|summary=All contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a remote north-eastern coast of Greenland. There are some signs of what might have happened to them - and none of them good - but the local villagers have no intention of helping in any search and are hostile when they're approached. Six months before a woman geologist had disappeared from the same site and although this was written off as a potential suicide or dreadful accident no definitive explanation had been forthcoming. Was her disappearance related to the disappearance of the two men? Lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir was part of the team hired to investigate the disappearances.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700103</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Evonne Wareham
|title=Never Coming Home
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kaz Elmore has almost come to terms with her daughter's death. She died while on holiday in America with her father (Kaz's ex husband) and her ashes have been scattered on the river. As tragic as it is, Kaz has no alternative but to accept that her daughter is never coming back. However, one day she receives a visit from a man called Devlin, who witnessed the accident and was holding Jamie when she died. His sole intention is to provide some comfort for Kaz by telling her that her daughter was not alone but when he spots photographs of Jamie, he realises that she is not the child who died in his arms.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931704</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Colin Cotterill
|title=Grandad There's a Head on the Beach
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Things have moved on since we [[Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill|first met]] ex-crime reporter, Jimm Juree, stranded at the Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurant with most of her dysfunctional family. I say 'most' because the sister who used to be a brother and who has criminal tendencies isn't with them and when I say 'moved on' I mean that the tide has been in and out quite a few times. This time it's washed up something a little unusual: a head. Uncertain of what, exactly, you do when you find a head on the beach, Jimm sets off to see the village head man. It's the start of a journey which will uncover piracy and slavery, violence and murder in what should be a beautiful part of the world, but isn't.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387081</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Quentin Bates
|title=Cold Comfort
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Since we [[Frozen Out by Quentin Bates|last met]] Sergeant Gunnhildur she's been promoted and is now working in the Serious Crimes Unit in Reykjavik. It's quite a contrast to her previous job in Hvalvick, but Gunna is determined to make a go of it and it's not long before she has responsibility for two very different cases. A convict has escaped and seems as though he's determined to settle old scores, but why did he need to escape when his ten-year sentence was almost up? The other case is rather more high profile: an ex-TV fitness presenter is murdered in her city apartment and some of the people who knew her are rather well known.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013616</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Terry Murphy
|title=Weekend in Weighton
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Eddie G (well, it's Eddie Greene, actually, but Eddie G sounds so much more street-wise, don't you think?) has a hundred percent record of solving the cases he takes on as a private investigator. That sounds very impressive until you find out that he's only just taken on his first case, but it's a mark of his determination to succeed. The first blip on the radar which suggests that all might not be well is finding the clap-cold body of his client on her living-room floor when it's not fifteen minutes since he spoke to her on the phone.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0072Z5EHA</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Corban Addison
|title=A Walk Across The Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Chennai, India, 17 year old Ahalya and her 15 year old sister, Sita, watch as their family and entire world is swept away by the now infamous Christmas tsunami. In the aftermath, Ahalya knows that, if the sisters can get to their school in the city, they'll be safe. However, not everyone is to be trusted and their trip to safety turns into a drive towards a darker danger as the girls are kidnapped and sold to a trafficking network.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857388193</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Elanor Dymott
|title=Every Contact Leaves a Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=We learn from the prologue that the narrator, Oxford educated lawyer, Alex's wife has been murdered. We also know that Alex knew little of his wife, Rachel's past, particularly of the time that they spent together at Worcester College. This is critical in understanding who may have killed her, and why. What follows is Alex learning about this hidden past. ''Every Contact Leaves a Trace'' is partly a thriller and partly a whodunnit although the structure adopted by Elanor Dymott is somewhat unusual.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224094033</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Xavier-Marie Bonnot and Justin Phipps (translator)
|title=The Voice of the Spirits: A Commandant de Palma Investigation
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1936 explorer Robert Ballancourt and his guide Kaingara visit a tribe of head hunters in Papua New Guinea. Ballancourt, seeking artefacts to sell on to museums, is drawn to the highly decorated skulls venerated by the tribe as they hold the spirits of dead ancestors and conquered enemies.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705077X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Chris Pavone
|title=The Expats
|sort= Expats
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kate and Dexter Moore move to Luxembourg, along with their two young sons; a world away from their native Washington DC. The incentive is Dexter's great new job which will mean an expat lifestyle for a year or two, but good money and the chance to explore Europe. In the process Kate will be turning her back on more than Dexter realises. Up till their move to Luxembourg, Kate has led a secret double life as a CIA operative. As Kate comes to terms with the boredom of being a full-time housewife in an alien culture, they meet Bill and Julie, also expat Americans. They soon become friends, but Kate has her suspicions and discovers that the past is never far away.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571279147</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Haynes
|title=Revenge of the Tide
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Genevieve worked as a sales executive by day and a pole dancer by night but her dream was to buy and renovate a boat where she could live. That was why she persisted in the pressured, chauvinistic world of software sales and the increasingly sleazy world of the private gentleman's club where she could earn a four figure sum each evening as well as getting a good workout. It was nip-and-tuck as to whether or not she made it but after a few months on the boat at a marina on the Medway she was feeling good enough about her life to hold a boat-warming party. It was planned as a mixture of the people she'd met at the marina and some of her sales colleagues from London. But on the night of the party a body washed up at the side of her boat and Genevieve knew the victim.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956792642</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)
|title=Nights of Awe (Ariel Kafka Mystery)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=
Inspector Ari Kafka (no relation to the author or, indeed, the local pawn shop owner) is half of the Jewish police officers in Finland which he's sure is due to pay levels rather than religious conviction. Ari graduated 4th in his class at police academy which surprised his mother at the time. If his brother and sister could both graduate top of their university classes, what's wrong with him? His brother is always trying to encourage his attendance at family dinners and the local rabbi has to remind him of the whereabouts of the local synagogue. All this pressure is normally water off a duck's back to Kafka, but this is about to change. When two Arab bodies are found on a railway line, he must choose between loyalties to those he loves and to those he's sworn to serve.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738923</amazonuk>
}}
