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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Angela MarsonsElly 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=Lost Girls The Devil You Know (D I Kim StoneS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Charlotte and Amy were best friends: they seemed to do everything together and It's unusual for anyone from the trip Hardie family to approach the swimming pool was no differentpolice. It was all carefully planned - they were Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to stay in tell the police where the building until one body of the parents arrived to pick them upa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. OnlyThis person, he promises, is someone big and it didn't work out like that: the mother's car was disabled and before the pick up time both parents had received a text message to say that will be worth the girls had been abductedpolice doing what he wants. It would get worse too - the next communication would tell them that they would have And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to bid for serve the life remainder of their child. The parents who bid the most would his sentence and to get their child backan early parole date. The other would not return. It sounds unbelievableNot much to ask, but is it had happened before. ? One child was released, but not The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even the body of prepared to do the other child had been foundthing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley0008405026|title=FinisterreA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but in 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 lasthalt. Now, her mother, Helena, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation Finisterreand her father are dead in their bed. In America Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the apparent suicide positioning of a scientist working on the atom bomb bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and off the coast of Spain the shipwreck of a German submarine, become catalysts her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as the plans spiral out of control, leading though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a shattering climaxcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'Finisterres disappearance: others (such as Derwent' is a crime thriller packed with grits boss, suspense and styleUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste0571379877|title=Then She Was GoneThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=Tim Johnson took Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his baby daughter out one day upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in the course of love with Stanza since their walk university days - and he was attacked and the baby was stolen's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But there was Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a problemrelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: only Tim seemed Edward is left to believe that there ''was'' stumble upon the two of them kissing in a baby and the police were convinced that there was an entirely different crime and that Johnson was their only suspect. He went to prison and was largely forgotten aboutdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jim DouglasJo Callaghan|title= Tokyo NightsLeave No Trace|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Colin McCann, private detective, chronic smoker and dog lover, is charged with solving the mysterious death of the young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy businessman. The key facts of this case apparently hinge on the testimony of Charlie Davis, a ne'er do well dreamer with quick fists and a poet's heart. The only problem is that Charlie Davis has disappeared and appears to be unwilling to disclose his part in these tragic events. After some deliciously violent digging, McCann jets off to Tokyo and here is where the fun really begins… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916191</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steven Burgauer|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou|rating=3.54
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|summary=A sudden death in New Orleans' red light district, When a man is found crucified on the invention top of a more effective US military landing craft with a big futurehill in Nuneaton, a crime family with links back DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to occupied Sicily and two Germans lurking suspiciously in Americathe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's southern statestheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. All these are connected But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and, as World War II hots up across a fortnight very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in 1942time, or will Kat find herself taken off the links become more obvious as well as more dangerous.case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)1035021803|title=Death Going DownThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=In a strange time, in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the years after World War Two, Buenos Aires is English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a strange city – peopled by request for help from her native residentsbeloved aunt, and many who fled the European theatre of warCarole. And in a building that houses some of Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the more strange examples of those people on six levels of large apartmentscircumstances seem suspicious, something strange happens – one of them struggles home to say the worse for drink late one night and finds least. Arthur was the lift descend reason why Freya had not been back to fetch him to his doorthe village: Arthur, she feels, but carrying a blonde woman's corpselet her down badly. A resident doctor soon turns up tooEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, and she has not felt able to be near the pair kicks into action man or pursue the police investigation into her presence, which soon seems to point to suicideprofession she loved. This not being After the split, she worked in a genre called suicide mysterycafe, howevermet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, we know differently – but will certainly who was murdered) and Freya and James have to wait to piece the whole story togethernow divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1398524085|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion 4)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen years ago, Casey Carter went to prison for the murder of her fiancée Hunter Raleigh. The evidence seemed indisputable; her fingerprints were on the gun that killed him and her skin tested positive for gunshot residue. She'd been known to be argumentative and passionate, qualities that earned her the nickname ''Crazy Casey'' thanks to a tell-all book by an ex-boyfriend. Even her family seemed to suspect her guilt. But now Casey is out of prison and determined to prove her innocence. Who better to help her than Laurie Moran and the ''Under Suspicion'' teamHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? After hearing her case, Laurie promises to give her a fair hearing on her TV show and reinvestigate the circumstances of Hunter's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Farrington|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryNicci French|rating=3.5
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|summary=2014: 50 years since William GilbeyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's father Herbert was hanged for murderfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. This anniversary Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is different from those in the past in that it's given William the impetus to go not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out more about two mystifying parts the body of his fatherGreg's history. Firstly the oddity of the murder: why randomly kill two women father, Duncan Ackerley, in the street in daylight? river. Secondly, when William It was a child, Herbert an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill murdered Charlie and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIcommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's nothing in the history books so did this actually happen? This is definitely a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselflittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1529900360|title=Gathering PreyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529421284|title= Night SchoolLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1529425867|title=Rather be the DevilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
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|summary=ItIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderednot any of those things. She was beautifulHe's white, originated from a bright light trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and promiscuous - his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and she was strangled trackies. They're usually in Edinburghlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you's Caledonian Hotel on re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying therecombination works brilliantly well. Her killer was never found: Sometimes it's been preying on John Rebusproblematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It' mind s February 1991 and it comes into conversation Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the night that Rebus and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the CallyCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's better than thinking about had a letter from his health: heex-wife, saying that she's got COPD ill and therehasn't long to live. It's something on hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his lung which he calls Hank Marvinunderwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Think about Is it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley0861541774|title= ShootA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a habit of being late to discover good writers, short holiday in this case getting Singapore to Crowley after he is no longer meet up with usan old ally, Guy Trueman. The result is Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' he was facing a man armed 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 knife - and he killed a fewGhurka. F.X. Shepherd – Initially, he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, faced a columnistcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another Now he could be facing the death penalty. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a week doesndiplomatic incident and wouldn'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 stuffhelp Danny at all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1521129886|title=Hidden Killers They Had It Coming (Tennison 2Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
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|summary=Coming Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, only therepoint where he's some resistancell warn someone about how much he charges. It's never ''quite'' said, but you a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a suspicion that it might come down to the fact that shebaby and they's a womanre both delighted. But being female has its advantages Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when a decoy is needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking she gets past the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coatmorning sickness. She Greg is attacked and only just rescued approached by an old friend whose brother-in time-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip who's struggling to make ends meet and a frighther son is not thriving. It seems as though this Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the man who has been attacking womencoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but is he also responsible for Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the rape of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita NairB0CK3MYJ56|title= Chain of CustodyResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After It's the success of '1990s and Greg Mason'A Cuts twenty-like Wound'' eight years old. published He used to have a high-flying job in the UK in 2014, city but it wasn't satisfying so he'Chain s now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of CustodyCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where' sees s the return of Inspector Gowda of life experience that backs up this profession? On the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) policeother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, called they were until Helen was killed in when what's been written off as a tragic accident at an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a prestigious and well-guarded gated communitytrain. However, that is the prologue jumping ahead of the story – as is the current vogueGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1838954481|title=The Loving HusbandMisper|author=Kate London
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|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from Ryan Kennedy killed a lengthy stint at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitable. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where Franpolice officer: there's best friend is standingno doubt about that. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding and a move to an isolated farmhouse in He was the Fens, Fran feels sure that her new role as homefifteen-year-maker old holding the gun and mother, so very different from pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the London party-girl she used trigger but due to be, is the right one for her. So when Fran wakes in vagaries of the middle jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the night to find Nathan's side manslaughter of the bed completely cold, she goes to look for himofficer. And so lives must go on. Finding him bloodied For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and very much dead was most definitely not part hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of the bargainRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 1448309743|title=The StorykillerDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
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|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The first rule of Super Injunctions only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that you don't talk about Super Injunctions. These powerful legalese prevent if the likes of youstone is removed from Otterburn House, me and the papers talking about certain storiesdeath will follow. The richonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, powerful and meaningless use that's an easy conclusion given that two of them to stop 'discovered' the type of tittle tattle that fuels a million conversations at work, body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but what do you do if you are not richwhen he disappears, powerful or meaningless enough DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>'shadow' him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529077699|title=NutshellThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on the kitchen floor of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was living. She'd no memory of what had happened the night before'It's all bloody peculiar, but she was injuredisn't it, the house had been broken into and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missing.Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey1529427045|title=Shot Through The Girl in the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
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|summary=In many ways it was horrific, but quite simple. On Christmas day a man with a rifle shot and killed five ''Life has more to offer than people: the first was his ex-wifeprime numbers for example's new partner'. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened to be aroundgold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. He then went to Salander's niece's mother is the local churchyard and turned latest woman in the gun on himselfarea to have vanished without trace. Six dead, no perpetrator on the loose and it looks as though all It was only with reluctance that needs to be done is to give evidence at the inquest, Salander became her niece's guardian but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at quickly becomes obvious that. She wants to know where Russell Fewell got the gun and the bullets: sheSvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's also not convinced about the honesty unaware of the dead policeman and thatpart Salander played in her father's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herodeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)1787636607|title=CrushThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
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|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story of Thelma and Louise, itIt's Louise we meet first, through her narrationa scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. She's a seventeen year old, telling us Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a quite awful way to get home. Some are lucky and smelly satellite town manage to get one of Paris she lives in, with the sight few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companythe outlying villages. She lives at home with her motherThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', complete with hare-lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one particularly in the light of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – 'the ever-sunnymissing women'. For one young woman, sexy and sophisticated life the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of an American NATO worker and his wifeher home. Impulsively, she asks She had intended to ring someone to be their maid – come and indeed moves into the couplecollect her - but her phone's large, messy homedead. But little does The bus had driven off before she know what lurks in had the chance to beg the shadows bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and alhigh-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence Block1405957174|title=Sinner ManA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
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|summary=Everybody has to start somewhereFrom the first page, but if you are as prolific we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a writer as Lawrence Block, you may man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no longer be able effort to find call the beginningambulance he so desperately needs. His first crime publication came and went in What we don't know is who the early 60s and fifty years later he did not man is or why Nadine prefers to have a copy as the book had been published under an alias with a different title unknown to himdie. In 2016 I'd better give you a little more background so that book has surfaced in the form of ''Sinner Man'' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writeryou can understand what's early books; murder, dubious characters and a bit of pulp naughtinesshappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger0008530025|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 Murder in the loudest and most distracting way possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=M C Beaton|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
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|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be a haven It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of peace and tranquilityher stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had 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 taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's surprising how often now the reverse proves to be the casesubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. The villagers A group of Carsley are up in arms because Lord Bellington experts has said that he's going been brought together to review the evidence and to sell off take the allotments for a new housing developmentinvestigation further. When he turns up deadMore to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, poisoned episode by antifreeze, episode. There's no one is particularly sorry dump of the whole box set - and there's no shortage of suspects eithercliffhangers. Lord BellingtonIt's son, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin and her detective agency to discover who murdered his fathercompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong0241996104|title= BetrayalsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers|summary= Liv TaylorNancy's mother and step-Jones father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has come been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a long way since she discovered life sentence. The barrister tells her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while she's coming received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to an understanding about live with what happened for the rest of her fae heritagelife. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the strange visions that papers are a part making the most of that, sheit. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch''s might not yet ready to make the choice that destiny would have her makebe printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1529413680|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised a house party at her home in Clonakilty, Ireland. It was mainly family, plus One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the two partners town from the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, but English in 1370 and Bruno's there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard and the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirotshow with some friends. They werenIt't certain why they'd s all been invitedvery carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, but Athie PlayfordKerquelin, author the man playing one of the popular children's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddon'', had a shock in store for main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the assembled company and particularly for her two childrenscript. Luckily, Harry his doctor is there and Claudiathe man is whisked away in a helicopter. SheA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he'd changed her wills a senior government employee, disinheriting her son and the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and leaving everything to another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her secretary, Joseph Scotcherfather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1529196388|title=The Gem ConnectionTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the beginning it Grant Cliveden was simple. C J Kavanaugh, formerly of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed to prove that hero: a man was having an adulterous affair. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs policeman who'd been unable to prove stood for all that he was being unfaithful good and honest and looked up to his wifeby just about everyone, but CJ so there was public uproar when he was determined to be murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one who got man in the proof. Luck was on frame for his side, but murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's nottoo long before Knight appears in court, it would seem, on Fahrletticharged with Cliveden'smurder. In the meantime Clinton Windell ''knew'' that luck Knight was on his side: he'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gems. The board hadn't believed told that he could do it and a large part of his pleasure the best barrister for him was that he was proving them wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= JanJonathan Taylor-Philipp Sendker|title= Dragon Games|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover Cameron of my advance copy of ''Dragon Games'' ties Stag Court Chambers and it to the international bestseller ''The Art of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translation. I'm hoping that the final edition that hits the market will have the confidence to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequel. My hope is because the step between the first two Burmese books Taylor-Cameron and the modern China mystery ones is a significant one. Many readers will love bothhis pupil, but I think the less lyricalAdam Green, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach of the Chinese stories has a wider readershipwho eventually represent him. It is a readership Sendker deserves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis Duncan|title= In at the Death|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconistKnight's determined to plead not guilty, a fan of romantic fiction, and a wearer of pincedespite all Taylor-nez. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, you might think, but in In at Cameron's recommendations to the Death his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing and something of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail of a murderer in the city of Bridgton. The death of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor had a gun in his bag. As the detectives get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closetscontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>
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