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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson1035043092|title=The Ice Cream GirlsKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|summary=Poppy and SerenaI can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a rapacious pressnew life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, have but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young lives shattered by the man they sharedson, a teacher in a position of trustJames, who controlled them in the worst possible ways. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has well as Cassie, the assertiveness or maturity to handle the situationdaughter of his former partner. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be onmaternity leave, but when the traumatic events have profoundly affected body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the emotional stability aftermath of each girla storm, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesshe can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)henleyA|title=The SnowmanUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
|rating=4
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|summary=It's NorwayEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and ithe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a snowy and dark Novembermurder charge drained his savings. Women are disappearingHis wife, and/or being found horrifically killed. The police have little to go onLaura, but with the help of flashbacks across cases the police could never hope has been trying to connect, we can see hints of a clever, but misogynistic man who seems persuade him to be the culprit, and retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on a mission against marital infidelitycruises. But That's what could be the connection with all those crimes and the American presidential elections? 'ordinary people do','' And why - and how - might He's not been entirely up front about the policestate of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the victims, and thought of the reader, all come to be so terrified money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>justice that he really should put right.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1529934753|title=Past TenseThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
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|summary=Jan Wakefield For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was surprised not going to find herself arranging show up for the opening of his retrospective at the refreshments for mourners after a funeralRoyal Academy. Still, not least because she had never met he arrived in the deceased nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was unaware fortunate that her husband there was a record of the next of kinprotest. He was working Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in South America and not expected home for sometimethe face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. Josephine Short has obviously been a feisty character thoughIt seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. Despite being unmarried she The can had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) laced with cyanide, and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe Sir Max Bruce was flying home from Lasserta for the funeraldead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen0008551375|title=The GuardsWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the apparent suicide result of her teenage daughter in Galway. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) but also a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his lifetragic accident. His approach to investigation is haphazard - he doesn She't really have a method beyond asking direct questions andd looked so happy, if necessarytoo, using his fistswhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. Predictably Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, there is more to but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the suicide case than first meets the eye and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friend, Suttonlast year. All were experienced climbers, uncover some very disturbing secrets properly equipped for what they were doing and levels sensible people. None of corruption within the city. ''The Guards'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is not your conventional crime thriller; itcertain there's darker and has a grim realismkiller on the loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman0008643660|title=All That I Have|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of a firm of provincial solicitors but thankfully this Castle Freeman is a man very skilled in writing about the law rather than practicing it. In his latest novel Freeman tells an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing and his practical yet low-key approach to maintaining order in rural Vermont. Not for Wing the gung ho approach to fighting crime. He doesn't wear a uniform, he drives a battered old car rather than the standard issue sheriff's wagon and his gun, so ubiquitous in US law enforcement, is safely tucked away in his bottom drawer. Everyone in the area knows the sheriff and by and large they respect him and his slightly unorthodox way of doing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Burial Place|author=Daniel Suarez|title=DaemonStig Abell
|rating=4
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|summary=As the internet grows and technology advances, A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's seems there is nothing you canidyllic and some of the excavations are being televised. There't dos even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent and cars are more automated than everIt's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Huge online games allow users worldwide Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to interact and play against each other lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in huge arenasto investigate. Thanks Reading the letters, it's difficult to social networking, avoid the internet can conclusion that there will be addictive violence and, yes, I'm aware of even the irony in writing local police are keen that hereJake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529425905|title=The Killing of A Voice in the TinkersNight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legs. HeThere's been lying low a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she'over the waters young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she' in Londons concerned, she has two main problems, licking his woundsand they're both called DI Wilkins. Jack (I'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him a more Irish name) Ray Wilkins is a middle-agedof Nigerian descent, washed-up, disgraced ex-copBaliol educated and always immaculately dressed. As if that wasnHe't bad enough, he also s married to Diane and has a lot of very bad habitstwin sons. He acknowledges however 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 new world is designed for nonwet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park -smokersin fact, it could be said that he's never really left it.' He also admits quite freely lives in shell suits and openly tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never''An alcoholic has dreams to rival be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of any Vietnam vetboth of them.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1529077745|title=KillerThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here at A man walking his dog in the Bookbagearly morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus fara care home for troubled teens. He uses The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to shift the heart of the storynight before but who had never turned up. His story telling D I Vera Stanhope is very straightforward, not weighing down called in to investigate the story with too much style, murder - but sticking to her only clue is the disappearance of one of the substance and delivering a hardresidents, fourteen-year-hitting work every timeold Chloe Spencer. With Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl''Killer'', he s diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has done the same againto find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Hunter1529428289|title=IA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, SniperChief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You don't often find novels or films based on Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the art grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of the sniperbones. Hiding out for hours motionless They dated back to World War II and then killing someone unseen from hundreds it fell to Bruno, the Chief of yards away doesn't make Police for as interesting St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a story as a face to face shoot outcrime had been committed. But with As if this isn'It enough to worry about, Sniperthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It', Stephen Hunter has managed to combine s not just the art of local autumn rains that have caused the sniper with problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the art possibility of the crime thriller in a decent readdevastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey152919640X|title=The MissingSuspect|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, Sarah Finchwas murdered live on television and it seems that there's twelve year old brother Charlie says to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soononly one suspect. He'' Sixteen years later, s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his family are still waiting contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to find out what happened to himJessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Now Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in her twentiesa busy, Sarah is teaching at live television studio - and Brooks served a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholismragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|authortitle=Swanton Morley (John BurdettTanner)|titleauthor=The Godfather of KathmanduDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam It seemed like an open-and an American GI-shut case. A man, but it's the latter rather than the former which is likely to hold up his promotion covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the Thai police force, where station shouting that hehasn's a detectivet killed the man. He's also A body at the part owner bottom of a brothel where freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his motherhoneymoon, Nong, is which coincided with the madam in chargebirth of his daughter Samantha. ItYou would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner's no problem were made for his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has a few illegal interests of his owneach other. He's currently in competition with the head of the army, General Zinna, sleep-deprived to see who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment point of heroin which Sonchaifalling asleep at work but he's Kathmandudetermined to keep going -based guru has for saleprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard North PattersonStuart Douglas|title=The SpireLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a black fellow student, Angela Hall, at woman on the foot edge of the spire in the centre of the college he attendsa reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, he little suspects that his best friend will be charged with but something about the murder. Now, sixteen years laterwhole thing bothers Lowe, Darrow is back, at the invitation of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farr, to become president of he enlists the college in order to rebuild its reputation after a case help of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (convenientlyfellow actor, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years)John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. As Darrow digs into what happened with They travel across the college financescountry during their days off filming, he also begins to look afresh at the trial of his friend uncovering more possible murders and questions if he really was guilty as charged. He also finds time , seemingly, a link to start an emerging relationship with death during the provost's troubled, but beautiful, daughterSecond World War. Is But is there really a link between the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connecteddeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp0008517061|title=Among ThievesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990Former Metropolitan Police detective, some valuable paintings were stolen from Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in Boston together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the United States. The police investigation failed to find them future she wants for herself and many felt they were lost forever. But soon her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the paintings present and their whereabouts would be impacting putting the future on many people's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>the back burner.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1786482126|title=Dark EntriesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=The producers Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of Dark Entriesa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, the latest hit reality TV show, are worriedDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Yes the six housemates are thereIt's difficult as Ruth knows, present and correctbut Nelson doesn't, and are ready to be scared witless en route to that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new homenight they spent together some three months ago. They are already being scared witlessHer condition will be obvious before long, by phantoms - but that's nothing not least because Ruth is prone to do with the TV producerssudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Baldacci0008551324|title=True BlueThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie Meldon, ex-criminal-defence attorney, now in private practice, leaves his office very late one nightIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. HeNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's met by prepared to tell the FBIpolice where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon This person, he promises, is dead in a dumpstersomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Mace Perry And what he wants is working out, trying to stay fit, trying be transferred to stay sane, trying an open prison to stay alive long enough serve the remainder of his sentence and to get out jail in a couple of days' timean early parole date. Perry was a cop. Not much to ask, is it? Under-cover, maverick The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and darn good at her job. Until she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and sent downanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas0008405026|title=The Chalk Circle ManA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet JeanIt's sixteen years since nine-year-Baptiste Adamsbergold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. An unlikely police commissaireNow, her mother, he's an acquired taste for his colleaguesHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. ShortInitially, ungainly, seemingly thinking it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the most obtuse things in his pursuit positioning of the truth, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes -shut case is now a surprisingly perceptive ability to find complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the culprit explanation lies in whatever crime he is forced to solveRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Rowden0571379877|title=More Deaths Than OneThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Constable Thomas 'Thorny' Deepbriar has Edward Jevons is a broken leg after working-class young man, obsessed with his involvement in upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a case and so is taken by his wifetheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Marydemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to recuperate run errands for him. Edward has been in the seaside town where love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he worked as feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a policeman during the war. He expects to be bored - the relationship had begun between them but he's not like most interesting thing on the horizon men: Edward is a case of missing gnomes. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left to stumble upon the force two of them kissing in a haze of suspiciondark passageway. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GraftonJo Callaghan|title=U is for UndertowLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined When a funny little book group man is found crucified on the top of a hill in LondonNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, and one of the AI detective Lock. It's their first books we read was a Sue Grafton alphabet booklive case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. I had, up to this point, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such booksBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and so I was dubious about what I'd have a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to say about ittheir AI Future Policing project. That book changed my literary life. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for all Will they be able to solve the other books case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the series case and read them quickly, one by onepotentially, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world out of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading list. And so now, years later, I find myself with the latest book in the alphabet series lying in my lap, a happy smile on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1035021803|title=DishonourThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to get her own law firm the English country village where she grew up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency to be a trifle too . She''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is s back now because of a boy request for help from the sink estatesher beloved aunt, Carole. ThinFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, angryArthur Crockleford, rebelliousis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, but with an ability to charm and a serious talent for art that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girlssay the least. Hard-workingArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, sobershe feels, appropriately dressedlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, dutiful she has not felt able to their familiesbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. They're also English teenagersAfter the split, with she worked in a fair dose of what that normally implies. Jack is a coppercafe, overlooked for the interesting cases met and married James (like murder), good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted to on the job, always trying to do rebound from the right thinglove of her life, who was murdered) and not always succeeding. His current clean-living Freya and caring attitude is driving Lily to distractionJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1398524085|title=Maxwell's RetirementHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something of a dinosaur s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and even he realises just how far adrift he her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is when some not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. He might prefer It was an easy assumption for the police to make a phone call or send a note that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when the need arises, but this isnhe couldn't stand the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that heguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problemlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler1529900360|title=MercyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In some waysIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the first line help of this novel says a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it all: 'Itwas Robin, Delaware's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hourspartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again.' From this moment on, She knew that the involvement was something that the action comes thick and fastman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, leaving though. Two lovers were murdered in the reader with barely swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the breath heir to murmer 'an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it really probable that all this 's not the Italian. But which of them was left to the last dayprimary target?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactory. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall178763681X|title=The DisappearedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valleya way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow's now some months later and whilst she's settled into got the impression that he'd be at the job school to some extent her relationship with her officerassist Paul, Alisonwho had a broken arm, is uneven but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and shethe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care t expected was for someone to admitturn up dead. She's a feisty woman though Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and determined everyone knows that she's going the police consider that person to do be the job properlyprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1529421284|title=CapturedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just as he's barely turning fortyIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. As In a result he compiles gully, a short list of rights human skeleton came to wrong, the surface and people forensic testing proved the body to create closure withbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. OneHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, his ex-wife, might not be easy, two concern so it could have been a misguided sense simple case of a guilt of oldmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The fourth turns Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to be a missing womanthe suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The journey he takes in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamish's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529425867|title=The Merry MisogynistLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is now married to Madame Daeng of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and despite the fact that they have father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a combined age trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of going on for a hundred shell suits and forty theytrackies. They're behaving like the newly-weds they areusually in lime green or acid yellow. Even You might wonder if you're being the reluctant coroner introduced to a police procedural written for the Republic of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for lifelaughs. Well, it canyou't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts re not. The two men are just different sides of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treessame policing coin. What he does to his victims leaves Sometimes the morgue staff sickenedcombination works brilliantly well. ThereSometimes it's a determination to find the man responsible and bring him to justiceproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529431735|title=A Hard DeathThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayess February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on return all the inside cover of the book is impressivemore surprising. My expectations were high. All He'd been exiled on the ingredients are in place Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a good thrillerdecade. The location is The Everglades in Floridareturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. BroodingIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, enigmatic, awe-inspiring stripped to his underwear and where we all seem sent to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out a watery grave in the boot of the swampy waters every five minutesa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0861541774|title=Curse A Nye of the Pogo StickPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to control his reactions meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally a street brawl - he would later maintain that he forgot himself and was more insolent than usual. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on facing a road trip man armed with the judge a knife - and the Justice Departmenthe killed a Ghurka. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and marriedInitially, although not in the usual order he faced a charge of events) is left manslaughter but evidence came to run light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not man. Now he could be a help, but probably not in facing the way that you might expectdeath penalty. As if that wasnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappedhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1521129886|title=Bad Penny BluesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiespoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Bad Penny Bluess a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they' is re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the story of baby when she gets past the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the west of the city-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean who's struggling to make ends meet and Irelandher son is not thriving. Lucy, bohemian artists and media typeshe says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and even peers. Carnaby Street the coroner have accepted that the death was just becoming suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances FyfieldB0CK3MYJ56|title=Cold to the TouchResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereIt's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlythe 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a coldprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', dark London morningyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, shebut where's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing been asked to do with herlook into something. Jess is a talented chef but sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's short of work – the occasion when she emptied been written off as a tureen of soup over the host tragic accident at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedan unmanned level crossing. Sarah senses Joyce - and her vulnerabilityparents, but itOliver and Pam Hetherington - can's Jess who organises the let t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of one of her mothera train. Greg's cottages in the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent firebeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1838954481|title=Bloody WomenThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''Bloody Women'', I hadn't heard s no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the author Helen Fitzgerald murder and by the title manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and blurb, I expected hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a standard crime-thriller novel. But early missing teenager is found on, I realised this wasnher territory she't the case. The novel was s drawn into a kind of black comedy and written with wit wider investigation - and humour, despite back into the theme orbit of murder and violenceRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1448309743|title=The Bodies Left BehindDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them In the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought an old colonial house in village of Cronchie on the woods by Lake Mondac in WisconsinWest coast of Scotland, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal five members of a lifetimewealthy family are found murdered. But on their first evening in The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the placestone is removed from Otterburn House, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outdeath will follow. They know they The only suspects are known Satanists but in real trouble when a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and the only hope they have is many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that someone will take notice two of Steventhem 'discovered's phone call to the policebody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, cut off by the intruders after he DCI Christine Caplan is able pulled in to get out only one word – This'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529077699|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Diane Janes|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart''It's all bloody peculiar, one in the south-east and the other in the north-east. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each otherisn't it, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt. The author has investigated the connection and come up with a riveting book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529427045|title=Tooth and ClawThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deaths. Carl Whittley ''Life has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter more to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau offer than people - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. Heprime numbers for example'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>}}
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