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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 …
Best wishes
Sharon and Linda
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