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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Mette Ivie HarrisonDai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Bishop's WifeProtest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Linda WallheimFor a little while, to it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most who know herfamous living artist, seems a woman who has everythingwas not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Loving mother to five beautiful childrenStill, devoted Mormonhe arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and kindhearted wife six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a Mormon Bishoprecord of the protest. Lexi Williams, she lives an intern at the centre RA, grabbed a spray can of her community blue paint from under a chair and has little proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be unhappy aboutpart of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954760</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammy Cohen0008551375|title=Dying for ChristmasWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The book starts off promisingly enough with an introduction by JessicaLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the narratorresult of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, who informs us that when she is imprisoned by a stranger who is handsome and charming and extremely sadistic. Jessica then recounts the events leading up to and during posted her incarceration, which takes place over the Christmas periodintentions on Facebook. Her jailerfriends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, Dominic, has prepared twelve presents for but it looked like she was living herbest 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 sensible people. None of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and each present-opening episode builds up 'what a sense of dread while providing stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a deepening understanding of killer on the sinister and bitter mind at work. Genuinely creepy stuffloose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Otto Penzler (editor)0008643660|title=The Big Book of Christmas MysteriesBurial Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nostalgia is A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the excavations are being televised. There's even a big part hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the Christmas experience, finders and thatthe landowner. It's provided in sack-loads by this hefty tome of short storiesperfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Sherlock Holmes Jake Jackson, Hercule Poirot and Brother Cadfael jostle Morsea former police detective, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski for space on these tightly packed pagesis trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the letters, while lesser known and long since forgotten writers furnish new it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and unexpected pleasures for even the most well-read of book wormslocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phillip Hunter1529425905|title=To Kill For A Voice in the Night (The Killing MachineA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=** Contains There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she'To Die Fors 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' spoilers**Ex Falkland Campaign para Joe is out for revengere both called DI Wilkins. Brenda, a woman he could have lovedRay Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, is murdered Baliol educated and Joe himself may have been the one forced to kill Kid, an abused young girl healways immaculately dressed. He'd sworn s married to protectDiane and has twin sons. Joe will find 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 name behind the deaths and make sure they too suffer fatallywet end'. The only thing isRyan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's never really left it. He lives in a world of fluctuating loyalties shell suits and deceittracksuits, he may not survive long enough to carry out his ambition, even if he always in vivid colours. Previous management was the only one searching… But adamant that heshould 's not! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185338X</amazonuk>'never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529077745|authortitle=Herve Le Corre and Frank Wynne The Dark Wives (TranslatorD I Vera Stanhope)|titleauthor=Talking to GhostsAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=French Police Commandant Pierre Vilar's young son Pablo went missing A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a while ago but he believes him care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to be alive; work a belief that has wrecked his marriageshift the night before but who had never turned up. Meanwhile elsewhereD I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, 13fourteen-year-old Victor comes home to a brutally murdered motherChloe Spencer. Is there a connection between these two tragedies? ThatSome people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's something diary makes it clear that Vilar is desperate she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find out, no matter what he has Chloe to do or discover what it does happened to himJosh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052063</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Doiron 1529428289|title=Massacre PondA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What is best Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the great outdoors? grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. Is leaving They dated back to World War II and it fell to nature is Bruno, the most sustainable option or does hunting help Chief of Police for St Denis, to protect discover the ecosystem? identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. Each group has opposing viewpoints and are unlikely As if this isn't enough to reach common groundworry about, therefore someone the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is going to flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to stand between release water and St Denis faces the two 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 them 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 make sure nothing bad happensshe was dead within minutes. Something like murderIt was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1472114655</amazonuk>Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CamilleriStuart Douglas|title=The Fourth Secret (Inspector Montalbano)Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning an Albanian construction worker - a legal resident with a work permit - fell from scaffolding and was dead when During location filming for his co-workers found him. What struck Montalbano was that there had been rather a lot of what were described as 1970's sitcom 'tragedies in the workplaceFloggit and Leggit'' - six in , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the last month, in fact, although he was sure that there would be statistics to prove that this was not abnormal within dead body of a woman on the EUedge of a reservoir. Strictly The police seem happy to assign it wasn't his case to deal withas an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he received an anonymous letter telling enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him that Pashko Puka was going to be killedinvestigate matters further. Admittedly They travel across the letter arrived ''after'' country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the death due to Second World War. But is there really a malfunction in link between the local postal system, but it did mean that it was difficult deaths? And will they manage to think of the death as a 'tragic accident'.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00NOC5JFW</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey0008517061|title=The KillDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I'm quite picky with crime fiction. This oversaturated market seems to teem with mediocre products. There are thrillers with excellent plots that are are badly writtenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, some that contain masterful prose but areJake Johnson, wellhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky... boring There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and others that are so farher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-fetched that I end up throwing 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 future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the book away moment they’re enjoying life in disgust. I read Jane Casey′s highly enjoyable stand-alone [[The Missing by Jane Casey|The Missing]] several years ago. ''The Kill'' was my first foray into her Maeve Kerrigan series the present and I was keen to see how it would stand upputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194838X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1786482126|title=UnmannedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Librarian Penny Knight was surprised when she came home on day and found a jacket belonging to her twin brother Joseph hanging Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the hall. He site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'supposed'' to be in Moscow for six months, working as apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a croupierdoorway. When she went through to the lounge he There was lying on the sofa and her immediate reaction was that he was playing no skull. Was this a trick on her - until she got closer and realised that there was something dreadfully wrong. ritual killing or murder? And then she saw the bloodInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. His last words were that he was innocent - and It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she should look for is pregnant with his child as a necklace in his jacket pocketresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. He died Her condition will be obvious before he reached hospital. Penny and her parents were devastated - and then they realised that they were being watchedlong, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767854</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Holt0008551324|title=The Lion's MouthDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the first Anne Holt novel that I have read and I am going back police. Neither side likes or has any respect for morethe other. Jo Nesbo But Davie Hardie is quoted describing Holt as struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the Godmother police where the body of modern Norwegian crime fiction' a missing person is buried and judging only from identikit cover design – grey mistwho was responsible for her death. This person, lonelinesshe promises, treacherous ice, snow-encrusted gun, red typeface is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to hint at fresh blood – readers could be forgiven for expecting another volume transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of semihis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -standardised Scandinavian noirmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|authortitle=A D GarrettStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=Believe No OneJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons in St Louis, just as Nick plannedIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Fennimore and Simms have worked together in the UK when Nick's wife She was murdered never found and daughter kidnapped. In fact they were together the night they first went missing having investigation ground to a less than professional dinnerhalt. Nick's daughter is still missing but while he follows new leadsNow, her mother, Helena, he and Kate have other things to work onher father are dead in their bed. St Louis has Initially, it looks like a serial killer to contend with: straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the victims are all mothers bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and their children are taken at the same timeher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try What looked as though it was going to make everyone else see thembe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Whether his tactics work or not remains to be seenKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith0571379877|title=Troubled Waters: An Alice Rice MysteryThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When [[The Road to Hell: An Alice Rice Mystery by Gillian Galbraith|we left]] DI Alice Rice she was newly widowedEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, but time has moved on a little Robert and sheStanza. Robert's thinking about what to do with her lifea theatre director. Professionally sheHe's more settled also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and now faced with an investigation into a body washed up on the foundations of the new bridge that's being built across the Forth. Establishing the identity of the young woman is the first problem entitled and this leads Rice back uses Edward to members of a religious sect with some very strange rulesrun errands for him. And then a second body - that of a young man Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - is washed up on a beach and ithe's difficult not drunkenly confided how he feels to assume that thereRobert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a connection relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the twoof them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BarrieJo Callaghan|title=Tight-LippedLeave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very 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, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a little bit different in twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the UK but in Paris intellectuals are lauded in much the same way as rock starsEnglish country village where she grew up. Jean-Jacques Marsay is She's back now because of a philosopher and equally as famous as his wiferequest for help from her beloved aunt, the beautiful and talented actress, Carine DufourCarole. Marsay is writing a book about Freya's former mentor and Carole'Appoghiu Terra'' - an eco-terrorist organisation - s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and its leader Gabriel Agostinithe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. His editor is Virginie Desmoulins - or rather Arthur was - because Virginie was murdered at the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her flat in a rather unusual waydown badly. The case is being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin of the ''Brigade Criminelle'' and he and Agostini have a history. Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin was with his previous employersEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the French version of man or pursue the security servicesprofession she loved. He was moved After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on to the ''Brigade Criminelle'' when it rebound from the love of her life, who was thought that he might murdered) and Freya and James have become just a little too sympathetic to Agostini - and Agostini to himnow divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Morris1398524085|title=The Wolves of London - The Obsidian Heart Trilogy (Book 1)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Carthage Charlotte Salter was what you might call 'backwoodsexpected at her husband' s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and there wasn't really her daughter, Etty. are all that much to do thereworried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. For recreationShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, hunting probably came top find the body of the list and John Greg'Duke' Warren went for an early morning duck shoot before going to work. Whilst s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the shoot he heard two shots from an adjoining blind and on the way out saw the car of a fellow shoot memberriver. It was only later an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he found out that the shots had caused couldn't stand the death of Dan Robertsguilt. At first it looked like suicide, The Salter children are not convinced but Warren and the police realised that itthere's not often that suicide victims shoot themselves twicelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649116</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=Black NoiseThe Ghost Orchid|author=Pekka HiltunenJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was just one of them quirky internet things reluctant to begin withask for his help on difficult cases. Empty videos appearing on His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the internethelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Dark expanses of time: no imagesFinally, it was Robin, no sound. TheyDelaware'd been uploaded from hacked accounts: teenagers s partner, who didn't know anything about it or about each othernudged 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. There Two lovers were ten murdered in the swimming pool of them altogethera remote property in Bel Air. If He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it had stopped there it would have been one of those 9-days-wonders of 's not the webItalian. An oddity talked about for years, freaking a few people out, but sinking, ultimately without much trace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843915227</amazonuk>But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leif G W Persson178763681X|title=Falling Freely, As If In A DreamKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2007 Lars Martin Johansson, the head of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden, was approaching retirement and he had one unsolved case which he would dearly love to clear: the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in 1986Belgravia. Palme, without bodyguards, He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had left a cinema in central Stockholm with his wife way of getting both men and was walking home when women to do what he was shot in the backwanted. He died almost instantly and his wife suffered Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a minor injurybroken arm, whilst but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the assassin sprinted away into the people milling around in the cityproblems - are all his own. There were witnesses The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to the killing and people who saw the killer as he escapedturn up dead. Some time after the death a man was convicted of the murderUnfortunately, but he was later cleared the person who discovered the body and more than twenty years later everyone knows that the identity of police consider that person to be the killer is still a mysteryprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385614217</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=This Little PiggyLaying Out the Bones|author=Bea DavenportKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In 1984 I turned two years olda gully, unconcerned by what a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the miners were up body to and more impressed by being served two different drinks at once at my birthday partybe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. I He've seen the photos. For Clare Jacksond been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, though, the summer so it could have been a simple case of 1984 changes everythingmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. A small town journalist Geary was a townie, she gets so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the stuff dreams are made suicide of: a murder on her patch, Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the murder of a baby, no lesstime. Set against the backdrop Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the miners’ strike Major Crimes Review Unit (the baby belongs that's cold cases to one of the scabs), it’s a tense time on the troubled Sweetmeadows estate you and she's not the only one who needs a drink or two (like my 2 year old selfme) to get through itinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909878618</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell1529425867|title=Race to Death Lost and Never Found (DI Ian Peterson 2A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man falls to his death at York racesIn Oxford, with the wind whistling past his ears indistinguishable from the roar there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the crowdNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. But D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is the death suicide or murder? not. He's not any of those things. For newly-promoted DI Ian Peterson the pressure is on He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his team need wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to solve a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the case quicklysame policing coin. Unfortunately Sometimes the killer is also following events as they unfoldcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843442930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=Black ChalkThe Winter Visitor|author=Christopher J YatesJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I think I have finally understood why it It's February 1991 and Essex is that over bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the last few years, authors have increasingly insisted more surprising. He'd been exiled on non-linear structures the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for their novelsa decade. It is The return has come about because he's had a deliberate letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and possibly conscious ploy hasn't long to try to make them un-filmablelive. The Hollywood rights are certainly lucrative, but if my theory doesnIt't leak like the Jumblies' boat then our complex-structure-loving writers are not just being too clever for their own goods hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, they are trying stripped to be true his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the great works boot of literature that they aspire a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to emulate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581620</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=Bitterwash RoadA Nye of Pheasants|author=Gary DisherSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Shots fired on Bitter Wash RoadDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, is the call that comes has taken a short holiday inSingapore to meet up with an old ally, three weeks after Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he arrivedkilled a Ghurka. Hirsch is the only cop in town Initially, so obviously it's up he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to him light that suggested that he might have planned to try to figure out exactly where 'murder the tin hut' might man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and discover whether this is just a local looking for rabbit stew or something more sinisterwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079243</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Harvey1521129886|title=Darkness, Darkness: Resnick's Last CaseThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItGreg Mason's difficult just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to believe that it's thirty years since the minerspoint where he' strike, not least because a lot of the enmities still live onll warn someone about how much he charges. It wasn't so much that it was the miners against the government s 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 police as baby when she gets past the fact that it was neighbour against neighbour morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in- and sometimes the problem was within a familylaw appears to have killed himself. The Nottinghamshire miners were less militant than some of their northern counterparts - Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and many continued to workher son is not thriving. And so Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it was simply wasn't in Bledwell Valehis nature. The pit there was just about played out police and the coroner have accepted that the death was scheduled for closure, so many men were continuing to worksuicide, despite the picketing. Six months after the end of the strike the pit did close, but there was no magic solution for Bledwell Vale and thirty years Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on another row of the old Coal Board houses was being demolished when the skeleton of a woman was discoverednight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590956</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Help for the HauntedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=John SearlesAnn Macarthur|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Rose It's the 1990s and Sylvester Greg Mason make their living from helping 's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the hauntedcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', performing exorcisms and running seminars across America on you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the subject of life experience that backs up this profession? On the paranormalother hand, he has been asked to look into something. When Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they are murdered were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a churchtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, their daughters, Rose Oliver and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy their work has left behindPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=Criminal EnterpriseThe Misper|author=Owen LaukkanenKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=We all have bills Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to pay the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and many the manslaughter of us have felt the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that shiver down our spine as we realise we may be means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a little short this month. What we don’t do missing teenager is take a scribbled note saying you have a gun found on her territory she's drawn into a bank wider investigation - and force money out of back into the till. For one out-orbit of-work accountant, Carter Tomlin, this is the option he chooses over bankruptcy and one crime leads to anotherRyan Kennedy. Will spiky FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere and laidback local cop Kirk be able to catch this white collar criminal before his cuffs become stained with blood?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393684</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1448309743|title=Remember, RememberThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Constable Nina Foster has just returned to work after after In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a stabbing which nearly killed herwealthy family are found murdered. Everyone - even Nina - thinks The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that she's going to be taking it gently and easing herself back into if the jobstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. She's working on cold cases - this time it's a train crash which happened The only suspects are known Satanists but in 1964 - but what shemany ways, that's an easy conclusion given is just a little ''tamethat two of them 'discovered' compared to the cases which her colleagues are struggling to cope withbody. Drugs deaths and robberies are a lot more immediate, but then - with one of those peculiar quirks of fate - evidence emerges which links the crash which happened half a century ago to the current spate of drug deaths. The woman who Senior Investigating Office is supposed to be taking it easy DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is back pulled in the thick of itto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434392</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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=The Burglar Who Counted The SpoonsGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Lawrence BlockKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The return of Lawrence Block's wonderful burglar, Bernie Rhodenbarr, 9 years after the tenth novel in the series, was my most'Life has more to offer than people -anticipated book release prime numbers for an awfully long timeexample''. It is an absolute pleasure Lisbeth Salander has headed north to report that the character has lost none small town of his charmGasskas, Block's writing is as superb as ever, and where the plot is as ingenious as in any so-far-untapped natural resources of the previous 10area have sparked a gold rush. I say that having reread them all The criminal underworld has not been slow in the twelve months before reading this onecoming forward. This is up there along with Salander's niece'The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart'' as my favourite s mother is the latest woman in the seriesarea to have vanished without trace. For newcomers to It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the series, Ipart Salander played in her father'd definitely recommend starting at the beginning, but if you do want to dive into this one, you definitely can without feeling too losts death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915355X</amazonuk>
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