Happy new
year!
We
feature new 20 reviews in each issue of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk),
together with a top industry interview. This timeit’s Nancy Bilyeau in the
Countdown hot seat:
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This
week’s reviews are:
BATTLE
SIGHT ZERO by Gerald Seymour, reviewed by John Cleal
Muslim
extremists plan to smuggle assault rifles into Britain for a series of deadly
attacks.
DARK
SACRED NIGHT by Michael Connelly, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Detectives
Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to reopen a cold case in the hope
of finally bringing the killer of a teenage runaway to justice.
PARIS IN
THE DARK by Robert Olen Butler, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
An
American journalist is in Paris when a bomb goes off and sets out to find the
culprit.
HEAD
HUNTERS by Chris Ryan, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Danny
Black has been sent to Afghanistan on a mission to hunt and kill the Taliban,
but soon finds that he’s the one being hunted – for a war crime he didn’t
commit.
THE LIES
WE TELL by Kristina Ohlsson, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Successful
Swedish-American lawyer Martin Benner must prove the innocence of dead woman
Sara Texas, accused of a string of murders in the US, while looking for her
missing son Mio. At the same time he finds himself framed for crimes he didn’t
commit.
BEAU
DEATH by Peter Lovesey, reviewed by John Cleal
The
demolition of a terraced cottage lands Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond
with the coldest of cold cases when a skeleton in 18th century clothes is
exposed.
HOME
GROWN HERO by Khurrum Rahman, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Javid
Qasim helped to foil a terrorist attack but neither MI5, who compelled his
assistance, nor the terrorists are prepared to leave him alone.
FALL DOWN
DEAD by Stephen Booth, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When a
woman falls to her death in the fog on the bleak moorland of Kinder Scout, DI
Ben Cooper is faced with the age-old question – did she fall or was she pushed.
THE
GRAVEDIGGERS’ BREAD by Frédéric Dard, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
A man
finds a wallet belonging to an attractive blonde woman who had made a telephone
call from a kiosk shortly before he did. It contains her photograph and 8,000
francs, and he decides to look for her in order to return the wallet.
COLD
DEATH by Quentin Bates, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Officer
Gunnhildur Gísladóttir’s new task is to protect an enigmatic guest of the
Iceland’s controversial Minister of Justice. Ali Osman is either a saviour of
war zones’ refugees or a manipulative arms dealer.
BRIGHT
YOUNG DEAD by Jessica Fellowes, reviewed by John Cleal
A treasure
hunt at the 18th birthday party of Pamela Mitford ends in tragedy when a guest
falls to his death from a church tower. The police identify a maid as the
killer, but Louisa Cannon, chaperone to the Mitford girls, sets out to clear
her.
THE BOUNCER
by David Gordon, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Joe Brody
is a strip club bouncer with a Harvard education and a military career about
which no records exist. Against her best instincts, FBI agent Donna Zamora
finds him very attractive.
IN
STRANGERS’S HOUSES by Elizabeth Mundy, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When Lena
Szarka’s best friend goes missing, she has problems getting anyone to take
notice, so she decides to combine her day job as a cleaner with some sleuthing
to find out what’s happened to Timea.
THE
LIZARD STRATEGY by Valerio Varesi, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
An old
man with dementia goes missing, a telephone ringtone can be heard from a lonely
river valley and the council is in chaos. Commissario Soneri has to make sense
of all these events.
THE
ALADDIN TRIAL by Abi Silver, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A woman
hospitalised for a minor operation is found dead after a fall from the 11th
floor. An immigrant cleaner is accused, and defended by Burton and Lamb.
THE CITY
OF LIES by Michael Russell, reviewed by John Cleal
Garda
Special Branch Inspector Stefan Gillespie, investigating the IRA murder of a
Garda, a pitched battle between racecourse gangs and the partly burnt bodies of
a family of five, is called off for a sensitive mission to Berlin, but soon
discovers all the incidents are connected and that his own life is in danger.
THREE
LITTLE LIES by Laura Marshall, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Her best
friend has gone missing, but Ellen is the only person taking her disappearance
seriously.
JESS
CASTLE AND THE EYEBALLS OF DEATH by MB Vincent, reviewed by John Cleal
Jess
Castle PhD, historian and failed lecturer, returns to her home town of Castle
Kidbury and becomes involved in a series of gory murders.
THE ASH
DOLL by James Hazel, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Lawyer
Charlie Priest has a high-profile case which he looks like losing when his star
witness fails to show in court, and subsequently turns up dead.
ROSIE
LOVES JACK by Mel Darbon, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Rosie
loves Jack, but her father wants to keep them apart, especially when Jack is
sent away to a special home in Brighton. But Rosie isn’t prepared to give up on
her boyfriend, even when he stops contacting her.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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