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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Mcdonald1786482126|title=SnatchThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
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|summary=It's not often that you get two books for Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the price of one, but if you are site was going to see this anywhere it will likely be in a reissue. Taking hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the back catalogue bones of an author and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories is child beneath a great way of reusing stock that you already havedoorway. There was no skull. Hard Case Crime have done Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with two books by DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'Fletch'' author Gregory Mcdonaldt, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Surely two books that centre on kidnapping by the same author would Her condition will be similar enough obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to be placed together? Think againsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=The PledgeNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerland, a girl has been murdered and left It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to see in a forestapproach the police. The police come, Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and soon find out who he's prepared to tell the villagers already think is police where the sole suspect – body of a man known missing person is buried and who was responsible for illegal liaisons with young girlsher death. They haveThis person, in facthe 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 put a compelling case against lynch mob rule just serve the remainder of his sentence and to get him back for investigationan early parole date. He does confessNot much to ask, after a lengthy process – is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and then hangs himself. But the leader of the investigation, she's even while walking across the airstrip prepared to do the plane waiting to take other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him to a different job elsewhere, is determined to follow up on the promise he made to the girlkept well away from what's parents, to make the guilty person face justicehappening. It's a promise, however, with far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat0008405026|title= Kill A Stranger in the Next OneFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico AxatIt's ''Kill the Next One'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middle-aged man with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a bysixteen years since nine-theyear-numbers thrillerold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around She was never found and the edges of the pageinvestigation ground to a halt. The novel opens with Ted McKay Now, her mother, Helena, and his Browning pointed to his templeher father are dead in their bed. He has the perfect life Initially, including it looks like a beautiful wife and two adoring children, straightforward murder/suicide but has discovered there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he is also in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. However, right before he decides What looked as though it was going to take the shot be an open-and end his life, there -shut case is now a knock on his doorcomplex double murder. Standing behind it Kerrigan is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an all-knowing organisation convinced that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of the law. Tedexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves itUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid0571379877|title=Out of BoundsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Edward Jevons is a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and ended up in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection to an unsolved murder from years before his birthStanza. On the face of it, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforward, but itRobert's nota theatre director. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but in this case it looks as though the He''law'' itself might prove s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be an insurmountable barrierrun errands for him. SheEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drawn drunkenly confided how he feels to another case too - one which she really has no business investigating - and one which has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades earlierRobert. Like the case of the teenage joyrider ''nothingMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' s not like most men: Edward is quite as it seemsleft to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela MarsonsJo Callaghan|title=Evil Games (D I Kim Stone)Leave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Ruth saw a man is found crucified on the man who had raped her coming out top of a local pub she was traumatisedhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. HeIt'd served his time (albeit it was rather short) and now he was free - and she was frighteneds their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The rapist was murdered and DI Kim Stone But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and her team were called upon to solve the killing - and quickly. There ''was'' a little bit of a feeling very high profile case that the man had got what was coming to him and didn't deserve draws a lot of sympathy, but professionalism won the dayunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Then more revenge killings came Will they be able to light solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and it was obvious to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happening., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1035021803|title=The Trophy ChildAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt've all encountered pushy mothers - the ones who seem determined not s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to let their children have a moment's peace between all the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged for themEnglish country village where she grew up. Karen Bloom is in She's back now because of a different class thoughrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Her sonFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, EwanArthur Crockleford, was something of a disappointmentis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, but she's not going to allow that to happen to her daughter, say the talented Bronteleast. There's Arthur was the reason why Freya had not a moment been back to spare between the music lessonsvillage: Arthur, she feels, dance classes and extra school work - sometimes let her down badly. Even though they have were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to eat on be near the man or pursue the hoof from one lesson to anotherprofession she loved. The rest of After the family can see split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the cost to Bronte and to rebound from the family as a wholelove of her life, but Karen will not listen, will not change her ways. Then one day Bronte disappearswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1398524085|title=Extreme PreyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Crime |summary=Making a long running series evolve organically is a very tricky business; a character that has been around for 26 booksCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and nearly as many yearsher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not going to be the same person that started out. Age catches up with us all Shortly afterwards, Etty and many crime writer have come up against Greg, find the problem body of retirement; not their ownGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, but in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that of their characterDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Why is a 70 year old still out chasing criminals The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and shooting things? Lucas Davenport is a character who has always been a maverick, doing wonder about what he wants, therefore quitting the police was never going to stop himreally happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Dickinson1529900360|title=The Ad ManGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tim Collinwood is single It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and soeven after Alex recovered, working in Morocco as an advertising creative, he's free Sturgis was reluctant to enjoy all ask for his host country has to offer: the expense accounts, the opulence help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the womenhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Then Finally, it happenswas Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. He gets She knew that the involvement was something that the contract of his lifeman she loved needed. He just needs to create a PR campaign that will reassure Morocco that French business has her best interests at heartThe next case did look simple, though. The truth may be otherwise but creating Two lovers were murdered in the façade is what advertising is aboutswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Perhaps Tim should have noticed that there are clues from He was the beginning as heir to how shady this job an Italian shoe empire and she is, including needing married to work under an assumed identityextremely rich man and it's not the Italian. However, But which of them was the secrecy becomes a side issue as something more important takes Tim's concentration: survival for him and those around him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)178763681X|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Strange things are happening, as they are most wont to do, Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in rural IcelandBelgravia. In He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a very remote fjordside community in the NW a passing visitor has left the legacy way of a dangerous African virus, which has claimed two livesgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow''s becoming national news, to got the extent impression that a TV journalist is in touch for updates. The community only has two policemen, trying to man their station round he'd be at the clock between them school to make sure instant responses are possible. But one of them has also been asked to look into a mysterious cold case from the 1950s, when a lady died from poisoning – and that in a community of only four adults and a baby. – Or was it five and a babyassist Paul, as who had a newly-found photograph suggests? Elsewhere, in Reykjavikbroken arm, a young couple are troubled by an intruder – but that wonit didn't have any connection to the other cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A L Gaylin|title= What Remains of Me|rating= 4turn out that way.5|genre= Crime|summary= On the hottest night of the year, June 28, 1980 teenager Kelly Lund walked into a wrap party The teaching - and shot the director, John McFadden deadproblems - are all his own. Two to the chest, The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to the head, turn up dead and centre. She offered no defenceUnfortunately, though her attorneys played up her drug use he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the heat but she still got 25-police consider that person to-life. A journalist saw something in her nervous smile on be the court steps, part of her defence mechanism others might have argued, called it the Mona Lisa Death Smile and set about building a demonprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784756180</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529421284|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Initially it looked like It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a robbery gone wronggully, or possibly a carjack, only human skeleton came to the car was still there surface and so was forensic testing proved the expensive watch and the jewellrybody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Her wallet hadn't been taken either, but sheHe'd been killed by a single, precise stab to the heart. There was no sign of anger: in fact there seemed to be a complete lack emotion known drug user and there was nothing to suggest that the victim had attracted the violence - she was learning disabilities, so it could have been a caring mother and dedicated social worker. D I Kim Stone simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't alone in thinking that something didn't add upconvinced. Then Geary was a local drug addict townie, so what was found with an identical wound. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There's nothing are connections to link the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two cases other than deaths which were not considered suspicious at the wounds time. Lockyer and StoneDC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's instinctscold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529425867|title=Lost Girls and Never Found (A D I Kim StoneWilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=Charlotte In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Amy were best friends: they seemed to do everything together always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and the trip to the swimming pool was no differentfather of Ryan, is not. It was all carefully planned - they were to stay in the building until one He's not any of the parents arrived to pick them upthose things. OnlyHe's white, originated from a trailer park, it didnbarely educated (reading's not ''really't work out like that: the mother's car was disabled his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and before the pick up time both parents had received a text message to say that the girls had been abductedtrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. It would get worse too - the next communication would tell them that they would have You might wonder if you're being introduced to bid a police procedural written for the life of their childlaughs. Well, you're not. The parents who bid two men are just different sides of the most would get their child backsame policing coin. The other would not returnSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. It sounds unbelievable, but Sometimes it had happened before. One child was released, but not even the body of the other child had been found's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1529431735|title=FinisterreThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54
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|summary=The Second World War It's February 1991 and Essex is almost lost but in a lastbitingly cold, desperate roll of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the dice the German High command launch Operation Finisterremore surprising. In America He'd been exiled on the apparent suicide of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a scientist working on the atom bomb and off the coast of Spain the shipwreck of decade. The return has come about because he's had a German submarineletter from his ex-wife, become catalysts as the plans spiral out of control, leading saying that she's ill and hasn't long to a shattering climaxlive. It'Finisterre' s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is a crime thriller packed with gritabducted, suspense stripped to his underwear and stylesent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste0861541774|title=Then She Was GoneA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tim Johnson took his baby daughter out one day DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the course of their walk he was attacked and the baby was stolenSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. But there Maik was involved in a problem: only Tim seemed to believe street brawl - he would later maintain that there ''he was'' facing a man armed with a baby knife - and the police were convinced he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that there was an entirely different crime and suggested that Johnson was their only suspecthe might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. He went Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to prison help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and was largely forgotten aboutwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Douglas1521129886|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>}}{{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Steven Burgauer|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the BayouKeith Redfern|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=A sudden death in New OrleansGreg Mason' red light district, s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the invention of point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a more effective US military landing craft with good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a big future, a crime family with links back to occupied Sicily baby and two Germans lurking suspiciously they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in America-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's southern statesconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. All these are connected andLucy, he says, as World War II hots up across a fortnight is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in 1942his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the links become more obvious as well as more dangerousnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves Responsibilities (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=Death Going DownAnn Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a strange time, high-flying job in the years after World War Twocity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', Buenos Aires is a strange city – peopled by her native residentsyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, and many who fled but where's the European theatre of war. life experience that backs up this profession? And in a building that houses some of On the more strange examples of those people on six levels of large apartmentsother hand, he has been asked to look into something strange happens – one of them struggles home the worse for drink late one night . Joyce and finds the lift descend to fetch him to his doorHelen are half-sisters, or rather, but carrying a blonde womanthey were until Helen was killed in what's corpsebeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. A resident doctor soon turns up too, Joyce - and the pair kicks into action the police investigation into her presenceparents, which soon seems Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to point to suicidefall in front of a train. This not being in a genre called suicide mystery, however, we know differently – but will certainly have to wait Greg's been asked to piece the whole story togetherinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1838954481|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'' 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>}}{{newreviewMisper|author=Colin Farrington|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryKate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=2014Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: 50 years since William Gilbeythere's father Herbert was hanged for murderno doubt about that. This anniversary is different from those in He was the fifteen-year-old holding the past in that gun and pointing it's given William at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the impetus trigger but due to go and find out more about two mystifying parts the vagaries of his father's history. Firstly the oddity jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder: why randomly kill two women in and the manslaughter of the street in daylight? officer. Secondly, when William was a child, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIAnd so lives must go on. There's nothing For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the history books so did this actually happen? This countryside but when a missing teenager is definitely found on her territory she's drawn into a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselfwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1448309743|title=Gathering PreyThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Any fan In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a long running series will dread the book that falls off the cliffwealthy family are found murdered. This The only item missing from the home is the story Devil Stone: myth says that just does not make senseif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, or is so reminiscent of previous outings that it may as well not existdeath will follow. With 24 titles already written about Lucas DavenportThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, the that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Preydiscovered'' series by John Sandford the body. The Senior Investigating Office is overdue thisDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but will DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'Gathering Prey'' be the moment that the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner1529077699|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 for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Mercy KillingAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided that they would stage ''AnnieIt's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and involve children from dead, in a local school small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophilevillage of Greystone, in Devon. A local widow with two young children Rosco had started the status of a tentative relationship with himnational treasure: she terminated a renowned adventurer, round the relationship world sailor and the amdrams told him that he was no longer a memberall round ''celebrity''. It was bad enoughI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, but deserved - then someone else took the law into their own hands and decided that the world would he could be more than a better place without Albie Woodville in itlittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. He was brutally murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529427045|title= Night SchoolThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in time. Reacher is still an US Army MP. ''In Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the morning they gave Reacher a medalsmall town of Gasskas, and in where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the afternoon they sent him back to school.'' The medal was area have sparked a Legion of Meritgold rush. Not his first, probably The criminal underworld has not his last, just another bauble to recognise what he'd done for his country and a plea for him not to talk about itbeen slow in coming forward. The Salander'its niece' in this case was some police work, s mother is the latest woman in the Balkans, and a couple of shootingsarea to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'Two weeks s unaware of his life. Four rounds expendedthe part Salander played in her father's death. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1787636607|title=Rather be the DevilThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's forty years since Maria Turquand was murdereda scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. She was beautiful, Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a bright light way to get home. Some are lucky and promiscuous - and she was strangled in Edinburgh's Caledonian Hotel on manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying therewill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Her killer was never found: itThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem's been preying on John Rebus, particularly in the light of ' mind and it comes into conversation on the night that Rebus and his lady friend are dining at missing women'. For one young woman, the Galvin Brasserie at final stop on the Callybus leaves her a long way short of her home. ItShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's better than thinking about dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his health: he. There's got COPD no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and there's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about itin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley1405957174|title= ShootA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writersFrom the first page, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with uswe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The result victim - a man - is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to come has call the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewambulance he so desperately needs. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnWhat we don't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" know is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and who the man is writing a weekly column for anotheror why Nadine prefers to have him die. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column d better give you a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherdlittle more background so that you can understand what'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 stuffhappening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante0008530025|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Coming to It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the end body of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work stepfather, Luke Ryder, in CID, only therethe garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's some resistanced slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. ItTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's never now the subject of ''quiteInfamous'' said, but you have a suspicion that it might come down to the fact that she's a womantrue-crime show. But being female A group of experts has its advantages when a decoy is needed been brought together to entrap a man who has been attacking women review the evidence and Tennison finds herself walking to take the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coatinvestigation further. She is attacked and only just rescued in timeMore to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and a frightno shortage of cliffhangers. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for the rape of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>'s compelling viewing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair0241996104|title= Chain of CustodyComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= After the success of Nancy''A Cuts mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-like Wound'' brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. published in We first meet Nancy outside the UK in 2014court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'Chain of Custodysilent sentence'- she' sees s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the return rest of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) policeher life. Of course, called in when an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home in a prestigious it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and well-guarded gated communitythe papers are making the most of it. However, that ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is the prologue jumping ahead of the story – as one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is the current vogueundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1529413680|title=The Loving HusbandA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first rule One of Super Injunctions the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is that you donthe re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno't talk about Super Injunctionss there to see the show with some friends. These powerful legalese prevent It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the likes man playing one of youthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, me his doctor is there and the papers talking about certain storiesman is whisked away in a helicopter. The rich, powerful A local doctor (and meaningless use them to stop the type friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of tittle tattle that fuels survival but - as he's a million conversations at worksenior government employee, but what do you do if you are not richthe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, powerful or meaningless enough to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises lives in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529196388|title=NutshellThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in Grant Cliveden was a hero: a large policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and valuable London homelooked up to by just about everyone, she is heavily pregnant, and so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and publisher Johnit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for someone completely different, namely Claudehim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, a nastyAdam Green, brutish and short typewho eventually represent him. 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 sheKnight's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else determined to do but kick here and thereplead not guilty, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>the contrary.
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