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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1786482126|title= WychwoodThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=ThirtyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job and left her partnerthe site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Much It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she prefers Londonis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, she decides not least because Ruth is prone to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village 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 unusual for a short time anyone from the Hardie family to lick her wounds, but she arrives to find approach the neighbouring part of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the Wychwood other. But Davie Hardie is a crime scene. Even broken-hearted journalists canstruggling in prison and he't afford s prepared to pass up tell the chance police where the body of a storymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, particularly if they know they need to drum up some freelance work soonhe promises, so Elspeth can't resist sticking her nose inis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. With her childhood friend Peter And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the detective sergeant on the case there's remainder of his sentence and to get an extra interest in early parole date. Not much to ask, is it for Elspeth, ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and once she's spotted even prepared to do the connection between other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the ritualised murder Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the local myth investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the Carrion King, Peter positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Elspeth pool their resources her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to try be an open-and uncover -shut case is now a serial killercomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton0571379877|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=For those of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin she Edward Jevons is essentially a shortworking-tempered private investigator in her early 50s class young man, obsessed with an alcoholhis upper-class friends, doughnut Robert and man obsessionStanza. Robert's a theatre director. Much like TV He's Midsomer Murdersalso self-obsessed, demanding, the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has an astonishingly high crime rate been in love with enough murders Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to sustain 28 books so farstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben AaronovitchJo Callaghan|title=The Furthest StationLeave No Trace|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters a man is found crucified on the top of a particular part of hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Metropolitan Linecase alongside her sidekick, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the Special Assessment UnitAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, also known as The Follyhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they are all be able to solve the case in a day’s (time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a night’s) work for The Folly.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1035021803|title= The Happy EndingAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. HeIt's a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been known back to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still hethe English country village where she grew up. She's managing well enough at homeback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Mentally heFreya's former mentor and Carole's all thereclose friend, even if he does have these conversations with his wifeArthur Crockleford, who's been is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the last 6 yearsleast. There's a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so okArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, a point when there's clearly no purpose leftlet her down badly. No-one comesEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, even she has not felt able to be near the paramedics seem to have shunted you to man or pursue the bottom of profession she loved. After the list, and wellsplit, it's all becoming just she worked in a bit too undignified. To be honestcafe, when he found met and married James (on the morphine Betty'd been stock-piling against rebound from the day her own illness got too much for love of her but never used as it turned outlife, Harry who was on the point of using it himselfmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1398524085|title=These Darkening DaysHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of the knife Charlotte Salter was a mistakeexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, but he liked knives sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and had quite a collection until they were her daughter, Etty. are all taken away after the accident which had left himworried but - strangely - her husband, wellAlec, is not quite as he ought to be. The problem with this knife was that it was beside the woman who was lying in the ginnellShortly afterwards, one leg twisted under her rather strangely Etty and with blood coursing down her face. Tony thought about ringing Greg, find the police but dismissed body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the idea quicklyriver. She It was still alive - just - so an ambulance might have been a good idea, but Tony easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had an instinct for murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when trouble was going to catch him, so he dropped couldn't stand the knife down a drain guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and disappearedwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith1529900360|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Adrian Gray was not a particularly pleasant manIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, but that Sturgis was no reason why he should meet reluctant to ask for his death at the hands of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931help on difficult cases. None of His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the six children were fond help of their father and several had cause to wish him deada psychologist only worked for a while. Richard Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the eldest and involvement was married to Laurasomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was a politician the heir to an Italian shoe empire and keen she is married to advance himself - an extremely rich man and to get a title other than it's not the knighthood which he already had - but such endeavours cost money which he ''didn't'' haveItalian. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him and But which of them was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him out of the mess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton178763681X|title=Y is Knife Skills for YesterdayBeginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary= My very first crime fiction book was Chef Paul Delamare took a Kinsey Millhone story, and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from teaching job at a crime avoider residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a crime lover! Since that first story, I have been committed to the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt way of getting both excited men and a little sad women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be holding the penultimate story in at the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emily Winslow|title= Look For Her|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades the town of Lilling tried to solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance untilassist Paul, almost twenty years laterwho had a broken arm, her body was discovered. Annalisebut it didn's body was badly decomposed and there was lack of DNA available, the only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not match anyone on recordt turn out that way. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low teaching - and the murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seenproblems - are all his own. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E V Harte|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I one thing he hadn't expected was excited to have the chance for someone to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under a pseudonymturn up dead. But, as a self-confessed chicklit fan Unfortunately, he was the person who's never read a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to like it.be the prime suspect...turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1529421284|title= From The Shadows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straight. I'll go with a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at Laying Out the beginning of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else fails. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBones|author=Angela Marsons|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)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 A Nye of the LawPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the DCI Domenic Jejeune'golden age' of crime fictions close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod has taken a short holiday in Singapore to shamemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and so onhe killed a Ghurka. I'll admit to being Initially, he faced a fan charge of all of those, manslaughter but they aren't evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the whole storyman. The other side of Now he could be facing the coin shows the official death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police doing their job force could provoke a diplomatic incident and getting their manwouldn't help Danny at all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1521129886|title=Insidious Intent: They Had It Coming (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10Greg Mason mysteries) |author=Keith Redfern|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheGreg Mason's got less than three weeks just beginning to liveget his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Had Kathryn known that she might It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have made different choicesa baby and they're both delighted. I've a suspicion that Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she might not gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have wasted time being at the wedding, but it was there that she met her killerkilled himself. He said Stuart's concerned about his name was David and he was charmingsister, respectfulLucy, unwilling who's struggling to rush anything as he was still getting over the death of his wifemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Kathryn was left with the feeling Lucy, he says, is convinced that he was still more than a little bit Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in love with Triciahis nature. They went on a couple of dates The police and then David took her to a cottage in the Dales for coroner have accepted that the weekend. death was suicide, By the end of but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris WhitakerB0CK3MYJ56|title= All The Wicked GirlsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In It's the small town of Grace, fifteen-year1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her, He used to have a high-flying job in the incident rocks the entire towncity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop 'Shades of recent crimes; for over Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the course of life experience that backs up this profession? On the yearother hand, five young churchhe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar Countysisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The kidnapper Joyce - and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcementher parents, Oliver and has so far evaded capturePam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Whilst he roams the streets, no one is safe Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1838954481|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>}}{{newreviewThe Misper|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)Kate London|rating=3.54

|summary=Jane TennisonRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's a fullyno doubt about that. He was the fifteen-fledged detective now after her tenyear-week course at Hendon: she's back old holding the gun and pointing it at Bow Street waiting for her first postingDI Kieran Shaw. She'd like He pulled the Flying Squad, trigger but she's due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not got guilty of both the murder and the experience, nor, it has to be said, manslaughter of the necessary physical attributesofficer. This is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampantAnd so lives must go on. It was also London just after For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 capital and 75 and no one believes that it's going to be over any time soon. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up hoping for a quieter life in the latest incident in which countryside but when a bomb killed five people - and missing teenager is found on her territory she's one of only two people who got drawn into a good look at wider investigation - and back into the bomberorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1448309743|title=The Mermaid's Scream Devil Stone (Wesley PetersonDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In 1884 the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet showfamily are found murdered. We'll follow The only item missing from the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing home is the biography of Devil Stone: myth says that if the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilandstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's not an easy work as Staniland isnconclusion given that two of them 'discovered't inclined to give more away than 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 a scene from his most famous bookbody. Wilkinson The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is doing his best to drum up interest pulled in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he was seemingly on his way to one of these talks when he disappeared'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1529077699|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 I'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 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 The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=Three Days and a LifeAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the best of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time on. He'It's built a treehouse all by himselfbloody peculiar, and decided isn't it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but sheSir?''s rejected  Well yes, itis. And his best company, Jem Rosco blew into the dog from local pub one evening in the other house next doormiddle of an autumn gale, was injured in stayed for about a hit month and runthen turned up, naked and shot dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to be put out the village of its miseryGreystone, in Devon. In Rosco had the process status of angrily demolishing a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the treehouse, heworld sailor and all round ''s visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dogcelebrity's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweep. As the title suggestsI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, there will he could be more than a very tense few days little bit close with money and nights while his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the guilt amasses with money for his first boat? How did he finance the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1529427045|title=Leopard at The Girl in the DoorEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Kenya after being away at school in England and finds the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a lot can change gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in 6 yearscoming forward. Of course she realises her motherSalander's death would alter things but sheniece's not prepared for mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her fatherniece's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Saraguardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's son Harold sleeping unaware of the part Salander played in Rachelher father's old roomdeath. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)1787636607|title= Can You Hear Me?The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978, in It's a small town scene replicated all too often in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen and troubled. His mundanely stable, loving and ordered life is rocked by the murder early hours of a young boy and the disappearance morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a young woman, who vanishes into the woodsway to get home. As Elia struggles Some are lucky and manage to make sense get one 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 the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of senseless violencethe outlying villages. Into this steps Anna The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the mother light of Elia's friendthe missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a woman bowed under the strain long way short of life her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and haunted by collect her choices. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia- but her phone's certainty that something is desperately wrong in his homedead. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the mysteriously sensual and sad Anna, Elia feels the ground start bus driver to shift under let her use his feet, . There's no option but to feel the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge of adolescence start walking - unsuitably clothed and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)1405957174|title=The King of FoolsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Having sort of split up with his partnerFrom the first page, Jeanwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man -Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coast, dying when he chances to we first meet a married English woman, Marjorie. They meet in the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to each other, she gets in call the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behindambulance he so desperately needs. Lo and behold they find each other at What we don't know is who the casino, and the following day, when she arrives at his hotel man is or why Nadine prefers to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to hearthave him die. Jean-Marie sees her to be I'd better give you a very unhappily married woman, and not even the arrival of his partner and make-up sex little more background so that you can convince him he is not in love with Marjorieunderstand what's happening. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude0008530025|title= Death Makes A ProphetMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Crime ClassicInfamous'' I had , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to check take the first publication dateinvestigation further. Reading More to the first two pagespoint, it could easily have been written in 1967, or they'87re going to do this live on camera, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017episode by episode. Given that BudeThere's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal that itno dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's taken this long to resurfacecompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0241996104|title=Dead in the Dark (Cooper and Fry)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=ItNancy's ten years since Reece Bower was accused 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 murder of his wifecourt, but the case never came to trial: Annette Bowerafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's body was never found and although received a murder can be prosecuted without a body there was an added problem here. Annette's father said that hesilent sentence'd seen his daughter a couple of days after - she'd apparently disappeareds not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Had Annette simply left Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the marriage that was in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? Then, a decade later, Reece Bower disappears without tracemost of it. His new partner wants some answers''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris1529413680|title= The Breaking A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Liam GlassPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 34

|summary= One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A flawed local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. There- as he's plenty here to likea senior government employee, and plenty not tothe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. But good structure One daughter lives nearby and scramjet pace keep this one another, who lives in California, is flying to the final pagein with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville1529196388|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Harry Garrick had been Grant Cliveden was a hero: a successful businessman until the car accident which cost him both legs policeman who stood for all that was good and left him bedridden honest and beholden looked up to his wife for even the most intimate functionsby just about everyone, so there was not a ''lot'' of surprise public uproar when, six months later, he seemed to have taken his own lifewas murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. One sachet of morphine granules, mixed There's just one man in a pot of yoghurt had given him a good nightthe frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's sleep. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets of granulesnot too long before Knight appears in court, if the empty packets were anything to go bycharged with Cliveden's murder. It seemed obvious Knight was told that the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: Stag Court Chambers and it was just that the widow's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Roberta GarrickAdam Green, and the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closewho eventually represent him. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>contrary.