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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1786482126|title=The Word is MurderJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary=An attractive, wellBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -heeled woman enters when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a classically-minded funeral parlour in London, and makes plans for her own funeraldoorway. There was no skull. Within just Was this a few hours, she's had lunchritual killing or murder? Inevitably, engaged Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with business affairs – and been killed in her own homeDCI Harry Nelson. Could anyone have foreseen the service to have been needed so quickly? ThatIt's the initial premise of this thrillerdifficult as Ruth knows, this most intriguing mysterybut Nelson doesn't, and if you want to read it – which that she is something you really should do – pregnant with no surprises, you should not read his child as a result of the book's blurb, or even the authorial biographyone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and perhaps not even the followingleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. Just go in blind, and wait for the surprises – that start, as it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue0008551324|title= The Night StalkerDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turf. LewishamIt's finest are sent unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the country police. Neither side likes or has any respect for this outingthe other. ThereBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's been prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death down in Somerset. It's not 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 sort remainder of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad his sentence and to get involved inan early parole date. Not much to ask, is it looks like a hit-? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and-run on a remote road in she's even prepared to do the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big fourother thing that Hardie demanded -by-four make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who didnworks with him is kept well away from what't even know he'd done its happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0008405026|title= The Long Arm of A Stranger in the Law|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the 'golden age' of crime fiction, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod to shame. Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown and so on. I'll admit to being a fan of all of those, but they aren't the whole story. The other side of the coin shows the official police doing their job and getting their man. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Val McDermid|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Jane Casey

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheIt's got less than three weeks to livesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choicesShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. I've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at the weddingNow, her mother, Helena, but it was there that she met and her killerfather are dead in their bed. He said his name was David and he was charmingInitially, respectful, unwilling to rush anything as he was still getting over it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the death positioning of his wife. Kathryn was left with the feeling bodies that he was still more than a little bit in love with Triciamakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. They went on a couple of dates What looked as though it was going to be an open-and then David took her to -shut case is now a cottage in the Dales for the weekendcomplex double murder. By the end of Kerrigan is convinced that the weekend Kathryn would be dead explanation lies in her burned-out carRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker0571379877|title= All The Wicked Girls|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In the small town of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her, the incident rocks the entire town. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the year, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, and has so far evaded capture. Whilst he roams the streets, no one is safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tim Weaver|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing Persons|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over the course of his work, he's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news and press coverage of his case, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'off the grid,' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKellerby Code|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)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=1521129886|title= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineKeith Redfern|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is 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 man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small town, good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a good husband father baby and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faith, in they're both God and justicedelighted. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man's tenuously ordered life and drags him to Joyce will be more delighted about the edge of baby when she gets past the abyssmorning sickness. McCarthy Greg is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soulapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-searching questions law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about morality and the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps Franckhis sister, a private detective with a shadowy agendaLucy, a raging cocaine habit who's struggling to make ends meet and a twisted sense of moralityher son is not thriving. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crime Lucy, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Crickethe says, dripping immorality and depravity into is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his ear with a kiss nature. The police and a winkthe coroner 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>1908524839</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark EllisB0CK3MYJ56|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe It's the 1990s and France is occupied, thereGreg Mason's something of twenty-eight years old. He used to have a lull high-flying job in Britainthe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties and London is spared the nightly blitz'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but no onewhere's under any illusions the life experience that it could start again at any timebacks up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. ThereJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and illegal abortions are on the rise her parents, Oliver and not all Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of them go as they shoulda train. A young woman is found dead in a London hotel room as the result of a botched operation: she has no identification and no one knows who the father of the baby was, or who performed the operationGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1838954481|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really Ryan Kennedy killed a detectivepolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He's just a normal bloke was the fifteen- though that might depend on your definition of 'normal' year- who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats old holding the gun and a collection of vinyl in a house that happens to be adjacent pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the ''Abbey'', a posh rehab place notorious for vagaries of the celebrities it treats. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing people, even if jury system he does search for rare recordswas found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. So when an odd couple turn up And so lives must go on his doorstep requesting his help . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in tracing the countryside but when a missing child of a 1960teenager is found on her territory she's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says no. That is, until he is told that drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the job would also involve tracing a rare singleorbit of Ryan Kennedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson1448309743|title=Sleeping in the GroundThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=It was In the sort village of display which would have been better in black and white and without a sound track, but what happened at Cronchie on the Red WeddingWest coast of Scotland, as it would come to be known, was noisy, brutal and fatalfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. A sniper on a distant hillside began shooting at The only item missing from the home is the wedding partyDevil Stone: three peoplemyth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, including the bride died immediatelydeath will follow. Another The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two, including of them 'discovered' the bridegroom would die soon afterwardsbody. Terry Gilchrist saw the shooter disappearing over the hillside, The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word for it when they finally arrived and it was a further three-quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for the paramedics to come he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to the scene. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too long'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529077699|title=Suspicion The Raging Storm (Inspector Barlach 2Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is dying. We did know thatJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, more or lessstayed for about a month and then turned up, from [[The Judge naked and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|the first book]] to feature himdead, but it's confirmed here by us opening on him in a clinic bedsmall boat, with a year left anchored in Scully Cove close to live. But his doctor is helping him the village of Greystone, in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his lifeDevon. When his doctor blanches at Rosco had the sight status of a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at work, national treasure: a story slowly starts to emergerenowned adventurer, one that may prove to be a wicked conspiracy to keep round the Nazi alive world sailor and still practicing, under someone elseall round ''celebrity''s name. Barlach, clearly well suited to go under cover I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as someone needing to go under the knifewe'll find out, works up he could be more than a plan to check whether little bit close with money and his suspicion is correctbackground isn't exactly an open book. What's Where did he get the worst that could happen after allmoney for his first boat? – even were How did he to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1529427045|title=Forever and a DeathThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=35

|summary=A lot ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of time and effort goes into the average movieGasskas, but this is at least double in where the case of Bond. Each one is part so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a decade's long institution and must excelgold rush. With this The criminal underworld has not been slow in mind there is a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themes, wannabe-Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actorscoming forward. For every successful Salander's niece'Garbage'' Bond theme, there are numerous other indie bands that never made s mother is the latest woman in the cutarea to have vanished without trace. Donald E Westlake It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a successful thriller writer remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in his own right, but once he jumped aboard the good ship Bond his work never cut ither father's death. 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 Robertson1787636607|title= Two Lost BoysThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 24.5|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is It's a seasoned death row appeals attorneyscene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Overworked, lonely, Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and feeling like she's drunk her fill of desperation looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and sadness, she takes on manage to get one final case, determined it of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will be her lastonly go as far as one of the outlying villages. Marion The woman all regret the 'Andytaxi problem' Hardy is sweet, politeparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, goodthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -natured, and a little slow, but according to the state, heher phone's also a rapist and a murdererdead. Moodie must untangle The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his aging case against the clock. She can There't save his innocence, s no option but maybe she ''can'' save his lifeto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the Party|author=Nora RobertsAmy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=The ObsessionMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Naomi Carson lives It was in New York but she hasn't always lived there. Actually December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her name hasn't always been Naomi Carsonstepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. Naomi's life He had to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into an injury on the woods to see back of his head which could have happened if he 'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was hiding her birthday presentobviously deliberate. That night she saw something Twenty years later, no child… no personone has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further.. should see More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. As an adult sheThere's now putting her life back together no dump of the whole box set - and even coping with the advances no shortage of Xander Keaton but danger still lurkscliffhangers. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find sheIt's the targetcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse0241996104|title= The Woman in the WoodComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=Lesley Pearse compares Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her writing process to the art of gardening: 'A seed of a plot drops into my headstep-brother, I plant it with a few chaptersMartin, spend a great deal has been convicted of time thinking it through, and once their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the green shoots come throughcourt, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grownafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' Certainly - she carefully cultivates her characters, meticulously researches the locations 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for her books and is an expert at creating a fast paced plot with heart in the mouth moments. She delivers staggering surprises as rest of her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds and draw on inner hidden strengths to triumph over adversitylife. Invariably Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her wellmother -crafted novels, whether they be historical fiction, family sagas or crime stories and the papers are captivating best sellersmaking the most of it. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I had high expectations for her latest novel. Whilst it delivered on some levels, it regrettably didn ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch''t leave me in disbelief at the denouementmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)

|summary=The body One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of a woman was found beneath the ruined Templar chateau liberation of Commarque, but what had she been doing the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there? to see the show with some friends. SheIt'd apparently s all been climbing very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the structuremain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, but using some cheap his doctor is there and unsuitable rope. Sprayed on the wall man is whisked away in orange paint were the letter ''IFTI''a helicopter. Had she been intending to write more when she fell, A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but if so- as he's a senior government employee, where was the paint man who runs Frenchelon - and the rope? military has stepped in. Her neck had been brokenOne daughter lives nearby and another, but was this an accidental fall when doing something stupidwho lives in California, or had she been pushed? She carried no identification and is flying in with some of her fingerprints werenfather't known to the French police or Interpols friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1529196388|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes awayGrant 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 makes the decision to return to his home was murdered in plain sight at the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his familyOld Bailey. There's estate. He has been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued a career just one man in the army frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and survived a posting it's not too long before Knight appears in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city lifecourt, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only optioncharged with Cliveden's murder. For most people in his position, returning home to Knight was told that the peaceful life best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of lordship over a castle Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and village would sound like a dream come truehis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. But Duncul Castle and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars of Duncul Knight's determined to plead not guilty, and some of Glenculdespite all Taylor-Cameron's residents would kill for itrecommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>