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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1786482126|title=Forever and a DeathThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=A lot of time and effort goes into Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the average movie, but this is at least double in site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the case bones of Bonda child beneath a doorway. Each one is part of a decade's long institution and must excelThere was no skull. With Was this in mind there is a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, wannabe-Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actorsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. For every successful ''GarbageIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' Bond themet, there are numerous other indie bands that never made she is pregnant with his child as a result of the cutone night they spent together some three months ago. Donald E Westlake was a successful thriller writer in his own rightHer condition will be obvious before long, but once he jumped aboard the good ship Bond his work never cut itnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. The result was this adaptation of his failed Bond script, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= L F Robertson0008551324|title= Two Lost BoysThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 24.5|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie 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 a seasoned death row appeals attorney. Overworked, lonely, struggling in prison and feeling like shehe's drunk her fill prepared to tell the police where the body of desperation a missing person is buried and sadnesswho was responsible for her death. This person, she takes on one final casehe promises, determined is someone big and it will be her lastworth the police doing what he wants. Marion 'Andy' Hardy And what he wants is sweet, polite, good-natured, and a little slow, but according to be transferred to an open prison to serve the state, he's also a rapist remainder of his sentence and a murdererto get an early parole date. Moodie must untangle his aging case against the clock. She can Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't save his innocence, but maybe 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'can'' save his lifes happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts0008405026|title=The ObsessionA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasnIt't always lived theres sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi CarsonShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Naomi's life had to start again whenNow, her mother, aged 11Helena, she sneakily followed and her father into the woods to see if he was hiding her birthday presentare dead in their bed. That night she saw Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something no child… no person... should seeabout the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. As What looked as though it was going to be an adult she's open-and-shut case is now putting her life back together and even coping with the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksa complex double murder. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find sheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's the targetboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse0571379877|title= The Woman in the WoodKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process to the art of gardening: 'A seed of Edward Jevons is a plot drops into my headworking-class young man, I plant it obsessed with a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking it throughhis upper-class friends, Robert and once the green shoots come through, I water it with careStanza. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grown Robert's a theatre director. He' Certainly she carefully cultivates her characterss also self-obsessed, demanding, meticulously researches the locations handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for her books and is an expert at creating a fast paced plot him. Edward has been in love with heart in the mouth moments. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds Stanza since their university days - and draw on inner hidden strengths he's drunkenly confided how he feels to triumph over adversityRobert. Invariably her well-crafted novels, whether they be historical fiction, family sagas Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or crime stories are captivating best sellers. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I tell Edward that a relationship had high expectations for her latest novel. Whilst it delivered on some levels, it regrettably didnbegun between them but he't leave me s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in disbelief at the denouementa dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin WalkerJo Callaghan|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationLeave No Trace

|summary=The body of When a woman was man is found beneath crucified on the ruined Templar chateau top of Commarquea hill in Nuneaton, but what had she been doing there? DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt'd apparently s their first live case together, having previously been climbing the structurevery successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, but using some cheap Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and unsuitable ropea very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Sprayed on Will they be able to solve the wall case in orange paint were the letter ''IFTI''. Had she been intending to write more when she felltime, but if so, where was or will Kat find herself taken off the paint - case and the rope? Her neck had been broken, but was this an accidental fall when doing something stupidpotentially, or had she been pushedout of a career? She carried no identification and her fingerprints weren't known to the French police or Interpol.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1035021803|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon AnsgarIt's father passes away, he makes the decision twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to return to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of his familya request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's estateformer mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. He has Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been gone for many yearsback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, during which time he she has pursued not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a career in cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the army love of her life, who was murdered) and survived a posting in AfghanistanFreya and James have now divorced. Having failed to succeed }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at his subsequent attempt at city lifeher 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, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only optionnot. For most people in his position Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, returning home to find the peaceful life body of lordship over a castle and village would sound like a dream come trueGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. But Duncul Castle 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 village it overlooks guilt. The Salter children are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars of Duncul, and some of Glenculnot convinced but there's residents would kill for itlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1529900360|title=HellfireThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood in the door of the caravan It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and surveyed the sceneeven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. The mother - she'd be in her thirties His assertions that there were only open- and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbedshut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. There Finally, it was blood everywhere and Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the only clue as to who had murdered them involvement was a bloody footprintsomething that the man she loved needed. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden and her son Simon? The next case did look simple, though. You see, Bonnie is one Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of those people whom you feel is due some lucka remote property in Bel Air. As a child He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she wanted is married to be a doctor, but when we go back to December 2004 she was working as a home help an extremely rich man and dealing with some of the most difficult invalids in it's not the areaItalian. Simon's father had left them and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both But which of them hating was the fact that Simon had to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham178763681X|title=Love Like BloodKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=DI Nicola Tanner's lover, Susan, was brutally murdered as she entered the hallway of their homeChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. SheHe didn'd been driving Nicola's car and it seemed obvious that this was t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a case way of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings getting both men and was convinced that many of the cases were contracted out women to the same peopledo what he wanted. Was she getting too close? Tanner wants Paul ''somehow'' got the killers and impression that he'd be at the go-betweensschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but itdidn's not as easy as it might be as there's no obvious route to take: several faiths t turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are involved so it's not just a case of tracking the killers down through a family's place of worshipall his own. After SusanThe one thing he hadn's death Tanner is angry and wants revenge - then she's frustrated when she's taken off the honour killings cases and put on compassionate leavet expected was for someone to turn up dead. She has a solution though: she calls on Unfortunately, he was the services of D I Tom Thorne person who - in policing terms - is everything discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that she isn'tperson to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529421284|title=Sleep Baby Sleep (Detective Pieter Voss)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years old and is known as 'It was one of those flash downpours that the flower girl' British weather often delivers in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market, where she works on her father's stalla heatwave. It's almost impossible In a gully, a human skeleton came to believe that she's missing as she's very personable the surface and always popular with forensic testing proved the customersbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. When sheHe's found she's barely alive though, tied to d been a stone angel in a graveyard known drug user and surrounded by had learning disabilities, so it could have been a ring simple case of firemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. In her body there Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are traces connections to the suicide of a drug Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to were not considered suspicious at the Sleeping Beauty murderstime. He had his doubts at Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the time as to whether or not everyone involved had been caught: now it seems Major Crimes Review Unit (that his doubts have come back to haunt him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Jane Harper|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 cold cases to you and 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) investigate.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Menczer1529425867|title= An Unlikely Agent|rating= 4|genre= Crime Lost and Never Found (HistoricalA D I Wilkins Mystery)|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 Simon Mason

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at a Cartier event presenting some In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of her new creationsNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious function D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. When a young woman He's mutilated body is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéanot any of those things. He's holiday homewhite, Alexis' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéaoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's death is not unique; in fact, she is only the latest in a string ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London shell suits and Falkenbergtrackies. Up until now, the bodies have all belonged to young boys, so what has caused the killer to change his They're usually in lime green or her MO? How can Alexis help acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to find justice a police procedural written for her friendlaughs. Well, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529431735|title= No Middle NameThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There It's February 1991 and Essex is a theorybitingly cold, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that made Bruce Hopkins' return all the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grassmore surprising. This is particularly true, some say, and I have He'd been known to concur, of exiled on the crime and thriller genresCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and own up: I simply havenhasn't been paying attentionlong to live. Not even It's hard to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to Lee Child his underwear and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : sent to a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by watery grave in the name boot of ''Jack Reacher''a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe0861541774|title= The Silence Between BreathsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= IDCI Domenic Jejeune'm always wary of author endorsementss close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, even those from people I rate as writersGuy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the ''harrowing and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on man. Now he could be facing the front cover of ''The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate the casedeath penalty. This is an extremely powerful bookDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath1521129886|title= A Burning in the DarknessThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= At Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a busy airport, Michael Kieh is good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a full time faith representative serving baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the needs of some of baby when she gets past the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his guilt in a terrible crime. His struggle sister, Lucy, who's struggling to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revengemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret Lucy, he says, is motivated to redress a heartconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself -breaking injusticeit simply wasn't in his nature. 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 witnessThe police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, sparking memories of Michael but Stuart's past in Liberia. As he fights prepared to prove his innocence, Michael has pay Greg to risk anything for find out what happened on the sake of love and truthnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah HawleyB0CK3MYJ56|title=Before the FallResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to accept have a high-flying job in the offer from the wife city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of a media mogul for a short plane rideCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, not realising it will shape but where's the rest of his life. experience that backs up this profession? The private jet falls out of On the skyother hand, making him a hero in the way he saved the only other survivorhas been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, the mogulthey were until Helen was killed in what's small son been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and heir JJher parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises that for some heGreg's not so much the hero as the murdererbeen asked to investigate. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura1838954481|title=HereticsThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is Ryan Kennedy killed a child émigré to Cuba in 1939, looking forward to being joined from Germany by his parentspolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. They're on board He pulled the St Louis in Havana docks trigger but in a country and a time rife with politics due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and corruption, the ship is turned back without permitting any manslaughter of their passengers to disembarkthe officer. Now, nearly 80 years later, Daniel's son wants to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that the Kaminskys had with them And so lives must go on the ill-fated ship. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for answers to something that may seem straightforward but they soon realise it will prove to be anything a quieter life in the countryside butwhen a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell1448309743|title= Rhyming Rings|rating=3.5|genre= Crime|summary= David Gemmell is a well-known name. Until his death 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 entirely. He might have opted for a life of crime. Crime fiction that is. I'll come back to that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Lesley Thomson|title=The Dog WalkerCaro Ramsay

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers and dog walkers who went the village of Cronchie on to the Thames towpath after darkWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left The only item missing from the riverside cottage she shared with her husband and never came homeis the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wanderingThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, but Helenthat's body was never an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered. In 2016 Helen's husband, Adam, still wants to know what happenedthe body. He has an alibi The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, albeit a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspected. Steve Lawson couldn't stand the constant suspicion and drowned himself DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the Thames: over the years that came to be accepted as an admission of guilt and even one of his children is certain that he was responsible'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malin Persson Giolito1529077699|title= QuicksandThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something about Scandinavia''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksandSir? '' Well yes, it is. This is Jem Rosco blew into the second book with local pub one evening in the same title by northern writers that I've read this yearmiddle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and we're only into Aprildead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. For clarity from Rosco had the outsetstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, this has nothing to do with Henning Mankellround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on here, but as we are back in territory 'll find out, he would probably have been familiar could be more than a little bit close withmoney and his background isn't exactly an open book. We're in a Scandinavian courtroom, Swedish to be precise – we're about to begin Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trial of Maja Norberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Skuse1529427045|title= SweetpeaThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=In many ways, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary life''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. She works at a local paper, lives with her long term boyfriend Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, dotes on her dog and is part where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a large group of friendsgold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannon, like that she Salander's niece's mother is obsessed the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with Slyvanian families... and shereluctance that Salander became her niece's in fact guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a serial killer. Sheremarkably gifted teenager who's harmless though... as long as you stay off unaware of the part Salander played in her listfather's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1787636607|title=The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1)Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=WeIt're s a scene replicated all too often in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after the Second World Warearly hours of the morning. A man has been found on Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a remote mountain roadway to get home. It would appear he opened his car door Some are lucky and manage to someone who proceeded to shoot him deadget one of the few taxis available. Leading Others squash onto the investigation is Inspector Barlach, an elderly and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness for new-fangled ideas night bus that will only go as far as one of criminology, but he has employed Tschanz to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence and to share it, and not rely on gut instinctsthe outlying villages. Neither particularly want to be out in The woman all weathers sorting regret the crime'taxi problem', but the victim was certainly particularly in the wrong place at light of 'the wrong time, for he was a fellow policeman and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they arenmissing women't saying. What had he been up toFor one young woman, and which way of policing the case will get to the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Ridpath|title= Amnesia|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair is in trouble. He's had a nasty knock final stop on the head and now he can't remember anything about his life. In an attempt to recover his memories, he is sent to convalesce in bus leaves her a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands in the company long way short of his old friend's niece, Clemenceher home. During their stay, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems She had intended to ring someone to tell the story of come and collect her - but her grandmotherphone's murder years dead. The bus had driven off before. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover she had the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearer, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastair's past who wants chance to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May: Wild Chamber|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant and May are back! So the slow decline into old age, with a side helping of dementia, isn't quite beg the Reichenbach Falls: it did give Fowler a cleaner and clearer way bus driver to have Arthur Bryant return to worklet her use his. A simple There''he hasn't been well s no option but he's back now'' to start walking - unsuitably clothed and no more need be said about itin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate London1405957174|title=A Death Messageat the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=In October 1987, on From the morning after the great stormfirst page, Tania Mills left home to visit a friend and was never seen againwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. TwentyThe victim - a man -seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the Met's Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the fifteen-year-old girlambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's not all she has t know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to do though - there are still current cases which have to be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all togetherhim die. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal with I'd better give you a case of domestic violence: the husband is vicious and volatile, but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened to do anything but put up with his outburstslittle more background so that you can understand what's happening. 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 Romero0008530025|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesher stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the publication garden of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbackstheir West London home. So He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if you haven’t yet met with he'd slipped down the steps but the sassy brunette vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with her curves his murder and her great it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime-solving mind, show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and of course with her Willieto take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this is live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the lastwhole box set -but-one chance for you to do soand no shortage of cliffhangers. 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>It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford0241996104|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary=In the second instalment of this seriesNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesconvicted of their murder. Bill Galbraith We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a world-famous surgeon at Cambridgelife sentence. The barrister tells her that she's Addenbrookereceived a 'silent sentence' - she's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his not been found guilty of anything but will have to live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient with what happened for the rest of his at the hospitalher life. George agrees to look into the theft Of course, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of deceit it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and dysfunction''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick1529413680|title=Well A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of the Winds (DCI DaleyPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's not a happy time for DCI Jim Daleyall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The woman he loved Luckily, his doctor is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and his young son the man is deteriorating by the daywhisked away in a helicopter. HeA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's finding solace in the bottom of a glasssenior government employee, whilst the man who used to do that all too oftenruns Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and has found exercisehonest 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 a new officer just one man in charge at Kinloch the frame for his murder - DS Carrie Simmington Jimmy Knight - and whilst she might look youngit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's unlikely that she got Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to that position without having a core of steelthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>