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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->  {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=BorderlineThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Lawrence BlockAnn Cleeves|rating=25

|summary=I can imagine 't have been the scene back in 1950s America. The Hays Code only person who was at full force meaning that movies where forced sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to dull their more exuberant edgesstart a new life on Orkney. Comic books had It's been vilified seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as perverting well as Cassie, the minds daughter of the youth; horror had turned to All American Superheroeshis former partner. That left the hidden Dime NovelWillow's also his boss, a book you could pick up for only 10 cents to revel in its vicarious pleasures. Anyone could don an old Macintosh coat and pick up something like Lawrence Block’s ‘Borderline’she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a book that purports to be crime noirpopular islander, Archie Stout, but is something very different indeedfound, in the aftermath of a storm, she 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>1783290579</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Complex 90Ultimate Obsession|author=Mickey Spillane and Max Allan CollinsDai Henley|rating=3.54

|summary=If you ever decide to revisit the Film Noir genre of the 40s and 50s may I suggest ‘Kiss Me Deadly’Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, a pretty looney film about a shining briefcase and the maverick PI sent out to recover ithe should be doing quite well financially. This Private Investigator was none other than Mike HammerUnfortunately, star of his daughter's defence against a series of books written by Mickey Spillanemurder charge drained his savings. UnfortunatelyHis wife, Spillane is no longer with usLaura, but before his death he gave some unfinished manuscripts has been trying to persuade him to prolific crime writer Max Allan Collinsretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. ‘Complex 90’ is That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the result of one state of their collaborations and you may be glad savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to know take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that it convinces him that this is almost as insane as the moviea miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689770</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1529934753|title=Hour of Darkness: A Bob Skinner MysteryThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=The naked body of For a woman little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was washed not going to show up on an island for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the Firth nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of Forthwhom filmed what happened. The mutilation had obviously come from a ship's propeller Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but the result it was fortunate that there was no means a record of identificationthe protest. Several days later detectives were called Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to a flat spray Bruce in Edinburgh: a meter reader had found the kitchen covered in blood and it wasnface, whilst shouting ''t long before a connection was made between Stop the missing occupant of the property and the unidentified bodyWar''. The name - Isabella Spreckley It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue- didnface't ring immediate bells attacks, but she this was different. The can had been Bella Watson laced with cyanide, and that was a name which many people, not least Bob Skinner, would have preferred not to hear again - even if she Sir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357027</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=A Dark And Twisted TideWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Sharon BoltonNeil Lancaster

|summary=Lacey FlintLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. Lacey is She''soft d looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and prettysensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do'; Flint explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008643660|title=The Burial Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it'sharp s idyllic and hardsome of the excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Lacey Flint is all of those things.  She is alsoJake Jackson, nowa former police detective, is trying to lead a Constable in the Metsimpler life at Little Sky but he's Marine Unitinevitably drawn in to investigate. Lacey had fought hard against whatever traumas lie in her past to get into Reading the police forceletters, and harder still it's difficult to get into plain clothes. A couple of years as a DC were enough to make both her avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and her bosses think it was all way too much for hereven the local police are keen that Jake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593069188</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De Cataldo1529425905|title=JudgesA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IThere'll confess that it was the name 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 she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of [[:Category:Andrea Camilleri|Andrea Camilleri]] which brought me Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to this bookDiane and has twin sons. IManagement'm a long-time fan s opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his Inspector Montalbano series and last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a recent reading of a spintrailer park -off [[Montalbanoin fact, it could be said that he's First Case by Andrea Camilleri|novella]] had proved to me that the concise nature of his full-length novels was no flukenever really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. In Previous management was adamant that he should ''Judgesnever'' we had another novella - worth buying for its own sake - and the bonus of two more stories from better-than-decent Italian authorsbe given responsibility. All Wainwright feels that was needed was a glass she would be best shut of both of wine and a comfortable chairthem. Did the book live up to expectation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052977</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=Bryant and May: The Bleeding HeartDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Christopher FowlerAnn Cleeves

|summary=''A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The Bleeding Heart'' is dead man was Josh - one of the eleventh outing for Fowler's distinctive detectives from care workers who was due to work a shift the Peculiar Case Unitnight before but who had never turned up. If you've been along for the ride so far you'll either have fallen D I Vera Stanhope is called in love with them, or really not be able to see investigate the murder - but her only clue is the joy disappearance of themone of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Either way, Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this review isn't going to tell you anything you don't already know, other than, yes, Fowleris unlikely as the girl's still on formdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Forgive me then, if I address the rest of my thoughts She knows that she has to find Chloe to those who've yet discover what happened to stumble into the is backwater of the Metropolitan PoliceJosh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522035</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Jaquiery1529428289|title=The Lying-Down Room A Grave in the Woods (Commandant Serge MorelA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=There is a reason why everyone who can leave Paris in August does so: Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it's swelteringly hot and deeply unpleasantcame with three sets of bones. Commandant Serge Morel They dated back to World War II and his assistantit fell to Bruno, Lila Markov don't have the choice and Chief of Police for St Denis, to add to their problems they're short-staffed. The murder discover the identities of the old woman seemed strange from the beginning: she was frail, inoffensive but she'd apparently been drowned bodies and then laid out with care, garishly made up and adorned with establish whether or not a red wigcrime had been committed. The bed sheet was tucked in tightly around herAs if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Why would anyone want to murder her? And why was FauréIt's ''Requiem'' playing whilst not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the murderer worked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447244419</amazonuk>possibility of a devastating flood.

{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley ThomsonB0CYV674G2|title=Ghost GirlSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake

|summary=We first met Stella Darnell It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in [[The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson|The Detective's Daughter]] mud and blood - and carrying a book which seemed to take everyone by surprise. I didnknife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't expect to meet her again but killed the man. A body at the bottom of a year after her fatherfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death Stella hasn't moved on. She's still visiting DCI John Tanner is just back from his house regularly and cleaning it as though he could return any day. Cleaning is what she does best - and she runs her own cleaning company. Her father was Terry Darnellhoneymoon, Detective Chief Superintendent at Hammersmith police station and there's a folder which coincided with the birth of photographs in his darkroomdaughter Samantha. TheyYou would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse're all unlabeled and they're of deserted streetsJohn Tanner' were made for each other. Is a crime involved He's sleep- and why are deprived to the photographs point of falling asleep at Terrywork but he's home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857679</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Claire Kendal|title=The Book of You|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Clarissa is 38, secretary determined to a university department head and just emerging from a broken relationship. Rafe also works for the university, wants Clarissa and Clarissa wants him. Hekeep going - probably because he can's absolutely certain she does, no matter how vehemently she denies it, no matter how fast she runst get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dog Will Have His DayStuart Douglas|authortitle=Fred VargasLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|summary=Despite losing During location filming for his official post1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Louis Kehlweiler still has leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the contacts, dead body of a woman on the drive, and seemingly nothing else to do, to keep him solving crimesedge of a reservoir. While using a certain park bench The police seem happy to trail a potentially suspect connection between someone nefarious assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a politician's relativefellow actor, he finds something else John Le Breton to spark his interesthelp him investigate matters further. WhereThey travel across the country during their days off filming, hours beforeuncovering more possible murders and, there had just been dog messseemingly, now there is also a human toe bonelink to death during the Second World War. Clearly But is there is really a crime, although nobody link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is reporting anything like having a half a toe missing. But not even he could predict what the simple legwork of trailing passing dog-owners would lead to…responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846558190</amazonuk>1803368209

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes0008517061|title=Promises to Keep: A Short StoryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Jo is haunted by Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the death future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a teenage asylum seeker whilst lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in police custody and she only hangs on with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her fragile sanity by running. Whilst she's out in reservations about whether or not this is the woods (where future she'd been warned that she ''really'' shouldn't go) she discovered a young boy living rough wants for herself and she knew that she had to do everything in her power to keep him safe. There were complications. daughter? Her partner was DS Sam Hollands who had a direct involvement with asylum seekers - and For the boy living rough moment they’re enjoying life in the woods was present and putting the younger brother of future on the dead teenager. Sam wanted to get her relationship with Jo back onto an even keel, but one night she returned from work to find a stranger in her houseburner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00I9GXP2M</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1786482126|title=Speaking from Among the BonesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary=Many eleven year olds would be excited at Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the thought of a site was going to hold seventy-five'luxury' apartments -hundred-year-old tomb being opened to (hopefully) reveal when they discovered the bones of the local saint, but Flavia de Luce had what might almost be called a professional interestchild beneath a doorway. Before the opening of the tomb she'd been associated with four dead bodies (to say that she There was instrumental in solving the murders sounds just no skull. Was this a little too much like ''bragging'ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It' s difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't it?) but this time , that she really wasn't expecting to find Mr Collicut, is pregnant with his child as a result of the church organist who had been missing for six weeksone night they spent together some three months ago. Still Her condition will be obvious before long, there he was, dead - and wearing a gas masknot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409118185</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Welsh0008551324|title=A Lovely Way to Burn The Devil You Know (Plague Times Trilogy 1D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=The summer of It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the great heat wave other. But Davie Hardie is also struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the summer body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Stevie thought nothing of This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the three establishment pillars turned snipers; the news just didn't registerpolice doing what he wants. Then And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the illness came: plague-like symptoms sweeping across the worldremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. When StevieNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's boyfriend dies itt think so and she's easy to put it down even prepared to do the pandemic but Stevie has a hunch other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and she won't stop till sheanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's followed it, no matter what happens or who tries to stop herhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546513</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's 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 halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=Water MusicThe Kellerby Code|author=Margie OrfordJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4

|summary=Cassie When a man is out riding found crucified on the top of a bridle path hardly used hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the height of summercase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, totally deserted in winterhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her horse takes But when there is a tumblesecond body found crucified a few days later, and she goes Kat is suddenly struggling with it, a potential serial killer and stumbles into a tinyvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, plastic-wrapped childor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, maybe three-years oldpotentially, and painfully thin, foot-soles like marble and skin blue with cold.out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781857849</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=PoppetThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Mo HayderC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=DI Jack Caffrey It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been around back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for a while nowhelp from her beloved aunt, I just havenCarole. Freya't previously stumbled into his deep dark world. This s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the sixth in circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the series of books featuring reason why Freya had not been back to the plain clothed Detective Inspector of Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Teamvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but you don't need she has not felt able to have read any of be near the man or pursue the others to enjoy - if enjoy is profession she loved. After the right word - this split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (not quite on the rebound from thelove of her life, who was murdered) latest offeringand Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857500767</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1398524085|title=The Dead in Their Vaulted ArchesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=Flavia de Luce Charlotte 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 nearly twelve not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but shethere's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's grown up without 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 presence help of her mother a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who is presumed to have died nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a mountaineering accident remote property in Tibet when Flavia was just a babyBel Air. The loss has left its mark on He was the family: Colonel de Luce heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is a broken married to an extremely rich man and as it 's not the Italian. But which of them was Harriet who owned the family home - Buckshaw - theyprimary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn've lived in t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a financial limboway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. But now HarrietPaul ''somehow''s body has been found and we join got the family as itimpression that he's brought back d be at the school to the village on assist Paul, who had a train commissioned by the governmentbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The great teaching - and the good problems - are there - including Winston Churchill - but thereall his own. The one thing he hadn's also a mysterious deatht expected was for someone to turn up dead. And Unfortunately, he was the man person who has died whispered a warning discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to Flavia just before he went under the wheels of be the trainprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409118193</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie1529421284|title=The Madness of JulyLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A dead body is found It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a Houses of Parliament broom cupboard on heatwave. In a gully, a hot 1970s summer dayhuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. A sinister enough event normally He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concernsDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The fact the deceased has Will's phone number in his pocket triggers Geary was a series of events that not only tests his loyalty townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to work, country and family but will take Will from the everyday political cut suicide of Holly Gilbert and thrust to his old jobtwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The job he hoped heLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that'd walked away from: spyings cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Purser1529425867|title=Scandal at Six: Lost and Never Found (A Lois Meade D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=Lois Meade leads a busy lifeIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. As if running her own cleaning company isnHe't sufficient she can never resist doing s white, originated from a bit of trailer park, barely educated (reading's not 'ferretin' really'' when something strange happens in the village his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Long Farndenshell suits and trackies. SheThey's so good that local re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police inspector Hunter Cowgill is only too pleased to involve her as his assistantprocedural written for laughs. Mind Well, you, it probably helps that Cowgill is very fond of Lois and his nephew (also a policeman) is married to Lois' daughter, Josiere not. This time, local zookeeper, Robert Pettinson and his nephew, Justin Brookes The two men are involved in trading endangered animals and theyjust different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it'd prefer that Lois and her family kept their noses out of their businesss problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>042526176X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Craig1529431735|title=A Man of Sorrows: An Inspector Carlyle NovelThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54

|summary=Inspector John Carlyle has a lot on his plate. His attack on a paedophile priest left Father McGowan injured It's February 1991 and angry and Carlyle in a vulnerable position. The fact that the Pope Essex is due to visit ups the political pressure and brings Carlyle into conflict with his old nemesis, Christian Holyrodbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Mayor of Londonmore surprising. Then there He's d been exiled on the armed robbery at Costa del Sol as a very upmarket Mayfair jeweller when tens of millions of pounds worth of stock goes missing - along with one of the assistantswanted drug smuggler for a decade. Normally The return has come about because he'd have s had some support a letter from his bossex-wife, but saying that she's on secondment in Canada ill and the man replacing her has great hopes for Carlyle - mainly that he can get him dismissedhasn't long to live. Then CarlyleIt's wife has hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a serious health scare and his daughter is growing up ''very'' faststolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100417</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Hogan0861541774|title=A Pleasure and a CallingNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Estate agent William Heming DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has got it righttaken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He owns Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a successful estate agency man armed with a knife - and yet isn't too noticeablehe killed a Ghurka. He's helpfulInitially, but not in he faced a memorable way. A bit on the beige side perhaps charge of manslaughter but that’s just the way he likes it, living a life evidence came to light that suggested that assists society. Take the time he entered might have planned to murder the home of the gentleman who refused to clear up his dog's leavings for instance. It's ok – Heming didn't break inman. He already has the key as Now he once sold could be facing the housedeath penalty. How many of his former clientsDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn' keys has he actually kept, you wonder? The answer's easy: t help Danny at all of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Wilson1521129886|title=The RiotThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=DI Stratton has moved Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a new posting good job too because Greg and Notting Hill is fresh territory to him, but he’s going to Joyce will soon have to get to know it fast when a rent collector is stabbedbaby and they're both delighted. There’s a sense of loss from Joyce will be more delighted about the people who knew baby when she gets past the man morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in- he was inclined law appears to help if he could and with landlords wanting to oust rent-controlled tenants so that they could put ‘coloured’ people or prostitutes in their place (higher rents, you see) any help was welcomehave killed himself. Added Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to this there are increasing numbers of street fights involving teddy boysmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. It’s 1958 Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and there’s a heatwavethe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063080</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Atheist's PrayerResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Amy R BiddleAnn Macarthur|rating=3.54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors It's the 1990s and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. On He used to have a high-flying job in the surface city but it wasn't satisfying so he'The Atheist’s Prayers now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike' would seem to , you might be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? Butthinking. Nice bloke, is it really but where's the life experience that shockingbacks up this profession? NopeOn the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. This is Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a story about how people deal with the modern world tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what happens when dangerous ideals infect she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a vulnerable grouptrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Mark1838954481|title=Original SkinThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54

|summary=DS Aector McAvoy was rather hoping that he might be getting Ryan Kennedy killed a reputation for his investigative skills but when we first meet him in ''Original Skin'' itpolice officer: there's his ability with animals which is to the foreno doubt about that. If you want a runaway horse stopping then he's your manHe was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He's distracted about something else too: whilst other detectives are working on a case which involves travellers and violent drug-related crime he's unable pulled the trigger but due to get the case vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of Simon Appleyard out both the murder and the manslaughter of his mindthe officer. And so lives must go on. Simon was deeply into For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the swinging scene capital and liked to live hoping for a quieter life to in the full, so why did this slender young man with the peacock feathers tattooed countryside but when a missing teenager is found on his her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back commit suicide one morning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389785</amazonuk>into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Beckett1448309743|title=The Devil Stone Bruises(DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=When we meet Sean it's obvious that he's In the village of Cronchie on the runWest coast of Scotland, but it will be five members of a long time before we find out what fromwealthy family are found murdered. He's driving, in France and he knows The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that he has to get rid of if the carstone is removed from Otterburn House, but when he does so he finds himself in far worse difficulty. Cutting across farmland he puts his foot in a metal mantrap and can't free himselfdeath will follow. The damage to his foot is considerable and he soon loses consciousness - only suspects are known Satanists but when he comes to he's in the hayloft at the farmmany ways, being looked after by the farmerthat's elder daughteran easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The farmer Senior Investigating Office is definitely not pleased DCI Bob Oswald but when he finds outdisappears, the younger daughter DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a mantrap in her own right and thereto 'shadow's a lot of animosity against the family in the local villagehim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073282</amazonuk>

Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=This Dark Road to MercyThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Wiley CashKarin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=Easter Quilby is twelve years old''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. She and her sister Ruth are The criminal underworld has not been slow in a childrencoming forward. Salander's niece's home. Not so long ago they woke up to find their mother slouched across is the bed, deadlatest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. Drink and drugs and It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a hard, sad life had finally got to her, or maybe remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her body just gave up on it. Their father, Wade Chesterfield, sometime baseball star, had lit out on them three years earlier's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752223X</amazonuk>