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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1786482126|title= The Silence Between BreathsJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= IBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'm always wary luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of author endorsementsa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, even those from people I rate Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as writersRuth knows, but the Nelson doesn''harrowing and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the front cover one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of ''sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Silence Between BreathsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he' does not overstate s prepared to tell the police where the casebody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an extremely powerful bookopen prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>1472118014<Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's 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 halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/amazonuk>suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an 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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath0571379877|title= A Burning in the DarknessThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= At Edward Jevons is a busy airportworking-class young man, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengersobsessed with his upper-class friends, but circumstance Robert and evidence point to his guilt in Stanza. Robert's a terrible crimetheatre director. His struggle He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to prove his innocence leads run errands for him on a charged journey that pitches . Edward has been in love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret, with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he is motivated feels to redress a heart-breaking injusticeRobert. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when relationship had begun between them but he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has not like most men: Edward is left to risk anything for stumble upon the sake two of love and truththem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noah HawleyJo Callaghan|title=Before the FallLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept the offer from the wife of When a media mogul for a short plane ride, not realising it will shape man is found crucified on the rest of his life. The private jet falls out top of the sky, making him a hero hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the way he saved the only other survivorcase alongside her sidekick, the mogulAI detective Lock. It's small son and heir JJtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many waysBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, especially when he realises Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that for some he's not so much the hero as the murdererdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Are Will they rightbe able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura1035021803|title=HereticsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is It'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 child émigré to Cuba in 1939request for help from her beloved aunt, looking forward to being joined from Germany by his parentsCarole. TheyFreya're on board the St Louis in Havana docks but in a country s former mentor and a time rife with politics Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and corruptionthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the ship is turned reason why Freya had not been back without permitting any of their passengers to disembarkthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Now, nearly 80 years laterEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Daniel's son wants she has not felt able to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that be near the Kaminskys had with them on man or pursue the ill-fated shipprofession she loved. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers to something that may seem straightforward but they soon realise it will prove to be anything butAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell1398524085|title= Rhyming RingsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre= Crime|summary= David Gemmell Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is a well-known namenot. Until his death Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in 2006 he topped the UK author lists in fantasy and historical fiction…but some will suggest that this previously unpublished manuscript shows that he might have gone in a different direction entirelyriver. He might have opted It was an easy assumption for a life of crime. Crime fiction the police to make that isDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. IThe Salter children are not convinced but there'll come back to thats little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1529900360|title=The Dog WalkerGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=In January 1987 it 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 only joggers and dog walkers who went reluctant to ask for his help on to the Thames towpath after darkdifficult cases. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the riverside cottage she shared with her husband and never came homehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. A neighbour returned their dog who Finally, it was found wanderingRobin, but HelenDelaware's body partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was never discoveredsomething that the man she loved needed. In 2016 Helen's husbandThe next case did look simple, Adam, still wants to know what happenedthough. He has an alibi, albeit Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspectedremote property in Bel Air. Steve Lawson couldn't stand He was the constant suspicion heir to an Italian shoe empire and drowned himself in the Thames: over the years that came she is married to be accepted as an admission of guilt extremely rich man and even one it's not the Italian. But which of his children is certain that he them was responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malin Persson Giolito178763681X|title= QuicksandKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something about Scandinavia, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. This is the second book with the same title by northern writers that IHe didn've read this year, t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and we're only into Aprilwomen to do what he wanted. For clarity from Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the outsetschool to assist Paul, this has nothing to do with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on herewho had a broken arm, but we it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are back in territory all his own. The one thing he would probably have been familiar withhadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. We're in a Scandinavian courtroomUnfortunately, Swedish he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be precise – we're about to begin the trial of Maja Norbergprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Skuse1529421284|title= SweetpeaLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In many waysa gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary lifewho had disappeared nine years earlier. She works at He'd been a local paper, lives with her long term boyfriendknown drug user and had learning disabilities, dotes on her dog and is part of so it could have been a large group simple case of friendsmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannon, like that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families..connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and sheDC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's in fact a serial killer. She's harmless though... as long as cold cases to you stay off her listand me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529425867|title=The Judge Lost and His Hangman Never Found (Inspector Barlach 1A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=We're in ruralIn Oxford, rainythere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, wintery Switzerland soon after the Second World WarBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. A man has been found on a remote mountain roadD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. It would appear he opened his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him deadHe's not any of those things. Leading the investigation is Inspector BarlachHe's white, an elderly and it seems chronically ill policemanoriginated from a trailer park, who has no fondness for new-fangled ideas of criminology, but he has employed Tschanz to do barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence thing) and to share it, his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and not rely on gut instinctstrackies. Neither particularly want to be out They're usually in all weathers sorting the crime, but the victim was certainly in the wrong place at the wrong time, for he was a fellow policeman and nobody knows why he was there – lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if they do they arenyou't sayingre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. What had he been up toWell, and which way you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the case will get to the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath1529431735|title= AmnesiaThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair It's February 1991 and Essex is in troublebitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a nasty knock on the head letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and now he canhasn't remember anything about his lifelong to live. In an attempt It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to recover his memories, he is underwear and sent to convalesce in a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands watery grave in the company boot of his old friend's niece, Clemence. During their stay, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems to tell the story of her grandmother's murder years beforestolen Ford Sierra. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearer, as does Is it a creeping malevolent ghost warning from Alastair's past who wants a Spanish gang or a problem closer to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler0861541774|title= Bryant and May: Wild ChamberA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and May are back! So the slow decline into former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ageally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a side helping of dementiaknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, isn't quite the Reichenbach Falls: it did give Fowler he faced a cleaner and clearer way charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have Arthur Bryant return planned to workmurder the man. A simple ''Now he hasncould be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't been well but he's back now'' and no more need be said about ithelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate London1521129886|title=Death MessageThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=In October 1987, on the morning after the great storm, Tania Mills left home to visit a friend and was never seen again. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the MetGreg Mason's Homicide Command has just beginning to look into new information which might reveal what happened get his confidence as an investigator to the fifteen-year-old girlpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's not all she has to do though - there are still current cases which a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have to a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be responded to immediately: somehow more delighted about the baby when she has gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to fit it all togetherhave killed himself. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to deal with a case of domestic violence: the husband make ends meet and her son is vicious and volatilenot thriving. Lucy, he says, but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened to do anything but put up with is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his outburstsnature. Collins The police and Griffiths the coroner have history and antagonism between them: will they be able accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to work together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>find out what happened on the night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroB0CK3MYJ56|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the publication of life experience that backs up this book leaves just profession? On the last three yet other hand, he has been asked to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbackslook into something. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves Joyce and her great crimeHelen are half-solving mindsisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and of course with her Willieparents, this is the lastOliver and Pam Hetherington -butcan't understand what she was doing there -one chance for you or how she could come to do sofall in front of a train. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>Greg's been asked to investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1838954481|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a wellfifteen-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a worldyear-famous surgeon old holding the gun and pointing it at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, AuroraDI Kieran Shaw. According He pulled the trigger but due to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of his at the hospitalofficer. And so lives must go on. George agrees to look into For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the theft, assuming it will be countryside but when a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, hemissing teenager is found on her territory she's about to enter drawn into a world wider investigation - and back into the orbit of deceit and dysfunctionRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick1448309743|title=Well of the Winds The Devil Stone (DCI DaleyChristine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=It's not In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a happy time for DCI Jim Daleywealthy family are found murdered. The woman he loved only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with Lizremoved from Otterburn House, his ex wife, and his young son is deteriorating by the daydeath will follow. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's finding solace in the bottom an easy conclusion given that two of a glass, whilst them 'discovered' the man who used to do that all too oftenbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, his friend DS Brian Scott DCI Christine Caplan is off alcohol completely and has found exercise. Therepulled in to 's a new officer in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and whilst she might look young, itshadow's unlikely that she got to that position without having a core of steelhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1529077699|title= Miraculous Mysteries The Raging Storm (British Library Crime ClassicsTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs to a house on a particular street''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, number 13Sir?'' Well yes, from where the noise it is emanating. When he peeps through Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the letterbox he discovers middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead man , in the hallway with a knife small boat, anchored in his throat. He goes Scully Cove close to fetch helpthe village of Greystone, but upon returning, finds that the street does not have a number 13 and that the body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished.in Devon..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Irvine Welsh|title= The Blade Artist|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary=So. In Rosco had the interest status of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbienational treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the notoriously violent, terrifying protector/tormentor of 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= DarktownThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta, Georgia. The Deep South. This is country Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that fought was good and honest and looked up to keep the right to own slavesby just about everyone, and would continue fighting every last bastion of segregation as so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system of governance of all her peopleOld Bailey. ThatThere's a history that todayjust one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's southerners are variously proud or ashamed ofnot too long before Knight appears in court, or choose to ignore, or hope to forget, or continue to strive againstcharged with Cliveden's murder. Variously, because people are also individuals Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and we all hold to our own view of what is right. For many of us, what is it''right'' is sometimes hard to draw the lines around…but what is ''wrong'' is much more clears Taylor-cut. Divisions based on skin colourCameron and his pupil, or raceAdam Green, or creed are wrongwho eventually represent him. No two ways about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Susanna Beard|title= Dare to Remember|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Lisa FulbrookKnight's best friend is dead – the victim of a brutal attack who fell determined to her death from her own apartment window. Lisa was thereplead not guilty, she too was a victim of the attack that killed her best friend, and she is left with the physical and emotional scars despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to prove it. Traumatised by the events, Lisa flees to a country village to help settle her frightened mindcontrary. 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>