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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Anthony J QuinnAnn 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Border AngelsUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
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|summary=Lena Novak knew all about border countryEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. She was an illegal immigrant from Croatia and whilst she wasnUnfortunately, his daughter't having to cope with landminess defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, bears and wolvesLaura, the Irish border had its own problemshas been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. She had worked in That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the farmhouse brothel for two months when she met state of their savings. When Jack Fowler but her plan Durban tries to escape left bare footprints in the snow and more than one dead body. The investigating officer was Inspector Celcius Daly and persuade him to take his case, it wasn't long before he found himself in s the unprofessional situation thought of working with the money he could make that convinces him that this is a prostitute and a hitmanmiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082600</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)1529934753|title=Behind God's Back (Ariel Kafka Series)The Protest|author=Rob Rinder
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|summary=Ariel KafkaFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the only Jewish detective in Helsinkicountry's violent crime unitmost famous living artist, has special insight into was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Jewish CommunityRoyal Academy. It goes without saying but it also provides Ari Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with a steady flow of cases. Therefore when a local company director his two wives and Jewish congregation member is murderedsix children, Ariel is first choice one of investigatorwhom filmed what happened. Unfortunately the victim happens Being an influencer, you tend to be the man who could have become Ariel's father-in-law do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a couple record of decades before but Ari feels enough removed by time not to disqualify himself from the caseprotest. Gradually as Lexi Williams, an intern at the web RA, grabbed a spray can of clues is carefully teased outblue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, more worrying connections are discovered. The Mossad whilst shouting ''mayStop the War'' . It seemed to be involved part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but then so may Ari's brother Elithis was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524421</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shelley Harris0008551375|title=VigilanteWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jenny Pepper is Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a forty-something wife and mother who is stuck wondering where her life has gone. PrivatelyScottish mountain, Jenny is jealous seemingly the result of her husbanda tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, he has a wonderful creative career that people can’t wait to hear more abouttoo, while Jenny’s work as a mother and when she posted her job at a charity bookshop seems to put a stopper intentions on conversationFacebook. Jenny envies her daughter Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, with but it looked like she was living her youthful figure and a whole best life stretched out now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in front of herthe last year. When tidying up one night All were experienced climbers, Jenny discovers her husband’s secret properly equipped for what they were doing and just like that her life changessensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297864610</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Connolly0008643660|title=The Wolf in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller)|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum he's befriended and worked with in the past, is found hanged in a basement. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship and has just raised over $100 to help find her. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an even odder prospect when Annie herself goes missing after heading for the small Maine town of Prosperous. Charlie decides to drop in on the good citizens of the small town and starts poking beneath the respectable veneer. It doesn’t take him long but there is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charlie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBurial Place|author=Kate Ellis|title=The Death Season (Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson)Stig Abell
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|summary=When Wesley Peterson was called A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to investigate Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the death excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of a man in a hotel room he thought that it was going to Roman gold worth millions which will be straightforward, but then there were split between the credit cards - in different names - finders and there wasnthe landowner. It't a mobile phones perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. He felt guilty about the little time Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he'd been able s inevitably drawn in to spend with his family (and about the fact that he was ever so slightly attracted to one of his colleaguesinvestigate...) but Reading the job had to come first and letters, it wasn't long before he realised s difficult to avoid the conclusion that there was a complex history to will be violence and even the dead man and local police are keen that he was almost certainly a murdererJake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349403139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright1529425905|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part Voice in saving the planet from WWIIINight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by the Common Market (which would become the European Union There's a new Superintendent in 1993) in Brussels Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and hefamily values, but as far as she's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he concerned, she has two main problems, and they''should'' be an interpreter but he seems to be restricted to more administrative dutiesre both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He could refuse the offer he gets, but the chance to actually use his expertise in Russian, move across 's married to the USA Diane and make a point to his employers is just too temptinghas twin sons. HeManagement's also rather taken by Alexy Geary, 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 attractive woman wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from the intelligencea trailer park -gathering agency who makes the offerin fact, and it's not long before could be said that he's on his waynever really left it. Before he does he's peripherally involved He lives in a shooting - shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant thathe should ''never''s not something which usually happens to someone like himbe given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc1529077745|title=Forty Days Without ShadowThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a museum man in Kautokeinothe park near Rosebank, a small, isolated village in the middle care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the snowy tundra, tensions begin care workers who was due to rise between work a shift the residentsnight before but who had never turned up. Local detective Klemet Nango and new recruit Nina Nansen are D I Vera Stanhope is called upon in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearanceof one of the residents, whereupon they discover a second crime: a local reindeer herder has been brutally murderedfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Nina soon suspects Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the two events are linked, and, together with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full of secrets, mystery and brutalitygirl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi1529428289|title=The Vanished Ones|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Room 13 A Grave in the basement Woods (A Bruno, Chief of the state morgue is where the sleepers are kept. These are the unclaimed bodies that have been classified as PHVs. Potential Homicide Victims. They are kept indefinitely, because they are evidence that a crime has been committed, possibly the only evidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Peter Robinson|title=Abattoir BluesMartin 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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|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
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|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
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In 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. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really''Unmannedhis thing) and his 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 a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title of Fesperman=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's latest thrillerFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, refers to which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the drones, more surprising. He'd been exiled on the PredatorsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistanshe's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, from stripped to his underwear and sent to a shed somewhere watery grave in Nevadathe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=CrimeIt also refers |summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to the state that those missions left Cole inmeet up with an old ally, after one of them went badly wrongGuy Trueman. A poor callMaik was involved in a street brawl -down led to he would later maintain that he was facing a misidentified target, man armed with a house destroyed, civilians knife - and he killeda Ghurka. Initially, including two kids lying out in the open running away, and he faced a girl, not dead charge of manslaughter but woundedevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Cole Now he could see her from his thousands of miles away, moving, agonising, separated by a considerable distance from be facing the arm she would never use againdeath penalty. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a long time to followdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzan Stainforth1521129886|title=The Secret LocketThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=24
|genre=Crime
|summary=Librarian Penny Knight was surprised when she came home on day and found a jacket belonging Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to her twin brother Joseph hanging in the hallpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. He was ''supposedIt'' to be in Moscow for six months, working as s a croupier. When she went through to the lounge he was lying on the sofa good job too because Greg and her immediate reaction was that he was playing Joyce will soon have a trick on her - until she got closer baby and realised that there was something dreadfully wrongthey're both delighted. And then Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she saw gets past the bloodmorning sickness. His last words were that he was innocent Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- and that she should look for a necklace in -law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his jacket pocketsister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. He died before Lucy, he reached hospitalsays, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. Penny The police and her parents were devastated - and then they realised the coroner have accepted that they were being watchedthe death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848767854</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne HoltB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Lion's MouthResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's the first Anne Holt novel that I have read 1990s and I am going back for moreGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Jo Nesbo is quoted describing Holt He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'the Godmother Shades of modern Norwegian crime fictionCameron Strike' and judging only from identikit cover design – grey mist, lonelinessyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, treacherous icebut where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, snowhe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-encrusted gunsisters, red typeface to hint or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at fresh blood – readers an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could be forgiven for expecting another volume come to fall in front of semi-standardised Scandinavian noira train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857892282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A D Garrett1838954481|title=Believe No OneThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons in St Louis, just as Nick plannedpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Fennimore and Simms have worked together in He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the UK when Nick's wife jury system he was murdered found not guilty of both the murder and daughter kidnapped. In fact they were together the night they first went missing having a less than professional dinnermanslaughter of the officer. Nick's daughter is still missing but while he follows new leads, he and Kate have other things to work And so lives must go on. St Louis has For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a serial killer to contend with: quieter life in the victims are all mothers countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and their children are taken at back into the same timeorbit of Ryan Kennedy. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try to make everyone else see them. Whether his tactics work or not remains to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith1448309743|title=Troubled Waters: An Alice Rice MysteryThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|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 widowedIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, but time has moved on five members of a little and she's thinking about what to do with her lifewealthy family are found murdered. Professionally she's more settled and now faced with an investigation into a body washed up on The only item missing from the foundations of home is the new bridge Devil Stone: myth says that's being built across the Forth. Establishing the identity of if the young woman stone is the first problem and this leads Rice back to members of a religious sect with some very strange rulesremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. And then a second body - The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that of a young man - is washed up on a beach and it's difficult not to assume an easy conclusion given that theretwo of them 'discovered's a connection between the twobody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972930</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|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|authorisbn=David Barrie1529427045|title=Tight-LippedThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a little bit different in 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the UK but in Paris intellectuals are lauded in much small town of Gasskas, where the same way as rock stars. Jeanso-far-Jacques Marsay is untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a philosopher and equally as famous as his wife, the beautiful and talented actress, gold rush. Carine DufourThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Marsay is writing a book about Salander's niece'Appoghiu Terra'' - an eco-terrorist organisation - and its leader Gabriel Agostini. His editor s mother is Virginie Desmoulins - or rather was - because Virginie was murdered at her flat the latest woman in a rather unusual way. The case is being investigated by Captain Franck Guerin of the ''Brigade Criminelle'' and he and Agostini area to have a historyvanished without trace. Agostini shot and seriously wounded Guerin when Guerin It was only with his previous employers, the French version of the security services. He was moved on to the reluctance that Salander became her niece''Brigade Criminelle'' when s guardian but it was thought quickly becomes obvious that he might have become just Svala is a little too sympathetic to Agostini - and Agostini to himremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251889</amazonuk>
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