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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley ThomsonStuart Douglas|title=A Kind of VanishingLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=The novel interweaves between the past (the 1960s) During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the present (dead body of a woman on the 1990s)edge of a reservoir. Thomson gives us the run-down on The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the two playmateswhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the two young girlshelp of a fellow actor, Eleanor Ramsay and AliceJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They have been instructed by travel across the country during their respective parents days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to play together nicelydeath during the Second World War. The Ramsay family But is middle-class, they live in there really a big, rambling house and are always busy doing things. link between the deaths? Alice And will they manage to uncover who is an only child of working-class parents. They are over-protective and monitor her every waking moment. Will a noisy tom-boy and an angelic Alice who wears impossibly shiny shoes get on, have things in commonresponsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0954930940</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Smith0008517061|title=Wake Up DeadDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away Smith plunges us Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into the underworld of Cape Town and the street chat of the localshis rustic life at Little Sky. Boozed up and drugged up most There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of the timehis life with his vet girlfriend, violence is a nightly occurrence. And when local 'businessman' Joe is gunned downLivia and her daughter Diana, it sparks off as moving in together would mean a whole chain lot of events for compromise: does Jake give up his American trophy wife, Roxy. Strong language, strong violence off-grid and strong feelings from relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the local criminals future she wants for herself and low-her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life are in the present and putting the order of future on the day in this uncompromising novelback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caspar Walsh1786482126|title=Blood RoadThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book opens with Builders were demolishing an extremely uncomfortable and graphically depicted scene of violence, made all old house in Norwich - the more so by site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the cool, calm and collected manner bones of the perpetratorsa child beneath a doorway. The episode ends in a bloody deathThere was no skull. We're in London so straight away there's Was this a smattering of East End humour with lots more to follow. ritual killing or murder? We're introduced to the main male characterInevitably, Nick, who's really nothing better than low-life scumDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. ThatIt's pretty clear from the outset. Even although hedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's old enough to know better he's still scum. Add in the fact t, that he's she is pregnant with his child as a husband (separated) and a father and result of the whole sorry saga starts to unfoldone night they spent together some three months ago. His wife's sick Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of him and his criminal interests - and so are Jake and Zeb, his two sonssickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755317505</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Frayn0008551324|title=DeceptionsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has not been easy any respect for Annie Wraythe other. Her husband died But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of leukaemia a missing person is buried and she who was left to bring up responsible for her two young children Dan death. This person, he promises, is someone big and Rachelit will be worth the police doing what he wants. She appears And what he wants is to be transferred to have a second chance at happiness after meeting Julian who eventually proposes an open prison to her. Before they can set a date for serve the wedding though, twelve year old Dan fails to return from school one day remainder of his sentence and appears to have vanished without traceget an early parole date. This Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the situation other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is met by the reader at the start of kept well away from what'Deceptions' and no one has a clue where he might be or what might have happened to hims happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0743268784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Tallis0008405026|title=Deadly CommunionA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt arrives at It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Temple of Theseus in Vienna investigation ground to investigate the murder of a young woman at the hands of a deviant sexual predatorhalt. Discovering the woman died by the unusual means of a hatpin inserted into Now, her brainmother, Helena, Rheinhardt soon turns to his friend the young psychoanalyst Max Liebermann for assistance and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the type positioning of psychological insight the bodies that only Liebermann, makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a disciple of Freud, can providecomplex double murder. Meanwhile, Liebermann Kerrigan is already caught up convinced that the explanation lies in his own investigations with a patient named ErstweilerRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, who believes he has seen his doppelganger and that this is a precursor of deathUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099519720</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marek Krajewski and Danusia Stok0571379877|title=The Phantoms of Breslau: An Eberhard Mock InvestigationKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eberhard Mock (a name you would not easily forget) Edward Jevons is a police Criminal Assistantworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. HeRobert's a single man still living at home with his father and leading a rather ordinary, uneventful lifetheatre director. UntilHe's also self-obsessed, one daydemanding, four young men who are apparently sailors, are found deadhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. And Mock is asked by his superior Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be part of the new murder commissionRobert. He accepts and Most men in Robert's position would stay away from there on his life Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is one roller-coaster left to stumble upon the two of events and emotionsthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694737</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert LewisJo Callaghan|title=Bank Of The Black Sheep (Robin Llywelyn Trilogy)Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The alcoholic and self-destructive detective When a man is common to found crucified on the point top of cliché a hill in crime fictionNuneaton, but most carry on DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to take another the casealongside her sidekick, and make a livingthe AI detective Lock. Robert Lewis' character It's lifestyle has effectively ended his professional career – he was destitute and he their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is now terminally ill. He has woken up in a hospicesecond body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and learns from a couple of visiting police detectives very high profile case that he is draws a washed up Private Investigatorlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, who is avoiding prosecution only because he perhaps has a couple of months leftpotentially, as he is dying out of lung cancer.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846687454</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1035021803|title=Black Diamond: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Perigord is rightly famed for its food and at It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the heart of the regionEnglish country village where she grew up. She's success lies the black truffleback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. TheyFreya're exported all over s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the world because nothing else quite lives up circumstances seem suspicious, to say the subtlety and nuances of flavour and aromaleast. There are Arthur was the first rumblings of trouble though – a few complaints that packs of truffles have reason why Freya had not been adulterated by cheaper ones from China - and there are ominous signs that Chinese organised crime might be behind back to the fraudvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Intriguingly there's another, possibly related problem for Bruno CourregesEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the local chief of policeprofession she loved. In St Denis market After the split, she worked in a Vietnamese family's stall is wrecked – cafe, met and married James (on the attackers looked to be Chineserebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161216</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malla Nunn1398524085|title=Let the Dead LieHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In early June 1953 most of the world Charlotte Salter was waiting for the coronation of Princess Elizabethexpected 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 in South Africa the rigid and rigorously-applied race laws have split the countrystrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Those to whom Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the land once belonged are now part body of an underclass with many living Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in gruelling povertythe river. Even some white people struggled It was an easy assumption for the police to make a living that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when ex-Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper came across the body of a white child in the Durban docks he has no idea where couldn't stand the tragedy will endguilt. It's The Salter children are not long before heconvinced but there's the chief suspect for Jolly Marks' murder little else they can do but get on with their lives and two others as wellwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330519778</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Hyland1529900360|title=Gunshot Road (Emily Tempest)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away the humour is apparent in this bookIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, mainly coming from Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the mouth help of Emily Tempesta psychologist only worked for a while. And weFinally, it was Robin, Delaware're also hurled s partner, who nudged Milo into Aboriginal country with lots of unforgettable characters with equally unforgettable namesasking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Hyland has a lovelyThe next case did look simple, flowing style with a strong Australian flavourthough. Tempest has Two lovers were murdered in the unenviable job swimming pool of trying to keep law and ordera remote property in Bel Air. She's travelled He was the world heir to an Italian shoe empire and has now returned she is married to her roots. She seems to have a bit of an advantage in that sheextremely rich man and it's of mixed race, so can understand both white folks and black folksnot the Italian. She certainly has her work cut out. Most But which of them was the locals see her job as a joke, not to be taken too seriously, until someone dies in suspicious circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184916214X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Veronyca Bates178763681X|title=Dead in the WaterKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The novel opens with Chef Paul Delamare took a couple of fishermen enjoying their hobby ... until they fish out of the water teaching job at a dead bodyresidential cookery school in Belgravia. The body of a middle-aged woman. Enter He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a couple way of rather endearing, local policemen intent on getting both men and women to the bottom of it alldo what he wanted. The plot develops nicely. We discover Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the dead woman school to assist Paul, who had two namesa broken arm, two identitiesbut it didn't turn out that way. Why? It seems to make the job of the police twice as difficult. And Bates' conversational The teaching - and over-theproblems -garden-fence style is engaging and very easy to read. I romped through the chapters, no problemare all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up 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 Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the bobby-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 police consider that question. The obvious answer would appear person to be - money. But is it in this case? And all sorts of puzzling questions are thrown up left, right and centrethe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090773</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler1529421284|title=The Herring In The LibraryLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=TallIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, elegant Ethelred is a gentlemanhuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, and who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a third-rate author. Elsie, his literary agent, is short known drug user and dumpyhad learning disabilities, and not afraid to speak her mindso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. It is Elsie Geary was a townie, in fact, who constantly assures her client so what was he only occasionally aspires doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the giddy heights suicide of being second-rate. This could be Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the business partnership from hell, but not only do these two seem to get along, they even manage to solve crimes togethertime. In this, Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the third outing for L C TylerMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's eccentric sleuths, we are provided with a locked room mystery, a cast of possible villains of the most stereotypical type, cold cases to you and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitchme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Brooke1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Darker NightD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= The location In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is the beautiful of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and historic city of Granadaalways exquisitely dressed. The husband-D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and-wife writing duofather of Ryan, aka P J Brooke, impart their knowledge is not. He's not any of this area to the reader almost straight awaythose things. The hot and dusty terrain is described in detailHe's white, along with some tempting snippets of local history; for exampleoriginated from a trailer park, some barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the locals still choose to live shell suits and trackies. They're usually in old cave houseslime green or acid yellow. Very primitive living indeed, as You might wonder if you can imagine're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. And one inhabitantWell, a gypsy, is found dead. As his cave is so bare and sparse thereyou's re not too much evidence for Sub-Inspector Romero to go on. But, he does find something The two men are just different sides of interestthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010455</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Lewis1529431735|title=Scent of a KillerThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=D I Stacey Collins It's February 1991 and Essex is beginning to wonder if it was such a good idea to introduce her teenage daughter to bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the father shemore surprising. He's longed d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for all her lifea decade. Professional Standards at the Met are wondering The return has come about her links with the underworld and telling them that Jack Stanley, because he's had a major figure in the criminal worldletter from his ex-wife, is Sophiesaying that she's father might well end her police career for goodill and hasn't long to live. She gets away with what she says on this occasionIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but finds herself side-lined stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the next major case – and dong jobs which could well have been handled by boot of a rookie constablestolen Ford Sierra. And what Is it a case it is. Three headless corpses have been found in warning from a parked car in Spanish gang or a London street and as their hands have been removed too the first major problem is identification.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141030119</amazonuk>closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caro Ramsay0861541774|title=Dark WaterA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a bigshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, meaty Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and satisfying read from the pen of Caro Ramsayhe killed a Ghurka. I haven't read any Initially, he faced a charge of her previous books manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to date but I will certainly look them out nowmurder the man. The location is in and around Now he could be facing the city of Glasgow so lots of Scottish humour and a nice line in the local dialect from several charactersdeath penalty. This Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all helps to get the reader involved early on. And I was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141044349</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title=Tony Hillerman They Had It Coming (Editor) and Rosemary Herbert (EditorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=A New Omnibus of CrimeKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Clive Wilkes is 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 delivery boy for good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a grocery store somewhere in Americababy and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Miss Oyster Brown Greg is a devout spinster approached by an old friend whose brother-in a Berkshire town. An unnamed Scottish doctor works in Swaziland-law appears to have killed himself. What do these disparate characters have in common with the learned Horace Rumpole Stuart's concerned about his sister, Queer CustomerLucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh? All of them are connected with crimes – either as victimsher son is not thriving. Lucy, perpetratorshe says, or investigators – is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in this brilliant anthologyhis nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195370716</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J T EllisonB0CK3MYJ56|title=All the Pretty GirlsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Nashville s the 1990s and a local girl has gone missingGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. SheHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a pretty twentysomething with the rest private investigator. 'Shades of her life to leadCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Until nowNice bloke, but where's the life experience that is. backs up this profession? A gruesome find and a gruesome 'trophy' left by On the killerother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Who Joyce and why Helen are half- are the important questions for both Taylor Jackson of Homicide and Dr John Baldwinsisters, FBI profiler. Straight away this novel is shaping up nicelyor rather, I thought. And it gets better. The police have their work cut out they were until Helen was killed in more ways than onewhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can'A decomposing body in ninetyt understand what she was doing there -degree heat or how she could fell even the strongest professionalcome to fall in front of a train. Greg' And Ellison then goes on s been asked to describe in detail how all that unrelenting heat and all that cruel humidity affects a dead bodyinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830390X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Ceder1838954481|title=Frozen MomentThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One cold, dark morning in December 2006 Ryan Kennedy killed a man was driving to work when he began to have problems with his carpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. It He was a fairly deserted part of the Swedish coast but he had vague memories of a carfifteen-year-repair business in old holding the areagun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. When He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he limped his car in there he discovered a body: was found not guilty of both the murder and the man had been shot in manslaughter of the head and his lower body crushed as a car had been driven over itofficer. And so lives must go on. The man panicked For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and called his neighbour hoping for help. Seja was a trainee reporter and when she arrived she was fascinated by quieter life in the murder victim, countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her lies to Inspector Christian Tell are soon discovered. Itterritory she's not the end of the matter though as there's an immediate attraction between Seja and Tell – and he's well aware that he's breaking all the rules by getting drawn into a relationship with a witness wider investigation - and even a potential suspectback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297859471</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Winslow1448309743|title=The Whole WorldDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Whole World is a sort In the village of crime/suspense novel set in Cambridge, England, told in turn from Cronchie on the viewpoint West coast of Scotland, five different charactersmembers of a wealthy family are found murdered. The first two narrators, Polly and Livonly item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are friends, and seem to have much known Satanists but in common – they are both American students with things to hidemany ways, and they are both attracted to that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the same young man, Nickbody. One night things come to a head as Nick somehow ends up kissing them both, then goes missing and The Senior Investigating Office is presumed dead. Then Nick, a blind woman called Gretchen and a local police officer, MorrisDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, tell their stories, and the novel takes several weird twists. It DCI Christine Caplan is hard pulled in to say more without revealing too much about the plot'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385342888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Saberhagen1529077699|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a VampireRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Holmes and Watson are called in by a bereaved father who''It's convinced a pair of spiritualists have deceived his wife by holding a séance in which their daughter seemed to return. When the pair attend a second séanceall bloody peculiar, the girl comes back again, and isn't it's clear that this is no ordinary trick. Holmes gets assaulted and kidnapped, and Watson realises that for the second time in their investigative career theySir?'re dealing with vampires. He's left with only one choice, and turns to Holmes cousin, the legendary Prince Dracula, for aid.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566778</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel D Victor1529427045|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh BulletGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1911''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, author, journalist and celebrated dandy David Graham Phillips was shot multiple times by Harvard educated musician Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, who then committed suicidewhere the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The journalist had received on criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the morning of his death a threatening telegram signed latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with his own name, reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but had shrugged it off as during his career as quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'muckraker', to use s unaware of the term coined for him by Theodore Roosevelt, hepart Salander played in her father'd made many enemiess death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1787636607|title=Love Songs From A Shallow GraveThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is about It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to celebrate his seventy-fourth birthday but it looks get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as though it might be his lastone of the outlying villages. Instead of being at home with Madam DaengThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', his wife particularly in the light of three months, he's in jailthe missing women'. It's not your average run-For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of-the-mill jail eitherher home. Siri is chained She had intended to some lead piping ring someone to come and conditions are not exactly five starcollect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. Meanwhile Phosy and Dtui are having marriage problems whilst he struggles There's no option but to investigate the deaths of three women, all skewered by an epee start walking - unsuitably clothed and their thighs showing a letter engraved with a knifein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter James1405957174|title=Dead Like YouA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Brighton is faced with a serial rapist who appears to have a fetish for shoes - after From the rapefirst page, he removes the womanwe know that Nadine Walsh's shoes and takes them with himparty will not end well. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace The victim - a man - is immediately reminded of a previous unsolved case that dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he was involved in several years before, during which a young girl disappeared, never to be foundso desperately needs. It was precisely at that time that Grace What we don's own wife, Sandy, disappeared and, although he t know is now having a child with another woman, he has never been able to forget Sandy. If who the rapist has reared his ugly head again, man is or why has he chosen Nadine prefers to do have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so after so long? Could it be a copycat rapist? And will Gracethat you can understand what's memories of Sandy help him to find some clue as to her disappearance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giorgio Faletti0008530025|title=I KillMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Monte Carlo: not generally a place associated It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with moderation his murder and temperance it's now the subject of any kind ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and therefore probably to take the investigation further. More to the perfect setting for a killing spree point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by a serial killer with a particular fetish for extreme souvenir gatheringepisode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath0241996104|title=Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Magnus Jonson was in some difficulty in Boston. He'd overheard another detective getting himself involved in something illegal and when he reported this he found that even the good guys weren't terribly fond of him – and the others would prefer to see him dead before the case came to trial. The solution was simple but unusual: Jonson was born in Iceland although he'd mostly grown up in Boston and the police in Iceland wanted someone Coming to give them some help in beefing up their murder squad. Jonson disappeared from Boston, telling no one where he was going and resurfaced in Iceland. Simple? No.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873972</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFind You|author=Gladys Mitchell|title=Death and the MaidenJane Corry
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Edris Tidson used to grow bananas on TenerifeNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Not We first meet Nancy outside the world capital court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of banana growing so far as I know, anything but I guess such plantations could will have existed to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and certainly they'd 'rich bitch'' might not be believable when Mitchell penned this classic crime caper in 1947printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546833</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillermo Orsi1529413680|title=No-one Loves a Policeman|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=It is December 2001 and Argentina is in crisis. Pablo Martelli used to be a policeman – not just any policemanA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, but part Chief of a force now referred to as 'the National Shame' for its role doing horrible things to opponents of the military regime. Now he sells bathrooms, but it seems he cannot escape his past – once a policeman, always a policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Andrea Camilleri|title=The Wings of the SphinxMartin Walker
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|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when Caterella rang him at home was that a dead , Kerquelin, the man had been found somewhereplaying one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Cat soon puts him right though. It’s Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a womanhelicopter. She’s been found, naked but particularly clean A local doctor (and on the edge friend of the local rubbish tip. Most Bruno) wonders about his chances of her face had been blown awaysurvival but - as he's a senior government employee, which was going to make identification particularly difficultthe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Two things were obvious though – she was particularly beautiful One daughter lives nearby and she had a tattoo another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a butterfly on her shoulder bladepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mackenzie1529196388|title=City of StrangersThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=Paul Metzger – mid thirties, with Grant Cliveden was a failed marriage, hero: a broken relationship with his brother (policeman who converted stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to Judaism)by just about everyone, and a dying father (who is an ex-Nazi). Straight away so there are obvious flaws with his family dynamicwas public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. As There's just one man in the frame for his writing career fails to take off hemurder - Jimmy Knight - and it's left to churn out thousands of words for articles that have no meaning to himnot too long before Knight appears in court, the dregs of the publishing world. His life isncharged with Cliveden't quite as high flying as he hopeds murder. But then Paul gets offered a lucrative book deal; Knight was told that the one thing he has wanted best barrister for yearshim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. The only catch is he has Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to write about his fatherthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>
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