Crime Review Update: New issue of Crime Review

As posted elsewhere early this evening.....

In our new edition of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk) this week we
have 16 reviews, together with Simon Kernick in the Countdown interview hot
seat:
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This week’s reviews are:
HOUR OF DARKNESS by Quintin Jardine, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A female naked body washed up near Edinburgh baffles police until a woman
is found to be missing from a bloodstained flat.

THE KILL ROOM by Jeffery Deaver, reviewed by John Cleal
An outspoken critic of US foreign policy is assassinated in the Bahamas.
All routes lead to a shady government agency. Lincoln Rhyme and his partner
Amelia Sachs investigate.

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN by Louise Penny, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Quebec Surete investigates the death
of a quintuplet, and his battle with corrupt powerful people comes to a
culmination.

TELL NO TALES by Eva Dolan, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
Peterborough’s hate crimes unit – DI Dushan Zigic and DS Mel Ferreira –
battle community tensions as they investigate a hit and run accident and
also the murder of two immigrants who were kicked to death

GUN MACHINE by Warren Ellis, reviewed by John Cleal
A disenchanted New York detective is jolted into life when his partner is
killed and during a search of the murder building he stumbles on a room
containing hundreds of guns arranged in a bizarre pattern – each used in a
recent killing and each matched with a weapon used in a historic murder.

KILLING FOR KEEPS by Mari Hannah, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When two hideously brutal killings take place within a few hours of each
other, it’s not hard to find the link between the two, but bringing the
killers to justice proves a lot harder for DCI Kate Daniels and her team.

THE DIRECTOR by David Ignatius, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Post-WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, the CIA is fast losing credibility. The
president appoints as CIA Director Graham Weber, a wealthy businessman and
a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, with full
authority to make any changes he considers necessary.

DUST by Patricia Cornwell, reviewed by Sylvia Wilson
In bed with flu, Dr Kay Scarpetta is called to the body of a young girl
posed in the middle of an MIT sports field, her body covered in a dust that
fluoresces in rainbow colours. Scarpetta is reminded of similar cases in
Washington, but the FBI is determined to prove that they are unrelated.

A HOUSE OF KNIVES by William Shaw, reviewed by John Cleal
DS Cathal Breen and DC Helen Tozer investigate the death and mutilation of
an MP’s son in swinging – and corrupt – London in 1968.

COME, SWEET DEATH by Wolf Haas, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Simon Brenner finds driving an ambulance less stressful than police work,
but his boss pushes him back into detection to find out how a competitor is
stealing their business.

GONE by Rebecca Muddiman, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When troubled teenager Emma Thorley went missing, the police and everyone
else assumed she’d run away again, but 11 years later when a body is found
in woods near Blyth, it looks like there was another, far more deadly
reason for her disappearance.

DEAD OF NIGHT by Chris Collett, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
DCI Tom Mariner and his Birmingham team investigate the disappearance of a
young woman, whose clothes are sent, neatly cleaned and pressed, to the
police

SINGAPORE NOIR, edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Fourteen short stories about the dark side of the lives of local residents
that belie the common belief that Singapore is a sanitised and dull place.

ROSEBLOOD by Paul Doherty, reviewed by John Cleal
England is poised on the brink of civil war in 1455. Former soldier Simon
Roseblood, a sworn Lancastrian supporter, faces growing threats to his
position and businesses – and a fanatical group seeking revenge for a
massacre in which he had no part.

THE MONOGRAM MURDERS by Sophie Hannah, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
Hercule Poirot is sitting in a coffee house in London when in flies a young
woman in a state of panic. Later three bodies are discovered in a local
hotel, each carefully laid out in a particular way. Are the two incidents
linked? Poirot and sidekick Catchpole from Scotland Yard investigate.

SPIDERS by Tom Hoyle, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Adam thought he was finished with adventure when he turned 13, but when bad
things start to happen to people he’s connected with, his life is about to
be turned upside down again.

Best wishes

Sharon