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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Connolly1035043092|title=The Wolf in Winter Killing Stones (Charlie Parker ThrillerJimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised I can't have been the only person who was sad when JudeInspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a bum new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's befriended now living with Willow Reeves and worked with in their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the past, is found hanged in a basementdaughter of his former partner. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for Willow's also his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship boss, and has just raised over $100 to help find her. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an even odder prospect she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when Annie herself goes missing after heading for the small Maine town body of Prosperous. Charlie decides to drop a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in on the good citizens aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the small town and starts poking beneath the respectable veneer. It doesn’t take him long but there is head with a Neolithic stone - one of a downside: this investigation may have pair - which had been stolen from a body count that includes Charliemuseum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate EllishenleyA|title=The Death Season (Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson)Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
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|summary=When Wesley Peterson was called to investigate the death of Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a man in a hotel room Private Investigator for some time now, and he thought that it was going to should be straightforwarddoing quite well financially. Unfortunately, but then there were the credit cards his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - in different names - and there wasn't a mobile phone'maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He felt guilty 's not been entirely up front about the little time he'd been able state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to spend with take his family (and about case, it's the thought of the fact 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 Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was ever so slightly attracted not going to one show up for the opening of his colleaguesretrospective at the Royal Academy.Still, he arrived in the 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 the job had to come first and it wasn't long before he realised was fortunate that there was a complex history record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the dead man War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and that he Sir Max Bruce was almost certainly a murdererdead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright0008551375|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIIIWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by Leanne Wilson's body was found at the Common Market (which would become bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the European Union in 1993) in Brussels and heresult of a tragic accident. She's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he ''should'' be an interpreter but he seems to be restricted to more administrative dutiesd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. He could refuse the offer he getsHer 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 chance to actually use his expertise in Russianlast year. All were experienced climbers, move across to properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the USA and make 'what a point stupid thing to his employers is just too temptingdo' explanations applied. HeThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's also rather taken by Alexy Geary, a killer on the attractive woman from 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's idyllic and some of the intelligence-gathering agency who makes excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the offer, finders and itthe landowner. It's not long before perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's on his wayinevitably drawn in to investigate. Before he does heReading the letters, it's peripherally involved in a shooting - difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the local police are keen that's not something which usually happens to someone like himJake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc1529425905|title=Forty Days Without ShadowA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from There's a museum new Superintendent in KautokeinoThames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a smallgood talk about work/life balance and family values, isolated village in the middle but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of the snowy tundraNigerian descent, tensions begin Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to rise between the residentsDiane and has twin sons. Local detective Klemet Nango Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and new recruit Nina Nansen are his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called upon to investigate 'the disappearancewet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, whereupon they discover a second crime: a local reindeer herder has been brutally murderedit could be said that he's never really left it. Nina soon suspects that the two events are linked, He lives in shell suits andtracksuits, together with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of secrets, mystery and brutalitythem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi1529077745|title=The Vanished OnesDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Room 13 A man walking his dog in the basement early morning discovered the body of a man in the state morgue park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is where called in to investigate the sleepers are keptmurder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. These are Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the unclaimed bodies death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that have been classified as PHVs. Potential Homicide Victimsshe adored Josh. They are kept indefinitely, because they are evidence She knows that a crime she has been committed, possibly the only evidenceto find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson1529428289|title=Abattoir BluesA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=When DCI Banks returned from a weekend away in Italy Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the theft grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of a tractor (even if it was a very expensive tractor) didn't seem all that importantbones. It was difficult They dated back to World War II and it fell to be enthusiastic about what seemed Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to be simple case discover the identities of rural the bodies and establish whether or not a crimehad been committed. Then an ex-soldier walking his dog discovered what looked like a pool of blood in an abandoned warehouse and the two young men who seemed As if this isn't enough to be worry about, the prime suspects for the theft of the tractor both disappeared without traceDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Suddenly It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another rural crime' began river have had to take release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a very much more sinister turndevastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings152919640X|title=No Known Grave (A Detective Inspector Tom Tyler Mystery)The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
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|summary=By the middle of 1942 Detective Inspector Tom Tyler has had a difficult two years 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 hemust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's making 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 fresh start 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in Ludlowmud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. St AnneA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's Convalescent Hospital been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is on just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the outskirts birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the town words 'perverse' and it'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns and theysleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he're there specifically s determined to help people who have been maimed keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and injured by Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the warDress Rehearsal|rating=3. It should be a peaceful place 5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of recovery but then a double murder in woman on the grounds edge of the home shatters all that has been so carefully built upa reservoir. Many of the patients are blind or unable The police seem happy to walk and most are suffering from what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder - but assign it seems as though one an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the patients must be country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a murderer as this link to death during the Second World War. But is almost there really a classic 'locked room' mystery.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178116858X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina James0008517061|title=Sausage HallDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5
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|summary=Kevan de VriesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, food processing magnate and grandson of a Dutch immigrant to LincolnshireJake Johnson, is trying to help has settled into his terminally ill wife Joanne relax on an exotic holidayrustic life at Little Sky. Unfortunately There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the news he receives from home is less than relaxingfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: a random breakdoes Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in committed by local opportunistic youths has uncovered a batch of counterfeit passports. Kevan travels back with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the UK to answer questions but it gets worse. future she wants for herself and her daughter? Skeletal remains are found For the moment they’re enjoying life in his cellar followed by a discovery elsewhere of an all too fresh employee's dead body. This is bread the present and butter to DI Tim Yates of putting the future on the Lincolnshire Constabulary but it's another complication in Kevan's all too complicated lifeback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773827</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1786482126|title=Sins of the FatherThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|summary=Rupert Moncrieff Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was beaten going to death in his waterside home early one Sunday morning in December 2013hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. All his money had not saved him from his throat being cut and his face slashed and hoodedThere was no skull. One of his sons and his daughter still lived with himWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but during the past week an African had been staying Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the familyDCI Harry Nelson. Strangely no one knew his nameIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but when Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the body was discovered the man had disappearedone night they spent together some three months ago. DS Jimmy Suttle Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is investigating the case but like the family in the waterside mansion he has demons of his own prone to fight after the abduction and death sudden bouts of his daughter Grace and subsequent separation from his journalist wife, Lizziesickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409153371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke0008551324|title=The Cinderella MurderDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|summary=It'Under Suspicion' is a TV show that aims s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to shed light on cold cases by re-enacting approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the crime other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and interviewing those closest he's prepared to tell the victimpolice where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The pilot episode was a runaway success when This person, he promises, is someone big and it led will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the successful apprehension remainder of the murderer his sentence and now producer Laurie Moran has been given the green light to continue the seriesget an early parole date. Her curiosity Not much to ask, is piqued by a 20 year old case dubbed the it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'Cinderella Murdert think so and she', in which a bright young UCLA student was found dead in parkland, miles from her car and wearing only one shoe. The investigation will take Laurie and her team s even prepared to some of do the most glamorous locations in California, but it soon becomes clear other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain individuals will do anything to stop the truth that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from being revealedwhat's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147113847X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mette Ivie Harrison0008405026|title=The Bishop's WifeA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35
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|summary=Linda Wallheim, 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 most who know her, seems a woman who has everythinghalt. Loving Now, her mother to five beautiful children, devoted MormonHelena, and kindhearted wife of her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a Mormon Bishop, she lives at straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the centre positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her community and has little boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be unhappy aboutan 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954760</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammy Cohen0571379877|title=Dying for ChristmasThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|summary=The book starts off promisingly enough Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with an introduction by Jessicahis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, the narratordemanding, who informs us that she is imprisoned by a stranger who is handsome and charming entitled and extremely sadistic. Jessica then recounts the events leading up uses Edward to and during her incarceration, which takes place over the Christmas periodrun errands for him. Her jailer, Dominic, Edward has prepared twelve presents for her, for the Twelve Days of Christmas, been in love with Stanza since their university days - and each present-opening episode builds up 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 sense relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of dread while providing them kissing in a deepening understanding of the sinister and bitter mind at work. Genuinely creepy stuffdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160172</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Otto Penzler (editor)Jo Callaghan|title=The Big Book of Christmas MysteriesLeave No Trace|rating=54
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|summary=Nostalgia When a man is found crucified on the top of a big part of hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the Christmas experienceAI 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's provided in sack-loads by this hefty tome draws a lot of short storiesunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Sherlock Holmes Will they be able to solve the case in time, Hercule Poirot or will Kat find herself taken off the case and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski for space on these tightly packed pagespotentially, while lesser known and long since forgotten writers furnish new and unexpected pleasures for even the most well-read out of book worms.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784082252</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phillip Hunter1035021803|title=To Kill For (The Killing Machine)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=** Contains It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'To Die For'' spoilers**Ex Falkland Campaign para Joe is out s back now because of a request for revengehelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. BrendaFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, a woman he could have lovedArthur Crockleford, is murdered dead and Joe himself may have been the one forced to kill Kidcircumstances seem suspicious, an abused young girl he'd sworn to protectsay the least. Joe will find Arthur was the name behind reason why Freya had not been back to the deaths and make sure village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they too suffer fatallywere in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The only thing isAfter the split, she worked in a world cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of fluctuating loyalties and deceit, he may not survive long enough to carry out his ambitionher life, even if he who was the only one searching… But he's not! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185338X</amazonuk>murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Herve Le Corre and Frank Wynne (Translator)1398524085|title=Talking to GhostsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
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|summary=French Police Commandant Pierre VilarCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's young son Pablo went missing a while ago fiftieth birthday party but he believes him to be alive; a belief that has wrecked his marriagenever turned up. Meanwhile elsewhereHer children, 13sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Victor comes home her husband, Alec, is 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 a brutally make that Duncan had murdered motherCharlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Is The Salter children are not convinced but there a connection between these two tragedies? That's something that Vilar is desperate to find out, no matter what he has to little else they can do or but get on with their lives and wonder about what it does to himreally happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052063</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Doiron 1529900360|title=Massacre PondThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|summary=What is best It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the great outdoors? help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Is leaving Finally, it to nature is was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the most sustainable option or does hunting help to protect man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the ecosystem? swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Each group has opposing viewpoints He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and are unlikely to reach common ground, therefore someone she is going married to have to stand between an extremely rich man and it's not the two Italian. But which of them and make sure nothing bad happens. Something like murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114655</amazonuk>was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri178763681X|title=The Fourth Secret (Inspector Montalbano)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54
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|summary=Early one morning an Albanian construction worker - Chef Paul Delamare took a legal resident with teaching job at a work permit - fell from scaffolding and was dead when his co-workers found himresidential cookery school in Belgravia. What struck Montalbano was that there He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been rather a lot way of getting both men and women to do what were described as he wanted. Paul ''tragedies in the workplacesomehow'' - six in got the last month, in fact, although impression that he was sure that there would 'd be statistics at the school to prove assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that this was not abnormal within way. The teaching - and the EUproblems - are all his own. Strictly it wasnThe one thing he hadn't his case expected was for someone to deal withturn up dead. Unfortunately, but he received an anonymous letter telling him that Pashko Puka was going to be killed. Admittedly the letter arrived ''after'' person who discovered the death due to a malfunction in body and everyone knows that the local postal system, but it did mean police consider that it was difficult person to think of be the death as a 'tragic accident'prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00NOC5JFW</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1529421284|title=The KillLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
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|summary=I'm quite picky with crime fictionIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. This oversaturated market seems In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to teem with mediocre productsbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. There are thrillers with excellent plots that are are badly written He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, some that contain masterful prose so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but are, wellDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced... boring Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and others that are so far-fetched that I end up throwing to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the book away in disgust. I read Jane Casey′s highly enjoyable stand-alone [[The Missing by Jane Casey|The Missing]] several years agotime. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''The Kill'' was my first foray into her Maeve Kerrigan series s cold cases to you and I was keen to see how it would stand upme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194838X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1529425867|title=UnmannedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Unmanned''In Oxford, the title there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Fesperman's latest thrillerNigerian descent, refers to the dronesBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the Predatorsson of Ryan and father of Ryan, that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistanis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a shed somewhere in Nevadatrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. It also refers to the state that those missions left Cole They're usually in, after one of them went badly wronglime green or acid yellow. A poor call-down led You might wonder if you're being introduced to a misidentified targetpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including you're not. The two kids lying out in men are just different sides of the open running away, and a girl, not dead but woundedsame policing coin. Cole could see her from his thousands of miles away, moving, agonising, separated by a considerable distance from Sometimes the arm she would never use againcombination works brilliantly well. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long time to follow Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzan Stainforth1529431735|title=The Secret LocketWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=24
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|summary=Librarian Penny Knight was surprised when she came home on day It's February 1991 and found a jacket belonging to her twin brother Joseph hanging in Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the hallmore surprising. He was ''supposed'' to be in Moscow d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for six months, working as a croupierdecade. When she went through to the lounge The return has come about because he was lying on the sofa and her immediate reaction was that he was playing 's had a trick on her letter from his ex- until wife, saying that she got closer 's ill and realised that there was something dreadfully wronghasn't long to live. And then she saw the blood. His last words were that he was innocent - It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and that she should look for sent to a necklace watery grave in his jacket pocketthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. He died before he reached hospital. Penny and her parents were devastated - and then they realised that they were being watched.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767854</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Holt0861541774|title=The Lion's MouthA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is the first Anne Holt novel that I have read and I am going back for more. Jo Nesbo is quoted describing Holt as 'the Godmother of modern Norwegian crime fictionDCI Domenic Jejeune' s close friend and judging only from identikit cover design – grey mistformer colleague, lonelinessDanny Maik, treacherous icehas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, snowGuy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl -encrusted gunhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, red typeface he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to hint at fresh blood – readers light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be forgiven for expecting facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another volume of semi-standardised Scandinavian noirpolice force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A D Garrett1521129886|title=Believe No OneThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons in St Louis, Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as Nick plannedan investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Fennimore It's a good job too because Greg and Simms Joyce will soon have worked together in a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the UK baby when Nick's wife was murdered and daughter kidnappedshe gets past the morning sickness. In fact they were together the night they first went missing having a less than professional dinnerGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. NickStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's daughter struggling to make ends meet and her son is still missing but while not thriving. Lucy, he follows new leadssays, he and Kate is convinced that Gil would never have other things to work onkilled himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. St Louis has a serial killer to contend with: The police and the victims are all mothers and their children are taken at coroner have accepted that the same time. death was suicide, Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try but Stuart's prepared to make everyone else see them. Whether his tactics work or not remains pay Greg to be seenfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian GalbraithB0CK3MYJ56|title=Troubled Waters: An Alice Rice MysteryResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When [[The Road to Hell: An Alice Rice Mystery by Gillian Galbraith|we left]] DI Alice Rice she was newly widowed, but time has moved on a little It's the 1990s and sheGreg Mason's thinking about what to do with her lifetwenty-eight years old. Professionally sheHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's more settled and now faced with an investigation into set himself up as a body washed up on the foundations private investigator. 'Shades of the new bridge thatCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's being built across the Forth. life experience that backs up this profession? Establishing On the identity of the young woman is the first problem and this leads Rice back other hand, he has been asked to members of a religious sect with some very strange ruleslook into something. And then a second body Joyce and Helen are half- that of sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a young man tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - is washed up on a beach and ither parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can's difficult not t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to assume that therefall in front of a train. Greg's a connection between the twobeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1838954481|title=Tight-LippedThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's a little bit different in the UK but in Paris intellectuals are lauded in much the same way as rock starsno doubt about that. Jean-Jacques Marsay is a philosopher and equally as famous as his wife, He was the beautiful and talented actress, Carine Dufour. Marsay is writing a book about ''Appoghiu Terra'' fifteen- an ecoyear-terrorist organisation - old holding the gun and its leader Gabriel Agostini. His editor is Virginie Desmoulins - or rather was - because Virginie was murdered pointing it at her flat in a rather unusual wayDI Kieran Shaw. The case is being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the ''Brigade Criminelle'' and jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and Agostini have a history. Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin was with his previous employers, the French version manslaughter of the security servicesofficer. He was moved And so lives must go on to . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she''Brigade Criminelle'' when it was thought that he might have become just s drawn into a little too sympathetic to Agostini wider investigation - and Agostini to himback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Morris1448309743|title=The Wolves of London - The Obsidian Heart Trilogy Devil Stone (Book 1DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Alex Locke has grown from In the village of Cronchie on the young petty criminal he once was. Now West coast of Scotland, five members of a psychology lecturer with a beautiful 5-year-old daughter he has every incentive he needs to stay straightwealthy family are found murdered. It would take something devastating to make him return to his former life but devastation happens. Alex The only item missing from the home is coerced into doing on last jobthe Devil Stone: stealing a piece of heart shaped obsidian myth says that if the stone is removed from someone it didn’t belong to in the first placeOtterburn House, death will follow. What The only suspects are the consequences? Whatknown Satanists but in many ways, that's so special about this piece an easy conclusion given that two of rock? As all hell breaks loosethem 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Alex DCI Christine Caplan is about pulled in to find out'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168660</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Williams1529077699|title=Confidentially YoursThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Carthage was what you might call 'backwoods' and there wasnIt's all bloody peculiar, isn't really all that much to do there. For recreationit, hunting probably came top of the list and John Sir?'Duke' Warren went for an early morning duck shoot before going to work Well yes, it is. Whilst Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the shoot he heard two shots from middle of an adjoining blind autumn gale, stayed for about a month and on the way out saw then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the car village of a fellow shoot memberGreystone, in Devon. It was only later that he found out that the shots Rosco had caused the death status of Dan Robertsa national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. At first it looked like suicideI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, but Warren he could be more than a little bit close with money and the police realised that ithis background isn's not often that suicide victims shoot themselves twicet exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649116</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=Black NoiseThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Pekka HiltunenKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was just one of them quirky internet things ''Life has more to begin with. Empty videos appearing on the internet. Dark expanses of time: no images, no soundoffer than people - prime numbers for example''.
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