==Crime==
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{{newreview
|author=Barrie Roberts
|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man From Hell
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Noted West Country philanthropist Lord Backwater is
killed – by poachers, according to the police investigating. His son
disagrees, and calls in Sherlock Holmes, who quickly establishes that
the true solution to the mystery is much stranger – involving a feared
criminal brotherhood, crimes from many years past, and the Gates of
Hell themselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565089</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=H Paul Jeffers
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usual. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge and the Justice Department. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and married, although not in the usual order of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be a help, but probably not in the way that you might expect. As if that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnapped.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Cathi Unsworth
|title=Bad Penny Blues
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties. 'Bad Penny Blues' is the story of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in the west of the city, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Frances Fyfield
|title=Cold to the Touch
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica Hurly. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on a cold, dark London morning, 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 her. Jess is a talented chef but she's short of work – the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over the host at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighted. Sarah senses her vulnerability, but it's Jess who organises the let of one of her mother'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 fire.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Helen Fitzgerald
|title=Bloody Women
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women'', I hadn't heard of the author Helen Fitzgerald and by the title and blurb, I expected a standard crime-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this wasn't the case. The novel was a kind of black comedy and written with wit and humour, despite the theme of murder and violence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jeffery Deaver
|title=The Bodies Left Behind
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsin, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal of a lifetime. But on their first evening in the place, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple out. They know they are in real trouble when a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and the only hope they have is that someone will take notice of Steven's phone call to the police, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – This.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=M C Beaton
|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants to pull out of the wedding. 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>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Diane Janes
|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in the south-east and the other in the north-east. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt. The author has investigated the connection and come up with a riveting book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)
|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]], the first of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, was a fine stand-alone novel. The second 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 of Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's finely crafted anti-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review now. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Nigel McCrery
|title=Tooth and Claw
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, 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 - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. He's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, there's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, really.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Ryan David Jahn
|title=Acts of Violence
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard day's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There is the draftee with a sick mother, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through to the morning. We are shown how in the midst 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, and how these people did nothing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Nigel McCrery
|title=Core of Evil
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses.
'"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas rose," she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis, which I've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as well. It's a very nasty cocktail."'
And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victim. Daisy has problems with her memory - the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who is she is now, let alone all the whos she's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she began.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
}}
