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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1529077745|title=Dead of WinterThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly A man walking his dog in the midst early morning discovered the body of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandman in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. Louis Kincaid needs The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a little serenity in his life and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidshift the night before but who had never turned up. A troubled, unhappy child D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of mixed racethe residents, passed around various institutions and foster homes, Louis figures fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that if he Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is going unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to put some integrity back into the world, he will need find Chloe to wear a badge discover what happened to do itJosh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1529428289|title=Fear A Grave in the CotswoldsWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When Because of various property transactions, people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and were searching for the propertygrave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. This time They dated back to World War II and it's winter fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and she's spending establish whether or not a month in the Cotswold village of Hampnettcrime had been committed. It wouldnAs if this isn't be a job for all of us but Thea delights in getting enough to know worry about, the local people and the areaDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. In the past sheIt's also been involved with not just the police in solving various cases but it looks as though local autumn rains that might have come to an end as caused the relationship she problem: various dams upstream on another river have had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – to release water and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in St Denis faces the snow which lead to a body in possibility of a nearby field. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it alldevastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores152919640X|title=Spade and ArcherThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sam Spade decidesThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, bravelyJessica Holby, to set up his was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one-man detective agencysuspect. ItHe's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and all that his contract stated that entails. Many locals, of course, choose he must not serve anything containing miso to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquorJessica Holby. Straight away, itShe's evident that Sam is a man seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of few wordsemergencies. He has the mannerisms of Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a cat busy, live television studio - stealthy, quick on his feetand Brooks served a ragout to Holby. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people wereHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. In It was soon clear that era, holding a cigarette this was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changedno accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay ParkerB0CYV674G2|title=Stop MeSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
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|summary=Spam EIt seemed like an open-and-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most of us will have had to deal with themshut case. FortunatelyA man, we can hit the delete button covered in mud 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 don't. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam Eblood -Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathryn Fox|title=Blood Born|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To give support to carrying a vulnerable gang-rape victimknife, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to comes into the courthouse on police station shouting that he hasn't killed the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothersman. But when Anya arrives A body at the house she finds Giverny close to death and faces a battle against time to save her. In the panic, Anya fails to take note bottom of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girlfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apart. She blames herself for 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 to death of one, while the other clings to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Penny |title=The Brutal Telling|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Early one morningDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, in which coincided with the village birth of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephonehis daughter Samantha. There is a body in You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the bistro words 'perverse' and Olivier is stunned'John Tanner' were made for each other. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but thereHe's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues as sleep-deprived to the identity point 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. Theyfalling asleep at work but he've been s determined to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaoskeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike CareyStuart Douglas|title=The Naming of Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Beasts (Felix Castor)Dress Rehearsal
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|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'Floggit and Leggit' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a hard-working, regular guy (more woman on the edge of that in a minute though)reservoir. Nine months previously The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he and his wife Melissa had adopted enlists the help of a baby girl, Angelinafellow actor, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency John Le Breton to say that there has been a mistake on help him investigate matters further. They travel across the forms country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants , seemingly, a link to take death during the baby backSecond World War. Even worse news But is that there really a link between the boy's father deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to responsible before more people lose their daughter.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie0008517061|title=Wasp-WaistedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the eliteFormer Metropolitan Police detective, dealing with national securityJake Johnson, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved has settled into criminal investigationshis rustic life at Little Sky. His first case proves to be something There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of a problem when a young model is found dead his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a luxury hotel lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in Paris. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is delivered to Exposé, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered future she wants for herself and it can only have been taken by the murderer. her daughter? Despite the provenance of For the picture it's difficult not to be moment they’re enjoying life in awe of the skill present and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go putting the future on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1786482126|title=HustleThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|summary=Cons generally come Builders were demolishing an old house in two forms, Norwich - the long con and site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the short conbones of a child beneath a doorway. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightThere was no skull. This is the art of fleecing Was this a single person out of a lot of money all at onceritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something difficult as basic as a rigged game of ''find the lady'Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, which aims to part that she is pregnant with his child as many people from a little bit result of money as quickly as possiblethe one night they spent together some three months ago. The short con may have a lower returnHer condition will be obvious before long, but that return comes a lot quicker and this not least because Ruth is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 0008551324|title=ConmanThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Thanks It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the success of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the BBC TV show other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he''Hustle'', s prepared to tell the police where the art body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the long con seems police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be more popular than I ever recall. I've always liked transferred to an open prison to serve the series, as it shows a battle remainder of wits his sentence and there is so to get an early parole date. Not much that can go wrong the outcome to ask, is in doubt right until the end. it? Until Richard AsplinThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's ''Conman'', I'd not read anything even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaverhim is kept well away from what's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 0008405026|title=The ComplaintsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|summary=Working in It'The Complaints' is not s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the job for you if personal popularity mattersinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, because they're the cops who investigate other copsand her father are dead in their bed. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there for some time and at 's something about the beginning positioning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policemanbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Most people think that Glen Heaton What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwisecomplex double murder. They don't reckon Kerrigan is convinced that hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's bent and theredisappearance: others (such as Derwent's a degree of resentment against Foxboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0571379877|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane Edward Jevons is reluctant to take on the case of a missing teenagerworking-class young man, but obsessed with his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itupper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in Robert's a peculiarly nasty waytheatre director. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to know something also becomes a victimrun errands for him. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who Edward has abducted been in love with Stanza since their university days - and murdered a number of very young women he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the police do a relationship had begun between them but he's not really care very much. Most of like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the victims are homeless women with a history two of drug problems and them kissing in a life on the wrong side of the lawdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N J CooperJo Callaghan|title=Leave No EscapeTrace
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|summary=I've long had an interest When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in psychologyNuneaton, particularly abnormal psychologyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. The mind is a fascinating thingIt's their first live case together, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wronghaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The same But when there is true of crime thrillersa second body found crucified a few days later, which are Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot more entertaining when things don't work out too well for the policeof unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. So Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to me.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1035021803|title=Family LifeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the family farm for LiamEnglish country village where she grew up. She's birthdayback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. There was just one empty seat at the table Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the family waited for Joe – the only one of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the children who wanted to farm – to return homeleast. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Arthur was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe's body reason why Freya had not been discovered on land by a disused warehouseback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There Even though they were no injuries in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the body split, she worked in a cafe, met and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1398524085|title=The Gigolo MurderHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35
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|summary=After a break-Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and selfher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -pity for too longstrangely - her husband, so his friendAlec, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbul. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be marriednot. However Shortly afterwards, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder caseEtty and Greg, when Pekerdemfind the body of Greg's brother-father, Duncan Ackerley, in-law is accused of the murder of a gigoloriver. Our hero suspects It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the brother-in-law is guilt. The Salter children are not guilty... convinced but there's little else they can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529900360|title=Skeleton HillThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|summary=When the Sealed Knot reIt 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 difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-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 sixand-pack in shut cases which didn't need the shade help of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no morepsychologist only worked for a while. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a relic of the battlepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. One of She knew that the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out involvement was something that the bone is nowhere near as old as they thinkman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, but though. Two lovers were murdered in the head swimming pool of Bath CID still has difficulty a remote property in establishing who Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is buried in that lonely spotmarried to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 178763681X|title=BaitKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|summary=The close Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'60sd be at the school to assist Paul, the dawn of the who had a broken arm, but it didn'70st turn out that way. San Francisco. Some people say The teaching - and the most influential people problems - are Nixon and all his croniesown. Some people say theyThe one thing he hadn're Charlie Manson and his croniest expected was for someone to turn up dead. Some people call Unfortunately, he was the smog surrounding person who discovered the body and everyone in the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug haze. Doc, knows that the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point police consider that person to be 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 diessuspect. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1529421284|title=BloodlineLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
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|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murdera heatwave. However In a gully, slivers of an X-Ray are found in a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the dead womanbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's handd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, and so it is soon discovered that the womancould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's mother t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to murder all the children suicide of Raymond Garvey'sHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time... That someone may just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the tumour that killed his father meant Major Crimes Review Unit (that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. 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>cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mooney 1529425867|title=The Dead RoomLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
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|summary=The third in the Darby McCormick seriesIn Oxford, the Dead Room sees the head there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to a woman's death Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and her always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, sonof Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's hospitalisationnot any of those things. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved He's white, she realises that the case is more complicated than she could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already deadoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and suggestions that her fathertrackies. They's death re usually in the line of duty wasnlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you't all that it seemed re being introduced to bea police procedural written for laughs. Meanwhile Well, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries to avenge her husbandyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's murderproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 1529431735|title=Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5
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|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the following morning the body of one of them was found in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children of long-defunct Ragged Schoolmore surprising. The teenager had He'd been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there was exiled on the Costa del Sol as a Victorian doll – similarly mutilated. Back in the nineteen fifties there has been four murders in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled and mutilated and left with wanted drug smuggler for a doll by their sidedecade. The killer return has come about because he's had never been brought a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to justicelive. HeIt'd be likely s hard to be in his seventies by now – was it possible that he was still fit enough to return feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Dawes Green|title=Ravens|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Shaw underwear and Romeo are two friends, moving across country for sent to a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has just had watery grave in the only winning lottery ticket for boot of a $318million jackpotstolen Ford Sierra. The family involved is very average - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up for the weekly lottery and descends into Is it a gin fug as warning from a result, girl stuck on Facebook, boy glued to Spanish gang or a PSP or something. There are enough gaps within the family for the pair of guys problem closer to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winnings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell0861541774|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
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|summary=An au pair took her employerDCI Domenic Jejeune's young daughterclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, the next-door neighbour's son and his friend has taken a short holiday in Singapore to the parkmeet up with an old ally, but the young girl Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy facing a man armed with a knife - and with the wilfulness he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of a child who finds herself less than manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the centre of attention ran off into man. Now he could be facing the bushes, where she knew that she must not godeath penalty. In there she used Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a stick to stir up some leaves diplomatic incident and uncovered the body of a womanwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elliott J Gorn 1521129886|title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number OneThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
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|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=John Dillinger was born Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and brought up in Indianathey're both delighted. His childhood was no better and no worse than most but Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the early part of his adult life was to be blighted morning sickness. Greg is approached by a spell in prison when he was convicted of an attack on a man old friend whose brother-in a botched hold-uplaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Hoping for leniency Lucy, he pleaded guilty but says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonmentsuicide, whilst the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentence. Itbut Stuart's easy prepared to see where Dillinger's contempt for pay Greg to find out what happened on the law was spawnednight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia B0CK3MYJ56|title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia FamilyResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Joaquin It'Jacks the 1990s and Greg Mason' Garcia worked for the FBIs twenty-eight years old. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim He used to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at have a time high-flying job in the city but sometimes for yearsit wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. In 'Shades of Cameron Strike'Making Jack Falcone, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where'' he tells s the life experience that backs up this profession? On the story of how other hand, he came has been asked to infiltrate the Mafia in New York look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was responsible for killed in what's been written off as a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime familiestragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. If that doesnJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italianstrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 1838954481|title=BurnThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
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|summary=I am Ryan Kennedy killed a great fan police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of courtroom dramas, which is one the jury system he was found not guilty of both the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much murder and I pretty much look on him as the master manslaughter of this genrethe officer. So, And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when I discover a book that claims that itmissing teenager is found on her territory she's ''better than Grisham or your money drawn into a wider investigation - and back'' I am bound to be interested. This was into the claim made by the publishers orbit of ''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that he writes lives up to expectations. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does? Read on..Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Mosby 1448309743|title=Still BleedingThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alex Connor has been trying to negate In the village of Cronchie on the memory West coast of his wife's suicide by running away. He's left all his friends behind and has barely been in touch with them for years. But now SarahScotland, one five members of his closest friends, has been a wealthy family are found murdered and . The only item missing from the prime suspect home is her partnerthe Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, Alexdeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's brother Jamesan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. For Alex The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, this DCI Christine Caplan is the one thing that could call him home, as Sarah was the one who told pulled in to 'shadow' him to confront death, not run from it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina1529077699|title=Still MidnightThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=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 thereIt's so much money to be had there? DS Alex Morrow is certain that this is going to be her case – after allbloody peculiar, she was promised – but isn't it goes to her arch rival, DS Grant Bannerman and she is to work under his command.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100529</amazonuk>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine 1529427045|title=Inhuman RemainsThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Primavera Blackstone wants ''Life has more to keep a low profile. After an apparent attempt on her life by her exoffer than people -husband, she is still feeling fragile, even though Mr Blackstone is now dead. Living in Spain with her seven year old son, Tom, she thinks she is safe from prying eyes, but then her Aunt Adrienne comes to visit and all hell lets lose. Adrienne asks Prim to find her son, Primprime numbers for example''s cousin, Frank, who has been out of contact for some time and who she suspects is in some kind of trouble. Prim eventually tracks Frank down, or rather, Frank finds her, but by then Adrienne is in the hands of his enemies, the perpetrators of a massive commercial fraud. Can Prim help Frank to safety, find Adrienne and solve the mystery, all without putting her son's life in danger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348990</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Castillo1787636607|title=Sworn to SilenceThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Called out yet again It's a scene replicated all too often in the freezing cold early hours of an Ohio winter night to deal with stray cows in the road, Officer Tmorning.J. Banks, newcomer Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to the Painters Mill police department, is not a happy manget home. His night, however, is going Some are lucky and manage to get a whole lot worseone of the few taxis available. From Others squash onto the hole in the wire fence when the cattle escaped, a trail night bus that will only go as far as one of blood leads him across the snow to an unknown outlying villages. The woman, all regret the 'taxi problem'naked as , particularly in the day she came into thislight of 'the missing women' ''world. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and deader than Elvis'collect her - but her phone's dead. With The bus had driven off before she had the understatement of chance to beg the year, Banks tells dispatch that bus driver to let her use his. There''this was s no'' ''accident…I think we got us a murderoption but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736408</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Gardner1405957174|title=The Neighbour|rating=5|genre=Crime |summary=Jason Jones returns from his late shift A Death at the newspaper to find his four-year-old daughter, Ree, sleeping soundly and his wife nowhere to be seen. Sandy has not taken her bag, money or her mobile phone and she has not taken her car. More importantly she has not taken Ree. And Sandy would never leave Ree.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101029</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matthew Pearl|title=The Last Dickens|rating=4.5|genre=Crime |summary=In Bengal, India on a June day in 1870 two young mounted policemen are hot on the trail of dacoit suspected of the recent daylight robbery of a train of bullock carts. The chests taken from the carts were full of Opium. Meanwhile a few thousand miles away in Boston, USA, a young office boy is chased through the docks by a dark stranger of ''Hindoo'' appearance wielding a walking stick topped by a ferociously fanged idol.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655084X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParty|author=Marshall Karp|title=Flipping OutAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In From the UKfirst page, when people used to be able to afford it, people might form a career in taking run-down houses, doing them up and selling them on for a profit. If very lucky (or particularly weird, as was more often the case) they might get a second career doing the same thing on TV. But over in LA, where the process is known as ''flipping'', they do things much better. There, a group of policemenwe know that Nadine Walsh's wives have formed a group with a party will not end well-known mystery author. She writes The victim - a murder book set in the house the others are working on, man - is dying when we first meet him and when both hit Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the markets together the profit is exemplaryambulance he so desperately needs. Or so it is until someone starts bringing real life death to the houses - for the very women in the group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749079789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K O Dahl|title=The Last Fix|rating=4|genre=Crime |summary=Katrine Bratterud didnWhat we don't really want to go to know is who the party, but it was given by the people from her drug rehabilitation centre and she felt under an obligation as the social workers had done so much man is or why Nadine prefers to help herhave him die. It wasn't going to be easy though – the other guests would be drinking heavily whilst she had to remain clean and to make matters worse sheI'd been physically attacked better give you a little more background so that day at the travel agency where she workedyou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571232949</amazonuk>
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