Crime Review Update-- New issue of Crime Review

 As seen elsewhere earlier today.....

In our new edition of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk) this week we
have sixteen reviews (http://
http://crimereview.co.uk/page.php/editorial/1216), together with Julia
Crouch in the Countdown interview hot seat:

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This week’s reviews are:

WANT YOU DEAD by Peter James, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler.

Supt Roy Grace is about to get married – but there's a maniac with a score
to settle and a love of lighting fires on the loose in Brighton.

THURSDAY’S CHILDREN by Nicci French, reviewed by Judith Evans.

A new client for psychotherapist Frieda Klein forces her to return to
events of the past that she would rather forget*.*

THE KILLER NEXT DOOR by Alex Marwood, reviewed by John Cleal.

As London swelters in a stifling heatwave, the tenants of a bedsit and its
landlord each try to hide their own secrets, but one, an obsessed serial
killer, must try more than most.

THE KILL by Jane Casey, reviewed by Linda Wilson.

A killer is at large in London and police officers are being targeted. DC
Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent need to find the link between the cases
before the body count mounts even higher.

THE WOLF IN WINTER by John Connolly, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler

PI Charlie Parker does a favour for an old contact and investigates the
disappearance of a young woman – and it takes him to a town that isn’t all
it seems.

NANO by Robin Cook, reviewed by Sylvia Wilson.

When medical researcher Pia Gradzani stumbles upon a collapsed jogger and
performs CPR, she is drawn into the dangerous secrets of her high-security
employer, Nano LLC.

EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE by Peter May, reviewed by Linda Wilson.

Former forensics expert Enzo Macleod is determined to get to the bottom of
a series of unsolved murders. First up is the disappearance – and presumed
death – of a man who went missing in Paris 20 years ago.

WHITE BONES by Graham Masterton, reviewed by John Cleal.

The dismembered bones of 11 women whose skeletons bear the marks of a
careful butcher are found on a Cork farm. A young American hitch-hiker goes
missing, and Ireland’s first senior female detective, Superintendent Katie
Maguire, must solve the ancient murders to find a link to a terrifying
modern killer.

DRY BONES by Peter Quinn, reviewed by Arnold Taylor.

Fintan Dunne is part of a wartime OSS operation in Slovakia that never had
any chance of success. During his escape from the country he comes across
survivors from Auschwitz, an encounter that is to return to haunt him years
later.

DEAD GONE by Luca Veste, reviewed by Madeleine Marsh.

A young girl is found murdered in Liverpool, prompting an investigation
which turns into a hunt for a serial killer when a second body is
discovered, and a note that talks about experiments suggests there are more
deaths to follow

CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE BOHEMIAN HIGHWAY by Sara Gran, reviewed by Chris
Roberts.

San Francisco PI Claire DeWitt seeks the killer of ex-boyfriend Paul, and
re-examines the beginning of her professional life in Brooklyn.

BROKEN FAITH by James Green, reviewed by John Cleal.

Jimmy Costello, a corrupt ex-Met detective, and now a ‘fixer’ for the
Vatican, is sent to Spain to check a story that a senior cleric is involved
with the Basque terrorist movement. The man he must talk to is killed and
Jimmy has to solve the mystery – and also deal with some unwelcome
reminders of his violent past.

BODY COUNT by Barbara Nadel, reviewed by Chris Roberts.

Istanbul police inspectors Ikman and Suleyman struggle to discover the
connection between a series of gruesome murders.

APPETITE by Philip Kazan, reviewed by John Cleal.

Nino Latini has a unique gift, a massively heightened sense of taste and a
desire to create the perfect feast that will make his name as a chef in
some of the most magnificent houses of Renaissance Italy. But his gift
leads him into trouble and physical danger.

A CONSPIRACY OF TALL MEN by Noah Hawley, reviewed by Chris Roberts.

Linus Owen is a professor of conspiracy theory whose life is thrown into
disarray when his wife is killed in a terrorist attack on an aircraft. He
uses all his resources to seek answers.

YOUNG, GIFTED AND DEAD by Lucy Carver, reviewed by Linda Wilson.

When a teenager at an exclusive boarding school, St Jude’s Academy, is
found dead in a lake in the grounds, the school is keen for her death to be
judged a suicide. But one of the dead girl’s roommates isn’t so sure. Is
there more to Alyssa’s death than meets the eye?

Best wishes

Sharon