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 Linwood Barclay
in the Countdown hot seat:
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This
week’s reviews are:
THE NEW
IBERIA BLUES by James Lee Burke, reviewed by John Cleal
When the
crucified body of a young woman is found floating on a cross near the estate of
a local boy made good as a freelance Hollywood director, Cajun detective Dave
Robicheaux and his new partner Bailey Ribbons, investigate.
BLACK OPS
by Chris Ryan, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Someone
is killing former SAS soldiers and the powers that be decide it’s down to Danny
Black to deal with the person responsible for their deaths. The only snag is
that he’s told that on this op, he’s on his own.
HUNTING
GAME by Helene Tursten, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Detective
Inspector Embla Nystrom arrives for the annual autumn moose hunt in a deep
Swedish forest. The local hunters are not happy about Peter, an outsider,
joining them. Two people disappear, and then one is found dead in a lake.
TELL ME
YOUR SECRET by Dorothy Koomson, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
He may
have let Pieta go last time, but the Blindfolder is back and he is getting
closer.
TO KILL
THE TRUTH by Sam Bourne, reviewed by John Cleal
Former
White House trouble-shooter Maggie Costello struggles to foil an Alt-Right plan
to destroy history.
THE
FRAGILITY OF BODIES by Sergio Olguin, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A suicide
alerts journalist Veronica Rosenthal to the number of deaths on the railways of
Buenos Aires, and her research reveals that many of these fatalities are
anything but accidental.
DARK CITY
by Simon Read, reviewed by John Cleal
Muggers,
rapists, gangsters, looters and killers roamed the wartime streets full of vice
girls and servicemen with money to burn. Some of the most violent and
spectacular crimes and criminals of the period are revisited.
SECRET
SERVICE by Tom Bradby, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When the
Prime Minister announces that he’s stepping down from the leadership due to
cancer, MI6 believe that one of the candidates for the top job might be in the
pay of the Russians.
THE
PUNISHMENT SHE DESERVES by Elizabeth George, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan
A man is
found hanged in a disused police station. The victim’s father, a local MP,
refuses to believe that it was suicide.
MISSION
CRITICAL by Mark Greaney, reviewed by John Cleal
A former
Russian military intelligence chief, obsessed with the idea the British killed
his wife and son, masterminds a revenge bid which could destroy the major
western intelligence services. Court Gentry, ‘The Gray Man’, must stop him.
BLOOD
OATH by Linda Fairstein, reviewed by Chris Roberts
New York
Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper gathers evidence for an accusation of rape of a
minor but finds both the victim and herself in danger.
THE
WOLVES OF LENINSKY PROSPEKT by Sarah Armstrong, reviewed by Arnold
Taylor
Martha
has been sent down from Cambridge and is finding life at home with her parents
boring, so she decides that a complete change is required. Her friend Kit works
for the British Embassy in Moscow – but once there she is not sure that she is
meeting the right people.
THE
ACCUSATION by Zosia Ward, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Eve must
find out if her husband is lying, or she will lose her daughter.
PREFECTURE
D by Hideo Yokoyama, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Four
novellas depicting occasions of internal friction which threaten the smooth
running of the administration branch of the Japanese Police Department.
AN ACT OF
KINDNESS (audiobook) by Barbara Nadel, reviewed by Linda Wilson
The
disappearance of a homeless man she’s befriended worries Nazreen Khan, then
when he’s found dead, she turns to private investigator Mumtaz Hakim for help.
TOO FAR
by Jason Starr, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
One
flippant remark triggers a chain of events that sends Jack’s life spinning out
of control.
CRITICAL
INCIDENTS by Lucie Whitehouse, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Former
Met detective Robin Osborne is back on her own turf, working as a benefit fraud
investigator, but when her best friend’s husband goes missing, Robin refuses to
believe that he could have harmed his wife and son, and is determined to take a
hand in matters.
DARKEST
TRUTH by Catherine Kirwan, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Young
lawyer Finola Fitzpatrick receives an emotional appeal from a father to
investigate his daughter’s suicide – and the man who he believes caused it.
ONE MORE
LIE by Amy Lloyd, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
When she
was ten she killed a boy and she and her friend spent their childhood in
prison. Now she has a new identity and is living in a new community. She is
scared and lonely.
THE GOOD
THIEVES by Katherine Rundell, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Vita
Marlowe is determined to get her grandfather’s home back from the conman who
cheated him out of everything he owned. But to do that she needs help – and
finds it in some unexpected places.
Best
wishes
Sharon
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