==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Sargeant
|title=Long Time Waiting
|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Pippa Adams is determined to do well on her first day as a CID detective, especially when she is plunged straight into a murder case. However, an unfortunate comment about Agatha Christie plunges that into disarray and she becomes known as 'Agatha'. There is little time to dwell on this though; there is a murder to solve. Two men broke into the Brocks' home late one night, took Carl Brock away and killed him, and chained his wife, Gaby, to a chair. Carl Brock was a teacher and presumably above reproach - but as Pippa and her colleagues investigate, all sorts of issues come to the surface and it seems that Carl was not as innocent as they first presumed. Can Pippa find out the truth and persuade her disdainful colleagues that she is a capable detective?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091060</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adrian Magson
|summary=Magnus Jonson was in some difficulty in Boston. He'd overheard another detective getting himself involved in something illegal and when he reported this he found that even the good guys weren't terribly fond of him – and the others would prefer to see him dead before the case came to trial. The solution was simple but unusual: Jonson was born in Iceland although he'd mostly grown up in Boston and the police in Iceland wanted someone to give them some help in beefing up their murder squad. Jonson disappeared from Boston, telling no one where he was going and resurfaced in Iceland. Simple? No.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873972</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gladys Mitchell
|title=Death and the Maiden
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Edris Tidson used to grow bananas on Tenerife. Not the world capital of banana growing so far as I know, but I guess such plantations could have existed and certainly they'd be believable when Mitchell penned this classic crime caper in 1947.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546833</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Guillermo Orsi
|title=No-one Loves a Policeman
|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It is December 2001 and Argentina is in crisis. Pablo Martelli used to be a policeman – not just any policeman, but part of a force now referred to as 'the National Shame' for its role doing horrible things to opponents of the military regime. Now he sells bathrooms, but it seems he cannot escape his past – once a policeman, always a policeman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrea Camilleri
|title=The Wings of the Sphinx
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction when Caterella rang him at home was that a dead man had been found somewhere. Cat soon puts him right though. It’s a woman. She’s been found, naked but particularly clean and on the edge of the local rubbish tip. Most of her face had been blown away, which was going to make identification particularly difficult. Two things were obvious though – she was particularly beautiful and she had a tattoo of a butterfly on her shoulder blade.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Mackenzie
|title=City of Strangers
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Paul Metzger – mid thirties, with a failed marriage, a broken relationship with his brother (who converted to Judaism), and a dying father (who is an ex-Nazi). Straight away there are obvious flaws with his family dynamic. As his writing career fails to take off he's left to churn out thousands of words for articles that have no meaning to him, the dregs of the publishing world. His life isn't quite as high flying as he hoped. But then Paul gets offered a lucrative book deal; the one thing he has wanted for years. The only catch is he has to write about his father.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=George Pelecanos
|title=Shoedog
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you ever find yourself as a character in a work of fiction, it’s probably best to avoid hitchhikers. The chances are it’s going to turn out very badly for either the driver or the hitchhiker - or both. Constantine is a denim-clad, Marlboro-smoking, drifter and loner with a strong sense of right and wrong who has just returned from a period of travelling around the world and is heading south back home in the US when he is picked up by a man named Polk, driving a muscle car. So what could possibly go wrong?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687365</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Barrie
|title=Night-Scented
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Arbaud is determined to make her mark in the world of luxury brands. Most perfumes are off-shoots of established fashion houses (or celebrity names, but let's not go down ''that'' road), but Isabelle has poached her rival's most talented perfumer and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the top. But – it would seem that someone is determined that she won't succeed. First on and then a second of her financial backers died, the first in circumstances which might have been a accident, but probably wasn't. About the second there could be no doubt. Two bullet holes are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251811</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pauline Rowson
|title=The Suffocating Sea: A DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime Novel
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Anyone who loves murder mystery novels will know there is a big difference between a policeman and a copper, and Pauline Rowson’s character DI Andy Horton in The Suffocating Sea is every bit a copper. Tough on the outside, soft on the inside Horton is just the chap to start nosing around a suspicious fire on board a boat – at least that’s where it starts, because DI Horton is about to discover he is more involved in the mystery than just as an investigating officer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955098246</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cara Black
|title=Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Aimée Leduc is back and this time she might just have found the sister she's always longed for. When a Haitian woman arrived in the offices of Leduc detective in central Paris and announced that she was Aimée's father's illegitimate daughter Aimée allowed enthusiasm to overrule logic as she'd been lonely since her mother's disappearance and her father's death. René, her partner in Leduc Detective, is wary but he can't dissuade Aimée. It's not long before she's involved in the murky world of Haitian politics and murder in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013144</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Harvey
|title=A Darker Shade of Blue
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=There are eighteen short stories covering the East Midlands, those parts of London you'd generally really rather avoid and rural East Anglia. You'll see broken families, revenge killings, prostitution and drugs. There's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched police force and underpaid men and women staffing it. And then there are the people who, in spite of everything, fight for justice.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548232</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gladys Mitchell
|title=The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=A body is found in a butcher's shop one morning in Wandles Parva. It has been expertly chopped up and hung just like a piece of pork, but because it is missing a head, identification is impossible. There are soon suggestions that it must be Rupert Sethleigh, a land-owner who had supposedly gone to the US. His cousin, Jim Redsey is the obvious suspect. The two men didn't like each other - in fact, nobody actually liked Rupert Sethleigh. The local vicar's daughter, Felicity, and Aubrey, related to Jim and Rupert, decide to play detective. Before long, they are joined by Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, an elderly woman who fancies herself a detective. Can they sort out the red herrings and find the killer?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954685X</amazonuk>
}}
