==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author=Adrian McKinty
|title=The Cold Cold Ground
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=
''The Cold Cold Ground'' is the first of a planned trilogy of police procedural novels featuring Sean Duffy. Set in 1980s Northern Ireland it's a little reminiscent of the TV show ''Life on Mars'', full of reminders of the music and events of the period that evokes nostalgia in those who lived through it. In all good police procedural novels, the hero has to have a 'thing' that sets him apart. With Duffy it is that he is a Catholic in a predominantly Protestant police force. What this means is that no one trusts him on either side of the religious divide. And as this is set during the worst of the 'troubles' with hunger strikes and rioting on the streets, not to mention car bombs and other acts of violence, this is a big issue for him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688221</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrea Camilleri
|summary=Faith Mitchell is not having a good day. A three-hour training seminar had stretched into four-and-a-half-hours, which meant that not only was she late picking up her baby daughter from her mothers' she was also starving hungry. This mattered more than it would for most of us, because Faith is diabetic. She needs to eat.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057949</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=H R F Keating
|title=The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote Mystery
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary='The Perfect Murder' was the first of HRF Keating's Inspector Ghote mysteries, first published in 1964. It has a kind of gentle charm and has some things in its favour, not least the believable Indian setting when the author had not visited the country in which he chose to set his character at a time when research would have been more difficult than it would today.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141194472</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alison Bruce
|title=The Calling
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story's location is in and around Cambridge and we get the blow-by-blow account as DC Goodhew meets the different members of Kaye's family in order to build up a picture of her recent comings and goings. Kaye's mother seems particularly upset. A nice and effective touch by Bruce is that each chapter heading is simply that day's date. Kaye disappeared in March 2011 so that the reader feels a sense of the clock ticking - and still no Kaye.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012040</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Suarez
|title=Freedom
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A short while ago, I read Daniel Suarez's debut novel [[Daemon by Daniel Suarez|Daemon]], which was a gripping technological thriller. It may not have been a terribly original idea, but it was well written if a little lacking in character building and it did seem to end a little abruptly. The reason for this abrupt end now becomes clear, as there is now a sequel, ''Freedom™''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381229</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wesley Stace
|title=Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary="Nothing in recent fiction prepared me for the power and the polish of this subtle tale of English music in the making, a chiller wrapped in an enigma [New Statesman]"
"His handling of dry comic dialogue and cynical affectation is reminiscent of P G Wodehouse… an intelligent, fun and thoughtful piece of fiction [Independent on Sunday]"
Just two of the previous reviews that adorn the back cover of 'Charles Jessold…'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546574</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Dugdall
|title=The Sacrificial Man
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Synchronicity? Is that what they call it, when unconnected events chime with each other in unavoidable significance? Maybe it is just the human need to see patterns and make connections where there are none, but it's still weird when it happens. In a week that saw a storyline in ''Emmerdale'' echoed in a very personal documentary by Terry Pratchett considering the possibility of choosing the nature and time of his own end, I found myself reading 'The Sacrificial Man'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908248009</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=C J Box
|title=Out Of Range
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=Will Jensen, a Wyoming Game Warden of many years standing, had long held the respect of the townsfolk of Jackson. Recently though he seemed to have been going off the rails. Not turning up for work on time; a couple of DUIs; his wife upped and left. Then one day he cooks himself 14lb of meat. No vegetables. And slowly eats his way through it, washed down with whiskey, before he goes to fetch his .44 magnum from the pick-up.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878044</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrea Camilleri
|title=The Track of Sand
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Montalbano awoke one morning and saw the body of a horse on the beach in front of his house, but it's not long before it disappears, leaving only a track in the sand. How is he to investigate this when he doesn't know where the horse came from? It isn't long though before equestrian champion Rachele Esterman arrives at police headquarters to report her horse missing. It had been stabled at the home of Saverio Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily – and one of his horses is missing too. When Montalbano finds that he and his home are under threat he wonders who he has upset – and the list of possibilities is disturbingly large and influential.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507664</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ernesto Mallo and Katherine Silver
|title=Sweet Money
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A man whose nickname is Mole (and it suits him just perfectly) is released from prison. He's described as your average Joe Public, your man in the street so normal in every way that no one would look twice at him. And that's the point. He's clever and resourceful enough to blend into any crowd and in any situation. Now that he's served his time behind bars, has he become a reformed man? Is he going to opt for a lawful way of life from now on? You'd perhaps think so, wouldn't you?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738737</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Quintin Jardine
|title=Grievous Angel
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I recently read (and reviewed) Jardine's [[The Loner by Quintin Jardine|The Loner]] and found it an engaging work of fiction, so I was looking forward to dipping into my first ''Bob Skinner Mystery.'' I think the front cover alone may very well tempt readers with its attention-grabbing graphics which shouts out 'read me'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755356934</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Craig
|title=London Calling: An Inspector Carlyle Novel
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The current government had been looking a little sickly in the polls for a while and it seemed that Edgar Carlton – charismatic and ruthless – had only to get to the finish line to be the next Prime Minister. His twin brother, Xavier, would be the next Foreign Secretary. Then a murderer targets former members of the Merrion Club – an exclusive, hedonistic group of undergraduates at Cambridge University – and this includes Edgar, Xavier and the current mayor of London, Christian Holyrod. Inspector John Carlyle of the Metropolitan Police doesn't take that long to work out why this is happening and who is at risk – but ''who'' is doing it is an entirely different matter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849019665</amazonuk>
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