New Reviews: Charlton, Connor, Lemaitre, Lipska, Muir, Neville, Runcie, Solana, Voss & Edwards

Nine new reviews have been added to Euro Crime this week:

Geoff Jones reviews Karen Charlton's The Missing Heiress, the first in the Detective Lavender series set in 1809;

Amanda Gillies reviews Alex Connor's Memory of Bones, which revolves around Goya's skull;

JF reviews Pierre Lemaitre's Alex, tr. Frank Wynne, concluding her review with: "An absolute gem of a crime novel that is wonderfully dark, scary, mad, bad and dangerous to know, but just far too good to miss...";

Michelle Peckham reviews Anya Lipska's debut, Where the Devil Can't Go which she very much enjoyed;

Laura Root reviews TF Muir's Tooth for a Tooth the third in the DI Gilchrist series set in St Andrews;

Lynn Harvey reviews Stuart Neville's Ratlines stating that it is "a convincing magnetic thriller";

Terry Halligan reviews the Father Brown-esque Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie;

I reviewed Teresa Solana's The Sound of One Hand Killing, tr. Peter Bush on the blog last week

and Rich Westwood reviews Louise Voss and Mark Edwards's All Fall Down, the second in the Kate Maddox series.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive.

Forthcoming titles can be found by author or date or by category, here along with releases by year.

New Reviews: King, Nakamura, Smith, Stock, Swanston, Voss & Edwards

I've been away so apologies for the reduced number of reviews this week.

Here are 6 new reviews which have been added to the Euro Crime website today:

Lynn Harvey reviews Laurie R King's Pirate King, the eleventh in her Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series;

Michelle Peckham reviews Fuminori Nakamura's The Thief, tr. Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates;

Terry Halligan reviews Mackenzie Smith's debut novel Who Pays the Piper;

I review Jon Stock's Dirty Little Secret the conclusion of the trilogy about MI6 agent Daniel Marchant;

Rich Westwood reviews The King's Spy by Andrew Swanston, the first in the Thomas Hill trilogy set during the English Civil War

and Susan White reviews Killing Cupid by Louise Voss & Mark Edwards.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive.

Forthcoming titles can be found by author or date or by category, here along with releases by year.

New Reviews: Anderson, Hutton, Lapidus, Leonard, Nickson, Voss & Edwards & a New Competition

It's February, so here's a new competition and reviews of 6 more books...

Win 3 Richard Nottingham mysteries by Chris Nickson (UK only).

Here are this week's reviews:

Amanda Gillies reviews Lin Anderson's most recent Rhona MacLeod outing, Picture Her Dead;

Maxine Clarke reviews Ewart Hutton's debut, set in Wales: Good People;

Laura Root reviews the best-selling Swedish novel, Easy Money by Jens Lapidus, tr. Astri von Arbin Ahlander;

Terry Halligan reviews Peter Leonard's Voices of the Dead set in Germany and the US;

Michelle Peckham reviews the February competition prize, The Constant Lovers by Chris Nickson

and Susan White reviews the kindle best-seller, Catch Your Death by Louise Voss and Mark Edwards.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive.

Forthcoming titles can be found by author or date or by category, here and new titles by Jefferson Bass, Tony Black, Kevin Brooks, Ed Chatterton, Arne Dahl, Jurgen Fauth, Jasper Fforde, Andrea Gillies, Annie Hauxwell, Hazel Holt, David Jackson, Dan James, Alanna Knight, Jeffrey Siger and June Thomson have been added to these pages this week.