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 journalist Jonathan Abrams in the Countdown hot seat.
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This week’s reviews are:
MACBETH by Jo Nesbo, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Inspector Macbeth is the best cop, able to clean up any mess, such as a drug bust turned into a bloodbath. He’s also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past.
FIREFLY by Henry Porter, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A young Syrian refugee making his way to the West to make a new life for himself and his family carries information about ISIS, who are determined to stop him.
BLOOD FEUD by Anna Smith, reviewed by John Cleal
Corporate lawyer Kerry Casey is pitchforked into taking over her father’s gangland empire when her brother is assassinated, and then her mother killed at his funeral.
THE MAN BETWEEN by Charles Cumming, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Successful espionage novelist Kit Carradine finds himself dissatisfied with the life he leads and jumps at an opportunity to undertake what appears to be a spying mission on behalf of the UK government.
RUMPOLE: THE PENGE BUNGALOW MURDERS AND OTHER STORIES (audiobook) by John
Mortimer, reviewed Linda Wilson
Three BBC radio dramatisations featuring iconic defence barrister Horace Rumpole.
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Ambrose Parry, reviewed by John Cleal
Young women are dying in agony and Edinburgh medical student Will Raven personally connected to one such death, sets out to discover why, aided by an intelligent and ambitious housemaid Sarah Fisher.
STANDING STILL by Caro Ramsay, reviewed by Linda Wilson
DCI Anderson and DI Costello have a murder to solve and a missing man to find.
THE SONS by Anton Svensson, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
After six years in prison, Sweden’s most notorious bank criminal Leo Duvnjac is free, acquitted of most of the bank robberies he and his two younger brothers pulled off. While behind bars he planned the biggest heist
ever. But a bitter cop is on his case.
THE GOOD DAUGHTER by Karin Slaughter, reviewed by Chris Roberts
When a teacher and pupil are killed in a school shooting, a local legal family take up the defence of the teenager accused but are dogged by memories of past events.
1974 by David Peace, reviewed by John Cleal
Journalist Eddie Dunford, who is investigating a missing girl, stumbles into a sordid conspiracy involving local officials and police.
DEAD MAN’S GIFT AND OTHER STORIES by Simon Kernick, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A collection of two novellas and five short stories from thriller writer Simon Kernick.
DEATH SILENCES EVERYONE by Bill Sheehy, reviewed by Kate Balfour
Ex-cop turned unofficial private eye Brad Foley is teamed with new girl Gretchen Bongiorno to investigate the murder of the daughter of a prominent San Franciscan family, but officials on all sides are warning them off.
THE CULL by Tony Park, reviewed by John Cleal
Former mercenary Sonja Kurtz, given the chance to lead Southern Africa’s first all-woman anti-animal poaching unit, becomes involved in a bloody confrontation with an international criminal gang.
LIGHT IT UP by Nick Petrie, reviewed by Chris Roberts
When ex-marine Peter Ash helps an old army buddy by riding shotgun on a truck making legal cannabis deliveries, the job calls for all his military skills.
WHERE THE MISSING GO by Emma Rowley, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
When Kate takes a call on a helpline, it turns her fragile world upside down.
THE HUNGER by Alma Katsu, reviewed by John Cleal
A California-bound waggon train is trapped by winter in the Sierra Nevadas. In an atmosphere of superstition, fear and mutual loathing, some members resort to cannibalism to survive.
CULT X by Fuminori Nakamura, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Toru Narazaki, who’s searching for a girl who disappeared after a brief relationship, visits an address in Tokyo occupied by a cult and gets drawn into a bizarre world.
RUN, RIOT by Nikesh Shukla, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Four teens are on the run in their tower block home, determined to bring a friend’s killers to justice.
THE MEMORY CHAMBER by Holly Cave, reviewed by John Barnbrook
In the not-too-distant future architects can design a heaven specifically for you but there are regulations and controls. Isobel is not supposed to fall in love with her client and the implications when his wife is murdered
are destructive.
A THOUSAND PERFECT NOTES by CG Drews, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Fifteen-year-old Beck Keverich is forced by his obsessive mother to practise classical music until his hands hurt and he fantasises about cutting them off.
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