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 Paul Hardisty in
the Countdown hot seat:
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This
week’s reviews are:
RIVERS OF
LONDON: WATER WEED by Andrew Cartmel and Ben Aaronovitch,
reviewed
by Linda Wilson
Drug
dealing on the River Thames takes on an added dimension when a pair of
river
goddesses get involved.
THE STONE
CIRCLE by Elly Griffiths, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
Archaeologist
Dr Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson encounter some unwelcome echoes from the
past when bones are discovered on an ancient Norfolk site.
THE
WANDERER by Michael Ridpath, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Magnus
Jonson is an American Icelander newly returned to the Reykjavik police force.
He’s called to investigate the murder of a young Italian tourist found at a
sacred church in northern Iceland.
MAIGRET
AND THE GOOD PEOPLE OF MONTPARNASSE by George Simenon, reviewed by Arnold
Taylor
René
Josselin is a retired businessman living a comfortable life and generally
regarded as a good man. It comes as a great shock when he is found one evening
shot dead in his armchair.
BLACK
LILY by Philippa Stockley, reviewed by John Cleal
Two
strong women, one black, one white, fight to survive amid the depravity,
prejudice and constraints of Jacobean London.
BAIT,
GRIST & SECURITY by Mike Hodges, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Three
novellas combined in a single volume give a very penetrating examination of the
worlds of book writers, the cinema, and personal improvement courses.
SMOKING
KILLS by Antoine Laurain, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Fabrice
Valentine’s new relationship with cigarettes is about to make him a killer.
HOW IT
HAPPENED by Michael Koryta, reviewed by Linda Wilson
FBI agent
Rob Barrett is brought in to help interview a woman who has confessed to being
involved with the disappearance and murder of a woman and her boyfriend.
Everyone else thinks she’s an attention-seeking liar, but Barrett believes her
– and stakes his career on his judgment.
FATAL
INHERITANCE by Rachel Rhys, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Eve
Forrester feels herself ensnared in a loveless marriage. She sees no way out of
it and is resigned to living in a gloomy house, with no friends to brighten her
existence. A letter from a firm of solicitors brings unexpected changes.
OVERKILL
by Vanda Symon, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Sam
Shepard, the only policewoman in the small rural town of Mataura, New Zealand,
investigates the death of a young mother. Apparent suicide was in fact a
murder, and the victim was married to Sam’s ex-boyfriend. Sam finds herself the
main suspect and suspended from duty but decides to find the killer anyway and
clear her name.
UNDER THE
ICE by Rachael Blok, reviewed by John Cleal
A girl’s
body is found in a frozen lake. As the police investigation struggles,
neighbours in a close-knit community turn against each other – and a young
mother’s strange visions may hold the key.
THE
FRENCH GIRL by Lexie Elliott, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
When they
find a girl’s body ten years after she disappeared, Kate Channing’s memories
and friendships unravel in a dark place.
THE JANUS
RUN by Douglas Skelton, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Coleman
Lang awakes to find his girlfriend dead on the bed next to him. When autopsy
results show she has been murdered, the police like him for the crime.
A LETHAL
FROST by Danny Miller, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When a
local bookmaker is shot in the head and seriously injured, Denton copper DI
Jack Frost is under pressure from his boss to find the culprit as well as
having to pacify his landlords by tracking down an escaped parrot.
RUSSIAN
ROULETTE by Sara Sheridan, reviewed by John Cleal
Upper-class
debt collector and amateur detective Mirabelle Bevan becomes involved with a
brutal murder and must cut through an iron curtain of call girls and high
stakes gambling to find the truth.
BABY’S
FIRST FELONY by John Straley, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Criminal
defence investigator Cecil Younger’s favour for a client gets him into bad
trouble. And when his daughter is kidnapped, he has to take extraordinary
measures.
A CLEAN
CANVAS by Elizabeth Mundy, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When a
valuable painting goes missing from a London gallery, suspicion falls on Lena’s
cousin Sarika, but Lena is determined to clear her name and find the real
culprit.
GUNMETAL
GRAY by Mark Greaney, reviewed by John Cleal
Court
Gentry is back with the CIA and his first mission is to find a defecting
Chinese cyber-expert and bring him or his knowledge back to the US.
DIRTY
JOHN AND OTHER TRUE STORIES OF OUTLAWS AND OUTSIDERS by Christopher Goffard,
reviewed by Chris Roberts
Fifteen
true stories from a Los Angeles Times staff writer sympathetically exploring
the lives of people whose experience has been touched by crime or stress.
THAT’S
NOT WHAT HAPPENED by Kody Keplinger, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Three
years ago, a massacre at Virgil County High School left six traumatised teens
struggling to make sense of what happened. Now survivor Lee Bauer wants the
truth to be told. But the truth is not always welcomed with open arms.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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