Crime Reviews: Tangled Web UK 2006
Last Updated 30 December 08
New
New Sherlock Holmes in Russia
by Alex Auswaks
(Rafe McGregor)
New Cambridge Blue
by Alison Bruce
(Cath Staincliffe)
New The Watcher
by Brian Freeman
(Cath Staincliffe)
New The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes
by Paul D Gilbert
(Rafe McGregor)
New A Pity About the Girl and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by Michael Gilbert
(Martin Edwards)
New Ritual
by Mo Hayder
(Cath Staincliffe)
New Great British Fictional Detectives
by Russell James
(Martin Edwards)
New The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
by George Pelecanos
(Bob Cornwell)
New Doors Open
by Ian Rankin
(Ian Morson)
New Portobello
by Ruth Rendell
(Ian Morson)

Publication
New
December
Review The Torch of Tangier
by Aileen G Baron
(Ian Morson)
Review Redemption
by Richard Burke
(Chris High)
Review The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
by Caleb Carr
(Rafe McGregor)
Review Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Ghosts in Baker Street (New Tales of Sherlock Holmes)
by Martin Harry Greenberg
(Rafe McGregor)
Review Hannibal Rising
by Thomas Harris
(Bernard Knight)
Review Looking Good Dead
by Peter James
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Brothers Silenced
by Kathryn Jewel
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review A Venture into Murder
by Henry Kisor
(Ian Morson)
Review The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes
by June Thomson
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Secret Notebooks of Sherlock Holmes
by June Thomson
(Rafe McGregor)
Review Secret Documents of Sherlock Holmes.
by June Thomson
(Rafe McGregor)
Review Ice Moon
by Jan Costin Wagner
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Debts of Dishonour
by Jill Paton Walsh
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Devil's Feather
by Minette Walters
(Cath Staincliffe)
New
November
Review Primitive Secrets
by Deborah Turrell Atkinson
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Real Hard Cases: True Crime from the Streets
by Brown Les & Jeffrey Robert
(Bernard Knight)
Review Beneath The Snow
by Caroline Carver
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Vrolok
by Nolene-Patricia Dougan
(Chris High)
Review A Rare Interest in Corpses
by Ann Granger
(Bernard Knight)
Review Sins of the Fathers
by Patricia Hall
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Shape Shifter
by Tony Hillerman
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Shape Shifter
by Tony Hillerman
(Martin Edwards)
Review Hunter's Dance
by Kathleen Hills
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Switchback
by Matthew Klein
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Verdict of Us All - Ed Peter Lovesey
by Peter Lovesey
(Martin Edwards)
Review Prone Gunman
by Jean Patrick Manchette
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Prone Gunman
by Jean Patrick Manchette
(Martin Edwards)
Review Cinnamon Kiss
by Walter Mosley
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Winter House
by Carol O'Connell
(Bernard Knight)
Review Angel's Share
by Mike Ripley
(Martin Edwards)
Review Angel's Share
by Mike Ripley
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Smiling Affair
by Jeremy Sheldon
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Hit and Run
by Cath Staincliffe
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Shadow Walker
by Michael Walters
(Bernard Knight)
Review Back to the Badlands: Crime Writing in the USA
by John Williams
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Red Sky Lament
by Edward Wright
(Chris High)
Review Red Sky Lament
by Edward Wright
(Cath Staincliffe)
New
October
Review The Murmur of Stones
by Thomas H. Cook
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Couples Who Kill: Profiles of Deviant Duos
by Carol Anne Davis
(Chris High)
Review Couples Who Kill: Profiles of Deviant Duos
by Carol Anne Davis
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Marriage Hearse
by Kate Ellis
(Bernard Knight)
Review Objects of Desire
by C J Emerson
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Free Fall
by John Francome
(Judith Rhodes)
Review A Stolen Season
by Steve Hamilton
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Best British Mysteries: v. 4
by Maxim Jakubowski
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Darkening Sky
by Alison Joseph
(Bernard Knight)
Review Depths
by Henning Mankell
(Ian Morson)
Review Mad Carew
by Ken McCoy
(Martin Edwards)
Review Fire Sale
by Sara Paretsky
(Ian Morson)
Review Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night
by James Patterson
(Martin Edwards)
Review Dead Cold
by Louise Penny
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Red Dahlia
by Lynda Plante
(Judith Rhodes)
Review The Remains of an Altar
by Philip Rickman
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Mike Hammer Omnibus: Volume 2
by Micky Spillane
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Mike Hammer Omnibus:Vol 1
by Micky Spillane
(Martin Edwards)
Review Naked to the Hangman
by Andrew Taylor
(Martin Edwards)
New
September
Review Portrait of a Killer
by Patricia Cornwell
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review City Of Lies
by Roger Jon Ellory
(Ian Morson)
Review The Lighthouse
by P.D. James
(Martin Edwards)
Review Tombstoning
by Doug Johnstone
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Sacred
by Dennis Lehane
(Val McDermid)
Review The Hourglass
by Julie Parsons
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Behind You!
by Linda Regan
(Martin Edwards)
Review Angel in the House
by Mike Ripley
(Ian Morson)
Review The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Killing The Beasts
by Chris Simms
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review A Thousand Lies
by Laura Wilson
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review A Thousand Lies
by Laura Wilson
(Chris High)
New
August
Review Hit Parade
by Lawrence Block
(Bernard Knight)
Review Crusader's Cross
by James Lee Burke
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Crimson Cavalier
by Mary Andrea Clarke
(Martin Edwards)
Review Gagged and Bound
by Natasha Cooper
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Grave Doubts
by Elizabeth Corley
(Bernard Knight)
Review Hunt to Kill
by Dave Distel
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review The Cipher Garden A Lake District Mystery
by Martin Edwards
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Cipher Garden A Lake District Mystery
by Martin Edwards
(Chris High)
Review The Devil’s Priest
by Kate Ellis
(Martin Edwards)
Review Real Crime Scene Investigations
by Connie Fletcher
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review Cover Up
by John Francome
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Finding Davey
by Jonathan Gash
(Bernard Knight)
Review Breaking Up is Hard to Do
by Edward Gorman
(Martin Edwards)
Review Little Face
by Sophie Hannah
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review A Death in the Family
by Hazel Holt
(Bernard Knight)
Review No Cure For Death
by Hazel Holt
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Restless Sleep
by Stacy Horn
(Martin Edwards)
Review The White Ladder Diaries
by Ros Jay
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review The Exception
by Christian Jungersen
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Art of Detection
by Laurie R. King
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Elixir of Death
by Bernard Knight
(Ian Morson)
Review The Inside Ring
by Michael Lawson
(Bernard Knight)
Review Corn Dolls
by Patrick Lennon
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review No Sleep for the Dead
by Adrian Magson
(Martin Edwards)
Review Wings Over the Watcher
by Priscilla Masters
(Bernard Knight)
Review Six Easy Pieces
by Walter Mosley
(Ian Morson)
Review The Four Courts Murder
by Andrew Nugent
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Night Gardener
by George Pelecanos
(Chris High)
Review Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters
by Otto Penzler(ed)
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Patriots' Club
by Christopher Reich
(Bernard Knight)
Review End in Tears
by Ruth Rendell
(Bernard Knight)
Review Just Another Angel
by Mike Ripley
(Bernard Knight)
Review Blood Rites
by Jimmy Lee Shreeve
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
by Maj Per Sjowall
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published
by Rachael Stock
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review The Grifters
by Jim Thompson
(Bernard Knight)
Review London Noir: Capital Crime Fiction
by Cathi Unsworth
(Bernard Knight)
Review Bareback
by Kit Whitfield
(Ian Morson)
New
July
Review The Camel Club
by David Baldacci
(Ian Morson)
Review Framed
by Tonino Benaquista
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Bangkok Tattoo
by John Burdett
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Bangkok 8
by John Burdett
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Hard Way
by Lee Child
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Raven Black
by Anne Cleeves
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Art of Dying
by Vena Cork
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Cold Moon
by Jeffery Deaver
(Ian Morson)
Review The Fourth Bear
by Jasper Fforde
(Bernard Knight)
Review Last Lullaby
by Denise Hamilton
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Dearly Devoted Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review From May to December
by Pat MacEnulty
(Ian Morson)
Review The Excursion Train
by Edward Marston
(Judith Rhodes)
Review My Brief Career: The Trials of a Young Lawyer
by Harry Mount
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review Now You See Me
by Margaret Murphy
(Chris High)
Review Bloody London
by Reggie Nadelson
(Peter Walker)
Review Bloody London
by Reggie Nadelson
(Andrew Taylor)
Review Steel Rain
by Tom Neale
(Ron Ellis)
Review The Devil's Star
by Jo Nesbo
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Prey Silence
by Sally Spedding
(Judith Rhodes)
Review The Broken Shore
by Peter Temple
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Twilight Hour
by Elizabeth Wilson
(Ian Morson)
Review The Twilight Hour
by Elizabeth Wilson
(Bob Cornwell)
Review The Hidden Assassins
by Robert Wilson
(Bob Cornwell)
New
June
Review All the Flowers are Dying
by Lawrence Block
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Through the Ruins of Midnight
by Colin Campbell
(Chris High)
Review At Risk
by Patricia Cornwell
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Chinese Takeout
by Judith Cutler
(Martin Edwards)
Review Chinese Takeout
by Judith Cutler
(Bernard Knight)
Review Tangled Skein
by David Stuart Davies
(Rafe McGregor)
Review See Delphi and Die
by Lindsey Davis
(Chris High)
Review Sun and Shadow
by Ake Edwardson
(Bob Cornwell)
Review A Painted Doom
by Kate Ellis
(Martin Edwards)
Review Twelve Sharp
by Janet Evanovich
(Judith Rhodes)
Review White Boys Don't Cry
by John Fullerton
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Mark of a Murderer
by Suzanna Gregory
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Pure in the Heart
by Susan Hill
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Skeleton Man
by Tony Hillerman
(Ian Morson)
Review Looking Good Dead
by Peter James
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review For the Death of Me
by Quintin Jardine
(Bernard Knight)
Review Relentless
by Simon Kernick
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Railway Viaduct
by Edward Marston
(Martin Edwards)
Review Mind's Eye
by Paul McAuley
(Bernard Knight)
Review Hidden River
by Adrian McKinty
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Hidden River
by Adrian McKinty
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Cutting Crew
by Steve Mosby
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Fresh Kills
by Reggie Nadelson
(Chris High)
Review Fresh Kills
by Reggie Nadelson
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Wildfire Season
by Andrew Pyper
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Smile of a Ghost
by Philip Rickman
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Smile of a Ghost
by Philip Rickman
(Bernard Knight)
Review Piece of My Heart
by Peter Robinson
(Ralph Lees)
Review Drive
by James Sallis
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Out of Mind
by Catherine Sampson
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Supper with the Crippens
by David James Smith
(Martin Edwards)
Review Manhunt: The 12-day Chase for Abrahm Lincoln's Killer
by James L Swanson
(Martin Edwards)
New
May
Review Promise Me
by Harlan Coben
(Chris High)
Review The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton
by Michael Collins
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Red Leaves
by Thomas H. Cook
(Martin Edwards)
Review Red Leaves
by Thomas H. Cook
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review True Story
by Michael Finkel
(Ian Morson)
Review Calling Out for You
by Karin Fossum
(Bernard Knight)
Review A Rare Interest in Corpses
by Ann Granger
(Bernard Knight)
Review Jar City
by Arnaldur Indridason
(Bob Cornwell)
Review The Priest of Evil
by Matti Joensuu
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Death Collectors
by Jack Kerley
(Martin Edwards)
Review Legends
by Robert Littell
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Dead Horsemeat,
by Dominique Manotti
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Cleanskin
by Val McDermid
(Martin Edwards)
Review Red Hook
by Reggie Nadelson
(Ron Ellis)
Review Borkmann's Point
by Hakan Nesser
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Borkmann's Point
by Hakan Nesser
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Poe Shadow
by Matthew Pearl
(Ian Morson)
Review The Name You Once Gave Me
by Mike Phillips
(Martin Edwards)
Review Snow Is Silent
by Benjamin Prado
(Martin Edwards)
Review Sherlock Holmes The Unauthorized Biography
by Nick Rennison
(Martin Edwards)
Review Jack of Jumps
by David Seabrook
(Phyllis Davies)
Review Faithless
by Karin Slaughter
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Draculas Guest and Other Stories
by Bram Stoker
(Rafe McGregor)
New
April
Review A Hole in One
by Catherine Aird
(Bernard Knight)
Review Oxford: Crime, Death and Debauchery
by Giles Brindley
(Martin Edwards)
Review One Shot
by Lee Child
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Dark Rain
by Conor Corderoy
(Ian Morson)
Review Comes the Dark
by David Stuart Davies
(Bernard Knight)
Review Back to Bologna
by Michael Dibdin
(Ian Morson)
Review Back to Bologna
by Michael Dibdin
(Bob Cornwell)
Review The Secret Life of Elizabeth I
by Paul Doherty
(Bernard Knight)
Review Immoral
by Brian Freeman
(Bernard Knight)
Review Savage Garden
by Denise Hamilton
(Bernard Knight)
Review Little Face
by Sophie Hannah
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Sins of the Father
by David Harrison
(Martin Edwards)
Review Darkness and Light
by John Harvey
(Ian Morson)
Review Stranger House
by Reginald Hill
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Last Pleasure Garden
by Lee Jackson
(Judith Rhodes)
Review The Last Pleasure Garden
by Lee Jackson
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Elixir of Death
by Bernard Knight
(Ian Morson)
Review Through a Glass Darkly
by Donna Leon
(Bernard Knight)
Review Death Angel
by Linedecker C & Martin Z
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review Mortal Coil
by Anthony McGowan
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Passenger
by Chris Petit
(Bernard Knight)
Review Footfall
by Christine Poulson
(Chris High)
Review Hour of the Cat
by Peter Quinn
(Ian Morson)
Review Road Kill
by Zoe Sharp
(Bernard Knight)
Review Oxford Letters
by Veronica Stallwood
(Bernard Knight)
Review A Stain on the Silence
by Andrew Taylor
(Martin Edwards)
New
March
Review Forest of Souls
by Carla Banks
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Forest of Souls
by Carla Banks
(Ian Morson)
Review Chemistry of Death
by Simon Beckett
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Cutting Blades
by Victoria Blake
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side (Facsimile)
by Agatha Christie
(Martin Edwards)
Review At Bertram's Hotel (Facsimile)
by Agatha Christie
(Martin Edwards)
Review A Caribbean Mystery (Facsimile)
by Agatha Christie
(Martin Edwards)
Review Sympathy Between Humans
by Jodi Compton
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Sympathy Between Humans
by Jodi Compton
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Marriage Hearse
by Kate Ellis
(Bernard Knight)
Review A Quiet Vendetta
by Roger Jon Ellory
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review With No One As Witness
by Elizabeth George
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Black Friday And Selected Stories
by David Goodis
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Hidden
by Paul Jaskunas
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Rough Justice: Memoirs of a Flying Squad Detective
by Dick Kirby
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review A Matter of Death and Life
by Andrey Kurkov
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Death and the Cornish Fiddler
by Deryn Lake
(Martin Edwards)
Review Blue Rondo
by John Lawton
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Blood from a Stone
by Donna Leon
(Judith Rhodes)
Review The Circle
by Peter Lovesey
(Martin Edwards)
Review Simpson's Homer
by John Malcolm
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Killing for England
by Iain McDowall
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Killing for England
by Iain McDowall
(Bernard Knight)
Review Fire Sale
by Sara Paretsky
(Ian Morson)
Review Smoked
by Patrick Quinlan
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Cross Bones
by Kathy Reichs
(Bernard Knight)
Review Relics
by Pip Vaughan-Hughes
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Relics
by Pip Vaughan-Hughes
(Bernard Knight)
New
February
Review Killers on the Web
by Berry-Dee C & Morris S
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review Raven Black
by Anne Cleeves
(Martin Edwards)
Review Black Angel
by John Connolly
(Ralph Lees)
Review A Child's Game
by John Connor
(Ian Morson)
Review Borrowed Light
by Joolz Denby
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Immaculate Deception
by Reg Gadney
(Ian Morson)
Review Speed Demon
by Goldie Guttenberg
(Carol Anne Davis)
Review The Once and Future Con
by Peter Guttridge
(Michael Jecks)
Review Ash and Bone
by John Harvey
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Borgia Bride
by Jeanne Kalogridis
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Distant Echo
by Val McDermid
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Last Temptation
by Val McDermid
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Distant Echo
by Val McDermid
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Field of Blood
by Denise Mina
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review The Rosary Girls
by Richard Montanari
(Chris High)
Review Shooting Elvis
by Stuart Pawson
(Martin Edwards)
Review Watchman
by Ian Rankin
(Bernard Knight)
Review All She Ever Wanted
by Patrick Redmond
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Mortal Mischief
by Frank Tallis
(Bernard Knight)
Review Debts of Dishonour
by Jill Paton Walsh
(Bernard Knight)
Review King of the Road
by Charlie Williams
(Ian Morson)
Review A Thousand Lies
by Laura Wilson
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review A Thousand Lies
by Laura Wilson
(Chris High)
Review Red Sky Lament
by Edward Wright
(Chris High)
Review Red Sky Lament
by Edward Wright
(Cath Staincliffe)
New
January
Review The Camel Club
by David Baldacci
(Ian Morson)
Review Priest
by Ken Bruen
(Chris High)
Review Priest
by Ken Bruen
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Redemption
by Richard Burke
(Chris High)
Review Voice of the Violin
by Andrea Camilleri
(Ian Morson)
Review The 4.50 from Paddington (Facsimile)
by Agatha Christie
(Martin Edwards)
Review A Pocket Full of Rye (Facsimile)
by Agatha Christie
(Martin Edwards)
Review The Wake Up
by Robert Ferrigno
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Comrades in Miami
by Jose Latour
(Bernard Knight)
Review Bite to Byte The Story of Injury Analysis
by Persephone Lewin
(Martin Edwards)
Review Dearly Devoted Dexter
by Jeff Lindsay
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Cold Granite
by Stuart MacBride
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Time to Say Goodbye
by Pat MacEnulty
(Bob Cornwell)
Review Rough Trade
by Dominique Manotti
(Bob Cornwell)
Review The Parliament House
by Edward Marston
(Judith Rhodes)
Review Grip
by David McKeowen
(Cath Staincliffe)
Review Last Rights
by Barbara Nadel
(Ian Morson)
Review Deadly Web
by Barbara Nadel
(Bernard Knight)
Review Last Rights
by Barbara Nadel
(Bernard Knight)
Review The Hourglass
by Julie Parsons
(Judith Rhodes)

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