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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1035043092|title=KillerThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Here at I can't have been the Bookbagonly person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, weBook 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It've s been very impressed with Dave Zeltsermanseven years since we heard from him, but he's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the heart daughter of the storyhis former partner. His story telling is very straightforwardWillow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, not weighing down but when the story with too much stylebody of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, but sticking to in the substance and delivering aftermath of a hard-hitting work every timestorm, she can't resist getting involved. With He''Killer'', he has done d been battered about the same againhead with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen HunterhenleyA|title=I, SniperUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You don't often find novels or films based on the art of the sniperEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Hiding out for hours motionless and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesnUnfortunately, his daughter't make for as interesting s defence against a story as a face murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to face shoot outretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. But with That's what 'ordinary people do'I, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed to combine ' He's not been entirely up front about the art state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the sniper with the art thought of the crime thriller in money he could make that convinces him that this is a decent readmiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1529934753|title=The MissingProtest|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992For a little while, Sarah Finchit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's twelve year old brother Charlie says most famous living artist, was not going to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soonshow up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy.'' Sixteen years laterStill, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his family are still waiting to find out two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened . Being an influencer, you tend to himdo things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Now in her twenties Lexi Williams, Sarah is teaching an intern at the RA, grabbed a local private school while looking after her uncaring motherspray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, who since Charliewhilst shouting 's disappearance has slid into alcoholism'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett0008551375|title=The Godfather of Kathmandu|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but it's the latter rather than the former which is likely to hold up his promotion in the Thai police force, where he's a detective. He's also the part owner of a brothel where his mother, Nong, is the madam in charge. It's no problem for his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has a few illegal interests of his own. He's currently in competition with the head of the army, General Zinna, to see who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for sale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Richard North Patterson|title=The SpireNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers Leanne Wilson's body was found at the body bottom of a black fellow studentScottish mountain, Angela Hall, at seemingly the foot result of the spire in the centre of the college he attends, he little suspects that his best friend will be charged with the murdera tragic accident. Now She'd looked so happy, sixteen years latertoo, Darrow is backwhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, at the invitation of his mentor and but it looked like she was living her best life now college provost, Lionel Farr, to become president of the college in order to rebuild its reputation after a case of embezzlement has left the college . Then it emerged that five other women had died in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer similar circumstances in the intervening years)last year. As Darrow digs into All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what happened with they were doing and sensible people. None of the college finances, he also begins 'what a stupid thing to look afresh at the trial of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as chargeddo' explanations applied. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provost They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's troubled, but beautiful, daughter. Is the real a killer still at large and are on the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>loose.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp0008643660|title=Among ThievesThe Burial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some valuable paintings were stolen from of the excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the United Statesgroup begin receiving threatening letters. The Jake Jackson, a former police investigation failed detective, is trying to find them and many felt they were lost foreverlead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. But soon Reading the paintings letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and their whereabouts would even the local police are keen that Jake should be impacting on many people's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>involved.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1529425905|title=Dark Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, are worried. Yes the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere A Voice in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with the TV producers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=David Baldacci|title=True BlueSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie MeldonThere's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ex-criminal-defence attorneyambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, now in private practiceand they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, leaves his office very late one nightBaliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's met by the FBImarried to Diane and has twin sons. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead in a dumpster. Mace Perry Management's opinion of him is working out, trying to stay fit, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple that he thinks too highly of dayshimself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end' time. Perry was Ryan Wilkins comes from a coptrailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's never really left it. Under-coverHe lives in shell suits and tracksuits, maverick and darn good at her jobalways in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Until Wainwright feels that she ended up stoned on meth, busted for robbery, convicted and sent downwould be best shut of both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas1529077745|title=The Chalk Circle ManDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. An unlikely police commissaireA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, he's an acquired taste a care home for his colleaguestroubled teens. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the most obtuse things night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in his pursuit to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the truth, and endlessly doodlingresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes a surprisingly perceptive ability Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced Chloe to discover what happened to solveJosh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Rowden1529428289|title=More Deaths Than OneA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Constable Thomas 'Thorny' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement in a case and so is taken by his wifeBecause of various property transactions, Marypeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to recuperate in Bruno, the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during the war. He expects Chief of Police for St Denis, to be bored - the most interesting thing on discover the horizon is a case identities of missing gnomes. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left the force in bodies and establish whether or not a haze of suspicioncrime had been committed. Shortly afterwards As if this isn't enough to worry about, a body the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is found on flowing at record levels. It's not just the beach. Even stranger is local autumn rains that have caused the dead man is someone that Thorny problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and his colleague thought had died during St Denis faces the war. It seems that things are not as they seempossibility of a devastating flood. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton152919640X|title=U is for UndertowThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in LondonThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one of the first books we read was a Sue Grafton alphabet booksuspect. I had, up to this point, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such books, He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and so I was dubious about what I'd have his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to say about it. That book changed my literary life. I devoured itJessica Holby. I couldnShe't get enough! I immediately searched for all the other books s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in the series and read them quickly, one by one, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world case of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading listemergencies. And so now, years later, I find myself with the latest book Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in the alphabet series lying in my lapa busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a happy smile on my face as I ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen BlackB0CYV674G2|title=Dishonour|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from the sink estates. Thin, angry, rebellious, but with an ability to charm and a serious talent for art that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girls. Hard-working, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful to their families. They're also English teenagers, with a fair dose of what that normally implies. Jack is a copper, overlooked for the interesting cases Swanton Morley (like murderJohn Tanner), good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted to the job, always trying to do the right thing, and not always succeeding. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distraction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M J Trow|title=Maxwell's RetirementDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a dinosaur and even freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he realises 's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just how far adrift he is when some back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesdaughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He might prefer 's sleep-deprived to make a phone call or send a note when the need arises, point of falling asleep at work but this isn't the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's determined to keep going to have to climb a steep learning curve if - probably because hecan's to help his students through the problemt get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David KesslerStuart Douglas|title=MercyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In some waysDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the first line edge of this novel says a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it all: 'It's hard as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hourshelp him investigate matters further.' From this moment onThey travel across the country during their days off filming, the action comes thick uncovering more possible murders and fast, leaving seemingly, a link to death during the reader with barely the breath to murmer 'Second World War. But is it there really probable that all this was left to a link between the last daydeaths?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactory. And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall0008517061|title=The DisappearedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn ValleyFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It's now some months later There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and whilst she's settled into the job relaxing life to some extent her relationship move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her officer, Alison, reservations about whether or not this is uneven and the future she's still shaky mentally wants for herself and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care to admit. her daughter? She's a feisty woman though For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and determined that she's going to do putting the future on the job properlyback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1786482126|title=CapturedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy- brain cancer is hitting him just as hefive 'luxury's barely turning fortyapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As Was this a result he compiles a short list of rights to wrongritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and people to create closure Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working withDCI Harry Nelson. OneIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his ex-wife, might not be easy, two concern child as a misguided sense result of a guilt of oldthe one night they spent together some three months ago. The fourth turns out to Her condition will be a missing woman. The journey he takes in that redemptive exercise obvious before long, not least because Ruth is not for the squeamishprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0008551324|title=The Merry MisogynistDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to Madame Daeng and despite approach the fact that they have a combined age of going on police. Neither side likes or has any respect for a hundred the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and forty theyhe're behaving like s prepared to tell the newly-weds they are. Even being police where the reluctant coroner for the Republic body of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm a missing person is buried and who was responsible for lifeher death. WellThis person, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man promises, is wooing someone big and wedding girls in various parts of it will be worth the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treespolice doing what he wants. What And what he does wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his victims leaves the morgue staff sickenedsentence and to get an early parole date. ThereNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a determination even prepared to find do the man responsible other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and bring anyone who works with him to justiceis kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 0008405026|title=A Hard DeathStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I 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 a fresh readerhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, so to speakand her father are dead in their bed. His writing biography on Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the inside cover positioning of the book is impressivebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. My expectations were high. All the ingredients are in place for What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a good thrillercomplex double murder. The location Kerrigan is The Everglades convinced that the explanation lies in Florida. BroodingRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, enigmatic, awe-inspiring and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutesUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0571379877|title=Curse of the Pogo StickThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his reactions in front of Judge Haengupper-class friends, but occasionally he forgot himself Robert and was more insolent than usualStanza. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant)Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, communist (even more reluctantly) handsome and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge entitled and the Justice Departmentuses Edward to run errands for him. Nurse Dtui (pregnant Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and married, although not in the usual order of events) is left he's drunkenly confided how he feels to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be a help, but probably not in the way that you might expectRobert. As if Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, thererelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappeddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathi Unsworth Jo Callaghan|title=Bad Penny BluesLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into When a man is found crucified on the seedy underbelly top of London on a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the cusp of case alongside her sidekick, the Swinging SixtiesAI detective Lock. It'Bad Penny Blues' 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 the story of the hunt for suddenly struggling with a brutal potential serial killer targeting prostitutes in the west and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the citycase in time, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from or will Kat find herself taken off the Caribbean case and Ireland, bohemian artists and media typespotentially, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre out of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield1035021803|title=Cold The Antique Hunter's Guide to the TouchMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereIt's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlytwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a cold, dark London morning, sheShe's distraught back now because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing to do with of a request for help from herbeloved aunt, Carole. Jess is a talented chef but sheFreya's former mentor and Carole's short of work – close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over least. Arthur was the host at a dinner party did reason why Freya had not enhance been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighteddown badly. Sarah senses her vulnerabilityEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, but it's Jess who organises she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the let of one of her mother's cottages in profession she loved. After the sea-side town where split, she grew up so that Sarah can have worked in a long break cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the flat where she still smells a recent firelove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1398524085|title=Bloody WomenHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald Paul and by the title Ollie and blurbher daughter, I expected a standard crimeEtty. are all worried but - strangely -thriller novelher husband, Alec, is not. But early on Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, I realised this wasnin the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the caseguilt. The novel was a kind of black comedy and written Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with wit and humour, despite the theme of murder their lives and violencewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529900360|title=The Bodies Left BehindGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and her husband Steven decided even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity ask for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, his help on foreclosure – it seemed like difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the deal help of a lifetimepsychologist only worked for a while. But on their first evening in Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the placeman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outthough. They know they are Two lovers were murdered in real trouble when the swimming pool of a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their windowremote property in Bel Air. Another enters He was the building heir to an Italian shoe empire and the only hope they have she is that someone will take notice of Stevenmarried to an extremely rich man and it's phone call to not the police, cut off by Italian. But which of them was the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton178763681X|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not Chef Paul Delamare took a happy womanteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a much younger woman way of getting both men and Agatha has been invited women to the weddingdo what he wanted. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to Paul ''somehow'' got the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before impression that he'd be at the weddingschool to assist Paul, when he makes who had a broken arm, but it clear didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he has changed his mind and wants hadn't expected was for someone to pull out of the weddingturn up dead. Then Unfortunately, he was the bride is killed, by a bullet through person who discovered the window, body and James and Agatha are everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the primary suspectsprime suspect. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1529421284|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & Laying Out the Morpeth Train RobberyBones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Edwardian England less than two years aparta heatwave. In a gully, one in a human skeleton came to the south-east surface and forensic testing proved the other in the north-eastbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. At first glance they seemed to He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have nothing to do with each other, been a simple case of misadventure but years later DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a link between them townie, so what was hinted he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at though never proved beyond doubtthe time. The author has investigated Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the connection Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and come up with a riveting bookme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|authortitle=Stieg Larsson Lost and Reg Keeland Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the first son of Ryan and father of Steig LarssonRyan, is not. He's Millennium trilogy not any of thrillersthose things. He's white, was originated from a fine stand-alone novel. The second in the seriestrailer park, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland barely educated (translatorreading's not ''really'' his thing)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures and his wardrobe consists mainly of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonshell suits and trackies. They's finely crafted anti-herore usually in lime green or acid yellow. If You might wonder if you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you re being introduced to stop reading this review nowa police procedural written for laughs. I Well, you'm about to spoil re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529431735|title=Tooth and ClawThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer It's February 1991 and Essex is on the loosebitingly cold, and yet again which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the police have failed to connect more surprising. He'd been exiled on the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured Costa del Sol as a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at wanted drug smuggler for a railway stationdecade. He The return has come about because he's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with had a letter from his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely ex- with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologistwife, theresaying that she's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just ill and hasn't long to bear it, really. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ryan David Jahn |title=Acts of Violence|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from worklive. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayIt's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour hard to the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There feel any sympathy when Hopkins is the draftee with a sick motherabducted, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating stripped to his underwear and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through sent to the morning. We are shown how a watery grave in the midst boot of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothingstolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0861541774|title=Core A Nye of EvilPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
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|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. DCI Domenic Jejeune'"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas roses close friend and former colleague," she saidDanny Maik, watching has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalismeet up with an old ally, which I've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as wellGuy Trueman. It's Maik was involved in a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky street brawl - and graphically effluent he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on he killed a new townGhurka. Initially, he faced a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Daisy has problems with her memory - Now he could be facing the identities go back so far that sometimes she death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can barely remember who is she is now, let alone do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the whos she's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she began. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1521129886|title=Dead of WinterThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is pictureapproached by an old friend whose brother-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandlaw appears to have killed himself. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in Stuart's concerned about his life sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has her son is not been easy for Kincaidthriving. A troubledLucy, unhappy child of mixed racehe says, passed around various institutions is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and foster homes, Louis figures the coroner have accepted that if he is going to put some integrity back into the worlddeath was suicide, he will need but Stuart's prepared to wear a badge pay Greg to do itfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca TopeB0CK3MYJ56|title=Fear in the CotswoldsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|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 itIt's winter the 1990s and sheGreg Mason's spending twenty-eight years old. He used to have a month high-flying job in the Cotswold village of Hampnett. It wouldncity but it wasn't be satisfying so he's now set himself up as a job for all private investigator. 'Shades of us Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but Thea delights in getting to know where's the local people and life experience that backs up this profession? On the areaother hand, he has been asked to look into something. In the past sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks written off as though that might have come to a tragic accident at an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledunmanned level crossing. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and a foolish one Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - when or how she finds footsteps in the snow which lead could come to a body fall in front of a nearby fieldtrain. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if sheGreg's imagined it allbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1838954481|title=Spade and ArcherThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agencyRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. It's He was the 1920s in San Francisco so we have fifteen-year-old holding the prohibition era gun and all that that entailspointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Many locals, He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of course, choose to disobey both the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak murder and as a result there's lots the manslaughter of bootleg liquorthe officer. Straight away, it's evident And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that Sam is means leaving the capital and hoping for a man of few words. He has quieter life in the mannerisms of countryside but when a cat - stealthy, quick missing teenager is found on his feet. Heher territory she's also drawn into a compulsive chainwider investigation -smoker, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changedand back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1448309743|title=Stop Me|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most of us will have had to deal with them. Fortunately, we can hit the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they came. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I don't. But I 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>}} {{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Kathryn Fox|title=Blood BornCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to In the courthouse village of Cronchie on the day she West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at Devil Stone: myth says that if the house she finds Giverny close to stone is removed from Otterburn House, death and faces a battle against time to save herwill follow. In the panic The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Anya fails to take note that's an easy conclusion given that two of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girlthem 'discovered's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apartbody. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting pulled in the death of one, while the other clings to life'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529077699|title=The Brutal TellingRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|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''It's no sign of a weaponall bloody peculiar, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues as to the identity of the victim. Meanwhileisn't it, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. TheySir?''ve been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box 1529427045|title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Three Weeks Life has more to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hardoffer than people -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 boyprime numbers for example'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>}}
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