unwilling transferred to disclose an open prison to serve the remainder of his part in these tragic eventssentence and to get an early parole date. After some deliciously violent digging Not much to ask, McCann jets off is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to Tokyo do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and here anyone who works with him is where the fun really begins… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916191</amazonuk>kept well away from what's happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Burgauer0008405026|title=Nazi Saboteurs on A Stranger in the BayouFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5

|summary=A sudden death in New OrleansIt' red light district, s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the invention of investigation ground to a more effective US military landing craft with a big futurehalt. Now, her mother, Helena, a crime family with links back to occupied Sicily and two Germans lurking suspiciously her father are dead in Americatheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's southern statessomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. All these are connected What looked as though it was going to be an open-and, as World War II hots up across -shut case is now a fortnight complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in 1942Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, the links become more obvious as well as more dangerousUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)0571379877|title=Death Going DownThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=In Edward Jevons is a strange timeworking-class young man, in the years after World War Twoobsessed with his upper-class friends, Buenos Aires is Robert and Stanza. Robert's a strange city – peopled by her native residents, and many who fled the European theatre of wardirector. And in a building that houses some of the more strange examples of those people on six levels of large apartmentsHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, something strange happens – one of them struggles home the worse for drink late one night handsome and entitled and finds the lift descend uses Edward to fetch run errands for him to his door, but carrying a blonde woman's corpse. A resident doctor soon turns up too, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and the pair kicks into action the police investigation into her presence, which soon seems to point he's drunkenly confided how he feels to suicideRobert. This not being Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a genre called suicide mystery, however, we know differently – relationship had begun between them but will certainly have to wait he's not like most men: Edward is left to piece stumble upon the whole story togethertwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair BurkeJo Callaghan|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion 4)Leave No Trace|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen years agoWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, Casey Carter went DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to prison for the murder of case alongside her fiancée Hunter Raleigh. The evidence seemed indisputable; her fingerprints were on sidekick, the gun that killed him and her skin tested positive for gunshot residueAI detective Lock. She It'd s their first live case together, having previously been known to be argumentative very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and passionate, qualities a very high profile case that earned her the nickname ''Crazy Casey'' thanks to draws a tell-all book by an ex-boyfriend. Even her family seemed to suspect her guilt. But now Casey is out lot of prison and determined unwanted attention to prove her innocencetheir AI Future Policing project. Who better Will they be able to help her than Laurie Moran and solve the ''Under Suspicion'' team? After hearing her casein time, Laurie promises to give her a fair hearing on her TV show or will Kat find herself taken off the case and reinvestigate the circumstances , potentially, out of Hunter's death.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Farrington1035021803|title=Mr ChurchillThe Antique Hunter's Driver: A Murderer's StoryGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=2014: 50 It's twenty years since William GilbeyFreya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's father Herbert was hanged back now because of a request for murderhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. This anniversary is different from those in the past in that itFreya's given William the impetus to go former mentor and find out more about two mystifying parts of his fatherCarole's historyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Firstly Arthur was the oddity of reason why Freya had not been back to the murdervillage: why randomly kill two women Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the street split, she worked in daylighta cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and 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. SecondlyHer children, when William was a childsons Niall, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill Paul and Ollie and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. ThereShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's nothing father, Duncan Ackerley, in the history books so did this actually happen? river. This is definitely a good time It was an easy assumption for the police to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselfmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. 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>1785893645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1529900360|title=Gathering PreyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Any fan 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 help of a long running series will dread psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the book involvement was something that falls off the cliffman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. This is Two lovers were murdered in the story that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent swimming pool of previous outings that it may as well not exista remote property in Bel Air. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, He was the ''Prey'' series by John Sandford heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is overdue this, but will married to an extremely rich man and it''Gathering Prey'' be s not the moment that Italian. But which of them was the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of his former selfprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner178763681X|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good as the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book Skills for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Mercy KillingOrlando Murrin

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with the local amateur dramatic society Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and when it was decided that they would stage women to do what he wanted. Paul ''Anniesomehow'' and involve children from a local school got the news was broken impression that he was 'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a convicted paedophilebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. A local widow with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: she terminated the relationship The teaching - and the amdrams told him that problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was no longer a memberfor someone to turn up dead. It Unfortunately, he was bad enough, but deserved - then someone else took the law into their own hands person who discovered the body and decided everyone knows that the world would police consider that person to be a better place without Albie Woodville in it. He was brutally murderedthe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529421284|title= Night SchoolLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in timea heatwave. Reacher is still an US Army MP. '' In the morning they gave Reacher a medalgully, a human skeleton came to the surface and in forensic testing proved the afternoon they sent him back body to schoolbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'' The medal was d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a Legion simple case of Meritmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Not his first, probably not his lastGeary was a townie, just another bauble to recognise so what was he'd done for his country doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and a plea for him to two other deaths which were not to talk about itconsidered suspicious at the time. The 'it' in this case was some police work, in the Balkans, Lockyer and a couple DC Gemma Broad of shootings. the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''Two weeks of his life. Four rounds expended. No big deals cold cases to you and me) investigate.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1529425867|title=Rather be the DevilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=It's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderedIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. She was beautifulRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, a bright light Balliol educated and promiscuous - always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and she was strangled in Edinburghfather of Ryan, is not. He's Caledonian Hotel on the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying therenot any of those things. Her killer was never found: itHe's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's been preying on John Rebusnot '' mind really'' his thing) and it comes into conversation on the night that Rebus his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Callytrackies. ItThey's better than thinking about his health: here usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's got COPD and therere being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvinre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Think about Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley1529431735|title= ShootThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writersIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, 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 mysterywhich made Bruce Hopkins'' with return all the optimism of there being more to come has surprising. He'd been exiled on the poignancy of being, if not the last of Costa del Sol as a short line, certainly one of wanted drug smuggler for a fewdecade. F.X. Shepherd – The return has come about because he doesn't like s had a letter from his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" isex-wife, technically, a columnist. Hesaying that she's been sacked by one New York newspaper ill and is writing a weekly column for anotherhasn't long to live. 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 ShepherdIt's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the bookhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, you'll see what I mean) expects him stripped to his underwear and sent to turn a watery grave in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat the boot of your pants stuffa stolen Ford Sierra. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante0861541774|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Coming to the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, only thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's some resistance. It's never ''quite'' saidclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, but you have has taken a suspicion that it might come down short holiday in Singapore to the fact that she's a womanmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. But being female has its advantages when Maik was involved in a decoy is needed to entrap street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up like armed with a prostitute knife - and wearing he killed a blue rabbit-skin coatGhurka. She is attacked and only just rescued in timeInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and a frightevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, but is Now he also responsible for could be facing the rape of death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair1521129886|title= Chain of CustodyThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the success of point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'A Cut-like Wound's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they' re both delighted. published in Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the UK morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in 2014-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) police, called in when an affluent lawyer s struggling to make ends meet and her son is found dead at his home in a prestigious and well-guarded gated communitynot thriving. HoweverLucy, he says, is convinced that is Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the prologue jumping ahead of coroner have accepted that the story – as is death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the current voguenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel KentB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Loving HusbandResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=The first rule of Super Injunctions is that you donIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason't talk about Super Injunctionss twenty-eight years old. These powerful legalese prevent He used to have a high-flying job in the likes city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', youmight be thinking. Nice bloke, me and but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the papers talking about certain storiesother hand, he has been asked to look into something. The richJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, powerful and meaningless use them to stop the type of tittle tattle that fuels they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a million conversations tragic accident at workan unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, but Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what do you do if you are not rich, powerful she was doing there - or meaningless enough how she could come to afford fall in front of a Super Injunction? train. Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>Greg's been asked to investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1838954481|title=NutshellThe Misper|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summaryauthor=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in a large and valuable Kate London home, she is heavily pregnant, and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish and short type. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narrator. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is the child she's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else 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>}}{{newreview|author=Jane Isaac|title=Beneath the Ashes|rating=3.54

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the kitchen floor of fifteen-year-old holding the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livinggun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. She'd no memory He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of what had happened the night before, but she jury system he was injured, found not guilty of both the house had been broken into murder and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missing. The police had been called to the farm by manslaughter of the fire brigadeofficer. There'd been And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a fire quieter life in one of the farm's barns and countryside but when they investigated a badly-burned body was discovered. Itmissing teenager is found on her territory she's up to DI Will Jackman to discover who's responsible drawn into a wider investigation - and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey1448309743|title=Shot Through the Heart The Devil Stone (DI Grace Fisher 2DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In many ways it was horrificthe village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, but quite simple. On Christmas day a man with a rifle shot and killed five people: the first was his ex-wife's new partner, members of a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened to be aroundwealthy family are found murdered. He then went to The only item missing from the home is the local churchyard and turned Devil Stone: myth says that if the gun on himselfstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Six deadThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, no perpetrator on the loose and it looks as though all that needs to be done is to give evidence at the inquest, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at s an easy conclusion given thattwo of them 'discovered' the body. She wants The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to know where Russell Fewell got the gun and the bullets: she's also not convinced about the honesty of the dead policeman and thatshadow's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herohim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529077699|title=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=CrushAnn Cleeves

|summary=Everybody has to start somewhere''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence BlockSir?'' Well yes, you may no longer be able to find the beginningit is. His first crime publication came and went Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the early 60s middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and fifty years later he did not have then turned up, naked and dead, in a copy as small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the book village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had been published under an alias with the status of a national treasure: a different title unknown to himrenowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form of I ''nearly'Sinner Man'said ' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writer-round good egg' but as we's early books; murderll find out, dubious characters and he could be more than a little bit of pulp naughtinessclose with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1529427045|title=Ink and BoneThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychic''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Sensitive  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the unseensmall town of Gasskas, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the deadarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the gifts that Mother Nature has sought area to bestowhave vanished without trace. But life is not It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that simple and studying for your degree Svala is testing with five other visitors in a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the room who are all trying to get your attention part Salander played in the loudest and most distracting way possibleher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1787636607|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=It'Allotments' sound as though they should be s a haven of peace and tranquility, but it's surprising how scene replicated all too often in the reverse proves to be early hours of the casemorning. The villagers Drunken revellers spilling out of Carsley clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are up in arms because Lord Bellington has said that he's going lucky and manage to sell off get one of the allotments for a new housing developmentfew taxis available. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one is particularly sorry - and there's no shortage of suspects eitherthe outlying villages. Lord BellingtonThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem's son, Damianparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, employs Agatha Raisin the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her detective agency phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to discover who murdered let her use his father.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk> There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1405957174|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 in fact convicted serials killers. But while she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are a part of that, she's not yet ready to make A Death at the choice that destiny would have her make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewParty|author=Sophie Hannah|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Amy Stuart

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised a house From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party at her home in Clonakilty, Irelandwill not end well. It was mainly family, plus the two partners from the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, but there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other The victim - a man - Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirotambulance he so desperately needs. They werenWhat we don't certain know is who the man is or why theyNadine prefers to have him die. I'd been invited, but Athie Playford, author of the popular childrenbetter give you a little more background so that you can understand what's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddon'', had a shock in store for the assembled company and particularly for her two children, Harry and Claudia. She'd changed her will, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything to her secretary, Joseph Scotcherhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane0008530025|title=The Gem ConnectionMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=In It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the beginning it was simple. C J Kavanaughbody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, formerly in the garden of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairtheir West London home. Antonio Fahrletti He had confounded half a dozen PIs whoan injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd been unable to prove that he was being unfaithful to slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his wife, but CJ face had taken was determined to be the one who got the proofobviously deliberate. Luck was on Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his side, but not, murder and it would seem, on Fahrletti's. In now the meantime Clinton Windell subject of ''knewInfamous'' that luck was on his side: he'd , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gemstogether to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. The board hadnMore to the point, they't believed that he could re going to do it this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and a large part no shortage of his pleasure was that he was proving them wrongcliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker0241996104|title= Dragon GamesComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of Nancy''Dragon Games'' ties it to the international bestseller ''The Art s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's their murder. We first offering in English translationmeet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. I'm hoping The barrister tells her that the final edition that hits the market will have the confidence to reference she's received a 'Whispering Shadowssilent sentence'- she' s not been found guilty of anything but will have to which this is live with what happened for the direct sequelrest of her life. My hope is Of course, it's made worse because the step between the first two Burmese books Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the modern China mystery ones is a significant one. Many readers will love both, but I think papers are making the less lyrical, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach most of the Chinese stories has a wider readershipit. It ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' 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 tobacconist, a fan of romantic fiction, one favourite epithet and a wearer of pince-nez. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, you ''rich bitch'' might think, not be printed but in In at the Death his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing and something of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail of a murderer in the city of Bridgton. The death of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor had a gun in his bagundoubtedly spoken. As the detectives get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1529413680|title=Turning BlueA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet the English in a particularly harsh winter1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. DI Jim Brindle from the elite detective unit, Cold Storage, was sent to investigate and he could have It's all been helped by Roddy Macevery carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, a local journalist. Only BrindleKerquelin, the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with man playing one of the writer. Mace main characters is desperate to revive his flagging careerseriously injured when he departs from the script. Well it's more than flagging: he left London in disgraceLuckily, so it's the two men living on the outskirts of life who are trying independently to trap his doctor is there and the man they believe is responsible for Melaniewhisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's disappearance and that man is Steven Rutter, another lonera senior government employee, near destitute and living high on the moors, man who knows all runs Frenchelon - the hiding placesmilitary has stepped in. He knows the secrets of the local town too One daughter lives nearby and there are those another, who fear that he might tell more than should be knownlives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)1529196388|title=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=All the ladies of O'Brian Fashion House are trying Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to do is to present their works by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the best of lights to the best of Milanese and European society, but they're not going to find a dead person on their premises much helpOld Bailey. Cristiana lives There's just one man in Casa O'Brian, on the top floor of the building where everything key to her company happens, frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's on her bed that she finds the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot to her. What could it signify? Was she correct not too long before Knight appears in thinking she'd seen some people she really didn't want to see back in her lifecourt, 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, thatcharged with Cliveden's for suremurder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi and Knight was told that the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgunpupil, whom she found on the local beachAdam Green, intervened to give her life some meaningwho eventually represent him. For a while she was a suspectKnight's determined to plead not guilty, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting 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 concernedcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>