Crime Review Update

In our new edition of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk) this week we
have 16 reviews, together with Belinda Bauer in the Countdown interview hot
seat:
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This week’s reviews are:
THE LADY FROM ZAGREB by Philip Kerr, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Bernie Gunther’s reputation as a detective gets him a place as a speaker at
an international police conference, and a private job looking into a
company run by some important names.

WORLD GONE BY by Dennis Lehane, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
Joe Coughlin is the golden boy of gangsters – but someone is apparently out
to kill him. And he thinks he’s being haunted by a strange child-like ghost.

CAMILLE by Pierre Lemaitre, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Anne Forestier, the new woman in Camille Verhoeven's life, goes into a
toilet in a fashionable shopping quarter and runs into three armed men just
on the point of carrying out a robbery.

AFTER THE CRASH by Michael Bussi, reviewed by Linda Wilsom
A three-month-old baby is the sole survivor of a horrific plane crash. Two
families come forward to claim the little girl, signalling the start of a
long and inconclusive investigation.

MURDER IN PIGALLE by Cara Black, reviewed by Chris Roberts
When her friends’ daughter Zazie goes missing in pursuit of a child
molester, Aimee Leduc begins her own investigation.

LOSER’S CORNER by Antonin Varenne, reviewed by John Cleal
Policeman and club boxer George Crozat, facing to the end of his career in
the ring, accepts an offer to make a profit with his fists – and becomes a
pawn in a dangerous game where powerful men will go to any lengths to hide
the past.

MONSIEUR PAMPLEMOUSSE AND THE TANGLED WEB by Michael Bond, reviewed by
Linda Wilson
Monsieur Pamplemousse and his loyal canine sidekick Pommes Frites
investigate dastardly goings-on at a restaurant where the owner has turned
up dead.

DIE AGAIN by Tess Gerritsen, reviewed by Sylvia Wilson
Six years ago, a group of tourists disappeared on safari in Botswana. Only
one escaped barely alive. Now in Boston a well-known hunter and taxidermist
is found hung up and gutted like a deer. As Detective Jane Rizzoli
investigates, connections emerge between the two incidents.

SECOND LIFE by SJ Watson, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
Julia has looked after her sister Kate’s son most of his life, although
Kate wanted him back. When Kate is murdered, Julia takes over Kate’s online
life to try to find her killer. Can she cope with the consequences?

FACE OFF edited by David Baldacci, reviewed by John Cleal
Eleven short stories featuring some of the best-known protagonists and
authors in the field, set mainly in America and covering most types of
crime with the occasional twist of horror or the supernatural.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS by Elizabeth Haynes, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When Scarlett Rainsford is found in the UK ten years after going missing as
a teenager in Greece, DCI Lou Smith tries to unravel what happened and why.

SILENT RUNNING by Pauline Rowson, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
Former marine Art Marvik is holed up on the Isle of Wight. He takes to both
land and water as he goes in search of a missing former girlfriend and a
killer who is determined to cover his tracks at all costs.

DODGER OF THE DIALS by James Benmore, reviewed by John Cleal
Jack Dawkins, the Artful Dodger, is making his living running what remains
of Fagin’s gang of pickpockets and thieves. But he is forced to accept a
junior partnership in a bigger and more brutal operation which leads him –
and his mistress – into a situation where their lives are at risk.

AFRICAN SKY by Tony Parks, reviewed by Chris Roberts
In a wartime RAF training camp in Rhodesia, a beautiful WAAF is found
murdered. Local policewoman Pip Lovejoy thinks Squadron Leader Paul Bryant
knows more than he is telling.

DEAD MEN’S BONES by James Oswald, reviewed by Linda Wilson
DI Tony McLean’s superiors are keen to tidy away the case of a prominent
Scottish MP who murdered his wife and two daughters before killing himself,
but McLean wants to get the bottom of what drove the man to murder and
suicide.

A MAN’S HEAD by Georges Simenon, reviewed by John Cleal
Chief Inspector Maigret embarks on an audacious scheme to prove the
innocence of a man awaiting execution and must confront a killer convinced
of his own intellectual superiority.

Best wishes

Sharon