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 Lottie Moggach in
the Countdown hot seat:
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This week’s reviews are:
TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO by
Walter Mosley, reviewed by Chris Roberts
New York-based PI Leonid
McGill accepts a job delivering a document to a woman establishing her black
ancestry, something her corrupt father is unwilling to accept.
MACHINES LIKE ME by Ian
McEwan, reviewed by John Barnbrook
Charlie spends his large
inheritance on Adam, a newly developed synthetic human, one of only 25 made.
Adam integrates himself into the life of Charlie and his new girlfriend
Miranda. But Miranda has secrets and Adam is limitlessly curious and well-equipped
to solve problems.
JUST WATCH ME by Jeff
Lindsay, reviewed by Linda Wilson
Master thief Riley Wolfe
has his sights set on a prize beyond price, the centrepiece of the Iranian
crown jewels, but FBI agent Frank Delgado is determined to stop him.
FIND THEM DEAD by Peter
James, reviewed by Sharon Wheeler
A seemingly pillar of
the community solicitor is up in court on a drug-dealing charge, but he will
stop at nothing to ensure he’s found not guilty.
THE POWER GAME by Meg
and Tom Keneally, reviewed by John Cleal
Ticket-of-leave
gentleman convict Hugh Llewelyn Monsarrat and his fiery Irish housekeeper
Hannah Mulrooney are sent to the penal colony of Maria Island to investigate
the killing of the local boatman and blackmailer – and are offered a
politically convenient suspect.
THE PERFECT WIFE by JP
Delaney, reviewed by Viv Beeby
When Abbie Cullen
disappears from her Californian beach house and is never seen again, her
husband Tim is cleared of any involvement. But when, five years later, he
brings her back to life in robotic form the old doubts soon resurface.
DEEP AS DEATH by Katja
Ivar, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Detective Hella Mauzer,
fired from the police and trying to survive as a private investigator, searches
for a serial killer who might have been responsible for several deaths,
including those of local prostitutes.
BURIED by Lynda La
Plante, reviewed by John Cleal
DC Jack Warr discovers
the truth of his own birth through links between a charred body in a burnt
Victorian cottage and a series of major historical crimes.
FORGET MY NAME by JS Monroe,
reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
She has no name, no memory, just a
train ticket to a Wiltshire village and a need to go home.
MAN AT THE WINDOW by Robert
Jeffreys, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Detective Sergeant Cardilini is
assigned the case when a schoolteacher is killed by a bullet. Everyone but
Cardilini is sure that the shooting was an accident.
KILLING FLOOR by Lee Child, reviewed
by Sylvia Maughan
Jack Reacher gets off a long-distance
bus near to the small town of Margrave. His subsequent arrest is the beginning
of a mystery that he needs to solve. Exactly who can he believe? This is a new
Folio Society illustrated edition.
TIME FOR THE DEAD by Lin Anderson,
reviewed by Linda Wilson
Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod
takes a much-needed break on Skye, but soon finds herself caught up in an
unexpected investigation.
GRAVE'S END by William Shaw,
reviewed by John Cleal
When an unidentified naked body is
found in a freezer, the case is handed to DS Alexandra Cupidi. Then a second
body turns up and the case gets even more complicated.
THIS IS GOMORRAH by Tom Chatfield,
reviewed by Chris Roberts
Azi Bello spends his life in a shed
with his computers, so a real-life plea for help is unexpected and calls for
skills in unfamiliar areas.
CUT TO THE BONE by Roz Watkins,
reviewed by Linda Wilson
Unlikely social media personality
Violet Armstrong, famed for barbecuing in a bikini to extol the virtues of
eating meat, has disappeared, and feelings are running high amongst a group of
animal activists. DI Meg Dalton has the unenviable job of investigating the
local abattoir where the missing woman worked.
THE BODY IN THE DUMB RIVER by George
Bellairs, reviewed by John Cleal
The body of Jim Lane is found in a
Cambridgeshire river with a knife wound in his back. Scotland Yard
Superintendent Tom Littlejohn, in the area on another case, is asked to assist
by local police and quickly discovers popular showman Lane is not who he seems
to be.
CEMETERY ROAD by Greg Iles, reviewed
by Chris Roberts
Journalist Marshall McEwan returns
to Bienville, Mississippi, where he fights local corruption while revisiting
the scenes of his youth which impelled him to move away.
SHED NO TEARS by Caz Frear, reviewed
by Linda Wilson
When an old murder case is reopened,
Cat Kinsella soon develops doubts about the key witness, but when she delves
into the past, she’s unprepared for the hornets’ nest she’s just stirred up.
THE SCORCHED EARTH by Rachael Blok,
reviewed by John Cleal
A body, possibly connected to a
killing for which a man is already in prison for his brother’s murder, is found
in a churchyard. DCI Maarten Jansen, head of St Albans CID, sets out to solve
the mystery – and so does the imprisoned man’s girlfriend.
DARK BLUE RISING by Teri Terry,
reviewed by Linda Wilson
When an unexpected accident brings
Tabby to the attention of the authorities for the first time in her life, she
loses everything she’s ever known and has to face the unwanted truth that her
whole life has been built on a lie.
Best wishes
Sharon and Linda
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