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 Peter Swanson in
the Countdown hot seat:
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Sharon
Wheeler: @lartonmedia
This
week’s reviews are:
RED
STROKE by Chris Ryan, reviewed by Linda Wilson
The
kidnap of a former Russian intelligence officer from a safe house sparks off a
chain of events that sees former SAS operatives Bald and Porter called out of
retirement again.
BLOOD
ORANGE by Harriet Tyce, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Barrister
Alison Bailey is married with a daughter but infatuated with solicitor Patrick.
She is horrified to receive messages from someone who knows what she is doing.
THE REVENANT
EXPRESS by George Mann, reviewed by Jane Appleby
Investigators
Newbury and Hobbes return with a mystery involving sinister experiments and a
dangerous train journey across Europe.
THE COLD
SUMMER by Gianrico Carafiglio, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Pietro
Fenoglio, a Marshall in the Carabinieri, conducts an investigation into the
kidnapping and killing of a local mobster’s young son amidst spreading violence
in the region.
CASANOVA
AND THE FACELESS WOMAN by Olivier Barde-Cabuçon, reviewed by John
Cleal
Louis
XV’s Inspector for Strange and Unexplained Deaths investigates the macabre
death of a young whore and is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue where he is
partnered with adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova.
NEMESIS
by Rory Clements, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
Professor
Tom Wilde of Cambridge University is in France on holiday when he is approached
by a man who appears to be a beggar. He tells Wilde that one of his former
students, who joined the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, is now
held in a French prison camp and urges Wilde to do all he can to free him.
COLD CASE
by Quintin Jardine, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When Bob
Skinner is asked for help by his old friend Sir James Proud, he doesn’t expect
to find himself trying to decide if his friend really could have been involved
in covering up a murder.
AFTER THE
MONSOON by Robert Karjel, reviewed by John Cleal
Security
policeman Ernst Grip investigates the death of a Swedish soldier in Djibouti
and enters a world of greed, intrigue and double-dealing.
AN AUTUMN
HUNTING by Tom Callaghan, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Akyl
Borubaev is back in the Bishkek murder squad but shooting the Minister for
State Security makes him a pariah, and someone of interest to Kyrgyzstan’s top
criminals.
MAIGRET
AND THE SATURDAY CALLER by Georges Simenon, by Arnold Taylor
Maigret
is walking to the bus stop after work one Saturday evening when he notices a
man apparently following him. When he arrives home his wife tells him that
someone is waiting to see him. It is the same man.
THE ANGRY
SEA by James Deegan, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Former
SAS sergeant John Carr is caught up in a terror attack whilst on holiday in
Spain and ends up getting his wish – to track down and take out the men
responsible for the atrocity.
THE
MURDER PIT by Mick Finlay, reviewed by John Cleal
Down-at-heel
detective Arrowood and his assistant Barnett are hired to find out why a new
bride will not see her parents, but what seems a straightforward case develops
into something more sinister.
THE
PLOTTERS by Un-su Kim, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A Korean
assassin ignores his instructions and permits a target to die in her preferred
manner – the first step away from unquestioning obedience to his fate.
ATTEND by
West Camel, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Sam, a
young gay man, and Anne, a recovering heroin addict, are connected through the
world of drugs and revenge in Deptford. They must deal with the consequences of
other people’s deeds that affect their own existence.
PRICE OF
DUTY by Dale Brown, reviewed by John Cleal
Renegade
military contractor Scion, led by a former US president, set out to defeat a
plan by Russian president Gennadiy Gryzlov to destabilise and reclaim former
Soviet satellites through a wave of cyberattacks.
SECRET
PREY by John Sandford, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Deputy
Chief Lucas Davenport is called in when a banker is shot during a hunting trip,
an event that proves to be just the beginning of a series of attacks.
THE
TATTOO THIEF by Alison Belsham, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Marni
Mullins’ coffee break during the Brighton tattoo convention turns into a horror
story when she finds a mutilated body in the bin.
WEEKEND
AT THRACKLEY by Alan Melville, reviewed by John Cleal
Impecunious
war hero Jim Henderson is baffled to be invited to a weekend party at the
country home of a famous collector of precious stones. Robbery, kidnap and
murder follow.
MURDER BY
NUMBERS: FASCINATING FIGURE’S BEHIND THE WORLD’S WORST CRIMES by
James
Moore, reviewed by Kim Fleet
How
numbers feature in murders, their detection, and the punishment of killers.
THE PUNK
FACTOR by Rebecca Denton, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Seventeen-year-old
Frankie is in a punk rock girl band with her best friend. To succeed in the
music industry takes hard work, and that isn’t something Frankie is good at.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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