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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mario Giordano1786482126|title= Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the LordThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= How Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to describe this book hold seventy- well for starters itfive 's unlike anything Iluxury've ever read beforeapartments - 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 chaoticdifficult as Ruth knows, madbut Nelson doesn't, funnythat she is 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, fast-paced, confusing but once you get into it it's really good fun and totally enjoyablenot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473661919</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Ellis0008551324|title=A Map of the DarkThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing childrenIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. 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 link back to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she person is buried and who was certainly lostresponsible for her death. Her mother was abusive This person, he promises, is someone big and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protectionwill be worth the police doing what he wants. All that should And what he wants is to be in transferred to an open prison to serve the pastremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her 's even prepared to a new case, do the other thing that of 17Hardie demanded -year-old Ruby Haverstock, make certain that DS Max Craigie and you cananyone who works with him is kept well away from what't waste any time when children go missings happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147366277X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Tudor0008405026|title= The Chalk Man|rating= 5|genre= Horror |summary= The Chalk Man follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718187431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elmer Mendoza|title= Name of the Dog|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= If, like half of the country you've been glued to Netflix with series such as ''Narcos'' and ''El Chapo'' then I think you'll really enjoy this. The machismo of the cartels, the disillusionment of the police and collusion of the military are all familiar territory and are well explored by Mendoza with the odd surprise provided such as a female cartel boss at the heart of the story whose gumption and conniving matches any of the male characters. Lefty the detective, is the classic antihero of literature and is attractive ''despite'' himself so eliciting quick good will and a sense of comradery from the reader. If you're less set A Stranger 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>}}{{newreview|author= David Jester|title= Forever After: a dark comedy|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip Family (a stoner tooth fairyMaeve Kerrigan 11) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Buried SecretsJane 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 StalkerGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|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''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lewisham's finest are sent  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the country for this outingsmall town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. There's The criminal underworld has not been a death down slow in Somersetcoming forward. It Salander's niece's not mother is the sort of thing you'd expect latest woman in the regional murder squad area to get involved in, have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it looks like quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a hit-and-run on a remote road in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four remarkably gifted teenager who didn't even know hes unaware of the part Salander played in her father'd done its death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)1787636607|title= The Long Arm of the LawTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think It's 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 get home. Some are lucky and manage to get 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 'golden agetaxi problem' of crime fiction, we think particularly in the light of 'the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod to shamemissing women'. Miss MarpleFor one young woman, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown and so the final stop onthe bus leaves her a long way short of her home. I'll admit She had intended to ring someone to being a fan of all of those, come and collect her - but they arenher phone't the whole storys dead. The other side of bus had driven off before she had the coin shows chance to beg the official police doing their job bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and getting their manin high-heeled shoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1405957174|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick From the first page, we know that sheNadine Walsh's got less than three weeks to liveparty will not end well. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choices. I've The victim - 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 man - is dying when we first meet him and he was charming, respectful, unwilling Nadine consciously makes no effort to rush anything as call the ambulance he was still getting over the death of his wifeso desperately needs. Kathryn was left with What we don't know is who the feeling that he was still more than a little bit in love with Triciaman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. They went on I'd better give you a couple of dates and then David took her to a cottage in the Dales for the weekend. By the end of the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker0008530025|title= All The Wicked GirlsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In the small town of Grace, It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent Maura Howard came home and beloved by all that know found the body of herstepfather, Luke Ryder, in the incident rocks the entire towngarden of their West London home. It is even more terrifying set against He had an injury on the backdrop back of recent crimes; for over his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the course of steps but the yearvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper no one has been charged with his murder and murderer responsible for it's now the disappearance subject of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and has so far evaded captureto take the investigation further. Whilst he roams More to the streetspoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no one is safeshortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver0241996104|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over the course of his work, heNancy's seen plenty of unusual thingsmother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard KiteMartin, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusualbeen convicted of their murder. You see We first meet Nancy outside the court, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate after Martin receives a missing person. He IS the missing personlife sentence. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means The barrister tells her that he canshe't remember anything about his life. Hes received a 'silent sentence' - she's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on been found guilty of anything but will have to live with his what happened for the rest of her life. Nobody seems to know who he is Of course, despite news it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and press coverage the papers are making the most of his case, it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet 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 Rakerrich bitch''s help to discover the truth. But the truth can might not be a dangerous thingprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1529413680|title=Good Friday A Chateau Under Siege (Tennison 3A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=Jane Tennison's a fullyOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: sheenactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's back at Bow Street waiting for her first postingthere to see the show with some friends. SheIt'd like the Flying Squad, s all been very carefully choreographed but she's not got the experiencegoes badly wrong when, nor, it has to be saidKerquelin, the necessary physical attributesman playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. This Luckily, his doctor is 1976 there and male chauvinism was rampantthe man is whisked away in a helicopter. It was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of 1974 and 75 and no one believes that itsurvival but - as he's going to be over any time soona senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in the latest incident California, is flying in which a bomb killed five people - and shewith some of her father's one of only two people who got friends for a good look at the bomberpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1529196388|title=The Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=In 1884 Grant Cliveden was a wealthy young woman became infatuated with hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the man who ran a travelling puppet showOld Bailey. WeThere's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden'll follow s murder. Knight was told that the story best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of John LiptonStag Court Chambers and it's courtship through excerpts from Taylor-Cameron and his journalpupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.}}

In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the biography of the reclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. It's not easy work as Staniland isn'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 book. Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he was seemingly Move on his way to one of these talks when he disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Crime (Historical) Reviews]]