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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Rowden1035043092|title=More Deaths Than One|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Constable Thomas 'Thorny' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement in a case and so is taken by his wife, Mary, to recuperate in the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during the war. He expects to be bored - the most interesting thing on the horizon is a case of missing gnomes. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left the force in a haze of suspicion. Shortly afterwards, a body is found on the beach. Even stranger is that the dead man is someone that Thorny and his colleague thought had died during the war. It seems that things are not as they seem. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Sue Grafton|title=U is for UndertowAnn Cleeves
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|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in London, and one of can't have been the first books we read only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a Sue Grafton alphabet booknew life on Orkney. I hadIt's been seven years since we heard from him, up to this pointbut he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, never read any crime fictionJames, foolishly feeling myself above such booksas well as Cassie, and so I was dubious about what I'd have to say about it. That book changed my literary life. I devoured itthe daughter of his former partner. I couldnWillow't get enough! I immediately searched for all the other books in the series s also his boss, and read them quicklyshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, one by one, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into but when the world body of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading list. And so nowpopular islander, Archie Stout, years lateris found, I find myself with the latest book in the alphabet series lying in my lapaftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a happy smile on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen BlackhenleyA|title=DishonourUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying to get her own law firm up and running (having Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been sacked from her previous job a Private Investigator for a tendency to some time now, and he should be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from the sink estatesdoing quite well financially. ThinUnfortunately, angry, rebellious, but with an ability to charm and his daughter's defence against a serious talent for art that gets lost in murder charge drained his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girlssavings. Hard-workingHis wife, soberLaura, appropriately dressed, dutiful has been trying to persuade him to their familiesretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. TheyThat's what 'ordinary people do're also English teenagers, with a fair dose '' He's not been entirely up front about the state of what that normally impliestheir savings. When Jack is a copperDurban tries to persuade him to take his case, overlooked for it's the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted to the job, always trying to do thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right thing, and not always succeeding. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distraction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1529934753|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Peter 'Mad For a little while, it looked as though Sir MaxBruce, the country' Maxwell has always been something s most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of a dinosaur and even his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he realises just how far adrift he is when some arrived in the nick of time, complete with his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilestwo wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. He might prefer Being an influencer, you tend to make do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a phone call or send record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a note when spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the need arisesface, but this isnwhilst shouting ''t Stop the way War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if heblue-face's to help his students through the problemattacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler0008551375|title=MercyWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=In some waysLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the first line result of this novel says it all: a tragic accident. She'It's hard to sit still d looked so happy, too, when your client is scheduled to die 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 fifteen hoursthe last year.' From this moment onAll were experienced climbers, the action comes thick properly equipped for what they were doing and fast, leaving sensible people. None of the reader with barely the breath 'what a stupid thing to murmer do'explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?certain there' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then s a killer on the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactoryloose. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall0008643660|title=The DisappearedBurial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn ValleyA group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the excavations are being televised. ItThere's now some months later even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and whilst shethe landowner. It's settled into perfect until the job to some extent her relationship with her officergroup begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, Alisona former police detective, is uneven and shetrying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills inevitably drawn in to a greater extent than she would care to admitinvestigate. SheReading the letters, it's a feisty woman though difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and determined even the local police are keen that she's going to do the job properlyJake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1529425905|title=CapturedA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as heshe's barely turning fortyconcerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. As a result he compiles a short list Ray Wilkins is of rights to wrongNigerian descent, Baliol educated and people always immaculately dressed. He's married to create closure withDiane and has twin sons. One, Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his exlast boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park -wifein fact, might not it could be easysaid that he's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, two concern a misguided sense of a guilt of oldalways in vivid colours. The fourth turns out to Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be a missing womangiven responsibility. The journey he takes in Wainwright feels that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamishshe would be best shut of both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529077745|title=The Merry MisogynistDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng and despite A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the fact that they have a combined age body of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like man in the newly-weds they arepark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. Even being The dead man was Josh - one of the reluctant coroner for care workers who was due to work a shift the Republic of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for lifenight before but who had never turned up. Well, it can't until he makes D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the gruesome discovery that a man murder - but her only clue is wooing and wedding girls in various parts the disappearance of one of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treesresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. What he does to his victims leaves Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the morgue staff sickened. Theregirl's a determination diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find the man responsible and bring him Chloe to discover what happened to justiceJosh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529428289|title=A Hard DeathGrave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh readerBecause of various property transactions, so to speak. His writing biography on people were searching for the inside cover grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of the book is impressivebones. My expectations were high. All They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the ingredients are in place Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a good thrillercrime had been committed. The location As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is The Everglades in Floridaflowing at record levels. Brooding, enigmatic, awe-inspiring It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out St Denis faces the possibility of the swampy waters every five minutesa devastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill152919640X|title=Curse of the Pogo StickThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge HaengThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, but occasionally he forgot himself was murdered live on television and was more insolent than usualit seems that there's only one suspect. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge and the Justice Departmenthis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Nurse Dtui (pregnant She's seriously allergic and married, although not carries an EpiPen in the usual order case of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a helpbusy, but probably not in the way that you might expectlive television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. As if It was soon clear that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappedthis was no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth B0CYV674G2|title=Bad Penny BluesSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of police station shouting that he hasn't killed the Swinging Sixtiesman. 'Bad Penny Blues' is A body at the story bottom of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in the west of the cityfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, at which coincided with the time a melting pot birth of immigrants from his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Caribbean words 'perverse' and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peers'John Tanner' were made for each other. Carnaby Street was just becoming He's sleep-deprived to the fashion centre point of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances FyfieldStuart Douglas|title=Cold to Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the TouchDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=ThereDuring location filming for his 1970's something obsessive about Jessica Hurly. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a cold, dark London morning, shesitcom 's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her Floggit and it seems that her mother wants nothing to do with her. Jess is a talented chef but sheLeggit's short , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of work – a woman on the occasion when she emptied a tureen edge of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedreservoir. Sarah senses her vulnerabilityThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but it's Jess who organises something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the let help of one of her mother's cottages in a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a long break from link to death during the flat where she still smells Second World War. But is there really a recent fire.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald0008517061|title=Bloody WomenDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women''Former Metropolitan Police detective, I hadn't heard Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of the author Helen Fitzgerald and by the title his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and blurbher daughter Diana, I expected as moving in together would mean a standard crimelot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-thriller novel. But early on, I realised grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this wasn't is the case. The novel was a kind of black comedy future she wants for herself and written with wit her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and humour, despite putting the future on the theme of murder and violenceback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1786482126|title=The Bodies Left BehindJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought Builders were demolishing an old colonial house in Norwich - the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, on foreclosure – it seemed like site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the deal bones of a lifetimechild beneath a doorway. But on their first evening in the place, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple out There was no skull. They know they are in real trouble when Was this a man ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their windowDCI Harry Nelson. Another enters the building and the only hope they have is that someone will take notice of Steven It's phone call to the policedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M C Beaton|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. She that she is concerned pregnant with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to his child as a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goes, with plenty result of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possibleone night they spent together some three months ago. She sees James just Her condition will be obvious before the weddinglong, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants not least because Ruth is prone to pull out sudden bouts of the weddingsickness. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes0008551324|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the south-east and 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, is someone big and it will be worth the north-eastpolice doing what he wants. At first glance they seemed And what he wants is to be transferred to have nothing an open prison to do with each otherserve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt. is it? The author has investigated new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the connection other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and come up anyone who works with a riveting bookhim is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|authortitle=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland A Stranger in the Family (translatorMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]], the first of Steig LarssonIt's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a fine stand-alone novelhalt. The second in the series Now, her mother, Helena, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]]her father are dead in their bed. Initially, continues it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the adventures positioning of Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's finely crafted anti-herothe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you What looked as though it was going to stop reading this review be an open-and-shut case is nowa complex double murder. I Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>s disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0571379877|title=Tooth and Claw|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. He's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, there's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, really. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Kellerby Code|author=Ryan David Jahn |title=Acts of ViolenceJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino Edward Jevons is stabbed on her way home from worka working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayRobert's worka theatre director. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There is the draftee with a sick motherHe's also self-obsessed, the nurse who thinks she has run over a babydemanding, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating handsome and entitled and othersuses Edward to run errands for him. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how these events drag through he feels to the morningRobert. We are shown how Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the midst two of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns them kissing in 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 nothingdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nigel McCreryJo Callaghan|title=Core of EvilLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup When a man is found crucified on the top of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. '"There are all kinds of horrible things a hill in the Christmas rose," she saidNuneaton, watching DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see whether Daisy could still hear the case alongside her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalissidekick, which I've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as wellthe AI detective Lock. It's a their first live case together, having previously been very nasty cocktailsuccessful with several cold cases."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on But when there is a second body found crucified a new townfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a new identity potential serial killer and, most importantly, a new victimvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Daisy has problems with her memory - Will they be able to solve the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is nowcase in time, let alone all or will Kat find herself taken off the whos she's been beforecase and, potentially, and most certainly not the who with whom she began. out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1035021803|title=Dead of WinterThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon LakeIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely dead and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandcircumstances 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. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in his life and on arrival Even though they were in Loon Lake he feels almost business together as if he has come home. Life antique hunters, she has not been easy for Kincaidfelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. A troubledAfter the split, unhappy child of mixed raceshe worked in a cafe, passed around various institutions met and foster homes, Louis figures that if he is going to put some integrity back into married James (on the rebound from the worldlove of her life, he will need to wear a badge to do itwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1398524085|title=Fear in the CotswoldsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by professionCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. When people go away she moves into their homes Her children, sons Niall, Paul and looks after their animals Ollie and the propertyher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. This time it's winter Shortly afterwards, Etty and sheGreg, find the body of Greg's spending a month father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Cotswold village of Hampnettriver. It wouldn't be a job was an easy assumption for all of us but Thea delights in getting the police to know the local people make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the areaguilt. In the past sheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's also been involved with the police in solving various cases little else they can do but it looks as though that might have come to an end as the relationship she had get on 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 their lives and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it allabout what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1529900360|title=Spade and ArcherThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravelyIt 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 set up ask for his one-man detective agencyhelp on difficult cases. ItHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's t need the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entails. Many locals, help of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquorpsychologist only worked for a while. Straight awayFinally, it's evident that Sam is a man of few words. He has the mannerisms of a cat - stealthywas Robin, quick on his feet. HeDelaware's also a compulsive chain-smokerpartner, but then who nudged Milo into asking for help again, most people were. In She knew that era, holding a cigarette the involvement was an elegant, almost essential accessorysomething that the man she loved needed. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Jay Parker|title=Stop Me|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoyingThe next case did look simple, but most of us will have had to deal with themthough. Fortunately, we can hit Two lovers were murdered in the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they cameswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. I certainly prefer not He was the heir to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck an Italian shoe empire and she is supposed married to become if I donan extremely rich man and it'ts not the Italian. But I wonder how many which of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually them was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to bethe primary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox178763681X|title=Blood BornKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives impression that he'd be at the house she finds Giverny close school to death and faces assist Paul, who had a battle against time to save her. In the panicbroken arm, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether but it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murderdidn't turn out that way. Worse still, in trying to save the girl's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene The teaching - and the case falls apartproblems - are all his own. She blames herself The one thing he hadn't expected was for the Harbourn brothers being allowed someone to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attackturn up dead. A pair of sisters have been stabbed Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and raped resulting in everyone knows that the death of one, while police consider that person to be the other clings to lifeprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529421284|title=The Brutal TellingLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early It was one morning, in the village of Three Pines, those flash downpours that the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephoneBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. There is In a gully, a body in human skeleton came to the bistro surface and Olivier is stunnedforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The man has He'd been bludgeoned to deatha known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but thereDI Matt Lockyer wasn's no sign of t convinced. Geary was a weapontownie, no obvious reason for so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the killing suicide of Holly Gilbert and no clues as to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the identity of the victimtime. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. TheyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that've been s cold cases to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaosyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey1529425867|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts Lost 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 is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do 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 Never Found (a demonic female spiritA D I Wilkins Mystery) 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 GoodbyeSimon Mason|rating=24.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is narrated by Jack McMcGuaneof Nigerian descent, who describes himself as a hard-workingBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, regular guy (more son of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he Ryan and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girlfather of Ryan, Angelinais not. He's not any of those things. He's white, when their world is shattered by a telephone call originated from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and now wants to take the baby backtrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Even worse news is that the boy You might wonder if you's father is an influential federal judgere being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. They have Well, you've guessed re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529431735|title=Wasp-WaistedThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the eliteIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, dealing with national security, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded hemade Bruce Hopkins's been moved into criminal investigationsreturn all the more surprising. His first case proves to be something of a problem when He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a young model is found dead in wanted drug smuggler for a luxury hotel in Parisdecade. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body is delivered to Exposé, The return has come about because he's had a bigletter from his ex-circulation scandal sheetwife, before the body is discovered saying that she's ill and it can only have been taken by the murdererhasn't long to live. Despite the provenance of the picture itIt's difficult not hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to be a watery grave in awe the boot of the skill and artistry which produced ita stolen Ford Sierra. All Guerin has Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to go on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 0861541774|title=HustleA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two formsDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, the long con and the short con. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes taken a lot longer short holiday in Singapore to set meet up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightwith an old ally, Guy Trueman. This is the art of fleecing Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a single person out of knife - and he killed a lot of money all at onceGhurka. It is this Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based onman. The short con can Now he could be something as basic as a rigged game of ''find facing the lady'', which aims death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to part help as many people any interference from another police force could provoke a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker diplomatic incident and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle'wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1521129886|title=ConmanThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the success of the BBC TV show point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Hustles a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they'', re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the art of baby when she gets past the long con seems morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be more popular than I ever recallhave killed himself. IStuart've always liked the seriess concerned about his sister, Lucy, as it shows a battle of wits who's struggling to make ends meet and there her son is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endnot thriving. Until Richard Asplin's ''Conman''Lucy, he says, Iis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn'd not read anything with quite t in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the same level of intricacydeath was suicide, although Jeffery Deaver but Stuart's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin B0CK3MYJ56|title=The ComplaintsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in It'The Complaints' is not s the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they1990s and Greg Mason're the cops who investigate other copss twenty-eight years old. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time and at He used to have a high-flying job in the beginning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a case against a serving policemanprivate investigator. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps 'Shades of information just to get the right result when justice Cameron Strike', you might not be served otherwisethinking. They donNice bloke, but where't reckon s the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, hehas been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's bent been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there- or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's a degree of resentment against Foxbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar1838954481|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelMisper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on the case of Ryan Kennedy killed a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. As he looks into it further, He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty wayat DI Kieran Shaw. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed He pulled the trigger but due to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number the vagaries of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do jury system he was found not really care very much. Most guilty of both the victims are homeless women with a history murder and the manslaughter of drug problems the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the wrong side orbit of the lawRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1448309743|title=No EscapeThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I've long had an interest in psychologyIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, particularly abnormal psychologyfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The mind only item missing from the home is a fascinating thingthe Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wrongdeath will follow. The same is true only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things donthem 'discovered't work out too well for the policebody. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to appeal to me'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1529077699|title=Family LifeThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at the family farm for Liam''It's birthday. There was just one empty seat at the table and the family waited for Joe – the only one of the children who wanted to farm – to return home. It wasnall bloody peculiar, isn't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe, Sir?''s body had been discovered on land by a disused warehouse. There were no injuries to the body and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529427045|title=Skeleton HillThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=When the Sealed Knot re''Life has more to offer than people -enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off prime numbers for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that itexample''s a relic of the battle. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>}}
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