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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lynda La PlanteElly 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=Good Friday The Devil You Know (Tennison 3D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'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=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 explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=Jane Tennison's Edward Jevons is a fullyworking-fledged detective now after her tenclass young man, obsessed with his upper-week course at Hendon: sheclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's back at Bow Street waiting for her first postinga theatre director. She'd like the Flying Squad, but sheHe's not got the experiencealso self-obsessed, nordemanding, it has handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be said, the necessary physical attributesrun errands for him. This is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampant. It was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 and 75 Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and no one believes that ithe's going drunkenly confided how he feels to be over any time soonRobert. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up Most men in the latest incident in which Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a bomb killed five people - and sherelationship had begun between them but he's one not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of only two people who got them kissing in a good look at the bomberdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate EllisJo Callaghan|title=The Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)Leave No Trace

|summary=In 1884 When a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. We'll follow is found crucified on the story top of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the biography of case alongside her sidekick, the reclusive novelist Wynn StanilandAI detective Lock. It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has to their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and is unwilling to discuss the one thing which the public will want a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to know about: his wife's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous booktheir AI Future Policing project. Wilkinson is doing his best Will they be able to drum up interest solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended case and he was seemingly on his way to one , potentially, out of these talks when he disappeared.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1035021803|title= Murder in Saint-Germain|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the best-selling Cara Black, it is in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. And so, if IThe Antique Hunter'm honest, I wasn't sure what to expect. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come s Guide to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late to the party? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Three Days and a LifeC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasnIt't got s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the best of situationsEnglish country village where she grew up. Some of his friends have parted company with him She's back now because of the new-fangled Playstationa request for help from her beloved aunt, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time onCarole. HeFreya's built a treehouse all by himself, former mentor and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but sheCarole's rejected it. And his best companyclose friend, the dog from the other house next doorArthur Crockleford, was injured in a hit is dead and runthe circumstances seem suspicious, and shot to be put out of its miserysay the least. In Arthur was the process of angrily demolishing reason why Freya had not been back to the treehousevillage: Arthur, she feels, he's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbourlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the dog's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of man or pursue the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweepprofession she loved. As After the title suggestssplit, there will be she worked in a very tense few days cafe, met and nights while married James (on the guilt amasses with rebound from the lad – and/or a lifetime love of living on a knife-edgeher life, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1398524085|title=Leopard at the DoorHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away Charlotte Salter was expected at school in England and finds a lot can change in 6 years. Of course she realises her motherhusband's death would alter things fiftieth birthday party but she's not prepared for never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her father's livedaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -in 'companion' Sara nor Saraher husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's son Harold sleeping father, Duncan Ackerley, in Rachel's old roomthe river. Michael It was an easy assumption for the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and now a man with his own ideasthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about to blowwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)1529900360|title= Can You Hear Me?The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen and troubledSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His mundanely stable, loving assertions that there were only open-and ordered life is rocked by -shut cases which didn't need the murder help of a young boy and the disappearance of psychologist only worked for a young womanwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who vanishes nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the woodsman she loved needed. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable father The next case did look simple, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play though. Two lovers were murdered in these acts of senseless violence. Into this steps Anna, the mother swimming pool of Elia's friend, a woman bowed under remote property in Bel Air. He was the strain of life heir to an Italian shoe empire and haunted by her choices. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia's certainty that something she is desperately wrong in his home. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, married to the mysteriously sensual an extremely rich man and sad Anna, Elia feels it's not the ground start to shift under his feet, to feel the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge Italian. But which of adolescence and them was the unavoidable pull of adulthood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)178763681X|title=The King of FoolsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Having 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 split up with his partner, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coast, when getting both men and women to do what he chances to meet a married English woman, Marjoriewanted. They meet in Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next school to each otherassist Paul, she gets in the wrong one by mistakewho had a broken arm, then leaves her beach bag behindbut it didn't turn out that way. Lo The teaching - and behold they find each other at the casino, and the following day, when she arrives at problems - are all his hotel own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to heartturn up dead. Jean-Marie sees her Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even the arrival of his partner and make-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjorieprime suspect. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude1529421284|title= Death Makes A ProphetLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime Classic'' I had It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to check the first publication datesurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Reading the first two pagesHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could easily have been written in 1967, or a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'87t convinced. Geary was a townie, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Given that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that it's taken this long cold cases to resurfaceyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1529425867|title=Dead in the Dark Lost and Never Found (Cooper and FryA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=ItIn 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 Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's ten years since Reece Bower was accused not any of the murder of his wife, but the case never came to trial: Annette Bowerthose things. He's body was never found and although white, originated from a murder can be prosecuted without a body there was an added problem here. Annettetrailer park, barely educated (reading's father said that henot ''really''d seen his daughter a couple thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of days after she'd apparently disappearedshell suits and trackies. Had Annette simply left the marriage that was They're usually in difficulties lime green or was something more sinister going on? acid yellow. Then, You might wonder if you're being introduced to a decade laterpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, Reece Bower disappears without traceyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. His new partner wants some answersSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris1529431735|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 34

|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediaIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. There 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 plenty here to likehad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and plenty not hasn't long tolive. But good structure It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and scramjet pace keep this one flying sent to a watery grave in the final pageboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville0861541774|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Harry Garrick had been DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a successful businessman until the car accident which cost him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden short holiday in Singapore to his wife for even the most intimate functionsmeet up with an old ally, so there Guy Trueman. Maik was not involved in a ''lot'' of surprise when, six months street brawl - he would later, maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he seemed to have taken his own lifekilled a Ghurka. One sachet of morphine granulesInitially, mixed in he faced a pot charge of yoghurt had given him a good night's sleep. Garrick appeared manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have crunched ten sachets of granules, if planned to murder the empty packets were anything to go byman. It seemed obvious that the case should Now he could be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that the widow, Roberta Garrick, and facing the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closedeath penalty. Perhaps Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)1521129886|title= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small town, a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faith, in both God and justice. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man's tenuously ordered life and drags him to the edge of the abyss. McCarthy is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps Franck, a private detective with a shadowy agenda, a raging cocaine habit and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a wink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Mark Ellis|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelKeith Redfern

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe and France is occupied, thereGreg 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 something of a lull in Britaingood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Hitler needs Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the Luftwaffe for other duties and London morning sickness. Greg is spared the nightly blitz, but no oneapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's under any illusions that it could start again at any time. Thereconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's been a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on the rise struggling to make ends meet and her son is not all of them go as they shouldthriving. A young woman Lucy, he says, is found dead convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in a London hotel room as the result of a botched operation: she has no identification his nature. The police and no one knows who the father of coroner have accepted that the baby death wassuicide, or who performed but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the operationnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew CartmelB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really a detective. HeIt's just a normal bloke - though that might depend on your definition of 'normalthe 1990s and Greg Mason' s twenty- who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats and eight years old. He used to have a collection of vinyl high-flying job in a house that happens to be adjacent to the city but it wasn't satisfying so he'Abbeys now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', a posh rehab place notorious for the celebrities it treatsyou might be thinking. He doesnNice bloke, but where't solve crimes or trace missing peoples the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, even if he does search for rare recordshas been asked to look into something. So when Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in tracing a missing child front of a 1960train. Greg's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says no. That is, until he is told that the job would also involve tracing a rare singlebeen asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson1838954481|title=Sleeping in the GroundThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=It Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the sort of display which would have been better in black fifteen-year-old holding the gun and white and without a sound track, but what happened pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the Red Wedding, as it would come trigger but due to be known, the vagaries of the jury system he was noisy, brutal found not guilty of both the murder and fatal. A sniper on a distant hillside began shooting at the wedding party: three people, including manslaughter of the bride died immediatelyofficer. Another two, including the bridegroom would die soon afterwardsAnd so lives must go on. Terry Gilchrist saw For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the shooter disappearing over capital and hoping for a quieter life in the hillside, countryside but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word for it when they finally arrived and it was a further threemissing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation -quarters and back into the orbit of an hour before they gave clearance for the paramedics to come to the scene. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too longRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1448309743|title=Suspicion The Devil Stone (Inspector Barlach 2DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=34

|summary=Inspector Barlach is dying. We did know that, more or less, from [[The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|In the first book]] to feature him, but it's confirmed here by us opening village of Cronchie on him in a clinic bedthe West coast of Scotland, with five members of a year left to livewealthy family are found murdered. But his doctor The only item missing from the home is helping him in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his life. When his doctor blanches at the sight of a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at work, a story slowly starts to emerge, one Devil Stone: myth says that may prove to be a wicked conspiracy to keep if the Nazi alive and still practicingstone is removed from Otterburn House, under someone else's namedeath will follow. BarlachThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, clearly well suited to go under cover as someone needing to go under the knife, works up a plan to check whether his suspicion is correct. Whatthat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the worst that could happen after all? – even were body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>'shadow' him.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1529077699|title=Forever and a DeathThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5

|summary=A lot of time and effort goes into the average movie''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, but this it is at least double in the case of Bond. Each Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one is part evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a decade's long institution month and must excel. With this in mind there is a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themesthen turned up, wannabe-Bond stories naked and wannabe-Bond actors. For every successful ''Garbage'' Bond themedead, there are numerous other indie bands that never made the cut. Donald E Westlake was in a successful thriller writer small boat, anchored in his own rightScully Cove close to the village of Greystone, but once he jumped aboard the good ship Bond his work never cut itin Devon. The result was this adaptation Rosco had the status of his failed Bond script, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= L F Robertson|title= Two Lost Boys|rating= 2|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is a seasoned death row appeals attorney. Overworked, lonelynational treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and feeling like sheall round ''celebrity''s drunk her fill of desperation and sadness, she takes on one final case, determined it will be her last. Marion I ''nearly'Andy' Hardy is sweet, polite, said 'all-round good-natured, and a little slow, egg' but according to the stateas we'll find out, he's also could be more than a rapist little bit close with money and a murderer. Moodie must untangle his aging case against the clock. She canbackground isn't save exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his innocence, but maybe she ''can'' save his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk>first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts1529427045|title=The ObsessionGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasn't always lived there'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. Actually her name hasn't always The criminal underworld has not been Naomi Carsonslow in coming forward. NaomiSalander's life had to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into niece's mother is the latest woman in the woods area to see if he have vanished without trace. It was hiding only with reluctance that Salander became her birthday present. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As an adult sheniece's now putting her life back together and even coping with the advances of Xander Keaton guardian but danger still lurks. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find sheit quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the targetpart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse1787636607|title= The Woman in the WoodTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process to It's a scene replicated all too often in the art early hours of gardening: 'A seed the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a plot drops into my head, I plant it with a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few chapterstaxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', spend a great deal particularly in the light of time thinking it through, and once 'the green shoots come through, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grownmissing women'.' Certainly she carefully cultivates her characters For one young woman, meticulously researches the locations for final stop on the bus leaves her books and is an expert at creating a fast paced plot with heart in the mouth momentslong way short of her home. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds had intended to ring someone to come and draw on inner hidden strengths to triumph over adversity. Invariably collect her well-crafted novels, whether they be historical fiction, family sagas or crime stories are captivating best sellersbut her phone's dead. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I The bus had driven off before she had high expectations for the chance to beg the bus driver to let her latest noveluse his. Whilst it delivered on some levels, it regrettably didn There't leave me s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in disbelief at the denouementhigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1405957174|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationDeath at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=The body of a woman was found beneath From the ruined Templar chateau of Commarquefirst page, but what had she been doing there? Shewe know that Nadine Walsh'd apparently been climbing the structure, but using some cheap and unsuitable ropes party will not end well. Sprayed on the wall in orange paint were the letter ''IFTI''. Had she been intending to write more The victim - a man - is dying when she fell, but if so, where was the paint - we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the rope? Her neck had been broken, but was this an accidental fall when doing something stupid, or had she been pushed? ambulance he so desperately needs. She carried no identification and her fingerprints werenWhat we don't known to know is who the French police man is or Interpolwhy Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson0008530025|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes away, he makes the decision to return to his home Murder in the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his family's estate. He has been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued a career in the army and survived a posting in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option. For most people in his position, returning home to the peaceful life of lordship over a castle and village would sound like a dream come true. But Duncul Castle and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars of Duncul, and some of Glencul's residents would kill for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Karin Fossum|title=HellfireCara Hunter

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the door body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the caravan and surveyed the scenegarden of their West London home. The mother - sheHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd be in her thirties - and her four-year old son slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had both been brutally stabbedtaken was obviously deliberate. There was blood everywhere Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the only clue as to who had murdered them was subject of ''Infamous'', a bloody footprinttrue-crime show. But who would want A group of experts has been brought together to kill Bonnie Hayden review the evidence and her son Simon? You see, Bonnie is one of those people whom you feel is due some luckto take the investigation further. As a child she wanted More to be a doctorthe point, but when we go back they're going to December 2004 she was working as a home help do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and dealing with some no shortage of the most difficult invalids in the areacliffhangers. SimonIt's father had left them and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both of them hating the fact that Simon had to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to workcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham0241996104|title=Love Like BloodComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=DI Nicola TannerOne 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 lover, Susan, was brutally murdered as she entered there to see the hallway of their homeshow with some friends. SheIt'd s all been driving Nicola's car and it seemed obvious that this was a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings and was convinced that many very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the cases were contracted out to main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the same peoplescript. Was she getting too close? Tanner wants the killers and the go-betweensLuckily, but it's not as easy as it might be as his doctor is there's no obvious route to take: several faiths are involved so it's not just a case of tracking and the killers down through man is whisked away in a family's place of worshiphelicopter. After Susan's death Tanner is angry A local doctor (and wants revenge friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - then sheas he's frustrated when she's taken off a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the honour killings cases and put on compassionate leavemilitary has stepped in. She has a solution though: she calls on the services of D I Tom Thorne One daughter lives nearby and another, who - lives in policing terms - California, is everything that she isnflying in with some of her father'ts friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529196388|title=Sleep Baby Sleep (Detective Pieter Voss)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=Annie Schrijver is 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 plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just twentyone man in the frame for his murder -twoJimmy Knight -years old and is known as 'the flower girlit' s not too long before Knight appears in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower marketcourt, where she works on her fathercharged with Cliveden's stallmurder. It's almost impossible to believe Knight was told that shethe best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's missing as she's very personable Taylor-Cameron and always popular with the customershis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. When sheKnight's found shedetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'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 recommendations 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 himcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author= Jane Harper|title= The Dry|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book takes a while Move on 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= [[Newest Crime (Historical)|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 |rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers |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 woman'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; in fact, she is only the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London 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 for her friend, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>}}Reviews]]