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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15"1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)<!-- Parsons -->|author=Elly Griffiths|-rating=4.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Crime[[image:178089595X.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -21]]  | style="verticalthe site was going to hold seventy-align: top; textfive '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]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with an air ambulanceDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, the mess falls on but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a busy shopping centre and we are barely out result of the first chapterone night they spent together some three months ago. DC Max Wolfe's latest adventure looks at religion Her condition will be obvious before long, radicalisation, hate and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump not least because Ruth is prone to catching those responsible. The rest of the book gradually builds a web of intrigue and a virtual soap opera sudden bouts of family issuessickness. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]}}<!-- Reynolds -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008551324| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster[[image:Reynolds_Fire|rating=4.jpg5|left|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 to everyone else struggling in prison and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect he's prepared to 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 dying, melting to be precisewho was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and no one knows how, or why, or who could it will be nextworth the police doing what he wants. In such a circumstance who can And what he wants is to be trusted transferred to an open prison to solve this crime serve the remainder of his sentence and do so without spreading panicto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? What if The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do 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]]works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}<!-- Burrows -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008405026| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5[[image:Burrows_Doves.jpg|leftgenre=Crime|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786074273/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagIt's sixteen years since nine-21]]  | style="verticalyear-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:4starold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] The body of a senior attaché from the Mexican consulate was found in a local bird sanctuary 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. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=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 upKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3. Could this be his escape route from the police force? [[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Griffiths -->5|-genre=Crime| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalEdward Jevons is a working-align: top; textclass young man, obsessed with his upper-align: center;"|[[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 Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]=== [[imageand 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 he's not like most men:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}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 |author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a published author, to being man is found crucified on televisionthe top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, but shethe AI detective Lock. It's still flattered their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli asks for her help there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with some bones which he's discovered in a tiny hilltop village outside Rome, but doesn't know what potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to make of themtheir AI Future Policing project. Ruth succumbs Will they be able to temptation: she and Angelo have some history (it was just solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the one night...) case and it's years since she, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's had a holiday. Even a working holiday has Guide to be an improvementMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=3. Castello degli Angeli isn5|genre=Crime|summary=It't quite what she was expecting, but it will make 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 reasonable break request for help from herbeloved aunt, her daughter Kate, friend Shona Carole. Freya's former mentor and ShonaCarole's son Louisclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. [[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths|Full Review]] <!-- Burrows -->|-| style="width Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Burrows_SiegeArthur, she feels, let her down badly.jpg|left|link=http://www Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved.amazon.co After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.uk/dp/1780748434/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre==[[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]===Crime [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is new to SaltmarshCharlotte 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 his reputation has come before him. - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Success Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in a high profile case has made him the poster boy river. It was an easy assumption for the police. There's a snag though: Jejeune isnto make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't ''actually'' that keen on stand the jobguilt. He'd much rather be out birdwatching, The Salter children are not convinced but that doesn't bring in an income and there's a simple fact. Jejeune is ''very'' a very good detective, with insights which few other people possesslittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. There's one advantage to the job too: Saltmarsh is situated in North Norfolk, the UK's premier birding country but sometimes Jejeune's mind is more on the birds than the job. [[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1529900360 <!-- Durrenmatt -->|title=The Ghost Orchid|-author=Jonathan Kellerman| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Crime[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|linksummary=https://wwwIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag His assertions that there were only open-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]  | style="verticaland-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Execution shut cases which didn't need the help of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]=== [[image:2a psychologist only worked for a while.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's 1957partner, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case on everyone's lips – who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the simple fact involvement was something that a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurantsman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself remote property in to face the murder rapBel Air. Of course he's found guilty, even if He was the gun involved has managed heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to disappear. Hean extremely rich man and it'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, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second time. 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? [[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|Full Review]]author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4<!-- Giordano -->|-| style|genre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Crime[[image:Giordano Fruits.jpg|left|linksummary=https://wwwChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia.amazon He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Auntie Poldi and Paul ''somehow'' got the Fruits of impression that he'd be at the Lord by Mario Giordano]]=== [[image:4starschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How to describe this book The teaching - and the problems - well for starters it's unlike anything Iare all his own. The one thing he hadn've ever read beforet expected was for someone to turn up dead. It's chaotic Unfortunately, mad, funny, fast-paced, confusing but once you get into it it's really good fun and totally enjoyable. [[Auntie Poldi he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the Fruits of police consider that person to be the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage<!-- Ellis -->|-isbn=1529421284| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb[[image:Ellis_Dark|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Crime|linksummary=https://wwwIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Map of In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4starbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood here He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, as she might not 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]] <!-- Tudor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] |}  <!-- 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 light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman who was lying in , the final stop on the ginnell, one leg twisted under bus leaves her a long way short of her rather strangely home. She had intended to ring someone to come and with blood coursing down 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 faceuse his. Tony thought about ringing There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the police but dismissed Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the idea quicklyfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. She was still alive The victim - just a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so an ambulance might desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have been him die. I'd better give you a good idealittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara 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 Tony the vicious beating his face had an instinct for when trouble 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 catch himdo this live on camera, so he dropped episode by episode. There's no dump of the knife down a drain whole box set - and disappearedno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the 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 undoubtedly spoken.