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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1035043092|title=Curse of the Pogo Stick|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usual. This time the Laos national coroner The Killing Stones (reluctantJimmy Perez), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge and the Justice Department. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and married, although not in the usual order of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be a help, but probably not in the way that you might expect. As if that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnapped.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathi Unsworth |title=Bad Penny BluesAnn Cleeves|rating=45
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|summary=Step into I can't have been the seedy underbelly of London 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 cusp daughter of the Swinging Sixtieshis former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'Bad Penny Blues' is be on maternity leave, but when the story body of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the west aftermath of the citya storm, at she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the time head with a melting pot Neolithic stone - one of immigrants a pair - which had been stolen from the Caribbean and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesmuseum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances FyfieldhenleyA|title=Cold to the TouchUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
|rating=4
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|summary=ThereEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlydefence against a murder charge drained his savings. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a coldHis wife, dark London morningLaura, shehas been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing to what 'ordinary people do with her. ','' Jess is a talented chef but sheHe's short of work – not been entirely up front about the occasion when she emptied a tureen state of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedtheir savings. Sarah senses her vulnerabilityWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, but it's Jess who organises the let of one thought of her mother's cottages in the sea-side town where she grew up so money he could make that convinces him that Sarah can have this is a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent firemiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1529934753|title=Bloody WomenThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women'For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, I hadn't heard was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the author Helen Fitzgerald and by Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the title nick of time, complete with his two wives and blurbsix children, I expected one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a standard crime-thriller novelrecord of the protest. But early on Lexi Williams, I realised this wasn't an intern at the case. The novel was RA, grabbed a kind spray can of black comedy blue paint from under a chair and written with wit and humourproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, despite whilst shouting ''Stop the theme War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of murder 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and violenceSir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver0008551375|title=The Bodies Left BehindWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a holiday home to give them Scottish mountain, seemingly the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesresult of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, they brought when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsinunpleasant relationship, on foreclosure – but it seemed looked like the deal of a lifetimeshe was living her best life now. But on their first evening Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the placelast year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a series of strange snapping noises outside begin stupid thing to freak the couple outdo' explanations applied. They know they are in real trouble were all alone when a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and the only hope they have died: DS Max Craigie is that someone will take notice of Stevencertain there's phone call to the police, cut off by a killer on the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – Thisloose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton0008643660|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideBurial Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not A group of archaeologists are uncovering a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married Roman site close to a much younger woman Little Sky: it's idyllic and Agatha has been invited to some of the weddingexcavations are being televised. She goes, with plenty There's even a hoard of friends in tow Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possiblelandowner. She sees James just before It's perfect until the weddinggroup begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a former police detective, when is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants 's inevitably drawn in to pull out of the weddinginvestigate. Then Reading the bride is killedletters, by a bullet through it's difficult to avoid the window, conclusion that there will be violence and James and Agatha even the local police are the primary suspectskeen that Jake should be involved. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1529425905|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & A Voice in the Morpeth Train RobberyNight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place There's a new Superintendent in Edwardian England less than 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 years apartmain problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, one in Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to Diane and has twin sons. Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the southwet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park -east in fact, it could be said that he's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and the other tracksuits, always in the north-eastvivid colours. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them Previous management was hinted at though adamant that he should ''never proved beyond doubt'' be given responsibility. The author has investigated the connection and come up with a riveting bookWainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077745|authortitle=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland The Dark Wives (translatorD I Vera Stanhope)|titleauthor=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with body of a man in the Dragon Tattoo]]park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the first of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, care workers who was due to work a fine stand-alone novelshift the night before but who had never turned up. The second D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues murder - but her only clue is the adventures disappearance of Lisbeth Salanderone of the residents, Larssonfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's finely crafted anti-herodiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to stop reading this review nowJosh. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529428289|title=Tooth and ClawA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the loosegrave but when they found it, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deathsit came with three sets of bones. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter They dated back to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - World War II and blown a hapless commuter it fell to smithereens at a railway station. He's planning his next murder alreadyBruno, secreted away in the shed at the bottom Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the garden identities of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away bodies and pursuing establish whether or not a career as a forensic psychologistcrime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, therethe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's only him to take care of his severely disabled fathernot just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to change release water and St Denis faces the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallypossibility of a devastating flood. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 152919640X|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on her way home from worktelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayHe's workcelebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the next, all She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasemergencies. There is the draftee with Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a sick motherbusy, the nurse who thinks she has run over live television studio - and Brooks served a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and othersshe was dead within minutes. We are shown what these characters were doing It was soon clear that evening, and how these events drag through to the morning. We are shown how in the midst of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothingthis was no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCreryB0CYV674G2|title=Core of EvilSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through It seemed like an aromatic cup of teaopen-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, flavoured with Christmas rosescomes 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'"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas rose," she said, watching s been stabbed to see whether Daisy could still hear herdeath. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalisDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which Icoincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he've also used before, d be grateful for an easy answer but therethe words 'perverse's saporin and protoanemonin as well'John Tanner' were made for each other. ItHe's a very nasty cocktail."sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky s determined to keep going - 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 - the identities go back so far that sometimes she probably because he can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all the whos she's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she begant get any sleep at home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P J ParrishStuart Douglas|title=Dead of WinterLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Loon LakeDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the midst edge of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandreservoir. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidenlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. A troubledThey travel across the country during their days off filming, unhappy child of mixed raceuncovering more possible murders and, passed around various institutions and foster homesseemingly, Louis figures that if he a link to death during the Second World War. But is going to put some integrity back into there really a link between the world, he deaths? And will need they manage to wear a badge to do it.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope0008517061|title=Fear Death in the Cotswoldsa Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into their homes and looks after their animals and the propertyhis rustic life at Little Sky. This time it's winter and she's spending There’s perhaps a month in little uncertainty about the Cotswold village future of Hampnett. It wouldn't be his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a job for all lot of us but Thea delights compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move 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 Livia or does Livia move to an end as Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the relationship future she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. wants for herself and her daughter? For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps moment they’re enjoying life in the snow which lead to a body in a nearby field. When the police finally arrive present and putting the body has disappeared and future on the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it allback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1786482126|title=Spade and ArcherThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to set up his onehold seventy-man detective agency. Itfive 'luxury's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have apartments - when they discovered the prohibition era and all that that entails. Many locals, bones of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquorchild beneath a doorway. Straight away, it's evident that Sam is a man of few wordsThere was no skull. He has the mannerisms of Was this a cat - stealthyritual killing or murder? Inevitably, quick on his feetDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's also a compulsive chain-smokerdifficult as Ruth knows, but then againNelson doesn't, most people were. In that era, holding she is pregnant with his child as a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessoryresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. How times have changedHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker0008551324|title=Stop MeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, but most of us is someone big and it will have had to deal with thembe worth the police doing what he wants. Fortunately, we can hit And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the delete button remainder of his sentence and forget about them as quickly as they cameto get an early parole date. I certainly prefer not Not much to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onask, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam Ethink so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -Mail actually was a matter of life make certain that DS Max Craigie and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox0008405026|title=Blood BornA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gangIt's sixteen years since nine-year-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the courthouse on the day she is due investigation ground to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothersa halt. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death Now, her mother, Helena, and faces a battle against time to save herfather are dead in their bed. In the panic Initially, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or looks like a cleverly staged straightforward murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girl/suicide but there's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the case falls aparther boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed What looked as though it was going to walk free be an open-and only hours later there -shut case is news of another attacknow a complex double murder. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in the death of oneRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, while the other clings to lifeUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 0571379877|title=The Brutal Telling|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Early one morning, in the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues as to the identity of the victim. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. They've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKellerby Code|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' Edward Jevons is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hardworking-workingclass young man, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previouslyobsessed with his upper-class friends, he Robert and his wife Melissa had adopted Stanza. Robert's a baby girltheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Angelinademanding, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency handsome and entitled and uses Edward to say that there run errands for him. Edward has been a mistake on the forms in love with Stanza since their university days - and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants he's drunkenly confided how he feels to take the baby backRobert. Even worse news is Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the boya relationship had begun between them but he's father not like most men: Edward is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks left to say goodbye to their daughterstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BarrieJo Callaghan|title=Wasp-WaistedLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be one of the elitecase alongside her sidekick, dealing with national security, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded hethe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been moved into criminal investigationsvery successful with several cold cases. His first case proves to be something of a problem But when there is a young model is second body found dead in crucified a luxury hotel in Paris. Worryinglyfew days later, a stunning photograph of the body Kat is delivered to Exposé, suddenly struggling with a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered potential serial killer and it can only have been taken by the murderer. Despite the provenance a very high profile case that draws a lot of the picture it's difficult not unwanted attention to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced ittheir AI Future Policing project. All Guerin has Will they be able to go on is solve the ''very'' expensive underwear which case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''.case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1035021803|title=HustleThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, the long con and the short con. The long con is more elaborate and It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has more that can go wrong, takes a lot longer been back to set the English country village where she grew up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes right. This is the art She's back now because of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at oncerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'Freya' s former mentor and Richard AsplinCarole's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The short con can be something as basic Even though they were in business together as a rigged game of ''find the lady''antique hunters, which aims she has not felt able to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possiblebe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The short con may have After the split, she worked in a lower returncafe, but that return comes a lot quicker met and this is married James (on the rebound from the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1398524085|title=Conman|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Thanks to the success of the BBC TV show ''Hustle'', the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recall. I've always liked the series, as it shows a battle of wits and there is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the end. Until Richard Asplin's ''Conman'', I'd not read anything with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaver's ''The Vanished Man'' comes close.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ian Rankin |title=The ComplaintsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The ComplaintsCharlotte Salter was 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 the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they're the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time Shortly afterwards, Etty and at Greg, find the beginning body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policemanriver. Most people think It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Glen Heaton is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts Duncan had murdered Charlie and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the right result when justice might not be served otherwiseguilt. They don't reckon that heThe Salter children are not convinced but there's bent little else they can do but get on with their lives and there's a degree of resentment against Foxwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar1529900360|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is 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 take ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the case help of a missing teenagerpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into itasking for help again. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent She knew that the involvement was something that a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty waythe man she loved needed. The next case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victimdid look simple, though. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a number of very young women remote property in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do not really care very muchBel Air. Most of He was the victims are homeless women with a history of drug problems heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and a life on it's not the wrong side Italian. But which of them was the law.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper178763681X|title=No EscapeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=IChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn've long t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologya way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. The mind is Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a fascinating thingbroken arm, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wrongdidn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The same is true of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things donone thing he hadn't work out too well expected was for the policesomeone to turn up dead. So a combination of abnormal psychology Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and crime thriller was always going everyone knows that the police consider that person to appeal to mebe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1529421284|title=Family LifeLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at It was one of those flash downpours that the family farm for Liam's birthdayBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. There was just one empty seat at In a gully, a human skeleton came to the table surface and forensic testing proved the family waited for Joe – the only one of the children body to be Lee Geary, who wanted to farm – to return homehad disappeared nine years earlier. It 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 Joe who arrived though – it convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe's body had been discovered he doing out on land by a disused warehouse. Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were no injuries to not considered suspicious at the body time. Lockyer and Starrett could only assume DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Joe had been murdered's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1529425867|title=The Gigolo MurderLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a break-upIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression Balliol educated and self-pity for too longalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, so his friendson of Ryan and father of Ryan, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbulis not. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be married He's not any of those things. However He's white, this meeting involves our hero in originated from a new murder casetrailer park, when Pekerdembarely educated (reading's brother-not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in-law is accused of the murder of lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a gigolopolice procedural written for laughs. Our hero suspects that the brother-in-law is Well, you're not guilty. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. but can he prove Sometimes it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>'s problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529431735|title=Skeleton HillThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle more surprising. He'd been exiled on Lansdown Hill near Bath the Costa del Sol as a couple of corpses sneak off wanted drug smuggler for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried decade. The return has come about because he's had a sixletter from his ex-pack in the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay coolwife, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced saying that itshe's a relic of the battleill and hasn't long to live. One of the corpses goes missing – It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his car left at the nearby racecourse – underwear and it turns out that sent to a watery grave in the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, but the head boot of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spota stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 0861541774|title=BaitA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jake Moore 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 the Flying Squad but a bullet put paid to his career and ten years street brawl - he would later maintain that he's running was facing a man armed with a gameknife -fishing business on the Kenyan coastand he killed a Ghurka. Times are hard and there's every chance Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the business will fold unless man. Now he and his partner, Harry, can find could be facing the money to pay their billsdeath penalty. Some strange things are happening in the game fishing business too – one of their number has died in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a mysterious explosion on his boat diplomatic incident and the body of a man who shouldnwouldn't have been aboard has been washed up on the shorehelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749928840</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Pynchon 1521129886|title=Inherent ViceThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The close of the Greg Mason'60s, the dawn of s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'70sll warn someone about how much he charges. San Francisco. Some people say the most influential people are Nixon It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and his cronies. Some people say they're Charlie Manson and his croniesboth delighted. Some people call Joyce will be more delighted about the smog surrounding everyone in baby when she gets past the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug hazemorning sickness. Doc, the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, Greg is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to the same bigwig property developerhave killed himself. One of these is from Stuart's concerned about his exsister, now with said mogulLucy, another who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is from a man whose prime interest immediately diesnot thriving. How will this escalate into a manic mysteryLucy, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeyshe says, missing peopleis 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, Nixon, dead people coming back but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham B0CK3MYJ56|title=BloodlineResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murder. However, slivers of an X-Ray are found in the dead womanIt's hand, the 1990s and it is soon discovered that the womanGreg Mason's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some twenty-eight years beforeold. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out He used to murder all have a high-flying job in the children of Raymond Garveycity but it wasn't satisfying so he'snow set himself up as a private investigator.'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking.. That someone may just be GarveyNice bloke, but where's bastard son, who believes the life experience that backs up this profession? On the tumour that other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed his father meant that Garvey 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 not responsible for his actionsdoing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Can Thorne trace the killer Greg's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>been asked to investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1838954481|title=The Dead RoomMisper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third in 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 Darby McCormick series, trigger but due to the Dead Room sees vagaries of the head jury system he was found not guilty of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death both the murder and her son's hospitalisationthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the case countryside but when a missing teenager is more complicated than found on her territory she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her father's death in drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the line orbit of duty wasn't all that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husband's murderRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 1448309743|title=Playing With Bones The Devil Stone (DI Joe PlantagenetDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub and In the following morning village of Cronchie on the body West coast of one Scotland, five members of them was a wealthy family are found in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children of long-defunct Ragged Schoolmurdered. The teenager had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut offonly item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. By her side there was a Victorian doll – similarly mutilated. Back The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' 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 sidebody. The killer had never been brought Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to justice'shadow' him. 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 Green1529077699|title=RavensThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=An au pair took her employer''It's young daughterall bloody peculiar, the next-door neighbourisn's son and his friend to the parkt it, but the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy and with the wilfulness of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not go. In there she used a stick to stir up some leaves and uncovered the body of a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia 1529427045|title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells the story of how he came to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Brownlee |title=Burn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa the problems start mounting up again. A nun has gone missing The Girl in mysterious circumstances and the local priest doesn't seem all that worried. After a meal with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – but how he had got into the fort ion the first place? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. KenyaEagle's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalons|author=Joseph Teller |title=The Tenth CaseKarin 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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