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 Helen Sedgwick in
the Countdown hot seat:
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This
week’s reviews are:
HITLER’S
SECRET by Rory Clements, reviewed by John Cleal
Cambridge-based
American history professor Tom Wilde is asked to smuggle a mysterious package
out of wartime Nazi Germany – something so secret, even Hitler doesn’t know
what it is!
KNIFE by
Jo Nesbo, reviewed by Viv Beeby
Detective
Harry Hole's life is in chaos and when a deranged and vengeful enemy strikes at
the very heart of it then Harry must face his darkest hour.
ACTION AT
A DISTANCE by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, reviewed by
Linda
Wilson
The death
of an old friend takes both Nightingale and Peter Grant on a trip down memory
lane.
THE GIRL
WITHOUT SKIN by Mads Peder Nordbo, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
The
discovery of a mummified body on the edge of an ice sheet in Greenland leads to
the re-opening of an unsolved case from 1970s. Danish journalist Matthew Cave
and a young woman released from prison after serving a sentence for killing her
family delve into the shocking and brutal past.
GI
CONFIDENTIAL by Martin Limon, reviewed by Chris Roberts
The US
Army CID agents Sueno and Bascom investigate a South Korean bank robbery which
has all the hallmarks of military involvement.
STONE
MOTHERS by Erin Kelly, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Marianne’s
husband has bought a convenient pied-à-terre. But it’s the key to a dark past
that should have remained buried.
MAIGRET
HESITATES by Georges Simenon, reviewed by John Cleal
Chief
Inspector Maigret receives a series of anonymous letters threatening murder in
the household of an eminent lawyer.
BETWEEN
TWO EVILS by Eva Dolan, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When a
doctor at an women’s detention centre is murdered, there are no immediate
suspects but plenty of people who seem to be putting roadblocks in the way of
the latest investigation for Peterborough cops DI Zigic and DS Ferreira.
THE LAST
WOMAN IN THE FOREST by Diane Les Becquets, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Marian is
offered an opportunity to work with rescue dogs on environmental projects and
falls under the spell of her mentor Tate. Several months later after Tate’s
tragic death she realises that he might have been responsible for the unsolved
murders of at least four women.
NO PLACES
OF REFUGE by Ausma Zehanat Khan, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Esa
Khattak and Rachel Getty travel to a Greek island where a friend working to aid
refugees has disappeared.
THE
VANISHED BRIDE by Bella Ellis, reviewed by John Cleal
When the
three Brontë sisters hear that a young women has gone missing from her home
leaving no clue but a pool of blood, they decide to investigate.
THE
WHISPER MAN by Alex North, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Tom
Kennedy and his young son Jake are making a fresh start away from the grief
associated with the house where Tom’s wife died. Tom doesn’t expect to be
plunged into another nightmare when Featherbank proves not to be the safe haven
he’s expected for a boy of Jake’s age.
AT YOUR
DOOR by JP Carter, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
When DCI
Anna Tate looks down on the body of the brutally murdered girl, she cannot know
people on high will soon be looking down on her every move.
MR NOBODY
by Catherine Steadman, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A man is
washed up on a Norfolk beach with only vestiges of memory. Neuropsychiatrist
Emma Lewis is asked to help, but returning to Norfolk will bring her
face-to-face with a past she is keen to forget.
TIGHT
LIES by Ted Denton, reviewed by John Cleal
Daniel
Ratchet, a rookie golf agent, discovers that the Russian gas company sponsoring
the tournament and fixing results is also on the verge of tying up a mega deal
with the British government. Lone wolf ex-SAS man Tom Hunter must save him.
WIDOW’S
WELCOME by DK Fields, reviewed by John Barnbrook
In the
United Realms there are no elections, instead each year the leading group is
chosen by picking which of them tells the most compelling story. This year, one
of the storytellers is murdered and fear /and suspicion grows.
TROUBLE
IN NEW YORK by Sylvia Bishop, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Jamie
Creedon doesn’t just want to deliver the news, he wants to write about it, and
not just in his school newspaper. When he gets the chance to visit the offices
of the Morning Yorker, he doesn’t realise quite how dangerous his life is about
to become.
BLOOD ON
THE LAW by William A Graham, reviewed by John Cleal
PI Allan
Linton is hired by his former wife, a top lawyer, to help prove the innocence
of his boyhood friend – now the city’s major drugs dealer – found with £2
million worth of cocaine in his car.
HOLLYWOOD
GODFATHER by Gianni Russo with Patrick Picciarelli, reviewed by
Chris
Roberts
The
autobiography of Gianni Russo, who lived as a gangster both in real life and in
the movies, and rubbed shoulders with the cream of Hollywood.
SOMEBODY’S
MOTHER, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER by Carol Ann Lee, reviewed by Kati
Barr-Taylor
True
stories from victims and survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Best
wishes
Sharon
and Linda
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