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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza1786482126|title= Name of the DogThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= If, like half of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the country you've been glued site was going to Netflix with series such as hold seventy-five 'luxury'Narcosapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' and ''El Chapo'' then I think you'll really enjoy this. The machismo of the cartelst, the disillusionment of the police and collusion of the military are all familiar territory and are well explored by Mendoza that she is pregnant with the odd surprise provided such his child as a female cartel boss at the heart result of the story whose gumption and conniving matches any of the male charactersone night they spent together some three months ago. Lefty the detective Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is the classic antihero of literature and is attractive ''despite'' himself so eliciting quick good will and a sense prone to sudden bouts of comradery from the readersickness. If you're less set in your ways than me then I certainly think this book and series are worth a read - just give yourself a few chapters to acclimatise!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052632</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Jester0008551324|title= Forever After: a dark comedyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Michael Holland It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a cocky missing person is buried and brash young man who dies was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and gets made it will be worth the offer police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his lifetime; immortalitysentence and to get an early parole date. We follow Michael Not much to ask, a grim reaper is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple anyone who works with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flathim is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts0008405026|title=Buried SecretsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=You It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never know what goes on in found and the investigation ground to a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal lifehalt. He had a beautiful wife Now, her mother, Helena, and a house that had a mortgage which was smaller than most people's credit card billher father are dead in their bed. On the other handInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there weren't s something about the positioning of the bodies that many people who had a good word to say about him makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and when he her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg going to be an open-and with only -shut case is now a few hours to live, people were more worried about the extra work than saddenedcomplex double murder. When his wifeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's battered body was found in their kitchendisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, the idea that it was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answerUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell0571379877|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with her nephew Jonathan his upper-class friends, Robert and his wife Deborah at their new home in the CotswoldsStanza. Mrs Bradley is Robert's a well-known psychiatrist but shetheatre director. He's also a respected detective renowned self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for her sharp powers of observationhim. She soon comes Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to hear the story of a local ghost, Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over the gate leading to Groaning Spinneyrelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: the ghost will play a part in what Edward is about left to happen. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire with stumble upon the acquisition two of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as they visit to give festive wishesthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marjorie OrrJo Callaghan|title=By the Light of a LieLeave No Trace

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friend, Erica, was killed When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in a hit-and-run accident (ifNuneaton, indeedDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, it was an accident) but she really couldnthe AI detective Lock. It't understand why she should have s their first live case together, having previously been in Hammersmithvery successful with several cold cases. She'd left her getting into But when there is a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was on her way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for second body found crucified a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours few days later , Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and miles out a very high profile case that draws a lot of her wayunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The police didn't seem likely Will they be able to pursue solve the case on in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the grounds that it had probably been an accidentcase and, potentially, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going to leave her friend unavenged.out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed1035021803|title=MartyThe Antique Hunter's MasterGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Margaret was nervous about going for It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the walk around the lake on her own, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent and go with herEnglish country village where she grew up. She made it to the Blue Forge Club House where 's back now because of a request for help from her friend Laura worked behind the barbeloved aunt, relieved that she'd managed to leave the drunken man who was MartyCarole. Freya's master former mentor and some other suspicious-looking men behind her. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterCarole's widowerclose friend, AvelArthur Crockleford, had remarried is dead and his new wife, Elenathe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was in the clubhouse with Avel's children - three teenage girls and a boy who was little more than a toddlerreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Elena didn't look Even though they were in the least pleased business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be there near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and despite Avel's promises to pick them upmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, he who was nowhere to be seenmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1398524085|title= WychwoodHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Thirty-something Elspeth Reeves has lost Charlotte Salter was expected at her job husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and left her partnerdaughter, Etty. Much as she prefers Londonare all worried but - strangely - her husband, she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for a short time to lick her woundsAlec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, but she arrives to find the neighbouring part body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Wychwood is a crime sceneriver. Even broken-hearted journalists can't afford to pass up It was an easy assumption for the chance of a story, particularly if they know they need police to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth canmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't resist sticking her nose instand the guilt. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case The Salter children are not convinced but there's an extra interest in it for Elspeth, and once she's spotted the connection between the ritualised murder little else they can do but get on with their lives and the local myth wonder about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killerwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1529900360|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those 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 help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she is essentially loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a short-tempered private investigator remote property in her early 50s with Bel Air. He was the heir to an alcohol, doughnut Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man obsession. Much like TVand it's Midsomer Murders, not the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farItalian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch178763681X|title=The Furthest StationKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on 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 particular part way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the Metropolitan Lineschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, for example but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - they call for PC Peter Grant of and the Special Assessment Unit, also known as problems - are all his own. The Follyone thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Stray river gods Unfortunately, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Follyhe was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1529421284|title= The Happy EndingLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years oldIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. He's In a bit shakey on his pinsgully, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still he's managing well enough at home. Mentally he's all there, even if he does have these conversations with his wifebe Lee Geary, who's been dead the last 6 had disappeared nine yearsearlier. ThereHe's d been a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite known drug user and had learning disabilities, so ok, it could have been a point when theresimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's clearly no purpose leftt convinced. No-one comesGeary was a townie, even so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the paramedics seem to have shunted you suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the bottom time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the list, and well, itMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's all becoming just a bit too undignified. To be honest, when he found the morphine Betty'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 himselfcold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1529425867|title=These Darkening DaysLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the knife was a mistakeNigerian descent, but he liked knives Balliol educated and had quite a collection until they were all taken away after the accident which had left himalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, wellson of Ryan and father of Ryan, 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 ginnellHe's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, one leg twisted under her rather strangely barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and with blood coursing down her facetrackies. Tony thought about ringing the police but dismissed the idea quicklyThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. She was still alive - just - so an ambulance You might have been wonder if you're being introduced to a good idea, but Tony had an instinct police procedural written for when trouble was going to catch himlaughs. Well, so he dropped you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the knife down a drain and disappearedcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith1529431735|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Adrian Gray was not a particularly pleasant manIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, but that was no reason why he should meet his death at which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the hands of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931more surprising. None of He'd been exiled on the six children were fond of their father and several had cause to wish him deadCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Richard was the eldest and was married to Laura. He was a politician and keen to advance himself - and to get a title other than the knighthood which The return has come about because he already 's had a letter from his ex- but such endeavours cost money which he wife, saying that she''didns ill and hasn't'' havelong to live. HeIt'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to blackmail him his underwear and was hoping that his father would advance some funds sent to get him out a watery grave in the boot of the messa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton0861541774|title=Y is for YesterdayA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary= DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. My very first crime fiction book Maik was involved in a Kinsey Millhone story, and I found it so utterly captivating street brawl - he would later maintain that it converted me from he was facing a man armed with a crime avoider to knife - and he killed a crime lover! Ghurka. Since Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that first story, I he might have been committed planned to murder the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt both excited and a little sad to man. Now he could be holding facing the penultimate story in the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>death penalty. Domenic 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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1521129886|title= Look For HerThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and instantly became Joyce will soon have a local celebritybaby and they're both delighted. For decades Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the town of Lilling tried morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to solve the mystery of Annalisehave killed himself. Stuart's disappearance untilconcerned about his sister, almost twenty years laterLucy, her body was discovered. Annalisewho's body was badly decomposed struggling to make ends meet and there was lack of DNA availableher son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, the only trace on the body was found is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in her skirt and does not match anyone on recordhis nature. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low police and the murder soon becomes a coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart'cold case' – but still s prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the most famous Lilling has ever seennight Gil died. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V HarteB0CK3MYJ56|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the chance to read city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the first crime novel from establishedother hand, wellhe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-regarded author Daisy Waughsisters, writing under a pseudonym. Butor rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a selftragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce -confessed chicklit fanand her parents, who's never read a crime novel before, I wasnOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't sure if I understand what she was going doing there - or how she could come to like it..fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1838954481|title= From The ShadowsMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= IRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'm a bit s no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old-fashioned holding the gun and therefore pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not a great fan guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of stories that can't keep their timeline straightthe officer. I'll And so lives must go with a prologue – even if it's becoming on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at quieter life in the beginning of a story – countryside but switching between 'now' and 'when a fortnight agomissing teenager is found on her territory she' – just feels s drawn into a little lazy, a way wider investigation - and back into the orbit of creating tension when all else failsRyan Kennedy. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1448309743|title=Dead Souls The Devil Stone (D I Kim StoneDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=It was a field trip, but to be honest a lot In the village of Cronchie on the students didn't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none West coast of Scotland, five members of them would go into forensicsa wealthy family are found murdered. There was more excitement when The only item missing from the home is the skull was discovered but at Devil Stone: myth says that point if the students were quickly escorted stone is removed from the scene and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigationOtterburn House, death will follow. 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 The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and of them 'discovered' the other beganbody. Stone assumed that it would be her case and was shocked and bewildered The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when she found that it was he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be run as a joint investigation. She nearly refused: she and Travis had history'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1529077699|title=The Word is MurderRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=An attractive''It's all bloody peculiar, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in Londonisn't it, and makes plans for her own funeral. Within just a few hours, sheSir?''s had lunch Well yes, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own homeit is. Could anyone have foreseen Jem Rosco blew into the service to have been needed so quickly? That's local pub one evening in the initial premise middle of this thrilleran autumn gale, this most intriguing mysterystayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and if you want dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprisesthe village of Greystone, you should not read in Devon. Rosco had the book's blurbstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, or even round the authorial biography, world sailor and perhaps not even the followingall round ''celebrity''. Just go in blindI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and wait his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the surprises – that start, as it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1529427045|title= The Night Stalker|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turf. Lewisham's finest are sent to Girl in the country for this outing. There's been a death down in Somerset. ItEagle's not the sort of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad to get involved in, it looks like a hit-and-run on a remote road in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four who didn't even know he'd done it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martin Edwards (editor)|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 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>}}{{newreviewTalons|author=Val McDermid|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Karin Smirnoff

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that she's got less 'Life has more to offer than three weeks people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to livethe small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choicesThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. ISalander've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at s niece's mother is the latest woman in the wedding, but it was there that she met her killer. He said his name was David and he was charming, respectful, unwilling area to rush anything as he was still getting over the death of his wifehave vanished without trace. Kathryn It was left only with the feeling reluctance that he was still more than a little bit in love with Tricia. They went on a couple of dates and then David took Salander became her to niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a cottage in the Dales for the weekend. By the end remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the weekend Kathryn would be dead part Salander played in her burned-out carfather's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker1787636607|title= All The Wicked GirlsTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In It's a scene replicated all too often in the small town early hours of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missingthe morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. A model student with exceptional musical talent Some are lucky and beloved by all manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that know her, the incident rocks will only go as far as one of the entire townoutlying villages. It is even more terrifying set against The woman all regret the backdrop of recent crimes; for over 'taxi problem', particularly in the course light of 'the year, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar Countywomen'. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for For one young woman, the final stop on the disappearance bus leaves her a long way short of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and has so far evaded capturecollect her - but her phone's dead. Whilst he roams The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the streets, bus driver to let her use his. There's no one is safeoption but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1405957174|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over From the course of his workfirst page, hewe know that Nadine Walsh's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s never encountered party will not end well. The victim - a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached - is dying when we first meet him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying and Nadine consciously makes no effort to locate a missing person. He IS call the missing personambulance he so desperately needs. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can What we don't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure that his real name know is Richard Kite. Richard who the man is frustrated because he cannot move on with his lifeor why Nadine prefers to have him die. 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, I' unable to get d better give you a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Rakerlittle more background so that you can understand what's help to discover the truthhappening. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante0008530025|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane Tennison's a fullyIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-fledged detective now after her tenyear-week course at Hendon: she's back at Bow Street waiting for old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her first postingstepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. SheHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd like slipped down the steps but the Flying Squadvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, but sheno one has been charged with his murder and it's not got now the experiencesubject of ''Infamous'', nor, it a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to be said, review the necessary physical attributes. This is 1976 evidence and male chauvinism was rampantto take the investigation further. It was also London just after More to the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 and 75 and no one believes that itpoint, they's re going to be over any time soondo this live on camera, episode by episode. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in There's no dump of the latest incident in which a bomb killed five people whole box set - and sheno shortage of cliffhangers. It's one of only two people who got a good look at the bombercompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the biography {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane 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 reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilandcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. ItThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has been found guilty of anything but will have to and is unwilling to discuss live with what happened for the one thing which the public will want to know about: his wiferest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's suicide which seemed to follow a scene rich - she inherited five million pounds from his her mother - and the papers are making the most famous bookof it. Wilkinson ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is doing his best to drum up interest in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended one favourite epithet and he was seemingly on his way to one of these talks when he disappeared''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1529413680|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 BlackA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, 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 Chief 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>}}{{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Three Days and a LifeMartin Walker

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got One of the best main events of situations. Some the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of his friends have parted company with him because the liberation of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to let him waste his time onsee the show with some friends. HeIt's built a treehouse all by himselfbeen very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, and decided it was solely to woo Kerquelin, the man playing one of the girl next door that main characters is seriously injured when he loves, but she's rejected itdeparts from the script. And Luckily, his best company, the dog from doctor is there and the other house next door, was injured man is whisked away in a hit and run, helicopter. A local doctor (and shot to be put out friend of its misery. In the process Bruno) wonders about his chances of angrily demolishing the treehouse, survival but - as he's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighboura senior government employee, the dog's sixman who runs Frenchelon -year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweepmilitary has stepped in. As the title suggestsOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, there will be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses is flying in with the lad – and/or a lifetime some of living on her father's friends for a knifepre-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>arranged holiday.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1529196388|title=Leopard at the DoorThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to Kenya after being away by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at school in England and finds a lot can change in 6 yearsthe Old Bailey. Of course she realises her motherThere's death would alter things but she's not prepared just one man in the frame for her father's livehis murder - Jimmy Knight -in 'companion' Sara nor Saraand it's son Harold sleeping not too long before Knight appears in Rachelcourt, charged with Cliveden's old roommurder. Michael Knight was told that the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and now a man with his own ideaspupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Meanwhile Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blowcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>