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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1529077745|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a dinosaur and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobilesthe care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. He might prefer D I Vera Stanhope is called in to make a phone call or send a note when investigate the need arises, murder - but this isn't her only clue is the way disappearance of one of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that heChloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's going diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to have find Chloe to climb a steep learning curve if he's discover what happened to help his students through the problemJosh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler1529428289|title=MercyA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In some waysBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the first line grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of this novel says bones. They dated back to World War II and it all: 'It's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled fell to die in fifteen hours.' From this moment onBruno, the action comes thick and fastChief of Police for St Denis, leaving to discover the reader with barely identities of the breath to murmer bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn'is it really probable that all this was left t enough to worry about, the last day?Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and twirls that are very satisfactorySt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall152919640X|title=The DisappearedSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valley. Itnation's now some months later favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and whilst sheit seems that there's settled into the job to some extent her relationship with her officer, Alison, is uneven and sheonly one suspect. He's still shaky mentally celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and dependant on pills his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to a greater extent than she would care to admitJessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a feisty woman though busy, live television studio - and determined Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that she's going to do the job properlythis was no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil CrossB0CYV674G2|title=CapturedSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - brain cancer is hitting him just as and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that hehasn's barely turning fortyt killed the man. As A body at the bottom of a result freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he compiles a short list of rights 's been stabbed to wrongdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, and people to create closure which coincided withthe birth of his daughter Samantha. One, his ex-wife, might not You would think he'd be grateful for an easy, two concern a misguided sense answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of a guilt of old. The fourth turns out falling asleep at work but he's determined to be a missing woman. The journey keep going - probably because he takes in that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamishcan't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin CotterillStuart Douglas|title=The Merry MisogynistLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is now married to Madame Daeng During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and despite Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the fact that they have dead body of a combined age woman on the edge of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like the newly-weds they arereservoir. Even being The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the reluctant coroner for whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the Republic help of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for lifea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Well, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts of They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies , seemingly, a link to treesdeath during the Second World War. What he does to his victims leaves But is there really a link between the morgue staff sickened. deaths? There's a determination And will they manage to find the man uncover who is responsible and bring him to justice.before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 0008517061|title=A Hard Deathin a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh readerFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, so to speakhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. His writing biography on There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the inside cover future of the book his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is impressive. My expectations were high. All the ingredients are in place future she wants for a good thriller. herself and her daughter? The location is The Everglades For the moment they’re enjoying life in Florida. Brooding, enigmatic, awe-inspiring the present and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of putting the future on the swampy waters every five minutesback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1786482126|title=Curse of the Pogo StickThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to control his reactions in front hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of Judge Haeng, but occasionally he forgot himself and a child beneath a doorway. There was more insolent than usualno skull. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant)Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman Dr Ruth Galloway finds himself on a road trip herself working with the judge and the Justice DepartmentDCI Harry Nelson. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and marriedIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, although not in the usual order of events) that she is left to run the morgue along pregnant with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be his child as a help, but probably not in result of the way that you might expectone night they spent together some three months ago. As if that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpseHer condition will be obvious before long, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri not least because Ruth is kidnappedprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 0008551324|title=Bad Penny BluesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into It's unusual for anyone from the seedy underbelly of London on Hardie family to approach the cusp of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the Swinging Sixtiesother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'Bad Penny Blues' is s prepared to tell the story of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in police where the west body of the city, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean missing person is buried and Irelandwho was responsible for her death. This person, bohemian artists and media typeshe promises, is someone big and even peersit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Carnaby Street was just becoming And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the fashion centre remainder of London his sentence and a to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new decade promised exciting possibilitiesDeputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield0008405026|title=Cold to A Stranger in the TouchFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereIt's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlysixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. When Sarah Fortune encounters Now, her on a coldmother, dark London morningHelena, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing to do with herfather are dead in their bed. Jess is Initially, it looks like a talented chef straightforward murder/suicide but shethere's short of work – something about the occasion when she emptied a tureen positioning of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Sarah senses her vulnerability, but What looked as though itwas going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's Jess who organises the let of one of her motherdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's cottages in the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent fireboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald0571379877|title=Bloody WomenThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody WomenEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald handsome and by the title entitled and blurb, I expected a standard crimeuses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -thriller noveland he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But early on, I realised this wasn Most men in Robert't the case. The novel was s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a kind of black comedy and written with wit and humour, despite relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the theme two of murder and violencethem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffery DeaverJo Callaghan|title=The Bodies Left BehindLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them man is found crucified on the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livestop of a hill in Nuneaton, they brought an old colonial house in DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsincase alongside her sidekick, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal of a lifetimeAI detective Lock. But on It's their first evening in the placelive case together, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. They know they are in real trouble But when there is a man second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with shotgun a potential serial killer and stocking mask appears at a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their windowAI Future Policing project. Another enters the building and the only hope Will they have is that someone will take notice of Steven's phone call be able to solve the policecase in time, cut or will Kat find herself taken off by the intruders after he is able to get case and, potentially, out only one word – This.of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1035021803|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy womanIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She is concerned with the rate at which 's back now because of a request for help from her body is ageing; even worsebeloved aunt, her ex-husbandCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, JamesArthur Crockleford, is getting married dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to a much younger woman and Agatha has say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been invited back to the weddingvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She goes, with plenty of friends Even though they were in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon business together as possible. She sees James just before the weddingantique hunters, when he makes it clear that he she has changed his mind and wants not felt able to pull out of be near the man or pursue the weddingprofession she loved. Then After the bride is killedsplit, by she worked in a bullet through cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the windowlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James and Agatha are the primary suspectshave now divorced. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Janes1398524085|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apartCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, one in the southEtty. are all worried but - strangely -east her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the other body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the north-eastriver. At first glance they seemed It was an easy assumption for the police to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubtmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The author has investigated the connection Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and come up with a riveting bookwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)1529900360|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' NestGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the first help of Steig Larssona psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's Millennium trilogy of thrillerspartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was a fine stand-alone novelsomething that the man she loved needed. The second next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larssonit's finely crafted anti-heronot the Italian. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review now. I'm about to spoil But which of them was the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery178763681X|title=Tooth and ClawKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deathsChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Carl Whittley has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter He didn't really want to death - leaving but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a singularly gruesome tableau - way of getting both men and blown a hapless commuter women to smithereens at a railway stationdo what he wanted. He Paul ''somehow''s planning his next murder already, secreted away in got the shed impression that he'd be at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid fatherschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Carl is embittered The teaching - and lonely the problems - with are all his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, thereown. The one thing he hadn's only him t expected was for someone to take care of his severely disabled father: turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to change be the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, reallyprime suspect. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529421284|title=Acts of ViolenceLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from workIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. All she wanted was In a hot bath after gully, a hard day's work. From this point human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour body to the nextbe Lee Geary, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmaswho had disappeared nine years earlier. There is the draftee with He'd been a sick motherknown drug user and had learning disabilities, the nurse who thinks she has run over so it could have been a baby, the woman who suspects her husband simple case of cheating and othersmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. We are shown Geary was a townie, so what these characters were was he doing that evening, out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and how these events drag through to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the morningtime. We are shown how in the midst Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and how these people did nothingme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529425867|title=Core of EvilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of teaRyan and father of Ryan, flavoured with Christmas rosesis not. He'"There are all kinds s not any of horrible those things in the Christmas rose," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis He's white, which I've also used beforeoriginated from a trailer park, but therebarely educated (reading's saporin not ''really'' his thing) and protoanemonin as wellhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. It They's a very nasty cocktailre usually in lime green or acid yellow." You might wonder if you' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on re being introduced to a new townpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimyou're not. Daisy has problems with her memory - The two men are just different sides of the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all same policing coin. Sometimes the whos shecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she beganproblematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1529431735|title=Dead of The WinterVisitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon LakeIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the midst of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a pine-peppered winter wonderlanddecade. Louis Kincaid needs The return has come about because he's had a little serenity in letter from his life ex-wife, saying that she's ill and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has not been easy for Kincaidhasn't long to live. A troubledIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, unhappy child of mixed race, passed around various institutions stripped to his underwear and foster homes, Louis figures that if he is going sent to put some integrity back into a watery grave in the world, he will need to wear boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a badge problem closer to do it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope0861541774|title=Fear in the CotswoldsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time itDCI Domenic Jejeune's winter close friend and she's spending former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a month short holiday in the Cotswold village of HampnettSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It wouldn't be Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a job for all of us but Thea delights in getting to know the local people knife - and the areahe killed a Ghurka. In the past she's also been involved with the police in solving various cases Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but it looks as though evidence came to light that suggested that he might have come planned to an end as murder the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledman. For Now he could be facing the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to a body in a nearby fielddeath penalty. When the Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police finally arrive the body has disappeared force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the police obviously wonder if shewouldn's imagined it t help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1521129886|title=Spade and ArcherThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, Greg Mason's just beginning to set up get his one-man detective agencyconfidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have the prohibition era a baby and all that that entailsthey're both delighted. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law, stick two fingers up, so appears to speak and as a result therehave killed himself. Stuart's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight awayconcerned about his sister, Lucy, itwho's evident that Sam struggling to make ends meet and her son is a man of few wordsnot thriving. He has the mannerisms of a cat Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - stealthy, quick on it simply wasn't in his feetnature. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people were. In The police and the coroner have accepted that era, holding a cigarette the death was an elegantsuicide, almost essential accessory. How times have changedbut Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Jay ParkerB0CK3MYJ56|title=Stop MeResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam EIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-Mails can flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be incredibly annoyingthinking. Nice bloke, but most of us will have had where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to deal with themlook into something. FortunatelyJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, we can hit the delete button and forget about them they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as quickly as they camea tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish onJoyce - and her parents, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't. But I wonder understand what she was doing there - or how many she could come to fall in front of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life and death, rather than just claiming train. Greg's been asked to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1838954481|title=Blood BornThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to Ryan Kennedy killed a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brotherspolice officer: there's no doubt about that. But when Anya arrives 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 of an important clue which might help tell whether it really He was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girl's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and fifteen-year-old holding the case falls apart. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free gun and only hours later there is news of another attackpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting in He pulled the death of one, while the other clings trigger but due to life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Penny |title=The Brutal Telling|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Early one morning, in the village vagaries of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing jury system he was found not guilty of both the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there's no sign of a weapon, no obvious reason for the killing murder and no clues as to the identity manslaughter of the victimofficer. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle LacosteAnd so lives must go on. They've been to Three Pines before, but this time For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Carey|title=The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor)|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Felix Castor is capital and hoping for a talented exorcist living quieter life in London, with zombies, ghosts and succubi for friends, and the odd human. His best friend, Rafi, has been taken over by countryside but when a demon called Asmodeus, for which Felix feels slightly responsible. As such, he needs to get Rafi back to normal - the problem missing teenager is that Asmodeus has other ideas - basically to kill everyone who has anything to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably found on the list, but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliether territory she's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can he solve all his problems without losing any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Box |title=Three Weeks to Say Goodbye|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as drawn into a hardwider investigation -working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news is that into the boy's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughterorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1448309743|title=Wasp-WaistedThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one In the village of Cronchie on the eliteWest coast of Scotland, dealing with national security, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved into criminal investigations. His first case proves to be something five members of a problem when a young model is wealthy family are found dead in a luxury hotel in Parismurdered. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of The only item missing from the body home is delivered to Exposé, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is discovered and it can only have been taken by the murdererremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. Despite the provenance of the picture itThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's difficult not to be in awe an easy conclusion given that two of the skill and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go on is the ''verythem 'discovered' expensive underwear which the body . The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is wearing – or you might almost say ''modellingpulled in to 'shadow'him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1529077699|title=HustleThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come in two forms, the long con and the short con. 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 right. This is the art of fleecing a single person out of a lot of money all at once. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard AsplinIt's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something as basic as a rigged game of all bloody peculiar, isn''find the lady'', which aims to part as many people from a little bit of money as quickly as possible. The short con may have a lower returnt it, but that return comes a lot quicker and this is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''HustleSir?''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 1529427045|title=The ComplaintsGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in 'The Complaints' is not the job for you if personal popularity matters, because they're the cops who investigate other cops. Inspector Malcolm Fox Life has been there more to offer than people - prime numbers for some time and at the beginning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policeman. Most people think that Glen Heaton is 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 otherwise. They don't reckon that heexample's bent and there's a degree of resentment against Fox.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=N J Cooper1787636607|title=No EscapeThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=IIt've long had an interest s a scene replicated all too often in psychology, particularly abnormal psychologythe early hours of the morning. The mind is Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a fascinating thing, but it has way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far more spectacular effects when things go wrongas one of the outlying villages. The same is true woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of crime thrillers, which are a lot more entertaining when things don't work out too well for the policemissing women'. So For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a combination long way short of abnormal psychology her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and crime thriller was always going collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to appeal beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to mestart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1405957174|title=Family LifeA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wivesFrom the first page, girlfriends and children were gathered at the family farm for Liamwe know that Nadine Walsh's birthdayparty will not end well. There was just one empty seat at the table The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the family waited for Joe – the only one of the children who wanted to farm – to return homeambulance he so desperately needs. It wasnWhat we don't Joe know is who arrived though – it was Inspector Starrett with the news man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that Joeyou can understand what's body had been discovered on land by a disused warehouse. There were no injuries to the body and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been murderedhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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