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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane IsaacStuart Douglas|title=Beneath Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the AshesDress Rehearsal
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|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the kitchen floor edge of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livinga reservoir. She'd no memory of what had happened The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the night beforewhole thing bothers Lowe, but she was injuredand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the house had been broken into country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and her boyfriend, Evan Bakerseemingly, was missing. The police had been called a link to death during the farm by the fire brigadeSecond World War. There'd been But is there really a fire in one of link between the farm's barns and when deaths? And will they investigated a badly-burned body was discovered. It's up to DI Will Jackman manage to discover uncover who's is responsible - and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her more people lose their next victim.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey0008517061|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=In many ways it was horrificFormer Metropolitan Police detective, but quite simpleJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. On Christmas day There’s perhaps a man little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a rifle shot and killed five peoplelot of compromise: the first was does Jake give up his exoff-wife's new partner, a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened grid and relaxing life to be around. He then went move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the local churchyard future she wants for herself and turned the gun on himself. her daughter? Six dead, no perpetrator on For the loose and it looks as though all that needs to be done is to give evidence at moment they’re enjoying life in the inquest, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at that. She wants to know where Russell Fewell got the gun present and putting the bullets: she's also not convinced about the honesty of future on the dead policeman and that's an unpopular attitude to have about a local heroback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=CrushElly Griffiths
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|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of Thelma and Louise, it's Louise we meet first, through her narrationa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She's Was this a seventeen year old, telling us of a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives inritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companyDCI Harry Nelson. She lives at home with her motherIt's difficult as Ruth knows, complete with hare-lipbut Nelson doesn't, and abusive step-father, and that she is working at one pregnant with his child as a result of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifeone night they spent together some three months ago. ImpulsivelyHer condition will be obvious before long, she asks not least because Ruth is prone to be their maid – and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy homesudden bouts of sickness. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence Block0008551324|title=Sinner ManThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Everybody 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 start somewheretell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence Blockhe promises, you may no longer is someone big and it will be able to find worth the beginningpolice doing what he wants. His first crime publication came and went in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the early 60s remainder of his sentence and fifty years later he did not have a copy as the book had been published under to get an alias with a different title unknown early parole date. Not much to him. ask, is it? In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form of ''Sinner ManThe 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 has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writeranyone who works with him is kept well away from what's early books; murder, dubious characters and a bit of pulp naughtinesshappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger0008405026|title=Ink and BoneA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her grandmother Eloise before her is bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a very powerful and gifted psychichalt. Sensitive to the unseenNow, her mother, Helena, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the father are deadin their bed. VisitedInitially, bothered, harassed it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. But life Kerrigan is not convinced that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors the explanation lies in the room who Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possibleless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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=M C BeatonJo Callaghan|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)Leave No Trace
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|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be When a haven man is found crucified on the top of peace and tranquilitya hill in Nuneaton, but it's surprising how often the reverse proves DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be the casealongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. The villagers of Carsley are up in arms because Lord Bellington has said that heIt's going to sell off the allotments for a new housing developmenttheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreezeBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, no one Kat is particularly sorry - suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and there's no shortage a very high profile case that draws a lot of suspects eitherunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Lord Bellington's sonWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, Damianpotentially, employs Agatha Raisin and her detective agency to discover who murdered his father.out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1035021803|title= BetrayalsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has come been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a long way since she discovered request for help from her parents were 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 biological parents – that her biological parents down badly. Even though they were in fact convicted serials killersbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But while After the split, she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritageworked in a cafe, met and married James (on the strange visions that are a part rebound from the love of thather life, she's not yet ready to make the choice that destiny would who was murdered) and Freya and James have her makenow divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Sophie HannahNicci 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=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had organised a house party at her home in Clonakiltybeen badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, IrelandSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. It was mainly family, plus the two partners from the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, but His assertions that there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other only open- Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard and -shut cases which didn't need the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirothelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. They weren't certain why they'd been invitedFinally, but Athie Playfordit was Robin, author of the popular childrenDelaware's detective novelspartner, ''Shrimp Seddon''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, had though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a shock remote property in store for Bel Air. He was the assembled company heir to an Italian shoe empire and particularly for her two children, Harry she is married to an extremely rich man and Claudiait's not the Italian. She'd changed her will, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything to her secretary, Joseph Scotcher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane178763681X|title=The Gem ConnectionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|summary=In the beginning it was simpleChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. C J Kavanaugh, formerly of the Drugs Enforcement Agency He didn't really want to but now making celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a living as Private Investigator was employed way of getting both men and women to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairdo what he wanted. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs whoPaul ''somehow''d been unable to prove got the impression that he was being unfaithful 'd be at the school to his wifeassist Paul, but CJ was determined to be the one who got the proof. Luck was on his sidehad a broken arm, but not, it would seem, on Fahrlettididn'st turn out that way. In The teaching - and the meantime Clinton Windell ''knew'' that luck was on problems - are all his side: he'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gemsown. The board one thing he hadn't believed that expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he could do it was the person who discovered the body and a large part of his pleasure was everyone knows that the police consider that he was proving them wrongperson to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1529421284|title= Dragon GamesLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover It was one of my advance copy of ''Dragon Games'' ties it to those flash downpours that the international bestseller ''The Art of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering British weather often delivers in English translationa heatwave. I'm hoping that In a gully, a human skeleton came to the final edition that hits the market will have surface and forensic testing proved the confidence body to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequelbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. My hope is because the step between the first two Burmese books He'd been a known drug user and the modern China mystery ones is had learning disabilities, so it could have been a significant onesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Many readers will love bothGeary was a townie, but I think so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the less lyrical, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Chinese stories has a wider readershiptime. It is a readership Sendker deservesLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1529425867|title= In at the DeathLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is an elderly retired tobacconistof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, a fan son of Ryan and father of romantic fictionRyan, and a wearer is not. He's not any of pince-nezthose things. Not He's white, originated from a natural crime-fighting celebritytrailer park, you might think, but in In at the Death barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing thing) and something of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail 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 murderer in the city of Bridgtonpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The death two men are just different sides of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor had a gun in his bagsame policing coin. As Sometimes the detectives get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closetscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1529431735|title=Turning BlueThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in a particularly harsh winter. DI Jim Brindle from the elite detective unit, Cold Storage, was sent to investigate 's February 1991 and he could have been helped by Roddy MaceEssex is bitingly cold, a local journalistwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Only Brindle, He'd been exiled on the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with the writerCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging career. Well itThe return has come about because he's more than flagging: he left London in disgracehad a letter from his ex-wife, so itsaying that she's the two men living on the outskirts of life who are trying independently ill and hasn't long to trap the man they believe is responsible for Melanielive. It's disappearance and that man hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Steven Rutterabducted, another loner, near destitute stripped to his underwear and living high on sent to a watery grave in the moors, who knows all the hiding placesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. He knows the secrets of the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)0861541774|title=The Mystery A Nye of the Three OrchidsPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34
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|summary=All the ladies of ODCI Domenic Jejeune'Brian Fashion House are trying s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to do is to present their works meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the best of lights to the best of Milanese a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and European society, but they're not going to find he killed a dead person on their premises much helpGhurka. Cristiana lives in Casa O'BrianInitially, on the top floor he faced a charge of the building where everything key manslaughter but evidence came to her company happens, and it's on her bed light that she finds the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid suggested that bizarrely means a lot he might have planned to hermurder the man. What Now he could it signify? be facing the death penalty. Was she correct in thinking she'd seen some people she really didn't want Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to see back in her life, in the audience below? And who here might not actually be who they first appear? It'll be help as any interference from another police force could provoke a tough case for Inspector de Vincenzi, thatdiplomatic incident and wouldn's for suret help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1521129886|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
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|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided Greg Mason's just beginning to move from Bavaria get his confidence as an investigator to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to deathpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She could, of course, It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialbaby and they're both delighted. Once there, new friends, family already resident on Joyce will be more delighted about the island and baby when she gets past the corpse of a young man, morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his face blown off by a shotgunsister, whom she found on the local beachLucy, intervened who's struggling to give make ends meet and her life some meaningson is not thriving. For a while she 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 a suspectsuicide, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle Stuart's prepared to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned pay Greg to investigate find out what happened on the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concernednight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig RussellB0CK3MYJ56|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest and imprisonment as occupational hazards and on the rare occasion he was nabbed, he'd raise his hands and ''come quiet''. Turns out that's not what his nickname meant at all. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot of people didn't know. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author= Angela Marsons|title= Silent ScreamAnn Macarthur|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim Stone is called to investigate the body of a woman found dead in the bath of a house that has been set on fire. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be an isolated case and they are in a race against the clock to find out who could be next on the killer's hit list and why. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Ames|title=You Were Never Really Here|rating=3.5
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|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason'He came up with a plan, a solution, a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wake. So he had to be pures twenty-eight years old. He had used to be holyhave a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. He had to 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be containedthinking.Nice bloke, but where'' s the life experience that backs up this profession? He is JoeOn the other hand, an ex-Marine, ex-FBI, who he has had demons drummed been asked to look into him by not only his work but his abusive father, with the help of a hammersomething. Having left one of his own hammers behind Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a hotel room, only to need it in tragic accident at an introductory scuffle which really places the reader in a dark unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and grim placeher parents, he moves on Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter fall in front of a Senatortrain. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going Greg's been asked to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt|title= The Man Who Wasn't There|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become the mixed metaphor du jour. It's hard to say where it started, the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when ''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1838954481|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all of them are legal. Splashed across the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned with. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel, unseen, through the shadows; a power which they use to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMisper|author=T F Muir|title=Blood Torment (DCI Andy Gilchrist)Kate London
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|summary=TwoRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her mother's home some time in the early hours of holding the morning. There's something wrong though gun and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might have abducted - possibly even murdered - her own childpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Then it starts He pulled the trigger but due to get political when Gilchrist discovers that Davis' father is Dougal Davis, the former MSP who was forced to resign his seat when vagaries of the jury system he was accused found not guilty of physically abusing his third wife. Even disgraced politicians have some clout both the murder and there's the added complication manslaughter of the fact that Davis's first wife went to school Gilchrist's ultimate bossofficer. Just to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds that he could be working with DI Tosh MacIntosh - a man for whom he has no respectAnd so lives must go on. But could there be an answer to For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the abduction capital and hoping for a quieter life in the form of Sammie Bell, countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a convicted paedophile who had moved wider investigation - and back to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1448309743|title=Secrets of Death The Devil Stone (Cooper and FryDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
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|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit In the Peak Districtvillage of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. There are those who call it 'suicide tourism', but it's frowned on, although it does rather hit The only item missing from the home is the nail on Devil Stone: myth says that if the headstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. There have been an number of suicides The only suspects are known Satanists but in reasonably publicmany ways, but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what they've done and usually from outside the immediate area. Itthat's almost as though theyan easy conclusion given that two of them 've been tutored. But whilst itdiscovered's against the law to ''assist'' someone to commit suicidebody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, what's the legal position about providing information and support? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in E Division have to try and find some connection between the people who have died. But in what might almost be another world - the city of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness in a case she's involved with has vanishedshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1529077699|title=The Murder Road Raging Storm (Cooper and FryTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=The locals will tell you that there''It's only one road into and out of Shawhead and over the years theyall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''ve become accustomed to being cut off by snow or floods Well yes, it is. The road passes under Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a railway line month and then turned up, naked and one day dead, in a small boat, anchored in early February Mac Kelsey's curtain-sider jammed under Scully Cove close to the bridgevillage of Greystone, in Devon. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered Rosco had the obstruction as she tried to return home to Shawheadstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, but there was no driver in round the cabworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. There I ''wasnearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a lot of blood thoughlittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529427045|title=Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
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|summary=Two young racing drivers come ''Life has more to the Perigord region to hunt offer than people - prime numbers for clues as example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the whereabouts small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the missing Bugatti Type 57c Atlanticarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Only four were made and three are accounted for - but stories would have it that Salander's niece's mother is the missing car is somewhere latest woman in the Perigordarea to have vanished without trace. Itwas only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's more than seventy years since the car was last seen and that was in war time - guardian but itquickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37,000,000 for one of the cars. One unaware of the young racing drivers has local connections and another is part Salander played in a relationship with Annette, a magistrate. The race to find the car is not going to be kindher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell1787636607|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy Crime|summary=The Great DetecitveIt's ghost has walked London's streets a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chestway to get home. But what's Some are lucky and manage to get one of the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating few taxis available. Others squash onto the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this night bus that will only go as far as one of the hard wayoutlying villages. Gifted with The woman all regret the Sight'taxi problem', theyparticularly in the light of 'll pursue a criminial genius - whothe missing women'll lure them into . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a Sherlockian maze long way short of clues her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and evidencecollect her - but her phone's dead. The team also have thier own demons bus had driven off before she had the chance to fightbeg the bus driver to let her use his. They There've been s no option but to Hell start walking - unsuitably clothed and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apartin high-heeled shoes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1405957174|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Bob SkinnerFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's wife has party will not end well. The victim - a yearning for a particular cake from Marks man - is dying when we first meet him and Spencer he thinks nothing of taking a detour on his way Nadine consciously makes no effort to work, snatching call the last one available and heading back to the carambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's then that t know is who the fates start being naughtyman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Reversing out of his parking space heI's hit by d better give you a speeding BMW - only the driver doesnlittle more background so that you can understand what't get out to exchange insurance details and offer apologies. He gets out of the car and legs it. Checking his own car for damage Skinner notices that the boot of the beemer is slightly open - something which presumably happened on impact - and his attempts to close it mean that it opens instead and the body of a small child is revealeds happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson0008530025|title=Little Sister (Detective Pieter Vos)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Late one night, after a talent content on the waterfront, Kim and Mia Timmers returned to their home to find a scene of utter carnage and their mother, father and sister dead. It would have hit any elevenwas in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old child hard, but Maura Howard came home and found the dead girlbody of her stepfather, Little JoLuke Ryder, was in the garden of their triplet and there was a special bond between West London home. He had an injury on the three back of themhis head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The girls then left the house Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and apparently murdered it's now the lead singer subject of The Cupids''Infamous'', a worldtrue-famous band, in crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the belief that he had been responsible for evidence and to take the deaths of their familyinvestigation further. Officially there didnMore to the point, they't seem re going to be any doubt about what had happened to the musiciando this live on camera, despite episode by episode. There's no dump of the fact that there were certain points about the murder scene which might have suggested that someone with more worldly experience was responsiblewhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham0241996104|title=Die of ShameComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=A group of addicts Nancy's mother and step- the addictions differ - meet regularly father were brutally stabbed at the home of their therapistSussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Tony De SilvaMartin, himself a former addicthas been convicted of their murder. On We first meet Nancy outside the night we join themcourt, Chris, Robin, Heather and Diana are surprised to see that there's an extra chair in the circleafter Martin receives a life sentence. It changes the dynamics of the group, but the newcomer is Caroline and The barrister tells her that she's received a large lady 'silent sentence' - but although she likes her food it's painkillers that she's addicted not been found guilty of anything but will have tolive with what happened for the rest of her life. ThereOf course, it's no obvious reason why Carolinemade worse because Nancy's arrival should make such a difference to the group rich - she's keen to fit in inherited five million pounds from her mother - but it does and before many weeks have passed one the papers are making the most of the group is murderedit. It's increasingly obvious that 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one of the group favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is responsibleundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529413680|title=Frederic Dard and David Bellos A Chateau Under Siege (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=Bird in a CageMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man returns to One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the flat he grew up English in 1370 and where his mother died without his knowledge, and finds it too desolate for Bruno's there to see the time of year it is – Christmas Eveshow with some friends. Bursting for more lifeIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, despite being a solitary characterKerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he goes to a restaurant, and finds a connection with a mother with her daughterdeparts from the script. They dineLuckily, then go to his doctor is there and the cinema, and sit together, and things happen from there – man is whisked away in a gentle, no-pressure, no-names-no-packdrill wayhelicopter. If this isnA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he't a reasonable start to s a novellasenior government employee, consider the tag it man who runs Frenchelon - the military has as a noir classicstepped in. And consider the fact the strange woman One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is the spitting image flying in with some of the manher father's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons1529196388|title=The Hanging ClubTrial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= When the three yobbos Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who kick to death a young husband stood for all that was good and honest and father are given a perfunctory sentence, DC Wolfe finds it hard looked up to hold his true feelings in check. Confounded by the injustice of the British Courts and legal systemjust about everyone, DC Wolfe spends a good while soul searching and wondering why so there was public uproar when he invests so much of his life was murdered in fighting crime, finding murderers and bringing them to justice when the integrity of plain sight at the criminal justice system is so sorely lackingOld Bailey. Luckily There's just one man in the frame for DC Wolfe he has his bright murder - Jimmy Knight - and funny daughter Scout to keep him from looking it's not too hard into the darkness long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until the videos start being posted on best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the internetcontrary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>
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