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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Schaffhausen -->1786482126|-title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Elly Griffiths[[image:Schaffhausen_Vanishing.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657135?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagCrime|summary=thebookbagBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657135]] | style="verticalthe site was going to hold seventy-align: top; textfive 'luxury' apartments -align: left;"|===[[The Vanishing Season by Johanna Schaffhausen]]=== [[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]] Schaffhausen has been garnering a lot of attention for her first crime novel having already been crowned a Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'First Crime Novel Award Winner'' by t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Mystery Writers of Americaone night they spent together some three months ago. My interest therefore was definitely piqued and I was excited Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to read this booksudden bouts of sickness. So, does it live up to all the hype? In a word: yes. I was gripped from the outset }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (forgive the terrible pun, we are after all dealing with a serial killer who chops off the hands of his victims to keep as trophies!) [[The Vanishing Season by Johanna SchaffhausenD S Max Craigie)|Full Review]]author=Neil Lancaster <!-- Parsons -->|rating=4.5|-| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Crime[[image:178089595X.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police.amazon Neither side likes or has any respect for the other.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5starBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of 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 police doing what he wants.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with And what he wants is to be transferred to an air ambulance, open prison to serve the mess falls on a busy shopping centre remainder of his sentence and we are barely out of the first chapterto get an early parole date. DC Max Wolfe Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's latest adventure looks at religion, radicalisation, hate and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump even prepared to catching those responsible. The rest of do the book gradually builds a web of intrigue other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and a virtual soap opera of family issues. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}<!-- Reynolds -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008405026| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey[[image:Reynolds_Fire.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/ref=nosim?tagrating=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]===Crime[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically to everyone else and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dyingher father are dead in their bed. Initially, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be nextit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. In such a circumstance who can be trusted What looked as though it was going to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]] <!an open-and- Burrows -->shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|-}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code[[image:Burrows_Doves.jpg|leftauthor=Jonny Sweet|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786074273/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5|genre=Crime| stylesummary="verticalEdward Jevons is a working-align: top; textclass young man, obsessed with his upper-align: left;"|===[[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:4starclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director.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 He's also self-obsessed, demanding, along with the body of the directorhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. It was a strange tableau: the girl impaled on a branch and the man lying at her feet, both Edward has been in a cagelove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The fact Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the man is a diplomat isnrelationship had begun between them but he't immediately evident - he was in the area under an assumed name. DCI (and birder enthusiast) Domenic Jejeune s not like most men: Edward is conflicted. The immediate problem is obviously left to establish who murdered stumble upon the man and the woman - and even that's complicated by the political necessity of not to involving the Mexican consulate, thus tying his hands rather tightlytwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. The thoughts which are running in the back of his mind though are about }}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the full-time research position studying birds which top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the directorAI detective Lock. It's death has opened up. Could this be his escape route from the police force? [[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Griffiths their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Griffiths_DarkBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784296635/ref=nosim 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?tag|isbn=thebookbag-21]]139851120X}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1035021803|==title=[[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]===Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder[[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{C L Miller|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime=3.5|genre=Crime]] Dr Ruth Galloway |summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has got used been back to being a published author, to being on television, but the English country village where shegrew up. She's still flattered when Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli asks back now because of a request for help from her help with some bones which hebeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's discovered in a tiny hilltop village outside Romeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, but doesn't know what to make of themsay the least. Ruth succumbs Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to temptationthe village: Arthur, she and Angelo have some history (it was just the one nightfeels, let her down badly...) and it's years since Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she's had a holiday. Even a working holiday has not felt able to be an improvement. Castello degli Angeli isn't quite what near the man or pursue the profession she was expectingloved. After the split, but it will make she worked in a reasonable break for her, her daughter Katecafe, friend Shona met and Shona's son Louis. [[The Dark Angel married James (Dr Ruth Gallowayon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) by Elly Griffiths|Full Review]]and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage<!-- Burrows -->|isbn=1398524085|-title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Nicci French|rating=5[[image:Burrows_Siege.jpg|leftgenre=Crime|linksummary=http://wwwCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up.amazon Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty.coare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not.uk/dp/1780748434/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:3 Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is new It was an easy assumption for the police to Saltmarsh, but his reputation has come before him. Success in a high profile case has made him the poster boy for make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the policeguilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's a snag though: Jejeune isn't ''actually'' that keen little else they can do but get on the jobwith their lives and wonder about what really happened. He'd much rather be out birdwatching, but that doesn't bring in an income and there}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's a simple fact. Jejeune is ''very'' a very good detectivefault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, with insights which few other people possessSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. ThereHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's one advantage to t need the job too: Saltmarsh is situated in North Norfolkhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, the UKDelaware's premier birding country but sometimes Jejeune's mind is more on partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the birds than involvement was something that the jobman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. [[A Siege Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of Bitterns by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Durrenmatt -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Durrenmatt_Justicea 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/1782273875 But which of them was the primary target?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]==4|genre=Crime [[image:2.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It's 1957, and we're somewhere Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Switzerland, and thereBelgravia. He didn's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a politician has gone into the crowded room way of one of those getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul 'the place to go' restaurantssomehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, and point blank shot who had a professor everyone there must have knownbroken arm, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeurbut it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -driven Rolls before handing himself in to face and the murder rapproblems - are all his own. Of course The one thing hehadn's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappeart expected was for someone to turn up dead. He's certainly of much interest, not only to our narrator Unfortunately, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by be the man in hand to look into things a second timeprime suspect. But what's this, where he opens his testimony about }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out 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)Bones|author=Kate Webb|Full Review]] <!-- Giordano -->rating=4.5|-genre=Crime| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Giordano FruitsIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave.jpg|left|link=https://www In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier.amazon.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 He'd been a known drug user and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]=== [[image:4starhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to describe this book - well for starters it's unlike anything I've ever read beforethe suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. It Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's chaotic, mad, funny, fast-paced, confusing but once you get into it it's really good fun and totally enjoyablecold cases to you and me) investigate. [[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Ellis -->|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1529425867[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.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 the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.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, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be 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 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]] <!-- Mendoza -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=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 fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records departmentLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery) 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]] |} {{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 <!Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in- remove 25/10 law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high->flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Misper|author=Suzanne Elizabeth ReedKate London|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 the jury system he was found not 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 quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=MartyThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's MasterTalons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''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 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 Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=Margaret was nervous about going for It's a scene replicated all too often in the walk around early hours of the lake on her own, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and go with herlooking for a way to get home. She made it Some are lucky and manage to get one of the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind few taxis available. Others squash onto the bar, relieved night bus that she'd managed to leave will only go as far as one of the drunken man who was Marty's master and some other suspicious-looking men behind heroutlying villages. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem's widower, Avel, had remarried and his new wife, Elena, was particularly in the clubhouse with Avellight of 'the missing women's children - three teenage girls and . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a boy who was little more than a toddlerlong way short of her home. Elena didnShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone't look in s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the least pleased bus driver to be there and despite Avellet her use his. There's promises no option but to pick them up, he was nowhere to be seenstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1405957174|title= WychwoodA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=ThirtyFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man -something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job is dying when we first meet him and left her partner. Much as she prefers London, she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for a short time to lick her wounds, but she arrives Nadine consciously makes no effort to find call the neighbouring part of ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the Wychwood man is a crime sceneor why Nadine prefers to have him die. Even broken-hearted journalists can I't afford to pass up the chance of d better give you a story, particularly if they know they need to drum up some freelance work soon, little more background so Elspeth that you can't resist sticking her nose in. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case there's an extra interest in it for Elspeth, and once sheunderstand what's spotted the connection between the ritualised murder and the local myth about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killerhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton0008530025|title= Agatha Raisin and Murder in the Witches' TreeFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=For those It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin she is essentially a short-tempered private investigator her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in her early 50s with the garden of their West London home. He had an alcoholinjury 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, doughnut no one has been charged with his murder and man obsession. Much like TVit's Midsomer Murdersnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to sustain 28 books so fardo 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch0241996104|title=The Furthest StationComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= When local police find something weird Nancy's mother and step- spectres scaring commuters on a particular part 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 Metropolitan Linecourt, for example after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - they call she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for PC Peter Grant the rest of the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Follyher life. Stray river gods Of course, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders, they it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Follymaking the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1529413680|title= The Happy EndingA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is 97 years old. Hethe re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known there to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button see the show with him – but still he's managing well enough at homesome friends. Mentally heIt's all therebeen very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, even if the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he does have these conversations with his wife, who's been dead departs from the last 6 yearsscript. There's a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so okLuckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a point when there's clearly no purpose lefthelicopter. NoA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but -one comesas he's a senior government employee, even the paramedics seem to have shunted you to man who runs Frenchelon - the bottom of the listmilitary has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, and wellwho lives in California, itis flying in with some of her father's all becoming just friends for a bit too undignified. To be honest, when he found the morphine Betty'd been stockpre-piling against the day her own illness got too much for her but never used as it turned out, Harry was on the point of using it himselfarranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>