==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author=Bryan Talbot
|title=Grandville Mon Amour
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works for Scotland Yard. At least the main problem, 'Mad Dog' Mastock, was sentenced to the guillotine. But in the prologue here he bursts out of his quandary, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there a darker part of the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and peril?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Quentin Bates
|summary=Clive Wilkes is a delivery boy for a grocery store somewhere in America. Miss Oyster Brown is a devout spinster in a Berkshire town. An unnamed Scottish doctor works in Swaziland. What do these disparate characters have in common with the learned Horace Rumpole, Queer Customer, and Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh? All of them are connected with crimes – either as victims, perpetrators, or investigators – in this brilliant anthology.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195370716</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=J T Ellison
|title=All the Pretty Girls
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Nashville and a local girl has gone missing. She's a pretty twentysomething with the rest of her life to lead. Until now, that is. A gruesome find and a gruesome 'trophy' left by the killer. Who and why - are the important questions for both Taylor Jackson of Homicide and Dr John Baldwin, FBI profiler. Straight away this novel is shaping up nicely, I thought. And it gets better. The police have their work cut out in more ways than one. 'A decomposing body in ninety-degree heat could fell even the strongest professional.' And Ellison then goes on to describe in detail how all that unrelenting heat and all that cruel humidity affects a dead body.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830390X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Camilla Ceder
|title=Frozen Moment
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One cold, dark morning in December 2006 a man was driving to work when he began to have problems with his car. It was a fairly deserted part of the Swedish coast but he had vague memories of a car-repair business in the area. When he limped his car in there he discovered a body: the man had been shot in the head and his lower body crushed as a car had been driven over it. The man panicked and called his neighbour for help. Seja was a trainee reporter and when she arrived she was fascinated by the murder victim, but her lies to Inspector Christian Tell are soon discovered. It's not the end of the matter though as there's an immediate attraction between Seja and Tell – and he's well aware that he's breaking all the rules by getting into a relationship with a witness and even a potential suspect.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297859471</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Winslow
|title=The Whole World
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Whole World is a sort of crime/suspense novel set in Cambridge, England, told in turn from the viewpoint of five different characters. The first two narrators, Polly and Liv, are friends, and seem to have much in common – they are both American students with things to hide, and they are both attracted to the same young man, Nick. One night things come to a head as Nick somehow ends up kissing them both, then goes missing and is presumed dead. Then Nick, a blind woman called Gretchen and a local police officer, Morris, tell their stories, and the novel takes several weird twists. It is hard to say more without revealing too much about the plot.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385342888</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fred Saberhagen
|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Holmes and Watson are called in by a bereaved father who's convinced a pair of spiritualists have deceived his wife by holding a séance in which their daughter seemed to return. When the pair attend a second séance, the girl comes back again, and it's clear that this is no ordinary trick. Holmes gets assaulted and kidnapped, and Watson realises that for the second time in their investigative career they're dealing with vampires. He's left with only one choice, and turns to Holmes cousin, the legendary Prince Dracula, for aid.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566778</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Walter Mosley
|title=Devil in a Blue Dress
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Easy Rawlins is a little down on his luck, having just been laid off from his job and with a mortgage payment due. So when DeWitt Albright walks into Joppy's bar and offers him money for finding a young woman who has gone missing, it seems like the perfect opportunity for him to keep his house, as well as to pass some time. Of course, what Albright doesn't mention is that the reason he's looking for this woman is that she's run off with a large amount of someone else's money and quite a few people on the streets of Los Angeles are prepared to kill to get that money back.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686830</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel D Victor
|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh Bullet
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1911, author, journalist and celebrated dandy David Graham Phillips was shot multiple times by Harvard educated musician Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, who then committed suicide. The journalist had received on the morning of his death a threatening telegram signed with his own name, but had shrugged it off as during his career as a 'muckraker', to use the term coined for him by Theodore Roosevelt, he'd made many enemies.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Colin Cotterill
|title=Love Songs From A Shallow Grave
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is about to celebrate his seventy-fourth birthday but it looks as though it might be his last. Instead of being at home with Madam Daeng, his wife of three months, he's in jail. It's not your average run-of-the-mill jail either. Siri is chained to some lead piping and conditions are not exactly five star. Meanwhile Phosy and Dtui are having marriage problems whilst he struggles to investigate the deaths of three women, all skewered by an epee and their thighs showing a letter engraved with a knife.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter James
|title=Dead Like You
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Brighton is faced with a serial rapist who appears to have a fetish for shoes - after the rape, he removes the woman's shoes and takes them with him. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is immediately reminded of a previous unsolved case that he was involved in several years before, during which a young girl disappeared, never to be found. It was precisely at that time that Grace's own wife, Sandy, disappeared and, although he is now having a child with another woman, he has never been able to forget Sandy. If the rapist has reared his ugly head again, why has he chosen to do so after so long? Could it be a copycat rapist? And will Grace's memories of Sandy help him to find some clue as to her disappearance?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Giorgio Faletti
|title=I Kill
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Monte Carlo: not generally a place associated with moderation and temperance of any kind and therefore probably the perfect setting for a killing spree by a serial killer with a particular fetish for extreme souvenir gathering.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Ridpath
|title=Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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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