New issue of Crime Review

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 Chris Ryan in the Countdown hot seat.

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This week’s reviews are:

THE SEAGULL by Ann Cleeves, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
DI Vera Stanhope has been persuaded to give a talk to inmates at Warkworth
Prison. At the end she is approached by a prisoner in a wheelchair whom she
recognises. He says he has information that she would be interested in
hearing. Reluctantly she agrees to listen to what he has to say.

SECRETS OF DEATH by Stephen Booth, reviewed by Linda Wilson
The Peak District is home to tourists of all types, but a rash of suicides
is not what it wants to play host to.

BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD by Attica Locke, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is suspended from duty but makes his own way to
a small East Texas town where a double murder shows signs of being racially
inspired.

SO SAY THE FALLEN by Stuart Neville, reviewed by John Cleal
DCI Serena Flanagan follows her instincts as she investigates the apparent
suicide of a wealthy disabled man.

SWEET LITTLE LIES by Caz Frear, reviewed by Linda Wilson
DC Cat Kinsella stopped trusting her father at the age of eight, so she’s
certainly not surprised when a connection emerges between him and her
latest murder investigations. It’s as if she’s been waiting her whole life
for this moment.

AN ACT OF SILENCE by Colette McBeth, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
All Gabriel has ever wanted is for his mum to believe him, but now he’s
accused of murder and Linda is unable to help. Meanwhile, a young woman
wants the world to know her terrible story.

DAYS WITHOUT END by Sebastian Barry, reviewed by John Barnbrook
Two young men meet after they sign up for the US Army in the 1850s.
Together they go through the Indian Wars and the Civil War, experiencing
the horrors of battle, imprisonment and loss.

WHEN IT GROWS DARK by Jørn Lier Horst, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Stavern 1983. As Christmas is approaching the young policeman and a father
of baby twins William Wisting becomes engrossed in an old mystery of an
abandoned classic car. He’s determined to uncover 60-year-old secrets.

THE DEVIL WINS by Reed Farrel Coleman, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A storm exposes a body, and the remains of two more killed years ago.
Police Chief Jesse Stone investigates an event nobody in Paradise is keen
to talk about.

NONE SO BLIND by Alis Hawkins, reviewed by John Cleal
The remains of a young woman are found buried beneath tree roots. Harry
Probert-Lloyd, a barrister forced home from London by encroaching
blindness, has been dreading this. He knows whose bones they are and
working with his clerk, John Davies, is determined to expose the guilty

THE NINTH GRAVE by Stefan Ahnhem, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Two countries, two predators, too many victims, and winter is closing in.
Fabian Risk is called on to undertake a secret investigation.

THE INNOCENTS by Ace Atkins, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Quinn Colson returns home and helps out his friend Sheriff Lillie Virgil
investigate when a young girl is found walking down a highway engulfed in
flames.

THE ASSET by Shane Kuhn, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Kennedy’s younger sister Belle had been one of the victims of 9/11 and he
never forgot that the last words he spoke to her were in anger. In an
attempt to make amends, he abandons his studies and joins the Transport
Security Administration as an aviation security specialist.

RAVENHILL by John Steele, reviewed by John Cleal
Former UDA tearaway Jackie Shaw, who disappeared during the Troubles,
returns to Belfast after 20 years for his father’s funeral and finds his
past coming back to haunt him.

THE KILLER by Susan Wilkins, reviewed by Kate Balfour
Two women, Kaz Phelps and Nicci Armstrong – one the scion of a notable
family of Essex gangsters, the other retired from the Metropolitan Police
Force on medical grounds – are under threat and must cooperate to survive.

TRIPLE CROWN by Felix Frances, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Something is rotten at the heart of American horse racing, and British
Horse Racing Authority investigator Jeff Hinkley goes undercover to help
his US colleagues.

THE VENETIAN GAME by Philip Gwynne Jones, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Nathan Sutherland is the English Honorary Consul in Venice, a post that
pays nothing but allows him to be of assistance to tourists in trouble. A
rather dull life suddenly becomes exciting when he is offered a
considerable amount of money to look after a small package.

THE ANGEL by Katerina Diamond, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
The body in the burnt-out signal box is just the beginning, but it could be
the end for a lonely young man.

YOU COULD DO SOMETHING AMAZING WITH YOUR LIFE [YOU ARE RAOUL MOAT] by
Andrew Hankinson, reviewed by Kim Fleet
An account of the last days of multiple murderer Raoul Moat, told from
inside his mind.

INDIGO DONUT by Patrice Lawrence, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Indigo’s mother was murdered when she was a small child, but the past has a
nasty habit of coming back to haunt her.

Best wishes

Sharon