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 Syd Moore in the Countdown hot seat:
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This week’s reviews are:
IN THE GALWAY SILENCE by Ken Bruen,
reviewed by John Cleal
Former cop-turned-PI Jack Taylor is
pitted against a vigilante assassin who uses the name ‘Silence’ – and the clash
quickly becomes personal.
THE LADY IN THE CAR WITH GLASSES AND A
GUN by Sebastien Japrisot, reviewed
by Chris Roberts
Dany Longo borrows her boss’s
Thunderbird to leave Paris for a trip south, but a liberating trip to the coast
becomes a nightmare when strangers along her route assure her that they have
already met.
MAIGRET’S PATIENCE by Georges Simenon,
reviewed by Arnold Taylor
A series of daring robberies bring
Maigret together with an old adversary.
HUNTED by Arne Dahl, reviewed by Ewa
Sherman
Private investigators Sam Berger and
Molly Bloom are on the run from the authorities, burned from previous
investigation, and hiding in the depths of snowy north Sweden. But soon they
are asked to follow up on the letter from a distressed and seemingly paranoid
woman who knows secret details of a murder case from long ago.
LIFE RUINS by Danuta Kot, reviewed by
Kati Barr-Taylor
Becca is certain she knows the girl who
was attacked so brutally that no one can identify her. But at best, the police
think she is an unreliable witness.
THE LISTENERS by Anthony J Quinn,
reviewed by John Cleal
Newly appointed Detective Sergeant
Carla Herron is called to a psychiatric hospital after a patient confesses to
murdering of one of the psychotherapists. His confession is detailed, but
impossible, as he was in a secure ward under 24-hour surveillance.
GRAB A SNAKE BY THE TAIL by Leonardo
Padura, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Havana detective Mario Conde is
persuaded to take the case when an elderly Chinese man is found hanged, marked
with arcane symbols and missing a finger.
LOST YOU by Haylen Beck, reviewed by
Linda Wilson
It only took an inattentive moment to
plunge Libby into every parent’s worst nightmare when her three-year-old son
Ethan goes missing on holiday. And from some nightmares, there’s no waking up.
SINS OF
THE DEAD by Lin Anderson, reviewed by John Barnbrook
In
Glasgow a murderer is killing people in subtle ways and leaving the signs of a
sin eater. It appears that this killer is well informed in the ways of forensic
science, probably attending a course part run by forensic scientist Dr Rhona
MacLeod.
THE
FRIEND by Joakim Zander, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Jacob
Seger, a new recruit to the Swedish diplomatic service in Beirut, meets Yassim
at a party and falls under his spell. But is Yassim the photographer he claims
to be, or is he mixed up in something far more sinister?
INBORN by
Thomas Enger, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
The high
school in a small Norwegian village becomes a double-murder scene. Immediately
everyone points at 17-year-old Even who has been recently dumped by Mari
Lindgren, a girl found dead after the school concert.
A DANGER
TO HERSELF AND OTHERS by Alyssa Sheinmel, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Hannah
Gold doesn’t understand why she’s been consigned to a secure mental facility.
After all, it wasn’t her fault that her roommate fell from a window and ended
up in hospital in a coma.
DATE WITH
POISON by Julia Chapman, reviewed by John Cleal
PI Samson
O’Brien is in deep trouble, framed by a gang out to destroy him. When his
godson goes missing, accused of dealing drugs, can he persuade his estranged
partner Delilah Metcalfe to help him find the boy?
THE
CINDERELLA PLAN by Abi Silver, reviewed by Chris Roberts
James
Salisbury heads a company pioneering autonomous vehicles in UK. When his car is
involved in a horrific crash, lawyers Burton and Lamb come to his defence.
CITY OF
WINDOWS by Robert Pobi, reviewed by Linda Wilson
A sniper
is terrorising New York, preying on law enforcement officers. The FBI call in
Dr Lucas Page, a man who sees the world in a different way. Unlike anyone else,
he has a chance of working out where the killing shots came from.
GONE BY
MIDNIGHT by Candice Fox, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
A boy has
gone missing from the hotel. But with the clock ticking, former detective Ted
Conkaffey doesn’t know if he’s looking for a child or a body.
DEAD
POPULAR by Sue Wallman, reviewed by Linda Wilson
An
illicit party at an elite boarding school ends in a death. Did the dead girl
fall or was she pushed?
A KILLER
HARVEST by Paul Cleave, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Joshua
will soon be seeing life through the eyes of his adoptive father – things that
he will never be able to un-see.
30-SECOND
FORENSIC SCIENCE by Sue Black and Niamh Nic Daeid, reviewed by
Linda
Wilson
A
quick-fire look at the fascinating and varied world of forensic science by two
of the leading experts in the field.
CROSSING
THE LINE OF DUTY by Neil Root, reviewed by John Cleal
An
account of how senior CID officers fraternised with underworld figures, paid
off witnesses and struck dodgy deals to imprison innocent men.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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