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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1035043092|title=Cold to the TouchThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=45
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|summary=ThereI can's something obsessive about Jessica Hurly. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because t have been the man only person who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to do with herstart a new life on Orkney. Jess is a talented chef It's been seven years since we heard from him, but shehe's short of work – now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the occasion when she emptied a tureen daughter of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedhis former partner. Sarah senses her vulnerabilityWillow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but it's Jess who organises when the let body of one a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of her mothera storm, she can't resist getting involved. He's cottages in d been battered about the seahead with a Neolithic stone -side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have one of a long break pair - which had been stolen from the flat where she still smells a recent firemuseum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen FitzgeraldhenleyA|title=Bloody WomenUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Before reading Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''Bloody Womenmaybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do', I hadn't heard ' He's not been entirely up front about the state of the author Helen Fitzgerald and by the title and blurb, I expected a standard crime-thriller noveltheir savings. But early onWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, I realised this wasnit't s the case. The novel was a kind thought of black comedy and written with wit and humour, despite the theme money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of murder and violencejustice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529934753|title=The Bodies Left BehindProtest|author=Rob Rinder
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|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy For a holiday home little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to give them show up for the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesopening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, they brought an old colonial house he arrived in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsinnick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal one of a lifetimewhom filmed what happened. But on their first evening in the place Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a series record of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outprotest. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears Lexi Williams, an intern at their window. Another enters the building RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and the only hope they have is that someone will take notice of Steven's phone call proceeded to spray Bruce in the policeface, cut off by whilst shouting ''Stop the intruders after he is able War''. It seemed to get out only one word – Thisbe part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton0008551375|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Diane Janes|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyNeil Lancaster
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|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apartLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, one in the south-east and seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on 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 five other women had died in similar circumstances in the north-eastlast year. At first glance All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they seemed to have nothing were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt' explanations applied. The author has investigated They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the connection and come up with a riveting bookloose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)0008643660|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestBurial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
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|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with some of the Dragon Tattoo]], the first of Steig Larssonexcavations are being televised. There's Millennium trilogy even a hoard of thrillers, was a fine stand-alone novel. The second in Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson finders and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonlandowner. It's finely crafted anti-heroperfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. If you haven Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he't read this second volume yet I advise you s inevitably drawn in to stop reading this review nowinvestigate. I Reading the letters, it'm about s difficult to spoil avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>local police are keen that Jake should be involved.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529425905|title=Tooth and ClawA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=Another serial killer is on the looseThere's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deathsruthless. Carl Whittley has just tortured She talks a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - good talk about work/life balance and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. Hefamily values, but as far as she's planning his next murder alreadyconcerned, she has two main problems, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid fatherand they're both called DI Wilkins. Carl Ray Wilkins is embittered of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and lonely - with his mother living away always immaculately dressed. He's married to Diane and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, therehas twin sons. Management's only opinion of him to take care is that he thinks too highly of himself and his severely disabled father: to change last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the colostomy bagwet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear itcould be said that he's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, reallyalways 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 them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529077745|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home from workfor troubled teens. All she wanted The dead man was a hot bath after a hard day's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from Josh - one neighbour to the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There is the draftee with a sick mother, the nurse care workers who thinks she has run over was due to work a baby, shift the woman night before but who suspects her husband of cheating and othershad never turned up. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the morning. We are shown how in murder - but her only clue is the midst disappearance of their own interestingone of the residents, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is stabbed in unlikely as the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothinggirl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529428289|title=Core A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of EvilPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
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|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup Because of teavarious property transactions, flavoured people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with Christmas rosesthree sets of bones. '"There are all kinds They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of horrible things in the Christmas rosePolice for St Denis," she said, watching to see discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether Daisy could still hear heror not a crime had been committed. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I As if this isn've also used beforet enough to worry about, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as wellthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victim. Daisy has problems with her memory - not just the identities go back so far local autumn rains that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all have caused the whos she's been before, problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and most certainly not St Denis faces the who with whom she beganpossibility of a devastating flood. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish152919640X|title=Dead of WinterThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=Loon LakeThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandthere's only one suspect. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his life and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if contract stated that he has come home. Life has must not been easy for Kincaidserve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. A troubled, unhappy child She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of mixed raceemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, passed around various institutions live television studio - and foster homes, Louis figures that if he is going Brooks served a ragout to put some integrity back into the world, he will need Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to wear a badge to do itbe found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca TopeB0CYV674G2|title=Fear in the Cotswolds|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time it's winter and she's spending a month in the Cotswold village of Hampnett. It wouldn't be a job for all of us but Thea delights in getting to know the local people and the area. In the past she's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks as though that might have come to an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to a body in a nearby field. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Joe Gores|title=Spade and ArcherDavid Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his oneIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man detective agency. It's the 1920s , covered in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era mud and all that that entails. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak blood - and as carrying a result there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight awayknife, itcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn's evident that Sam is a t killed the man of few words. He has A body at the mannerisms bottom of a cat freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - stealthyhe's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, quick on which coincided with the birth of his feetdaughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's also a compulsive chainsleep-smoker, deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changedhe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Jay ParkerStuart Douglas|title=Stop MeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', but most leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of us will have had to deal with thema reservoir. FortunatelyThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, we can hit but something about the delete button whole thing bothers Lowe, and forget about them as quickly as they camehe enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, no matter how bad my luck is supposed a link to become if I don'tdeath during the Second World War. But I wonder how many of us would react if is there really a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming link between the deaths? And will they manage to beuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox0008517061|title=Blood BornDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothershas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. But when Anya arrives at There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the house she finds Giverny close to death future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and faces her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a battle against time lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to save Little Sky despite her. In the panic, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell reservations about whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save not this is the girl's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the case falls apart. She blames herself for moment they’re enjoying life in the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed present and raped resulting in putting the death of one, while future on the other clings to lifeback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1786482126|title=The Brutal TellingJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the ringing bones of the telephonea child beneath a doorway. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunnedwas no skull. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there's no sign of Was this a weapon, no obvious reason for the ritual killing and no clues as to the identity of the victim. or murder? MeanwhileInevitably, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle LacosteDCI Harry Nelson. TheyIt've been to Three Pines befores difficult as Ruth knows, but this time the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in LondonNelson doesn't, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem that she is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do pregnant with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say Goodbye|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself child as a hard-working, regular guy (more result of that in a minute though)the one night they spent together some three months ago. Nine months previously, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl Her condition will be obvious before long, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news least because Ruth is that the boy's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks prone to say goodbye to their daughtersudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie0008551324|title=Wasp-Waisted|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigations. His first case proves to be something of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Paris. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body is delivered to Exposé, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murderer. Despite the provenance of the picture it's difficult not to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Will Ferguson |title=HustleNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, It's unusual for anyone from the long con and Hardie family to approach the short conpolice. The long con Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is more elaborate struggling in prison and has more that can go wrong, takes he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at oncepolice doing what he wants. It And what he wants is this that to be transferred to an open prison to serve the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' remainder of his sentence and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'find s even prepared to do 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 other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that return comes a lot quicker DS Max Craigie and this anyone who works with him is the basis for Will Fergusonkept well away from what's ''Hustle''happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 0008405026|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 A Stranger 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>}} {{newreviewFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Ian Rankin |title=The ComplaintsJane Casey
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|summary=Working in It'The Complaints' is not s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the job for you if personal popularity mattersinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, because they're the cops who investigate other copsand her father are dead in their bed. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there for some time and at 's something about the beginning positioning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policemanbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Most people think that Glen Heaton What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now 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 otherwisecomplex double murder. They don't reckon Kerrigan is convinced that hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's bent and theredisappearance: others (such as Derwent's a degree of resentment against Foxboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0571379877|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane Edward Jevons is reluctant to take on the case of a missing teenagerworking-class young man, but obsessed with his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itupper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in Robert's a peculiarly nasty waytheatre director. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to know something also becomes a victimrun errands for him. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who Edward has abducted been in love with Stanza since their university days - and murdered a number of very young women he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the police do a relationship had begun between them but he's not really care very much. Most of like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the victims are homeless women with a history two of drug problems and them kissing in a life on the wrong side of the lawdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N J CooperJo Callaghan|title=Leave No EscapeTrace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I've long had an interest When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in psychologyNuneaton, particularly abnormal psychologyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. The mind is a fascinating thingIt's their first live case together, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wronghaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The same But when there is true of crime thrillersa second body found crucified a few days later, which are Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot more entertaining when things don't work out too well for the policeof unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. So Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to me.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1035021803|title=Family LifeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the family farm for LiamEnglish country village where she grew up. She's birthdayback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. There was just one empty seat at the table Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the family waited for Joe – the only one of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the children who wanted to farm – to return homeleast. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Arthur was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe's body reason why Freya had not been discovered on land by a disused warehouseback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There Even though they were no injuries in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the body split, she worked in a cafe, met and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1398524085|title=The Gigolo MurderHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35
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|summary=After a break-Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and selfher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -pity for too longstrangely - her husband, so his friendAlec, 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 marriednot. However Shortly afterwards, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder caseEtty and Greg, when Pekerdemfind the body of Greg's brother-father, Duncan Ackerley, in-law is accused of the murder of a gigoloriver. Our hero suspects 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 brother-in-law is guilt. The Salter children are not guilty... convinced but there's little else they can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529900360|title=Skeleton HillThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
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|summary=When the Sealed Knot reIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-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 sixand-pack in shut cases which didn't need the shade help of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no morepsychologist only worked for a while. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a relic of the battlepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. One of She knew that the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out involvement was something that the bone is nowhere near as old as they thinkman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, but though. Two lovers were murdered in the head swimming pool of Bath CID still has difficulty a remote property in establishing who Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is buried in that lonely spotmarried to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 178763681X|title=BaitKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jake Moore was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the Flying Squad Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a bullet put paid way of getting both men and women to his career and ten years later do what he's running a game-fishing business on the Kenyan coastwanted. Times are hard and therePaul ''somehow''s every chance got the impression that he'd be at the business will fold unless he and his partnerschool to assist Paul, Harrywho had a broken arm, can find but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the money problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to pay their billsturn up dead. Some strange things are happening in Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the game fishing business too – one of their number has died in a mysterious explosion on his boat body and everyone knows that the body of a man who shouldn't have been aboard has been washed up on police consider that person to be the shoreprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749928840</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Pynchon 1529421284|title=Inherent ViceLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The close It was one of those flash downpours that the '60s, the dawn of the '70sBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. San Francisco. Some people say In a gully, a human skeleton came to the most influential people are Nixon surface and his croniesforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Some people say theyHe're Charlie Manson d been a known drug user and his cronies. Some people call the smog surrounding everyone in the Bay Area air pollutionhad learning disabilities, others so it could have been a drug hazesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. DocGeary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the sole proprietor suicide of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting Holly Gilbert and to two jobs of him, other deaths which both point to were not considered suspicious at the same bigwig property developertime. One Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad 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 the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to life, unusual retreats, you and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>me) investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1529425867|title=BloodlineLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murderIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. However D I Ryan Wilkins, slivers son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of an X-Ray are found in the dead womanthose things. He's handwhite, and it is soon discovered that the womanoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years beforenot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out to murder all the children of Raymond Garvey They'sre usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. That someone may The two men are just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that different sides of the tumour that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actionssame policing coin. Can Thorne trace Sometimes the killercombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1529431735|title=The Dead RoomWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick seriesIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Dead Room sees more surprising. He'd been exiled on the head of BostonCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's CSU investigating had a horrific home invasion which leads to a womanletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's death ill and her sonhasn't long to live. It's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that the case hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is more complicated than she could possibly have imaginedabducted, with clues leading stripped to people who are supposedly already dead, his underwear and suggestions that her father's death sent to a watery grave in the line boot of duty wasn't all that a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it seemed a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husband's murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 0861541774|title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to a nightclub and the following morning the body of one of them meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was found involved in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruellystreet brawl -treated children of longhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -defunct Ragged School. The teenager had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut offhe killed a Ghurka. By her side there was Initially, he faced a Victorian doll – similarly mutilatedcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Back in Now he could be facing 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 sidedeath penalty. The killer had never been brought Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to justicehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. 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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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Dawes Green1521129886|title=RavensThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Shaw 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 Romeo are two friends, moving across country for Joyce will soon have a new life, baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has just had she gets past the only winning lottery ticket for a $318million jackpotmorning sickness. The family involved Greg is very average approached by an old friend whose brother- slightly ineffectual fatherin-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, mother who gets geared up for the weekly lottery 's struggling to make ends meet and descends into a gin fug as a resulther son is not thriving. Lucy, girl stuck on Facebookhe says, boy glued to a PSP or somethingis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. There are enough gaps within The police and the family for coroner have accepted that the pair of guys death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to break in between them, and have them under threat for half find out what happened on the winningsnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh RussellB0CK3MYJ56|title=Cut Short Responsibilities (DI Geraldine SteelGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=An au pair took her employerIt's young daughter, the next-door neighbour1990s and Greg Mason's son and his friend twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the parkcity 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 young girl was petulant about life experience that backs up this profession? On the inclusion of the second boy other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and with the wilfulness of Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into the bushestragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, where Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she knew that she must not go. In was doing there - or how she used a stick could come to stir up some leaves and uncovered the body fall in front of a womantrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elliott J Gorn 1838954481|title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number OneMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=John Dillinger Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was born the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and brought up in Indianapointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. His childhood was no better and no worse than most He pulled the trigger but due to the early part vagaries of his adult life was to be blighted by a spell in prison when the jury system he was convicted found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of an attack the officer. And so lives must go on a man in a botched hold-up. Hoping For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for leniency he pleaded guilty but was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment, whilst quieter life in the man with him pleaded not guilty and countryside but when convicted received a shorter sentence. Itmissing teenager is found on her territory she's easy to see where Dillinger's contempt for drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the law was spawnedorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia 1448309743|title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia FamilyThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for In the village of Cronchie on the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one West coast of Scotland, five members of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for yearswealthy family are found murdered. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells The only item missing from the story of how he came to infiltrate home is the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled Devil Stone: myth says that if the organised crime familiesstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. If The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that doesn't sound impressive enough, then just consider s an easy conclusion given that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italiansdisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Teller 1529427045|title=The Tenth CaseGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|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 Life has more to offer than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound to be interested. This was the claim made by the publishers of people - prime numbers for example''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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