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 Sheila Bugler in
the Countdown hot seat:
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This week’s reviews are:
THE BOY FROM THE WOODS
by Harlan Coben, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When a girl from her
grandson’s school disappears, New York lawyer Hester Crimstein agrees to his
pleas to make some enquiries. Then there’s a second disappearance, with
possible political undertones.
A SHOOTING AT CHATEAU
ROCK by Martin Walker, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
Police officer Bruno
cooks mouth-watering meals for his friends in between investigating crooked
dealings behind a dead farmer’s estate and Russian influence in the Dordogne.
THE CHAIN by Adrian
McKinty, reviewed by Viv Beeby
When you become part of
The Chain at first you are the victim, then you are the criminal and then you
are the survivor – but could you be the one to break it?
THE ART OF DYING by
Ambrose Perry, reviewed by John Cleal
Will Raven returns to
Edinburgh a fully qualified doctor to find he must resolve his feelings for
former housemaid Sarah Fisher as the pair plunge into the dark world of a
serial killer.
MAIGRET AND THE INFORMER
by Georges Simenon, reviewed by Chris Roberts
The body of a
restaurateur is dumped on a Paris street and an informer points the finger.
Maigret exercises his skills to get the evidence needed.
THE SPLIT by Sharon
Bolton, reviewed by Linda Wilson
South Georgia is the
dream posting for glacier expert Felicity Lloyd, but dreams have a nasty habit
of coming at a price.
THE FLOOD by Kristina
Ohlsson, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
A man who’s wearing his
daughter’s wedding ring is found dead in front of his fireplace. A funeral
director frantically searches for his brother who doesn’t seem to be missing. A
woman struggles to protect her family as her husband becomes more dangerous.
The three cases baffle investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman and DCI Alex
Recht.
THE LAST HOUSE GUEST by
Megan Miranda, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
A year ago, Sadie’s
death was said to be suicide. But Avery knows it won’t be long before they
accuse her of her friend’s murder.
HI FIVE by Joe Ide,
reviewed by John Cleal
PI Isaiah Quintabe – IQ
– is coerced into trying to prove that the daughter of the West Coast’s biggest
illegal arms dealer did not kill her boyfriend. But the girl has multiple
personality disorder – and any of her radically different ‘selves’ could have
committed or contracted out the murder.
BLACK RAIN FALLING by
Jacob Ross, reviewed by Chris Roberts
On the Caribbean Island
of Camaho, young detective Michael ‘Digger’ Digson fights against thugs and the
indifference of the local establishment.
BECOMING DINAH by Kit de
Waal, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When her neighbour’s
campervan containing his prosthetic leg is stolen, 17-year-old Dinah agrees to
join forces with the distraught Ahab to track it down.
KNOCK ‘EM DEAD by Peter
Morfoot, reviewed by John Cleal
Captain Paul Darac is
called to the suspicious death of a former comedy star and enters a world of
chicanery, corruption and murder.
PLAYING DIRTY by Helen
Black, reviewed by Chris Roberts
A family firm of
gangsters finds their territory invaded by a larger gang from out of town. With
the police looking over their shoulder they need to play it smart to come out
ahead.
SEVERED by Peter Laws,
reviewed by Linda Wilson
When a vicar is brutally
attacked by his own son in a church service, atheist ex-minister Professor Matt
Hunter is asked by the police to advise on whether the teenage boy was involved
in devil worship.
LITTLE DISASTERS by
Sarah Vaughan, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Liz and Jess’s
friendship is about to crumble as the truth about Liz’s daughter’s head injury
unfolds.
MURDER BY THE MINSTER by
Helen Cox, reviewed by John Cleal
Librarian Kitt Hartley
is shocked to hear her closest friend has been arrested on suspicion of killing
her ex-boyfriend and sets out to clear her name.
WITNESS X by SE
Moorhead, reviewed by John Barnbrook
Can you trust the
memories of anyone, let alone an apparent serial killer, if you are able to
enter their mind and see their memories for yourself? The inventor of such a
machine is drawn into an investigation to help find a determined and unusual
serial killer.
THE FAMILY by Tom O
Keenan, reviewed by Chris Roberts
The arrival of an ISIS
zealot in Glasgow threatens not only the Family, a collective of 12 crime
families, but the police and the public at large.
DEATHLY AFFAIR by Leigh
Russell, reviewed by John Cleal
Detective Sergeant
Geraldine Steel must discover what links the deaths of vulnerable men to
uncover a vicious killer.
BONES IN THE RIVER by
Zoe Sharp, reviewed by Linda Wilson
DC Nick Weston and CSI
Grace McColl have to investigate a hit and run and the discovery of the bones
of a man in a makeshift grave uncovered by the river Eden against the backdrop
of the annual Appleby Fair.
Best wishes
Sharon and Linda
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