Crime Review Update: New Issue of Crime Review

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 Catherine Cavendish in the Countdown hot seat:

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This week’s reviews are:

FALSE VALUE by Ben Aaronovitch, reviewed by Madeleine Marsh

In his first undercover role, Peter Grant infiltrates a London based tech company which is hiding a secret within its Douglas Adams-themed offices.

A SILENT DEATH by Peter May, reviewed by Chris Roberts

When a British drug trafficker living in Spain is exposed and his girlfriend killed, he vows revenge on the policewoman involved. Investigator John Mackenzie is sent from the UK to help out.

THE NEW GIRL by Daniel Silva, reviewed by John Cleal

When the daughter of a Saudi Prince is abducted, he turns to the only man he can trust to find her: Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence.

BLUE MOON by Lee Child, reviewed by Sylvia Maughan

Jack Reacher prevents an old man being mugged on a city street. But why is the old man carrying a large wad of money in an envelope, just stuffed into his pocket?

LITTLE SIBERIA by Antti Tuomainen, reviewed by Ewa Sherman

A meteorite lands near a small village in northern Finland and is placed in the local war museum before its journey to London for analysis. Pastor Joel Huhta volunteers to keep watch there at night but immediately realises that various people want to steal the precious rock.

THE DRIFTWOOD GIRLS by Mark Douglas-Home, reviewed by Linda Wilson

Oceanographer Dr Cal McGill is down on his luck. The press have turned on him, an old friend has left him an unusual legacy and a woman wants him to find her sister. But no one wants to give him paid work and Cal is fast running out of money …

LITTLE FRIENDS by Jane Shemilt, reviewed by Viv Beeby

Three couples and their children spend one long hot summer in each others' pockets – but even as they make merry an evil presence is infiltrating the party.

LETHAL AGENT by Vince Flynn and Kyle Milla, reviewed by John Cleal

Anti-terrorist contractor and former CIA agent Mitch Rapp must face a bioterrorist threat to an America weakened by internal divisions.

MAIGRET AND THE WINE MERCHANT by Georges Simenon, reviewed by Chris Roberts

When a wealthy wine merchant is shot dead in a Paris street, the lengthy list of people who detested the victim complicates Maigret’s investigation.

DEEP DARK NIGHT by Steph Broadribb, reviewed by Linda Wilson

Bounty hunter Lori Anderson is forced to do one last job for shady FBI agent Alex Monroe – take on Chicago crime boss Cabressa in a poker sting and get enough evidence to put him away for good.

THE GUEST LIST by Lucy Foley, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor

False smiles, fake camaraderie, family feuds and a four-tiered cake. Nothing outstanding, despite the eyewatering invoice. But this wedding is going to be more than the usual hell for one member of the party.

KITTY PECK AND THE PARLIAMENT OF SHADOWS by Kate Griffin, reviewed by John

Cleal

As Kitty continues her fight against the ‘Barons’ of crime and to dismantle Paradise, her grandmother’s sprawling East End empire, she faces a series of new challenges including a fundamentalist religious sect led by a charismatic preacher.

PERFECT KILL by Helen Fields, reviewed by John Barnbrook

Bart wakes up in a pitch-dark container, with no idea where he is going or how he got there. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach uncover sordid, violent and distasteful activities as they investigate this and an apparently unrelated crime.

STASI WINTER by David Young, reviewed by Chris Roberts

Major Karin Muller is sent to Rugen Island on the Baltic coast to investigate the death of a woman apparently overcome by the savage winter weather.

REWIND by Catherine Ryan Howard, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor

Andrew watches the woman’s savage murder in one of his holiday cottages, but he tells no one.

THE BURNING MEN by Will Shindler, reviewed by Linda Wilson

A killer is targeting former firefighters who attended a notorious blaze in a London tower block that burnt down whilst construction was in progress. DI Alex Finn and his new sidekick, DC Mattie Paulson, need to work out why the men are being killed.

NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS by Catherine Moloney, reviewed by John Cleal

When a nun is found strangled, followed by other deaths, DI Gil Markham must uncover the secrets which threaten to wreck a Catholic order.

THE INUGAMI CURSE by Seishi Yokomizo, reviewed by Chris Roberts

Detective Kosuke Kindaichi is invited to assist when the head of the Inugami clan dies, leaving a complex will which enrages his three daughters.

WHAT SHE SAW LAST NIGHT by MJ Cross, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor

Jenny thought her night on the sleeper train to Scotland would be uneventful. Now she is staring at a dead woman in a nearby compartment, and there is no sign of the woman’s daughter.

WUNDERSMITH by Jessica Townsend, reviewed by Linda Wilson

Morrigan Crow has settled into life in Nevermoor, but there is someone who wants to expose her deepest secret. And then there are the disappearances to contend with …

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