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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Hunter0008517061|title=I, SniperDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You don't often find novels or films based on Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the art future of the sniper. Hiding out for hours motionless his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for her daughter Diana, as interesting moving in together would mean a story as a face lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to face shoot out. But move in with 'I, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed Livia or does Livia move to combine Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the art of future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the sniper with present and putting the art of future on the crime thriller in a decent readback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1786482126|title=The MissingJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah Finch's twelve year Builders were demolishing an old brother Charlie says house in Norwich - the site was going to her hold seventy-five 'luxury'Tell mum I'll be back soonapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' Sixteen years latert, that she is pregnant with his family are still waiting to find out what happened to himchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Now in her twenties Her condition will be obvious before long, Sarah not least because Ruth is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholismprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett0008551324|title=The Godfather of KathmanduDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but itIt's unusual for anyone from the latter rather than the former which is likely Hardie family to hold up his promotion in approach the Thai police force, where he's a detective. HeNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's also prepared to tell the police where the part owner body of a brothel where his mothermissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Nonghe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the madam in chargepolice doing what he wants. It's no problem for his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has a few illegal interests And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his ownsentence and to get an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's currently in competition with even prepared to do the head of the army, General Zinna, to see other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchaiworks with him is kept well away from what's Kathmandu-based guru has for salehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson0008405026|title=The SpireA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the body of investigation ground to a black fellow student, Angela Hall, at the foot of the spire in the centre of the college he attends, he little suspects that his best friend will be charged with the murderhalt. Now, sixteen years laterher mother, Darrow is backHelena, at the invitation of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farr, to become president of the college her father are dead in order to rebuild its reputation after a case of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years)their bed. As Darrow digs into what happened with the college finances Initially, he also begins to look afresh at it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the trial positioning of his friend the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and questions if he really her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was guilty as charged. He also finds time going to start be an emerging relationship with open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the provostexplanation lies in Rosalie's troubleddisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but beautiful, daughterUna Burt) are less convinced. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp0571379877|title=Among ThievesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, some valuable paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in the United Statesobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. The police investigation failed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to find them run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and many felt they were lost foreverhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But soon the paintings and their whereabouts Most men in Robert's position would be impacting on many peoplestay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera Jo Callaghan|title=Dark EntriesLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie MeldonWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, ex-criminal-defence attorneyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, now in private practice, leaves his office very late one nightthe AI detective Lock. HeIt's met by the FBItheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon But when there is dead in a dumpster. Mace Perry second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is working out, trying suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to stay fit, trying their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail solve the case in a couple of days' time. Perry was a cop. Under-cover, maverick or will Kat find herself taken off the case and darn good at her job. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robberypotentially, convicted and sent down.out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1035021803|title=The Chalk Circle Man|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaire, heAntique Hunter's an acquired taste for his colleagues. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about the most obtuse things in his pursuit of the truth, and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes a surprisingly perceptive ability to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced Guide to solve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMurder|author=Jean Rowden|title=More Deaths Than OneC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Constable Thomas It'Thornys twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She' Deepbriar has s back now because of a broken leg after his involvement in a case request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and so Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is taken by his wife, Marydead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to recuperate in say the least. Arthur was the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during reason why Freya had not been back to the warvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He expects Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be bored - near the most interesting thing on man or pursue the horizon is a case of missing gnomesprofession she loved. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left After the force split, she worked in a haze of suspicion. Shortly afterwardscafe, a body is found met and married James (on the beach. Even stranger is that rebound from the dead man is someone that Thorny love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and his colleague thought had died during the war. It seems that things are not as they seemJames have now divorced. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1398524085|title=U is for UndertowHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in London, and one of the first books we read Charlotte Salter was a Sue Grafton alphabet bookexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I hadHer children, up to this pointsons Niall, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such booksPaul and Ollie and her daughter, and so I was dubious about what I'd have to say about itEtty. That book changed my literary life. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for are all the other books in the series and read them quicklyworried but - strangely - her husband, one by oneAlec, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading listis not. And so nowShortly afterwards, years laterEtty and Greg, I find myself with the latest book body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the alphabet series lying in my lap, a happy smile 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 my face as I found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1529900360|title=DishonourThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and trying even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job ask for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from the sink estateshis help on difficult cases. Thin, angry, rebellious, but with an ability to charm His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a serious talent psychologist only worked for art that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girlsa while. Hard-workingFinally, soberit was Robin, appropriately dressedDelaware's partner, dutiful to their familieswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. They're also English teenagers, with a fair dose of what She knew that normally implies. Jack is a copper, overlooked for the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted to involvement was something that the jobman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, always trying to do the right thing, and not always succeedingthough. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distraction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M J Trow|title=Maxwell's Retirement|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a dinosaur and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesremote property in Bel Air. He might prefer was the heir to make a phone call or send a note when the need arises, but this isn't the way of the younger generation an Italian shoe empire and Maxwell discovers that he's going she is married to have to climb a steep learning curve if hean extremely rich man and it's to help his students through not the problemItalian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler178763681X|title=Mercy|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In some ways, the first line of this novel says it all: 'It's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hours.' From this moment on, the action comes thick and fast, leaving the reader with barely the breath to murmer 'is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactory. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=M R Hall|title=The DisappearedOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valleya way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow's now some months later and whilst she's settled into got the impression that he'd be at the job school to some extent her relationship with her officerassist Paul, Alisonwho had a broken arm, is uneven but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and shethe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care t expected was for someone to admitturn up dead. She's a feisty woman though Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and determined everyone knows that she's going the police consider that person to do be the job properlyprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1529421284|title=CapturedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just as he's barely turning fortyIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. As In a result he compiles gully, a short list of rights human skeleton came to wrong, the surface and people forensic testing proved the body to create closure withbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. OneHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, his ex-wife, might not be easy, two concern so it could have been a misguided sense simple case of a guilt of oldmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The fourth turns Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to be a missing womanthe suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The journey he takes in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamish's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529425867|title=The Merry MisogynistLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is now married to Madame Daeng of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and despite the fact that they have father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a combined age trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of going on for a hundred shell suits and forty theytrackies. They're behaving like the newly-weds they areusually in lime green or acid yellow. Even You might wonder if you're being the reluctant coroner introduced to a police procedural written for the Republic of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for lifelaughs. Well, it canyou't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts re not. The two men are just different sides of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treessame policing coin. What he does to his victims leaves Sometimes the morgue staff sickenedcombination works brilliantly well. ThereSometimes it's a determination to find the man responsible and bring him to justiceproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529431735|title=A Hard DeathThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayess February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on return all the inside cover of the book is impressivemore surprising. My expectations were high. All He'd been exiled on the ingredients are in place Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a good thrillerdecade. The location is The Everglades in Floridareturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. BroodingIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, enigmatic, awe-inspiring stripped to his underwear and where we all seem sent to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out a watery grave in the boot of the swampy waters every five minutesa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0861541774|title=Curse A Nye of the Pogo StickPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to control his reactions meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally a street brawl - he would later maintain that he forgot himself and was more insolent than usual. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on facing a road trip man armed with the judge a knife - and the Justice Departmenthe killed a Ghurka. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and marriedInitially, although not in the usual order he faced a charge of events) is left manslaughter but evidence came to run light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not man. Now he could be a help, but probably not in facing the way that you might expectdeath penalty. As if that wasnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappedhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1521129886|title=Bad Penny BluesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiespoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Bad Penny Bluess a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they' is re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the story of baby when she gets past the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the west of the city-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean who's struggling to make ends meet and Irelandher son is not thriving. Lucy, bohemian artists and media typeshe says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and even peers. Carnaby Street the coroner have accepted that the death was just becoming suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances FyfieldB0CK3MYJ56|title=Cold to the TouchResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereIt's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlythe 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a coldprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', dark London morningyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, shebut where's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing been asked to do with herlook into something. Jess is a talented chef but sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's short of work – the occasion when she emptied been written off as a tureen of soup over the host tragic accident at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedan unmanned level crossing. Sarah senses Joyce - and her vulnerabilityparents, but itOliver and Pam Hetherington - can's Jess who organises the let t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of one of her mothera train. Greg's cottages in the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent firebeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the Dragon Tattoo]], trigger but due to the first vagaries of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of thrillers, was a fine stand-alone novelthe officer. And so lives must go on. The second in For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson capital and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues hoping for a quieter life in the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larssoncountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's finely crafted antidrawn into a wider investigation -hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review nowand back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1448309743|title=Tooth and ClawThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is In the village of Cronchie on the looseWest coast of Scotland, and yet again five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the police have failed to connect home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to stone is removed from Otterburn House, death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway stationwill follow. He The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the house he shares with his invalid fatherbody. Carl The Senior Investigating Office is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologistDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, thereDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, really. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529077699|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|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 day''It's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There is the draftee with a sick mother, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through to the morning. We are shown how in the midst of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nigel McCrery|title=Core of Evil|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. '"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas rose," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalisbloody peculiar, which Iisn've also used beforet it, but thereSir?'s saporin and protoanemonin as well. It's a very nasty cocktail."'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1529427045|title=Dead of WinterThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderland. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. ''Life has not been easy more to offer than people - prime numbers for Kincaid. A troubled, unhappy child of mixed race, passed around various institutions and foster homes, Louis figures that if he is going to put some integrity back into the world, he will need to wear a badge to do itexample''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1787636607|title=Spade and ArcherThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agency. It's a scene replicated all too often in the 1920s in San Francisco so we have early hours of the prohibition era and all that that entailsmorning. Many locals, Drunken revellers spilling out of course, choose clubs and looking for a way to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so get home. Some are lucky and manage to speak and as a result there's lots get one of bootleg liquorthe few taxis available. Straight away, it's evident Others squash onto the night bus that Sam is a man will only go as far as one of few wordsthe outlying villages. He has The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the mannerisms light of a cat - stealthy'the missing women'. For one young woman, quick the final stop on his feetthe bus leaves her a long way short of her home. HeShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people weredead. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessoryThe bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. How times have changedThere's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1405957174|title=Stop Me|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most of us will have had to deal with them. Fortunately, we can hit A Death at the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they came. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I don't. But I 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>}} {{newreviewParty|author=Kathryn Fox|title=Blood BornAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a vulnerable gangman -rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to testify against call the notorious Harbourn brothersambulance he so desperately needs. But when Anya arrives at What we don't know is who the house she finds Giverny close man is or why Nadine prefers to death and faces a battle against time to save herhave him die. In the panic, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or I'd better give you a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girllittle more background so that you can understand what's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apart. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to lifehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 0008530025|title=The Brutal TellingMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning, It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the village body of Three Pinesher stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the local restaurateur is woken by garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the ringing back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the telephone. There is a body in steps but the bistro and Olivier is stunnedvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The man Twenty years later, no one has been bludgeoned to death, but therecharged with his murder and it's no sign now the subject of ''Infamous'', a weapon, no obvious reason for true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the killing evidence and no clues as to take the identity of the victiminvestigation further. MeanwhileMore to the point, in Montrealthey're going to do this live on camera, Chief Inspector Gamache episode by episode. There's no dump of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir whole box set - and Agent Isabelle Lacosteno shortage of cliffhangers. TheyIt've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaoss compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey0241996104|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts Nancy's mother and succubi for friends, step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the odd human. His best friendher step-brother, RafiMartin, has been taken over by convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsiblelife sentence. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is The barrister tells her that Asmodeus has other ideas she's received a 'silent sentence' - basically to kill everyone who has she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to do live with Rafiwhat happened for the rest of her life. Felix himself is probably on the list Of course, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there papers are horrible things going on in a central London gym, making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Castor must do something about it before people start to die''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box 1529413680|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-workingA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, regular guy (more Chief of that in a minute thoughPolice Novel). 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-WaistedMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident town from the English in Corsica which left him badly wounded he1370 and Bruno's been moved into criminal investigationsthere to see the show with some friends. His first case proves to be something of a problem It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Paris. Worryingly, a stunning photograph Kerquelin, the man playing one of the body main characters is delivered to Exposéseriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body his doctor is discovered there and it can only have been taken by the murdererman is whisked away in a helicopter. Despite the provenance A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of the picture itsurvival but - as he's difficult not to be a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in awe of the skill and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go on One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling'flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529196388|title=HustleThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, the long con and the short con. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes Grant Cliveden was a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes right. This is the art of fleecing hero: a single person out of a lot of money policeman who stood for all at once. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' was good and honest and Richard Asplin's [[Conman looked up to by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onjust about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of There''find s just one man in the ladyframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden', which aims to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possibles murder. The short con may have a lower return, but Knight was told that return comes a lot quicker and this is the basis best barrister for Will Fergusonhim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'Hustle''s recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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