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 Julia Dahl in the Countdown hot seat:
http://crimereview.co.uk/page.php/interview/5891

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This week’s reviews are:

THE HABIT OF MURDER by Susanna Gregory, reviewed by John Cleal
Matthew Bartholomew, Brother Michael and Master Langelee travel to the
Suffolk town of Clare for the funeral of the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh in
the hope she has left a legacy to near-bankrupt Michaelhouse college.
Several people have met odd deaths and a dangerous situation threatens more
killings.

GALLOWS DROP by Mari Hannah, reviewed by Linda Wilson
An investigation into a macabre hanging on an ancient gallows thrusts DCI
Kate Daniels’ private life into the spotlight.

MAIGRET GOES TO SCHOOL by Georges Simenon, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
A schoolteacher from the coastal village of Saint-André-sur-Mer, Charente,
visits Maigret with a request that he prove him innocent of murder. Maigret
agrees to go back to the village with him to see what he can do.

THE HERMIT by Thomas Rydahl, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
When police find an abandoned car with a body of a small boy in a cardboard
box on the back seat, they want to close the investigation quickly. Erhard,
an old Danish recluse and a taxi driver on the island of Fuerteventura,
decides to solve the murder.

PALE HORSE RIDING by Chris Petit, reviewed by John Cleal
Police financial detective August Schlegel and his partner, the enigmatic
SS officer Morgen, are assigned to investigate corruption at a Nazi death
camp and are plunged into a hell of treachery, debauchery and murder.

THE FALLEN by Ace Atkins, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A robbery executed with military-style precision at the Jericho First
National Bank gives Sheriff Quinn Colson some ideas about the background of
those involved.

THE FEAR WITHIN by JS Law, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A young woman goes missing from a naval warship in Portsmouth. Lieutenant
Dani Lewis is called in to investigate.

DEATH ON THE CANAL by Anja de Jager, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Amsterdam detective Lotte Meerman is relaxing at a canal-side bar when a
man is stabbed and killed. There looks to be a drug connection, but Lotte
is not so sure.

THE OWL ALWAYS HUNTS AT NIGHT by Samuel Bjork, reviewed by Sue Kelso Ryan
A girl is found naked and murdered in a nest of owl feathers. With few
clues, the police must find out why she died before the killer strikes
again.

ECHOES IN DEATH by JD Robb, reviewed by John Barnbrook
A chance encounter with a naked woman staggering through snowy streets
leads Lieutenant Eve Dallas into an investigation of a series of cases
where wealthy couples are targeted for brutal ritualistic assaults.

SEVEN DEAD by J Jefferson Farjeon, reviewed by John Cleal
Small-time crook Ted Lyte stumbles on a locked room containing the bodies
of six dead men and one woman, and launches DI Kendall and journalist
Thomas Hazeldean into an investigation that has its roots deep in the past.

FOREIGN BODIES edited by Martin Edwards, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Sixteen short stories from around the globe written in the first half of
the last century with a focus on crime and detectives in the classic
tradition.

THE SIXTH WINDOW by Rachel Abbott, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Natalie Gray should never have looked on her new partner’s computer. Now
her daughter’s life is in danger.

YOU DON’T KNOW ME by Brooke Magnanti, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Forensic pathologist Dr Harriet Hitchin has a new challenge when the
mummified body of a former call girl ends up on her mortuary slab.

THE GREEK WALL by Niholas Verdan, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Greek Intelligence agent Evangelos investigates a severed head found on the
Greek border but finds the truth obscured by the conflicting demands of
vested interests.

THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE by Stuart Turton, reviewed by John
Cleal
The homecoming daughter of an aristocratic house is shot dead – every
night. One of the guests must solve this mystery, but is handicapped as he
wakes up in a different body, either guest or staff, each day.

HEAD CASE by Ross Armstrong, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Girls are disappearing, and PCSO Tom Mondrian thinks he’s spotted a pattern
that the investigating officers have missed, but no one listens to a lowly
PCSO, especially not one with a bullet in his head.

THE LUCKY ONES by Mark Edwards, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
One murder is bad enough, two is more than a hideous coincidence. But three
is a serial killer who is leaving no clues.

REMEMBER NO MORE by Jan Newton, reviewed by John Cleal
City DS Julie Kite starts a new job in rural Wales, is plunged straight
into a murder mystery and discovers life in insular Powys is nothing like
Manchester.

TERROR KID (audiobook) by Benjamin Zephaniah, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A teenage computer whizz is sucked unwittingly into a dangerous terror plot.

Best wishes

Sharon