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|isbn=15291243951786482126|title=When The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. 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't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You See MeKnow (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lisa GardnerNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in 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. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it 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. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-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|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it was When a man is found crucified on the top of a hiking break hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off case alongside her sidekick, the beaten track to find a stickAI detective Lock. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called inIt's their first live case together, along having previously been very successful with Sergeant D D Warrenseveral cold cases. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith EdgarBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a computer analyst, potential serial killer and Flora Dane who brought something unique a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to the tabletheir AI Future Policing project. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by Will they be able to solve the notorious killercase in time, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with or will Kat find herself taken off the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluable.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=00082971691035021803|title=The Guest ListAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lucy FoleyC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help 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 the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it It was the wedding one of those flash downpours that the yearBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Will Slater (television personalityIn a gully, if not yet a celebrity) was human skeleton came to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on surface and forensic testing proved the islandbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The brideHe's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife d been a known drug user and her husbandhad learning disabilities, Freddyso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. They gave Geary was a huge discount townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to get the couple suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the island, but surely it would be worth it for time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the publicity?Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=00082752461529425867|title=Perfect Kill Lost and Never Found (A D I CallanachWilkins Mystery)|author=Helen FieldsSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In 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's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her sonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrongHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Bart might be twenty but The return has come about because he was considerate of 's had a letter from his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besidesex-wife, he didnsaying that she't have his phone with him s ill and he wouldnhasn't have gone far without thatlong to live. It's not long before Bart realises that he's alonehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, trapped stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a shipping container and on his way problem closer to France, where his fate has already been decided.home?

|authorisbn= Luke Arnold0861541774|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 24|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= DCI Domenic Jejeune''The Last Smile s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Sunder City'' is Singapore to meet up with an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnoldold ally, Guy Trueman. It centres on Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Private DetectiveGhurka. Initially, Fetch Philips, as he attempts faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to find murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a missing vampire in a world filled with magical creatures where diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequences.|isbn=0356512886

|isbn=15294002791521129886|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jo SpainKeith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home Greg Mason's just beginning to Spanish Cove after get his confidence as an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact, that's what investigator to the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly point where he'd been but ll warn someone about how much he seemed content, if not happy, to be hopecharges. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and hethey'd seen 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 memoriam'' in the paper: this was the first he'd heard about what had happened-law appears to have killed himself. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings Stuart's concerned about his returnsister, but his father is delighted. In factLucy, hewho's determined struggling to have a partymake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Only Lucy, with Frazer Latimerhe says, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - itsimply wasn's nine years since Kathleen died t in his nature. The police and he's been lonely. the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Hebut Stuart's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=1786075695B0CK3MYJ56|title=When the Dead Come Calling Responsibilities (Burrowhead Mysteries 1Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Helen SedgwickAnn Macarthur|rating=54

|summary=It began with 's the discovery of 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a body under the swings high-flying job in the childrencity but it wasn't satisfying so he's playgroundnow set himself up as a private investigator. It was Dr Alexis Crosse and he was found by PC Simon Hunter'Shades of Cameron Strike', who loved him deeplyyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but who had reason where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to mistrust himlook into something. Crosse Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was a psychotherapist who grew up killed in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), what's been written off as a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as tragic accident at an outsiderunmanned level crossing. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider Joyce - you've only got to look at and her skin to realise thatparents, Oliver and her husband, Fergus, well, hePam Hetherington - can's t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a little strange too, not entirely ''here'train. Greg's been asked to investigate.

|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)1838954481|title=The Honjin MurdersMisper|author=Kate London

|summary=To many readers, the phrase Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make s no doubt about that. He was the book one to read; preferably quantified by fifteen-year-old holding the words 'clever' or 'good'gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. For those who need more, here is He pulled the extra background – we're in rural Japan in trigger but due to the 1930s. The oldest son vagaries of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really jury system he was found not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hasteguilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thingAnd so lives must go on. Either way, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only capital and hoping for the wedded couple to be slashed to death a quieter life in their private annex before the sun rises countryside but when a missing teenager is found on their marriage. What with her territory she's drawn into a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, wider investigation - and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of back into the crime, this case has a lot orbit of the peculiar about itRyan Kennedy.|isbn=1782275002

|authorisbn=Will Dean 1448309743|title=Black River The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in In the village of Cronchie on the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifeWest coast of Scotland, returning her to the isolated town five members of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing best friend. With from the home is the Midsommar sun blocked out by Devil Stone: myth says that if the dark pines 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 forestbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Tuva fights DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to save her friend'shadow' him. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|isbn=17857692941529077699|title=Man at the Window The Raging Storm (Detective CardiliniTwo Rivers)|author=Robert JeffreysAnn Cleeves

|summary=''It's when we read that 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 young boy is creeping reluctantly small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a teacherrenowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''s bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrong. Nowadays you I ''mightnearly'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly said 'all-round good egg' but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the child. The boy would we'll find out, he could be safe that night though - albeit in the most horrific fashionmore than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom Where did he found the man dead on the floor, get the top of money for his skull missing. first boat? The school's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed How did he finance the Captain.trip?

|isbn=14722557981787636607|title=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Trap|author=Quintin JardineCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of shoplifting from clubs and looking for a local supermarketway to get home. It's always been assumed that she couldn't live with Some are lucky and manage to get one of the shamefew taxis available. People were surprised Others squash onto the night bus that she committed suicide just before will only go as far as one of the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight to clear her nameoutlying villages. She said that she The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'd been set up because she was hot . For one young woman, the final stop on the trail bus leaves her a long way short of corruption in the councilher home. Her ex She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinnerbut her phone's daughter, and asked that dead. The bus had driven off before she look into clearing Brownhad the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's name: it's something which he feels that he has no option but to do start walking - unsuitably clothed and in memory of his son who was murdered recentlyhigh-heeled shoes.

|isbn=15294022551405957174|title=A Body in Death at the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Party|author=Helen CoxAmy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious of From the scars on her facefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. They were acquired The victim - a man - is dying when she was rescued from a car in we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the River Ouse by Inspector Halloranambulance he so desperately needs. She’d been suspected of What we don't know is who the murder of her boyfriend, Owen, and in the process of clearing her name she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detectionman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Kitt developed I'd better give you a taste for Inspector Halloran Too, but they’re taking it slowly. Well, sort of slowlylittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.

|isbn=02419851100008530025|title=All Murder in the Rage (D I Fawley)Family

|summary=A very beautifulIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on in the outskirts garden of Oxfordtheir West London home. She didnHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't want to go to d slipped down the police station or steps but the hospital: she just wanted to be vicious beating his face had taken homewas obviously deliberate. The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policeTwenty years later, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford no one has been charged with his murder and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Foolit's joke which had gone wrongnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. No crime had A group of experts has been committed brought together to review the evidence and Faith didn't want to take the matter any investigation further. Fawley and his team werenMore to the point, they't prepared re going to leave it at that do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and they began investigatingno shortage of cliffhangers. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didnIt't seem to have much of a historys compelling viewing.

|isbn=15420154210241996104|title=The Royal Baths MurderComing to Find You|author=J R EllisJane Corry|rating=34.5|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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4

|summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant man. In fact the only surprising thing was that town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there wasn't more of a queue waiting to do see the dirty deedshow with some friends. What was a bit It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer and that the main characters is seriously injured when he was strangled in departs from the midst of Harrogate's crime writing festivalscript. He went for a swim at the Royal Baths and never returnedLuckily, his body being found by doctor is there and the receptionistman is whisked away in a helicopter. DCI Jim Oldroyd was A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man tasked with investigating who runs Frenchelon - the crimemilitary has stepped in. It would not be the only death, One daughter lives nearby and it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeantanother, Andy Carterwho lives in California, that Oldroydis flying in with some of her father's was not one of themfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.

|authorisbn= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)1529196388|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it'It Would Be Night s not too long before Knight appears in Caracascourt, charged with Cliveden'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelas murder. It begins with Knight was told that the death best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Adelaida FalconStag Court Chambers and it's mother Taylor-Cameron and chronicles Adelaidahis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's coming determined to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to escape itthe contrary. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- Nicci French -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471179230.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471179230/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lying Room by Nicci French]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off Move on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. He has a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Lying Room by Nicci French|Full Review]] <!-- Nicola Monaghan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0857308025.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VRSX3SN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It was more than a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of Nottingham. Then it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she'd even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. They'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were the man and the woman, wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on the Murder Squad, ending up as a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get. [[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan|Full Review]] <!-- Ann Cleeves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509889566.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509889566/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]] When we first meet DI Matthew Venn he's at his father's funeral, although 'at' rather overstates the proximity. He sees everyone - his mother and the preacher included from a distance - but he doesn't go it. He wouldn't be welcome. Those attending are part of the Barum Brethren and the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told the congregation how wrong they were in their beliefs. It coincided with him leaving university and joining the police force. The announcement of Matthew's marriage to Jonathan Church was in the local paper and whilst he doesn't know if his father saw it, he can't imagine that it will have gone down well. [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves|Full Review]] <!-- Stephen Booth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:075157628X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/075157628X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Drowned Lives by Stephen Booth]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Newest Crime]] When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an old man who wants his help in healing a decades' old family rift he's reluctant to get involved, but then Chris is reluctant to get involved in anything but a pint in the pub these days. It could just be the way that he is, or the fact that he's just lost both his parents within three months of each other. He's currently existing in the family home and wondering when he's going to be made redundant from his job with the council. The short answer to that one is 'soon'. Chris does his best to deter the old man, but it's not before he's left a lot of papers with his neighbour. Then the old man is murdered and the police come calling on Chris. [[Drowned Lives by Stephen Booth|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1784742783.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742783/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon SerraillerHistorical) by Susan Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky and - all things considered - his life is as good as it could be. He's back at work after a long break to recuperate from the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his life. When he's not at work he's spending his time in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restored. There's talk of an exhibition of his drawings. Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. It's the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a call. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubt. [[The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler) by Susan Hill|Full Review]]