CrimeReview Update--- New issue of Crime Review

As posted elsewhere....
 

In our new edition of Crime Review (*www.crimereview.co.uk
*) this week we have sixteen new
reviews (*http://crimereview.co.uk/latest_reviews.php
*), together with Zoë Sharp in
the Countdown interview hot
seat:*http://crimereview.co.uk/page.php/interview/878
*

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Reviews this week are:

HURT by Brian McGilloway reviewed by Linda Wilson

Detective Lucy Black of Northern Ireland's Public Protection Unit is called
in to identify the body of a dead teenager. Someone is preying on
vulnerable girls and Lucy needs to find a missing teenager before she too
ends up dead.

BITTER RIVER by Julia Keller reviewed by Sylvia Wilson

County Prosecutor Bell Elkins investigates the murder of a young girl found
strangled in the waters of the Bitter River. In the small town of Acker's
Gap, everyone knows everyone else and the murderer must be one of them ...

SEVEN FOR A SECRET by Lyndsay Faye reviewed by John Cleal

Timothy Wilde is a copper star in the newly-formed NYPD, and is dragged
into the world of the blackbirders, semi-legal slave catchers, when a
beautiful black woman reports her free family has been kidnapped.

SAVING SILENCE by Gina Blaxill reviewed by Linda Wilson

When Imogen saves Sam from a hit and run, her problems are only just
starting. She has information someone wants and they're quite willing to
resort to violence to get it off her.

IF YOU WERE HERE by Alafair Burke reviewed by Chris Roberts

A journalist investigating a subway rescue identifies the saviour as a
friend who disappeared ten years ago, triggering a reappraisal of the past.

THE LATE MONSIEUR GALLET by Georges Simenon reviewed by Arnold Taylor

A very ordinary man is killed by an unknown assailant at a hotel in the
wine-growing village of Sancerre. There is no apparent motive and the
information that Maigret begins to gather serves only to make the case more
mysterious.

THE WITNESS by Nora Roberts reviewed by John Cleal

As a teenager, Abigail was witness to a brutal mafia double murder and the
killing of two US marshals. She has been on the run from the killers for
twelve years. Now she believes she is finally safe and has settled in a
small town in the Ozarks. Then she meets the local chief of police - and
her whole life changes.

THE GARDEN OF BURNING SAND by Corbin Addison reviewed by Chris Roberts

When a young girl is raped, human rights lawyer Zoe Fleming is involved in
the prosecution of a man with powerful connections.

THE DEVIL AND THE RIVER by R.J Ellory reviewed by John Cleal

When John Gaines is called to the discovery of a girl's body on the
riverside of the small Mississippi town of which he is sheriff, he stumbles
into a nightmare of murder, violence, corruption and superstition.

DEEP SHELTER by Oliver Harris reviewed by Linda Wilson

DC Nick Belsey is driven down into the miles of abandoned tunnels under the
streets of London in search for a missing woman. As it was his fault she
was there in the first place, his job will be on the line if that
embarrassing fact comes out.

TREASURE HUNT by Andrea Camilleri reviewed by Sylvia Maughan

Inspector Montalbano is short of work - so when a friend asks if a young
student might study the inspector's methods of solving crimes the inspector
feels he has no option but to agree. Subsequently he enlists the young
student's help when the crime rate starts to pick up.

THE SHADOW COLLECTOR by Kate Ellis reviewed by Linda Wilson

Lilith Benley has served 18 years in prison for the murder of two teenagers
although she still protests her innocence. When a woman is found murdered
nearby, it seems like the past isn't going to stay buried.

THE PARIS WINTER by Imogen Robertson reviewed by Arnold Taylor

It is 1909 and Maud Heighton has left provincial Darlington and moved to
Paris in order to learn to paint at Lafond's famous Academy. However, she
finds herself short of money and almost starving and is grateful when she
is given an opportunity to earn money as companion to a young, beautiful
girl.

LAIDLAW (audio) by William McIlvanney reviewed by Sharon Wheeler

Glasgow DI Jack Laidlaw hunts for the killer of a young woman - but it's
touch and go as to whether he finds the murderer before those hell-bent on
revenge do.

HEARTS OF DARKNESS by Paul Lawrence reviewed by John Cleal

With the Great Plague having burnt itself out in London, Harry Lytle is
ordered by spymaster Lord Arlington to an Essex village where the disease
is still breeding to track down a traitor and bring him back alive.

DARK SIDE by Margaret Duffy reviewed by Sharon Wheeler

Part-time crime fighters Ingrid Langley and Patrick Gillard steam into
action when their boss and a cop friend seem to be the target of revenge
attacks.

Best wishes

Sharon