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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15"1786482126 <!-- Parsons -->|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|-author=Elly Griffiths| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4.5[[image:178089595X.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -align: top; textthe site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -align: left;"|===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5starwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with an air ambulance, the mess falls on a busy shopping centre and we are barely out of the first chapter. DC Max WolfeDCI Harry Nelson. It's latest adventure looks at religiondifficult as Ruth knows, radicalisationbut Nelson doesn't, hate and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump to catching those responsible. The rest that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the book gradually builds a web of intrigue and a virtual soap opera of family issuesone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]] |}}<!-- Reynolds -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Reynolds_Fire.jpg|leftisbn=0008551324|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/refThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=nosim?tagNeil Lancaster|rating=thebookbag-21]]4.5|genre=Crime|summary===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5starIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] What happens when Utopia Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically struggling in prison and he's prepared to everyone else and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect tell the police where the body of life a missing person is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything buried and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dyingwho was responsible for her death. This person, melting to be precisehe promises, is someone big and no one knows how, or why, or who could be nextit will be worth the police doing what he wants. In such a circumstance who can And what he wants is to be trusted transferred to solve this crime an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do so without spreading panic? What if the only people other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who can be trusted have already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]]<br>works with him is kept well away from what's happening.<!-- Burrows -->}}{{Frontpage*[[image:Burrows_Doves.jpg|leftisbn=0008405026|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786074273/ref=nosim?tagA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=thebookbag-21]]Jane Casey ===[[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows]]==|rating=5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeCrime|Crime]] The body of a senior attaché summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from the Mexican consulate her bed one summer night. She was never found in and the investigation ground to a local bird sanctuaryhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, along with the body of the director. It was a strange tableau: the girl impaled on a branch and the man lying at her feetfather are dead in their bed. Initially, both in it looks like a cage. The fact that straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the man is a diplomat isn't immediately evident - he was in positioning of the area under an assumed name. DCI (bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and birder enthusiast) Domenic Jejeune is conflictedher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The immediate problem is obviously What looked as though it was going to establish who murdered the man be an open-and the woman - and even shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's complicated by the political necessity of not to involving the Mexican consulatedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, thus tying his hands rather tightlyUna Burt) are less convinced. The thoughts which are running in the back of his mind though are about the full-time research position studying birds which the director's death has opened up}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3. Could this be his escape route from the police force? [[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows5|Full Review]]genre=Crime<br><!|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- Griffiths -->*[[image:Griffiths_Darkclass friends, Robert and Stanza.jpg|left|link=http://www Robert's a theatre director.amazon He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him.co.uk/dp/1784296635/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] ===[[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]=== [[image:4star Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating} Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]{{FrontpageDr Ruth Galloway has got used to being a published |author, to being on television, but she's still flattered when Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli asks for her help with some bones which he's discovered in =Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a tiny hilltop village outside Romeman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, but doesn't know what DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to make of themthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Ruth succumbs to temptation: she and Angelo have some history (it was just the one night...) and it It's years since she's had their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a holiday. Even second body found crucified a working holiday has to be an improvement. Castello degli Angeli isn't quite what she was expecting, but it will make few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a reasonable break for her, her daughter Kate, friend Shona potential serial killer and Shona's son Louis. [[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Burrows -->*[[image:Burrows_Siegea very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project.jpg|left Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780748434/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=[[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]C L Miller|rating=== [[image:3.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is new summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Saltmarsh, but his reputation has come before himthe English country village where she grew up. Success in She's back now because of a high profile case has made him the poster boy request for the policehelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. ThereFreya's a snag though: Jejeune isnformer mentor and Carole't ''actually'' that keen on s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the jobleast. He'd much rather be out birdwatchingArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, but that doesn't bring in an income and there's a simple factshe feels, let her down badly. Jejeune is ''very'' a very good detectiveEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, with insights which few other people possessshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. There's one advantage to After the job too: Saltmarsh is situated split, she worked in North Norfolka cafe, the UK's premier birding country but sometimes Jejeune's mind is more met and married James (on the birds than rebound from the job. [[A Siege love of Bitterns by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Durrenmatt -->|isbn=1398524085*[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?ie|author=UTF8&tagNicci French|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]Crime|summary===[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and John E Woods (translator)]]=== [[image:2her daughter, Etty.5starare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's 1957father, Duncan Ackerley, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that a politician has gone into Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the crowded room of one of those guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there'the place to go' restaurants, s little else they can do but get on with their lives and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rapwonder about what really happened. Of course he's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly of much interest, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he is eager to know morefelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand Sturgis was reluctant to look into things a second timeask for his help on difficult cases. But what His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's this, where he opens his testimony about t need the affair with the conclusionhelp of 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 he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[man she loved needed. The Execution next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Giordano -->*[[image:Giordano Fruitsa remote property in Bel Air.jpg|left|link=https://www He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919 But which of them was the primary target?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag178763681X|title=thebookbag-21&linkCodeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=as2&campOrlando Murrin|rating=1634&creative4|genre=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]]Crime|summary===[[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]=== [[image:4starChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to describe this book - well for starters itdo what he wanted. Paul ''somehow's unlike anything I've ever read before. Itgot the impression that he's chaoticd be at the school to assist Paul, madwho had a broken arm, funny, fast-paced, confusing but once you get into it but itdidn's really good fun and totally enjoyablet turn out that way. [[Auntie Poldi The teaching - and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <br> <!problems -- Ellis -->*[[image:Ellis_Darkare all his own.jpg|left|link=https://www The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead.amazon Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title==[[A Map of Laying Out the Dark by Karen Ellis]]===Bones [[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{Kate Webb|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime=4.5|genre=Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's |summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a link back human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to her childhood herebe Lee Geary, as she might not who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been missing a simple case of misadventure but she DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was certainly lost. Her mother a townie, so what was abusive he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of pretense but there was no protection. All the Major Crimes Review Unit (that should be in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer 's cold cases to you and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Tudor -->*[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]] ===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''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? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Mendoza -->*[[image:Mendoza Name.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857052632?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857052632]] ===[[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Okay, so call me a traditionalist but I enjoy picking up a book and instantly recognising the genre to which the book belongs and from here making an immediate, if not altogether accurate, assumption about whether I am likely to enjoy said book. Quite often it is not until we are fully immersed in a story we start to recognise and appreciate the style and tone of the writer and decide whether we are want to continue the story to completion. This surely is the process by which us mere reading mortals decide whether or not we enjoyed a book? Well, after reading ''Name of the Dog'' I have to be honest and say I did not know what to make of it on initial inspection. Nor have I settled my state of flux wherein I am trying to decide whether or not I really did enjoy Mendoza's tale of corruption and crime in Cartel run Mexico. [[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Jester -->*[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]===1529425867[[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] 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 (a stoner tooth fairyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery) 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. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]]<br> <br> {{newreview|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Buried SecretsSimon 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 ''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 area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in his brain Tony Garner knew coming forward. 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 getting hold Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the knife was part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a mistake, but he liked knives scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and had quite looking for a collection until they were all taken away after way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the accident which had left him, well, not quite night bus that will only go as far as he ought to beone of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem with this knife was that it was beside ', particularly in the woman who was lying in light of 'the ginnell, one leg twisted under her rather strangely and with blood coursing down her facemissing women'. Tony thought about ringing For one young woman, the police but dismissed final stop on the idea quicklybus leaves her a long way short of her home. She was still alive had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - just - so an ambulance might have been a good idea, but Tony her phone's dead. The bus had an instinct for when trouble was going driven off before she had the chance to catch him, so he dropped beg the knife down a drain bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and disappearedin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith1405957174|title=Portrait of a Murderer: 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>