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|summary=Margaret was nervous about going During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the walk around the lake dead body of a woman on her own, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent and go with heredge of a reservoir. She made The police seem happy to assign it to as an accidental death, but something about the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the barhelp of a fellow actor, relieved that she'd managed John Le Breton to leave the drunken man who was Marty's master and some other suspicious-looking men behind herhelp him investigate matters further. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sister's widowerThey travel across the country during their days off filming, Avel, had remarried uncovering more possible murders and his new wife, Elenaseemingly, was in a link to death during the clubhouse with Avel's children - three teenage girls and a boy who was little more than a toddlerSecond World War. Elena didn't look in But is there really a link between the least pleased deaths? And will they manage to be there and despite Avel's promises to pick them up, he was nowhere to be seen.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann0008517061|title= WychwoodDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Thirty-something Elspeth Reeves Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has lost her job settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and left her partner. Much daughter Diana, as she prefers London, she decides to retreat to her childhood home moving in an Oxfordshire village for together would mean a short time to lick her wounds, but she arrives to find the neighbouring part lot of the Wychwood is a crime scene. Even brokencompromise: does Jake give up his off-hearted journalists can't afford grid and relaxing life to pass up the chance of a story, particularly if they know they need move in with Livia or does Livia move to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth can't resist sticking Little Sky despite her nose in. With her childhood friend Peter reservations about whether or not this is the detective sergeant on the case there's an extra interest in it future she wants for Elspeth, herself and once she's spotted her daughter? For the connection between moment they’re enjoying life in the ritualised murder present and putting the local myth about future on the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killerback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1786482126|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=For those Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin she is essentially a short-tempered private investigator in her early 50s child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with an alcohol, doughnut and man obsessionDCI Harry Nelson. Much like TV It's Midsomer Murdersdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sustain 28 books so farsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch0008551324|title=The Furthest StationDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When local 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 find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on where the body of a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, missing person is buried and who was responsible for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the Special Assessment Unit, also known as The Follyher death. Stray river gods This person, missing Victorian childrenhe promises, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersis 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, they are all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for is it? The Follynew 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes0008405026|title= The Happy EndingA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 It's sixteen years since nine-year-oldRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He's a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known She was never found and the investigation ground to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still he's managing well enough at homehalt. Mentally he's all thereNow, her mother, even if he does have these conversations with his wifeHelena, who's been and her father are dead the last 6 yearsin their bed. There's a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so okInitially, it looks like a point when straightforward murder/suicide but there's clearly no purpose left. No-one comes, even the paramedics seem to have shunted you to something about the bottom positioning of the list, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and well, her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it's all becoming just was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a bit too undignifiedcomplex double murder. To be honest, when he found Kerrigan is convinced that the morphine Bettyexplanation lies in Rosalie'd been stock-piling against the day her own illness got too much for her but never used s disappearance: others (such as it turned outDerwent's boss, Harry was on the point of using it himselfUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0571379877|title=These Darkening DaysThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=Somewhere in Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of the knife was a mistakeupper-class friends, but he liked knives Robert and had quite Stanza. Robert's a collection until they were all taken away after the accident which had left himtheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, welldemanding, not quite as he ought handsome and entitled and uses Edward to berun errands for him. The problem Edward has been in love with this knife was that it was beside the woman who was lying in the ginnell, one leg twisted under her rather strangely Stanza since their university days - and with blood coursing down her facehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Tony thought about ringing the police but dismissed the idea quickly. She was still alive - just - so an ambulance might have been Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a good idea, relationship had begun between them but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going he's not like most men: Edward is left to catch him, so he dropped stumble upon the knife down two of them kissing in a drain and disappeareddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne MeredithJo Callaghan|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryLeave No Trace

|summary=Adrian Gray was not When a particularly pleasant man, but that was no reason why he should meet his death at is found crucified on the hands top of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars a hill in 1931Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. None of the six children were fond of It's their father and first live case together, having previously been very successful with several had cause to wish him deadcold cases. Richard was the eldest But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and was married a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to Lauratheir AI Future Policing project. He was a politician and keen Will they be able to advance himself - and to get a title other than solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the knighthood which he already had - but such endeavours cost money which he ''didn't'' have. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him case and was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him , potentially, out of the mess.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1035021803|title=Y is for YesterdayThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. My very first crime fiction book was She's back now because of a Kinsey Millhone storyrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from a crime avoider Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to a crime lover! say the least. Since that first story, I have Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been committed back to the alphabet mysteriesvillage: Arthur, she feels, so it I let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt both excited and a little sad able to be holding near the man or pursue the penultimate story profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1398524085|title= Look For HerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Annalise Wood disappeared on Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her journey home from school husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades Greg, find the town body of Lilling tried to solve the mystery of AnnaliseGreg's disappearance untilfather, almost twenty years laterDuncan Ackerley, her body was discoveredin the river. Annalise's body It was badly decomposed an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there was lack of DNA available, then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not match anyone on recordguilt. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder soon becomes a Salter children are not convinced but there'cold case' – s little else they can do but still the most famous Lilling has ever seenget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte1529900360|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was excited reluctant to have ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the chance to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under help of a psychologist only worked for a pseudonymwhile. But Finally, as a self-confessed chicklit fanit was Robin, whoDelaware's never read a crime novel beforepartner, I wasn't sure if I who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was going to like itsomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White178763681X|title= From The ShadowsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm Chef Paul Delamare took a bit old-fashioned and therefore not teaching job at a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straightresidential cookery school in Belgravia. IHe didn'll go with t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of a story – but switching between getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''nowsomehow' and 'a fortnight agogot the impression that he' – just feels d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a little lazybroken arm, a but it didn't turn out that way of creating tension when . The teaching - and the problems - are all else failshis own. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'one thing he hadn' t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529421284|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a field tripheatwave. In a gully, but a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be honest Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a lot simple case of the students didnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none of them would go into forensicsconvinced. There Geary was more excitement when the skull a townie, so what was discovered but at that point he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the students were quickly escorted from the scene suicide of Holly Gilbert and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigation. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from the neighbouring force also arrived with the same intention: the burial site was right on the border between the two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the other begantime. Stone assumed that it would be her case Lockyer and was shocked and bewildered when she found DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that it was 's cold cases to be run as a joint investigation. She nearly refused: she you and Travis had historyme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1529425867|title=The Word is MurderLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=An attractiveIn Oxford, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in Londonthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and makes plans for her own funeralalways exquisitely dressed. Within just a few hoursD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, sheis not. He's had lunch, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own homenot any of those things. Could anyone have foreseen the service to have been needed so quickly? ThatHe's the initial premise of this thrillerwhite, this most intriguing mysteryoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you want 're being introduced to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprisesa police procedural written for laughs. Well, you should not read the book's blurb, or even the authorial biography, and perhaps re not even . The two men are just different sides of the followingsame policing coin. Just go in blind, and wait for Sometimes the surprises – that start, as combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>'s problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1529431735|title= The Night StalkerWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer It's February 1991 and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turfEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Lewisham He's finest are sent to d been exiled on the country Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for this outinga decade. There The return has come about because he's been had a death down in Somersetletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's not the sort of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad hard to get involved infeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, it looks like a hit-stripped to his underwear and-run on sent to a remote road watery grave in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving boot of a big four-by-four who didn't even know he'd done stolen Ford Sierra. Is it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0861541774|title= The Long Arm A Nye of the LawPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the DCI Domenic Jejeune'golden age' of crime fictions close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod has taken a short holiday in Singapore to shamemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and so onhe killed a Ghurka. I'll admit to being Initially, he faced a fan charge of all of those, manslaughter but they aren't evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the whole storyman. The other side of Now he could be facing the coin shows the official death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police doing their job force could provoke a diplomatic incident and getting their manwouldn't help Danny at all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1521129886|title=Insidious Intent: They Had It Coming (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10Greg Mason mysteries) |author=Keith Redfern|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheGreg Mason's got less than three weeks just beginning to liveget his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Had Kathryn known that she might It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have made different choicesa baby and they're both delighted. I've a suspicion that Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she might not gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have wasted time being at the wedding, but it was there that she met her killerkilled himself. He said Stuart's concerned about his name was David and he was charmingsister, respectfulLucy, unwilling who's struggling to rush anything as he was still getting over the death of his wifemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Kathryn was left with the feeling Lucy, he says, is convinced that he was still more than a little bit Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in love with Triciahis nature. They went on a couple of dates The police and then David took her to a cottage in the Dales for coroner have accepted that the weekend. death was suicide, By the end of but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris WhitakerB0CK3MYJ56|title= All The Wicked GirlsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In It's the small town of Grace, fifteen-year1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her, He used to have a high-flying job in the incident rocks the entire towncity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop 'Shades of recent crimes; for over Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the course of life experience that backs up this profession? On the yearother hand, five young churchhe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar Countysisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The kidnapper Joyce - and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcementher parents, Oliver and has so far evaded capturePam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Whilst he roams the streets, no one is safe Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1838954481|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing Persons|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over the course of his work, he's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news and press coverage of his case, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'off the grid,' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Misper|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)Kate London|rating=3.54

|summary=Jane TennisonRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's a fullyno doubt about that. He was the fifteen-fledged detective now after her tenyear-week course at Hendon: she's back old holding the gun and pointing it at Bow Street waiting for her first postingDI Kieran Shaw. She'd like He pulled the Flying Squad, trigger but she's due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not got guilty of both the murder and the experience, nor, it has to be said, manslaughter of the necessary physical attributesofficer. This is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampantAnd so lives must go on. It was also London just after For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 capital and 75 and no one believes that it's going to be over any time soon. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up hoping for a quieter life in the latest incident in which countryside but when a bomb killed five people - and missing teenager is found on her territory she's one of only two people who got drawn into a good look at wider investigation - and back into the bomberorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1448309743|title=The Mermaid's Scream Devil Stone (Wesley PetersonDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In 1884 the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet showfamily are found murdered. We'll follow The only item missing from the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing home is the biography of Devil Stone: myth says that if the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilandstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's not an easy work as Staniland isnconclusion given that two of them 'discovered't inclined to give more away than he has to and is unwilling to discuss the one thing which the public will want to know about: his wife's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous bookbody. Wilkinson The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is doing his best to drum up interest pulled in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he was seemingly on his way to one of these talks when he disappeared'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1529077699|title= Murder in Saint-Germain|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the best-selling Cara Black, it is in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. And so, if I'm honest, I wasn't sure what to expect. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late to the party? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=Three Days and a LifeAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the best of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time on. He'It's built a treehouse all by himselfbloody peculiar, and decided isn't it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but sheSir?''s rejected  Well yes, itis. And his best company, Jem Rosco blew into the dog from local pub one evening in the other house next doormiddle of an autumn gale, was injured in stayed for about a hit month and runthen turned up, naked and shot dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to be put out the village of its miseryGreystone, in Devon. In Rosco had the process status of angrily demolishing a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the treehouse, heworld sailor and all round ''s visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dogcelebrity's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweep. As the title suggestsI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, there will he could be more than a very tense few days little bit close with money and nights while his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the guilt amasses with money for his first boat? How did he finance the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1529427045|title=Leopard at The Girl in the DoorEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Kenya after being away at school in England and finds the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a lot can change gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in 6 yearscoming forward. Of course she realises her motherSalander's death would alter things but sheniece's not prepared for mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her fatherniece's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Saraguardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's son Harold sleeping unaware of the part Salander played in Rachelher father's old roomdeath. Michael the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though and now a man with his own ideas. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)1787636607|title= Can You Hear Me?The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978, in It's a small town scene replicated all too often in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen and troubled. His mundanely stable, loving and ordered life is rocked by the murder early hours of a young boy and the disappearance morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a young woman, who vanishes into the woodsway to get home. As Elia struggles Some are lucky and manage to make sense get one of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable father, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of senseless violencethe outlying villages. Into this steps Anna The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the mother light of Elia's friendthe missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a woman bowed under the strain long way short of life her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and haunted by collect her choices. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia- but her phone's certainty that something is desperately wrong in his homedead. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the mysteriously sensual and sad Anna, Elia feels the ground start bus driver to shift under let her use his feet, . There's no option but to feel the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge of adolescence start walking - unsuitably clothed and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)1405957174|title=The King of FoolsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Having sort of split up with his partnerFrom the first page, Jeanwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man -Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coast, dying when he chances to we first meet a married English woman, Marjorie. They meet in the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to each other, she gets in call the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behindambulance he so desperately needs. Lo and behold they find each other at What we don't know is who the casino, and the following day, when she arrives at his hotel man is or why Nadine prefers to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to hearthave him die. Jean-Marie sees her to be I'd better give you a very unhappily married woman, and not even the arrival of his partner and make-up sex little more background so that you can convince him he is not in love with Marjorieunderstand what's happening. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude0008530025|title= Death Makes A ProphetMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Crime ClassicInfamous'' I had , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to check take the first publication dateinvestigation further. Reading More to the first two pagespoint, it could easily have been written in 1967, or they'87re going to do this live on camera, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017episode by episode. Given that BudeThere's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal that itno dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's taken this long to resurfacecompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Stephen BoothJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=Dead in the Dark A Chateau Under Siege (Cooper and FryA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=It's ten years since Reece Bower was accused One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the murder liberation of his wife, but the case never came to trial: Annette Bowertown from the English in 1370 and Bruno's body was never found and although a murder can be prosecuted without a body there was an added problem hereto see the show with some friends. Annette It's father said that all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he'd seen departs from the script. Luckily, his daughter doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a couple helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of days after shesurvival but - as he'd apparently disappeared. Had Annette simply left s a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the marriage that was military has stepped in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? . ThenOne daughter lives nearby and another, a decade laterwho lives in California, Reece Bower disappears without trace. His new partner wants is flying in with some answersof her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris1529196388|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 34.5

|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at modern mediathe Old Bailey. There's plenty here to like, just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and plenty it's not totoo long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. But good structure Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and scramjet pace keep this one flying his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the final pagecontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>