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|title=The Chalk Pit (Dr Ruth Galloway)|rating=4.5

|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich is - apparently the site was going to hold seventy- riddled with tunnels, many dating back to five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the time when chalk bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was mined thereno skull. When bones are discovered in one of the tunnels it seems obvious that they've been there for hundreds of yearsWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, isn't so certainfinds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The colour It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't look right and , that she has is pregnant with his child as a suspicion that result of the bones have been boiled: one night they've also not been there that longspent together some three months ago. DCI Harry Nelson has a murder case on his hands. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is investigating the disappearance prone to sudden bouts of a local rough sleeper and there's not a lot to go on other than the rumour that she's 'gone underground', but what, exactly, does that mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>sickness.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen0008551324|title= DarktownThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta, GeorgiaIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. The Deep SouthNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. This But Davie Hardie is country that fought struggling in prison and he's prepared to keep tell the police where the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion body of segregation as the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system of governance of all missing person is buried and who was responsible for her peopledeath. That's a history that today's southerners are variously proud or ashamed ofThis person, he promises, or choose is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to ignore, or hope be transferred to forget, or continue an open prison to strive against. Variously, because people are also individuals serve the remainder of his sentence and we all hold to our own view of what is rightget an early parole date. For many of usNot much to ask, what is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'right'' is sometimes hard s even prepared to draw do the lines around…but other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what is ''wrong'' is much more clear-cuts happening. Divisions based on skin colour, or race, or creed are wrong. No two ways about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susanna Beard0008405026|title= Dare to RememberA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Lisa FulbrookIt's best friend is dead – sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the victim of investigation ground to a brutal attack who fell to halt. Now, her death from mother, Helena, and her own apartment windowfather are dead in their bed. Lisa was there Initially, she too was it looks like a victim straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the attack bodies that killed makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her best friend, boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and she -shut case is left with the physical and emotional scars to prove it. Traumatised by the events, Lisa flees to now a country village to help settle her frightened mindcomplex double murder. But what happened Kerrigan is convinced that night still torments her; she is plagued by vicious flashbacks and questions surrounding why she and her best friend Ali were targeted, because the one thing Lisa does know is that she canexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't remember what really happened that fateful nights boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harry Brett0571379877|title= Time To Win|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary= I have no idea what Great Yarmouth has ever done to Harry Brett, but, boy, is he getting his own back! Now personally, I don't much like the town, and I know it has its seedy side, like most places, but I can't believe it's quite this bad. According to Brett, the weather's as dreary as the down'n'outs, the streets are grim, and the people worse. He makes the point that no-one comes to Yarmouth for their summer holidays anymore…if that wasn't true before this book, it's likely to be so afterwards. If a place could sue for defamation of character, the town would want to. The opening shot is of Richard Goodwin going down into the murky waters of the Yare out back of his office. Goodwin was not a good person... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147215262X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKellerby Code|author=Gregory Mcdonald|title=SnatchJonny Sweet

|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's not often that you get two books for the price of one, but if you are going to see this anywhere it will likely be in a reissuetheatre director. Taking the back catalogue of an author He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already haveuses Edward to run errands for him. Hard Case Crime have done this Edward has been in love with two books by Stanza since their university days - and he''Fletch'' author Gregory Mcdonalds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Surely two books Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that centre on kidnapping by a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? Think againtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=The PledgeLeave No Trace

|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerland, When a girl has been murdered and left for anyone to see in a forest. The police come, and soon find out who the villagers already think man is found crucified on the sole suspect – top of a man known for illegal liaisons with young girls. They have, hill in factNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to put a compelling the case against lynch mob rule just to get him back for investigationalongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He does confessIt's their first live case together, after a lengthy process – and then hangs himselfhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But the leader of the investigation, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to when there is a second body found crucified a different job elsewherefew days later, Kat is determined suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to follow up on the promise he made their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the girl's parentscase in time, to make or will Kat find herself taken off the guilty person face justice. It's a promisecase and, howeverpotentially, with far-reaching consequences…out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1035021803|title= Kill the Next OneThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= After getting started with It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the opening chapters English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Spanish writera request for help from her beloved aunt, Federico AxatCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole''Kill s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the Next One''circumstances seem suspicious, 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 by-say the-numbers thrillerleast. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around Arthur was the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed reason why Freya had not been back to his temple. He has the perfect lifevillage: Arthur, including a beautiful wife and two adoring childrenshe feels, but has discovered that he is also let her down badly. Even though they were in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. Howeverbusiness together as antique hunters, right before he decides she has not felt able to take be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the shot and end his lifesplit, there is she worked in a knock cafe, met and married James (on his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of rebound from the law. Ted, instead love of killing himselfher life, could kill someone who really deserves itwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1398524085|title=Out of BoundsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=When a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car and ended Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection to an unsolved murder from years before his birth. On the face of itHer children, sons Niall, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforwardPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but it- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's notfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is It was an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but in this case it looks as though easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn''law'' itself might prove to be an insurmountable barriert stand the guilt. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's drawn to another case too - one which she little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really has no business investigating - and one which has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades earlier. Like the case of the teenage joyrider ''nothing'' is quite as it seemshappened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529900360|title=Evil Games (D I Kim Stone)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=When Ruth saw 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 man who had raped her coming out help of a local pub she was traumatisedpsychologist only worked for a while. He'd served his time (albeit Finally, it was rather short) and now he Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was free - and something that the man she was frightenedloved needed. The rapist was next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered and DI Kim Stone and her team were called upon to solve in the killing - and quicklyswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. There ''He was'' a little bit of a feeling that the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man had got what was coming to him and didnit't deserve a lot of sympathy, but professionalism won s not the dayItalian. Then more revenge killings came to light and it But which of them was obvious to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula Daly|title=The Trophy Child|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=We've all encountered pushy mothers - the ones who seem determined not to let their children have a moment's peace between all the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged for them. Karen Bloom is in a different class though. Her son, Ewan, was something of a disappointment, but she's not going to allow that to happen to her daughter, the talented Bronte. There's not a moment to spare between the music lessons, dance classes and extra school work - sometimes they have to eat on the hoof from one lesson to another. The rest of the family can see the cost to Bronte and to the family as a whole, but Karen will not listen, will not change her ways. Then one day Bronte disappears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=John Sandford178763681X|title=Extreme Prey|rating=5|genre=Crime |summary=Making a long running series evolve organically is a very tricky business; a character that has been around Knife Skills for 26 books, and nearly as many years, is not going to be the same person that started out. Age catches up with us all and many crime writer have come up against the problem of retirement; not their own, but that of their character. Why is a 70 year old still out chasing criminals and shooting things? Lucas Davenport is a character who has always been a maverick, doing what he wants, therefore quitting the police was never going to stop him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Timothy Dickinson|title=The Ad ManOrlando Murrin

|summary=Tim Collinwood is single and so, working Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Morocco as an advertising creative, heBelgravia. He didn's free t really want to enjoy all his host country has to offer: the expense accounts, the opulence but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and the womento do what he wanted. Then it happens. He gets Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the contract of his life. He just needs school to create assist Paul, who had a PR campaign broken arm, but it didn't turn out that will reassure Morocco that French business has her best interests at heartway. The truth may be otherwise but creating teaching - and the façade is what advertising is aboutproblems - are all his own. Perhaps Tim should have noticed that there are clues from the beginning as The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to how shady this job is, including needing to work under an assumed identityturn up dead. HoweverUnfortunately, he was the secrecy becomes a side issue as something more important takes Tim's concentration: survival for him person who discovered the body and those around himeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)1529421284|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=Strange things are happening, as they are most wont to do, It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in rural Icelanda heatwave. In a very remote fjordside community in gully, a human skeleton came to the NW a passing visitor has left surface and forensic testing proved the legacy of a dangerous African virusbody to be Lee Geary, which has claimed two liveswho had disappeared nine years earlier. ItHe's becoming national news, to the extent that d been a TV journalist is in touch for updates. The community only has two policemenknown drug user and had learning disabilities, trying to man their station round the clock between them to make sure instant responses are possible. But one of them has also so it could have been asked to look into a mysterious cold simple case from the 1950s, when a lady died from poisoning – and that in a community of only four adults and a babymisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. – Or Geary was it five and a babytownie, as a newly-found photograph suggestsso what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Elsewhere, in Reykjavik, a young couple There are troubled by an intruder – but that won't have any connection connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>to you and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A L Gaylin1529425867|title= What Remains of Me|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= On the hottest night of the year, June 28, 1980 teenager Kelly Lund walked into a wrap party Lost 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. Never Found (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>}}{{newreviewD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Angela Marsons|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)Simon Mason

|summary=Initially it looked like a robbery gone wrongIn Oxford, or possibly a carjackthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, only the car was still there Balliol educated and so was the expensive watch and the jewellryalways exquisitely dressed. Her wallet hadn't been taken eitherD I Ryan Wilkins, but she'd been killed by a singleson of Ryan and father of Ryan, precise stab to the heartis not. There was no sign He's not any of anger: in fact there seemed to be those things. He's white, originated from a complete lack emotion trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and there was nothing to suggest that the victim had attracted the violence - she was a caring mother his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and dedicated social workertrackies. D I Kim Stone wasnThey't alone re usually in thinking that something didn't add uplime green or acid yellow. Then You might wonder if you're being introduced to a local drug addict was found with an identical woundpolice procedural written for laughs. ThereWell, you's nothing to link re not. The two men are just different sides of the two cases other than same policing coin. Sometimes the wounds and Stonecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's instinctsproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529431735|title=Lost Girls (D I Kim Stone)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54

|summary=Charlotte and Amy were best friends: they seemed to do everything together It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the trip to the swimming pool was no differentmore surprising. It was all carefully planned - they were to stay in He'd been exiled on the building until one of the parents arrived to pick them upCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. OnlyThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, it didn't work out like saying that: the mothershe's car was disabled ill and before the pick up time both parents had received a text message hasn't long to say that the girls had been abductedlive. It would get worse too - the next communication would tell them that they would have 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to bid for a watery grave in the life boot of their childa stolen Ford Sierra. The parents who bid the most would get their child back. The other would not return. It sounds unbelievable, but Is it had happened before. One child was released, but not even the body of the other child had been found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley0861541774|title=FinisterreA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in a lastSingapore to meet up with an old ally, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation FinisterreGuy Trueman. In America the apparent suicide of Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a scientist working on the atom bomb knife - and off the coast of Spain the shipwreck of he killed a German submarineGhurka. Initially, become catalysts as the plans spiral out he faced a charge of control, leading manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to a shattering climaxmurder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. 'Finisterre' is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense diplomatic incident and stylewouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste1521129886|title=Then She Was GoneThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Tim Johnson took Greg Mason's just beginning to get his baby daughter out one day and in confidence as an investigator to the course of their walk point where he'll warn someone about how much he was attacked charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby was stolenwhen she gets past the morning sickness. But there was a problem: only Tim seemed Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to believe that there have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'was'' a baby s struggling to make ends meet and the police were her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that there was an entirely different crime Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that Johnson the death was their only suspect. He went suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to prison and was largely forgotten aboutfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim DouglasB0CK3MYJ56|title= Tokyo NightsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 54|genre= Crime |summary= Colin McCann, private detective, chronic smoker It's the 1990s and dog lover, is charged with solving Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the mysterious death of the young and beautiful daughter of city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a wealthy businessmanprivate investigator. The key facts 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this case apparently hinge on profession? On the testimony of Charlie Davisother hand, a ne'er do well dreamer with quick fists he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and a poetHelen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's heartbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The only problem is that Charlie Davis has disappeared Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and appears Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to be unwilling to disclose his part fall in these tragic eventsfront of a train. After some deliciously violent digging, McCann jets off Greg's been asked to Tokyo and here is where the fun really begins… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916191</amazonuk>investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Burgauer1838954481|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the BayouThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54

|summary=A sudden death in New OrleansRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there' red light district, s no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the invention gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of a more effective US military landing craft with a big future, a crime family with links back to occupied Sicily the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and two Germans lurking suspiciously in America's southern statesthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. All these are connected For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and, as World War II hots up across hoping for a fortnight quieter life in 1942, the links become more obvious as well as more dangerouscountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=Death Going DownCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54

|summary=In a strange time, 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 war. And in a building that houses some village of Cronchie on the more strange examples West coast of those people on six levels of large apartmentsScotland, something strange happens – one five members of them struggles home the worse for drink late one night and finds the lift descend to fetch him to his door, but carrying a blonde woman's corpsewealthy family are found murdered. A resident doctor soon turns up too, and The only item missing from the home is the pair kicks into action Devil Stone: myth says that if the police investigation into her presencestone is removed from Otterburn House, which soon seems to point to suicidedeath will follow. This not being The only suspects are known Satanists but in a genre called suicide mysterymany ways, howeverthat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, we know differently – but will certainly have DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to wait to piece the whole story together'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1529077699|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer Raging Storm (Under Suspicion 4Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen years ago''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, Casey Carter went 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 dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to prison for the murder village of her fiancée Hunter RaleighGreystone, in Devon. The evidence seemed indisputable; her fingerprints were on Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the gun that killed him world sailor and her skin tested positive for gunshot residueall round ''celebrity''. She I 'd been known to be argumentative and passionate, qualities that earned her the nickname 'nearly'Crazy Casey'said ' 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 round good egg'but as we'Under Suspicion'' team? After hearing her casell find out, Laurie promises to give her he could be more than a fair hearing on her TV show little bit close with money and reinvestigate the circumstances of Hunterhis background isn's deatht exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Farrington1529427045|title=Mr ChurchillThe Girl in the Eagle's Driver: A Murderer's StoryTalons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=2014: 50 years since William Gilbey's father Herbert was hanged 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for murder. This anniversary is different from those in the past in that itexample's given William the impetus to go and find out more about two mystifying parts of his father's history. Firstly  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the oddity small town of Gasskas, where the murder: why randomly kill two women in so-far-untapped natural resources of the street area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in daylight? 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 IIcoming forward. ThereSalander's niece's nothing mother is the latest woman in the history books so did this actually happen? area to have vanished without trace. This It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is definitely a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselfremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1787636607|title=Gathering PreyThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=Any fan It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a long running series will dread way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the book that falls off the clifffew taxis available. This is Others squash onto the story night bus that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent will only go as far as one of previous outings that it may as well not existthe outlying villages. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'Prey, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' series by John Sandford is overdue this. 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 collect her - but will her phone''Gathering Prey'' be s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the moment that chance to beg the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of bus driver to let her use his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner1405957174|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 A Death at 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>}}{{newreviewParty|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Mercy KillingAmy Stuart

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with From the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided first page, we know that they would stage Nadine Walsh''Annie'' and involve children from a local school the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophiles party will not end well. A local widow with two young children had started The victim - a tentative relationship with man - is dying when we first meet him: she terminated the relationship and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the amdrams told him that ambulance he was no longer a memberso desperately needs. It was bad enough, but deserved - then someone else took What we don't know is who the law into their own hands and decided that the world would be a better place without Albie Woodville in itman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. He was brutally murderedI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child0008530025|title= Night SchoolMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in timethe garden of their West London home. Reacher is still He had an US Army MP. injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he''In d slipped down the steps but the morning they gave Reacher a medalvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and in it's now the afternoon they sent him back to school.subject of ''Infamous'' The medal was , a Legion of Merittrue-crime show. Not his first, probably not his last, just another bauble A group of experts has been brought together to recognise what he'd done for his country review the evidence and a plea for him not to talk about ittake the investigation further. The More to the point, they'it' in re going to do this case was some police worklive on camera, in episode by episode. There's no dump of the Balkans, whole box set - and a couple no shortage of shootingscliffhangers. It''Two weeks of his lifes compelling viewing. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0241996104|title=Rather be the DevilComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=It's forty years since Maria Turquand was murdered. She was beautiful, a bright light and promiscuous 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 she was strangled in EdinburghBruno's Caledonian Hotel on there to see the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying thereshow with some friends. Her killer was never found: itIt's all been preying on John Rebus' mind and it comes into conversation on very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the night that Rebus script. Luckily, his doctor is there and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Callyman is whisked away in a helicopter. It's better than thinking A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his health: chances of survival but - as he's got COPD a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and thereanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about itfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley1529196388|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrial|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Coming to the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that she would like was good and honest and looked up to work in CIDby just about everyone, only so there's some resistancewas public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. ItThere's never just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it''quite'' saids not too long before Knight appears in court, but you have a suspicion that it might come down to the fact that shecharged with Cliveden's a womanmurder. 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 Knight was told that the local park area dressed up like a prostitute best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and wearing a blue rabbitit's Taylor-skin coat. She is attacked Cameron and only just rescued in timehis pupil, Adam Green, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and a frightwho eventually represent him. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking womenKnight's determined to plead not guilty, but is he also responsible for despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the rape of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>contrary.