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|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayess twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She' bestseller s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Precious Bloods former mentor and Carole' so I was a fresh readers close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, so to speaksay the least. His writing biography on Arthur was the inside cover of reason why Freya had not been back to the book is impressivevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. My expectations Even though they were highin business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. All After the ingredients are split, she worked in place for a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Florida. Broodingcafe, enigmaticmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, awe-inspiring who was murdered) and Freya and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutesJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1398524085|title=Curse of the Pogo StickHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usualnever turned up. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant)Her children, sons Niall, communist (even more reluctantly) Paul and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge Ollie and the Justice Departmenther daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Nurse Dtui (pregnant Shortly afterwards, Etty and marriedGreg, although not in find the usual order body of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who mightGreg's father, or might not be a helpDuncan Ackerley, but probably not in the way that you might expectriver. As if It was an easy assumption for the police to make that wasnDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's a geriatric hit-person little else they can do but get on the loose with their lives and Siri is kidnappedwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1529900360|title=Bad Penny BluesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiesdifficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'Bad Penny Blues' is t need the story help of the hunt a psychologist only worked for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the west of involvement was something that the cityman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, at though. Two lovers were murdered in the time swimming pool of a melting pot of immigrants from remote property in Bel Air. He was the Caribbean heir to an Italian shoe empire and Ireland, bohemian artists she is married to an extremely rich man and media types, and even peersit's not the Italian. Carnaby Street But which of them was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>primary target?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield178763681X|title=Cold to the TouchKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica HurlyChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her way of getting both men and it seems that her mother wants nothing women to do with herwhat he wanted. Jess is a talented chef but shePaul ''somehow''s short of work – got the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over impression that he'd be at the host at school to assist Paul, who had a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighted. Sarah senses her vulnerabilitybroken arm, but itdidn's Jess who organises t turn out that way. The teaching - and the let of problems - are all his own. The one of her motherthing he hadn's cottages in t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the sea-side town where she grew up so police consider that Sarah can have a long break from person to be the flat where she still smells a recent fireprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1529421284|title=Bloody WomenLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women''It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, I hadn't heard of a human skeleton came to the author Helen Fitzgerald surface and by forensic testing proved the title body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and blurbhad learning disabilities, I expected so it could have been a standard crime-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't the caseconvinced. The novel Geary was a kind townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of black comedy Holly Gilbert and written with wit to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and humour, despite DC Gemma Broad of the theme of murder Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and violenceme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529425867|title=The Bodies Left BehindLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesIn Oxford, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsinthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal of a lifetimeBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. But on their first evening in the place D I Ryan Wilkins, a series son of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple out. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun Ryan and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and the only hope they have is that someone will take notice father of Steven's phone call to the policeRyan, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – Thisnot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M C Beaton|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is He's not a happy womanany of those things. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse He's white, her ex-husbandoriginated from a trailer park, James, is getting married barely educated (reading's not ''really'' 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 much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the weddingpolice procedural written for laughs. She goes Well, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possibleyou're not. She sees James The two men are just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants to pull out different sides of the weddingsame policing coin. Then Sometimes the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspectscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1529431735|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in the south-east and the other in the north-east. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt. The author has investigated the connection and come up with a riveting book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWinter Visitor|author=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestJames Henry

|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson It's February 1991 and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Dragon Tattoo]], more surprising. He'd been exiled on the first of Steig LarssonCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, was had a fine standletter from his ex-alone novel. The second in the serieswife, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonsaying that she's finely crafted anti-hero. If you havenill and hasn't read this second volume yet I advise you long to stop reading this review nowlive. I It'm about s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to spoil a watery grave in the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0861541774|title=Tooth and ClawA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Another serial killer is on the looseDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, and yet again the police have failed has taken a short holiday in Singapore to connect the deathsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Carl Whittley has just tortured Maik was involved in a glamorous TV presenter to death street brawl - leaving he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a singularly gruesome tableau knife - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at he killed a railway stationGhurka. He's planning his next murder already Initially, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as faced a forensic psychologist, there's only him to take care charge of his severely disabled father: manslaughter but evidence came to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just 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 work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard day's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasman. There is Now he could be facing the draftee with a sick mother, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and othersdeath penalty. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to the morning. We are shown how in the midst of their own interesting, poignant help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which wouldn't help Danny at all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1521129886|title=Core of EvilThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. '"There are all kinds of horrible things in investigator to the Christmas rose," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I've also used before, but therepoint where he's saporin and protoanemonin as wellll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a very nasty cocktailgood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- and graphically effluent in- endlaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new townson is not thriving. Lucy, a new identity andhe says, most importantly, a new victimis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. Daisy has problems with her memory - The police and the identities go back so far coroner have accepted that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is nowthe death was suicide, let alone all the whos she but Stuart's been before, and most certainly not prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the who with whom she begannight Gil died. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J ParrishB0CK3MYJ56|title=Dead of WinterResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely It's the 1990s and snugly in the midst of a pineGreg Mason's twenty-peppered winter wonderlandeight years old. Louis Kincaid needs He used to have a little serenity high-flying job in his life and on arrival in Loon Lake the city but it wasn't satisfying so he feels almost 's now set himself up as if a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidasked to look into something. A troubledJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, unhappy child of mixed raceor rather, passed around various institutions they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and foster homesher parents, Louis figures that if he is going Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to put some integrity back into the world, he will need to wear fall in front of a badge train. Greg's been asked to do itinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1838954481|title=Fear in the CotswoldsThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Thea Osborne is Ryan Kennedy killed a house sitter by professionpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. When people go away she moves into their homes He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and looks after their animals and the propertypointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. This time it's winter and she's spending a month in He pulled the trigger but due to the Cotswold village vagaries of Hampnett. It wouldn't be a job for all the jury system he was found not guilty of us but Thea delights in getting to know both the local people murder and the areamanslaughter of the officer. In the past she's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks as though that might have come to an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledAnd so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the first time Thea feels like an outsider – capital and hoping for a foolish one - when she finds footsteps quieter life in the snow which lead to countryside but when a body in missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a nearby field. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared wider investigation - and back into the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it allorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1448309743|title=Spade and ArcherThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Sam Spade decidesIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agencyfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. It's The only item missing from the 1920s in San Francisco so we have home is the prohibition era and all that Devil Stone: myth says that entails. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey if the law, stick two fingers upstone is removed from Otterburn House, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquordeath will follow. Straight awayThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, itthat's evident an easy conclusion given that Sam is a man two of few words. He has them 'discovered' the mannerisms of a cat - stealthy, quick on his feetbody. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but then againwhen he disappears, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changedDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker1529077699|title=Stop MeThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5

|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying''It's all bloody peculiar, 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 donisn't. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and deathit, rather than just claiming to beSir?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Kathryn Fox|title=Blood Born|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimWell yes, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she it is due to testify against . Jem Rosco blew into the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at local pub one evening in the house she finds Giverny close to death middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and faces dead, in a battle against time small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to save herthe village of Greystone, in Devon. In Rosco had the panic, Anya fails to take note status of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse stillnational treasure: a renowned adventurer, in trying to save round the girlworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''s life. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, Anya has interfered he could be more than a little bit close with a crime scene money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the case falls apart. She blames herself money for his first boat? How did he finance the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>trip?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529427045|title=The Brutal TellingGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|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 ''Life has been bludgeoned more to death, but thereoffer than people - prime numbers for example's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason 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>}}

{{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is area have sparked a talented exorcist living in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd humangold rush. His best friend, Rafi, The criminal underworld has not been taken over by a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsibleslow in coming forward. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically area to kill everyone who has anything to do have vanished without trace. It was only with Rafi. Felix himself reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala 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, Julietremarkably gifted teenager who's lover. At unaware of the same time, there are horrible things going on part Salander played in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to dieher father's death. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box 1787636607|title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=24.5

|summary=It''Three Weeks s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to Say Goodbyeget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hard-working, regular guy (more particularly in the light of that in a minute though)'the missing women'. Nine months previously For one young woman, 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 final stop on the forms bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants chance to take beg the baby backbus driver to let her use his. Even worse news is that the boy There's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks no option but to say goodbye to their daughterstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1405957174|title=Wasp-WaistedA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of From the elite, dealing with national securityfirst page, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded hewe know that Nadine Walsh's been moved into criminal investigationsparty will not end well. His first case proves to be something of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Paris. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body is delivered to Exposé, The victim - a bigman -circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered dying when we first meet him and it can only have been taken by Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the murdererambulance he so desperately needs. Despite What we don't know is who the provenance of the picture it's difficult not man is or why Nadine prefers to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced ithave him die. All Guerin has to go on is the I''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or d better give you a little more background so that you might almost say ''modelling'can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 0008530025|title=HustleMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=Cons generally come It was in two forms, the long con December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the short con. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrongbody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, takes a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightin the garden of their West London home. This is He had an injury on the art back of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at oncehis head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and Richard Asplinit's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game now the subject of ''find the ladyInfamous'', which aims to part as many people from a little bit true-crime show. A group of money as quickly as possibleexperts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. The short con may have a lower returnMore to the point, but that return comes a lot quicker and they're going to do this is live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the basis for Will Fergusonwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's ''Hustle''compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 0241996104|title=ConmanComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Thanks to the success of the BBC TV show ''Hustle'Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, the art has been convicted of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recalltheir murder. I've always liked We first meet Nancy outside the seriescourt, as it shows after Martin receives a battle of wits and there is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endlife sentence. Until Richard AsplinThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence'Conman- she'', I'd s not read been found guilty of anything but will have to live with quite what happened for the same level rest of intricacyher life. Of course, although Jeffery Deaverit's ''The Vanished Man'' comes close.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Rankin |title=The Complaints|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Working in 'The Complaints' is not the job for you if personal popularity matters, made worse because theyNancy're s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been there for some time and at papers are making the beginning most of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policemanit. Most people think that Glen Heaton ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts one favourite epithet and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice ''rich bitch'' might not be served otherwiseprinted but is undoubtedly spoken. They don't reckon that he's bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar1529413680|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane Novel|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant to take on the case of a missing teenager, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into it. As he looks into it furtherChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, it becomes apparent that a number Chief of young women are being murdered in a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victim. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear that the police do not really care very much. Most of the victims are homeless women with a history of drug problems and a life on the wrong side of the law.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=N J Cooper|title=No EscapeMartin Walker

|summary=IOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It've long had an interest in psychologys all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, particularly abnormal psychologythe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The mind Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a fascinating thingsenior government employee, but it the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has far more spectacular effects when things go wrongstepped in. The same One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is true flying in with some of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things donher father't work out too well s friends for the police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to mepre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1529196388|title=Family LifeThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=The Sweeney family along with wivesGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, girlfriends and children were gathered so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the family farm for Liam's birthdayOld Bailey. There was 's just one empty seat at man in the table frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the family waited best barrister for Joe – the only one him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the children Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who wanted to farm – to return homeeventually represent him. It wasnKnight't Joe who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joes determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's body had been discovered on land by a disused warehouse. There were no injuries recommendations to the body and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murderedcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mehmet Murat Somer Andrew Cartmel|title=The Gigolo MurderDeath in Fine Condition

|summary=After a break-upCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and self-pity for too long, so his friend, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbulparticular a series called Sleuth Hound. While She spends her time hunting outcopies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attractedadd value, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be marriedin somewhat fraudulent ways. However One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this meeting involves our hero in a new murder casecollection is, when Pekerdemand how she can steal it! It's brother-in-law is accused of the murder of a gigolo. Our hero suspects that the brothernext-level step in-law is not guilty... her petty crime career, but can he prove it? And if he is righthas she reached too far, then who is and what will happen when the owner of the real killercollection comes looking for their books?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>1789098947

 {{newreview|author=Peter Lovesey |title=Skeleton Hill|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When the Sealed Knot re-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a six-pack in the shade of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no more. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that it's a relic of the battle. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out that the bone is nowhere near as old as they think, but the head of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Brownlee |title=Bait|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jake Moore was in the Flying Squad but a bullet put paid to his career and ten years later he's running a game-fishing business on the Kenyan coast. Times are hard and there's every chance that the business will fold unless he and his partner, Harry, can find the money to pay their bills. Some strange things are happening in the game fishing business too – one of their number has died in a mysterious explosion on his boat and the body of a man who shouldn't have been aboard has been washed up on the shore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749928840</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Pynchon 1448309379|title=Inherent Vice|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The close of the '60s, the dawn of the '70s. San Francisco. Some people say the most influential people are Nixon Flesh and his cronies. Some people say they're Charlie Manson and his cronies. Some people call the smog surrounding everyone in the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug haze. Doc, the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point to the same bigwig property developer. One of these is from his ex, now with said mogul, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately dies. How will this escalate into a manic mystery, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBlood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark Billingham |title=Bloodline

|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murder. However, slivers It's something of an X-Ray are found in the a surprise to find that you're dead woman, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife and children, but that's handwhat happened to DS Aector McAvoy. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, alive, and it is soon discovered that was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the womanpartially clad man who's mother was murdered by d dashed from her flat in the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with early hours of the same modus operandi soon prove morning when it was obvious that someone is out to murder all the children of Raymond Garvey'swas tampering with her car, was not... That someone may just be Garvey Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's bastard son, doppelganger - and not everyone who believes commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that the tumour that killed his father meant that Garvey Pharoah was not responsible for his actionssweet on Aector. Can Thorne trace the killer's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1529135389|title=The Dead Room|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick series, the Dead Room sees the head of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises that the case is more complicated than she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her father's death in the line of duty wasn't all that it seemed to be. Meanwhile, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husband's murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFall|author=Kate Ellis |title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)Gilly Macmillan

|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub and Nicole Booth had spent the following morning at the body county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of one of them her husband but opera was found in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by playing on the cruellystate-treated children of long-defunct Ragged School. The teenager had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there was a Victorian doll – similarly mutilated. Back in the nineteen fifties there has been four murders -art music system installed in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled and mutilated and left with a doll by their side. The killer had never been brought to justiceGlass Barn. HeThey'd be likely to be not been in his seventies by now – was it possible that he was the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still fit enough getting used to return to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Dawes Green|title=Ravens|rating=4all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Shaw Some of them fought with each other and Romeo are two friends, moving across country for a new life, when didn't work as reliably as they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has just should. It had the only winning lottery ticket for all come about through a $318million jackpot. The family involved is very average ten-million- slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up for the weekly pound lottery win and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebookthey were still getting used to having that sort of money, boy glued to a PSP or somethingtoo. There are enough gaps within Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the family for the pair of guys swimming pool with a wound to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winningshis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leigh RussellAlan Parks|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)To Die in June

|summary=An au pair took her employer's young daughter, the next-door neighbour's son and his friend to What first seems like the parkunfortunate, but the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy and with the wilfulness accidental death of a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into homeless man on the bushesstreets, where she knew that she must not go. In there she used a stick suddenly starts to stir up some leaves and uncovered the feel like something more sinister as another body of a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elliott J Gorn |title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One|rating=4|genre=History|summary=John Dillinger was born is discovered, and brought up in Indianathen another. His childhood was no better and no worse than most This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the early part of more so because his adult life was to be blighted by own father is a spell in prison when he was convicted of an attack on a man in a botched hold-up. Hoping for leniency he pleaded guilty but was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonmentdown and out alcoholic, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty no fixed abode, and when convicted received a shorter sentence. It's easy to see where Dillinger's contempt for the law was spawned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia |title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes he has been for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells At the story of how he came same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enoughdifferent police station, then just consider that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Brownlee |title=Burn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa the problems start mounting up again. A nun arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing in mysterious circumstances and , only no record of the local priest doesn't seem all that worriedboy having existed can be found. After a meal Something feels wrong - not just with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – woman’s story but how also with the other officers where he had got into the fort ion the first placehas been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. Kenya's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Teller 1804545600|title=The Tenth CaseMonk|author=Tim Sullivan

|summary=I am The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a great fan of courtroom dramas, which is one of the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and I pretty much look on him as the master of Major Crime Unit establish that this genreis Father Dominic. So, when I discover He'd been missing for a book that claims that it's few days and certainly hadn''better than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound t asked permission to be interestedleave his abbey. This was As the claim made by team gradually unpick the publishers of monk''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read s past it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all becomes clear that he writes lives up to expectations. So could this book beat'd been well-loved as an investment banker, or at least matchbrother, what Grisham does? Read on...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Mosby |title=Still Bleeding|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Alex Connor has been trying to negate the memory of his wife's suicide by running awayneighbour and friend. He's left d also been very wealthy but had given it all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them up for years. But now Sarah, one of his closest friends, has been murdered and the prime suspect is her partner, Alex's brother Jamesfaith. For Alex, this is the one thing that could call Why would someone savagely murder him home, as Sarah was the one who told him to confront death, not run from it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>?

{{newreview|author=Denise Mina|title=Still Midnight|rating=4.5|genre=Move on to [[Newest Crime|summary=On a quiet Sunday evening in the suburbs of Glasgow an old man is kidnapped from an unassuming house. The kidnappers are incompetent – they don't seem entirely certain who it is they're after and one of them fires his gun, badly injuring a teenage girl. As they leave, taking the old man with them, they demand a ransom of two million pounds. Have they got the right house and if so, why do they think that there's so much money to be had there? DS Alex Morrow is certain that this is going to be her case – after all, she was promised – but it goes to her arch rival, DS Grant Bannerman and she is to work under his command.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100529</amazonuk>}}(Historical) Reviews]]