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 John Connolly in the Countdown hot seat:
http://crimereview.co.uk/page.php/interview/6060

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This week’s reviews are:

BODY AND SOUL by John Harvey, reviewed by John Cleal
Retired Met detective Frank Elder knows something is wrong when his
estranged and troubled daughter turns up. When someone she has had a
relationship is murdered, he must try to prove her innocence at the same
time as protecting both of them from a deadly threat from the past.

THE DARKEST DAY by Håkan Nesser, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
The Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate father Karl-Erik and
eldest daughter Ebba’s joint landmark birthdays. But underneath the smiles,
tensions are running high. Before the festivities are over two members of
the family are missing. Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti must find out what has
happened.

THE LOST by Mari Hannah, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A ten-year-old boy goes missing and there are discrepancies in his
stepfather’s version of events. DI David Stone and DS Frankie Oliver know
that the first 24 hours in any investigation of this type are vital and the
pressure soon mounts.

THE CHALK MAN by CJ Tudor, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Little chalk figures drawn on pavements, walls and tree trunks were only
the gang’s secret code. Now they’re something far more sinister.

NUCLEUS by Rory Clements, reviewed by John Cleal
The year is 1939 and war is imminent with a race under way between the
allies and the Nazis to produce an atomic bomb. Cambridge lecturer Tom
Wolfe knows the city’s Cavendish research laboratory is a prime target for
German attacks.

JACKRABBIT SMILE by Joe R Lonsdale, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Hap and Leonard take a job from a pair of religious racists to find their
daughter Jackrabbit, who they haven’t seen for five years.

THE GOOD ASSASSIN by Paul Vidich, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
George Mueller, a retired CIA agent, is approached by the CIA director to
pose as a travel writer in Cuba to find out if their ‘man in Havana’, Toby
Graham, is providing Fidel Castro’s rebels with arms.

TURN A BLIND EYE by Vicky Newham, reviewed by Linda Wilson
DI Maya Rahman investigates the murder of the head teacher at her old
school amidst cultural tensions in London’s East End.

NO MIDDLE NAME by Lee Child, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
A collection of stories about Jack Reacher’s life, starting with him as a
young lad of about 13.

FOOLS AND MORTALS by Bernard Cornwell, reviewed by John Barnbrook
Richard Shakespeare, brother of William, longs to play male parts in the
theatre. He turns down the offer of advancement in a new company who want
him to steal his brother’s new play, and as a result becomes the object of
suspect, arrest and betrayal.

RESORT TO MURDER by TP Fielden, reviewed by Anthea Hawdon
Miss Judy Dimont, chief reporter of the Riviera Express newspaper, has a
new puzzle to solve and a cub reporter to initiate into the ways of
journalism. Lucky then that a juicy story – a mystery death on the beach at
Temple Regis – has appeared.

THE SILENT COMPNIONS by Laura Purcell, reviewed by John Cleal
Widow Elsie Bainbridge is held in an asylum, pending possible trial for
murder by arson. A doctor attempts to unravel her mental problems and finds
a link to her home’s dark past.

THE DOWNSIDE by Mike Cooper, reviewed by Chris Roberts
When the theft of valuable metal ore ends in arrest for Finn and his gang,
he smells a rat. A new heist offers opportunities and the chance to find
the man responsible.

SPLINTER IN THE BLOOD by Ashley Dyer, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Why is she standing over her boss with a gun in her hand? Will she leave
him for dead?

RESURRECTION BAY by Emma Viskic, reviewed by Chris Roberts
When friend and employee Gary Marsden is found with his throat cut, Caleb
Zelic, boss of PI firm Trust Works, is traumatised and desperate to find
the man responsible.

ORPHAN MONSTER SPY by Matt Killeen, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Sarah is an orphan with the skills to become a spy, infiltrating an elite
German finishing school on the eve of war to get close to the daughter of a
Nazi scientist developing a nuclear bomb.

KILL ME TWICE by Simon Booker, reviewed by John Cleal
Investigative freelance writer Morgan Vane takes up the case of a woman
jailed for the arson murder of the abusive father of her child – then sees
the ‘dead’ man outside her own home.

THE FEAR by CL Taylor, reviewed by Nicola Hodges
Lou was 14 when she was groomed by Mike, an older man. She returns to her
hometown 18 years later to discover that Mike has a new victim, and she is
determined to stop him.

THE ONE by John Marrs, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
A simple DNA test. But will it find their perfect partners or send them on
a journey into danger?

KILLER INSTINCT (audiobook) by SE Green, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller,
reviewed by Linda Wilson
Seventeen-year-old Lane’s obsession with serial killers takes a dangerous
turn when it seems that she might be in a murderer’s sights.

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