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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529077745|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
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|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a happy woman. She is concerned with man in the rate at which her body is ageing; even worsepark near Rosebank, her exa care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh -husband, James, is getting married one of the care workers who was due to work a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to shift the weddingnight before but who had never turned up. She goes, with plenty of friends D I Vera Stanhope is called in tow and looks forward to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the whole thing being over as soon disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he girl's diary makes it clear that he she adored Josh. She knows that she has changed his mind and wants to pull out of the weddingfind Chloe to discover what happened to Josh. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1529428289|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & A Grave in the Morpeth Train RobberyWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5
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|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apartBecause of various property transactions, one in people were searching for the south-east grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the other in identities of the north-eastbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. At first glance they seemed to have nothing As if this isn't enough to do with each otherworry about, but years later a link between them was hinted the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at though never proved beyond doubtrecord levels. The author has investigated It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the connection problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and come up with St Denis faces the possibility of a riveting bookdevastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)152919640X|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]], the first of Steig Larssonnation's Millennium trilogy of thrillersfavourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was a fine stand-alone novelmurdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. The second She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures case of Lisbeth Salanderemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, Larsson's finely crafted antilive television studio -heroand Brooks served a ragout to Holby. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you Her EpiPen was nowhere to stop reading be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this review nowwas no accident. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCreryB0CYV674G2|title=Tooth and ClawSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the looseIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and yet again the police have failed to connect the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau blood - and blown carrying a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway knife, comes into the police station. Heshouting that he hasn's planning his next murder already, secreted away in t killed the shed man. A body at the bottom of the garden of the house a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he shares with his invalid father's been stabbed to death. Carl DCI John Tanner is embittered and lonely - just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his mother living away daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, there'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's only him sleep-deprived to take care the point of his severely disabled father: falling asleep at work but he's determined to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallykeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan David Jahn Stuart Douglas|title=Acts of ViolenceLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayDuring location filming for his 1970's work. From this point sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to dead body of a woman on the next, all edge of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmasa reservoir. There is the draftee with a sick motherThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the nurse who thinks she has run over a babywhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the woman who suspects her husband help of cheating and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that eveninga fellow actor, and how these events drag through John Le Breton to the morninghelp him investigate matters further. We are shown how in They travel across the midst of country during their own interestingdays off filming, poignant uncovering more possible murders and dangerous concerns , seemingly, a woman link to death during the Second World War. But is stabbed in there really a link between the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows deaths? And will they witness the attack, and how these manage to uncover who is responsible before more people did nothing.lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0008517061|title=Core of EvilDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of teaFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, flavoured with Christmas roseshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. '"There are all kinds There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of horrible things in the Christmas rosehis life with his vet girlfriend," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear Livia and her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I've also used beforedaughter Diana, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as well. It's moving in together would mean a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her sights on a new town, a new identity reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and, most importantly, a new victim. Daisy has problems with her memory - daughter? For the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all moment they’re enjoying life in the whos she's been before, present and most certainly not putting the future on the who with whom she beganback burner. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1786482126|title=Dead of WinterThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – Builders were demolishing an idyll that sits serenely and snugly old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the midst bones of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Louis Kincaid needs Was this 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 Kincaidritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. A troubled, unhappy child of mixed raceIt's difficult as Ruth knows, passed around various institutions and foster homesbut Nelson doesn't, Louis figures that if he she is going to put pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some integrity back into the worldthree months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, he will need not least because Ruth is prone to wear a badge to do itsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope0008551324|title=Fear in the CotswoldsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by professionIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and Neither side likes or has any respect for the propertyother. This time it's winter But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and shehe's spending a month in prepared to tell the police where the Cotswold village body of Hampnetta missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It wouldn't This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be a job for all of us but Thea delights in getting to know worth the local people and the areapolice doing what he wants. In And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the past she's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks as though that might have come remainder of his sentence and to get an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledearly parole date. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead 's even prepared to a body in a nearby field. When do the police finally arrive the body has disappeared other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and the police obviously wonder if sheanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's imagined it allhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores0008405026|title=Spade and ArcherA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one-man detective agencysummer night. It's She was never found and the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entailsinvestigation ground to a halt. Many localsNow, of courseher mother, choose to disobey the lawHelena, stick two fingers upand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, so to speak and as it looks like a result straightforward murder/suicide but there's lots something about the positioning of bootleg liquorthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Straight away, What looked as though it's evident that Sam was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a man of few wordscomplex double murder. He has Kerrigan is convinced that the mannerisms of a cat - stealthy, quick on his feet. Heexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's also a compulsive chain-smokerboss, but then again, most people wereUna Burt) are less convinced. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay Parker0571379877|title=Stop MeThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam EEdward Jevons is a working-Mails can be incredibly annoyingclass young man, but most of us will have had to deal obsessed with themhis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. FortunatelyHe's also self-obsessed, we can hit the delete button demanding, handsome and entitled and forget about them as quickly as they cameuses Edward to run errands for him. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish on, no matter Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how bad my luck is supposed he feels to become if I don'tRobert. But I wonder how many of us Most men in Robert's position would react if stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a spam E-Mail actually was relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>dark passageway.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn FoxJo Callaghan|title=Blood BornLeave No Trace
|rating=4
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|summary=To give support to When a man is found crucified on the top of a vulnerable gang-rape victimhill in Nuneaton, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the courthouse on case alongside her sidekick, the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothersAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death and faces there is a battle against time to save her. In the panic, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or second body found crucified a cleverly staged murder. Worse stillfew days later, in trying to save the girl's life, Anya has interfered Kat is suddenly struggling with a crime scene potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case falls apart. She blames in time, or will Kat find herself for taken off the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free case and only hours later there is news , potentially, out of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to life.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1035021803|title=The Brutal TellingAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning, in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Three Pinesa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, the local restaurateur is woken by dead and the ringing of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the telephoneleast. There is a body in Arthur was the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has reason why Freya had not been bludgeoned back to deaththe village: Arthur, but there's no sign of a weaponshe feels, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the identity of man or pursue the victimprofession she loved. MeanwhileAfter the split, she worked in Montreala cafe, Chief Inspector Gamache met and married James (on the rebound from the love of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigateher life, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir who was murdered) and Freya and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. They've been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaosJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Carey1398524085|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living in LondonCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, with zombiessons Niall, ghosts Paul and succubi for friends, Ollie and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by a demon called Asmodeusher daughter, for which Felix feels slightly responsibleEtty. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal are all worried but - the problem is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends strangely - namely Penher husband, his landladyAlec, Julietis not. Shortly afterwards, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) Etty and SueGreg, Julietfind the body of Greg's loverfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. At 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 same time, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there are horrible things going 's little else they can do but get on in a central London gym, with their lives and Castor must do something wonder about it before people start to diewhat really happened. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box 1529900360|title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=2.54
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|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Three Weeks s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to Say Goodbyeask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as t need the help of a hard-working, regular guy (more of that in psychologist only worked for a minute though)while. Nine months previously Finally, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girlit was Robin, AngelinaDelaware's partner, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the adoption agency to say involvement was something that there has been a mistake on the forms and man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby backswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Even worse news is that He was the boy's father heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an influential federal judge. They have, youextremely rich man and it've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughters not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie178763681X|title=Wasp-WaistedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the elite, dealing with national security, but after an incident Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigationsBelgravia. His first case proves He didn't really want to be something but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a problem when a young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Parisgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the body is delivered school to Exposéassist Paul, who had a bigbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murdererproblems - are all his own. Despite the provenance of the picture itThe one thing he hadn's difficult not t expected was for someone to be in awe of the skill and artistry which produced itturn up dead. All Guerin has to go on is Unfortunately, he was the ''very'' expensive underwear which person who discovered the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529421284|title=HustleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in two formsa heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the long con surface and forensic testing proved the short conbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The long con is more elaborate He'd been a known drug user and has more that can go wronghad learning disabilities, takes so it could have been a lot longer to set up simple case of misadventure but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. This is the art of fleecing Geary was a single person townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a lot of money all Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at oncethe time. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' Lockyer and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game DC Gemma Broad of ''find the ladyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that'', which aims s cold cases to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower return, but that return comes a lot quicker you and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 1529425867|title=ConmanLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
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|summary=Thanks to the success In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the BBC TV show ''Hustle''Nigerian descent, the art of the long con seems to be more popular than I ever recallBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I've always liked the seriesRyan Wilkins, as it shows a battle son of wits Ryan and there father of Ryan, is so much that can go wrong the outcome is in doubt right until the endnot. Until Richard AsplinHe's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Conmanreally''his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, Iyou'd re not read anything with quite . The two men are just different sides of the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaverpolicing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529431735|title=The ComplaintsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54
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|summary=Working in 'The ComplaintsIt' s February 1991 and Essex is not the job for you if personal popularity mattersbitingly cold, because theywhich made Bruce Hopkins're return all the cops who investigate other copsmore surprising. Inspector Malcolm Fox has He'd been there for some time and at the beginning of the book exiled on the Procurator Fiscal is taking on Costa del Sol as a case against wanted drug smuggler for a serving policemandecade. Most people think that Glen Heaton is a good copper who The return has taken come about because he's had a few shortcuts letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and done some unorthodox swaps of information just hasn't long to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwiselive. They don't reckon that heIt's bent hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and there's sent to a degree watery grave in the boot of resentment against Foxa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0861541774|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane is reluctant DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to take on the case of a missing teenagermeet up with an old ally, but his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itGuy Trueman. As Maik was involved in a street brawl - he looks into it further, it becomes apparent would later maintain that he was facing a number of young women are being murdered in man armed with a peculiarly nasty way. The case soon becomes very personal as knife - and he killed a friend who seemed to know something also becomes a victimGhurka. Karl finds himself looking for Initially, he faced a serial killer who has abducted and murdered a number charge of very young women in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the police do not really care very muchman. Most of Now he could be facing the victims are homeless women with death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a history of drug problems diplomatic incident and a life on the wrong side of the lawwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1521129886|title=No EscapeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
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|summary=IGreg Mason've long had s just beginning to get his confidence as an interest in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologyinvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The mind is It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a fascinating thing, but it has far baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more spectacular effects delighted about the baby when things go wrongshe gets past the morning sickness. The same Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is true of crime thrillersnot thriving. Lucy, he says, which are a lot more entertaining when things donis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't work out too well for the in his nature. The police. So a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller the coroner have accepted that the death was always going suicide, but Stuart's prepared to appeal pay Greg to mefind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul CharlesB0CK3MYJ56|title=Family LifeResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
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|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends It's the 1990s and children were gathered at the family farm for LiamGreg Mason's birthdaytwenty-eight years old. There was just one empty seat at He used to have a high-flying job in the table and city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the family waited for Joe – life experience that backs up this profession? On the only one of the children who wanted to farm – other hand, he has been asked to return homelook into something. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joekilled in what's body had been discovered on land by written off as a disused warehousetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. There were no injuries to the body Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Starrett Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could only assume that Joe had come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been murderedasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1838954481|title=The Gigolo Murder|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=After a break-up, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression and self-pity for too long, so his friend, 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 married. However, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder case, when Pekerdem's brother-in-law is accused of the murder of a gigolo. Our hero suspects that the brother-in-law is not guilty... but can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMisper|author=Peter Lovesey |title=Skeleton HillKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Sealed Knot refifteen-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 sixyear-pack in old holding the shade of a fallen tree where he thought gun and pointing it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no moreat DI Kieran Shaw. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree He pulled the trigger but due to rebury – convinced that it's a relic the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the battleofficer. And so lives must go on. One of the corpses goes missing – his car left at For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the nearby racecourse – capital and it turns out that hoping for a quieter life in the bone countryside but when a missing teenager is nowhere near as old as they think, but found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the head orbit of Bath CID still has difficulty in establishing who is buried in that lonely spotRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 1448309743|title=BaitThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third in In the village of Cronchie on the Darby McCormick seriesWest coast of Scotland, the Dead Room sees the head five members of Boston's CSU investigating a horrific wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home invasion which leads to a woman's death and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involved, she realises is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the case stone is more complicated than she could possibly have imaginedremoved from Otterburn House, with clues leading to people who death will follow. The only suspects are supposedly already deadknown Satanists but in many ways, and suggestions that her father's death in the line an easy conclusion given that two of duty wasnthem 't all that it seemed to bediscovered' the body. Meanwhile The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to avenge her husband's murdershadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 1529077699|title=Playing With Bones The Raging Storm (DI Joe PlantagenetTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub and 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 School. The teenager had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut off. By her side there was 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 a doll by their side. The killer had never been brought to justice. He'd be likely to be in his seventies by now – was 'It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it possible that he was still fit enough to return to his old ways, Sir?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell1529427045|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=An au pair took her employer's young daughter, the next-door neighbour's son and his friend Life has more to the park, but the young girl was petulant about the inclusion of the second boy and with the wilfulness of a child who finds herself less offer than the centre of attention ran off into the bushes, where she knew that she must not go. In there she used a stick to stir up some leaves and uncovered the body of a womanpeople - prime numbers for example''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia 1787636607|title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia worked for the FBI. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had a special claim to fame. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for years. In ''Making Jack Falcone'' he tells the story of how he came to infiltrate the Mafia in New York and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime families. If that doesn't sound impressive enough, then just consider that Jack Garcia was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Trap|author=Nick Brownlee |title=BurnCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Inspector Daniel Jouma was hoping that calm had returned to Mombasa the problems start mounting up again. A nun has gone missing in mysterious circumstances and the local priest doesn't seem all that worried. After a meal with his friend Jake Moore a respected member of the local community falls to his death almost at their feet – but how he had got into the fort ion the first place? Jake hasn't got it any easier either. Kenya's most ruthless and dangerous developer wants to sweep away the local village and build a five-star hotel in its place. To top it all a paid assassin has accepted some local contracts and the FBI are in pursuit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749929065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joseph Teller |title=The Tenth Case|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I am It's a great fan scene replicated all too often in the early hours of courtroom dramas, which is the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much and I pretty much look on him few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the master of this genreoutlying villages. So, when I discover a book that claims that it The woman all regret the 's taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'better than Grisham or your money back'the missing women' I am bound to be interested. This was For one young woman, the claim made by final stop on the publishers bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone''s dead. The Tenth Case'' and I bus had driven off before she had the chance to read itbeg the bus driver to let her use his. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that he writes lives up There's no option but to expectations. So could this book beat, or at least match, what Grisham does? Read on..start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Mosby 1405957174|title=Still BleedingA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alex Connor has been trying to negate From the memory of his wifefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's suicide by running awayparty will not end well. He's left all his friends behind The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and has barely been in touch with them for yearsNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. But now Sarah, one of his closest friends, has been murdered and What we don't know is who the prime suspect man is her partner, Alex's brother Jamesor why Nadine prefers to have him die. For Alex, this is the one thing I'd better give you a little more background so that could call him home, as Sarah was the one who told him to confront death, not run from ityou can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>
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