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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=The Execution of JusticeElly Griffiths|rating=24.5

|summary=It's 1957, and we're somewhere Builders were demolishing an old house in Switzerland, and thereNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's just one case on everyoneluxury's lips – apartments - when they discovered the simple fact that bones of a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurants, and point blank shot child beneath a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried doorway. There was no skull. Was this a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the ritual killing or murder rap? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Of course he It's found guiltydifficult as Ruth knows, even if but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the gun involved has managed to disappearone night they spent together some three months ago. He's certainly of much interest Her condition will be obvious before long, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, he least because Ruth is eager prone to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second timesudden bouts of sickness. But what's this, where he opens his testimony about the affair with the conclusion, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273875</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mario Giordano0008551324|title= Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the LordThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= How It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to describe this book - well approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for starters itthe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's unlike anything I've ever read beforeprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It's chaoticThis person, madhe promises, funnyis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, fast-paced, confusing but once you get into it is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's really good fun even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and totally enjoyableanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473661919</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Ellis0008405026|title=A Map of Stranger in the DarkFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. ThereIt's a link back to sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she bed one summer night. She was certainly lostnever found and the investigation ground to a halt. Her Now, her mother was abusive , Helena, and her father preferred not to do anything about are dead in their bed. Initially, it: there might have been looks like a bit of pretense straightforward murder/suicide but there was no protection. All that should be in 's something about the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying positioning of lung cancer the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a new case, complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstockthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and you can't waste any time when children go missingUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147366277X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Tudor0571379877|title= The Chalk ManKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Horror Crime|summary= The Chalk Man follows Edward Jevons is a group of working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summerRobert and Stanza. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and Robert's a girl will be deadtheatre director. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man He's also self-obsessed, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighterdemanding, 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 handsome and entitled and when the letters start uses Edward to arrive, the past follows, plaguing run errands for him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -ra skirts and deathhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed Most men in Robert's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but wonder; who he's not like most men: Edward is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718187431</amazonuk>left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elmer MendozaJo Callaghan|title= Name of the DogLeave No Trace|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= IfWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, like half of the country youAI detective Lock. It've s their first live case together, having previously been glued to Netflix very successful with series such as ''Narcos'' and ''El Chapo'' then I think you'll really enjoy thisseveral cold cases. The machismo of the cartels But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, the disillusionment of the police and collusion of the military are all familiar territory and are well explored by Mendoza Kat is suddenly struggling with the odd surprise provided such as a female cartel boss at the heart of the story whose gumption potential serial killer and conniving matches any a very high profile case that draws a lot of the male charactersunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Lefty Will they be able to solve the detectivecase in time, is or will Kat find herself taken off the classic antihero of literature case and is attractive ''despite'' himself so eliciting quick good will and a sense , potentially, out of comradery from the reader. 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!career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052632</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Jester1035021803|title= Forever After: a dark comedyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Michael Holland It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is a cocky dead and brash young the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man who dies and gets made or pursue the offer of his lifetime; immortalityprofession she loved. We follow Michael After the split, she worked in a grim reaper cafe, met and his friends Chip married James (a stoner tooth fairyon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives Freya and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1398524085|title=Buried SecretsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=You Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never know what goes on in a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal lifeturned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. He had a beautiful wife Shortly afterwards, Etty and a house that had a mortgage which was smaller than most peopleGreg, find the body of Greg's credit card billfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. On It was an easy assumption for the other hand, there weren't police to make that many people who Duncan had a good word to say about him murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg and with only a few hours to live, people were more worried about couldn't stand the extra work than saddenedguilt. When his wifeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's battered body was found in little else they can do but get on with their kitchen, the idea that it was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answerlives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1529900360|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Adela Bradley decided 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 spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and his wife Deborah at their new home in -shut cases which didn't need the Cotswoldshelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Mrs Bradley is a well-known psychiatrist but sheFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's also a respected detective renowned partner, who nudged Milo into asking for her sharp powers of observationhelp again. She soon comes to hear knew that the involvement was something that the story of a local ghostman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, that though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over remote property in Bel Air. He was the gate leading heir to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play a part in what an Italian shoe empire and she is about married to happenan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire with the acquisition of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some But which of them was the locals as they visit to give festive wishes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marjorie Orr178763681X|title=By the Light of a LieKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friend, Erica, was killed 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 hit-way of getting both men and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have been in Hammersmithwomen to do what he wanted. ShePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd left her getting into a taxi be at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martinschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's Lane and she was on her t turn out that way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours later The teaching - and miles out of her waythe problems - are all his own. The police didnone thing he hadn't seem likely expected was for someone to pursue turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the case on person who discovered the grounds body and everyone knows that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going the police consider that person to leave her friend unavengedbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed1529421284|title=Marty's MasterLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=Margaret It was nervous about going for one of those flash downpours that the walk around the lake on her own, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent and go with herBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. She made it In a gully, a human skeleton came to the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind surface and forensic testing proved the barbody to be Lee Geary, relieved that she'd managed to leave the drunken man who was Marty's master and some other suspicious-looking men behind herhad disappeared nine years earlier. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterHe's widower, Avel, d been a known drug user and had remarried and his new wifelearning disabilities, Elenaso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was in he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the clubhouse with Avel's children - three teenage girls suicide of Holly Gilbert and a boy who was little more than a toddlerto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Elena didn't look in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the least pleased to be there and despite AvelMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's promises cold cases to pick them up, he was nowhere to be seenyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1529425867|title= WychwoodLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Thirty-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and left her partneralways exquisitely dressed. Much as she prefers London D I Ryan Wilkins, she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for a short time to lick her woundsson of Ryan and father of Ryan, but she arrives to find the neighbouring part of the Wychwood is a crime scenenot. Even broken-hearted journalists can He't afford to pass up the chance s not any of those things. He's white, originated from a storytrailer park, particularly 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 they know they need you're being introduced to drum up some freelance work soona police procedural written for laughs. Well, so Elspeth canyou't resist sticking her nose inre not. With her childhood friend Peter The two men are just different sides of the detective sergeant on same policing coin. Sometimes the case there's an extra interest in combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it for Elspeth, and once she's spotted the connection between the ritualised murder and the local myth about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killerproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1529431735|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin she It's February 1991 and Essex is essentially bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a shortletter from his ex-tempered private investigator in her early 50s with an alcoholwife, doughnut saying that she's ill and man obsessionhasn't long to live. Much like TV It's Midsomer Murdershard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to sustain 28 books so far.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch0861541774|title=The Furthest StationA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird 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. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - spectres scaring commuters on and he killed a particular part Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of man. Now he could be facing the Special Assessment Unit, also known death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as The Folly. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they are any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Folly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1521129886|title= The Happy EndingThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. HeGreg Mason's a bit shakey on just beginning to get his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known confidence as an investigator to have a fall or two – so makes sure the point where he has his panic button with him – but still 'll warn someone about how much he's managing well enough at homecharges. Mentally heIt's all there, even if he does a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have these conversations with his wife, whoa baby and they's been dead re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the last 6 yearsmorning sickness. ThereGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so okconcerned about his sister, Lucy, a point when therewho's clearly no purpose leftstruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. No-one comesLucy, he says, even the paramedics seem to is convinced that Gil would never have shunted you to the bottom of the list, and well, killed himself - itsimply wasn's all becoming just a bit too undignifiedt in his nature. To be honest, when he found The police and the morphine Betty'd been stock-piling against coroner have accepted that the day her own illness got too much for her death was suicide, but never used as it turned Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out, Harry was what happened on the point of using it himselfnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin MyersB0CK3MYJ56|title=These Darkening DaysResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54

|summary=Somewhere It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of the knife was city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a mistakeprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but he liked knives and had quite a collection until they were all taken away after where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the accident which had left himother hand, well, not quite as he ought has been asked to belook into something. The problem with this knife was that it was beside the woman who Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was lying killed in the ginnell, one leg twisted under her rather strangely and with blood coursing down her face. Tony thought about ringing the police but dismissed the idea quicklywhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. She was still alive Joyce - just and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - so an ambulance might have been a good idea, but Tony had an instinct for when trouble can't understand what she was going doing there - or how she could come to catch him, so he dropped the knife down fall in front of a drain and disappearedtrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith1838954481|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Adrian Gray was not Ryan Kennedy killed a particularly pleasant man, but police officer: there's no doubt about that . He was no reason why he should meet his death at the hands of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at Kings Poplars in 1931DI Kieran Shaw. None He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the six children were fond jury system he was found not guilty of their father both the murder and several had cause to wish him deadthe manslaughter of the officer. Richard was the eldest and was married to LauraAnd so lives must go on. He was a politician For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and keen to advance himself - and to get hoping for a title other than quieter life in the knighthood which he already had - countryside but such endeavours cost money which he when a missing teenager is found on her territory she''didn't'' have. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him s drawn into a wider investigation - and was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him out back into the orbit of the messRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1448309743|title=Y is for YesterdayThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary= My very first crime fiction book was In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a Kinsey Millhone story, and I wealthy family are found it so utterly captivating murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that it converted me if the stone is removed from a crime avoider to a crime lover! Otterburn House, death will follow. Since The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that first story, I have been committed to two of them 'discovered' the alphabet mysteriesbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, so it I felt both excited and a little sad DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be holding the penultimate story in the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>'shadow' him.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1529077699|title= Look For HerThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local celebrity. For decades pub one evening in the town middle of Lilling tried an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to solve the mystery village of Annalise's disappearance untilGreystone, almost twenty years later, her body was discoveredin Devon. Annalise's body was badly decomposed and there was lack Rosco had the status of DNA availablea national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the only trace on the body was found in her skirt world sailor and does not match anyone on recordall round ''celebrity''. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder soon becomes a I ''nearly'' said 'cold caseall-round good egg' – but still as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the most famous Lilling has ever seen. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte1529427045|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited ''Life has more to have the chance offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to read the first crime novel from establishedsmall town of Gasskas, wellwhere the so-far-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a pseudonymgold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. But, as Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a self-confessed chicklit fan, remarkably gifted teenager who's never read a crime novel before, I wasnunaware of the part Salander played in her father't sure if I was going to like its death....turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1787636607|title= From The ShadowsTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= IIt'm s a bit old-fashioned scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and therefore not looking for a great fan way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of stories the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that can't keep their timeline straightwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. IThe woman all regret the 'll go with a prologue – even if ittaxi problem's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at , particularly in the beginning light of a story – but switching between 'nowthe missing women' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of creating tension when all else failsher home. That, however, is my only little gripe about She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone''From s dead. The Shadows'bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There' s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1405957174|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4.5

|summary=It was a field tripFrom the first page, but to be honest a lot of the students didnwe know that Nadine Walsh't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none of them would go into forensicss party will not end well. There was more excitement The victim - a man - is dying when the skull was discovered but at that point the students were quickly escorted from the scene we first meet him and D I Kim Stone came on site Nadine consciously makes no effort to begin her investigationcall the ambulance he so desperately needs. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from What we don't know is who 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 the other beganman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Stone assumed I'd better give you a little more background so that it would be her case and was shocked and bewildered when she found that it was to be run as a joint investigation. She nearly refused: she and Travis had historyyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz0008530025|title=The Word is Murderin the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=An attractive, wellIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-heeled woman enters a classicallyyear-minded funeral parlour in London, old Maura Howard came home and makes plans for found the body of her own funeral. Within just a few hoursstepfather, she's had lunchLuke Ryder, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own the garden of their West London home. Could anyone He had an injury on the back of his head which could have foreseen happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the service to have vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been needed so quickly? Thatcharged with his murder and it's now the initial premise subject of this thriller''Infamous'', this most intriguing mysterya true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, and if you want they're going to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprisesthis live on camera, you should not read the bookepisode by episode. There's blurb, or even no dump of the authorial biography, whole box set - and perhaps not even the followingno shortage of cliffhangers. Just go in blind, and wait for the surprises – that start, as it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue0241996104|title= The Night StalkerComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=DI Mike Lockyer Nancy's mother and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turfstep-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Lewisham's finest are sent to We first meet Nancy outside the country for this outingcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. There The barrister tells her that she's been received a death down in Somerset. It'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the sort rest of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad to get involved inher life. Of course, it looks like a hit's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -and-run on a remote road in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four who didnpapers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch't even know he'd done itmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)1529413680|title= The Long Arm of the Law|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the 'golden age' of crime fictionA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, we think Chief 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>}}{{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Val McDermid|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Martin Walker|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheOne 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 got less than three weeks there to live. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choicessee the show with some friends. IIt've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at the wedding, s all been very carefully choreographed but it was there that she met her killer. He said his name was David and he was charminggoes badly wrong when, respectfulKerquelin, unwilling to rush anything as the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he was still getting over departs from the death of his wifescript. Kathryn was left with Luckily, his doctor is there and the feeling that he was still more than man is whisked away in a little bit in love with Triciahelicopter. They went on a couple A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of dates and then David took her to survival but - as he's a cottage in senior government employee, the Dales for man who runs Frenchelon - the weekendmilitary has stepped in. By the end One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burnedfather's friends for a pre-out cararranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker1529196388|title= All The Wicked Girls|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In the small town of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her, the incident rocks the entire town. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the year, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, and has so far evaded capture. Whilst he roams the streets, no one is safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrial|author= Tim Weaver|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsRob Rinder|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over the course of his work, he's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news and press coverage of his case, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'off the grid,' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane Tennison's Grant Cliveden was a fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendonhero: she's back 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 Bow Street waiting for her first postingthe Old Bailey. SheThere'd like s just one man in the Flying Squad, but sheframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not got the experiencetoo long before Knight appears in court, nor, it has to be said, the necessary physical attributescharged with Cliveden's murder. This is 1976 and male chauvinism Knight was rampant. It told that the best barrister for him was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of 1974 Stag Court Chambers and 75 and no one believes that it's going to be over any time soonTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in the latest incident in which a bomb killed five people Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor- and sheCameron's one of only two people who got a good look at recommendations to the bombercontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>