==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera
|title=Dark Entries
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, are worried. Yes the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with the TV producers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Baldacci
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, the long con and the short con. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes right. This is the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at once. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of ''find the lady'', which aims to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Asplin
|title=Conman
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks to the success of the BBC TV show ''Hustle'', the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recall. I've always liked the series, as it shows a battle of wits and there is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the end. Until Richard Asplin's ''Conman'', I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaver's ''The Vanished Man'' comes close.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Rankin
|title=The Complaints
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The Complaints' is not the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they're the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time and at the beginning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policeman. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwise. They don't reckon that he's bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Millar
|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane Novel
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on the case of a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into it. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do not really care very much. Most of the victims are homeless women with a history of drug problems and a life on the wrong side of the law.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=N J Cooper
|title=No Escape
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I've long had an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychology. The mind is a fascinating thing, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wrong. The same is true of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things don't work out too well for the police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to me.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Charles
|title=Family Life
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at the family farm for Liam's birthday. There was just one empty seat at the table and the family waited for Joe – the only one of the children who wanted to farm – to return home. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe's body had been discovered on land by a disused warehouse. There were no injuries to the body and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murdered.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mehmet Murat Somer
|title=The Gigolo Murder
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a break-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and self-pity for too long, so his friend, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbul. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be married. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused of the murder of a gigolo. Our hero suspects that the brother-in-law is not guilty... but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Lovesey
|title=Skeleton Hill
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that it's a relic of the battle. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spot.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nick Brownlee
|title=Bait
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jake Moore was in the Flying Squad but a bullet put paid to his career and ten years later he's running a game-fishing business on the Kenyan coast. Times are hard and there's every chance that the business will fold unless he and his partner, Harry, can find the money to pay their bills. Some strange things are happening in the game fishing business too – one of their number has died in a mysterious explosion on his boat and the body of a man who shouldn't have been aboard has been washed up on the shore.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749928840</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Thomas Pynchon
|title=Inherent Vice
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The close of the '60s, the dawn of the '70s. San Francisco. Some people say the most influential people are Nixon and his cronies. Some people say they're Charlie Manson and his cronies. Some people call the smog surrounding everyone in the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug haze. Doc, the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point to the same bigwig property developer. One of these is from his ex, now with said mogul, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately dies. How will this escalate into a manic mystery, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Billingham
|title=Bloodline
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murder. However, slivers of an X-Ray are found in the dead woman's hand, and it is soon discovered that the woman's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out to murder all the children of Raymond Garvey's... That someone may just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that the tumour that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killer's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>
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