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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the 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 Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stuart NevilleNeil 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's prepared to tell the police where the body 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 open 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=So Say A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=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/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 Fallen explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (DCI Serena Flanagansuch as Derwent's boss, Una Burt)are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled 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's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|summary=Harry Garrick had been When a successful businessman until man is found crucified on the car accident which cost him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to his wife for even the most intimate functionscase alongside her sidekick, so there was not a the AI detective Lock. It''lot'' of surprise whens their first live case together, six months later, he seemed to have taken his own lifehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. One sachet of morphine granulesBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, mixed in Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a pot of yoghurt had given him very high profile case that draws a good night's sleep. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets lot of granules, if the empty packets were anything unwanted attention to go bytheir AI Future Policing project. It seemed obvious that Will they be able to solve the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the widowcase and, Roberta Garrickpotentially, and the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously close. Perhaps out of a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closedcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)1035021803|title= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man 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 simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small townrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a good husband father Carole. Freya's former mentor and neighbourCarole's close friend, he moves through life buoyed by his faithArthur Crockleford, in both God is dead and justicethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man's tenuously ordered life and drags him Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the edge of man or pursue the abyssprofession she loved. McCarthy is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and After the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps Francksplit, she worked in a private detective with a shadowy agendacafe, a raging cocaine habit met and a twisted sense married James (on the rebound from the love of morality. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crimeher life, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality who was murdered) and depravity into his ear with a kiss Freya and a winkJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis1398524085|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe and France is occupied, thereCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's something of a lull in Britainfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and London is spared the nightly blitzher daughter, Etty. are all worried but no one's under any illusions that it could start again at any time- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. ThereShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's been a certain relaxation father, Duncan Ackerley, in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on the rise and not all of them go as they shouldriver. A young woman is found dead in a London hotel room as It was an easy assumption for the result of a botched operation: she has no identification police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and no one knows who then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the father of the baby was, or who performed the operationguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529900360|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really a detective. HeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's just a normal bloke - though fault that might depend Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on your definition of 'normal' difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a collection of vinyl in psychologist only worked for a house that happens to be adjacent to the ''Abbey'while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, a posh rehab place notorious who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the celebrities it treatsinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing people The next case did look simple, even if he does search for rare recordsthough. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help Two lovers were murdered in tracing a missing child the swimming pool of a 1960's female rock star whose own death was shrouded remote property in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says noBel Air. That He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is, until he is told that married to an extremely rich man and it's not the job would also involve tracing a rare singleItalian. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson178763681X|title=Sleeping in the GroundKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=It was the sort Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of display which would have been better in black getting both men and white and without a sound track, but women to do what happened he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the Red Wedding, as it would come school to be knownassist Paul, was noisywho had a broken arm, brutal but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and fatalthe problems - are all his own. A sniper on a distant hillside began shooting at the wedding party: three people, including the bride died immediatelyThe one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Another twoUnfortunately, including the bridegroom would die soon afterwards. Terry Gilchrist saw he was the shooter disappearing over person who discovered the hillside, but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word for it when they finally arrived body and it was a further three-quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for everyone knows that the paramedics police consider that person to come to the scene. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too longprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529421284|title=Suspicion (Inspector Barlach 2)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach is dying. We did know It was one of those flash downpours that, more or less, from [[The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|the first book]] to feature him, but it's confirmed here by us opening on him British weather often delivers in a clinic bed, with a year left to live. But his doctor is helping him in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his lifeheatwave. When his doctor blanches at the sight of a magazine photograph featuring In a Nazi camp doctor at workgully, a story slowly starts human skeleton came to emerge, one that may prove the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a wicked conspiracy to keep the Nazi alive known drug user and still practicinghad learning disabilities, under someone elseso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's namet convinced. BarlachGeary was a townie, clearly well suited so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to go under cover as someone needing the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to go under two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the knife, works up a plan to check whether his suspicion is correcttime. WhatLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's the worst that could happen after all? – even were he cold cases to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>you and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1529425867|title=Forever Lost and a DeathNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=A lot In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of time Ryan and effort goes into the average moviefather of Ryan, but this is at least double in the case not. He's not any of Bondthose things. Each one is part of He's white, originated from a decadetrailer park, barely educated (reading's long institution not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and must exceltrackies. With this They're usually in mind there is lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themespolice procedural written for laughs. Well, wannabe-Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actorsyou're not. For every successful ''Garbage'' Bond theme, there The two men are numerous other indie bands that never made just different sides of the cutsame policing coin. Donald E Westlake was a successful thriller writer in his own right, but once he jumped aboard Sometimes the good ship Bond his work never cut combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. 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 Robertson1529431735|title= Two Lost BoysThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 24|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is a seasoned death row appeals attorney. Overworked, lonely, and feeling like sheIt's drunk her fill of desperation February 1991 and sadnessEssex is bitingly cold, she takes on one final case, determined it will be her lastwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Marion He'Andy' Hardy is sweet, polite, good-natured, and d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a little slow, but according to the state, decade. The return has come about because he's also had a rapist and a murderer. Moodie must untangle letter from his aging case against the clock. She can't save his innocenceex-wife, but maybe saying that she 's ill and hasn'cant long to live. It'' save s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his lifeunderwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts0861541774|title=The ObsessionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasn't always lived there. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi Carson. NaomiDCI Domenic Jejeune's life had to start again whenclose friend and former colleague, aged 11Danny Maik, she sneakily followed her father into the woods has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see if meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was hiding her birthday presentfacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. That night she saw something no child… no person... should seeInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. As an adult she's now putting her life back together and even coping with Now he could be facing the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksdeath penalty. The past will one day repeat itself Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and this time Naomi will find shewouldn's the targett help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse1521129886|title= The Woman in the WoodThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the art of gardening: point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'A seed of s a plot drops into my head, I plant it with good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking it through, baby and once they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the green shoots come through, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grown.' Certainly baby when she carefully cultivates her characters, meticulously researches gets past the locations for her books and morning sickness. Greg is approached by an expert at creating a fast paced plot with heart old friend whose brother-in the mouth moments. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds and draw on inner hidden strengths -law appears to triumph over adversityhave killed himself. Invariably her well-crafted novels Stuart's concerned about his sister, whether they be historical fictionLucy, family sagas or crime stories are captivating best sellers. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I had high expectations for who's struggling to make ends meet and her latest novelson is not thriving. Whilst it delivered on some levels Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it regrettably didnsimply wasn't leave me in disbelief at his nature. The police and the denouementcoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin WalkerB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=The body of a woman was found beneath the ruined Templar chateau of Commarque, but what had she been doing there? SheIt'd apparently been climbing s the structure, but using some cheap 1990s and unsuitable ropeGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Sprayed on the wall He used to have a high-flying job in orange paint were the letter city but it wasn't satisfying so he'IFTIs now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Had she been intending to write more when she fellNice bloke, but if so, where was 's the paint - and the ropelife experience that backs up this profession? Her neck had On the other hand, he has been broken, but was this an accidental fall when doing asked to look into something stupid. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or had she rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been pushed? written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. She carried no identification Joyce - and her fingerprints werenparents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't known understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to the French police or Interpolfall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1838954481|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)The Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon AnsgarRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's father passes away, he makes no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the decision to return trigger but due to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control vagaries of his family's estate. He has been gone for many years, during which time the jury system he has pursued a career in was found not guilty of both the army murder and survived a posting in Afghanistanthe manslaughter of the officer. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option And so lives must go on. For most people DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in his position, returning home to the peaceful life of lordship over countryside but when a castle and village would sound like missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a dream come true. But Duncul Castle wider investigation - and back into the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars orbit of Duncul, and some of Glencul's residents would kill for itRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1448309743|title=HellfireThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood in the door village of Cronchie on the caravan and surveyed the sceneWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The mother - she'd be in her thirties - and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbed. There was blood everywhere and only item missing from the only clue as to who had murdered them was a bloody footprint. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden and her son Simon? You see, Bonnie home is one of those people whom you feel the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is due some luckremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. As a child she wanted to be a doctor, The only suspects are known Satanists but when we go back to December 2004 she was working as a home help and dealing with some of the most difficult invalids in the area. Simonmany ways, that's father had left them and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both an easy conclusion given that two of them hating 'discovered' the fact that Simon had body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to work'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1529077699|title=Love Like BloodThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=DI Nicola Tanner''It's loverall bloody peculiar, Susanisn't it, was brutally murdered as she entered the hallway of their home. SheSir?'d been driving Nicola's car and  Well yes, it seemed obvious that this was is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings month and then turned up, naked and was convinced that many of the cases were contracted out dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the same peoplevillage of Greystone, in Devon. Was she getting too close? Tanner wants Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the killers world sailor and the go-betweens, but itall round 's not as easy as it might be as there's no obvious route to take: several faiths are involved so itcelebrity's not just a case of tracking the killers down through a family's place of worship. After SusanI ''nearly'' said 's death Tanner is angry and wants revenge all- then sheround good egg's frustrated when shebut as we's taken off the honour killings cases ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and put on compassionate leave. She has a solution though: she calls on the services of D I Tom Thorne who - in policing terms - is everything that she his background isn'texactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529427045|title=Sleep Baby Sleep (Detective Pieter Voss)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|summary=Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years old and is known as 'the flower girl' in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market, where she works on her father's stall. It's almost impossible Life has more to believe that she's missing as sheoffer than people - prime numbers for example'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 of fire. In her body there are traces of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to the Sleeping Beauty murders. He had his doubts at the time as to whether or not everyone involved had been caught: now it seems 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 Lisbeth Salander has headed north to get into. Sometimes it's quicker than that. If Harper hadn't grabbed me in the first paragraphsmall town of Gasskas, she certainly had halfwhere the so-far-way down untapped natural resources of the second page: ''So nothing reacted when deep inside the house, the baby started cryingarea have sparked a gold rush.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Menczer|title= An Unlikely Agent|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1905 The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John Salander's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaretniece's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on mother is the tram hands her a newspaper open at latest woman in the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that promises to Salander became her niece'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 s guardian but it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission quickly becomes obvious that Svala is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaretremarkably gifted teenager who's guilty love unaware of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and part Salander played in 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 lovefather's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)1787636607|title= Block 46 The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at a Cartier event presenting some of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious function. When a young womanIt's mutilated body is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday home, Alexis' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa's death is not unique; scene replicated all too often in fact, she is only the latest in a string early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London clubs and Falkenberg. Up until now, the bodies have all belonged to young boys, so what has caused the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice looking for her friend, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lee Child|title= No Middle Name|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theory, way to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grassget home. This is particularly true, some say, Some are lucky and I have been known manage to concur, get one of the crime and thriller genresfew taxis available. Tosh! I can Others squash onto the night bus that will only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't been paying attentiongo as far as one of the outlying villages. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle NameThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by particularly in the name light of ''Jack Reacher'the missing women'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cath Staincliffe|title= The Silence Between Breaths|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm always wary of author endorsements For one young woman, even those from people I rate as writers, but the ''harrowing and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin final stop on the front cover bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone''s dead. The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the casebus driver to let her use his. This is an extremely powerful bookThere's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath1405957174|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 Death at 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>}}{{newreviewParty|author=Noah Hawley|title=Before the FallAmy Stuart

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept From the offer from the wife of a media mogul for a short plane ridefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not realising it will shape the rest of his lifeend well. The private jet falls out of the sky, making victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him a hero in and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the way ambulance he saved so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the only other survivor, the mogul's small son and heir JJman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises I'd better give you a little more background so that for some heyou can understand what's not so much the hero as the murdererhappening. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura0008530025|title=HereticsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is a child émigré to Cuba It was in 1939December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, looking forward to being joined from Germany by his parentsin the garden of their West London home. TheyHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he're on board d slipped down the St Louis in Havana docks steps but in a country and a time rife with politics and corruption, the ship is turned back without permitting any of their passengers to disembarkvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Now, nearly 80 Twenty years later, Danielno one has been charged with his murder and it's son wants now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that review the Kaminskys had with them on evidence and to take the ill-fated shipinvestigation further. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers More to something that may seem straightforward but the point, they soon realise it will prove 're going to be anything butdo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell0241996104|title= Rhyming RingsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= David Gemmell is a wellNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-known namebrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Until his death in 2006 he topped We first meet Nancy outside 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 court, after Martin receives a different direction entirelylife sentence. He might The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have opted to live with what happened for a 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 crimeit. Crime fiction that ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is. Ione favourite epithet and ''rich bitch''ll come back to thatmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1529413680|title=The Dog A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers and dog walkers who went on to One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the Thames towpath after dark. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left town from the riverside cottage she shared with her husband English in 1370 and never came home. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wandering, but HelenBruno's body was never discoveredthere to see the show with some friends. In 2016 HelenIt's husbandall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, AdamKerquelin, still wants to know what happenedthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. He has an alibiLuckily, albeit his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspectedhelicopter. Steve Lawson couldn't stand the constant suspicion and drowned himself in the Thames: over the years that came to be accepted as an admission of guilt A local doctor (and even one friend of Bruno) wonders about his children is certain that chances of survival but - as he was responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malin Persson Giolito|title= Quicksand|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something about Scandinavia's a senior government employee, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? This is the second book with man who runs Frenchelon - the same title by northern writers that I've read this year, and we're only into Aprilmilitary has stepped in. For clarity from the outsetOne daughter lives nearby and another, this has nothing to do with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on herewho lives in California, but we are back is flying in territory he would probably have been familiar with. Wesome of her father're in s friends for a Scandinavian courtroom, Swedish to be precise – we're about to begin the trial of Maja Norbergpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Skuse1529196388|title= Sweetpea|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=In many ways, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary life. She works at a local paper, lives with her long term boyfriend, dotes on her dog and is part of a large group of friends. There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannon, like that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families... and she's in fact a serial killer. She's harmless though... as long as you stay off her list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Trial|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|title=The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1)Rob Rinder

|summary=We're Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after plain sight at the Second World WarOld Bailey. A There's just one man has been found on a remote mountain road. It would appear he opened his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead. Leading in the investigation is Inspector Barlach, an elderly and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness frame for newhis murder -fangled ideas of criminology, but he has employed Tschanz to do his legJimmy Knight -work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence and to share it, and 's not rely on gut instincts. Neither particularly want to be out too long before Knight appears in all weathers sorting the crimecourt, but the victim charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was certainly in the wrong place at told that the wrong time, best barrister for he him was a fellow policeman Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they arenit't sayings Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. What had he been up Knight's determined toplead not guilty, and which way of policing the case will get despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>contrary.