In our new edition of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk) this week we have 16 reviews, together with Paddington creator Michael Bond in the Countdown interview hot seat: Crime Review may be followed on Twitter: @CrimeReviewUK Linda Wilson may be followed on Twitter: @CrimeReviewer Sharon Wheeler may be followed on Twitter: @lartonmedia This week’s reviews are: LITTLE BLACK LIES by Sharon Bolton, reviewed by Linda Wilson A child goes missing on the remote Falklands Islands. This isn't the first time it’s happened and the last two have never been found. CLOSE YOUR EYES by Michael Robotham, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler Clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin reluctantly agrees to help police investigating the murder of a mother and daughter after one of his former students leaks information to the press. HALF THE WORLD AWAY by Cath Staincliffe, reviewed by Chris Roberts Graduate Lori Maddox goes travelling and is teaching English in Chengdu when communications home cease. Her parents Joanna and Tom are frustrated by the lack of action in China, and set off to find her. MARSTON MOOR by Michael Arnold, reviewed by John Cleal Five armies meet outside York in July 1644 in a brief, but bloody battle which changed the course of history. Battle-scarred Royalist Major Innocent Stryker must call on all his experience to survive. THE LAST LULLABY by Carin Gerhardsen, reviewed by Ewa Sherman Inspector Conny Sjoberg unearths a tale of revenge and guilt and how nearly forgotten events from the past can still shape people’s lives when he investigates the murder of a woman in an expensive Stockholm apartment. THE STOLEN ONES by Owen Laukkanen, reviewed by Chris Roberts When a sheriff’s deputy is shot, and the girl found over the body speaks no English, Kirk Stevens is nearby and is called in to help. BY ITS COVER by Donna Leon, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan A theft of pages torn from some ancient books is reported by a library in Venice. Commissario Brunetti is called in to investigate. LAST WORDS by Michael Koryta, reviewed by Linda Wilson Garrison in Southern Indiana is a town that’s harbouring quite a few secrets, as Mark Novak discovers to his cost when he’s sent to look into an exceedingly cold case. THE DEFENCE by Steve Cavanagh, reviewed by Chris Roberts Eddie Flynn is pressed into court to represent a Russian mafia boss, and his young daughter is threatened with death if he does not cooperate. A VERY BRITISH ENDING by Edward Wilson, reviewed by John Cleal Senior MI6 officers Catesby and Bone try to outwit a cabal of power-hungry plotters on both sides of the Atlantic trying to overthrow the British Prime Minister. AND IS THERE HONEY STILL FOR TEA? by Peter Murphy, reviewed by Arnold Taylor A libel suit between an American university professor and an Englishman accused of being a spy instigates a dangerous series of events for barrister Ben Schroeder. SWANSONG by Damien Boyd, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler DI Nick Boyd has to confront traumatic memories from his past when he goes undercover as a teacher to investigate the murder of a schoolgirl. DARKNESS, DARKNESS by John Harvey, reviewed by John Cleal Charlie Resnick, in semi-retirement, is called back to help with the investigation into the killing of a young woman during the miners’ strike of 30 years before. SHIVER THE WHOLE NIGHT THROUGH by Darragh McManus, reviewed by Linda Wilson A small town in Ireland is in the grip of an unusually severe winter. When popular local girl Slaine McAuley is found dead in a wood, everyone seems prepared to put this down to suicide, but 17-year-old Aiden Flood isn’t convinced. THE LORD BISHOP’S CLERK by Sarah Hawkswood, reviewed by John Cleal No-one is sorry when the Bishop of Winchester’s manipulative, spying, clerk is found bludgeoned to death before the altar at Pershore Abbey. But Serjeant Catchpoll, thief-taker to Worcester’s sheriff, must discover who did it and why. UNDERWORLD by Meg Cabot, reviewed by Linda Wilson There’s nothing ordinary about 17-year-old Pierce Oliviera’s life. She’s dating the Lord of the Underworld, being pursued by Furies and has to save her cousin from suffocating in a coffin. Best wishes Sharon
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