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 Thomas Enger in the Countdown hot seat.

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This week’s reviews are:
COME AND FIND ME by Sarah Hilary, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A dangerous criminal is on the run after a bloody prison riot that left men
dead and horribly maimed. DI Marnie Rome and her team have the job of
putting him back behind bars.

ONLY THE DEAD CAN TELL by Alex Gray, reviewed by John Cleal
Superintendent William Lorimer and his Major Incident Team uncover links
between an apparent domestic murder and a vicious team of people
traffickers.

A SUMMER REVENGE by Tom Callaghan, reviewed by Chris Roberts
An ex-girlfriend of the Kyrgyz Minister for State Security has absconded to
Dubai with a memory stick he is keen to retrieve. Akyl Borubaev is sent to
bring her back.

MAIGRET AND THE DEAD GIRL by Georges Simenon, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
When the body of a dead girl is found on Place Vintimille, Maigret and
Janvier go to investigate.

AFTER I’VE GONE by Linda Green, reviewed by Kate Balfour
Jess Mount lives a fairly ordinary life for a 20-something – until her
Facebook page begins to show posted items about her death, 18 months in the
future, which only she can see.

ARTEMIS by Andy Weir, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Low-level criminal Jazz Bashara is offered a job for a price she can’t
afford to turn down, but it’s not without its dangers, as if life on the
moon wasn’t already dangerous enough.

THE COVEN by Graham Masterton, reviewed by John Cleal
Widowed Beatrice Scarlet loses her son to Red Indian raiders and returns to
England to help at a home for ‘fallen girls’, but finds there are as many
savages in 18th century London as in the wilds of colonial America.

RESTLESS COFFINS by MP Wright, reviewed by Nicola Hodges
Bristol 1967. Private investigator JT Ellington receives a tragic telegram
that sends him on a journey to Harlem, New Orleans and his native Barbados.

CONVICTION by Julia Dahl, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Journalist Rebekah Roberts looks into a murder conviction over 20 years
old, when the New York crime rate was appalling and justice severely
compromised.

WHEN I WAKE UP by Jessica Jarlvi, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
There are only two people who know why Anna was left for dead. And one of
them is in a coma.

DEATH IN THE TUSCAN HILLS by Marco Vichi, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
Inspector Bordelli has been investigating a horrible crime involving a
young boy. The ramifications of this are so bad that Bordelli decides to
leave his job – he just walks out, and starts a new life in the countryside.

BERLIN SYNDROME by Melanie Joosten, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
When Australian photographer Clare meets Berliner Andi, she has no idea
that she will become a prisoner in his flat and his twisted world of love
and secrets.

EXILE by James Swallow, reviewed by John Cleal
Disgraced former MI6 man Marc Dane faces a threat to the world when a
Somali warlord acquires a nuclear weapon.

GREEN SUN by Kent Anderson, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Hanson is new to the Oakland Police, but set apart by age, a stint as a
policeman in Portland, service in Vietnam and a master’s degree in English
literature.

THE DEVIL’S DICE by Roz Watkins, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A man is found dead near a cave system with a sinister reputation. DI Meg
Dalton investigates.

HADES by Candice Fox, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Homicide detective Frank Bennet should be grateful for his new partner, but
he senses she is even more dangerous than the serial killer they are trying
to bring down.

DESPERATION ROAD by Michael Farris Smith, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Many years after an event which dramatically changed lives, the two people
most affected return to the town but find they still have battles to fight.

THE DEATH OF HER by Debbie Howells, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A woman is attacked and left for dead in a field in Cornwall. She has no
idea who she is, but she knows her young daughter is missing.

SHE BE DAMED by MJ Tjia, reviewed by John Cleal
Prostitutes are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed.
Courtesan and detective Heloise Chancey investigates.

THE BONEYARD by Mark Sennen, reviewed by John Barnbrook
A suspected murderer is returned from the US to the UK after his confession
was found to be suspect. Attention turns immediately to him when similar
killings start up again near where he is living.

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Sharon
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