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|summary=Annie Schrijver is just twentyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -twothe site was going to hold seventy-years old and is known as five 'the flower girlluxury' in apartments - when they discovered the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower marketbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, where she works on her father's stallDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's almost impossible to believe difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she's missing is pregnant with his child as she's very personable and always popular with the customers. When she's found she's barely alive though, tied to a stone angel in a graveyard and surrounded by a ring result of fire. In her body there are traces of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to the Sleeping Beauty murdersone night they spent together some three months ago. He had his doubts at the time as to whether or Her condition will be obvious before long, not everyone involved had been caught: now it seems that his doubts have come back least because Ruth is prone to haunt himsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Harper0008551324|title= The Dry|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book takes a while to get into. Sometimes it's quicker than that. If Harper hadn't grabbed me in the first paragraph, she certainly had half-way down the second page: ''So nothing reacted when deep inside the house, the baby started crying.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Menczer|title= An Unlikely Agent|rating= 4|genre= Crime Devil You Know (HistoricalD S Max Craigie)|summary=London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)|title= Block 46 Neil Lancaster

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to appear at a Cartier event presenting some of her new creationsapproach the police. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept Neither side likes or has any respect for the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionother. When a young womanBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's mutilated prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday homeburied and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, Alexis' worst fears are confirmedis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. But Linnéa's death And what he wants is not unique; in fact, she is only to be transferred to an open prison to serve the latest in a string remainder of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London his sentence and Falkenbergto get an early parole date. Up until now, the bodies have all belonged Not much to young boysask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so what has caused and she's even prepared to do the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice for her friend, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child0008405026|title= No Middle NameA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short storyIt's heyday has passed sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and it has now put itself out the investigation ground to grassa halt. This is particularly trueNow, her mother, some sayHelena, and I have been known to concurher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the crime bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and thriller genresher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Tosh! I can only apologise What looked as though it was going to all authors involved be an open-and own up: I simply haven't been paying attention-shut case is now a complex double murder. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. SoKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with others (such as Derwent''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-styles boss, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher''Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe0571379877|title= The Silence Between BreathsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm always wary of author endorsementsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, even those from people I rate as writersobsessed with his upper-class friends, but the Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'harrowing s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and humaneentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert' quote s position would stay away from Ian Rankin on the front cover of ''The Silence Between BreathsStanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'' does s not overstate like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the case. This is an extremely powerful booktwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A P McGrathJo Callaghan|title= A Burning in the Darkness|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crime. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love and truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Noah Hawley|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 TestA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo is dead. Murdered in cold blood in a desolateFrom the first page, dusty field by the side of the roadwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Once the most adored, celebrated dancer at the local strip club, she had The victim - a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded man - is dying when we first meet him and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her Nadine consciously makes no effort to call 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''ambulance he so desperately needs. I haven't read the first instalment of this series and What we don't believe that had any impact on this story. Lefty has a personal connection to know is who 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 man is or why Nadine prefers to avenge her death to track down this violent and deranged killerhave him die. Along the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos which erupt in explosive levels of violence, meet I'd better give you a host of damaged, humorous and violent residents of Culiacán and follow Lefty on a trail of destruction, death and disorderlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Farris Smith0008530025|title= Desperation RoadMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Maben is It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the runback of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. For a long while Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's not clear whether shenow the subject of ''Infamous''s running from something or towards something, or simply back a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to where it all startedtake the investigation further. She's got her small daughter with herMore to the point, and they've been walking for a very long timere going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. ItThere's hard on no dump of the child, but it's also clear that if it wasn't for the child Maben would stop running, whole box set - and itno shortage of cliffhangers. It's clear that that would not be a good thingcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Savile0241996104|title=Parallel LinesComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. 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 of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4

|summary=Books are full One of coincidences, because if they were not, they would be pretty dull. The action takes place during an extraordinary timescale the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the characters – town from the time they were involved English in a bank robbery1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, or their loved the man playing one was murdered. People are more likely to read this type of book than one about the time they picked out their new curtainsmain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. For Luckily, his doctor is there and the intrigue to happen, links between characters have to be made, but balancing coincidence man is trickywhisked away in a helicopter. Too little A local doctor (and the characters donfriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he't gels a senior government employee, too much and you start to think the book is supernaturalman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Did Steven Savile get the balance right One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father''Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>s friends for a pre-arranged holiday.

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|summary=The attacks Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all seemed that was good and honest and looked up to be quite randomby just about everyone, but so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the nights were dark, Old Bailey. There's just one man in the weather freezing frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and D I Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake were spending quite a lot of time on the streets of London. Then Marnieit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's family home was ransacked and every indication murder. Knight was told that it had been done by someone (or on the order best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of someone) Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who knew hereventually represent him. Normally Commander Welland would have been able Knight's determined to give Marnie a degree of protection - he knew her history plead not guilty, despite all too well Taylor- but his cancer had returned and he was going Cameron's recommendations to be away for four months. His stand-in was nowhere near as understanding in this or other matters. Then it was established that a child was missing - had been missing for ten weeks - but no one had reported itthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>