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<!-- Burrows -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Burrows_Siege.jpg|leftisbn=1786482126|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1780748434?ie=UTF8&tagThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1780748434]]Elly Griffiths|rating===[[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]===4.5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is new to Saltmarsh, but his reputation has come before him. Success summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in a high profile case has made him Norwich - the poster boy for site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the policebones of a child beneath a doorway. There's a snag though: Jejeune isn't ''actually'' that keen on the jobwas no skull. He'd much rather be out birdwatching, but that doesn't bring in an income and there's Was this a simple fact. ritual killing or murder? Jejeune is ''very'' a very good detectiveInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with insights which few other people possessDCI Harry Nelson. ThereIt's one advantage to the job too: Saltmarsh is situated in North Norfolkdifficult as Ruth knows, the UK's premier birding country but sometimes JejeuneNelson doesn's mind t, that she is more on pregnant with his child as a result of the birds than the jobone night they spent together some three months ago. [[A Siege Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Bitterns by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]sickness.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Durrenmatt -->*[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ieisbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]0008551324 ==|title=[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)]]|author=Neil Lancaster|rating==4.5[[image:2.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] summary=It's 1957, and we're somewhere 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 Switzerland, prison and therehe's just one case on everyone's lips – prepared to tell the simple fact that a politician has gone into police where the crowded room body of one of those 'a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the place police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to go' restaurants, serve the remainder of his sentence and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have knownto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and ferried a British companion she's even prepared to do the airport in his chauffeurother thing that Hardie demanded -driven Rolls before handing himself make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in to face the murder rap. Of course heFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found guilty, even if and the gun involved has managed investigation ground to disappeara halt. He's certainly of much interest Now, not only to our narratorher mother, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such peopleHelena, he is eager to know moreand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things it looks like a second time. But whatstraightforward murder/suicide but there's this, where he opens his testimony something about the affair with positioning of the conclusion, bodies that he himself will need makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to turn killer to redress be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the balance? [[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (translatorsuch as Derwent's boss, Una Burt)|Full Review]]are less convinced.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Giordano -->|isbn=0571379877*[[image:Giordano Fruits.jpg|lefttitle=The Kellerby Code|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=1473661919]]Jonny Sweet|rating===[[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]===3.5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How to describe this book summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- well for starters itclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's unlike anything I've ever read beforea theatre director. It He's chaoticalso self-obsessed, maddemanding, funny, fasthandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -paced, confusing and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but once you get into it ithe's really good fun and totally enjoyable. [[Auntie Poldi and not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the Fruits two of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]them kissing in a dark passageway.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Ellis -->|author=Jo Callaghan*[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativetitle=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]Leave No Trace|rating===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]===4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds missing childrenherself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. There It's a link back to her childhood heretheir first live case together, as she might not have having previously been missing but she was certainly lostvery successful with several cold cases. Her mother was abusive But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit very high profile case that draws a lot of pretense but there was no protectionunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. All that should Will they be able to solve the case in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new or will Kat find herself taken off the caseand, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstockpotentially, and you can't waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map out of the Dark by Karen Ellisa career?|Full Review]]isbn=139851120X<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Tudor -->|isbn=1035021803*[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder ==|author=[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]L Miller|rating=3.5|genre==Crime[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'The Chalk Man'' follows s back now because of a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectrerequest for help from her beloved aunt, conjured during one fateful summerCarole. By the time the new term begins Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, friendships will be fracturedArthur Crockleford, is dead and a girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Mancircumstances seem suspicious, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to forget about that summerthe village: Arthur, about all the poisonedshe feels, sinister memories of The Chalk Manlet her down badly. However Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, someone seems determined she has not felt able to let him and when be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the letters start to arrivesplit, the past followsshe worked in a cafe, plaguing him met and dredging up married James (on the fever dream nightmare of rebound from the summer love of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban her life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, was murdered) and Freya and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]James have now divorced.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Mendoza -->|isbn=1398524085*[[image:Mendoza Name.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857052632Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?ie|author=UTF8&tagNicci French|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857052632]]Crime|summary===[[Name Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Dog by Elmer Mendoza]]guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Okay, so call me a traditionalist summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but I enjoy picking up a book he felt responsible and instantly recognising the genre 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 book belongs and from here making an immediatehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, if not altogether accuratewho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, assumption about whether I am likely to enjoy said bookthough. Quite often it is not until we are fully immersed Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a story we start remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to recognise an Italian shoe empire and appreciate she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the style and tone Italian. But which of them was the writer and decide whether we are primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to continue the story but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to completiondo what he wanted. This surely is the process by which us mere reading mortals decide whether or not we enjoyed a book? Well, after reading Paul ''somehow''Name of got the Dogimpression that he'' I have to d be honest and say I did not know what at the school to make of assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it on initial inspectiondidn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. Nor have I settled my state of flux wherein I am trying The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to decide whether or not I really did enjoy Mendoza's tale of corruption turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and crime in Cartel run Mexicoeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect. [[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Jester1529421284|title= Forever After: a dark comedyLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Michael Holland is It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a cocky human skeleton came to the surface and brash young man forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who dies had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and gets made had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the offer suicide of his lifetime; immortalityHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. We follow Michael, a grim reaper Lockyer and his friends Chip DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (a stoner tooth fairy) that's cold cases to you and Naff (a stoner in the records departmentme) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1529425867|title=Buried SecretsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=You never know what goes on in a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal lifeIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He had a beautiful wife and a house that had a mortgage which was smaller than most people's credit card billnot any of those things. On the other handHe's white, originated from a trailer park, there werenbarely educated (reading's not ''really''t that many people who had a good word to say about him his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and when he was involved trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg and with only a few hours to livepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, people were more worried about you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the extra work than saddenedcombination works brilliantly well. When his wifeSometimes it's battered body was found in their kitchen, the idea that it was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answerproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1529431735|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan It's February 1991 and his wife Deborah at their new home in Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the CotswoldsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Mrs Bradley is The return has come about because he's had a wellletter from his ex-known psychiatrist but wife, saying that she's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observationill and hasn't long to live. She soon comes It's hard to hear the story of a local ghostfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, that of stripped to his underwear and sent to a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over watery grave in the gate leading to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play boot of a part in what is about to happenstolen Ford Sierra. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire with the acquisition of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as they visit Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to give festive wishes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marjorie Orr0861541774|title=By the Light A Nye of a LiePheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friendand former colleague, EricaDanny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was killed involved in a hitstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have been in Hammersmithhe killed a Ghurka. She'd left her getting into Initially, he faced a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was on her way home charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Hampstead light that suggested that he might have planned to review papers ready for a court appearance murder the following morningman. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way Now he could be facing the death penalty. The Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police didn't seem likely to pursue the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she wasnwouldn't going to leave her friend unavengedhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed1521129886|title=Marty's MasterThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=Margaret was nervous Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about going for the walk around the lake on her own, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and go with herthey're both delighted. She made it to Joyce will be more delighted about the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the bar, relieved that baby when she'd managed to leave gets past the drunken man who was Marty's master and some other suspiciousmorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-looking men behind herlaw appears to have killed himself. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterStuart's widower, Avel, had remarried and concerned about his new wifesister, ElenaLucy, was in the clubhouse with Avelwho's children - three teenage girls struggling to make ends meet and a boy who was little more than a toddlerher son is not thriving. Elena didnLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't look in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the least pleased to be there and despite Aveldeath was suicide, but Stuart's promises prepared to pick them up, he was nowhere pay Greg to be seenfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George MannB0CK3MYJ56|title= WychwoodResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=ThirtyIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job and left her partnereight years old. Much as she prefers London, she decides He used to retreat to her childhood home have a high-flying job in an Oxfordshire village for the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a short time to lick her woundsprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but she arrives to find where's the neighbouring part of life experience that backs up this profession? On the Wychwood is a crime sceneother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Even broken Joyce and Helen are half-hearted journalists can't afford to pass up the chance of a storysisters, or rather, particularly if they know they need to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth can't resist sticking her nose were until Helen was killed in. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case therewhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an extra interest in it for Elspethunmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and once Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how shecould come to fall in front of a train. Greg's spotted the connection between the ritualised murder and the local myth about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources been asked to try and uncover a serial killerinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1838954481|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of you the jury system he was found not familiar with Agatha Raisin she is essentially guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a short-tempered private investigator quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her early 50s with an alcohol, doughnut and man obsession. Much like TVterritory she's Midsomer Murders, drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1448309743|title=The Furthest StationDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters In the village of Cronchie on a particular part the West coast of the Metropolitan LineScotland, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the Special Assessment Unithome is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, also death will follow. The only suspects are known as Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Folly. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, they are all DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Follyto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1529077699|title= The Happy EndingRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. He''It's a bit shakey on his pinsall bloody peculiar, canisn't move far without his walking frameit, has been known to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still heSir?''s managing well enough at home Well yes, it is. Mentally he's all thereJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, even if he does have these conversations with his wifestayed for about a month and then turned up, who's been naked and dead , in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the last 6 yearsvillage of Greystone, in Devon. ThereRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round 's a point when 'doing okcelebrity' stops being quite so ok, a point when there's clearly no purpose left. NoI ''nearly'' said 'all-one comes, even the paramedics seem to have shunted you to the bottom of the listround good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and well, ithis background isn's all becoming just a bit too undignifiedt exactly an open book. To be honest, when Where did he found get the morphine Betty'd been stock-piling against the day her own illness got too much money for her but never used as it turned out, his first boat? Harry was on How did he finance the point of using it himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1529427045|title=These Darkening DaysThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the knife was area have sparked a mistake, but he liked knives and had quite a collection until they were all taken away after the accident which had left him, well, gold rush. The criminal underworld has not quite as he ought to bebeen slow in coming forward. The problem with this knife was that it was beside Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman who was lying in the ginnell, one leg twisted under her rather strangely and area to have vanished without trace. It was only with blood coursing down reluctance that Salander became her face. Tony thought about ringing the police niece's guardian but dismissed the idea it quickly. She was still alive - just - so an ambulance might have been becomes obvious that Svala is a good idea, but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going to catch him, so he dropped remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the knife down a drain and disappearedpart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Anne MeredithCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|titlegenre=Crime|summary=Portrait 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 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a Murderer: long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The 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 in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Christmas Crime StoryDeath at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Adrian Gray was not a particularly pleasant manFrom the first page, but we know that was no reason why he should meet his death at the hands of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. None of the six children were fond of their father and several had cause to wish him dead. Richard was the eldest and was married to Laura. He was The victim - a politician and keen to advance himself man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to get a title other than call the knighthood which he already had - but such endeavours cost money which ambulance he ''didnso desperately needs. What we don't'' know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to havehim die. HeI'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him and was hoping better give you a little more background so that his father would advance some funds to get him out of the messyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Sue GraftonCara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a 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, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Y 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 court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is for Yesterdayundoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary= One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. My It's all been very first crime fiction book was a Kinsey Millhone storycarefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from a crime avoider to a crime lover! the script. Since that first storyLuckily, I have been committed to his doctor is there and the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt both excited man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a little sad to be holding senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the penultimate story military has stepped in the series . One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1529196388|title= Look For HerThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades the town of Lilling tried looked up to solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance untilby just about everyone, almost twenty years later, her body so there was public uproar when he was discoveredmurdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. Annalise There's body was badly decomposed and there was lack of DNA available, the only trace on the body was found just one man in her skirt and does not match anyone on record. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the frame for his murder soon becomes a - Jimmy Knight - and it'cold cases not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seens murder. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E V Harte|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I Knight was excited to have told that the chance to read the first crime novel from established, wellbest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-regarded author Daisy WaughCameron and his pupil, writing under a pseudonym. But, as a self-confessed chicklit fanAdam Green, whoeventually represent him. Knight's never read a crime novel beforedetermined to plead not guilty, I wasndespite all Taylor-Cameron't sure if I was going s recommendations to like itthe contrary....turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>