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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1786482126|title= The Happy EndingJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years Builders were demolishing an old. Hehouse in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known to have doorway. There was no skull. Was this a fall ritual killing or two – so makes sure he has his panic button murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with him – but still he's managing well enough at homeDCI Harry Nelson. Mentally heIt's all theredifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, even if he does have these conversations that she is pregnant with his wifechild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, whonot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's been dead unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the last 6 yearspolice. ThereNeither 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 point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so ok, a point when there's clearly no purpose leftmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. No-one comesThis person, he promises, even is someone big and it will be worth the paramedics seem police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to have shunted you an open prison to serve the bottom remainder of the list, his sentence and wellto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's all becoming just a bit too undignified. To be honest, when he found even prepared to do the morphine Bettyother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd been stock-piling against the day her own illness got too much for her but never used as it turned out, Harry was on the point of using it himselfs happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0008405026|title=These Darkening DaysA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of the knife It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was a mistake, but he liked knives never found and had quite a collection until they were all taken away after the accident which had left him, well, not quite as he ought investigation ground to bea halt. The problem with this knife was that it was beside the woman who was lying in the ginnellNow, one leg twisted under her rather strangely mother, Helena, and with blood coursing down her facefather are dead in their bed. Tony thought Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about ringing the police but dismissed positioning of the idea quicklybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She What looked as though it was still alive going to be an open- just and- so an ambulance might have been shut case is now a good ideacomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going to catch him, so he dropped the knife down a drain and disappearedUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith0571379877|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Adrian Gray was not Edward Jevons is a particularly pleasant working-class young man, but that was no reason why he should meet obsessed with his death at the hands of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. None of the six children were fond of their father He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and several had cause uses Edward to wish run errands for him dead. Richard was the eldest Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and was married he's drunkenly confided how he feels to LauraRobert. He was Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a politician and keen to advance himself - and to get a title other than the knighthood which he already relationship had - begun between them but such endeavours cost money which he ''didn't'' have. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting s not like most men: Edward is left to blackmail him and was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him out stumble upon the two of the messthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GraftonJo Callaghan|title=Y is for YesterdayLeave No Trace

|summary= My very first crime fiction book was When a Kinsey Millhone story, and I man is found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from crucified on the top of a crime avoider hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to a crime lover! the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Since that It's their first storylive case together, I have having previously been committed to the alphabet mysteriesvery successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, so it I felt both excited Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a little sad very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be holding able to solve the penultimate story case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the series in my hands!case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1035021803|title= Look For HerThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and instantly became a local celebritythe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. For decades Arthur was the town of Lilling tried reason why Freya had not been back to solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance untilvillage: Arthur, almost twenty years latershe feels, let her body was discovereddown badly. Annalise's body was badly decomposed and there was lack of DNA available Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the only trace on man or pursue the profession she loved. After the body was found split, she worked in her skirt a cafe, met and does not match anyone married James (on record. The chances the rebound from the love of finding her killer were extremely low life, who was murdered) and Freya and the murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seenJames have now divorced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte1398524085|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I Charlotte Salter was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from establishedexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, wellEtty. are all worried but -regarded author Daisy Waughstrangely - her husband, Alec, writing under a pseudonymis not. But Shortly afterwards, as a self-confessed chicklit fanEtty and Greg, whofind the body of Greg's never read a crime novel beforefather, Duncan Ackerley, I wasnin the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't sure if I was going to like it.stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened..turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1529900360|title= From The ShadowsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= IIt hadn'm a bit oldt 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 help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can-shut cases which didn't keep their timeline straightneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. IFinally, it was Robin, Delaware'll go with s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a prologue – even if remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's becoming a bit not the Italian. But which of clichéd way of creating them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a mystery teaching job at the beginning of a story – residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but switching between celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''nowsomehow' and 'a fortnight agogot the impression that he' – just feels d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a little lazybroken arm, a but it didn't turn out that way of creating tension when . The teaching - and the problems - are all else failshis own. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'one thing he hadn' t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529421284|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a field tripheatwave. In a gully, but a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be honest Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a lot simple case of the students didnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none of them would go into forensicsconvinced. There Geary was more excitement when the skull a townie, so what was discovered but at that point he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the students were quickly escorted from the scene suicide of Holly Gilbert and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigation. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from the neighbouring force also arrived with the same intention: the burial site was right on the border between the two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the other begantime. Stone assumed that it would be her case Lockyer and was shocked and bewildered when she found DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that it was 's cold cases to be run as a joint investigation. She nearly refused: she you and Travis had historyme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1529425867|title=The Word is MurderLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=An attractiveIn Oxford, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in Londonthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and makes plans for her own funeralalways exquisitely dressed. Within just a few hoursD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, sheis not. He's had lunch, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own homenot any of those things. Could anyone have foreseen the service to have been needed so quickly? ThatHe's the initial premise of this thrillerwhite, this most intriguing mysteryoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you want 're being introduced to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprisesa police procedural written for laughs. Well, you should not read the book's blurb, or even the authorial biography, and perhaps re not even . The two men are just different sides of the followingsame policing coin. Just go in blind, and wait for Sometimes the surprises – that start, as combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>'s problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1529431735|title= The Night StalkerWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer It's February 1991 and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turfEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Lewisham He's finest are sent to d been exiled on the country Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for this outinga decade. There The return has come about because he's been had a death down in Somersetletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's not the sort of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad hard to get involved infeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, it looks like a hit-stripped to his underwear and-run on sent to a remote road watery grave in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving boot of a big four-by-four who didn't even know he'd done stolen Ford Sierra. Is it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0861541774|title= The Long Arm of 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 A Nye 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>}}{{newreviewPheasants|author=Val McDermid|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheDCI Domenic Jejeune's got less than three weeks to live. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choices. I've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at the wedding, but it was there that she met her killer. He said his name was David close friend and he was charmingformer colleague, respectfulDanny Maik, unwilling has taken a short holiday in Singapore to rush anything as he was still getting over the death of his wifemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Kathryn Maik was left with the feeling involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was still more than facing a little bit in love man armed with Triciaa knife - and he killed a Ghurka. They went on Initially, he faced a couple charge of dates and then David took her manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to a cottage in murder the Dales for man. Now he could be facing the weekenddeath penalty. By the end of the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker1521129886|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. They Had 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>}}{{newreviewComing (Greg Mason mysteries)|author= Tim Weaver|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsKeith Redfern|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>}}{{newreview|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)|rating=3.54

|summary=Jane TennisonGreg 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 fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: shegood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they's back at Bow Street waiting for her first postingre both delighted. She'd like Joyce will be more delighted about the Flying Squad, but baby when she's not got gets past the experience, nor, it has to be said, the necessary physical attributesmorning sickness. This Greg is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampantapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. It was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 and 75 and no one believes that itStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's going struggling to be over any time soonmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in the latest incident in which a bomb Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed five people himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and shethe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's one of only two people who got a good look at prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the bombernight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate EllisB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Mermaid's Scream Responsibilities (Wesley PetersonGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. WeIt'll follow s the story of John Lipton1990s and Greg Mason's courtship through excerpts from his journaltwenty-eight years old. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing He used to have a high-flying job in the biography of the reclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. It's not easy work as Staniland isncity but it wasn't inclined to give more away than satisfying so he has to and is unwilling to discuss the one thing which the public will want to know about: his wife's suicide which seemed to follow now set himself up as a scene from his most famous bookprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest in On the forthcoming book: other hand, he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he was seemingly on his way has been asked to one of these talks when he disappearedlook into something.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cara Black|title= Murder in Saint-Germain|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest Joyce and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the bestHelen 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-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time onyear-old 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 her territory she's drawn into a knifewider investigation -edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1448309743|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 she's not prepared for her father's live-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 the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|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 (translator)|title=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 CocaineMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man of simple pleasures; Sheriff It was in a small town, a good husband father December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and neighbourfound the body of her stepfather, he moves through life buoyed by his faithLuke Ryder, in both God and justicethe garden of their West London home. The brutal murder He had an injury on the back of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple manhis head which could have happened if he's tenuously ordered life and drags him to d slipped down the edge of steps but the abyssvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. McCarthy is tasked Twenty years later, no one has been charged with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality murder and it's now the nature subject of existence. Into this quagmire steps Franck''Infamous'', a private detective with a shadowy agenda, a raging cocaine habit true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and a twisted sense of moralityto take the investigation further. As McCarthy tries More to the point, they're going to solve do this apparently motiveless crimelive on camera, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a winkno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Mark EllisJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Whilst war One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is raging the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in Europe 1370 and France is occupied, thereBruno's something of a lull in Britain. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties and London is spared there to see the nightly blitz, but no one's under any illusions that it could start again at any timeshow with some friends. ThereIt's all been a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the rise and not all man playing one of them go as they shouldthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. A young woman Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is found dead whisked away in a London hotel room helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the result of a botched operation: she man who runs Frenchelon - the military has no identification stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and no one knows another, who the lives in California, is flying in with some of her father of the baby was, or who performed the operation's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529196388|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really Grant Cliveden was a hero: a detectivepoliceman 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. He There's just a normal bloke one man in the frame for his murder - though that might depend on your definition of 'normal' Jimmy Knight - who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats and a collection of vinyl it's not too long before Knight appears in a house court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that happens to be adjacent to the ''Abbey'', a posh rehab place notorious best barrister for the celebrities him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it treats. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing peoples Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, even if he does search for rare recordsAdam Green, who eventually represent him. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help in tracing a missing child of a 1960 Knight's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mysterydetermined to plead not guilty, he says no. That is, until he is told that despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the job would also involve tracing a rare singlecontrary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>