We
feature new 20 reviews in each issue of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk),
together with a top industry interview. This time
it’s
author and editor Martin Edwards in the Countdown hot seat:
We’re
on Twitter at:
Crime
Review: @CrimeReviewUK
Linda
Wilson: @CrimeReviewer
Sharon
Wheeler: @lartonmedia
This
week’s reviews are:
LOCKWOOD
& CO: THE CREEPING SHADOW by Jonathan Stroud, reviewed by Linda
Wilson
Lucy
Carlyle has left Lockwood & Co to strike out on her own, but her
resolve
is tested when Lockwood comes to her with a proposition.
NUMERO
ZERO by Umberto Eco, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A
journalist, convinced that the death of Mussolini was faked in a
conspiracy
linked to many subsequent Italian events, is found stabbed.
THE
TIME TO KILL by Mason Cross, reviewed by Jim Beaman
Carter
Blake worked for a top secret US government agency – but now they
want
him dead.
THE
RULES OF BACKYARD CRICKET by Jock Serong, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
Darren
Keefe and his brother are international cricket stars – but Darren
can
always find trouble and someone wants him dead.
OFF
THE GRID by CJ Box, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Nate
Romanowski’s attempt to stay off the grid is ended when two government
agents
pressure him into undertaking a special mission. Luckily his old
friend
Joe Pickett is around to give him a hand.
THE
ICE CHILD by Camilla Lackberg, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
In
the frozen forest a traumatised semi-naked girl wanders aimlessly. When
she
finally reaches a road, the approaching car fails to stop. The accident
leaves
the police and the local community completely shaken.
THE
LOST SWIMMER by Ann Turner, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
Rebecca
Wilding, an Aussie archaeology professor, is accused of fraud. And
then
her husband goes missing …
THE
DEAD HOUSE by Harry Bingham, reviewed by John Cleal
The
discovery of a woman’s body, dressed in white and laid out in a
candle-lit
‘death house’ in a Welsh valley church sets Detective Sergeant
Fiona
Lewis on her most baffling case.
PRESENT
TENSE by WHS McIntyre, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Lawyer
Robbie Munro gets a visit from old client Billy Paris, who deposits
a
parcel for safekeeping. Several parties think Munro is in possession of
information
they are very keen to get hold of.
THE
AMBER SHADOWS by Lucy Ribchester, reviewed by John Cleal
Honey
Deschamps works at Britain’s wartime top secret intercept and
decoding
centre. Somebody starts to send her parcels of amber, apparently
from
a looted Russian palace. Who is responsible, and in a place where
everyone
keeps secrets, who can she trust?
DETONATOR
by Andy McNab, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Nick
Stone is on the run with a seven-year-old boy in tow, hampered by the
fact
that he has no memory of who is out to kill him, or why.
RETRIBUTION
by Steffen Jacobsen, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
On
a beautiful autumn day a Muslim suicide bomber triggers an explosion in
the
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, killing more than 1000 people. A year goes
by
and, in spite of intensive efforts to find the criminals, no arrests
have
been made.
STRANGERS
ON A BRIDGE: The Case of Colonel Abel by James B Donovan,
reviewed
by John Cleal
The
true story of the arrest and trial of Soviet spy Colonel Rudolf Abel by
the
man who defended him – and his eventual exchange for shot down U2 pilot
Gary
Powers.
ROBERT
B PARKER’S KICKBACK by Ace Atkins, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Blackburn,
Massachusetts, has a zero tolerance policy for juvenile crime,
as
teenager Dillon Yates discovers to his cost when a joke spectacularly
backfires.
BENEATH
THE SURFACE by Jo Spain, reviewed by John Cleal
A
minister’s aide is murdered in the Irish parliament building. Detective
Inspector
Tom Reynolds and his team must uncover the truth in a sea of
lies,
corruption and secrets.
LITTLE
APPLE by Leo Perutz, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Five
Austrian prisoners of war, released by the Russians in 1918, have
sworn
to seek revenge on the Camp Commandant.
A
TIME OF TORMENT by John Connolly, reviewed by John Barnbrook
Charlie
Parker and his two sidekicks, Angel and Louis, appear to have the
power
to know and intervene in deviant criminal behaviour. This power
serves
them well as they investigate cases of missing young girls and pit
themselves
against the insidious power of The Cut.
JESSICA’S
GHOST by Andrew Norriss, reviewed by Linda Wilson
No
one is more surprised than Jessica when someone is finally able to see
her
and talk to her. It’s lonely being a ghost, but now she has Francis for
a
friend.
BY
GASLIGHT by Steven Price, reviewed by John Cleal
American
detective William Pinkerton is in London following up his father’s
obsession
with ‘phantom’ crook Edward Shade.
BLADE
OF LIGHT by Andrea Camilleri, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
Inspector
Montalbano is called to investigate the mystery of a house which
appears
to have had a door removed.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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