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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath1786482126|title= A Burning in the DarknessThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the needs bones of some of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crimechild beneath a doorway. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on There was no skull. Was this a charged journey that pitches love against revengeritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, he that she is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces pregnant with his child as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories result of Michael's past in Liberiathe one night they spent together some three months ago. As he fights to prove his innocence Her condition will be obvious before long, Michael has not least because Ruth is prone to risk anything for the sake sudden bouts of love and truthsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Hawley0008551324|title=Before the FallThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to accept tell the offer from police where the wife body of a media mogul missing person is buried and who was responsible for a short plane rideher death. This person, he promises, not realising is someone big and it will shape be worth the rest of his lifepolice doing what he wants. The private jet falls out of the sky, making him a hero in the way And what he saved wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the only other survivor, the mogul's small son remainder of his sentence and heir JJto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that for some heDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's not so much the hero as the murdererhappening. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura0008405026|title=HereticsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is a child émigré to Cuba in 1939, looking forward to being joined It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Germany by his parentsher bed one summer night. They're on board the St Louis in Havana docks but in a country and a time rife with politics She was never found and corruption, the ship is turned back without permitting any of their passengers investigation ground to disembarka halt. Now, nearly 80 years laterher mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, Danielit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's son wants to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that something about the Kaminskys had with them on positioning of the ill-fated shipbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers to something that may seem straightforward but they soon realise What looked as though it will prove was going to be anything butan open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell0571379877|title= Rhyming RingsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|genre= Crime|summary= David Gemmell Edward Jevons is a wellworking-known name. Until class young man, obsessed with his death in 2006 he topped the UK author lists in fantasy upper-class friends, Robert and historical fiction…but some will suggest that this previously unpublished manuscript shows that he might have gone in Stanza. Robert's a different direction entirelytheatre director. He might have opted 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for a life of crimehim. Crime fiction that isEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. IMost men in Robert'll come back 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 left to thatstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley ThomsonJo Callaghan|title=The Dog WalkerLeave No Trace

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers and dog walkers who went When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Thames towpath after dark. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left the riverside cottage she shared with case alongside her husband and never came home. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wanderingsidekick, but Helen's body was never discoveredthe AI detective Lock. In 2016 HelenIt's husbandtheir first live case together, Adam, still wants to know what happenedhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. He has an alibiBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, albeit Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspectedlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Steve Lawson couldn't stand Will they be able to solve the constant suspicion and drowned himself case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the Thames: over the years that came to be accepted as an admission of guilt case and even one , potentially, out of his children is certain that he was responsible.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malin Persson Giolito1035021803|title= QuicksandThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something about ScandinaviaIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? Carole. This Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the second book with least. Arthur was the same title by northern writers that I've read this yearreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, and we're only into Aprillet her down badly. For clarity from the outsetEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, this she has nothing not felt able to do with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on here, but we are back in territory he would probably have been familiar withbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. We're After the split, she worked in a Scandinavian courtroomcafe, Swedish to be precise – we're about to begin met and married James (on the rebound from the trial love of Maja Norbergher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Skuse1398524085|title= SweetpeaHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=In many waysCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary life. She works at a local papersons Niall, lives with Paul and Ollie and her long term boyfrienddaughter, dotes on her dog and is part of a large group of friendsEtty. There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannonall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, like that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families..not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and sheGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in fact a serial killerthe river. She It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's harmless thoughlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened... as long as you stay off her list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and Joel Agee (translator)it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The Judge one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1)everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=We're It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after the Second World Wara heatwave. A man has been found on In a gully, a remote mountain road. It would appear he opened his car door human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to someone be Lee Geary, who proceeded to shoot him deadhad disappeared nine years earlier. Leading the investigation is Inspector BarlachHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, an elderly and so it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness for new-fangled ideas could have been a simple case of criminologymisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, but so what was he has employed Tschanz doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to share it, and two other deaths which were not rely on gut instincts. Neither particularly want to be out in all weathers sorting the crime, but the victim was certainly in the wrong place considered suspicious at the wrong time, for he was a fellow policeman and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they aren't saying. What had he been up to, Lockyer and which way DC Gemma Broad of policing the case will get Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>you and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath1529425867|title= AmnesiaLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is in troubleof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's had white, originated from a nasty knock on the head trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and now he cantrackies. They't remember anything about his lifere usually in lime green or acid yellow. In an attempt You might wonder if you're being introduced to recover his memories, he is sent to convalesce in a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands in the company of his old friend's niece, Clemencepolice procedural written for laughs. During their stay Well, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems to tell the story of her grandmotheryou's murder years beforere not. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover The two men are just different sides of the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside same policing coin. Sometimes the snow grows ever nearer, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastaircombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's past who wants to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with itproblematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1529431735|title= Bryant and May: Wild ChamberThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant It's February 1991 and May are back! So the slow decline into old age, with a side helping of dementiaEssex is bitingly cold, isnwhich made Bruce Hopkins't quite return all the Reichenbach Falls: more surprising. it did give Fowler He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a cleaner and clearer way to have Arthur Bryant return to workdecade. A simple The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'he s ill and hasn't been well but helong to live. It's back now'' hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and no more need be said about sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate London0861541774|title=Death MessageA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=In October 1987DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, on the morning after the great stormDanny Maik, Tania Mills left home has taken a short holiday in Singapore to visit meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a friend street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and was never seen againhe killed a Ghurka. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the Met's Homicide Command has Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to look into new information which light that suggested that he might reveal what happened have planned to murder the fifteen-year-old girlman. It's not all she has to do though - there are still current cases which have to Now he could be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all togetherfacing the death penalty. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to deal with help as any interference from another police force could provoke a case of domestic violence: the husband is vicious diplomatic incident and volatile, but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened to do anything but put up with his outburstswouldn't help Danny at all. Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism between them: will they be able to work together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1521129886|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip stories, the publication of this book leaves Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the last three yet to point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be presented more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in these fabulous large format paperbacks-law appears to have killed himself. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her great crime-solving mindson is not thriving. Lucy, and of course with her Williehe says, this is the lastconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself -but-one chance for you to do soit simply wasn't in his nature. And if you The police and the coroner have any interest in quick little action talesaccepted that the death was suicide, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>the night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G RodfordB0CK3MYJ56|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In It's the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-known local man eight years old. He used to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, have a worldhigh-famous surgeon at Cambridgeflying job in the city but it wasn's Addenbrooket satisfying so he's Hospital who hosts now set himself up as a popular medical television programmeprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurorayou might be thinking. According to GalbraithNice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at profession? On the hospital. George agrees other hand, he has been asked to look into the theftsomething. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, assuming it will be they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a relatively easy tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and straightforward case – little does he knowher parents, heOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's about been asked to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctioninvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick1838954481|title=Well of the Winds (DCI Daley)The Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's not a happy time for DCI Jim Daleyno doubt about that. The woman he loved is dead He was the fifteen- there are those who blame him for what happened year- old holding the gun and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and his young son is deteriorating by the daypointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He's finding solace in pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the bottom jury system he was found not guilty of a glass, whilst both the man who used to do that all too often, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely murder and has found exercisethe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. There's For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a new officer quieter life in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and whilst the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she might look young, it's unlikely that she got to that position without having drawn into a core wider investigation - and back into the orbit of steelRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1448309743|title= Miraculous Mysteries The Devil Stone (British Library Crime ClassicsDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Consider In the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs to a house village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a particular street, number 13, wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from where the noise home is emanating. When he peeps through the letterbox he discovers a dead man in Devil Stone: myth says that if the hallway with a knife in his throatstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. He goes to fetch help, The only suspects are known Satanists but upon returningin many ways, finds that the street does not have a number 13 and 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body and the room . The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he saw have both mysteriously vanisheddisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Irvine Welsh1529077699|title= The Blade ArtistRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary=So''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. In Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the interest middle of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and I must confess to dead, in a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbiesmall boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the notoriously violentvillage of Greystone, terrifying protector/tormentor in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the Trainspotting gang. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased review, it does mean you will get a passionate one. It is fair to say that I loved world sailor and all round ''The Blade Artistcelebrity'' and my only critique would be that it was over too quickly. For those of you who may not be familiar with Welsh I ''s earlier manifestations have no fear, you can pick up nearly''The Blade Artistsaid 'all-round good egg' and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, father, husband and elegant thug. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie youbut as we'll find out, he could be instantly drawn back into the world of more than a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence little bit close with money and bloodhis background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreview|author= Chris Ould|title= The Killing Bay|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Between Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the Scando-noir and small town of Gasskas, where the Highlandsso-andfar-Islands crime, it was only a matter untapped natural resources of time until the area have sparked a series featuring a life-weary detective gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. set Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in Greenland, Iceland, or thereabouts appearedthe area to have vanished without trace. And here we are, It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a series based remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in the Faroesher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Bolton1787636607|title=The PicturesTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the spring early hours of 1939: in Hollywood ''The Wizard the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Oz'' is in production at MGM clubs and it's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the actors or night bus that will only go as far as one of the studiooutlying villages. The police department recognises that it's good for Hollywood that woman all goes smoothly and itregret the 's Detective Jonathan Cranetaxi problem's job to see that , particularly in the crimes and misdemeanours light of 'the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetmissing women'. The studio rewards him handsomely for this and there's perhaps For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a little bit long way short of antagonism within LAPD that Craine's got it easy and wouldn't know how her home. She had intended to ring someone to investigate a case if it came up come and slapped him, collect her - but in Craineher phone's mind all thatdead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's going no option but to changestart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza1405957174|title= The Acid Test|rating= 3.5|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 A Death at the local strip club, she had a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to the deaths of various associates, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''The Acid Test'', following on from Mendoza's first novel ''Silver Bullets''. I haven't read the first instalment of this series and don't believe that had any impact on this story. Lefty has a personal connection to the case, forever haunted by the memories of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents and his consuming desire to avenge her death to track down this violent and deranged killer. Along the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos 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>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Farris Smith|title= Desperation Road|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Maben is on the run. For a long while it's not clear whether she's running from something or towards something, or simply back to where it all started. She's got her small daughter with her, and they've been walking for a very long time. It's hard on the child, but it's also clear that if it wasn't for the child Maben would stop running, and it's clear that that would not be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewParty|author=Steven Savile|title=Parallel LinesAmy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary=Books are full of coincidencesFrom the first page, because if they were we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not, they would be pretty dullend well. The action takes place during an extraordinary timescale of the characters – the time they were involved in victim - a bank robbery, or their loved one was murdered. People are more likely man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to read this type of book than one about call the time they picked out their new curtains. For the intrigue to happen, links between characters have to be made, but balancing coincidence is trickyambulance he so desperately needs. Too little and the characters What we don't gel, too much and you start to think know is who the book man is supernaturalor why Nadine prefers to have him die. Did Steven Savile get the balance right in I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what'Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>s happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hilary0008530025|title=Quieter than Killing (D I Marnie Rome 4)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=The attacks all seemed to be quite randomIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, but the nights were darkLuke Ryder, in the weather freezing and D I Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake were spending quite a lot garden of time their West London home. He had an injury on the streets back of Londonhis head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Then MarnieTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's family home was ransacked and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on now the order subject of someone) who knew her''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Normally Commander Welland would have A group of experts has been able brought together to give Marnie a degree of protection - he knew her history all too well - but his cancer had returned review the evidence and he was going to be away for four monthstake the investigation further. His stand-in was nowhere near as understanding in More to the point, they're going to do this or other matterslive on camera, episode by episode. Then it was established that a child was missing There's no dump of the whole box set - had been missing for ten weeks - but and no one had reported itshortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sam Blake0241996104|title= Little BonesComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= It was a fairly ordinary break in. A young artistNancy's home had been given a going overmother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, but it was hard to see that much had has been takenconvicted of their murder. There were suspicions that it might have been one of We first meet Nancy outside the usual suspectscourt, only the shoes werenafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence't as they- she'd s not been found guilty of anything but will have expected to find them if that was to be live with what happened for the caserest of her life. Something else was not as you might expect to find Of course, it: a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the look most of it, and in the hem, stitched in there, tiny bones. Human bones''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elly Griffiths1529413680|title=The Chalk Pit A Chateau Under Siege (Dr Ruth GallowayA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Norwich One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re- apparently - riddled with tunnels, many dating back enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the time when chalk was mined thereshow with some friends. When bones are discovered in one of the tunnels it seems obvious that theyIt've s all been there for hundreds of years, very carefully choreographed but Dr Ruth Gallowaygoes badly wrong when, forensic archaeologistKerquelin, isn't so certainthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The colour doesn't look right Luckily, his doctor is there and she has a suspicion that the bones have been boiled: they've also not been there that long. DCI Harry Nelson has man is whisked away in a murder case on his handshelicopter. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a A local rough sleeper doctor (and therefriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's not a lot to go on other than senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the rumour that shemilitary has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's 'gone underground', but what, exactly, does that mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>friends for a pre-arranged holiday.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1529196388|title= Darktown|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|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>}}{{newreviewTrial|author= Susanna Beard|title= Dare to RememberRob Rinder|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=ItGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's not often that you get two books just one man in the frame for the price of one, but if you are going to see this anywhere his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it will likely be 's not too long before Knight appears in a reissuecourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. Taking Knight was told that the back catalogue best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of an author Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already havehis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Hard Case Crime have done this with two books by Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'Fletch'' author Gregory Mcdonald. Surely two books that centre on kidnapping by s recommendations to the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? Think againcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>