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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=Extreme 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
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tim Collinwood is single It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and sothe investigation ground to a halt. Now, working in Morocco as an advertising creativeher mother, he's free to enjoy all his host country has to offer: the expense accountsHelena, the opulence and the womenher father are dead in their bed. Then Initially, it happens. He gets looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the contract positioning of his life. He just needs to create a PR campaign the bodies that will reassure Morocco that French business has makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her best interests at heartboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The truth may What looked as though it was going to be otherwise but creating the façade an open-and-shut case is what advertising is aboutnow a complex double murder. Perhaps Tim should have noticed Kerrigan is convinced that there are clues from the beginning as to how shady this job is, including needing to work under an assumed identity. However, the secrecy becomes a side issue explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as something more important takes TimDerwent's concentration: survival for him and those around himboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)0571379877|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Strange things are happeningEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, as they are most wont to doobsessed with his upper-class friends, in rural IcelandRobert and Stanza. In Robert's a very remote fjordside community in the NW a passing visitor has left the legacy of a dangerous African virus, which has claimed two livestheatre director. ItHe's becoming national newsalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to the extent that a TV journalist is in touch run errands for updateshim. The community only Edward has two policemen, trying to man been in love with Stanza since their station round the clock between them university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to make sure instant responses are possibleRobert. But one of them has also been asked to look into a mysterious cold case Most men in Robert's position would stay away from the 1950s, when a lady died from poisoning – and Stanza or tell Edward that in a community of only four adults and a baby. – Or was it five and a baby, as a newly-found photograph suggests? Elsewhere, in Reykjavik, a young couple are troubled by an intruder – relationship had begun between them but that wonhe't have any connection s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the other cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A L GaylinJo Callaghan|title= What Remains of MeLeave No Trace|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= On the hottest night of the year, June 28, 1980 teenager Kelly Lund walked into a wrap party and shot the director, John McFadden dead. Two to the chest, one to the head, dead and centre. She offered no defence, though her attorneys played up her drug use and the heat but she still got 25-to-life. A journalist saw something in her nervous smile on the court steps, part of her defence mechanism others might have argued, called it the Mona Lisa Death Smile and set about building a demon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784756180</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angela Marsons|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Initially it looked like When a robbery gone wrong, or possibly man is found crucified on the top of a carjackhill in Nuneaton, only DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the car was still there and so was the expensive watch and case alongside her sidekick, the jewellryAI detective Lock. Her wallet hadnIt't been taken eithers their first live case together, but she'd having previously been killed by a single, precise stab to the heartvery successful with several cold cases. There was no sign of anger: in fact But when there seemed to be is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a complete lack emotion potential serial killer and there was nothing to suggest that the victim had attracted the violence - she was a caring mother and dedicated social worker. D I Kim Stone wasn't alone in thinking very high profile case that something didn't add up. Then draws a local drug addict was found with an identical woundlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. There's nothing Will they be able to link solve the two cases other than case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the wounds case and Stone's instincts., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1035021803|title=Lost Girls (D I Kim Stone)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte and Amy were best friends: they seemed It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to do everything together and the trip to the swimming pool was no differentEnglish country village where she grew up. It was all carefully planned - they were to stay in the building until one She's back now because of the parents arrived to pick them upa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Only, it didnFreya't work out like that: the mothers former mentor and Carole's car was disabled close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and before the pick up time both parents had received a text message circumstances seem suspicious, to say that the girls least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been abductedback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. It would get worse too - the next communication would tell them that Even though they would have were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to bid for be near the man or pursue the life of their childprofession she loved. The parents who bid After the most would get their child back. The other would not return. It sounds unbelievablesplit, but it had happened before. One child was releasedshe worked in a cafe, but not even met and married James (on the rebound from the body love of the other child had been foundher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1398524085|title=FinisterreHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Second World War is almost lost Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but in a last- strangely - her husband, Alec, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation Finisterreis not. In America the apparent suicide of a scientist working on the atom bomb Shortly afterwards, Etty and off Greg, find the coast body of Spain Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the shipwreck of a German submarine, become catalysts as river. It was an easy assumption for the plans spiral out of control, leading police to a shattering climaxmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there'Finisterre' is a crime thriller packed s little else they can do but get on with grit, suspense their lives and stylewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste1529900360|title=Then She Was GoneThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tim Johnson took his baby daughter out one day and in the course of their walk It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he was attacked felt responsible and the baby even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was stolenreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. But His assertions that there was were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a problem: psychologist only Tim seemed to believe worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that there ''the involvement was'' a baby and something that the police man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were convinced that there murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an entirely different crime Italian shoe empire and that Johnson was their only suspect. He went she is married to prison an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was largely forgotten about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Douglas178763681X|title= Tokyo Nights|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>}}{{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Steven Burgauer|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the BayouOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=A sudden death Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in New OrleansBelgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' red light districtgot the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, the invention of a more effective US military landing craft with who had a big futurebroken arm, a crime family with links back to occupied Sicily but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and two Germans lurking suspiciously in Americathe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's southern statest expected was for someone to turn up dead. All these are connected Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and, as World War II hots up across a fortnight in 1942, everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the links become more obvious as well as more dangerousprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)1529421284|title=Death Going DownLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In a strange time, It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the years after World War Two, Buenos Aires is a strange city – peopled by her native residents, and many who fled the European theatre of warheatwave. And in In a building that houses some of the more strange examples of those people on six levels of large apartmentsgully, something strange happens – one of them struggles home a human skeleton came to the worse for drink late one night surface and finds forensic testing proved the lift descend body to fetch him to his doorbe Lee Geary, but carrying a blonde woman's corpsewho had disappeared nine years earlier. A resident doctor soon turns up too, He'd been a known drug user and the pair kicks into action the police investigation into her presencehad learning disabilities, which soon seems to point to suicideso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. This not being in Geary was a genre called suicide mysterytownie, however, we know differently – but will certainly have so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to wait the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to piece two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the whole story togethertime. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1529425867|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer Lost and Never Found (Under Suspicion 4A D I Wilkins Mystery)|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'' team? 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 StorySimon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=2014: 50 years since William Gilbey's father Herbert was hanged for murderIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. This anniversary Raymond Wilkins is different from those in the past in that it's given William the impetus to go of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and find out more about two mystifying parts always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of his Ryan and fatherof Ryan, is not. He's historynot any of those things. Firstly the oddity of the murder: why randomly kill two women in the street in daylight? SecondlyHe's white, when William was originated from a childtrailer park, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IItrackies. ThereThey's nothing re usually in the history books so did this actually happen? lime green or acid yellow. This is definitely You might wonder if you're being introduced to a good time to investigatepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, especially as William has you're not. The two men are just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselfdifferent sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1529431735|title=Gathering PreyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Any fan of a long running series will dread the book that falls off It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the cliffmore surprising. This is He'd been exiled on the story that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent of previous outings that it may Costa del Sol as well not exista wanted drug smuggler for a decade. With 24 titles already written The return has come about Lucas Davenportbecause he's had a letter from his ex-wife, the saying that she's ill and hasn'Preyt long to live. It'' series by John Sandford s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is overdue thisabducted, but will ''Gathering Prey'' be stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the moment that the maverick cop Davenport becomes boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a shadow of his former selfproblem closer to home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner0861541774|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 A Nye 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 for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPheasants|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Mercy KillingSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided that they would stage ''Annie'DCI Domenic Jejeune' s close friend and involve children from former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a local school the news short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was broken involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a convicted paedophile. A local widow man armed with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: she terminated the relationship knife - and the amdrams told him that he was no longer killed a memberGhurka. It was bad enoughInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but deserved - then someone else took the law into their own hands and decided evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the world would man. Now he could be a better place without Albie Woodville in itfacing the death penalty. He was brutally murderedDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1521129886|title= Night SchoolThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in time. Reacher is still Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an US Army MPinvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they'In re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the afternoon they sent him back -law appears to schoolhave killed himself. Stuart'' The medal was a Legion of Merit. Not s concerned about his firstsister, probably not his lastLucy, just another bauble who's struggling to recognise what he'd done for his country make ends meet and a plea for him her son is not to talk about itthriving. The 'Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - itsimply wasn' t in this case was some his nature. The police work, in and the coroner have accepted that the Balkansdeath was suicide, and a couple of shootings. but Stuart''Two weeks of his lifes prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian RankinB0CK3MYJ56|title=Rather be the DevilResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's forty the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years since Maria Turquand was murderedold. She was beautiful, He used to have a bright light and promiscuous high- and she was strangled flying job in Edinburgh's Caledonian Hotel on the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there. Her killer was never found: city but itwasn's been preying on John Rebus' mind and it comes into conversation on the night that Rebus and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Cally. It's better than thinking about his health: t satisfying so he's got COPD and there's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of now set himself up as a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usprivate investigator. The result is that what is billed as 'Shades of Cameron Strike'an F, you might be thinking.X. Shepherd mysteryNice bloke, but where'' with all s the optimism of there being more to come has life experience that backs up this profession? On the poignancy of beingother hand, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewhe has been asked to look into something. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name Joyce and prefers just "Shepherd" isHelen are half-sisters, technicallyor rather, a columnist. Hethey were until Helen was killed in what's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing written off as a weekly column for anothertragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. I don't know much about journalismJoyce - and her parents, but I'm guessing one column a week doesnOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapunderstand what she was doing there -washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him or how she could come to turn fall in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffa train. Greg's been asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1838954481|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)The Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Coming to the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, only Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's some resistance. It's never ''quite'' said, but you have a suspicion no doubt about that it might come down to the fact that she's a woman. But being female has its advantages when a decoy is needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking He was the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbitfifteen-year-skin coat. She is attacked old holding the gun and only just rescued in time, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and a frightpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It seems as though this is He pulled the man who has been attacking women, trigger but is he also responsible for due to the rape vagaries of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Nair|title= Chain the jury system he was found not guilty of Custody|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After both the murder and the success manslaughter of ''A Cut-like Wound'' the officer. And so lives must go on. published in For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the UK capital and hoping for a quieter life in 2014, ''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) police, called in countryside but when an affluent lawyer a missing teenager is found dead at his home in on her territory she's drawn into a prestigious wider investigation - and well-guarded gated community. However, that is back into the prologue jumping ahead orbit of the story – as is the current vogueRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1448309743|title=The Loving HusbandDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet Trudy''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Successfully living Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a large month and valuable London homethen turned up, she is heavily pregnantnaked and dead, in a small boat, and anchored in between two men – she has swapped Scully Cove close to the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claudevillage of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a nastyrenowned adventurer, brutish round the world sailor and short typeall round ''celebrity''. Some people cannot work I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorhe could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Oh, and Where did he himself, our narrator, is get the child she's pregnant with. money for his first boat? 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>How did he finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529427045|title=Beneath The Girl in the AshesEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|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, but she was injured, the house had been broken into and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missing'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The police had criminal underworld has not been called to slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the farm by latest woman in the fire brigadearea to have vanished without trace. ThereIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'd been s a fire scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the farmfew taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women's barns . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and when they investigated a badlycollect her -burned body was discovered. Itbut her phone's up dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to DI Will Jackman beg the bus driver to discover wholet her use his. There's responsible no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey1405957174|title=Shot Through A Death at the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In many ways it was horrificFrom the first page, but quite simplewe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. On Christmas day The victim - a man with - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a rifle shot and killed five people: little more background so that you can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the first Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was his exin December 2003 that fifteen-year-wife's new partnerold Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, a local policemanLuke Ryder, but in the other four were simply people who happened to be aroundgarden of their West London home. He then went to had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the local churchyard and turned steps but the gun on himselfvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Six deadTwenty years later, no perpetrator on the loose one has been charged with his murder and it looks as though all that needs to be done is to give evidence at 's now the inquestsubject of ''Infamous'', but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at thata true-crime show. She wants A group of experts has been brought together to know where Russell Fewell got review the gun evidence and to take the bullets: sheinvestigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's also not convinced about the honesty no dump of the dead policeman whole box set - and thatno shortage of cliffhangers. It's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herocompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)0241996104|title=CrushComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction Thrillers|summary=In this story of Thelma Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Louiseher step-brother, it's Louise we Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet firstNancy outside the court, through her narrationafter Martin receives a life sentence. SheThe barrister tells her that she's received a seventeen year old, telling us 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, anything but will have to live with what happened for the sight rest of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companylife. She lives at home with Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from 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 papers are making the most of an American NATO worker and his wifeit. Impulsively, she asks to be their maid – ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy home'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence Block1529413680|title=Sinner ManA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everybody has 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 start somewheresee the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence BlockKerquelin, you may no longer be able to find the beginningman playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. His first crime publication came Luckily, his doctor is there and went the man is whisked away in the early 60s a helicopter. A local doctor (and fifty years later friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he did not have 's a copy as senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the book had been published under an alias with a different title unknown to himmilitary has stepped in. In 2016 that book has surfaced One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in the form with some of ''Sinner Man'' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writerher father's early books; murder, dubious characters and friends for a bit of pulp naughtinesspre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1529196388|title=Ink and Bone|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychic. Sensitive to the unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the dead. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestow. But life is not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Trial|author=M C Beaton|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be Grant Cliveden was a hero: a haven of peace policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and tranquilitylooked up to by just about everyone, but so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's surprising how often the reverse proves to be the case. The villagers of Carsley are up not too long before Knight appears in arms because Lord Bellington has said that hecourt, charged with Cliveden's going to sell off murder. Knight was told that the allotments best barrister for a new housing development. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry him was Jonathan Taylor- Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and thereit's no shortage of suspects eitherTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Lord BellingtonKnight's sondetermined to plead not guilty, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin and her detective agency despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to discover who murdered his fatherthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>
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