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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1035043092|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 35|genre= Crime|summary=For those I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is essentially found, in the aftermath of a short-tempered private investigator in her early 50s with an alcoholstorm, doughnut and man obsessionshe can't resist getting involved. Much like TV He's Midsomer Murders, d been battered about the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate head with enough murders to sustain 28 books so fara Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben AaronovitchhenleyA|title=The Furthest StationUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird Ex- spectres scaring commuters on DCI Andy Flood has been a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, for example - they call Private Investigator for PC Peter Grant of the Special Assessment Unitsome time now, also known as The Follyand he should be doing quite well financially. Stray river gods Unfortunately, missing Victorian childrenhis daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersLaura, they are all in a day’s (has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a night’s) work for The Follymiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes1529934753|title= The Happy EndingProtest|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. He's For a bit shakey on his pinslittle while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, canthe country't move far without his walking frames most famous living artist, has been known was not going to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has show up for the opening of his panic button with him – but still he's managing well enough retrospective at homethe Royal Academy. Mentally Still, he's all therearrived in the nick of time, even if he does have these conversations complete with his wifetwo wives and six children, who's been dead the last 6 yearsone of whom filmed what happened. There's a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so okBeing an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a point when there's clearly no purpose leftrecord of the protest. No-one comesLexi Williams, even an intern at the paramedics seem to have shunted you RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the bottom of face, whilst shouting ''Stop the list, and well, itWar''s all becoming just a bit too undignified. To It seemed to be honest, when he found the morphine Bettypart of an ongoing series of 'd been stockblue-piling against the day her own illness got too much for her face' attacks, but never used as it turned outthis was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, Harry and Sir Max Bruce was on the point of using it himselfdead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0008551375|title=These Darkening DaysWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of the knife was a mistakeScottish mountain, but he liked knives and had quite seemingly the result of a collection until they were all taken away after the tragic accident which had left him. She'd looked so happy, welltoo, not quite as he ought to bewhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. The problem with this knife Her friends were relieved as she was that just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was beside the woman who was lying living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the ginnelllast year. All were experienced climbers, one leg twisted under her rather strangely properly equipped for what they were doing and with blood coursing down her facesensible people. Tony thought about ringing None of the police but dismissed the idea quickly'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. She was still alive - just - so an ambulance might have been They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a good idea, but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going to catch him, so he dropped killer on the knife down a drain and disappearedloose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith0008643660|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryThe Burial Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Adrian Gray was not A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a particularly pleasant manformer police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the local police are keen that was no reason why he Jake should meet his death at be involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|title=A Voice in the hands of one of his own children Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931're both called DI Wilkins. None Ray Wilkins is of the six children were fond of their father Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and several had cause to wish him deadalways immaculately dressed. Richard was the eldest and was He's married to LauraDiane and has twin sons. He was a politician and keen to advance Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself - and to get his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a title other than the knighthood which he already had trailer park - but such endeavours cost money which in fact, it could be said that he 's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should 'didn'tnever'' havebe given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was attempting due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to blackmail him and investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was hoping responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that his father would advance some funds she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to get him out of the messJosh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1529428289|title=Y is for YesterdayA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary= My very first crime fiction book was a Kinsey Millhone storyBecause of various property transactions, and I people were searching for the grave but when they found it so utterly captivating that , it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it converted me from fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime avoider had been committed. As if this isn't enough to a crime lover! worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Since It's not just the local autumn rains that first story, I have been committed caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt both excited and possibility of a little sad to be holding the penultimate story in the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>devastating flood.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow152919640X|title= Look For HerThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, Annalise Wood disappeared was murdered live on her journey home from school television and instantly became a local celebrityit seems that there's only one suspect. For decades the town of Lilling tried to solve the mystery of Annalise He's disappearance until, almost twenty years later, her body was discoveredcelebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Annalise She's body was badly decomposed seriously allergic and there was lack carries an EpiPen in case of DNA availableemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, the only trace on the body live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found in her skirt and does not match anyone on recordshe was dead within minutes. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder It was soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seenclear that this was no accident. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V HarteB0CYV674G2|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to have death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the chance words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to read the first crime novel from established, wellpoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going -regarded probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author Daisy Waugh=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', writing under leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a pseudonymwoman on the edge of a reservoir. But The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, as a self-confessed chicklit fanbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, who's never read and he enlists the help of a crime novel beforefellow actor, I wasn't sure if I was going John Le Breton to like ithelp 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...turns out I absolutely loved it! But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White0008517061|title= From The ShadowsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straightFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. I'll go with There’s perhaps a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at little uncertainty about the beginning future of a story – but switching between 'now' his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazyher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a way lot of creating tension when all else fails. That, however, is my only little gripe compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workthis is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1786482126|title=Dead Souls The Janus Stone (D I Kim StoneDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a field trip, but going to be honest a lot of the students didnhold seventy-five 'luxury't really look all that interested in apartments - when they discovered the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none bones of them would go into forensicsa child beneath a doorway. There was more excitement when the no skull was discovered but at that point the students were quickly escorted from the scene and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigation. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from the neighbouring force also arrived Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the same intention: the burial site was right on the border between the two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and the other beganDCI Harry Nelson. Stone assumed It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that it would be her case and was shocked and bewildered when she found that it was to be run is pregnant with his child as a joint investigationresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She nearly refused: she and Travis had historyHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz0008551324|title=The Word is MurderDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=An attractive, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in London, and makes plans for her own funeral. Within just a few hours, sheIt's had lunch, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own home. Could unusual for anyone have foreseen from the service Hardie family to have been needed so quickly? approach the police. ThatNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the initial premise police where the body of this thrillera missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, this most intriguing mysteryhe promises, is someone big and if you want to read it – which will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is something you really should do – with no surprises, you should not read to be transferred to an open prison to serve the book's blurb, or even the authorial biography, remainder of his sentence and perhaps not even the followingto get an early parole date. Just go in blindNot much to ask, and wait for the surprises – that start, as is it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clare Donoghue|title= ? The Night Stalker|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turf. Lewishamshe's finest are sent even prepared to do the country for this outing. There's been a death down in Somerset. It's not the sort of other thing you'd expect the regional murder squad to get involved in, it looks like a hitthat Hardie demanded -make certain that DS Max Craigie and-run on a remote road in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four anyone who didnworks with him is kept well away from what't even know he'd done its happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0008405026|title= The Long Arm of A Stranger in the Law|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the 'golden age' of crime fiction, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod to shame. Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown and so on. I'll admit to being a fan of all of those, but they aren't the whole story. The other side of the coin shows the official police doing their job and getting their man. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Val McDermid|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Jane Casey

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheIt's got less than three weeks to livesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choicesShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. I've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at the weddingNow, her mother, Helena, but it was there that she met and her killerfather are dead in their bed. He said his name was David and he was charmingInitially, respectful, unwilling to rush anything as he was still getting over it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the death positioning of his wife. Kathryn was left with the feeling bodies that he was still more than a little bit in love with Triciamakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. They went on a couple of dates What looked as though it was going to be an open-and then David took her to -shut case is now a cottage in the Dales for the weekendcomplex double murder. By the end of Kerrigan is convinced that the weekend Kathryn would be dead explanation lies in her burned-out carRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker0571379877|title= All The Wicked GirlsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= In the small town of GraceEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, fifteenobsessed with his upper-yearclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know herobsessed, the incident rocks the entire town. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the yeardemanding, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper handsome and entitled and murderer responsible uses Edward to run errands for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and has so far evaded capturehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Whilst Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he roams 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the streets, no one is safetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim WeaverJo Callaghan|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker When a man is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over found crucified on the course of his work, he's seen plenty top of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You seehill in Nuneaton, Richard Kite isn't trying DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at case alongside her sidekick, the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can't remember anything about his lifeAI detective Lock. He It's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on their first live case together, having previously been very successful with his lifeseveral cold cases. Nobody seems to know who he But when there isa second body found crucified a few days later, despite news Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and press coverage a very high profile case that draws a lot of his unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the casein time, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'or will Kat find herself taken off the gridcase and,' unable to get a jobpotentially, pay tax or own out of a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1035021803|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Jane TennisonIt's a fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where shegrew up. She's back at Bow Street waiting now because of a request for help from her first postingbeloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's former mentor and Carole'd like s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the Flying Squadcircumstances seem suspicious, but she's to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not got been back to the experiencevillage: Arthur, she feels, norlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it she has not felt able to be saidnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the necessary physical attributesrebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{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. This Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampantnot. It was also London just after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the extensive IRA bombing campaign body of 1974 and 75 and no one believes that itGreg's going to be over any time soonfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane It was caught up in an easy assumption for the latest incident in which a bomb killed five people - police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and shethen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's one of only two people who got a good look at the bomberlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1529900360|title=The Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet showIt 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. WeHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'll follow t need the story help of John Liptona psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's courtship through excerpts from his journalpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson She knew that the involvement was writing something that the biography man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilanda remote property in Bel Air. It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is unwilling married to discuss the one thing which the public will want to know about: his wifean extremely rich man and it's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous booknot the Italian. Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries But which are well attended and he of them was seemingly on his way to one of these talks when he disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black178763681X|title= Murder in Saint-Germain|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the best-selling Cara Black, it is in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. And so, if I'm honest, I wasn't sure what to expect. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough Knife Skills for those of us coming late to the party? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Three Days and a LifeOrlando Murrin

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't got the best really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses getting both men and women to let him waste his time ondo what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow''s built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo got the girl next door impression that he loves, but she's rejected it. And his best company, d be at the dog from the other house next doorschool to assist Paul, was injured in who had a hit and runbroken arm, and shot to be put but it didn't turn out of its miserythat way. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly The teaching - and adorable neighbour, the dog's sixproblems -year-old owner, and Antoineare all his own. The one thing he hadn's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweept expected was for someone to turn up dead. As the title suggestsUnfortunately, there will be a very tense few days and nights while he was the guilt amasses with person who discovered the lad – body and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead everyone knows that the police consider that person to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>be the prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1529421284|title=Leopard at Laying Out the DoorBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to Kenya after being away at school in England the surface and finds a lot can change in 6 forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine yearsearlier. Of course she realises her motherHe's death would alter things d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but she's not prepared for her father's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in RachelDI Matt Lockyer wasn's old roomt convinced. Michael Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though suicide of Holly Gilbert and now a man with his own ideasto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and about to blowme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529425867|title= Elena Varvello Lost and Alex Valente Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor= Can You Hear Me?Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978Oxford, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is sixteen of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and troubledalways exquisitely dressed. His mundanely stable D I Ryan Wilkins, loving and ordered life is rocked by the murder son of a young boy Ryan and the disappearance father of a young womanRyan, who vanishes into the woodsis not. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable father, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts He's not any of senseless violencethose things. Into this steps Anna, the mother of Elia He's friendwhite, originated from a woman bowed under the strain trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of life shell suits and haunted by her choicestrackies. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia They's certainty that something is desperately wrong re usually in his homelime green or acid yellow. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, You might wonder if you're being introduced to the mysteriously sensual and sad Annaa police procedural written for laughs. Well, Elia feels you're not. The two men are just different sides of the ground start to shift under his feet, to feel same policing coin. Sometimes the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge of adolescence and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)1529431735|title=The King of FoolsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Having sort of split up with his partnerIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the southern French coast, when he chances to meet Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a married English woman, Marjoriedecade. They meet in the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next to each otherThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she gets in the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behind's ill and hasn't long to live. Lo and behold they find each other at the casino, and the following day, It's hard to feel any sympathy when she arrives at his hotel to reclaim her bagHopkins is abducted, they meet heart stripped to heart. Jean-Marie sees her his underwear and sent to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even watery grave in the arrival boot of his partner and make-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjoriea stolen Ford Sierra. But finding her again will take him Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude0861541774|title= Death Makes A ProphetNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this DCI Domenic Jejeune''Crime Classic'' I had s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to check the first publication datemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Reading the first two pages, it could easily have been written Maik was involved in 1967, or '87, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Given Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal suggested that ithe might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's taken this long to resurfacet help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1521129886|title=Dead in the Dark They Had It Coming (Cooper and FryGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=ItGreg Mason's ten years since Reece Bower was accused of the murder of just beginning to get his wife, but confidence as an investigator to the case never came to trial: Annette Bowerpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's body was never found a good job too because Greg and although Joyce will soon have a murder can baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be prosecuted without a body there was more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an added problem hereold friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Annette Stuart's father said that he'd seen concerned about his daughter a couple of days after shesister, Lucy, who'd apparently disappeareds struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Had Annette Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply left wasn't in his nature. The police and the marriage coroner have accepted that the death was in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? Then, a decade latersuicide, Reece Bower disappears without trace. His new partner wants some answersbut Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles HarrisB0CK3MYJ56|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 34

|summary= A flawed It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediait wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. ThereNice bloke, but where's plenty here the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to likelook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and plenty not Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come tofall in front of a train. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying Greg's been asked to the final pageinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville1838954481|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)The Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Harry Garrick had been Ryan Kennedy killed a successful businessman until police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the car accident which cost him both legs gun and left him bedridden and beholden pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to his wife for even the most intimate functions, so there vagaries of the jury system he was found not a ''lot'' guilty of surprise when, six months later, he seemed to have taken his own life. One sachet both the murder and the manslaughter of morphine granules, mixed in a pot of yoghurt had given him a good night's sleepthe officer. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets of granules, if the empty packets were anything to And so lives must go byon. It seemed obvious For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute capital and hoping for a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that quieter life in the widow, Roberta Garrick, countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closeorbit of Ryan Kennedy. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1448309743|title= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineCaro Ramsay|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small townScotland, five members of a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faithwealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, in both God and justicedeath will follow. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple manonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's tenuously ordered life and drags him to the edge an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the abyssbody. McCarthy The Senior Investigating Office is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps FranckDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, a private detective with a shadowy agenda, a raging cocaine habit and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a wink'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>