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<!-- Burrows -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Burrows_Siege.jpg|leftisbn=1035043092|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1780748434?ieThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=UTF8&tagAnn Cleeves|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1780748434]]5|genre===[[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]===Crime[[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[:Category:CrimeWild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|Crimeleft Shetland]] Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is new to Saltmarsh, but his reputation has come before him. Success in start a high profile case has made him the poster boy for the policenew life on Orkney. ThereIt's a snag though: Jejeune isn't ''actually'' that keen on the job. He'd much rather be out birdwatchingbeen seven years since we heard from him, but that doesnhe't bring in an income s now living with Willow Reeves and there's a simple fact. Jejeune is ''very'' a very good detectivetheir young son, James, with insights which few other people possess. There's one advantage to the job too: Saltmarsh is situated in North Norfolkas well as Cassie, the UK's premier birding country but sometimes Jejeune's mind is more on the birds than the job. [[A Siege daughter of Bitterns by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Durrenmatt -->*[[image:Durrenmatt_Justicehis former partner.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]] ===[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It Willow's 1957also his boss, and weshe ''should're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case be on everyone's lips – maternity leave, but when the simple fact that body of a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurantspopular islander, and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have knownArchie Stout, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rap. Of course he's is found guilty, even if in the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly aftermath of much interest, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such peoplestorm, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second timeshe can't resist getting involved. But what He's this, where he opens his testimony d been battered about the affair head with the conclusion, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[The Execution a Neolithic stone - one of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]]a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Giordano -->|isbn=henleyA*[[image:Giordano Fruits.jpg|lefttitle=Ultimate Obsession|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]]Dai Henley|rating===[[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]===4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How to describe this book summary=Ex- DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well for starters itfinancially. Unfortunately, his daughter's unlike anything I've ever read beforedefence against a murder charge drained his savings. It's chaotic His wife, madLaura, funny, fasthas been trying to persuade him to retire -paced, confusing but once you get into it it's really good fun and totally enjoyable'maybe go travelling or go on cruises. [[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <!-- Ellis -->*[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]] ===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There That's a link back to her childhood herewhat 'ordinary people do', as she might '' He's not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything entirely up front about it: there might have been a bit the state of pretense but there was no protectiontheir savings. All that should be in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with When Jack Durban tries to persuade him, her boss has allocated her to a new take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missingjustice that he really should put right. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Tudor -->*[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]1529934753 ==|title=[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows For a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term beginslittle while, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Manlooked as though Sir Max Bruce, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisonedcountry's most famous living artist, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined was not going to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging show up for the fever dream nightmare opening of his retrospective at the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and deathRoyal Academy. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban lifeStill, he arrived in the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Mannick of time, complete with his two wives and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Mendoza -->*[[image:Mendoza Name.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857052632?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857052632]] ===[[Name six children, one of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza]]=== [[image:3whom filmed what happened.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Okay Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, so call me a traditionalist but I enjoy picking up it was fortunate that there was a book and instantly recognising record of the genre to which protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the book belongs and from here making an immediate, if not altogether accurateRA, assumption about whether I am likely to enjoy said book. Quite often it is not until we are fully immersed in grabbed a story we start to recognise and appreciate the style and tone spray can of the writer blue paint from under a chair and decide whether we are want proceeded to continue spray Bruce in the story to completion. This surely is the process by which us mere reading mortals decide whether or not we enjoyed a book? Wellface, after reading whilst shouting ''Name of Stop the DogWar'' I have . It seemed to be honest and say I did not know what to make part of it on initial inspection. Nor have I settled my state an ongoing series of flux wherein I am trying to decide whether or not I really did enjoy Mendoza's tale of corruption and crime in Cartel run Mexicoblue-face' attacks, but this was different. [[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza|Full Review]]<br>{{newreview|author= David Jester|title= Forever After: a dark comedy|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael The can had been laced with cyanide, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatSir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts0008551375|title=Buried SecretsWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|summary=You never know what goes Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on in a marriage: most people thought Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman five other women had died in similar circumstances in the ideal lifelast year. He had a beautiful wife All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and a house that had a mortgage which was smaller than most sensible people's credit card bill. On None of the other hand, there weren't that many people who had what a good word stupid thing to say about him and when he was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg and with only a few hours to live, people were more worried about the extra work than saddeneddo' explanations applied. When his wifeThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's battered body was found in their kitchen, the idea that it was a murder/suicide seemed like killer on the obvious answerloose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell0008643660|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Burial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Adela Bradley decided A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan Little Sky: it's idyllic and his wife Deborah at their new home in 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 Cotswoldsgroup begin receiving threatening letters. Mrs Bradley Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a well-known psychiatrist simpler life at Little Sky but shehe's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observationinevitably drawn in to investigate. She soon comes Reading the letters, it's difficult to hear avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the story of a local ghost, police are keen that of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes Jake should be seen slung over involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|title=A Voice in the gate leading to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=There's a part new Superintendent in what 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're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is about of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to happenDiane and has twin sons. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire with the acquisition Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his property last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of the locals as they visit to give festive wishesthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Marjorie OrrAnn 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. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to 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 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 she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=By A Grave in the Light Woods (A Bruno, Chief of a LiePolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Tire Thane was devastated Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when her best friendthey found it, Erica, was killed in a hit-it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and-run accident (ifit fell to Bruno, indeedthe Chief of Police for St Denis, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been in Hammersmithcommitted. SheAs if this isn'd left her getting into a taxi t enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at 11 orecord levels. It'clock s not just the night before outside local autumn rains that have caused the theatre in problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St MartinDenis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's Lane and she favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on her way home television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morningJessica Holby. Then she died three hours later She's seriously allergic and miles out carries an EpiPen in case of her wayemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. The police didn't seem likely Her EpiPen was nowhere to pursue the case on the grounds be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that it had probably been an this was no accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going to leave her friend unavenged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth ReedB0CYV674G2|title=Marty's MasterSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Margaret was nervous about going for the walk around the lake on her ownIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, convinced until the very last moment that her husband would relent covered in mud and blood - and go with her. She made it to carrying a knife, comes into the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the bar, relieved police station shouting that shehe hasn'd managed to leave t killed the drunken man who was Marty. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's master and some other suspicious-looking men behind herbeen stabbed to death. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sister's widowerDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, Avel, had remarried and which coincided with the birth of his new wife, Elena, was in daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the clubhouse with Avelwords 'perverse's children - three teenage girls and a boy who was little more than a toddler'John Tanner' were made for each other. Elena didnHe't look in s sleep-deprived to the least pleased to be there and despite Avelpoint of falling asleep at work but he's promises determined to pick them up, keep going - probably because he was nowhere to be seencan't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George MannStuart Douglas|title= WychwoodLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary=Thirty-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and left her partner. Much as she prefers LondonLeggit', she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a short time to lick her wounds, but she arrives to find woman on the neighbouring part edge of the Wychwood is a crime scenereservoir. Even broken-hearted journalists can't afford The police seem happy to pass up assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the chance help of a storyfellow actor, particularly if they know they need John Le Breton to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth can't resist sticking her nose inhelp him investigate matters further. With her childhood friend Peter They travel across the detective sergeant on the case there's an extra interest in it for Elspethcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and once she's spotted , seemingly, a link to death during the connection Second World War. But is there really a link between the ritualised murder and the local myth about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources deaths? And will they manage to try and uncover a serial killer.who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton0008517061|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of you not familiar his life with Agatha Raisin she is essentially his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a shortlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-tempered private investigator grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her early 50s with an alcohol, doughnut reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and man obsession. Much like TV's Midsomer Murders, putting the future on the small Cotswold village where Agatha lives has an astonishingly high crime rate with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1786482126|title=The Furthest StationJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, for example site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they call for PC Peter Grant discovered the bones of the Special Assessment Unita child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, also known Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as The Folly. Stray river godsRuth knows, missing Victorian childrenbut Nelson doesn't, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersthat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, they are all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Follynot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes0008551324|title= The Happy EndingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. HeIt's a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to have a fall approach the police. Neither side likes or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's managing well enough at homeprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Mentally he's all thereThis person, even if he does have these conversations with his wifepromises, who's been dead is someone big and it will be worth the last 6 years. There's a point when 'police doing ok' stops being quite so ok, a point when there's clearly no purpose leftwhat he wants. No-one comes, even the paramedics seem And what he wants is to be transferred to have shunted you an open prison to serve the bottom remainder of the list, his sentence and wellto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's all becoming just a bit too undignified. To be honest, when he found even prepared to do the morphine Bettyother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd been stock-piling against the day her own illness got too much for her but never used as it turned out, Harry was on the point of using it himselfs happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0008405026|title=These Darkening DaysA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the knife was investigation ground to a mistakehalt. Now, her mother, Helena, but he liked knives and had quite her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a collection until they were all taken away after straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the accident which had left him, well, not quite bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as he ought though it was going to bean open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. The problem with this knife was Kerrigan is convinced that it was beside the woman who was lying explanation lies in the ginnellRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, one leg twisted under her rather strangely Robert and with blood coursing down her faceStanza. Tony thought about ringing the police but dismissed the idea quicklyRobert's a theatre director. She was still alive He's also self- just obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - so an ambulance might have been and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a good idea, relationship had begun between them but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going he's not like most men: Edward is left to catch him, so he dropped stumble upon the knife down two of them kissing in a drain and disappeareddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne MeredithJo Callaghan|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryLeave No Trace
|rating=4
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|summary=Adrian Gray was not When a particularly pleasant man, but that was no reason why he should meet his death at is found crucified on the hands top of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars a hill in 1931Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. None of the six children were fond of It's their father and first live case together, having previously been very successful with several had cause to wish him deadcold cases. Richard was the eldest But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and was married a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to Lauratheir AI Future Policing project. He was a politician and keen Will they be able to advance himself - solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and to get , potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title other than the knighthood which he already had - but such endeavours cost money which he =The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'didns twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'ts back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' haves close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. He'd also Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been indiscreet with another woman back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was attempting to blackmail him 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 hoping that his 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 would advance some funds , 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 him out of the messon with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1529900360|title=Y is for YesterdayThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
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|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. My very first crime fiction book was His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a Kinsey Millhone storywhile. Finally, and I found it so utterly captivating was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that it converted me from the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a crime avoider to a crime lover! remote property in Bel Air. Since that first story, I have been committed He was the heir to the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt both excited an Italian shoe empire and a little sad she is married to be holding an extremely rich man and it's not the penultimate story in Italian. But which of them was the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow178763681X|title= Look For HerKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from 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 instantly became a local celebritywomen to do what he wanted. For decades Paul ''somehow'' got the town of Lilling tried impression that he'd be at the school to solve assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the mystery of Annaliseproblems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's disappearance untilt expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, almost twenty years later, her body he was the person who discovered. Annalise's the body was badly decomposed and there everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was lack one of DNA availablethose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the only trace on 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 found in her skirt a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and does to two other deaths which were not match anyone on recordconsidered suspicious at the time. The chances Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder soon becomes a Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seencases to you and me) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte1529425867|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In Oxford, there are two D I love reading full stop so Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from establishedRyan Wilkins, well-regarded author Daisy Waughson of Ryan and father of Ryan, writing under a pseudonymis not. He's not any of those things. But He's white, as originated from a self-confessed chicklit fantrailer park, whobarely educated (reading's never read a crime novel before, I wasnnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They't sure re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if I was going you're being introduced to like ita 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.turns out I absolutely loved Sometimes it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>'s problematic.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0861541774
|title=A Nye of Pheasants
|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he 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't help Danny at all.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1521129886
|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)
|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they'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-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his 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.
}}
{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56
|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)
|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look 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 Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
}}
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838954481
|title=The Misper
|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
}}
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1448309743
|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)
|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy 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, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.
}}
{{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?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
 
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.
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