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|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. ThereDuring location filming for his 1970's plenty here sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to likeassign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and plenty not he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton tohelp him investigate matters further. But good structure They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and scramjet pace keep this one flying , seemingly, a link to death during the final pageSecond 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville0008517061|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Harry Garrick had been a successful businessman until the car accident which cost him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden to his wife for even the most intimate functionsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, so there was not a ''lot'' of surprise whenJake Johnson, six months later, he seemed to have taken has settled into his own rustic lifeat Little Sky. One sachet There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of morphine granuleshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, mixed as moving in together would mean a pot lot of yoghurt had given him a good night's sleep. Garrick appeared compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to have crunched ten sachets of granules, if the empty packets were anything move in with Livia or does Livia move to go by. It seemed obvious that Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding of suicidefuture she wants for herself and her daughter? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that For the moment they’re enjoying life in the widow, Roberta Garrick, present and putting the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closefuture on the back burner. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1786482126|title= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineElly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is 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 man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in child beneath a small town, doorway. There was no skull. Was this a good husband father and neighbourritual killing or murder? Inevitably, he moves through life buoyed by his faith, in both God and justiceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man It's tenuously ordered life and drags him to the edge of the abyss. McCarthy difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is tasked pregnant with leading his child as a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and result of the nature of existenceone night they spent together some three months ago. Into this quagmire steps Franck Her condition will be obvious before long, a private detective with a shadowy agenda, a raging cocaine habit and a twisted sense not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of moralitysickness. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a wink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Mark EllisNeil 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=Merlin at WarA 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: A DCI Frank Merlin Novelothers (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=Whilst war When a man is raging found crucified on the top of a hill in Europe and France is occupiedNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, therethe AI detective Lock. It's something their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. 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 a lull in Britainunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Hitler needs Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the Luftwaffe for other duties case and London is spared the nightly blitz, but no onepotentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's under any illusions that it could start again at any timeGuide to Murder|author=C 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. ThereShe's been back now because of a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and illegal abortions are on the rise and circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not all of them go as they shouldbeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. A young woman is found dead Even though they were in a London hotel room business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the result of profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a botched operation: she has no identification cafe, met and no one knows who married James (on the rebound from the father love of the baby washer life, or who performed the operationwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Andrew CartmelNicci 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 Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really a detective. HeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's just a normal bloke - though fault that might depend Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on your definition of 'normal' difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a collection of vinyl in psychologist only worked for a house that happens to be adjacent to the ''Abbey'while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, a posh rehab place notorious who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the celebrities it treatsinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing people The next case did look simple, even if he does search for rare recordsthough. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help Two lovers were murdered in tracing a missing child the swimming pool of a 1960's female rock star whose own death was shrouded remote property in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says noBel Air. That He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is, until he is told that married to an extremely rich man and it's not the job would also involve tracing a rare singleItalian. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson178763681X|title=Sleeping in the GroundKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=It was the sort 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 display which would have been better in black getting both men and white and without a sound track, but women to do what happened he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the Red Wedding, as it would come school to be knownassist Paul, was noisywho had a broken arm, brutal but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and fatalthe problems - are all his own. A sniper on a distant hillside began shooting at the wedding party: three people, including the bride died immediatelyThe one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Another twoUnfortunately, including the bridegroom would die soon afterwards. Terry Gilchrist saw he was the shooter disappearing over person who discovered the hillside, but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word for it when they finally arrived body and it was a further three-quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for everyone knows that the paramedics police consider that person to come to the scene. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too longprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529421284|title=Suspicion (Inspector Barlach 2)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach is dying. We did know It was one of those flash downpours that, more or less, from [[The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|the first book]] to feature him, but it's confirmed here by us opening on him British weather often delivers in a clinic bed, with a year left to live. But his doctor is helping him in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his lifeheatwave. When his doctor blanches at the sight of a magazine photograph featuring In a Nazi camp doctor at workgully, a story slowly starts human skeleton came to emerge, one that may prove the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a wicked conspiracy to keep the Nazi alive known drug user and still practicinghad learning disabilities, under someone elseso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's namet convinced. BarlachGeary was a townie, clearly well suited so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to go under cover as someone needing the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to go under two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the knife, works up a plan to check whether his suspicion is correcttime. WhatLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's the worst that could happen after all? – even were he cold cases to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>you and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1529425867|title=Forever Lost and a DeathNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=A lot 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 time Ryan and effort goes into the average moviefather of Ryan, but this is at least double in the case not. He's not any of Bondthose things. Each one is part of He's white, originated from a decadetrailer park, barely educated (reading's long institution not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and must exceltrackies. With this They're usually in mind there is lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themespolice procedural written for laughs. Well, wannabe-Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actorsyou're not. For every successful ''Garbage'' Bond theme, there The two men are numerous other indie bands that never made just different sides of the cutsame policing coin. Donald E Westlake was a successful thriller writer in his own right, but once he jumped aboard Sometimes the good ship Bond his work never cut combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. The result was this adaptation of his failed Bond script, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= L F Robertson1529431735|title= Two Lost BoysThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 24|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is a seasoned death row appeals attorney. Overworked, lonely, and feeling like sheIt's drunk her fill of desperation February 1991 and sadnessEssex is bitingly cold, she takes on one final case, determined it will be her lastwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Marion He'Andy' Hardy is sweet, polite, good-natured, and d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a little slow, but according to the state, decade. The return has come about because he's also had a rapist and a murderer. Moodie must untangle letter from his aging case against the clock. She can't save his innocenceex-wife, but maybe saying that she 's ill and hasn'cant long to live. It'' save s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his lifeunderwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts0861541774|title=The ObsessionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasn't always lived there. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi Carson. NaomiDCI Domenic Jejeune's life had to start again whenclose friend and former colleague, aged 11Danny Maik, she sneakily followed her father into the woods has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see if meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was hiding her birthday presentfacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. That night she saw something no child… no person... should seeInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. As an adult she's now putting her life back together and even coping with Now he could be facing the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksdeath penalty. The past will one day repeat itself Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and this time Naomi will find shewouldn's the targett help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse1521129886|title= The Woman in the WoodThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the art of gardening: point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'A seed of s a plot drops into my head, I plant it with good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking it through, baby and once they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the green shoots come through, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grown.' Certainly baby when she carefully cultivates her characters, meticulously researches gets past the locations for her books and morning sickness. Greg is approached by an expert at creating a fast paced plot with heart old friend whose brother-in the mouth moments. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds and draw on inner hidden strengths -law appears to triumph over adversityhave killed himself. Invariably her well-crafted novels Stuart's concerned about his sister, whether they be historical fictionLucy, family sagas or crime stories are captivating best sellers. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I had high expectations for who's struggling to make ends meet and her latest novelson is not thriving. Whilst it delivered on some levels Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it regrettably didnsimply wasn't leave me in disbelief at his nature. The police and the denouementcoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin WalkerB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=The body of a woman was found beneath the ruined Templar chateau of Commarque, but what had she been doing there? SheIt'd apparently been climbing s the structure, but using some cheap 1990s and unsuitable ropeGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Sprayed on the wall He used to have a high-flying job in orange paint were the letter city but it wasn't satisfying so he'IFTIs now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Had she been intending to write more when she fellNice bloke, but if so, where was 's the paint - and the ropelife experience that backs up this profession? Her neck had On the other hand, he has been broken, but was this an accidental fall when doing asked to look into something stupid. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or had she rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been pushed? written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. She carried no identification Joyce - and her fingerprints werenparents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't known understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to the French police or Interpolfall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1838954481|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)The Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon AnsgarRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's father passes away, he makes no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the decision to return trigger but due to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control vagaries of his family's estate. He has been gone for many years, during which time the jury system he has pursued a career in was found not guilty of both the army murder and survived a posting in Afghanistanthe manslaughter of the officer. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option And so lives must go on. For most people DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in his position, returning home to the peaceful life of lordship over countryside but when a castle and village would sound like missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a dream come true. But Duncul Castle wider investigation - and back into the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars orbit of Duncul, and some of Glencul's residents would kill for itRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1448309743|title=HellfireThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood in the door village of Cronchie on the caravan and surveyed the sceneWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The mother - she'd be in her thirties - and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbed. There was blood everywhere and only item missing from the only clue as to who had murdered them was a bloody footprint. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden and her son Simon? You see, Bonnie home is one of those people whom you feel the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is due some luckremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. As a child she wanted to be a doctor, The only suspects are known Satanists but when we go back to December 2004 she was working as a home help and dealing with some of the most difficult invalids in the area. Simonmany ways, that's father had left them and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both an easy conclusion given that two of them hating 'discovered' the fact that Simon had body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to work'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1529077699|title=Love Like BloodThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=DI Nicola Tanner''It's loverall bloody peculiar, Susanisn't it, was brutally murdered as she entered the hallway of their home. SheSir?'d been driving Nicola's car and  Well yes, it seemed obvious that this was is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings month and then turned up, naked and was convinced that many of the cases were contracted out dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the same peoplevillage of Greystone, in Devon. Was she getting too close? Tanner wants Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the killers world sailor and the go-betweens, but itall round 's not as easy as it might be as there's no obvious route to take: several faiths are involved so itcelebrity's not just a case of tracking the killers down through a family's place of worship. After SusanI ''nearly'' said 's death Tanner is angry and wants revenge all- then sheround good egg's frustrated when shebut as we's taken off the honour killings cases ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and put on compassionate leave. She has a solution though: she calls on the services of D I Tom Thorne who - in policing terms - is everything that she his background isn'texactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529427045|title=Sleep Baby Sleep (Detective Pieter Voss)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|summary=Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years old and is known as 'the flower girl' in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market, where she works on her father's stall. It's almost impossible Life has more to believe that she's missing as sheoffer than people - prime numbers for example's very personable and always popular with the customers. When she's found she's barely alive though, tied to a stone angel in a graveyard and surrounded by a ring of fire. In her body there are traces of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to the Sleeping Beauty murders. He had his doubts at the time as to whether or not everyone involved had been caught: now it seems that his doubts have come back to haunt him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author= Jane Harper|title= The Dry|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book takes a while Lisbeth Salander has headed north to get into. Sometimes it's quicker than that. If Harper hadn't grabbed me in the first paragraphsmall town of Gasskas, she certainly had halfwhere the so-far-way down untapped natural resources of the second page: ''So nothing reacted when deep inside the house, the baby started cryingarea have sparked a gold rush.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Menczer|title= An Unlikely Agent|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1905 The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John Salander's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaretniece's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on mother is the tram hands her a newspaper open at latest woman in the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that promises to Salander became her niece'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as s guardian but it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission quickly becomes obvious that Svala is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaretremarkably gifted teenager who's guilty love unaware of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and part Salander played in her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of lovefather's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)1787636607|title= Block 46 The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to appear at a Cartier event presenting some get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of her new creationsthe few taxis available. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept Others squash onto the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionnight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. When a young The womanall regret the 's mutilated body is discovered taxi problem', particularly in a Swedish marina near Linnéathe light of 's holiday home, Alexisthe missing women' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa's death is not unique; in fact For one young woman, she is only the latest in final stop on the bus leaves her a string long way short of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Falkenbergcollect her - but her phone's dead. Up until now, The bus had driven off before she had the bodies have all belonged chance to young boys, so what has caused beg the killer bus driver to change let her use his or her MO? How can Alexis help . There's no option but to find justice for her friend, start walking - unsuitably clothed and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lee Child|title= No Middle Name|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grass. This is particularly true, some say, and I have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1405957174|title= The Silence Between Breaths|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm always wary of author endorsements, even those from people I rate as writers, but the ''harrowing and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on the front cover of ''The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate the case. This is an extremely powerful book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A P McGrath|title= A Burning in Death at the Darkness|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crime. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love and truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewParty|author=Noah Hawley|title=Before the FallAmy Stuart

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept From the offer from the wife of a media mogul for a short plane ridefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not realising it will shape the rest of his lifeend well. The private jet falls out of the sky, making victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him a hero in and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the way ambulance he saved so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the only other survivor, the mogul's small son and heir JJman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises I'd better give you a little more background so that for some heyou can understand what's not so much the hero as the murdererhappening. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura0008530025|title=HereticsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is a child émigré to Cuba It was in 1939December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, looking forward to being joined from Germany by his parentsin the garden of their West London home. TheyHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he're on board d slipped down the St Louis in Havana docks steps but in a country and a time rife with politics and corruption, the ship is turned back without permitting any of their passengers to disembarkvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Now, nearly 80 Twenty years later, Danielno one has been charged with his murder and it's son wants now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that review the Kaminskys had with them on evidence and to take the ill-fated shipinvestigation further. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers More to something that may seem straightforward but the point, they soon realise it will prove 're going to be anything butdo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell0241996104|title= Rhyming RingsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= David Gemmell is a wellNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-known namebrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Until his death in 2006 he topped We first meet Nancy outside the UK author lists in fantasy and historical fiction…but some will suggest that this previously unpublished manuscript shows that he might have gone in court, after Martin receives a different direction entirelylife sentence. He might The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have opted to live with what happened for a 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 crimeit. Crime fiction that ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is. Ione favourite epithet and ''rich bitch''ll come back to thatmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1529413680|title=The Dog A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers and dog walkers who went on to One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the Thames towpath after dark. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left town from the riverside cottage she shared with her husband English in 1370 and never came home. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wandering, but HelenBruno's body was never discoveredthere to see the show with some friends. In 2016 HelenIt's husbandall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, AdamKerquelin, still wants to know what happenedthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. He has an alibiLuckily, albeit his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspectedhelicopter. Steve Lawson couldnA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he't stand s a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the constant suspicion military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and drowned himself another, who lives in the Thames: over the years that came to be accepted as an admission California, is flying in with some of guilt and even one of his children is certain that he was responsibleher father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malin Persson Giolito1529196388|title= QuicksandThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about Scandinaviaeveryone, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? This is the second book with so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the same title by northern writers that I've read this year, and we're only into AprilOld Bailey. For clarity from the outset, this has nothing to do with Henning MankellThere's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on here, but we are back just one man in territory he would probably have been familiar with. Wethe frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it're s not too long before Knight appears in a Scandinavian courtroomcourt, Swedish to be precise – wecharged with Cliveden're about to begin s murder. Knight was told that the trial best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Maja Norberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= C J Skuse|title= Sweetpea|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=In many waysStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary life. She works at a local paperAdam Green, lives with her long term boyfriend, dotes on her dog and is part of a large group of friendswho eventually represent him. There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannon, like that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families... and she Knight's in fact a serial killer. Shedetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's harmless thoughrecommendations to the contrary... as long as you stay off her list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>