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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=John PiperAnn Cleeves|titlerating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Hibernia Unanimis: "Pro DeoI 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, Rege et PatriciaJames, Hibernia Unanimis" (For Godas well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, King and Countryshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, Ireland is United)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=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley

|summary= Benedict Plunkett calls Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a meeting of a small but select and distinguished group of Irish and US politiciansPrivate Investigator for some time now, clergy and business men to whom he explains should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his plans for Hibernia Unanimis – daughter's defence against a united Irelandmurder charge drained his savings. It will be raised up by and for the Irish in response His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to the new UKIP government in Londonretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Before the great and the good leave BenedictThat's what 'ordinary people do','' He's mansion they are asked not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to sign contracts if they want persuade him to be part of take his future. Some signcase, some don't but all think heit's deluded and nothing will come the thought of it. Then the accident happens and everyone takes Benedict money he could make that convinces him that this is a little more seriously as, in time, will the English governmentmiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00YGUSPOS</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Richard CastleRob 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 not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective 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 it was fortunate that there was a 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 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 Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=Ultimate StormWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=As if it wasn’t complicated enough trying to figure out what Leanne Wilson's body was real and what wasn’t when reading [[Raging Heat (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6) by Richard Castle]] now I find myself reading another story written by this fictional television character that made him found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a bestselling authortragic accident. I do wonderShe'd looked so happy, reading thesetoo, who the real writer (or writers) behind Richard Castle must be! when she posted her intentions on Facebook. AnywayHer friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, this time we’re with Castle’s fictional character (a fictional character’s fictional character!) Derrick Storm, a PI turned CIA agent, though but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in this book he’s being called back into service after disappearing into early retirement and officially being ‘dead’the last year. This book is actually a collection of 3 Storm storiesAll were experienced climbers, but properly equipped for what they are all related were doing and part sensible people. None of the same overall arc'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>1783291869</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hakan Nesser0008643660|title=The Summer of Kim NovakBurial Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Erik knew that the summer A group of 1962 was going archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to be a bad oneLittle Sky: it's idyllic and some of the excavations are being televised. His mother was seriously ill There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and there was no hiding that she was likely to diethe landowner. So, Erik and his friend Edmund planned to spend their holiday, accompanied by ErikIt's elder brother Henry, at perfect until the lake-side cottagegroup begin receiving threatening letters. Both boys dreamed of their supply teacherJake Jackson, a former police detective, as fourteen-year-old boys are wont is trying to do, particularly when shelead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's the spitting image of the actress Kim Novakinevitably drawn in to investigate. But Reading the letters, it wasn't just Erik's mother's health which was going difficult to ruin avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the summer: The Terrible Thing was going to happen toolocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crompton1529425905|title=BunderlinA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=As There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a child Martin had been fascinated good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and entranced by his neighbour Mrs Bundyalways immaculately dressed. He's household menageriemarried to Diane and has twin sons. Her son Peter was there Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too but on highly of himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the periphery; Martin was just there to visit the animalswet end'. In adulthood their paths cross again but this time Peter Bunderlin (as Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's now known) isnnever really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never't so easy to avoid – and Martin's tried! be given responsibility. Perhaps if Martin could understand what the heck Peter is up to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784078549</amazonuk>Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1529077745|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing DistanceDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=''OhA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sira care home for troubled teens.'' The pair referred to, of course, are Modesty Blaise, sexy femme fatale with a head full dead man was Josh - one of morals and a pair of legs full of kicking power, and Willy Garvin, the only man care workers who was due to call her ''Princess'' and get away with it – intelligent, practical and yet equally resilient in work a fight with a baddyshift the night before but who had never turned up. The things that happen D I Vera Stanhope is called in to them are legion, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this investigate the murder - but her only clue is one of the better examples disappearance of the current collections one of the latterresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrong, pregnant women in danger on the high seas, and Some people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all in a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood believe that smacks of pastiche and vintage ribaldry, were it not from Chloe was responsible for the heady days of death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the mid-girl'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>s diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Wilson1529428289|title=The Wrong GirlA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Phoebe Piper went missing on a family holiday in 2006 Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when she was just they found it, it came with three years old and no trace sets of her has ever been foundbones. There was a lot They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of publicity at the time bodies and there still is some - particularly those computer-generated pictures which show what Phoebe would probably look nowestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. The As if this isn'now' is seven years on and tent enough to worry about, the Dordogne River -yearnormally tranquil -old Molly Jackson is convinced that ''she'' is Phoebe Piper: she seems to have the proofflowing at record levels. Life isnIt't going well for her at s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the momentproblem: she's recently been uprooted from the life - various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and friends - she knew in London and is living in a Norfolk village, in St Denis faces the home possibility of her great uncle Dan. Only, she's just found Dan dead in beda devastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063099</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laurie R King and Leslie Klinger (editors)152919640X|title=In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes CanonThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=WellThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems thatthere's only one way to get a heck of a lot of attention to your series of short story collections, for sure – get the estate of the author yoususpect. He're respecting to take you to court with the idea s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that the works cannot be published – the characters are so firmly established and entrenched, but established and entrenched as their property and therefore cannot be artistically reinterpreted, revived or otherwise returned he must not serve anything containing miso to at all until full and final copyright statutes have expiredJessica Holby. Never mind that the characters – one S Holmes She's seriously allergic and Dr JH Watson – hardly have parallels carries an EpiPen in how often case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they already have been mimickedcan be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Never mind the fact that the estate of Conan Doyle Her EpiPen was paid off in order for the first book nowhere to releasedbe found and she was dead within minutes. Still, the case It was won and soon clear that this sequel is in our handswas no accident. Is it worth all the legal documents? What is the important verdict, at the end of the reading day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329843X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Castle B0CYV674G2|title=Raging Heat Swanton Morley (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Fans of the television series ''Castle'' will come to this book readyIt seemed like an open-and-prepared for what’s going on, but for those unaware, in the series there is a character called Richard Castle who is an authorshut case. He observes a homicide detective, Kate BeckettA man, covered in her work mud and blood - and then writes carrying a novelknife, 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'Heat Wave''s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, based on her character, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and which coincided with the birth of his own to Jameson Rookdaughter Samantha. After You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the book was written (in the television series) it was actually published in real life. Being a fan of words 'perverse'Castleand 'John Tanner' I immediately bought it and read itwere made for each other. To be honest, I found that He's sleep-deprived to the concept messed with my head too much! I kept thinking about who was who, within the book, translating Nikki’s name point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to Kate’s, and Rook’s to Castle, and it all became very confusing keep going - probably because even though Kate and Castle are 'realhe can' they are, of course, fictional characters too! I didn’t read t get any more Nikki Heat books after that first one, until this onesleep at home. It’s been a little while since I watched the TV series, and somehow coming at it fresh made a big difference and I thoroughly enjoyed it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295333</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cath StaincliffeStuart Douglas|title= Half Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the World AwayDress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the year after University travelling, and visits China – working as dead body of a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her estranged parents follow her adventures woman on her blog, “Lori in the Orient”edge of a reservoir. When all communication stops and silence persists The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the parents report her missingwhole thing bothers Lowe, and learning that there is little they can do from Manchesterhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, set out John Le Breton to China in order to search for their daughterhelp him investigate matters further. Flying to Chengdu, they have no knowledge of They travel across the countryduring their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, customs or languageseemingly, and are forced a link to turn detective in order death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to save uncover who is responsible before more people lose their daughter…lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons0008517061|title=The Slaughter ManDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary= This is the second novel by Tony ParsonsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, which features DC Max WolfeJake Johnson, single parent to daughter Scout, who first appeared in, ''The Murder Bag''has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. This book is, without a doubt, There’s perhaps a huge step up from little uncertainty about the first in the series – an extremely fast pacedfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, exciting crime novelLivia and her daughter Diana, with as moving in together would mean a gripping plot lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and twisted characters. There is no guessing which turn the story will take as every page throws relaxing life to move in another plot twist; it’s impossible with Livia or does Livia move to figure out who Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the killer is. On New Year’s Eve, a rich, well established family living in Highgate, London are brutally murdered future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the four-year-old son has been abducted. Now it is up to Max to track down moment they’re enjoying life in the child present and figure out who was behind putting the future on the murdersback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Clare MackintoshElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title= I Let The Devil You GoKnow (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his 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 - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary= A hit It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and runthe investigation ground to a halt. A young boy killed. A family devastated. How can a Now, her mother ever recover from seeing , Helena, and her child killed right father are dead in front their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her? When there boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are no leads, how can the police know where to look to bring someone to justice?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554154</amazonuk>less convinced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham0571379877|title=The Crime at Black DudleyKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=Black Dudley was unprepossessing from the outsideEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, but imposingobsessed with his upper-class friends, if rather uncared for on the insideRobert and Stanza. It was isolated in dreary landscape and the location for Robert's a house party which George Abbershaw was attendingtheatre director. He hadn't particularly wanted s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to go run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and was convinced of the necessity only by the fact that the woman he loved 's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would be stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a part of the party. The host was an invalid relationship had begun between them but apparently determined that his guests should enjoy themselves and was happy he's not like most men: Edward is left to have them re-enact stumble upon the ritual two of the Black Dudley Dagger. All the candles were extinguished and the dagger was passed amongst the guests: the atmosphere was sinister but the game seemed harmless enough, except that they would shortly discover that their host was deadthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593491</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare DonoghueJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Place to DieTrace

|summary= It starts with When a nightmare. Maggie Hungerford wakes out man is found crucified on the top of onea hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Into anotherIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. She But when there is awakea second body found crucified a few days later, but this isn't her bedKat 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. This is Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the kind case and, potentially, out of place no-one should ever wake up.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447239342</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1035021803|title=As Chimney Sweepers Come To DustThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Flavia de Luce It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has left Buckshaw, been back to the family home English country village where she has lived all grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her life and has gone to school in Canada (actuallybeloved aunt, Carole. Freya'was sents former mentor and Carole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is more accurate - dead and the decision circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was none of Flavia's making and she felt that she'd the reason why Freya had not been banished). On back to the trip over village: Arthur, she was accompanied by Dr Rainsmith and his wifefeels, who let her down badly. Even though they were associated with Miss Bodycote's Female Academyin business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the school which Flavia would be attendingman or pursue the profession she loved. In factAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, they delivered her there with scant ceremony late met and married James (on the night they arrived. Flavia would have settled down to sleeprebound from the love of her life, but first she who was attacked by another pupil murdered) and then a dead body fell down the chimney. She already felt quite at home..Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409149439</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Owen Laukkanen1398524085|title=The Stolen OnesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=By book four in any series things start to go one of two ways; stagnation or consolidationCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Are these going to be a collection of books that slowly become the same story over Shortly afterwards, Etty and over againGreg, or will find the author distil what made body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the first books so good and build upon them river. It was an easy assumption for a stronger, richer and varied series? Looking at the score for ‘‘Stolen Ones’’, it would appear police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the future is bright, the future is Owen Laukkanenguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178239639X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1529900360|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has a new set of overlordsIt 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. For reasons His assertions that there were explored in only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the previous couple help of outings they have been transferred to the City Of London Policea psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. The Met are still She knew that the big players in involvement was something that the areaman she loved needed. City of London Police only police the old cityThe next case did look simple, the square mile, the financial district in other words, that has very little though. Two lovers were murdered in the way swimming pool of street crime, because no-one lives there anymore and a remote property in Bel Air. He was the people who work there are, by heir to an Italian shoe empire and large, either too she is married to an extremely rich to need to steal, or too smart to have to do so on man and it's not the streetsItalian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen King178763681X|title=Mr MercedesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54

|summary=Bill Hodges is Chef Paul Delamare took a retired cop, spiralling down into teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a seemingly inescapable depressionway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Stuck Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at home each day watching dreadful American daytime TVthe school to assist Paul, toying with the idea of shooting himselfwho had a broken arm, but it is only with didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the sudden arrival of a letter claiming to be from someone who committed an unsolved multiple murder, problems - are all his own. The one of Hodges’ old cases, that thing he finds a new interest in staying alivehadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Is this actually Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the murderer? Why is he crawling out of body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788647</amazonuk>prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1529421284|title=The Detective's SecretLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Two 'hurricanes' link this story. There It was one of those flash downpours that the one British weather often delivers in October 1987 which wasn't going a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to happen, but did the surface and as it happened a man lay dyingforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, locked inside an old water tower in west Londonwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He 'd been a known drug user and had no identificationlearning disabilities, no one so it could have been a simple case of his description was registered as missing and the body was never claimedmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. When the body was discovered there Geary was a singletownie, black glove so what was he doing out on his back. Salisbury Plain alone? In October 2103 there was There are connections to the St Jude's storm. Late one night on suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Piccadilly line a man seemed to jump beneath an oncoming traintime. Jack Harmon saw what happened Lockyer and was sure DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that it was suicide, but the man's brother was convinced that it was murdercold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Carson1529425867|title=Orkney TwilightLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=18-year-old Sam CoyleIn 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 dad Jim is an undercover policemannot any of those things. When he suggests that they take He's white, originated from a trip to Orkneytrailer park, somewhere theybarely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They've enjoyed holidays re usually in the past, Sam doesnlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you't have re being introduced to think about it, especially as she can take a friendpolice procedural written for laughs. However for Jim it seems to be a working holidayWell, leaving Sam and her journalist student companion Tom to their own devicesyou're not. Eventually they realise The two men are just different sides of the same person is cropping up again and again, as if stalking thempolicing coin. Who is Sometimes the watcher and what does he want? combination works brilliantly well. Until now her fatherSometimes it's doom and gloom speeches have seemed a million miles from Sam's experience but now..problematic.?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784080942</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna Leon1529431735|title=Falling in LoveThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Flavia PetrelliIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, who will be remembered by regular readers of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Commissario Guido Brunetti series as one of the suspects in the first case, more surprising. He''Death at La Fenice'', has returned to Venice to sing d been exiled on the lead in ''Tosca''Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. But this time itThe return has come about because he's Petrelli who feels had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she is a victim 's ill and for the strangest of reasons: shehasn's being inundated with giftst long to live. It began in other cities - the yellow roses thrown, in abundance's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, on stripped to the stage, but this time there are even more roses. Her dressing room is filled with them his underwear and there's even sent to a massive bouquet inside watery grave in the locked apartment building where she's stayingboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. It was Brunetti who proved her innocence the last time and Is it's a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to him that she turns with this latest problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023582</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=D A Mishani and Todd Hasak-Lowy (Translator)0861541774|title=A Possibility Nye of Violence: An Inspector Avraham Avraham Novel (Inspector Avraham 2)Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54

|summary= Someone leaves a bomb outside a childrenDCI Domenic Jejeune's nursery close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Tel AvivSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. This time it's Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a fakeGhurka. Next time? Police Inspector Avraham Avraham wants Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to find murder the bomber before next time as then it may not be pretenceman. Meanwhile Chaim Sara has a special interest in the bomb as one of his two sons attends Now he could be facing the nurserydeath penalty. But is that the only reason heDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's interested?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780876556</amazonuk>t help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Dugdall1521129886|title=Humber Boy BThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54

|summary=WeGreg Mason've all read s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the stories in the papers: children who kill, particularly children who kill childrenpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. We It've always wondered what went through their minds as s a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they did it're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. We Stuart've also wondered s concerned about what happens his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to them once they're no longer childrenmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, when theyis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn've grown up t in prison his nature. The police and are then deemed fit the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to be freed back into real lifefind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910394599</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Torquil MacLeodB0CK3MYJ56|title=Meet Me In MalmoResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54

|summary=British journalist Ewan Strachan was invited to Malmo in Sweden to interview film director Mick Roslyn. TheyIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason'd been friends at University but had drifted aparts twenty-eight years old. Strachan was holding on He used to his have a high-flying job in journalism by the skin of his teeth, city but Roslyn had made it big time in Sweden and was married to Malin Lovgren, the glamorous star of his latest film. It hadnwasn't been easy to persuade his editor to fund the trip, but when Strachan found satisfying so he's now set himself at the door up as a private investigator. 'Shades of RoslynCameron Strike's home at the appointed time there seemed to , you might be no one therethinking. When he tried the door he walked in only to find Lovgren dead on the floor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085716113X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Beard|title=Acts of the Assassins|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The rebellious cult leader is executed so thatNice bloke, but where's the life experience that. backs up this profession? Then someone steals On the body. The police appoint Cassius Gallio other hand, he has been asked to investigate but it all goes terribly wronglook into something. He not only fails to find the bodyJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, the police informant from the initial conviction is they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a way that mimics suicidetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Gallio's career Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and life both stall until the case is secretly rePam Hetherington -opened and hecan's deemed the man for the investigation as het understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's already comparatively invisible. It seems straightforward in that Gallio must uncover the truth but the people he needs been asked to speak to are being culled one by one by the most innovative and bloodthirsty meansinvestigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558395</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Thomas1838954481|title=Fallout (Tito Ihaka)The Misper|author=Kate London

|summary= Maori Tito Ihaka may be disrespectful, brash Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and the sort of police sergeant who ploughs his own furrow but he gets resultspointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He therefore seems pulled the ideal investigating officer when trigger but due to the vagaries of the cold case jury system he was found not guilty of a both the murder at and the party manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a political high flier missing teenager is reopened. However hefound on her territory she's also given time to investigate something more personal: his father, union activist Jimmy Ihaka, may not have died through natural causes after alldrawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524499</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Kornegay1448309743|title=SoilThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54

|summary=Jay Mize is In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a scientific man with a particular interest in soil and agriculturewealthy family are found murdered. He decides he The only item missing from the home is the one to pioneer a revolution Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in farming techniques and uproots his wife and son to set up many ways, that's an experimental farm on a plot easy conclusion given that two of land in them 'discovered' the countrybody. Jay The Senior Investigating Office is also an obsessive man and his plans take overDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, becoming his only focus and causing his family DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to leave 'shadow' him. Then flooding ruins his crops and he is left at the end of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is released.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna Leon1529077699|title=By Its CoverThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=A prestigious library ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the heart middle of Venice discovered that pages had been cut from many 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 its most valuable books and that several others were missingGreystone, in Devon. This would normally have been investigated by Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a specialist department in Romerenowned adventurer, but Commissario Guido Brunetti agreed to look into round the thefts - partly for personal reasons world sailor and partly because it was the simplest way to move the problem forwardall round ''celebrity''. The staff at the library were certain that an American researcher was responsibleI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, but there were quite he could be more than a few factors which didnlittle bit close with money and his background isn't quite add up exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for Brunetti and his first boat? How did he decided to look at some of finance the other regular attenders at the library.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099591286</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Christopher 1529427045|title=Elementary: The Ghost LineGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=Once an author dies, the characters they created are often left alone ''Life has more to live off this initial legacy, but it is increasingly normal offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to see past heroes rise again – quite literally in the likes small town of [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth GrahameGasskas, where the so-Smith|Pride and Prejudice and Zombies]]. Once out far-untapped natural resources of copyright you can do what you like to the area have sparked a character; a character just like Sherlock Holmesgold rush. Not only do we get numerous new books starring Holmes set The criminal underworld has not been slow in the Victorian era, but there are currently two separate TV shows about modern Sherlockian adventurescoming forward. Salander's niece'Elementary'' s mother is set the latest woman in America and is more liberal than most adaptations the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with the lore, reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but can it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the tie part Salander played in novel evoke any memories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169845</amazonuk>her father's death.