|summary=A BBC film crew is sent to India to make a documentary about an Indian prison with a difference. There are no walls, the prisoners hold down jobs and their families live with them as a condition of acceptance. In fact, to all intents and purposes, it seems like an ordinary village which is all the more unusual when you consider that they all share the same crime category; all the prisoners have been convicted of murder. The programme makers (20-something British-born, Indian director Ray, ruthless producer Serena and ex-convict-turned-presenter, Nathan) are expecting an eventful shoot and, in return, the inhabitants are expecting a film unit exhibiting the standards for which the BBC has become world famous. Both parties will be sorely disappointed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917087</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cherie Priest
|title=Eden Moore - Wings to the Kingdom
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dead soldiers from the American Civil War have been seen wandering around the Chickamauga National Park in Georgia, site of a notable Confederate victory in 1863. They don't speak, just point forlornly as locals turn and flee in the opposite direction. Eden Moore would rather ignore it completely, especially as show business psychics Tripp and Diana Marshall have already started investigating, complete with camera crew and full entourage. However, eventually her curiosity (and her friends' unstinting nagging) gets to her and she agrees to trespass after dark, quickly discovering that the gesticulating dead are a minor problem compared to the reason they've awoken.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687735</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Holt
|title=The Blind Goddess
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Here is a rum do - a Nordic crime, and the launch episode of a currently successful series, that has sat untranslated for almost twenty years? What's more, when you start reading you may think the main character the author would choose to use as her principal heroine in future books should not be Hanne Wilhemsen, the too-good-to-be-true lipstick lesbian policewoman, but commercial lawyer Karen Borg, who is thrust into a world of criminal proceedings when a man who has clearly murdered another demands her and only her as the outlet of his truth. Is this a wise move from him - and just what is the game afoot, and who are the other main players?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857897055</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Asa Larsson and Marlaine Delargy (translator)
|title=The Black Path: A Rebeka Martinsson Investigation
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the far north of Sweden the frozen body of a woman was found in fishing hut out on the lake. She’d been tortured but the injury which killed her was clumsy, even amateur. Identification isn’t easy but it’s faily quick and Anna-Maria Mella and her colleagues hoped for a speedy end to the case. Then it all turned complicated when the body of a six-month-old suicide had to be exhumed and Mella and Rebecka Martinsson were drawn further and further into the investigation of corruption at one the country’s major mining companies. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the mining company had enemies of its won - ones who would stop at nothing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050311</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin Brooks
|title=Until the Darkness Comes
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Private detective John Craine has returned to Hale Island, the scene of many childhood holidays, to get away from a painful past, his guilt, and his loss. And there's another reason - the possibility that he has a half-sister he's never met. But within hours of arriving, John discovers the body of a dead girl concealed in a pill box on the beach. He calls 999 but when the police arrive the body has disappeared and the officers clearly see him as a drunken fool prone to hysterical imaginings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553821</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Silva
|title=Portrait of a Spy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gabriel Allon and his wife, Chiara, decide to rent a nice little Cornish cottage; the perfect hideaway in which to renovate art. A rosy domestic picture that, as any spy thriller aficionado will tell you isn't going to last long. It lasts, in fact, as long as it takes some middle-eastern terrorists to bomb Paris and Copenhagen and then move on to London's Covent Garden. Gabriel and Chiara are there, about to have lunch, but Gabriel is unable to concentrate on the menu and just let things happen. Mr and Mrs Allon end up being dragged back into the day job as they and their multi-national colleagues brandish a spectrum of experience and talent in order to take on a rogue Yemeni cleric who, embarrassingly enough, had been supported by the Americans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000743331X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Antonin Varenne and Sian Reynolds (translator)
|title=Bed of Nails
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you're a policeman in Paris and your involvement in office politics takes a turn for the worse, you could end up in charge of suicides. That would make it your job to cope with all the jumpers, the pill-takers, the apparent suicide with two types of bullet through his head - even the naked men running into the flow of traffic around the ring-road. You might not get the case of the American junkie who dies performing a pierced-man act in a seedy club. No, looking into that is that man's closest friend, John, fresh from living in the French wilds as an outdoorsman. But in a Paris where cause of death can be so bizarre, a reason for death can have very far-reaching consequences...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050370</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Barry Fantoni
|title=Harry Lipkin, Private Eye: The Oldest Detective in the World
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Harry Lipkin may not be the fittest private investigator in Florida once you take into account his indigestion and his arthritis, but at 87 he's definitely the oldest. Despite this he still manages to make a steady living, picking up the little jobs that don't interest the police and Norma Weinberger's problem comes into that category. Small but expensive knick-knacks seem to be going missing from around the house so could it be a light-fingered member of staff? The suspects (the gardener, the butler, the maid and the chauffer) each have their own story and motive, leaving Harry to get the four down to a short list of one. A task that's perhaps a little harder than it sounds.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972272</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Danny Miller
|title=The Gilded Edge
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=London: 1965
These were the dark days, when the Krays had yet to be brought to justice and the underworld in London was based on protection rackets and armed robberies.
These were the days when a politician getting caught with a call girl was a national scandal and generated genuine fear and outrage rather than a few front page headlines soon forgotten. The headlines generated then are still quoted now.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016917</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Ridpath
|title=Meltwater (Fire and Ice)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A group of internet activists decided to base themselves in Iceland whilst they prepared their latest exposé. This time it was a video of a purported Israeli attrocity which needed verifying and preparing for publication. All would have been well - or as well as such things ever are - if one of the group hadn't been murdered on a visit to a volcano. It was a volcano which caused the second problem - not the erruption of the small, pretty one which the group had visited with fatal consequences, but the big, ugly one which no one could pronounce and which disrupted air traffic all over Europe in the spring of 2010. Yes. That one. Eyjafjallajokull meant that travel too and from Iceland was exceedingly difficult ''and'' it disrupted the investigation of the murder.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789644X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jason Dean
|title=The Wrong Man
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ex-marine James Bishop worked for an elite protection company. The idea behind his last mission was to protect multi-millionaire Randall Brennan and his daughter Natalie but, instead, he found himself framed for murder. Who? Why? These why may be questions that need answering but that's not going to happen whilst he's serving a life sentence. However, where Bishop is concerned, that's only a minor blip compared to the task ahead.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755382692</amazonuk>
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