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 Lilja Sigurdardottir in the Countdown hot seat: http://crimereview.co.uk/page.php/interview/9636
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This week’s reviews are:
THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by Richard Osman, reviewed by Viv Beeby
The Thursday Murder Club rides out again. This time they’re on the trail of £20,000,000 in stolen diamonds and some violent and ruthless international criminals who surely won't let a bunch of old-age pensioners stand in their way ...
THE CUTTING ROOM by Louise Welsh, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When Rilke is called to a house clearance in a respectable Glasgow suburb, he immediately knows he’s sitting on a goldmine, but the auction job turns out to have a darker side.
THE SECOND CUT by Louise Welsh, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When Glasgow auctioneer Rilke’s old friend Jojo is found dead in a doorway, the police don’t seem that interested, but unlike them, Rilke isn’t quite so ready to write off Jojo’s death as an unfortunate by-product of a dissolute lifestyle.
THE DARK HOURS by Michael Connelly, reviewed by John Verpeleti
Renée Ballard calls in Harry Bosch as her latest case shares a feature with one of Harry’s unsolved cases from ten years earlier. She is also trying to identify two rapists who have been dubbed The Midnight Men.
THE HOUSE by Tom Watson and Imogen Robertson, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Labour MP Owen McKenna receives a demand to withdraw a parliamentary question, under threat that his role in the tragic case of a former colleague will be exposed in the press.
THE ICE COVEN by Max Seeck, reviewed by Kerry Hood
A man and a woman go missing in Finland. Small clues, painstaking work and huge discoveries drop the Violent Crimes Unit of the Helsinki police department into a world of pain and depravity.
ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN by James Lee Burke, reviewed by Tim Field
A Korean War veteran is looking for freedom and enlightenment in the American West in 1962. Peace beckons through his love for an art student but then a meeting with a psychopath makes things start to spin out of control.
JUDAS 62 by Charles Cumming, reviewed by David Rose
Secret agent Lachlan Kite faces peril in Dubai as a brutal ghost from his past works his way down a Russian kill list – with Lachlan and one of his key contacts next in line.
GEIGER by Gustaf Skördeman, reviewed by Ewa Sherman
Grandmother Agneta Broman answers a phone, hears only
one word then shoots her husband and disappears, leaving the police at a loss.
BEFORE THE STORM by Alex Gray, reviewed by John Cleal
Superintendent Bill Lorimer, head of Police Scotland’s
Major Incidents team, investigates the exposure of undercover officers while at
the same time facing a terrorist threat to Glasgow.
BRUNO’S CHALLENGE & OTHER DORDOGNE TALES, reviewed
by Linda Wilson
Fourteen short stories featuring Bruno, Chief of
Police, set in the heartland of France’s Dordogne region.
RIDER ON THE RAIN by Sébastien Japrisot, reviewed by
Chris Roberts
In an out-of-season Riviera resort, a bus brings a
solitary visitor who turns the life of housewife Mellie Mau upside down.
SAFE by SK Barnett, reviewed by Kati Barr-Taylor
Jenny, kidnapped as a six-year-old, is back. But 12
years have changed her. Some would say beyond recognition.
THE FAVOUR by Laura Vaughan, reviewed by Sylvia
Maughan
Ada Howell, brought up in a large old house somewhere
in Wales, constantly tries to live up to her start in life. So much so that
even the death of a fellow student on a trip to Italy doesn’t change her
ambition, until reality is revealed.
ROBERT B PARKER'S FOOL'S PARADISE by Mike Lupica,
reviewed by Chris Roberts
Police Chief Jesse Stone grapples with the case of a
man who made the journey from Florida to Paradise only to end up dead on the
evening of his arrival.
TURF WARS by Olivier Norek, reviewed by Linda Wilson
When a new drug lord is determined to make their mark
on the tough Seine-Saint-Denis district of Paris, it’s not long before the area
is on the verge of an all-out war between the gangs and the police. Against
that volatile backdrop, Capitaine Coste and his team have a murder to solve.
THE LITTLE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL by Georges Simenon,
reviewed by Chris Roberts
When his wife fails to return home one night, Jonas
Milk finds himself suspected of murder by neighbours who he always regarded as
friends – but he comes to realise that what he imagined was acceptance is in
truth only skin-deep.
LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD by Graham Hurley, reviewed
by John Cleal
Propaganda journalist Werner Nehmann is sent to
Stalingrad to put a gloss on the battle that marked one of the turning points
of the war for the German people.
HELL GATE by Jeff Dawson, reviewed by Chris Roberts
Ingo Finch visits New York in 1904 on behalf of
British spy masters to expose the machinations of pro-German agents in the USA.
THE BOYBAND MURDER MYSTERY by Ava Eldred, reviewed by
Linda Wilson
When the frontman of boyband phenomenon Half Light is
arrested on suspicion of murdering his best friend, his army of fans are
determined to prove his innocence.
A belated happy new year to everyone!
Sharon and Linda
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