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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1786482126|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out of ninetyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five diverse comic strip stories, 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the publication bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksa ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mindIt's difficult as Ruth knows, and of course with her Williebut Nelson doesn't, this that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the last-but-one chance for you to do sonight they spent together some three months ago. And if you have any interest in quick little action talesHer condition will be obvious before long, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford0008551324|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary=In It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan police. Neither side likes or has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesany respect for the other. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at CambridgeBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Addenbrooke's Hospital prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who hosts a popular medical television programmewas responsible for her death. This person, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servanthe promises, Aurorais someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. According And what he wants is to be transferred to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient open prison to serve the remainder of his at the hospitalsentence and to get an early parole date. George agrees Not much to look into the theftask, assuming is it will be a relatively easy ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and straightforward case – little does he know, heshe's about even prepared to enter a world of deceit do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and dysfunctionanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick0008405026|title=Well of A Stranger in the Winds Family (DCI DaleyMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=It's not sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a happy time for DCI Jim Daleyhalt. The woman he loved is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with LizNow, her mother, his ex wifeHelena, and his young son is deteriorating by the dayher father are dead in their bed. HeInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's finding solace in something about the bottom positioning of a glass, whilst the man who used to do bodies that all too often, his friend makes DS Brian Scott Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is off alcohol completely and has found exercisenow a complex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's a new officer in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and whilst she might look young, itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's unlikely that she got to that position without having a core of steelboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)0571379877|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenario: Edward Jevons is a policeman hears someone screaming working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and runs to Stanza. Robert's a house on a particular streettheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, number 13demanding, from where the noise is emanatinghandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. When Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he peeps through the letterbox 's drunkenly confided how he discovers a dead man feels to Robert. Most men in the hallway with Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a knife in his throat. He goes relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to fetch help, but stumble upon returning, finds that the street does not have two of them kissing in a number 13 and that the body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished..dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Irvine WelshJo Callaghan|title= The Blade ArtistLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= Crime |summary=So. In When a man is found crucified on the interest top of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbiehill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the notoriously violentcase alongside her sidekick, terrifying protector/tormentor of the Trainspotting gangAI detective Lock. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased review It's their first live case together, it does mean you will get having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a passionate one. It few days later, Kat is fair to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist'' suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and my only critique would be a very high profile case that it was over too quicklydraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. For those of you who may not Will they be familiar with Welsh's earlier manifestations have no fearable to solve the case in time, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' or will Kat find herself taken off the case and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, fatherpotentially, husband and elegant thug. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into the world out of a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence and blood.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Ould1035021803|title= The Killing BayAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= Between It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Scando-noir English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the Highlands-and-Islands crimecircumstances seem suspicious, it to say the least. Arthur was only a matter of time until a series featuring a life-weary detective the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. set Even though they were in Greenland, Icelandbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or thereabouts appearedpursue the profession she loved. And here we are After the split, with she worked in a series based in cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the Faroeslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Bolton1398524085|title=The PicturesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=ItCharlotte 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 - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the spring body of 1939: in Hollywood Greg''The Wizard of Oz'' is s father, Duncan Ackerley, in production at MGM and it's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for the actors or the studioriver. The It was an easy assumption for the police department recognises that it's good for Hollywood to make that all goes smoothly Duncan had murdered Charlie and itthen committed suicide when he couldn's Detective Jonathan Crane's job to see that the crimes and misdemeanours of t stand the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetguilt. The studio rewards him handsomely for this and Salter children are not convinced but there's perhaps a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Craine's got it easy else they can do but get on with their lives and wouldn't know how to investigate a case if it came up and slapped him, but in Craine's mind all that's going to changewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza1529900360|title= The Acid TestGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo is dead. Murdered in cold blood in a desolate, dusty field by the side of the road. Once the most adored, celebrated dancer at the local strip club, she It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had a collection of rich been badly injured but he felt responsible and powerful admirers but who amongst them even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was deluded reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to -shut cases which didn't need the deaths help of various associatesa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''The Acid Test''it was Robin, following on from MendozaDelaware's first novel ''Silver Bullets''partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. I haven't read She knew that the first instalment of this series and don't believe involvement was something that had any impact on this storythe man she loved needed. Lefty has a personal connection to the The next casedid look simple, forever haunted by though. Two lovers were murdered in the memories swimming pool of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents an Italian shoe empire and his consuming desire she is married to avenge her death to track down this violent an extremely rich man and deranged killerit's not the Italian. Along the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos But which erupt in explosive levels of violence, meet a host of damaged, humorous and violent residents of Culiacán and follow Lefty on a trail of destruction, death and disorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Farris Smith178763681X|title= Desperation RoadKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Maben is on the runChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. For He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a long while it's not clear whether she's running from something or towards something, or simply back way of getting both men and women to where it all starteddo what he wanted. ShePaul ''somehow''s got her small daughter with herthe impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, and they've been walking for who had a very long time. It's hard on the childbroken arm, but itdidn's also clear t turn out that if it wasnway. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the child Maben would stop running, body and it's clear everyone knows that the police consider that would not person to be a good thingthe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Savile1529421284|title=Parallel LinesLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=Books are full It was one of coincidences, because if they were not, they would be pretty dull. The action takes place during an extraordinary timescale of the characters – those flash downpours that the time they were involved British weather often delivers in a bank robbery, or their loved one was murderedheatwave. People are more likely In a gully, a human skeleton came to read this type of book than one about the time they picked out their new curtains. For surface and forensic testing proved the intrigue to happen, links between characters have body to be madeLee Geary, but balancing coincidence is trickywho had disappeared nine years earlier. Too little He'd been a known drug user and the characters donhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't gelconvinced. Geary was a townie, too much so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and you start to think two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the book is supernaturaltime. Did Steven Savile get Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the balance right in Major Crimes Review Unit (that''Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>s cold cases to you and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hilary1529425867|title=Quieter than Killing Lost and Never Found (A D I Marnie Rome 4Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=The attacks all seemed to be quite randomIn Oxford, but the nights were darkthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. the weather freezing and D I Marnie Rome Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and DS Noah Jake were spending quite a lot father of time on the streets of LondonRyan, is not. Then MarnieHe's family home was ransacked and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on the order not any of someone) who knew herthose things. Normally Commander Welland would have been able to give Marnie He's white, originated from a degree trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of protection - he knew her history all too well - but his cancer had returned shell suits and he was going to be away for four monthstrackies. His stand-in was nowhere near as understanding They're usually in this lime green or other mattersacid yellow. Then it was established that You might wonder if you're being introduced to a child was missing - had been missing police procedural written for ten weeks - but no one had reported laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sam Blake1529431735|title= Little BonesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= It was 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a fairly ordinary break inwanted drug smuggler for a decade. A young artistThe return has come about because he's home had been given a going overletter from his ex-wife, but it was hard to see saying that much had been taken. There were suspicions that it might have been one of the usual suspects, only the shoes werenshe's ill and hasn't as they'd have expected to find them if that was long to be the caselive. Something else was not as you might expect It's hard to find it: a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by the look of itfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the hem, stitched in there, tiny bonesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Human bones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elly Griffiths0861541774|title=The Chalk Pit (Dr Ruth Galloway)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Norwich is - apparently - riddled DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with tunnelsan old ally, many dating back to the time when chalk was mined thereGuy Trueman. When bones are discovered Maik was involved in one of the tunnels it seems obvious a street brawl - he would later maintain that they've been there for hundreds of years, but Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, isn't so certainhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. The colour doesn't look right and she has Initially, he faced a suspicion charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the bones have been boiled: they've also not been there that longman. DCI Harry Nelson has a murder case on his handsNow he could be facing the death penalty. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a local rough sleeper diplomatic incident and therewouldn'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>t help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1521129886|title= Darktown|rating= 5|genre= Crime They Had It Coming (HistoricalGreg Mason mysteries)|summary= Atlanta, Georgia. The Deep South. This is country that fought to keep the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion of segregation as the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system of governance of all her people. That's a history that today's southerners are variously proud or ashamed of, or choose to ignore, or hope to forget, or continue to strive against. Variously, because people are also individuals and we all hold to our own view of what is right. For many of us, what is ''right'' is sometimes hard to draw the lines around…but what is ''wrong'' is much more clear-cut. Divisions based on skin colour, or race, or creed are wrong. No two ways about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Susanna Beard|title= Dare to RememberKeith Redfern|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Lisa Fulbrook's best friend is dead – the victim of a brutal attack who fell to her death from her own apartment window. Lisa was there, she too was a victim of the attack that killed her best friend, and she is left with the physical and emotional scars to prove it. Traumatised by the events, Lisa flees to a country village to help settle her frightened mind. But what happened 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 can't remember what really happened that fateful night. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Harry Brett|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>}}{{newreview|author=Gregory Mcdonald|title=Snatch|rating=3.5

|summary=ItGreg Mason's not often that you just beginning to get two books for his confidence as an investigator to the price of one, but if you are going to see this anywhere it point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will likely be in soon have a reissuebaby and they're both delighted. Taking Joyce will be more delighted about the back catalogue of baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an author old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories her son is a great way of reusing stock that you already havenot thriving. Hard Case Crime Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have done this with two books by killed himself - it simply wasn''Fletch'' author Gregory Mcdonaldt in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Surely two books that centre but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on kidnapping by the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? Think againnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee Responsibilities (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=The PledgeAnn Macarthur

|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerland, a girl has been murdered It's the 1990s and left for anyone Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to see have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a forestprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. The police comeNice bloke, and soon find out who but where's the villagers already think is life experience that backs up this profession? On the sole suspect – a man known for illegal liaisons with young girls. They haveother hand, in fact, to put a compelling case against lynch mob rule just he has been asked to get him back for investigationlook into something. He does confess, after a lengthy process – Joyce and then hangs himself. But the leader of the investigationHelen are half-sisters, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to a different job elsewhereor rather, is determined to follow up on the promise he made to the girlthey were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to make the guilty person face justicefall in front of a train. ItGreg's a promise, however, with far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>been asked to investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1838954481|title= Kill the Next One|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat'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 by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect life, including a beautiful wife and two adoring children, but has discovered that he is also in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. However, right before he decides to take the shot and end his life, there is a knock 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 the law. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMisper|author=Val McDermid|title=Out of BoundsKate London|rating=54

|summary=When Ryan Kennedy killed a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and ended up in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection to an unsolved murder from years before his birthpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. On He pulled the face trigger but due to the vagaries of it, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforward, but it's jury system he was found notguilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in this case it looks as though the ''law'' itself might prove to be an insurmountable barrier. Shecountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn to another case too - one which she really has no business investigating into a wider investigation - and one which has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades earlier. Like back into the case orbit of the teenage joyrider ''nothing'' is quite as it seemsRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1448309743|title=Evil Games The Devil Stone (D I Kim StoneDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=When Ruth saw In the man who had raped her coming out village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a local pub she was traumatised. He'd served his time (albeit it was rather short) and now he was free - and she was frightenedwealthy family are found murdered. The rapist was murdered and DI Kim only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone and her team were called upon to solve : myth says that if the killing - and quicklystone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. There The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'wasdiscovered'' a little bit of a feeling that the man had got what was coming body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him and didn't deserve a lot of sympathy, but professionalism won the day. Then more revenge killings came to light and it was obvious to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1529077699|title=The Trophy ChildRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=We've all encountered pushy mothers - the ones who seem determined not to let their children have a moment'It's peace between all the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged for thembloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Karen Bloom is Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a different class though. Her sonmonth and then turned up, Ewannaked and dead, was something of in a disappointmentsmall boat, but she's not going anchored in Scully Cove close to allow that to happen to her daughterthe village of Greystone, the talented Brontein Devon. There's not Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a moment to spare between renowned adventurer, round the music lessons, dance classes world sailor and extra school work - sometimes they have to eat on the hoof from one lesson to anotherall round ''celebrity''. The rest of the family can see the cost to Bronte and to the family I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a whole, but Karen will not listen, will not change her wayslittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Then one day Bronte disappears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1529427045|title=Extreme PreyThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|genre=Crime |summary=Making a long running series evolve organically is a very tricky business; a character that ''Life has been around more to offer than people - prime numbers for 26 booksexample''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, and nearly as many years, is not going to be where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the same person that started outarea have sparked a gold rush. Age catches up with us all and many crime writer have come up against the problem of retirement; The criminal underworld has not their own, but that of their characterbeen slow in coming forward. Why Salander's niece's mother is a 70 year old still out chasing criminals and shooting things? the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. Lucas Davenport It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a character remarkably gifted teenager who has always been a maverick, doing what he wants, therefore quitting 's unaware of the police was never going to stop himpart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Dickinson1787636607|title=The Ad ManTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=Tim Collinwood is single and so, working in Morocco as an advertising creative, heIt's free to enjoy a scene replicated all his host country has to offer: too often in the expense accounts, early hours of the opulence 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 womenfew taxis available. Then it happensOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. He gets The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the contract light of his life'the missing women'. He just needs to create For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a PR campaign that will reassure Morocco that French business has long way short of her best interests at hearthome. The truth may be otherwise She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but creating the façade is what advertising is abouther phone's dead. Perhaps Tim should have noticed that there are clues from The bus had driven off before she had the beginning as chance to how shady this job is, including needing beg the bus driver to work under an assumed identitylet her use his. However, the secrecy becomes a side issue as something more important takes TimThere's concentration: survival for him no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and those around himin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)1405957174|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary=Strange things are happening, as they are most wont to do, in rural Iceland. In a very remote fjordside community in the NW a passing visitor has left From the legacy of a dangerous African virusfirst page, which has claimed two lives. Itwe know that Nadine Walsh's becoming national news, to the extent that a TV journalist is in touch for updatesparty will not end well. The community only has two policemen, trying victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to man their station round call the clock between them to make sure instant responses are possibleambulance he so desperately needs. But one of them has also been asked What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers 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 babyhave him die. – Or was it five and I'd better give you a baby, as a newly-found photograph suggests? Elsewhere, in Reykjavik, a young couple are troubled by an intruder – but little more background so that wonyou can understand what't have any connection to the other cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>s happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A L Gaylin0008530025|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 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 Murder 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>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Angela Marsons|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)Cara Hunter

|summary=Initially it looked like a robbery gone wrong, or possibly a carjack, only the car It was still there in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and so was found the expensive watch and body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the jewellrygarden of their West London home. Her wallet hadnHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't been d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken eitherwas obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, but sheno one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous''d been killed by , a single, precise stab to the hearttrue-crime show. There was no sign A group of anger: in fact there seemed experts has been brought together to be a complete lack emotion review the evidence and there was nothing to suggest that the victim had attracted take the violence - she was a caring mother and dedicated social workerinvestigation further. D I Kim Stone wasnMore to the point, they't alone in thinking that something didn't add up. Then a local drug addict was found with an identical woundre going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's nothing to link no dump of the two cases other than the wounds whole box set - and Stoneno shortage of cliffhangers. It's instinctscompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons0241996104|title=Lost Girls (D I Kim Stone)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Charlotte Nancy's mother and Amy step-father were best friends: they seemed to do everything together brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the trip to the swimming pool was no differenther step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. It was all carefully planned - they were to stay in We first meet Nancy outside the building until one of the parents arrived to pick them upcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. Only, it didn't work out like The barrister tells her that: the mothershe's car was disabled and before the pick up time both parents had received a text message to say that the girls had 'silent sentence' - she's not been abducted. It would get worse too - the next communication would tell them that they would found guilty of anything but will have to bid live with what happened for the rest of her life of their child. The parents who bid Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most would get their child backof it. The other would ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not return. It sounds unbelievable, be printed but it had happened beforeis undoubtedly spoken. One child was released, but not even the body of the other child had been found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1529413680|title=FinisterreA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54

|summary=The Second World War One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is almost lost the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but in a lastgoes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, desperate roll the man playing one of the dice main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the German High command launch Operation Finisterrescript. In America Luckily, his doctor is there and the apparent suicide of man is whisked away in a scientist working on the atom bomb helicopter. A local doctor (and off the coast friend of Spain the shipwreck Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a German submarinesenior government employee, become catalysts as the plans spiral out man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of control, leading to a shattering climax. 'Finisterreher father' is s friends for a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense and stylepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste1529196388|title=Then She Was GoneThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Tim Johnson took his baby daughter out one day Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and in the course of their walk looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was attacked and murdered in plain sight at the baby was stolenOld Bailey. But there was a problem: only Tim seemed to believe that there There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was'' a baby and told that the police were convinced that there best barrister for him was an entirely different crime Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and that Johnson was their only suspectit's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. He went Knight's determined to prison and was largely forgotten aboutplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>