Crime Review Update-- New issue of Crime Review

As posted elsewhere earlier today.....

In our new edition of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk) this week we
have sixteen reviews, together with Meg Gardiner in the Countdown interview
hot seat.

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This week’s reviews are:

THE BONES BENEATH by Mark Billingham, reviewed by Linda Wilson.
Tom Thorne, newly reinstated to the murder squad, gets landed with a job
that he really doesn’t want: accompanying psychopathic murderer Stuart
Nicklin to a remote island off the Welsh Coast to look for the body of his
first victim.

NATCHEZ BURNING by Greg Iles, reviewed by John Cleal
Ku Klux Klan killings from the 1960s resurface to claim new victims and
leave ex-prosecutor Penn Cage facing a son’s worst nightmare with his
father accused of murder. Attempts to clear his name unearth new secrets,
and in a town where the past is never truly buried, those secrets turn
lethal.

MIDNIGHT CROSSROAD by Charlaine Harris, reviewed by Julee Sanderson
Midnight is a town besieged by secrets and unanswered questions – when a
newcomer arrives and people start dying, it may be more than the townsfolk
can handle

CARNAL ACTS by Sam Alexander, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
DI Joni Pax faces anything but a quiet life when she moves from the Met to
Northumberland and is confronted by vicious Albanian gangs

ORIGINAL SKIN by David Mark, reviewed by John Cleal
DS Aector McAvoy of the Humberside Serious and Organised Crime Unit finds a
mobile phone which leads him to believe a young homosexual’s death, ruled a
suicide, may be more. Already in the middle of a drugs war, he must now
plunge into a world of sleazy and violent sex to uncover to uncover the
truth.

SLOW HORSES by Mick Herron, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
A man is displayed bound and hooded on the internet with the information
that he will be beheaded in 48 hours. Jackson Lamb, head of MI5’s Slough
House, does not subscribe to the general view that this is Al-Qaeda
inspired and begins an investigation.

THE BURNING by M R Hall, reviewed by Linda Wilson.
Coroner Jenny Cooper has to dig deep for the truth in a horrific case of
family annihilation in the Wye Valley.

BLOOD MED by Jason Webster, reviewed by Chris Roberts
In a Spain unsettled by financial breakdown, detective Max Camera and his
friend Torres investigate the suicide of a banker and the killing of a
woman journalist.

ALWAYS WATCHING by Chevy Stevens, reviewed by Sylvia Wilson.
When psychiatrist Dr Nadine Lavoie treats a suicidal woman who has been
living in a cult, it brings back long-suppressed memories of a childhood
summer spent in a commune.

EENY MEENY by M J Arlidge, reviewed by Linda Wilson.
Two people are trapped with no food or water. There’s only one way out –
kill or be killed.

THE GHOST RUNNER by Parker Bilal, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Egyptian PI Makana seeks answers to a dreadful murder by visiting the
victim’s past in Siwa, an oasis town, but his arrival seems to trigger more
deaths.

DEADLY INTENT by Anna Sweeney, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler.
Nessa McDermott has given up her job as a top journalist in Dublin to run a
B&B near picturesque Beara. Business isn't helped, though, when one guest
is attacked and another is murdered.

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN MIND by Tom Vater, reviewed by Chris Roberts.
Hamburg detective Maier is hired by a beautiful woman to investigate the
death of her father in Laos 25 years ago.

SHIVER by Karen Robards, reviewed by John Cleal
Single mum Samantha drives a repo truck to keep a roof over her son’s head.
When she hooks up a BMW, she finds a beaten and shot man in the boot and
when she is taken hostage by him is dragged into a fight to survive.

WATCH YOUR BACK by Karen Rose, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
Detective Stevie Mazzetti is recovering slowly from having been shot whilst
working on a previous case, but someone is still out to kill her. When her
daughter is also made a target she agrees to be hidden until the shooting
stops. But will it?

WEB OF DARKNESS by Bali Rai, reviewed by Linda Wilson.
Lily is thrilled when an incredibly attractive boy wants to be friends with
her on Facebook and accepts his invitation despite the fact that she’s
never met him. But is he really all he makes out to be?

Best wishes

Sharon