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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Veronyca Bates|title=Dead in the Water|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The novel opens with a couple of fishermen enjoying their hobby ... until they fish out of the water a dead body. The body of a middle-aged woman. Enter a couple of rather endearing, local policemen intent on getting to the bottom of it all. The plot develops nicely. We discover that the dead woman had two names, two identities. Why? It seems to make the job of the police twice as difficult. And Bates' conversational and over-the<!-garden-fence style is engaging and very easy to read. I romped through the chapters, no problem. The dead woman is becoming more of a mystery as time goes on. Her past is delved into and looked over with a fine tooth comb and the bobbyRemove -dazzler question 'What makes a girl of nineteen marry a man of sixty?' is soon asked. A good section of the book is spent trying to answer that question. The obvious answer would appear to be - money. But is it in this case? And all sorts of puzzling questions are thrown up left, right and centre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090773</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L C TylerStuart Douglas|title=The Herring In The LibraryLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=TallDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', elegant Ethelred is leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a gentleman, and woman on the edge of a third-rate authorreservoir. Elsie The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, his literary agent, is short and dumpybut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and not afraid to speak her mind. It is Elsie, in fact, who constantly assures her client he only occasionally aspires to enlists the giddy heights help of being second-rate. This could be the business partnership from hell, but not only do these two seem to get alonga fellow actor, they even manage John Le Breton to solve crimes togetherhelp him investigate matters further. In this They travel across the country during their days off filming, the third outing for L C Tyler's eccentric sleuthsuncovering more possible murders and, we are provided with a locked room mysteryseemingly, a cast of possible villains of link to death during the most stereotypical type, and Second World War. But is there really a fresh, funny tale which link between the deaths? And will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitch.they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Brooke0008517061|title=A Darker NightDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= The location is the beautiful and historic city of Granada. The husband-and-wife writing duoFormer Metropolitan Police detective, aka P J BrookeJake Johnson, impart their knowledge of this area to the reader almost straight awayhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The hot and dusty terrain is described in detail, along There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with some tempting snippets of local history; for examplehis vet girlfriend, some of the locals still choose to live in old cave houses. Very primitive living indeedLivia and her daughter Diana, as you can imagine. And one inhabitant, moving in together would mean a gypsy, is found dead. As lot of compromise: does Jake give up his cave is so bare off-grid and sparse there's relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not too much evidence this is the future she wants for Sub-Inspector Romero to go herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future onthe back burner. But, he does find something of interest...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010455</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Lewis1786482126|title=Scent of a KillerThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=D I Stacey Collins is beginning to wonder if it Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was such a good idea to introduce her teenage daughter going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the father she's longed for all her lifebones of a child beneath a doorway. Professional Standards at the Met are wondering about her links with the underworld and telling them that Jack Stanley, a major figure in the criminal world, is Sophie's father might well end her police career for goodThere was no skull. She gets away with what she says on Was this occasiona ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself side-lined in the next major case – and dong jobs which could well have been handled by a rookie constableworking with DCI Harry Nelson. And what It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a case it isresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Three headless corpses have been found in a parked car in a London street and as their hands have been removed too the first major problem Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is identificationprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030119</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caro Ramsay0008551324|title=Dark WaterThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is a big, meaty and satisfying read It's unusual for anyone from the pen of Caro RamsayHardie family to approach the police. I haven't read Neither side likes or has any of her previous books to date but I will certainly look them out nowrespect for the other. The location But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and around he's prepared to tell the city police where the body of Glasgow so lots of Scottish humour a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and a nice line in it will be worth the local dialect from several characterspolice doing what he wants. This all helps And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get the reader involved an early onparole date. And I wasNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141044349</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|authortitle=Tony Hillerman (Editor) and Rosemary Herbert A Stranger in the Family (EditorMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=A New Omnibus of CrimeJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Clive Wilkes is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a delivery boy for halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a grocery store somewhere in Americastraightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Miss Oyster Brown What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a devout spinster in a Berkshire towncomplex double murder. An unnamed Scottish doctor works Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Swaziland. What do these disparate characters have in common with the learned Horace RumpoleRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Queer Customer, and Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh? All of them Una Burt) are connected with crimes – either as victims, perpetrators, or investigators – in this brilliant anthologyless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195370716</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J T Ellison0571379877|title=All the Pretty GirlsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Nashville Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and a local girl has gone missingStanza. SheRobert's a pretty twentysomething with the rest of her life to leadtheatre director. Until nowHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, that is. A gruesome find handsome and a gruesome 'trophy' left by the killer. Who entitled and why - are the important questions uses Edward to run errands for both Taylor Jackson of Homicide and Dr John Baldwin, FBI profilerhim. Straight away this novel is shaping up nicely, I thoughtEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. And it gets better. The police have their work cut out Most men in more ways than one. Robert'A decomposing body in ninety-degree heat could fell even the strongest professional.s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' And Ellison then goes on s not like most men: Edward is left to describe stumble upon the two of them kissing in detail how all that unrelenting heat and all that cruel humidity affects a dead bodydark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830390X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Camilla CederJo Callaghan|title=Frozen MomentLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One cold, dark morning in December 2006 When a man was driving to work when he began to have problems with his car. It was a fairly deserted part of is found crucified on the Swedish coast but he had vague memories top of a car-repair business hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the areaAI detective Lock. When he limped his car in It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there he discovered is a second body: the man had been shot in the head found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and his lower body crushed as a car had been driven over it. The man panicked and called his neighbour for help. Seja was very high profile case that draws a trainee reporter and when she arrived she was fascinated by the murder victim, but her lies lot of unwanted attention to Inspector Christian Tell are soon discoveredtheir AI Future Policing project. It's not Will they be able to solve the end of case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the matter though as there's an immediate attraction between Seja case and Tell – and he's well aware that he's breaking all the rules by getting into a relationship with , potentially, out of a witness and even a potential suspect.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297859471</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Winslow1035021803|title=The Whole WorldAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Whole World is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a sort of crime/suspense novel set in Cambridge, Englandrequest for help from her beloved aunt, told in turn from the viewpoint of five different charactersCarole. The first two narrators, Polly Freya's former mentor and LivCarole's close friend, are friendsArthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to have much in common – they are both American students with things say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to hidethe village: Arthur, and she feels, let her down badly. Even though they are both attracted were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the same young manor pursue the profession she loved. After the split, Nick. One night things come to she worked in a head as Nick somehow ends up kissing them bothcafe, then goes missing met and is presumed dead. Then Nickmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, a blind woman called Gretchen who was murdered) and a local police officer, Morris, tell their stories, Freya and the novel takes several weird twists. It is hard to say more without revealing too much about the plotJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385342888</amazonuk>
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|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1911Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, authorsons Niall, journalist Paul and Ollie and celebrated dandy David Graham Phillips was shot multiple times by Harvard educated musician Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsboroughher daughter, who then committed suicideEtty. The journalist had received on the morning of his death a threatening telegram signed with his own name, are all worried but had shrugged it off as during his career as a 'muckraker'- strangely - her husband, to use the term coined for him by Theodore RooseveltAlec, he'd made many enemies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Cotterill|title=Love Songs From A Shallow Grave|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is about to celebrate his seventy-fourth birthday but it looks as though it might be his lastnot. Instead of being at home with Madam DaengShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, his wife find the body of three months, heGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in jailthe river. Itwas an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's not your average run-of-t stand the-mill jail eitherguilt. Siri is chained to some lead piping and conditions The Salter children are not exactly five star. Meanwhile Phosy convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and Dtui are having marriage problems whilst he struggles to investigate the deaths of three women, all skewered by an epee and their thighs showing a letter engraved with a knifewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter James1529900360|title=Dead Like YouThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Brighton is faced with a serial rapist who appears 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 reluctant to have a fetish ask for shoes his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and- after shut cases which didn't need the rapehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, he removes the womanit was Robin, Delaware's shoes and takes them with himpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is immediately reminded of a previous unsolved case She knew that he the involvement was involved something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in several years before, during which the swimming pool of a young girl disappeared, never to be foundremote property in Bel Air. It He was precisely at that time that Grace's own wife, Sandy, disappeared the heir to an Italian shoe empire and, although he she is now having a child with another woman, he has never been able married to forget Sandy. If the rapist has reared his ugly head again, why has he chosen to do so after so long? Could an extremely rich man and it be a copycat rapist? And will Grace's memories of Sandy help him to find some clue as to her disappearance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Giorgio Faletti|title=I Kill|rating=3not the Italian.5|genre=Crime|summary=Monte Carlo: not generally a place associated with moderation and temperance But which of any kind and therefore probably them was the perfect setting for a killing spree by a serial killer with a particular fetish for extreme souvenir gathering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath178763681X|title=Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Magnus Jonson was in some difficulty Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in BostonBelgravia. Hedidn'd overheard another detective t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting himself involved in something illegal both men and when women to do what he reported this wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he found that even 'd be at the good guys werenschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't terribly fond of him – turn out that way. The teaching - and the others would prefer to see him dead before the case came to trialproblems - are all his own. The solution was simple but unusual: Jonson was born in Iceland although one thing hehadn'd mostly grown up in Boston and the police in Iceland wanted t expected was for someone to give them some help in beefing turn up their murder squaddead. Jonson disappeared from BostonUnfortunately, telling no one where he was going the person who discovered the body and resurfaced in Iceland. Simple? Noeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1529421284|title=Death and Laying Out the MaidenBones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Edris Tidson used It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to grow bananas on Tenerifebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Not the world capital of banana growing He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so far as I know, but I guess such plantations it could have existed been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and certainly theyDC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that'd be believable when Mitchell penned this classic crime caper in 1947s cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546833</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillermo Orsi1529425867|title=No-one Loves a PolicemanLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=24.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is December 2001 of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Argentina always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is in crisisnot. Pablo Martelli used to be a policeman – He's not just any policemanof those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, but part barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of a force now referred to as shell suits and trackies. They'the National Shamere usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you' re being introduced to a police procedural written for its role doing horrible things to opponents laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the military regimesame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Now he sells bathrooms, but Sometimes it seems he cannot escape his past – once a policeman, always a policeman's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529431735|title=The Wings of the SphinxWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction when Caterella rang him at home was that a dead man had been found somewhere. Cat soon puts him right though. It’s a womanIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. She’s He'd been found, naked but particularly clean and exiled on the edge of the local rubbish tipCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Most of her face The return has come about because he's had been blown awaya letter from his ex-wife, which was going saying that she's ill and hasn't long to make identification particularly difficultlive. Two things were obvious though – she was particularly beautiful It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and she had sent to a tattoo watery grave in the boot of a butterfly on her shoulder bladestolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mackenzie0861541774|title=City A Nye of StrangersPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Paul Metzger – mid thirtiesDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, with a failed marriageDanny Maik, has taken a broken relationship short holiday in Singapore to meet up with his brother (who converted to Judaism)an old ally, and Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a dying father (who is an exstreet brawl -Nazi). Straight away there are obvious flaws he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with his family dynamica knife - and he killed a Ghurka. As his writing career fails to take off Initially, he's left faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to churn out thousands of words for articles light that suggested that he might have no meaning planned to him, the dregs of murder the publishing worldman. His life isn't quite as high flying as Now he hoped. But then Paul gets offered a lucrative book deal; could be facing the one thing he has wanted for yearsdeath penalty. The only catch is he has Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to write about his fatherhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Pelecanos1521129886|title=ShoedogThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you ever find yourself Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a character in good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a work of fiction, it’s probably best to avoid hitchhikersbaby and they're both delighted. The chances are it’s going to turn out very badly for either Joyce will be more delighted about the driver or baby when she gets past the hitchhiker - or bothmorning sickness. Constantine Greg is a denimapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-cladlaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Marlboro-smokingLucy, drifter and loner with a strong sense of right and wrong who has just returned from a period of travelling around the world 's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is heading south back home convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the US when he is picked up by a man named Polkdeath was suicide, driving a muscle car but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died. So what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David BarrieB0CK3MYJ56|title=Night-ScentedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Arbaud is determined to make her mark in It's the world of luxury brands1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Most perfumes are offHe used to have a high-shoots of established fashion houses (or celebrity names, flying job in the city but letit wasn't satisfying so he's not go down now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike'that'' road), you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but Isabelle has poached her rivalwhere's most talented perfumer and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the top. life experience that backs up this profession? But – it would seem that someone is determined that she won't succeedOn the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. First on Joyce and then a second of her financial backers diedHelen are half-sisters, or rather, the first they were until Helen was killed in circumstances which might have what's been written off as a tragic accidentat an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, but probably wasnOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't. About the second understand what she was doing there - or how she could be no doubtcome to fall in front of a train. Two bullet holes are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious deathGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251811</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pauline Rowson1838954481|title=The Suffocating Sea: A DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime NovelMisper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Anyone who loves murder mystery novels will know Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there is a big difference between a policeman 's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and a copper, and Pauline Rowson’s character pointing it at DI Andy Horton in The Suffocating Sea is every bit a copperKieran Shaw. Tough on He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the outside, soft officer. And so lives must go on . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the inside Horton is just capital and hoping for a quieter life in the chap to start nosing around countryside but when a suspicious fire missing teenager is found on board her territory she's drawn into a boat – at least that’s where it starts, because DI Horton is about to discover he is more involved in wider investigation - and back into the mystery than just as an investigating officerorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955098246</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cara Black1448309743|title=Murder in the Latin Quarter The Devil Stone (Aimee LeducDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Aimée Leduc In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is back and this time she might just have found the sister she's always longed forDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. When a Haitian woman arrived The only suspects are known Satanists but in the offices of Leduc detective in central Paris and announced many ways, that she was Aimée's fatheran easy conclusion given that two of them 's illegitimate daughter Aimée allowed enthusiasm to overrule logic as shediscovered'd been lonely since her mother's disappearance and her father's deaththe body. René, her partner in Leduc Detective, The Senior Investigating Office is wary DCI Bob Oswald but when he candisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 't dissuade Aimée. It's not long before she's involved in the murky world of Haitian politics and murder in Parisshadow' bohemian Latin Quarterhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013144</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Harvey1529077699|title=A Darker Shade of BlueThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=There are eighteen short stories covering the East Midlands, those parts of London you'd generally really rather avoid and rural East Anglia. You'll see broken families, revenge killingsIt's all bloody peculiar, prostitution and drugs. Thereisn's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched police force and underpaid men and women staffing t it. And then there are the people who, in spite of everything, fight for justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548232</amazonuk>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Cave1529427045|title=For Everything a ReasonThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Joseph Ruebins. He is one second away from a very satisfying climax ''Life has more to his boxing career, and winding up offer than people - prime numbers for his ultimate punch, when he freezes, and suffers a stroke, and ends up in hospital. Overnight someone kills the elderly man in the next bedexample''. Meanwhile, a policeman hunts down the man who killed his son. Where are the connecting links - and how could the fact that Joseph was put in the wrong ward due to a mishap with the forms imperil the rest of his close-knit family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956236898</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith1787636607|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice MysteryThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has It's a gruesome murder on her handsscene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. The victim, Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has had way to give up a lucrative get home. Some are lucky and interesting career due manage to ill-healthget one of the few taxis available. He's now merely existingOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. HeThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem's waiting to die, basicallyparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. He wants to die. So straight awayFor one young woman, the plot starts to thicken nicely. We're introduced to final stop on the bus leaves her a clutch long way short of characters, or, more appropriately, suspects. Apart from the immediate family, the extended family, there's also various others, her home helps etc. It seems several people have an axe She had intended to grind as far as the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concerned. You have ring someone to ask yourself the question at this point, whocome and collect her - but her phone'd murder a frail, almost-s dead man? It would take a particularly callous person. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable The bus had driven off before she had the chance to have put up any sort of struggle. It would have been similar beg the bus driver to killing a tiny, helpless kittenlet her use his. HeThere's so far gone, why not just play the waiting game?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1405957174|title=A Death at the OperaParty|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Miss Ferris would not normally have been entertained for a major part in Hillmaston SchoolFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's production of The Mikadoparty will not end well. She was selfThe victim -effacing, meek a man - is dying when we first meet him and not very talented. But – she had offered Nadine consciously makes no effort to finance the cost of call the production and this swung matters in her favourambulance he so desperately needs. It did mean that she couldnWhat we don't afford the holiday she had planned for know is who the summer and had man is or why Nadine prefers to spend it in her aunt's boarding house, but shehave him die. I'd been pleased to make the gesture as shebetter give you a little more background so that you can understand what'd been happy at the schools happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546841</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barrie Roberts0008530025|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man From HellMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Noted 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 Country philanthropist Lord Backwater iskilled – by poachers, according to 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 police investigatingvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. His sondisagrees Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and calls in Sherlock Holmesit's now the subject of ''Infamous'', who quickly establishes thata true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the true solution investigation further. More to the mystery is much stranger – involving a fearedcriminal brotherhoodpoint, crimes from many years pastthey're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and the Gates no shortage ofHell themselvescliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565089</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H Paul Jeffers0241996104|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Stalwart CompanionsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=After replying to an article written by the worldNancy's first consultingdetectivemother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Sherlock HolmesMartin, young Teddy Roosevelt, about to study lawat Columbiahas been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, strikes up after Martin receives a correspondence with himlife sentence. They The barrister tells her that she're pleased s received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have tofinally meet when Holmes is acting in America – and naturally,Roosevelt introduces him to another friend, NYPD Detective WillHargreaveslive with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, foul play is in the air – it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the three men papers areled into an investigation which starts off as making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'just' a dead body, might not be printed butleads them to discover a plot against the President himself,Rutherford Hayesis undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Lambert1529413680|title=Any Human FaceA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54
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|summary=1983: Alex enjoys One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the attention re-enactment of his latest loverthe liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. Bruno It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is generous with seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his money doctor is there and his time; he lends Alex the flash car, dines him extravagantly, treats him well, takes him seriouslyman is whisked away in a helicopter. "It was not that he was not fond A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of the older man… or that survival but - as he didn't appreciate s a senior government employee, the longer term view of a legman who runs Frenchelon -up into journalism…"the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, itwho lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's just that he doesn't realise he is lying to himself. What he feels friends for Bruno is a bit more than affection, as he is about to discoverpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512994</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Rozan1529196388|title=Trail of BloodThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Lydia Chin takes on Grant Cliveden was a new case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarsky, to find missing jewellery which belonged to an Austrian Jewish refugee in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired hero: a policeman who stood for her ability all that was good and honest and looked up to operate by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in New York City's Chinese communityplain sight at the Old Bailey. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilder There's story, told through letters written to her mother, and when Joel is shot dead the next day, being fired by just one man in the client doesn't stop her wanting to find out more. She is glad when her old associate Bill Smith, who has been out of touch frame for a while, returns to help her. This detective story linking past and present is compulsive reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Craig Robertson|title=Random|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man is planning his first murder - Jimmy Knight - and heit's doing it not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with some care. We'll gradually realise that heCliveden's been making preparations for some time but the oddest thing is that this murder must be completely random. He mustnKnight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it't be diverted from s Taylor-Cameron and his chosen system even if the person pupil, Adam Green, who is selected is someone he would rather not killeventually represent him. ItKnight's determined to plead not a whodunit – for the killer tells us the story as it progresses – or even a guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'why did he do it' as even that will become obvious, but s recommendations to the suspense is in whether or not he will get caughtcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>
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