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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley ThomsonStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 edge of a reservoir. The Dog Walkerpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers and dog walkers who went on to the Thames towpath after darkFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the riverside cottage she shared future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her husband daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and never came home. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wandering, but Helen's body was never discovered. In 2016 Helen's husband, Adam, still relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants to know what happened. for herself and her daughter? He has an alibi, albeit a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspected. Steve Lawson couldn't stand For the moment they’re enjoying life in the constant suspicion present and drowned himself in putting the Thames: over future on the years that came to be accepted as an admission of guilt and even one of his children is certain that he was responsibleback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malin Persson Giolito1786482126|title= QuicksandThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something about Scandinavia, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? This is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the second book with the same title by northern writers that Isite was going to hold seventy-five 've read this year, and weluxury're only into Aprilapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. For clarity from the outsetThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, this has nothing to do Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Henning MankellDCI Harry Nelson. It's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on heredifficult as Ruth knows, but we are back in territory he would probably have been familiar Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant withhis child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. We're in a Scandinavian courtroomHer condition will be obvious before long, Swedish not least because Ruth is prone to be precise – we're about to begin the trial sudden bouts of Maja Norbergsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Skuse0008551324|title= Sweetpea|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=In many ways, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary life. She works at a local paper, lives with her long term boyfriend, dotes on her dog and is part of a large group of friends. There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannon, like that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families... and she's in fact a serial killer. She's harmless though... as long as you stay off her list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1)Neil Lancaster

|summary=WeIt're in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Second World Warpolice. A man Neither side likes or has been found on a remote mountain roadany respect for the other. It would appear But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he opened his car door 's prepared to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead. Leading tell the police where the investigation body of a missing person is Inspector Barlach, an elderly buried and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness was responsible for new-fangled ideas of criminologyher death. This person, but he has employed Tschanz to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence promises, is someone big and to share it, and not rely on gut instinctswill be worth the police doing what he wants. Neither particularly want And what he wants is to be out in all weathers sorting transferred to an open prison to serve the crime, but the victim was certainly in the wrong place at the wrong time, for he was a fellow policeman remainder of his sentence and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they aren't sayingto get an early parole date. What had he been up Not much toask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and which way of policing the case will get she's even prepared to do the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath0008405026|title= AmnesiaA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair is in trouble. HeIt's had 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 nasty knock on the head halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and now he can't remember anything about his lifeher father are dead in their bed. In an attempt to recover his memories Initially, he is sent to convalesce in it looks like a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands in the company of his old friendstraightforward murder/suicide but there's niece, Clemence. During their stay, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems to tell something about the story positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her grandmother's 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 years before. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover Kerrigan is convinced that the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearer, explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as does a creeping malevolent ghost from AlastairDerwent's past who wants to make sure the past stays buriedboss, even if that means burying Alastair along with itUna Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler0571379877|title= Bryant and May: Wild ChamberThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant and May are back! So the slow decline into old ageEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with a side helping of dementiahis upper-class friends, isnRobert and Stanza. Robert't quite the Reichenbach Falls: s a theatre director. it did give Fowler a cleaner He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and clearer way to have Arthur Bryant return uses Edward to workrun errands for him. A simple 'Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he hasnfeels to Robert. Most men in Robert't been well s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's back now'' and no more need be said about itnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LondonJo Callaghan|title=Death MessageLeave No Trace

|summary=In October 1987, When a man is found crucified on the morning after the great stormtop of a hill in Nuneaton, Tania Mills left home DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to visit a friend and was never seen again. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the Met's Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened to case alongside her sidekick, the fifteen-year-old girlAI detective Lock. It's not all she has to do though - there are still current their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases which have to be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all together. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal But 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 domestic violence: the husband is vicious and volatile, but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened unwanted attention to do anything but put up with his outburststheir AI Future Policing project. Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism between them: will Will they be able to work togethersolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1035021803|title=Peter OThe Antique Hunter'Donnell and Enric Badia Romeros Guide to Murder|titleauthor=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseC L Miller

|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out 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 ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesa request for help from her beloved aunt, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksCarole. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves Freya's former mentor and her great crime-solving mindCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and of course with her Williethe circumstances seem suspicious, this is to say the least. Arthur was the last-but-one chance for you reason why Freya had not been back to do sothe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. And if you have any interest Even though they were in quick little action talesbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or even dated kitschpursue the profession she loved. After the split, for both apply hereshe worked in a cafe, then you should eagerly be met and married James (on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1398524085|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this seriesCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a wellEtty. are all worried but - strangely -known local man to track down some missing valuablesher husband, Alec, is not. Bill Galbraith Shortly afterwards, a world-famous surgeon at CambridgeEtty and Greg, find the body of Greg's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmefather, Duncan Ackerley, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurorathe river. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning It was an important patient of his at easy assumption for the hospital. George agrees police to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and straightforward case – little does he know, then committed suicide when hecouldn'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 to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctionwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick1529900360|title=Well of the Winds (DCI Daley)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's not a happy time fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for DCI Jim Daleyhis help on difficult cases. The woman he loved is dead - His assertions that there are those who blame him for what happened were only open- and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and his young son is deteriorating by -shut cases which didn't need the dayhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's finding solace in partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the bottom of a glass, whilst involvement was something that the man who used to do that all too oftenshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and has found exercisethough. There's Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a new officer remote property in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and whilst she might look young, is married to an extremely rich man and it's unlikely that she got to that position without having a core not the Italian. But which of steel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)178763681X|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenario: 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 policeman hears someone screaming way of getting both men and runs women to a house on a particular street, number 13, from where do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the noise is emanating. When impression that he peeps through 'd be at the letterbox he discovers school to assist Paul, who had a dead man in broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the hallway with a knife in problems - are all his throatown. He goes The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to fetch helpturn up dead. Unfortunately, but upon returning, finds that he was the person who discovered the street does not have a number 13 body and everyone knows that the body and police consider that person to be the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished.prime suspect..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Irvine Welsh1529421284|title= The Blade ArtistLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary=So. In the interest It was one of honest disclosure I should tell you those flash downpours that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess to the British weather often delivers in a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbie, the notoriously violent, terrifying protector/tormentor of the Trainspotting gangheatwave. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased review In a gully, it does mean you will get a passionate one. It is fair human skeleton came to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist'' the surface and my only critique would forensic testing proved the body to be that it was over too quickly. For those of you Lee Geary, who may not be familiar with Welsh's had disappeared nine years earlier manifestations have no fear, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'. He' d been a known drug user and be transfixed by Jim Francishad learning disabilities, artist, father, husband and elegant thug. For those so it could have been a simple case of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie youmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'll be instantly drawn back into the world of t convinced. Geary was a man previously defined by petty vengeancetownie, violence and blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Chris Ould|title= The Killing Bay|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Between so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the Scando-noir suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Highlands-time. Lockyer and-Islands crime, it was only a matter DC Gemma Broad of time until a series featuring a life-weary detective set in Greenland, Iceland, or thereabouts appeared. And here we are, with a series based in the FaroesMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Bolton1529425867|title=The PicturesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=It's the spring 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 1939: in Hollywood ''The Wizard Ryan and father of Oz'' Ryan, is in production at MGM and itnot. He's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for the actors or the studionot any of those things. The police department recognises that itHe's good for Hollywood that all goes smoothly and itwhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's Detective Jonathan Cranenot 's job to see that the crimes 'really'' his thing) and misdemeanours his wardrobe consists mainly of the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetshell suits and trackies. The studio rewards him handsomely for this and thereThey's perhaps a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Crainere usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's got it easy and wouldn't know how re being introduced to investigate a case if it came up and slapped himpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but in Craineyou's mind all thatre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's going to changeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza1529431735|title= The Acid TestWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo It's February 1991 and Essex is dead. Murdered in bitingly cold blood in a desolate, dusty field by the side of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the roadmore surprising. Once He'd been exiled on the most adored, celebrated dancer at the local strip club, she had Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to the deaths of various associates, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''decade. The Acid Test'return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, following on from Mendozasaying that she's first novel ''Silver Bullets''. I haven't read the first instalment of this series ill and donhasn't believe that had any impact on this storylong to live. Lefty has a personal connection It's hard to the casefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, forever haunted by the memories of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections stripped to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents underwear and his consuming desire sent to avenge her death to track down this violent and deranged killer. Along a watery grave in the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos which erupt in explosive levels boot of violence, meet a host of damaged, humorous and violent residents of Culiacán and follow Lefty on stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a trail of destruction, death and disorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Farris Smith0861541774|title= Desperation RoadA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Maben is on the run. For a long while itDCI Domenic Jejeune's not clear whether she's running from something or towards somethingclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, or simply back has taken a short holiday in Singapore to where it all startedmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She's got her small daughter Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with her, a knife - and they've been walking for he killed a very long timeGhurka. It's hard on the childInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but it's also clear evidence came to light that suggested that if it wasn't for he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the child Maben would stop running, death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and itwouldn's clear that that would not be a good thingt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Savile1521129886|title=Parallel LinesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=Books are full of coincidences, 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 if Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they were not, they would 're both delighted. Joyce will be pretty dullmore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. The action takes place during Greg is approached by an extraordinary timescale of the characters – the time they were involved old friend whose brother-in a bank robbery, or their loved one was murdered-law appears to have killed himself. People are more likely Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to read this type of book than one about the time they picked out their new curtainsmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. For the intrigue to happenLucy, links between characters have to be madehe says, but balancing coincidence is trickyconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. Too little The police and the characters doncoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart't gel, too much and you start s prepared to pay Greg to think find out what happened on the book is supernaturalnight Gil died. Did Steven Savile get the balance right in ''Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HilaryB0CK3MYJ56|title=Quieter than Killing Responsibilities (D I Marnie Rome 4Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=The attacks all seemed 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 quite randomthinking. Nice bloke, but where's the nights were darklife experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. the weather freezing Joyce and D I Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were spending quite a lot of time on the streets of London. Then Marnieuntil Helen was killed in what's family home was ransacked and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on the order of someone) who knew herwritten off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Normally Commander Welland would have been able to give Marnie a degree of protection Joyce - he knew and her history all too well parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - but his cancer had returned and he can't understand what she was going doing there - or how she could come to be away for four months. His stand-fall in was nowhere near as understanding in this or other mattersfront of a train. Then it was established that a child was missing - had Greg's been missing for ten weeks - but no one had reported itasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sam Blake1838954481|title= Little BonesThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= It was Ryan Kennedy killed a fairly ordinary break in. A young artistpolice officer: there's home had been given a going over, but it was hard to see no doubt about that much had been taken. There were suspicions that He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it might have been one 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 usual suspects, only murder and the shoes weren't as they'd have expected to find them if that was to be manslaughter of the caseofficer. And so lives must go on. Something else was not as you might expect to find it: For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by quieter life in the look of it, countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and in back into the hem, stitched in there, tiny bones. Human bonesorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elly Griffiths1448309743|title=The Chalk Pit Devil Stone (Dr Ruth GallowayDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Norwich is - apparently - riddled with tunnels, many dating back to In the time when chalk was mined there. When bones are discovered in one village of Cronchie on the tunnels it seems obvious that they've been there for hundreds West coast of yearsScotland, but Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, isn't so certainfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The colour doesn't look right and she has a suspicion that only item missing from the home is the bones have been boiledDevil Stone: they've also not been there myth says that longif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. DCI Harry Nelson has a murder case on his hands. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a local rough sleeper and thereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's not a lot to go on other than the rumour an easy conclusion given that shetwo of them 's discovered'gone underground', the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but whatwhen he disappears, exactly, does that mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1529077699|title= DarktownThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, Georgia. The Deep Southit is. This is country that fought to keep Jem Rosco blew into the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion of segregation as local pub one evening in the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system middle of governance of all her people. That's an autumn gale, stayed for about a history that today's southerners are variously proud or ashamed ofmonth and then turned up, naked and dead, or choose to ignorein a small boat, or hope anchored in Scully Cove close to forgetthe village of Greystone, or continue to strive againstin Devon. VariouslyRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, because people are also individuals round the world sailor and we all hold to our own view of what is rightround ''celebrity''. For many of us, what is 'I 'right'nearly' is sometimes hard to draw the lines around…but what is 'said 'wrongall-round good egg'but as we' is much ll find out, he could be more clear-cutthan a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Divisions based on skin colour, or race, or creed are wrong. Where did he get the money for his first boat? No two ways about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susanna Beard1529427045|title= Dare to RememberThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Lisa Fulbrook's best friend is dead – 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the victim small town of a brutal attack who fell to her death from her own apartment window. Lisa was thereGasskas, she too was a victim where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the attack that killed her best friend, and she area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is left with the physical and emotional scars to prove it. Traumatised by latest woman in the events, Lisa flees area to a country village to help settle her frightened mindhave vanished without trace. But what happened It was only with reluctance that night still torments Salander became her; she niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is plagued by vicious flashbacks and questions surrounding why she and a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her best friend Ali were targeted, because the one thing Lisa does know is that she canfather't remember what really happened that fateful nights death. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harry Brett1787636607|title= Time To WinThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= I have no idea what Great Yarmouth has ever done to Harry Brett, but, boy, is he getting his own back! Now personally, I donIt't much like s a scene replicated all too often in the town, early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and I know it has its seedy side, like most places, but I can't believe it's quite this badlooking for a way to get home. According Some are lucky and manage to Brett, get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the weather's night bus that will only go as dreary far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the down'ntaxi problem'outs, particularly in the streets are grim, and light of 'the people worsemissing women'. He makes the point that no-For one comes to Yarmouth for their summer holidays anymore…if that wasn't true before this bookyoung woman, it's likely to be so afterwardsthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. If a place could sue for defamation of character, the town would want She had intended to ring someone tocome and collect her - but her phone's dead. The opening shot is of Richard Goodwin going down into bus had driven off before she had the murky waters of chance to beg the Yare out back of bus driver to let her use his office. Goodwin was not a good person..There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147215262X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Mcdonald1405957174|title=SnatchA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary=ItFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not often that you get two books for end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the price of one, but if you are going to see this anywhere it will likely be in a reissueambulance he so desperately needs. Taking What we don't know is who the back catalogue of an author and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories man is a great way of reusing stock that you already or why Nadine prefers to havehim die. Hard Case Crime have done this with two books by I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what'Fletch'' author Gregory Mcdonald. Surely two books that centre on kidnapping by the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? Think agains happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)0008530025|title=The PledgeMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=In what sounds like rural SwitzerlandIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, a girl has been murdered and left for anyone to see in a forestthe garden of their West London home. The police come, and soon find out who He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the villagers already think is steps but the sole suspect – a man known for illegal liaisons with young girlsvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. They haveTwenty years later, in factno one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', to put a compelling case against lynch mob rule just to get him back for investigation. He does confess, after a lengthy process – and then hangs himselftrue-crime show. But the leader A group of the investigation, even while walking across the airstrip experts has been brought together to review the plane waiting evidence and to take him the investigation further. More to a different job elsewherethe point, is determined they're going to follow up do this live on the promise he made to the girlcamera, episode by episode. There's parents, to make no dump of the guilty person face justicewhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's a promise, however, with far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat0241996104|title= Kill the Next OneComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico AxatNancy's ''Kill the Next One'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middlemother and step-aged man with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a by-thefather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-numbers thriller. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect lifebrother, including a beautiful wife and two adoring childrenMartin, but has discovered that he is also in possession been convicted of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himtheir murder. However, right before he decides to take We first meet Nancy outside the shot and end his lifecourt, there is after Martin receives a knock on his doorlife sentence. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who The barrister tells Ted her that he represents an allshe's received a 'silent sentence' -knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to correct live with what happened for the imbalances rest of the lawher life. Ted Of course, instead it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk> ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1529413680|title=Out A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of BoundsPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54

|summary=When a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and ended up in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection Bruno's there to an unsolved murder from years before his birthsee the show with some friends. On It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the face man playing one of it, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforward, but it's notmain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but whisked away in this case it looks as though the ''law'' itself might prove to be an insurmountable barriera helicopter. SheA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's drawn to another case too a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - one which she really has no business investigating - and one which the military has its roots stepped in a terrorist bombing two decades earlier. Like the case One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of the teenage joyrider her father''nothing'' is quite as it seemss friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529196388|title=Evil Games (D I Kim Stone)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=When Ruth saw the man Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who had raped her coming out of a local pub she was traumatised. He'd served his time (albeit it stood for all that was rather short) good and now he was free - honest and she looked up to by just about everyone, so there was frightened. The rapist public uproar when he was murdered and DI Kim Stone and her team were called upon to solve in plain sight at the killing - and quicklyOld Bailey. There 's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was'' a little bit of a feeling told that the man had got what best barrister for him was coming to him Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and didnit't deserve a lot of sympathys Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, but professionalism won the daywho eventually represent him. Then more revenge killings came Knight's determined to light and it was obvious plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happeningthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>