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 Shona (SG) Maclean in the Countdown
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This week’s reviews are:
THE UNMOURNED by Meg and Tom Keneally,
reviewed by John Cleal
The brutal superintendent of a prison
has been murdered and the prime and only suspect is a fiery Irish prisoner. She
will hang unless ticket-of-leave gentleman convict and amateur detective Hugh
Monsarrat and his clever housekeeper Hannah Mulrooney can find the real killer.
NOTHING TO HIDE by James Oswald,
reviewed by Linda Wilson
DC Constance Fairchild is suspended on
full pay with orders to keep a low profile. But that’s not something that Con
excels at, especially when she finds a
horrifically injured man almost on her doorstep.
THE OCTOBER MAN by Ben Aaronovitch,
reviewed by Anthea Hawdon
Tobias Winter of the German magic
police has to find the connection that links a death in a vineyard with the
supernatural history of the Trier area.
THE HORSEMAN’S SONG by Ben Pastor,
reviewed by Chris Roberts
Young German volunteer lieutenant
Martin Bora is in a relatively quiet area of the Spanish civil war front when
he finds the body of national poet Garcia Lorca.
THE SUSPECT by Fiona Barton, reviewed
by Kati Barr-Taylor
Journalist Kate Waters is the first on
the story of two girls who have gone missing in Thailand. But this time her
scoop is personal and dangerously close to home.
THE DARKEST PLACE by Jo Spain, reviewed
by John Cleal
Out-of-favour DCI Tom Reynolds gets a
Christmas day call to a mass grave on an island off the Kerry coast, once the
home of a controversial psychiatric institution, where there is one body too
many – probably that of one of the doctors, missing for more than 40 years.
IF SHE WAKES by Michael Koryta,
reviewed by Linda Wilson
Tara Beckley is lying in a hospital
bed, locked inside her own mind. Her sister is fighting for her, but someone
else wants her dead, and Tara knows it.
THE LAST BROTHER by Andrew Gross,
reviewed by Chris Roberts
Morris Raab fights his way up from a
poor New York East Side upbringing to be a major player in the rag trade, but
gangsters are determined to take a slice.
THE
CHESTNUT MAN by Søren Sveistrup, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Headstrong
detective and single mother Naia Thulin and Mark Hess, a burned-out
investigator suspended from Europol, investigate the horrific murders of young
women in Copenhagen.
THE
FAMILIARS by Stacey Halls, reviewed by Linda Wilson
1612.
Fleetwood Shuttleworth, the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, is pregnant for the
fourth time. Her previous three pregnancies have all ended in miscarriage.
Fleetwood needs the help of young midwife Alice Gray, but in an atmosphere of
suspicion and fear, Fleetwood stands to lose her friend, her baby and her life.
DON’T
SEND FLOWERS by Martín Solares, reviewed by Chris Roberts
When
Cristina De Leon is kidnapped, her wealthy father recruits ex-cop Carlos Trevino
to get her back. Given that she is probably in the hands of one of the
murderous local gangs, his chances of survival don’t look too good.
DEATH HAS
DEEP ROOTS by Michael Gilbert, reviewed by John Cleal
A former
French Resistance fighter is on trial at the Old Bailey for the murder of her
wartime British SOE controller. Her hastily assembled defence team believe her
innocence can only be proved by retracing events that happened in Nazi-occupied
wartime France.
HER LAST
MOVE by John Marrs, reviewed by Arnold Taylor
When a
man is murdered in a crowded tube station a super-recogniser is brought in to
help a harassed police officer.
A KNIFE
TO THE HEART by Barbara Nadel, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Cetin
Ikmen has fallen into depression after his retirement and his wife’s accidental
death, but he’s reinvigorated when he is asked to investigate a case long gone
cold.
FREEFALL
by Jessica Barry, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Allison
is missing, presumed dead. And she needs to keep that belief going if she is to
stay alive.
A
SUSPICION OF SILVER by PF Chisholm, reviewed by John Cleal
Sir
Robert Carey, swashbuckling Elizabethan courtier and cousin to the Queen, hunts
a would-be assassin of Scottish King James on both sides of the border.
UNDER THE
COLD BRIGHT LIGHTS by Garry Disher, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Acting
Police Sergeant Alan Auhl works cold cases in Melbourne, apparently unassuming,
but he has a house full of waifs and strays and can go that extra mile when
required.
DANGEROUS
DECPTION at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison, reviewed by John
Cleal
Former TV
antiques show presenter Kat Stanford now has her own thriving business in the
peaceful Devon countryside. But things start to go wrong with the arrival of a
beautiful ex-girlfriend of her beau Piers Carew, heir to the earl of Chawley.
YOU LET
ME IN by Lucy Clarke, reviewed by John Barnbrook
Elle is a
successful author who lives in a beautiful house on a Cornish cliff. She is
convinced that someone has access to her house and to her secrets.
TWO CAN
KEEP A SECRET by Karen McManus, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When
Ellery and Ezra Corcoran arrive in the small town of Echo Ridge, Ellery is
determined to uncover its secrets, including the disappearance of her aunt 23
years ago.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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