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 Rebecca Denton in the
Countdown hot seat:
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This
week’s reviews are:
SHELL
GAME by Sara Paretsky, reviewed by Chris Roberts
VI
Warshawski is run ragged when the nephew of her closest friend is linked to a
murder, and the niece of her ex-husband shows up desperate about a missing
sister.
COLD BONES
by David Mark, reviewed by John Cleal
DS Aector
McAvoy follows a report that an elderly woman has not been seen for days and
finds her frozen in her bath, the start of a trail that reaches far into the
past and uncovers a series of grisly murders.
POISONED
GROUND by Barbara Nadel, reviewed by Linda Wilson
London PI
Lee Arnold is still struggling to make ends meet. He’s been called in to track
down a missing fraudster and Mumtaz Hakim has gone undercover at a psychiatric
unit in an attempt to clear a former employee accused of terrorist activity.
THE RUIN
by Dervla McTiernan, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Jack
Blake’s suicide rings increasingly loud alarm bells in Garda Cormac Reilly’s
ears – ones he should have listened to long ago.
CAPTIVE
by Tony Park, reviewed by John Cleal
Australian
lawyer Kerry Maxwell, in Africa to volunteer alongside vet Dr Graham Baird at a
wildlife rehabilitation centre, finds herself a captive in a bloody feud on the
frontline of the war on poaching.
RESIN by
Ane Riel, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Liv lives
on an isolated farm with her hoarder-carpenter father Jens, bed-ridden obese
mother Maria, dead twin brother Carl and mummified baby sister. She’s happy but
a bit worried, especially when she witnesses her dad killing her granny. Life
goes on but a newcomer to the area wants to find out more about the strange
family.
NIGHT
SHIFT by Robin Triggs, reviewed by Linda Wilson
The new
head of security at a mining base in Antarctica is told there’ll be nothing for
him to do, but that prediction is soon proved wrong in spectacular fashion.
THE
SYNDICATE by Guy Bolton, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
1947. A
notorious New York mobster is murdered in Hollywood. Jonathan Craine, a retired
Los Angeles policeman, is blackmailed into taking on the task of finding his
killer.
A
SNAPSHOT OF MURDER by Frances Brody, reviewed by John Cleal
Kate
Shackleton organises a photographic society outing to Haworth, the heart of
Brontë country. But when the most obnoxious member of the party is murdered,
her planned break from detection comes to an abrupt end.
SLUGGER
by Martin Holmén, reviewed by Chris Roberts
When a
priest is killed in what is made to look like a Jewish atrocity, Harry Kvist
has his suspicions. An opportunity for payback is difficult to refuse.
RUIN
BEACH by Kate Rhodes, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A march
by Mosley and his Blackshirts is held in Leeds. There is considerable violence
throughout the march and when it is over the body of a man is discovered. He
has been strangled.
BLOOD
& SUGAR by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, reviewed by John Cleal
A body
hanging on a hook at Deptford Dock, horribly tortured and branded with a
slaver’s mark, propels American war hero Captain Harry Corsham into a dark
secret at the very core of British society.
PHANTOM
by Leo Hunt, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Talented
hacker Nova is given the task of infiltrating one of the most powerful
corporations on the planet.
MOTHERLAND
by GD Abson, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Captain
Natalya Ivanova of the St Petersburg police makes preliminary enquiries when a
Swedish girl goes missing, but the case has many complications.
IN FOR
THE KILL by Ed James, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
The
murder of a student at the University of Southwark may prove too close to home
for DI Simon Fenchurch.
STITCH UP
by William McIntyre, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Lawyer
Robbie Munro is asked by an old flame to investigate a death, while doing his best
to protect his ex-copper father who’s accused of stitching up a child-killer.
THE
CHANGELING MURDERS by CS Quinn, reviewed by John Cleal
As London
rebuilds after the Great Fire, thief-taker Charlie Tuesday’s former flame is
kidnapped on the way to her own wedding and an actress, wearing her clothes, is
found hanging from theatre scenery.
THE
BURNING HILL by AD Flint, reviewed by Chris Roberts
An
encounter between a young British soldier and a couple of street kids on Brazil’s
Copacabana beach has fateful consequences.
THE DEAD
ON LEAVE by Chris Nickson, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
A march
by Mosley and his Blackshirts is held in Leeds. There is considerable violence
throughout the march and when it is over the body of a man is discovered. He
has been strangled.
TALL
ORDER by Stephen Leather, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Dan
‘Spider’ Shepherd puts his extraordinary memory to the test when he’s tasked
with the search for the terrorists behind a suicide bombing at a football
stadium.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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