|summary=Journalist Duncan Brown was found dead in the back of a rubbish truck. It was a prosaic introduction to a major scandal for Inspector John Carlyle and before long his slim resources were stretched even further when a teenager had a bomb attached to his neck and the neighbour who was about to complain about the loud music was shot dead on the doorstep. It might have seemed that it couldn't get much worse, but before long Carlyle found himself up against Trevor Miller, a former police officer who had become security officer to the Prime Minister. He and Carlyle went back a long way and none of the memories were good.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100379</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Graham Masterton
|title=White Bones
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Finding a dead body isn't an unusual occurrence for Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire of the Cork Gardai. But finding the bones of eleven bodies in a mass grave, each with marks that suggest the flesh was stripped from them and with evidence that they were used in a voodoo-like ritual is beyond the pale even by her usual standards. There is some respite when it appears that these bones have been dead bodies for more than 80 years, until another fresh set appear in roughly the same spot.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185064X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stella Whitelaw
|title=Money Never Sleeps
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fancy Jones is a crime writer. Actually, it’s Francine Double-Barrelled name but her brother never got further than being able to pronounce ‘Fancy’ and the name stuck. Her Pink Pen Detective stories are one of the main reasons that she was invited to attend a writers’ conference in Derbyshire. But Fancy has other reasons for going: in London someone is trying to kill her. It was difficult to think otherwise when you only just avoid being pushed in front of a tube train and have a rucksack hurled at you as you get on a bus. The bubble-wrapped piece of concrete hurled through the bedroom window as she slept convinced her - if she still had any lingering doubts. There was just one problem: the attacks continued when she got to Derbyshire and it soon became clear that she wasn’t to be the only victim.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719807476</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joseph Wambaugh
|title=Harbour Nocturne
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hollywood Station series is set (no prizes for guessing) in Hollywood. Hollywood is, almost by definition, a bit weird. A full moon is known as a Hollywood moon, because that's when all the weirdoes come out to play. But it's a district that needs to be policed like any other. It has its fair share of RTAs and domestics and sad and lonely people. Not for nothing has the night shift sergeant instituted pizza-rewarded awards for best 'True Hollywood Romance' or 'Quiet Desperation' reports from a given shift. You need a black sense of humour to work the mean streets.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800550</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dana Stabenow
|title=Dead in the Water (A Kate Shugak Investigation)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kate Shugak is a native Aleut living in an Alaskan National Park and she's currently an investigator for hire. I hesitate to call her a private investigator as so far she's been hired by a government agency, but at just over five feet tall and just over thirty she's the best man when it comes to sorting out what's been going on. This time it's the case of two crew members lost from a ship off the coast of Alaska some months before. Their families want to know what happened to them. That's how Kate came to be signed on as a deckhand on the ''Avilda''. They're crabbing in some of the nastiest and most dangerous conditions you can imagine. And it's not just the weather that's the problem.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800410</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Matias Nespolo
|title=Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Argentinian economy is in meltdown and the streets of Buenos Aires are awash with protestors, but this means little to those struggling to survive in the shanty towns clinging to the city's edge. In the ''barrio'' every day is hard and the choices you make really do mean the difference between life and death. Gringo, a youth on the verge of becoming a man and Chueco, his unreliable friend, both short on options, are drawn to the local gang culture and the seemingly easy money it offers. But, with a turf war brewing, can either of them survive the coming storm?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552388</amazonuk>
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