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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=M C Beaton|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex<!-- Remove --husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diane JanesStuart Douglas|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Morpeth Train RobberyDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apartDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', one in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the south-east and dead body of a woman on the other in the north-eastedge of a reservoir. At first glance they seemed The police seem happy to have nothing to do with each otherassign it as an accidental death, but years later something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. The author has investigated They travel across the connection country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and come up with , seemingly, a riveting booklink 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)0008517061|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
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|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]Former Metropolitan Police detective, the first of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of thrillersJake Johnson, was has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a fine stand-alone novel. The second in little uncertainty about the seriesfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson Livia and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]]her daughter Diana, continues the adventures as moving in together would mean a lot of Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's finely crafted anticompromise: does Jake give up his off-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to stop reading Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this review now. I'm about to spoil is the ending future she wants for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1786482126|title=Tooth and ClawThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter site was going to death hold seventy- leaving a singularly gruesome tableau five 'luxury' apartments - and blown when they discovered the bones of a hapless commuter to smithereens at child beneath a railway stationdoorway. There was no skull. He's planning his next Was this a ritual killing or murder already? Inevitably, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his invalid fatherDCI Harry Nelson. Carl It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is embittered and lonely - pregnant with his mother living away and pursuing a career child as a forensic psychologist, there's only him to take care result of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bagone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallysudden bouts of sickness. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 0008551324|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayIt's work. From this point unusual for anyone from the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour Hardie family to approach the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmaspolice. There Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the draftee with a sick mother, police where the nurse who thinks she has run over body of a baby, the woman missing person is buried and who suspects was responsible for her husband of cheating and othersdeath. We are shown what these characters were doing that eveningThis person, he promises, is someone big and how these events drag through to it will be worth the morningpolice doing what he wants. We are shown how in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the midst remainder of their own interestinghis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, poignant is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in she's even prepared to do the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and how these people did nothinganyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0008405026|title=Core of EvilA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas rosesIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. '"There are all kinds of horrible things in She was never found and the Christmas roseinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother," she saidHelena, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear and herfather are dead in their bed. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both Initially, it looks like digitalis, which I've also used before, a straightforward murder/suicide but there's saporin something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and protoanemonin her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as well. It's a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky though it was going to be an open- and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity and, most importantly, shut case is now a new victimcomplex double murder. Daisy has problems with her memory - the identities go back so far Kerrigan is convinced that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all the whos sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's been beforedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganUna Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish0571379877|title=Dead of WinterThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon LakeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Michigan is pictureobsessed with his upper-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely class friends, Robert and snugly in the midst of Stanza. Robert's a pinetheatre director. He's also self-peppered winter wonderlandobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity Edward has been in his life love with Stanza since their university days - and on arrival in Loon Lake he's drunkenly confided how he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidto Robert. A troubled, unhappy child of mixed race, passed around various institutions and foster homes, Louis figures Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that if a relationship had begun between them but he 's not like most men: Edward is going left to put some integrity back into stumble upon the world, he will need to wear two of them kissing in a badge to do itdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca TopeJo Callaghan|title=Fear in the CotswoldsLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time it's winter and she's spending a month in man is found crucified on the Cotswold village top of Hampnett. It wouldn't be a job for all of us but Thea delights hill in getting Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to know the local people and case alongside her sidekick, the areaAI detective Lock. In the past sheIt's also their first live case together, having previously been involved very successful with the police in solving various several cold cases but it looks as though that might have come to an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - But when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to there is a second body in found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a nearby fieldlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. When Will they be able to solve the police finally arrive case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the body has disappeared case and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it all., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1035021803|title=Spade and ArcherThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to set the English country village where she grew up his one-man detective agency. ItShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the 1920s in San Francisco so we have circumstances seem suspicious, to say the prohibition era and all that that entailsleast. Many locals, of course, choose Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to disobey the lawvillage: Arthur, stick two fingers upshe feels, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquorlet her down badly. Straight awayEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, it's evident that Sam is a she has not felt able to be near the man of few wordsor pursue the profession she loved. He has After the mannerisms of split, she worked in a cat - stealthycafe, quick met and married James (on his feet. He's also a compulsive chain-smokerthe rebound from the love of her life, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette who was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times murdered) and Freya and James have changednow divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1398524085|title=Stop MeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam ECharlotte 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 -Mails can be incredibly annoyingher husband, Alec, but most of us will have had to deal with themis not. FortunatelyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, we can hit find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they cameriver. I certainly prefer not It was an easy assumption for the police to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'tstand the guilt. But I The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1529900360|title=Blood BornThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers Sturgis was reluctant to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse ask for his help on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothersdifficult cases. But when Anya arrives at His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the house she finds Giverny close to death and faces help of a psychologist only worked for a battle against time to save herwhile. In the panic Finally, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse stillRobin, in trying to save the girlDelaware's lifepartner, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case falls apartdid look simple, though. She blames herself for Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Harbourn brothers being allowed heir to walk free an Italian shoe empire and only hours later there she is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed married to an extremely rich man and raped resulting in it's not the death Italian. But which of one, while them was the other clings to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 178763681X|title=The Brutal Telling|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Early one morning, in the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason Knife Skills for the killing and no clues as to the identity of the victim. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. They've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeginners|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say Goodbye|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hard-working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news is that the boy's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Barrie|title=Wasp-WaistedOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigationsBelgravia. His first case proves He didn't really want to be something but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Parisgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the body is delivered school to Exposéassist Paul, who had a bigbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murdererproblems - are all his own. Despite the provenance of the picture itThe one thing he hadn's difficult not t expected was for someone to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced itturn up dead. All Guerin has to go on is Unfortunately, he was the ''very'' expensive underwear which person who discovered the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529421284|title=HustleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in two formsa heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the long con surface and forensic testing proved the short conbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The long con is more elaborate He'd been a known drug user and has more that can go wronghad learning disabilities, takes so it could have been a lot longer to set up simple case of misadventure but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. This is the art of fleecing Geary was a single person townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a lot of money all Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at oncethe time. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' Lockyer and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game DC Gemma Broad of ''find the ladyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that'', which aims s cold cases to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker you and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1529425867|title=ConmanLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks to the success In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the BBC TV show ''Hustle''Nigerian descent, the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recallBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I've always liked the seriesRyan Wilkins, as it shows a battle son of wits Ryan and there father of Ryan, is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endnot. Until Richard AsplinHe's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Conmanreally''his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, Iyou'd re not read anything with quite . The two men are just different sides of the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaverpolicing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529431735|title=The ComplaintsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The ComplaintsIt' s February 1991 and Essex is not the job for you if personal popularity mattersbitingly cold, because theywhich made Bruce Hopkins're return all the cops who investigate other copsmore surprising. Inspector Malcolm Fox has He'd been there for some time and at the beginning of the book exiled on the Procurator Fiscal is taking on Costa del Sol as a case against wanted drug smuggler for a serving policemandecade. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who The return has taken come about because he's had a few shortcuts letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and done some unorthodox swaps of information just hasn't long to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwiselive. They don't reckon that heIt's bent hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and there's sent to a degree watery grave in the boot of resentment against Foxa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0861541774|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to take on the case of a missing teenagermeet up with an old ally, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itGuy Trueman. As Maik was involved in a street brawl - he looks into it further, it becomes apparent would later maintain that he was facing a number of young women are being murdered in man armed with a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as knife - and he killed a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victimGhurka. Karl finds himself looking for Initially, he faced a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number charge of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the police do not really care very muchman. Most of Now he could be facing the victims are homeless women with death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a history of drug problems diplomatic incident and a life on the wrong side of the lawwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1521129886|title=No EscapeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=IGreg Mason've long had s just beginning to get his confidence as an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologyinvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The mind is It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a fascinating thing, but it has far baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more spectacular effects delighted about the baby when things go wrongshe gets past the morning sickness. The same Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is true of crime thrillersnot thriving. Lucy, he says, which are a lot more entertaining when things donis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't work out too well for the in his nature. The police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller the coroner have accepted that the death was always going suicide, but Stuart's prepared to appeal pay Greg to mefind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul CharlesB0CK3MYJ56|title=Family LifeResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends It's the 1990s and children were gathered at the family farm for LiamGreg Mason's birthdaytwenty-eight years old. There was just one empty seat at He used to have a high-flying job in the table and city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the family waited for Joe – life experience that backs up this profession? On the only one of the children who wanted to farm – other hand, he has been asked to return homelook into something. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joekilled in what's body had been discovered on land by written off as a disused warehousetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. There were no injuries to the body Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Starrett Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could only assume that Joe had come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been murderedasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1838954481|title=The Gigolo MurderMisper|author=Kate London|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=After Ryan Kennedy killed a breakpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and selfyear-pity for too long, so his friend, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on old holding the town in Istanbulgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem He pulled the trigger but due to whom the vagaries of the jury system he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be married. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of a gigolothe officer. And so lives must go on. Our hero suspects For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the brother-capital and hoping for a quieter life in-law is not guilty... the countryside but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1448309743|title=Skeleton HillThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When In the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle village of Cronchie on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple the West coast of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one Scotland, five members of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay coolstone is removed from Otterburn House, but after unearthing two can he can find no moredeath will follow. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that it's a relic an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the battlebody. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone The Senior Investigating Office is nowhere near as old as they thinkDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who DCI Christine Caplan is buried pulled in that lonely spotto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1787636607|title=BloodlineThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved It's a scene replicated all too often in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murderthe early hours of the morning. However, slivers Drunken revellers spilling out of an X-Ray clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are found in lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the dead outlying villages. The womanall regret the 'taxi problem's hand, and it is soon discovered that particularly in the womanlight of 's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years beforemissing women'. Other deaths with For one young woman, the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out to murder all final stop on the children bus leaves her a long way short of Raymond Garvey'sher home... That She had intended to ring someone may just be Garveyto come and collect her - but her phone's bastard son, who believes that dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the tumour that killed bus driver to let her use his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killer There's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1405957174|title=The Dead RoomA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third in From the Darby McCormick seriesfirst page, the Dead Room sees the head of Bostonwe know that Nadine Walsh's CSU investigating party will not end well. The victim - a horrific home invasion which leads man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to a womancall the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that t know is who the case man is more complicated than she could possibly or why Nadine prefers to have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her fatherhim die. I's death in the line of duty wasn't all d better give you a little more background so that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husbandyou can understand what's murderhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 0008530025|title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and the following morning found the body of one of them was found her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children garden of long-defunct Ragged Schooltheir West London home. The teenager 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 been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there taken was a Victorian doll – similarly mutilatedobviously deliberate. Back in the nineteen fifties there Twenty years later, no one has been four murders in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled charged with his murder and mutilated and left with it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a doll by their sidetrue-crime show. The killer had never A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to justicetake the investigation further. HeMore to the point, they'd be likely re going to be in his seventies do this live on camera, episode by now – was it possible that he was still fit enough to return to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Dawes Green0241996104|title=RavensComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
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|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Shaw Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Romeo are two friendsher step-brother, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GAMartin, and find that one family has just had been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the only winning lottery ticket for court, after Martin receives a $318million jackpotlife sentence. The family involved is very average barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the weekly lottery and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebook, boy glued to a PSP or somethingrest of her life. There Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are enough gaps within making the family for the pair most of guys to break in between them, it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and have them under threat for half the winnings''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell1529413680|title=Cut Short A Chateau Under Siege (DI Geraldine SteelA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary=An au pair took her employer's young daughter, One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the nextre-door neighbourenactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's son and his friend there to see the parkshow with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, but the young girl was petulant about man playing one of the inclusion of main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the second boy script. Luckily, his doctor is there and with the wilfulness man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a child senior government employee, the man who finds herself less than runs Frenchelon - the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not gomilitary has stepped in. In there she used a stick to stir up One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some leaves and uncovered the body of her father's friends for a womanpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elliott J Gorn 1529196388|title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One|rating=4|genre=History|summary=John Dillinger was born and brought up in Indiana. His childhood was no better and no worse than most but the early part of his adult life was to be blighted by a spell in prison when he was convicted of an attack on a man in a botched hold-up. Hoping for leniency he pleaded guilty but was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentence. It's easy to see where Dillinger's contempt for the law was spawned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia |title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells the story of how he came to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrial|author=Nick Brownlee |title=BurnRob Rinder|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa the problems start mounting up again. A nun has gone missing in mysterious circumstances and the local priest doesn't seem all that worried. After a meal with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – but how he had got into the fort ion the first place? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. Kenya's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joseph Teller |title=The Tenth Case|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I am a great fan of courtroom dramas, which is one of the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much and I pretty much look on him as the master of this genre. So, when I discover a book that claims that it's ''better than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound to be interested. This was the claim made by the publishers of ''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that he writes lives up to expectations. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does? Read on...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Mosby |title=Still Bleeding|rating=4
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|summary=Alex Connor has been trying Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to negate by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the memory of his wife's suicide by running awayOld Bailey. HeThere's left all just one man in the frame for his friends behind murder - Jimmy Knight - and has barely been it's not too long before Knight appears in touch court, charged with them Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for years. But now Sarah, one him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of his closest friends, has been murdered Stag Court Chambers and the prime suspect is her partner, Alexit's brother James. For AlexTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, this is the one thing that could call him homeAdam Green, as Sarah was the one who told eventually represent him . Knight's determined to confront deathplead not guilty, not run from itdespite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>
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