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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=S J Bolton0008517061|title=Like This, ForeverDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in JanuaryFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, Lacey Flint very nearly [[Dead Scared by S J Bolton|threw herself off a tower]]has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Now it's February There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and she is on extended leave her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and talking relaxing life to a counsellor. Whether she move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is trying to convince the psyche-doctor that future she is fit wants for work or that she isn't, isn't entirely clear. herself and her daughter? Maybe it's not clear to Flint eitherFor the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069161</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jude Cook1786482126|title=Byron EasyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Byron Easy is a 30Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old poet and product when they discovered the bones of a failed marriage who, in turn, has child beneath a failed marriage of his owndoorway. He works in a shop whilst waiting to be discovered as a poetThere was no skull. How did his depression-tinted life reach Was this pointa ritual killing or murder? Once there was hopeInevitably, love and many good times andDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, as he sits on a train travelling to his motherbut Nelson doesn's for Christmas t, that she is pregnant with his child as a bag full result of moneythe one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, he reflects and ponders while trying not least because Ruth is prone to escape something more tangible and dangerous than the pastsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021938</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darragh McManus0008551324|title=The Polka Dot GirlDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Police Detective Eugenie Auf der Maur It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is called struggling in prison and he's prepared to investigate tell the murder of Madeleine Greenhill police where the daughter body of the wealthy socialite Misericordiaea missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The more she looks into This person, he promises, is someone big and it, will be worth the less it seems police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and shut caseto get an early parole date. In fact Not much to ask, is it opens a Pandora? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's Box even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that shakes Hera City to its core, not to mention its ability to agitate EugenieDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's core a little too. The fact is that somebody wants her deadhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780991819</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins0008405026|title=Seduction of A Stranger in the InnocentFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loosely based on real life events It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the 1950sinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, ''Seduction of the Innocent'' tells a story around a group of comic book publishersHelena, who and her father are being attacked for dead in their product being inappropriatebed. HereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the ''innocent'' are a generation positioning of young people being corrupted by the bodies that material makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the ''seduction'' is that practised by the comic books themselvesher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. In both a book he has written What looked as though it was going to be an open-and in -shut case is now a Congressional hearing, noted psychiatrist Drcomplex double murder. Werner Frederick claims Kerrigan is convinced that comic books are leading their audience into the world of violence, crime and sex depicted explanation lies in their chosen reading materialRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, which can only be having a negative effect on the individuals and on society as a wholeUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687484</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana Stabenow0571379877|title=Bad BloodThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=You would think that if there were two villages side by side then they would be much of Edward Jevons is a muchness working-class young man, obsessed with lots of toing and froing between them his upper-class friends, Robert and with regular intermarriagesStanza. It wasnRobert't so with Kushtaka and Kuskulana in the Alaskan National Parks a theatre director. One village He's also self- wellobsessed, a small township really - thriveddemanding, whilst the other, Kushtaka, went downhillhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. A hundred years of bad blood occasionally erupted into violence Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and there was little doubt that the responsibility for suspicious death of a teenager was down he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the people of Kuskulana and that there would be vengeanceRobert. It was down to State Trooper Jim Chopin Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to find stumble upon the culprit and prevent the inter-village warfare from escalating out two of controlthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851204</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth HaynesJo Callaghan|title=Human RemainsLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Annabel lived When a man is found crucified on her ownthe top of a hill in Nuneaton, with a life filled by DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her job as a police intelligence analystsidekick, her aging mother and her catthe AI detective Lock. It was the cat that began the story's their first live case together, as she led Annabel to the house next door, where having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there was is a second body which had obviously been there found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a long time. Decomposition was advanced but Annabel hadn't known that there was anyone living there potential serial killer and it seemed that no one else cared. Back at work curiosity took hold and it seemed a very high profile case that there had been rather draws a lot of bodies which had lain undiscovered over 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 last few months - case and definitely more than in previous years. There was, thoughpotentially, no suggestion that death was other than through natural causes so it was difficult to get her police colleagues interested.out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190843418X</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1035021803|title=The CarrierAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Due 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 delayed flight homerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Gaby has to stay overnight in a German hotel with fellow passenger LaurenCarole. During Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the night Lauren tells Gaby about a man charged with circumstances seem suspicious, to say the murder of his paralysed wifeleast. At this point two things strike GabyArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: 1Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Lauren believes him Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be innocentnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. 2. He's Tim BrearyAfter the split, Gaby's former lover with whom she has unfinished business. Once home Gaby is determined to prove his innocence but that's easier said than doneworked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the 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 with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=S J BoltonKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a 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 DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Dead ScaredLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A few minutes before midnight on 22nd JanuaryIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. DC Lacey Flint Raymond Wilkins is standing on top of the tallest tower in CambridgeNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, contemplating flyingis not. ItHe's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a beautiful sight out theretrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Just one stepSometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735Mark Joesbury |title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is entering bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the chapel and pounding up more surprising. He'd been exiled on the stairs… not knowing what Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he'll dos had a letter from his ex-wife, or what hesaying that she's ill and hasn'll find, when he gets t long to the toplive. We It'll have s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to wait his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the end boot of the book a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552159832</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig0861541774|title=The Circus: An Inspector Carlyle NovelA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Journalist Duncan Brown DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was found dead involved in the back of a rubbish truck. It street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a prosaic introduction to man armed with a major scandal for Inspector John Carlyle knife - and before long his slim resources were stretched even further when he killed a teenager had Ghurka. Initially, he faced a bomb attached charge of manslaughter but evidence came to his neck and the neighbour who was about light that suggested that he might have planned to complain about murder the loud music was shot dead on the doorstepman. It might have seemed that it couldn't get much worse, but before long Carlyle found himself up against Trevor Miller, a former police officer who had become security officer to Now he could be facing the Prime Ministerdeath penalty. He and Carlyle went back Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a long way diplomatic incident and none of the memories were goodwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100379</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Masterton1521129886|title=White BonesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Finding a dead body isnGreg Mason't s just beginning to get his confidence as an unusual occurrence for Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire of investigator to the Cork Gardaipoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. But finding the bones of eleven bodies in It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a mass grave, each with marks that suggest the flesh was stripped from them baby and with evidence that they were used 're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in a voodoo-like ritual law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is beyond the pale even by her usual standardsnot thriving. There Lucy, he says, is some respite when convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it appears simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that these bones have been dead bodies for more than 80 yearsthe death was suicide, until another fresh set appear in roughly but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the same spotnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185064X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella WhitelawB0CK3MYJ56|title=Money Never SleepsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fancy Jones is a crime writerIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Actually, it’s Francine DoubleHe used to have a high-Barrelled name flying job in the city but her brother never got further than being able to pronounce ‘Fancy’ and the name stuckit wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Her Pink Pen Detective stories are one 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the main reasons life experience that she was invited to attend a writers’ conference in Derbyshire. backs up this profession? But Fancy On the other hand, he has other reasons for going: in London someone is trying been asked to kill herlook into something. It Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was difficult to think otherwise when you only just avoid being pushed killed in front of a tube train and have what's been written off as a rucksack hurled tragic accident at you as you get on a busan unmanned level crossing. The bubbleJoyce -wrapped piece of concrete hurled through the bedroom window as she slept convinced and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - if can't understand what she still had any lingering doubts. There was just one problem: the attacks continued when doing there - or how she got could come to Derbyshire and it soon became clear that she wasn’t fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to be the only victiminvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719807476</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Wambaugh1838954481|title=Harbour NocturneThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hollywood Station series is set (Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no prizes for guessing) in Hollywooddoubt about that. Hollywood is, almost by definition, a bit weirdHe was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. A full moon is known as a Hollywood moon, because that's when all He pulled the weirdoes come out trigger but due to playthe vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. But it's a district that needs to be policed like any otherAnd so lives must go on. It has its fair share of RTAs and domestics and sad For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and lonely people. Not hoping for nothing has a quieter life in the night shift sergeant instituted pizza-rewarded awards for best countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she'True Hollywood Romance' or 'Quiet Desperation' reports from s drawn into a given shift. You need a black sense wider investigation - and back into the orbit of humour to work the mean streetsRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800550</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dana Stabenow1448309743|title=Dead in the Water The Devil Stone (A Kate Shugak InvestigationDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kate Shugak is a native Aleut living in an Alaskan National Park and she's currently an investigator for hire. I hesitate to call her a private investigator as so far she's been hired by a government agency, but at just over five feet tall and just over thirty she's In the best man when it comes to sorting out what's been going village of Cronchie on. This time it's the case West coast of two crew Scotland, five members lost from of a ship off the coast of Alaska some months beforewealthy family are found murdered. Their families want to know what happened to themThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. ThatThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's how Kate came to be signed on as a deckhand on the ''Avildaan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'the body. They're crabbing The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in some of the nastiest and most dangerous conditions you can imagine. And itto 's not just the weather thatshadow's the problemhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800410</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matias Nespolo1529427045|title=Seven Ways to Kill a CatThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Argentinian economy is in meltdown and ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the streets small town of Buenos Aires are awash with protestorsGasskas, but this means little to those struggling to survive in where the shanty towns clinging to so-far-untapped natural resources of the cityarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's edge. In the niece''barrio'' every day s mother is hard and the choices you make really do mean the difference between life and death. Gringo, a youth on latest woman in the verge of becoming a man and Chueco, his unreliable friend, both short on options, are drawn area to the local gang culture and the seemingly easy money it offershave vanished without trace. But, It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a turf war brewing, can either remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of them survive the coming storm?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552388</amazonuk>part Salander played in her father's death.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Kardos1787636607|title=The Three Day AffairTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= How well do you know your best friends? It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Will thought he knew Jeffrey, Nolan Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and Evan particularly wellmanage to get one of the few taxis available. Heck, they'd known each other since college at Princeton, before Others squash onto the advent night bus that will only go as far as one of wives and partnersthe outlying villages. HoweverThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', Willparticularly in the light of 'the missing women's assurance becomes less certain during a golfing weekend. Just blokes together with For one young woman, the WaGs out final stop on the bus leaves her a long way; what could go wrong? short of her home. Nothing till Jeffrey stops the car She had intended to ring someone to pop into a convenience store come and emerges with nothing except the tillcollect her - but her phone's contents and dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the shop assistant hebus driver to let her use his. There's kidnapped. What do they do? A simple enough question no option but as the hours tick by it becomes more complicatedto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185081X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Child (Editor)1405957174|title=VengeanceA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I like short story collectionsFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. TheyI're useful reading material when d better give you're a mum of young children as little more background so that you can usually manage to squeeze understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in a six page story at nap timeDecember 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, but you're guaranteed in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if you try to start that 500 page novel youhe've d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been meaning to read that just as charged with his murder and it starts to get interesting your baby will wake up! This collection of crime stories is brought together under 's now the title subject of ''VengeanceInfamous'' so, as you'd imaginea true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they are all 're going to do with revenge this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and people getting or trying to get their own backno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857899015</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Dana StabenowJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Fatal Thaw Chateau Under Siege (A Kate Shugak InvestigationBruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Roger McAniff bought a new Winchester rifle and went out to test it - and nine people were dead by One of the end main events of the day. But Sarlat tourist season is the re- only eight enactment of the liberation of them had been shot by McAniff and one - Lisa Getty was shot by someone else. McAniff wouldn't have it - he was almost insulted by the thought that he might have missed someone - but ballistic tests proved that town from the English in this instance he wasn1370 and Bruno't s there to see the killershow with some friends. Kate Shugak was given It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the job man playing one of tracking down the unknown killermain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. It wasn't going to be easyLuckily, not least because she apprehended McAniff his doctor is there and every conversation began with the man is whisked away in a statement that she could have saved time helicopter. A local doctor (and money if shefriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he'd killed hims a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. ThatOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's not Kate's way thoughfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800402</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Henriette Gyland1529196388|title=Up CloseThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Lia Thompson is an E.R. specialistGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. She patches people up There's just one man in the frame for a living. Her fiancé is some hot-shot lawyer (specialism unspecified) with an all-Americanhis murder -appleJimmy Knight -pie family and a mom pressing for a wedding date. When Liait's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's grandmother dies and her mother eschews any right to murder. Knight was told that the inheritance or obligation best barrister for dealing with the estate, him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it falls to Lia to come up 's Taylor-Cameron and tidy uphis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. That Knight's exactly what she intends determined to do. Sign the papersplead not guilty, clear despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the house, get it on the market and go homecontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190693178X</amazonuk>
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