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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith1786482126|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Adrian Gray Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was not a particularly pleasant man, but that was no reason why he should meet his death at the hands of one of his own children as going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931. None of discovered the six children were fond bones of their father and several had cause to wish him deada child beneath a doorway. Richard There was the eldest and was married to Laurano skull. He was Was this a politician and keen to advance himself - and to get a title other than the knighthood which he already had - ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but such endeavours cost money which he ''didnNelson doesn't'' have. He'd also been indiscreet , that she is pregnant with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him and was hoping that his father would advance child as a result of the one night they spent together some funds three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to get him out sudden bouts of the messsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton0008551324|title=Y is for YesterdayThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary= It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. My very first crime fiction book 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 a Kinsey Millhone storyresponsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from a crime avoider 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 a crime lover! get an early parole date. Since that first story, I have been committed Not much to the alphabet mysteriesask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so it I felt both excited and a little sad she's even prepared to be holding do the penultimate story in the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow0008405026|title= Look For HerA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976, Annalise Wood It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared on from her journey home from school bed one summer night. She was never found and instantly became the investigation ground to a local celebrityhalt. For decades the town of Lilling tried to solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance until Now, her mother, almost twenty years laterHelena, and her body was discoveredfather are dead in their bed. Annalise Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's body was badly decomposed and there was lack something about the positioning of DNA available, the only trace on the body bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was found in her skirt going to be an open-and does not match anyone on record-shut case is now a complex double murder. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and Kerrigan is convinced that the murder soon becomes a explanation lies in Rosalie'cold cases disappearance: others (such as Derwent' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seens boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte0571379877|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from establishedEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, wellobsessed with his upper-regarded author Daisy Waughclass friends, writing under Robert and Stanza. Robert's a pseudonymtheatre director. But, as a He's also self-confessed chicklit fanobsessed, demanding, whohandsome 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 never read position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a crime novel before, I wasnrelationship had begun between them but he't sure if I was going s not like most men: Edward is left to like itstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway....turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Neil WhiteJo Callaghan|title= From The ShadowsLeave No Trace|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm When a bit old-fashioned and therefore not man is found crucified on the top of a great fan of stories that canhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It't keep s their timeline straightfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. I'll go with But when there is a prologue – even if it's becoming second body found crucified a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a story – but switching between 'now' potential serial killer and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, very high profile case that draws a way lot of creating tension when all else failsunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. ThatWill they be able to solve the case in time, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' or will Kat find herself taken off the case and I admit, whether I like it or notpotentially, it does more or less work.out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1035021803|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It was a field trip, but 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to be honest a lot of the students didnEnglish country village where she grew up. She't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none s back now because of them would go into forensicsa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. There was more excitement when Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the skull least. Arthur was discovered but at that point the students were quickly escorted from reason why Freya had not been back to the scene and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin village: Arthur, she feels, let her investigationdown badly. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the neighbouring force also arrived with man or pursue the same intention: profession she loved. After the burial site was right split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the border between rebound from the two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and the other began. Stone assumed that it would be love of her case and life, who was shocked murdered) and bewildered when she found that it was to be run as a joint investigation. She nearly refused: she Freya and Travis had historyJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1398524085|title=The Word is MurderHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=An attractiveCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in Londonsons Niall, Paul and Ollie and makes plans for her own funeraldaughter, Etty. Within just a few hoursare all worried but - strangely - her husband, she's had lunchAlec, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own homeis not. Could anyone have foreseen the service to have been needed so quickly? That's the initial premise of this thriller, this most intriguing mysteryShortly afterwards, Etty and if you want to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprisesGreg, you should not read find the bookbody of Greg's blurbfather, or even the authorial biographyDuncan Ackerley, and perhaps not even in the followingriver. Just go in blind, and wait It was an easy assumption for the surprises – police to make that start, as it happens, Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>their lives and wonder about what really happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1529900360|title= The Night StalkerGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not help on home turfdifficult cases. Lewisham His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's finest are sent to t need the country help of a psychologist only worked for this outinga while. There Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's been a death down in Somersetpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It's not She knew that the sort of thing you'd expect involvement was something that the regional murder squad to get involved man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in, it looks like a hit-and-run on the swimming pool of a remote road property in Bel Air. He was the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four who didnheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it't even know he'd done its not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)178763681X|title= The Long Arm of the LawKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think 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 the getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'golden age' of crime fiction, we think of got the brilliant amateur forever putting impression that he'd be at the official P.C. Plod school to shame. Miss Marpleassist Paul, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown and so on. I'll admit to being who had a fan of all of thosebroken arm, but they arenit didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the whole storyproblems - are all his own. The other side of one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the coin shows body and everyone knows that the official police doing their job and getting their manconsider that person to be the prime suspect. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1529421284|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know It was one of those flash downpours that she's got less than three weeks to livethe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choices. I've In a gully, a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the weddingbody to be Lee Geary, but it was there that she met her killerwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He said his name was David 'd been a known drug user and he was charminghad learning disabilities, respectful, unwilling to rush anything as he was still getting over the death so it could have been a simple case of his wifemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Kathryn Geary was a townie, so what was left with the feeling that he was still more than a little bit in love with Tricia. doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? They went on a couple There are connections to the suicide of dates Holly Gilbert and then David took her to a cottage in two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Dales for the weekendtime. By the end Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker1529425867|title= All The Wicked GirlsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In the small town Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of GraceNigerian descent, fifteen-year-old Summer Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know herfather of Ryan, the incident rocks the entire townis not. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop He's not any of recent crimes; for over the course of the yearthose things. He's white, five young church-attending girls have gone missing originated from all corners a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Briar Countyshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for two men are just different sides of the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, and has so far evaded capturesame policing coin. Whilst he roams Sometimes the streets, no one is safecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1529431735|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker It's February 1991 and Essex is an investigatorbitingly cold, specialising in missing persons caseswhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Over He'd been exiled on the course of his work, he's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s never encountered Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a case quite like this onedecade. A man, Richard Kite, The return has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isncome about because he't trying to locate s had a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering letter from dissociative amnesiahis ex-wife, which means saying that he canshe's ill and hasn't remember anything about his lifelong to live. He It's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems hard to know who he feel any sympathy when Hopkins isabducted, despite news and press coverage of stripped to his case, underwear and without sent to a National Insurance number, he is basically 'off watery grave in the grid,' unable to get boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a job, pay tax Spanish gang or own a problem closer to 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>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante0861541774|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54

|summary=Jane TennisonDCI Domenic Jejeune's a fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: she's back at Bow Street waiting for her first posting. She'd like the Flying Squad, but she's not got the experienceclose friend and former colleague, norDanny Maik, it has taken a short holiday in Singapore to be saidmeet up with an old ally, the necessary physical attributesGuy Trueman. This is 1976 Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and male chauvinism was rampanthe killed a Ghurka. It was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign Initially, he faced a charge of 1974 and 75 and no one believes manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that it's going he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be over any time soonfacing the death penalty. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in the latest Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident in which a bomb killed five people - and shewouldn's one of only two people who got a good look t help Danny at the bomberall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1521129886|title=The Mermaid's Scream They Had It Coming (Wesley PetersonGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. We'll follow the story of John LiptonGreg Mason's courtship through excerpts from just beginning to get his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing confidence as an investigator to the biography of the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilandpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's not easy work as Staniland isna good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they't inclined to give re both delighted. Joyce will be more away than he has to and is unwilling to discuss delighted about the one thing which baby when she gets past the public will want morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to know have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about: his wifesister, Lucy, who's suicide which seemed struggling to follow a scene from his most famous bookmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Wilkinson Lucy, he says, is doing convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his best to drum up interest in nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he death was seemingly suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on his way to one of these talks when he disappearedthe night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara BlackB0CK3MYJ56|title= Murder in Saint-GermainResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have to a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be honest and say thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that though backs up this novel may be seventeenth in series from profession? On the bestother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-selling Cara Blacksisters, or rather, it is they were until Helen was killed in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detectivewhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. And so Joyce - and her parents, if I'm honest, I wasnOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't sure understand what to expect. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've she was doing there - or how she could come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established fall in front of a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late to the party? train. After reading Greg''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easilys been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)1838954481|title=Three Days and a LifeThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasnRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there't got the best of situationss no doubt about that. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of He was the newfifteen-year-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time onold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He's built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo pulled the girl next door that he loves, trigger but she's rejected it. And his best company, due to the dog from vagaries of the other house next door, jury system he was injured in a hit and run, and shot to be put out of its misery. In the process found not guilty of angrily demolishing both the treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly murder and adorable neighbour, the dog's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some manslaughter of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweepofficer. And so lives must go on. As For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the title suggests, there will be capital and hoping for a very tense few days and nights while quieter life in the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or countryside but when a lifetime of living missing teenager is found on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer McVeigh|title=Leopard at the Door|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away at school in England and finds a lot can change in 6 years. Of course she realises her mother's death would alter things but territory she's not prepared for her father's livedrawn into a wider investigation -in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old room. Michael the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though and now a man with his own ideas. Meanwhile back into the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to bloworbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)1448309743|title= Can You Hear Me?|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen and troubled. His mundanely stable, loving and ordered life is rocked by the murder of a young boy and the disappearance of a young woman, who vanishes into the woods. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable father, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts of senseless violence. Into this steps Anna, the mother of Elia's friend, a woman bowed under the strain of life and haunted by her choices. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia's certainty that something is desperately wrong in his home. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, to the mysteriously sensual and sad Anna, Elia feels the ground start to shift under his feet, to feel the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge of adolescence and the unavoidable pull of adulthood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=The King of FoolsCaro Ramsay

|summary=Having sort In the village of split up with his partner, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone Cronchie on the southern French West coastof Scotland, when he chances to meet five members of a married English woman, Marjoriewealthy family are found murdered. They meet in The only item missing from the home is the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next to each other, she gets in Devil Stone: myth says that if the wrong one by mistakestone is removed from Otterburn House, then leaves her beach bag behinddeath will follow. Lo and behold they find each other at the casinoThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the following day, body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when she arrives at his hotel to reclaim her baghe disappears, they meet heart to heart. Jean-Marie sees her DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even the arrival of his partner and make-up sex can convince 'shadow' him he is not in love with Marjorie. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude1529077699|title= Death Makes A ProphetThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime ClassicIt's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' I had to check the first publication date Well yes, it is. Reading Jem Rosco blew into the first two pageslocal pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, it could easily have been written in 1967a small boat, or '87anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, or even (possibly as in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a pastiche) in 2017renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Given that BudeI ''s witty caper originally came nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out in 1947, it's slightly criminal that ithe could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn's taken this long to resurfacet exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1529427045|title=Dead The Girl in the Dark (Cooper and Fry)Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=It's ten years since Reece Bower was accused 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the murder so-far-untapped natural resources of his wife, but the case never came to trial: Annette Bowerarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's body was never found and although a murder can be prosecuted mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without a body there trace. It was an added problem here. Annetteonly with reluctance that Salander became her niece's father said guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that heSvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'd seen his daughter a couple s unaware of days after she'd apparently disappeared. Had Annette simply left the marriage that was part Salander played in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? Then, a decade later, Reece Bower disappears without traceher father's death. His new partner wants some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris1787636607|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5

|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. ThereIt's plenty here a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to like, get home. Some are lucky and plenty not manage toget one of the few taxis 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', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. But good structure For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and scramjet pace keep this one flying collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the final pagebus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville1405957174|title=So Say A Death at the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Harry Garrick had been From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a successful businessman until the car accident which cost man - is dying when we first meet him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden Nadine consciously makes no effort to his wife for even call the most intimate functions, ambulance he so there was not a ''lot'' of surprise when, six months later, he seemed to have taken his own lifedesperately needs. One sachet of morphine granules, mixed in a pot of yoghurt had given him a good nightWhat we don's sleep. Garrick appeared t know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have crunched ten sachets of granules, if the empty packets were anything to go byhim die. It seemed obvious that the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute I'd better give you a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just little more background so that the widow, Roberta Garrick, and the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closeyou can understand what's happening. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)0008530025|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, Murder 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>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Mark Ellis|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelCara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Whilst war is raging It was in Europe December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and France is occupiedfound the body of her stepfather, there's something Luke Ryder, in the garden of a lull in Britaintheir West London home. Hitler needs He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the Luftwaffe for other duties and London is spared steps but the nightly blitzvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, but no one's under any illusions that has been charged with his murder and it could start again at any time. There's been a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on now the rise and not all subject of them go as they should''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A young woman is found dead in a London hotel room as the result group of a botched operation: she experts has no identification been brought together to review the evidence and no one knows who to take the father of investigation further. More to the baby waspoint, they're going to do this live on camera, or who performed episode by episode. There's no dump of the operationwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel0241996104|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really a detective. HeNancy's just a normal bloke mother and step- though that might depend on your definition of 'normal' father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step- who lives with his girlfriend Nevadabrother, Martin, two cats and a collection has been convicted of vinyl in their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a house life sentence. The barrister tells her that happens to be adjacent to the she's received a 'Abbeysilent sentence'- she', a posh rehab place notorious s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the celebrities rest of her life. Of course, it treats. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing people, even if he does search for rare records. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help in tracing a missing child of a 1960s made worse because Nancy's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says norich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. That ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is, until he one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is told that the job would also involve tracing a rare singleundoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson1529413680|title=Sleeping in the GroundA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=It was One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the sort liberation of display which would have been better the town from the English in black 1370 and white and without a sound track, Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but what happened at the Red Weddinggoes badly wrong when, as it would come to be knownKerquelin, was noisythe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, brutal his doctor is there and fatalthe man is whisked away in a helicopter. A sniper on local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a distant hillside began shooting at senior government employee, the wedding party: three people, including man who runs Frenchelon - the bride died immediatelymilitary has stepped in. Another twoOne daughter lives nearby and another, including the bridegroom would die soon afterwards. Terry Gilchrist saw the shooter disappearing over the hillsidewho lives in California, but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word is flying in with some of her father's friends for it when they finally arrived and it was a further threepre-quarters 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 longarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529196388|title=Suspicion (Inspector Barlach 2)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach is dying. We did know Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that, more or less, from [[The Judge was good and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt honest and Joel Agee (translator)|the first book]] looked up to feature himby just about everyone, but so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's confirmed here by us opening on him not too long before Knight appears in a clinic bedcourt, charged with a year left to liveCliveden's murder. But his doctor is helping Knight was told that the best barrister for him in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his life. When his doctor blanches at the sight was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at work, a story slowly starts to emerge, one that may prove to be a wicked conspiracy to keep the Nazi alive Stag Court Chambers and still practicing, under someone elseit's name. BarlachTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, clearly well suited to go under cover as someone needing to go under the knifeAdam Green, works up a plan to check whether his suspicion is correctwho eventually represent him. WhatKnight's the worst that could happen after determined to plead not guilty, despite all? – even were he Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>the contrary.