Saturday, February 01, 2014

Crime Review Update

Playing catchup after the last couple of days and found this which had been posted earlier in the week....

In our new edition of Crime Review (*www.crimereview.co.uk
*) this week we have fourteen new
reviews (*http://crimereview.co.uk/latest_reviews.php
*), together with Neil White
in the Countdown interview hot seat:
(*http://crimereview.co.uk/page.php/interview/603
*)


Reviews this week are:

THE JERUSALEM PUZZLE by Lawrence O'Brien reviewed by Laura Parkin

Archaeologist Max Kaiser is dead and Dr Susan Hunter is missing. Sean Ryan
and his partner Isabel Sharp travel to Jerusalem in search of both Susan
and answers, with terrifying consequences.


THANKLESS IN DEATH by J.D.Robb reviewed by Sylvia Wilson

Jerald Reinhold is planning to kill everyone who has ever slighted him. It
is the job of Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the NYPSD to stop him, but how does
she identify the next victim and get one step ahead of the killer?


 SOMETHING IN THE BLOOD by Jean. G. Goodhind reviewed by Linda Wilson

When Honey Driver is given the job of acting as liaison between the Bath
Hotels Association and the local police, she isn't expecting to get
involved in a murder investigation. But it's certainly more exciting than
worrying about washing up and fending off her matchmaking mother.


 WRAPPED IN WHITE by Kevin Brooks reviewed by John Cleal

PI John Craine takes on the case of the brutal homosexual killing of a
young Somali which the boy's aunt insists the police are trying to cover
up. He's plunged irretrievably into a world of drink, drugs, corruption and
violence - before coming face to face with a dark spectre from his past.


 LOVE STORY, WITH MURDRS by Harry Bingham reviewed by Madeleine Marsh

Welsh police officer Fiona Griffiths is called to a house clearance where a
woman's leg and foot has been found in a chest freezer.


 THE SILENCE OF THE WAVE by Gianrico Carafiglio reviewed by Chris Roberts

Carabinieri marshal Roberto Marias is recovering from the psychiatric
wounds suffered at work and meets a woman also in treatment.


RATLINES by Stuart Neville reviewed by John Cleal

When a murdered German businessman is found in a Galway B&B with a note
addressed to former SS paratroop commander Otto Skorzeny pinned to his
body, Lieutenant Albert Drake of the Directorate of Intelligence is
assigned to find the killer.


 HARD ROAD by J.B.Turner reviewed by Lnda Wilson

Jon Reznick is a hard man doing a difficult job. When he fails to carry out
an assassination, he unwittingly makes his 11-year-old daughter a pawn in a
very dangerous game.


 THE EXECUTION OF NOA P. SINGLETON by Elizabeth L. Silver reviewed by Chris
Roberts

A woman is on death row awaiting execution for murder is visited by a young
British lawyer to assemble a final plea for clemency.


 KNIFE EDGE by Fergus McNeill reviewed by Linda Wilson

Robert Naysmith is playing a dangerous game and it's been made more so by
the secret he's shared with his girlfriend, Kim. Can she live with the
knowledge that he's a killer or will she betray him?


 DEATH IN FLORENCE by Marco Vichi reviewed by Chris Roberts

Florence policeman Inspector Bordelli investigates the disappearance of a
schoolboy during the torrential rain and flooding of November 1966.


 THE DEVIL'S RECRUIT by S.G. MacLean reviewed by John Cleal

College lecturer Alexander Seaton investigates the disappearance of a
Highland clan chieftain's son and the death of a teenage girl, and is drawn
into a web of lies and betrayal linked to his own past.


 AND WHEN SHE WAS GOOD by Laura Lippman reviewed by Sylvia Maughan

Helen's childhood with a violent father leads her into a life with many
risks.  When a so-called suburban madam in a neighbouring county is found
murdered and other signs of danger appear, Helen realises that she needs to
make some changes to her life, but can she?


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Best wishes

Sharon

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