Crime Review Update

In our new edition of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk) this week we
have 16 reviews, together with Danielle Ramsay in the Countdown interview
hot seat:
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This week’s reviews are:
THE SLAUGHTER MAN by Tony Parsons, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
Maverick cop Max Wolfe investigates the murder of a wealthy family who were
butchered with a cattle stun gun – and finds a link to another killing from
30 years previously.

DEATH IN THE RAINY SEASON by Anna Jacquiery, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Commandant Morel is sent to Phnom Penh to investigate the murder of the
nephew of the French Minister of the Interior.

PUTTING THE BOOT IN by Dan Kavanagh, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Someone is trying to put third division team Athletic out of business.
Private investigator Duffy is hired to find out why.

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ADELE BEDEAU by Graeme Macrae Burnet, reviewed by
Arnold Taylor
Manfred Baumann is a loner and a misfit whose sole source of pleasure is
watching a seductive waitress in the bistro where he is a regular patron.
One day she simply disappears in circumstances that lead to his coming
under suspicion.

GUN STREET GIRL by Adrian McKinty, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Inspector Sean Duffy, one of few Catholic officers in the Royal Ulster
Constabulary, is called to a double murder, tagged a family dispute but
with several indications of a professional hit.

A LINE OF BLOOD by Ben McPherson, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When Alex Mercer finds his neighbour dead in the bath, he’s caught up in a
train of events that threaten everything he holds dear.

BLOOD WHISPERS by John Gordon Sinclair, reviewed by John Cleal
Rising criminal lawyer Keira Lynch can break a vicious Eastern European
prostitution ring – if she can keep her client alive long enough to give
evidence. But those behind the whoremasters will kill to protect their
secret.

TELL TALE by Mark Sennen, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
DI Charlotte Savage has vowed revenge on the man who killed her daughter in
a hit-and-run accident. Meanwhile, she is also faced with a dead body on
the moors and trying to track down the murdered girl’s housemate.

THE TOWER by Alessandro Gallenzi, reviewed by John Cleal
A giant tower in the desert will hold digitalized versions of all the
world’s publications – including unpublished texts by the 16th century
philosopher and genius Giordano Bruno. When those texts go missing,
investigator Peter Sims and literary scholar, Giulia Ripetti are called in
to find them. But someone is determined to stop them at any cost.

MURDER ON HIGH HOLBORN by Susanna Gregory, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
An important ship explodes and sinks as it glides serenely up the Thames,
and a member of the Court of Charles II is found murdered. Thomas Chaloner,
intelligencer to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, is dismissed
by him in order to infiltrate a group thought to be planning an uprising.

GONE FOR GOOD by David Bell, reviewed by John Cleal
When Elizabeth’s mother is murdered and her Down’s Syndrome brother
accused, her bid to clear his name uncovers dark family secrets.

THE GLASS CELL by Patricia Highsmith, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Philip Carter is wrongly imprisoned and brutalised in jail. When he
emerges, how will he cope with the realisation that his wife has been
unfaithful?

QUARRY’S CHOICE by Max Allen Collins, reviewed by John Cleal
Ex-marine sniper Quarry has to infiltrate a crime syndicate in 1970s
Mississippi.

URBAN LEGENDS by Helen Grant, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Veerle De Keyser is being hunted and she knows it. But how can a man who’s
meant to have died first in prison and then in a fire at a ruined castle be
in a position to threaten her now?

THE EDGE OF THE WATER by Elizabeth George, reviewed by Sylvia Wilson
A marine biologist comes to the remote Whitbey Island to investigate a
black seal known as Nera, which returns to the island at the same time each
year. A mysterious mute girl is found wandering on the island and none of
the locals want anyone to go near the seal.

A DARK INHERITANCE (audiobook) by Chris D’Lacey, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Rescuing a dog from almost certain death on a clifftop sets in train a
series of events that turns teenager Michael Malone’s life upside down and
promises to bring him closer to the truth behind the mysterious
disappearance of his father three years ago.

Best wishes

Sharon