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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1035043092|title=Maxwell's Retirement|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something of a dinosaur and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobiles. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when the need arises, but this isn't the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=David Kessler|title=MercyAnn Cleeves|rating=3.5
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|summary=In some waysI 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 first line daughter of this novel says it all: his former partner. Willow'Its also his boss, and she ''should's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hours.' From this moment be onmaternity leave, but when the action comes thick and fastbody of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, leaving in the reader with barely the breath to murmer aftermath of a storm, she can'is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?t resist getting involved. He' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then d been battered about the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactoryhead with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R HallhenleyA|title=The DisappearedUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
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|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for Severn Valleysome time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. ItUnfortunately, his daughter's now some months later and whilst she's settled into the job to some extent her relationship with her officerdefence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, AlisonLaura, is uneven and shehas been trying to persuade him to retire - ''s still shaky mentally and dependant maybe go travelling or go on pills to a greater extent than she would care to admitcruises. SheThat's a feisty woman though and determined that shewhat 'ordinary people do','' He's going not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to do persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the job properlymoney he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1529934753|title=CapturedThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just For a little while, it looked as hethough Sir Max Bruce, the country's barely turning fortymost famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. As a result Still, he compiles a short list arrived in the nick of rights to wrongtime, complete with his two wives and people six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to create closure withdo things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. OneLexi Williams, his ex-wifean intern at the RA, might not be easy, two concern grabbed a misguided sense spray can of blue paint from under a guilt of oldchair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. The fourth turns out It seemed to be a missing womanpart of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamishcan had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0008551375|title=The Merry MisogynistWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng and despite Leanne Wilson's body was found at the fact that they have bottom of a combined age Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of going on for a hundred and forty theytragic accident. She're behaving like the newly-weds they ared looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic Her friends were relieved as she was just out of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best lifenow. Well, Then it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery emerged that a man is wooing and wedding girls five other women had died in similar circumstances in various parts of the country last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treessensible people. What he does None of the 'what a stupid thing to his victims leaves the morgue staff sickeneddo' explanations applied. ThereThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a determination to find killer on the man responsible and bring him to justiceloose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 0008643660|title=A Hard DeathThe Burial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was A group of archaeologists are uncovering a fresh reader, so Roman site close to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the book is impressiveexcavations are being televised. My expectations were highThere's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. All It's perfect until the ingredients are in place for a good thrillergroup begin receiving threatening letters. The location Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is The Everglades trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in Floridato investigate. BroodingReading the letters, enigmatic, awe-inspiring it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of even the swampy waters every five minuteslocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529425905|title=Curse of A Voice in the Pogo StickNight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions There's a new Superintendent in front of Judge HaengThames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but occasionally he forgot himself as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and was more insolent than usualthey're both called DI Wilkins. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant)Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, communist (even more reluctantly) Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to Diane and shaman finds has twin sons. Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself on a road trip with the judge and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the Justice Departmentwet end'. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and married, although not Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in the usual order of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geungfact, who might, or might not it could be a helpsaid that he's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, but probably not always in the way that you might expectvivid colours. As if Previous management was adamant that wasnhe should ''never't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappedbe given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1529077745|title=Bad Penny BluesThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=Step into A man walking his dog in the seedy underbelly of London on early morning discovered the cusp body of a man in the Swinging Sixtiespark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. 'Bad Penny Blues' is the story The dead man was Josh - one of the hunt for care workers who was due to work a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the west disappearance of the city, at the time a melting pot one of immigrants from the Caribbean and Irelandresidents, bohemian artists and media types, and even peersfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Carnaby Street Some people believe that Chloe was just becoming responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesgirl'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>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1529428289|title=Cold to A Grave in the TouchWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica Hurly. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a coldBecause of various property transactions, dark London morningpeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing to do came with herthree sets of bones. Jess is a talented chef but she's short They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of work – Police for St Denis, to discover the occasion when she emptied a tureen identities of soup over the host at bodies and establish whether or not a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even crime had been committed. As if all this isn't enough to worry about, the other guests were secretly delightedDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Sarah senses her vulnerability, but itIt's Jess who organises not just the let of one of her mother's cottages in local autumn rains that have caused the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can problem: various dams upstream on another river have a long break from had to release water and St Denis faces the flat where she still smells possibility of a recent firedevastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald152919640X|title=Bloody WomenThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there'Bloody Womens only one suspect. He'', I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and by the title and blurb, I expected a standard crime-thriller novelhis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. But early on, I realised this wasn She't the s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in caseof emergencies. The novel was Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a kind of black comedy busy, live television studio - and written with wit Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and humour, despite the theme of murder and violenceshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery DeaverB0CYV674G2|title=The Bodies Left BehindSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and her husband Steven decided to buy blood - and carrying a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesknife, they brought an old colonial house in comes into the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, on foreclosure – it seemed like police station shouting that he hasn't killed the deal of a lifetimeman. But on their first evening in A body at the place, bottom of a series of strange snapping noises outside begin freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to freak the couple outdeath. They know they are in real trouble when a man DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their windowthe birth of his daughter Samantha. Another enters You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the building words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the only hope they have is that someone will take notice point of Stevenfalling asleep at work but he's phone call determined to the police, cut off by the intruders after keep going - probably because he is able to can't get out only one word – Thisany sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M C BeatonStuart Douglas|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Janes|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apartDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', one in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the south-east and dead body of a woman on the other in the north-eastedge of a reservoir. At first glance they seemed The police seem happy to have nothing to do with each otherassign it as an accidental death, but years later something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. The author has investigated They travel across the connection country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and come up with , seemingly, a riveting booklink to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)0008517061|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]Former Metropolitan Police detective, the first of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of thrillersJake Johnson, was has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a fine stand-alone novel. The second in little uncertainty about the seriesfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson Livia and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]]her daughter Diana, continues the adventures as moving in together would mean a lot of Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's finely crafted anticompromise: does Jake give up his off-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to stop reading Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this review now. I'm about to spoil is the ending future she wants for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1786482126|title=Tooth and ClawThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter site was going to death hold seventy- leaving a singularly gruesome tableau five 'luxury' apartments - and blown when they discovered the bones of a hapless commuter to smithereens at child beneath a railway stationdoorway. There was no skull. He's planning his next Was this a ritual killing or murder already? Inevitably, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his invalid fatherDCI Harry Nelson. Carl It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is embittered and lonely - pregnant with his mother living away and pursuing a career child as a forensic psychologist, there's only him to take care result of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bagone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallysudden bouts of sickness. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 0008551324|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayIt's work. From this point unusual for anyone from the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour Hardie family to approach the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmaspolice. There Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the draftee with a sick mother, police where the nurse who thinks she has run over body of a baby, the woman missing person is buried and who suspects was responsible for her husband of cheating and othersdeath. We are shown what these characters were doing that eveningThis person, he promises, is someone big and how these events drag through to it will be worth the morningpolice doing what he wants. We are shown how in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the midst remainder of their own interestinghis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, poignant is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in she's even prepared to do the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and how these people did nothinganyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0008405026|title=Core of EvilA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas rosesIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. '"There are all kinds of horrible things in She was never found and the Christmas roseinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother," she saidHelena, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear and herfather are dead in their bed. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both Initially, it looks like digitalis, which I've also used before, a straightforward murder/suicide but there's saporin something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and protoanemonin her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as well. It's a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky though it was going to be an open- and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity and, most importantly, shut case is now a new victimcomplex double murder. Daisy has problems with her memory - the identities go back so far Kerrigan is convinced that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all the whos sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's been beforedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganUna Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish0571379877|title=Dead of WinterThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=Loon LakeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Michigan is pictureobsessed with his upper-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely class friends, Robert and snugly in the midst of Stanza. Robert's a pinetheatre director. He's also self-peppered winter wonderlandobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity Edward has been in his life love with Stanza since their university days - and on arrival in Loon Lake he's drunkenly confided how he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidto Robert. A troubled, unhappy child of mixed race, passed around various institutions and foster homes, Louis figures Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that if a relationship had begun between them but he 's not like most men: Edward is going left to put some integrity back into stumble upon the world, he will need to wear two of them kissing in a badge to do itdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca TopeJo Callaghan|title=Fear in the CotswoldsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time it's winter and she's spending a month in man is found crucified on the Cotswold village top of Hampnett. It wouldn't be a job for all of us but Thea delights hill in getting Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to know the local people and case alongside her sidekick, the areaAI detective Lock. In the past sheIt's also their first live case together, having previously been involved very successful with the police in solving various several cold cases but it looks as though that might have come to an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - But when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to there is a second body in found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a nearby fieldlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. When Will they be able to solve the police finally arrive case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the body has disappeared case and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it all., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1035021803|title=Spade and ArcherThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to set the English country village where she grew up his one-man detective agency. ItShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the 1920s in San Francisco so we have circumstances seem suspicious, to say the prohibition era and all that that entailsleast. Many locals, of course, choose Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to disobey the lawvillage: Arthur, stick two fingers upshe feels, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquorlet her down badly. Straight awayEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, it's evident that Sam is a she has not felt able to be near the man of few wordsor pursue the profession she loved. He has After the mannerisms of split, she worked in a cat - stealthycafe, quick met and married James (on his feet. He's also a compulsive chain-smokerthe rebound from the love of her life, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette who was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times murdered) and Freya and James have changednow divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1398524085|title=Stop MeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam ECharlotte 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 -Mails can be incredibly annoyingher husband, Alec, but most of us will have had to deal with themis not. FortunatelyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, we can hit find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they cameriver. I certainly prefer not It was an easy assumption for the police to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'tstand the guilt. But I The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1529900360|title=Blood BornThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers Sturgis was reluctant to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse ask for his help on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothersdifficult cases. But when Anya arrives at His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the house she finds Giverny close to death and faces help of a psychologist only worked for a battle against time to save herwhile. In the panic Finally, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse stillRobin, in trying to save the girlDelaware's lifepartner, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case falls apartdid look simple, though. She blames herself for Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Harbourn brothers being allowed heir to walk free an Italian shoe empire and only hours later there she is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed married to an extremely rich man and raped resulting in it's not the death Italian. But which of one, while them was the other clings to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 178763681X|title=The Brutal Telling|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Early one morning, in the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason Knife Skills for the killing and no clues as to the identity of the victim. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. They've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeginners|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say Goodbye|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hard-working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news is that the boy's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Barrie|title=Wasp-WaistedOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigationsBelgravia. His first case proves He didn't really want to be something but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Parisgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the body is delivered school to Exposéassist Paul, who had a bigbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murdererproblems - are all his own. Despite the provenance of the picture itThe one thing he hadn's difficult not t expected was for someone to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced itturn up dead. All Guerin has to go on is Unfortunately, he was the ''very'' expensive underwear which person who discovered the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529421284|title=HustleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in two formsa heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the long con surface and forensic testing proved the short conbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The long con is more elaborate He'd been a known drug user and has more that can go wronghad learning disabilities, takes so it could have been a lot longer to set up simple case of misadventure but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. This is the art of fleecing Geary was a single person townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a lot of money all Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at oncethe time. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' Lockyer and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game DC Gemma Broad of ''find the ladyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that'', which aims s cold cases to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker you and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1529425867|title=ConmanLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks to the success In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the BBC TV show ''Hustle''Nigerian descent, the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recallBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I've always liked the seriesRyan Wilkins, as it shows a battle son of wits Ryan and there father of Ryan, is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endnot. Until Richard AsplinHe's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Conmanreally''his 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, Iyou'd re not read anything with quite . The two men are just different sides of the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaverpolicing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529431735|title=The ComplaintsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The ComplaintsIt' s February 1991 and Essex is not the job for you if personal popularity mattersbitingly cold, because theywhich made Bruce Hopkins're return all the cops who investigate other copsmore surprising. Inspector Malcolm Fox has He'd been there for some time and at the beginning of the book exiled on the Procurator Fiscal is taking on Costa del Sol as a case against wanted drug smuggler for a serving policemandecade. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who The return has taken come about because he's had a few shortcuts letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and done some unorthodox swaps of information just hasn't long to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwiselive. They don't reckon that heIt's bent hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and there's sent to a degree watery grave in the boot of resentment against Foxa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0861541774|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to take on the case of a missing teenagermeet up with an old ally, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itGuy Trueman. As Maik was involved in a street brawl - he looks into it further, it becomes apparent would later maintain that he was facing a number of young women are being murdered in man armed with a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as knife - and he killed a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victimGhurka. Karl finds himself looking for Initially, he faced a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number charge of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the police do not really care very muchman. Most of Now he could be facing the victims are homeless women with death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a history of drug problems diplomatic incident and a life on the wrong side of the lawwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1521129886|title=No EscapeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=IGreg Mason've long had s just beginning to get his confidence as an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologyinvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The mind is It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a fascinating thing, but it has far baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more spectacular effects delighted about the baby when things go wrongshe gets past the morning sickness. The same Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is true of crime thrillersnot thriving. Lucy, he says, which are a lot more entertaining when things donis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't work out too well for the in his nature. The police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller the coroner have accepted that the death was always going suicide, but Stuart's prepared to appeal pay Greg to mefind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul CharlesB0CK3MYJ56|title=Family LifeResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends It's the 1990s and children were gathered at the family farm for LiamGreg Mason's birthdaytwenty-eight years old. There was just one empty seat at He used to have a high-flying job in the table and city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the family waited for Joe – life experience that backs up this profession? On the only one of the children who wanted to farm – other hand, he has been asked to return homelook into something. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joekilled in what's body had been discovered on land by written off as a disused warehousetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. There were no injuries to the body Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Starrett Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could only assume that Joe had come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been murderedasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1838954481|title=The Gigolo MurderMisper|author=Kate London|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=After Ryan Kennedy killed a breakpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and selfyear-pity for too long, so his friend, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on old holding the town in Istanbulgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem He pulled the trigger but due to whom the vagaries of the jury system he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be married. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of a gigolothe officer. And so lives must go on. Our hero suspects For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the brother-capital and hoping for a quieter life in-law is not guilty... the countryside but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1448309743|title=Skeleton HillThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When In the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle village of Cronchie on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple the West coast of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one Scotland, five members of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay coolstone is removed from Otterburn House, but after unearthing two can he can find no moredeath will follow. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that it's a relic an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the battlebody. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone The Senior Investigating Office is nowhere near as old as they thinkDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who DCI Christine Caplan is buried pulled in that lonely spotto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
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