==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author=Colin Cotterill
|title=The Merry Misogynist
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng and despite the fact that they have a combined age of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like the newly-weds they are. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for life. Well, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. What he does to his victims leaves the morgue staff sickened. There's a determination to find the man responsible and bring him to justice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Hayes
|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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{{newreview
|author=Chris Mooney
|title=The Dead Room
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick series, the Dead Room sees the head of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that the case is more complicated than she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her father's death in the line of duty wasn't all that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husband's murder.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Ellis
|title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub and the following morning the body of one of them was found in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children of long-defunct Ragged School. The teenager had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there was a Victorian doll – similarly mutilated. Back in the nineteen fifties there has been four murders in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled and mutilated and left with a doll by their side. The killer had never been brought to justice. He'd be likely to be in his seventies by now – was it possible that he was still fit enough to return to his old ways?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=George Dawes Green
|title=Ravens
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Shaw and Romeo are two friends, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has just had the only winning lottery ticket for a $318million jackpot. The family involved is very average - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up for the weekly lottery and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebook, boy glued to a PSP or something. There are enough gaps within the family for the pair of guys to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winnings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Leigh Russell
|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=An au pair took her employer's young daughter, the next-door neighbour's son and his friend to the park, but the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy and with the wilfulness of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not go. In there she used a stick to stir up some leaves and uncovered the body of a woman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elliott J Gorn
|title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=John Dillinger was born and brought up in Indiana. His childhood was no better and no worse than most but the early part of his adult life was to be blighted by a spell in prison when he was convicted of an attack on a man in a botched hold-up. Hoping for leniency he pleaded guilty but was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentence. It's easy to see where Dillinger's contempt for the law was spawned.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia
|title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells the story of how he came to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italians.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nick Brownlee
|title=Burn
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa the problems start mounting up again. A nun has gone missing in mysterious circumstances and the local priest doesn't seem all that worried. After a meal with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – but how he had got into the fort ion the first place? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. Kenya's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joseph Teller
|title=The Tenth Case
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I am a great fan of courtroom dramas, which is one of the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much and I pretty much look on him as the master of this genre. So, when I discover a book that claims that it's ''better than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound to be interested. This was the claim made by the publishers of ''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that he writes lives up to expectations. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does? Read on...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Mosby
|title=Still Bleeding
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alex Connor has been trying to negate the memory of his wife's suicide by running away. He's left all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them for years. But now Sarah, one of his closest friends, has been murdered and the prime suspect is her partner, Alex's brother James. For Alex, this is the one thing that could call him home, as Sarah was the one who told him to confront death, not run from it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Denise Mina
|title=Still Midnight
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On a quiet Sunday evening in the suburbs of Glasgow an old man is kidnapped from an unassuming house. The kidnappers are incompetent – they don't seem entirely certain who it is they're after and one of them fires his gun, badly injuring a teenage girl. As they leave, taking the old man with them, they demand a ransom of two million pounds. Have they got the right house and if so, why do they think that there's so much money to be had there? DS Alex Morrow is certain that this is going to be her case – after all, she was promised – but it goes to her arch rival, DS Grant Bannerman and she is to work under his command.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100529</amazonuk>
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