New Reviews: Chattam, Goddard, Hochgatterer, Kerr, Leon, McGuire, Nesser, Tremayne, Wareham & New Competition

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Here are this week's reviews:

I recently reviewed on the blog Maxime Chattam's novella, Carnage, tr. Isabel Reid and Emily Boyce which is about school massacres in New York;

Geoff Jones reviews the new title from Robert Goddard Fault Line set in Cornwall and Capri;

Lynn Harvey reviews the paperback release of Paulus Hochgatterer's The Sweetness of Life, tr. Jamie Bulloch, the first in the Austrian "Kovacs and Horn" series;

Laura Root reviews Philip Kerr's latest Bernie Gunther novel, Prague Fatale stating that it's "quite simply, an excellent novel";

Michelle Peckham reviews Donna Leon's Beastly Things, the twenty-first outing for Venice policeman Brunetti;

Terry Halligan reviews Matt McGuire's debut, set in Belfast, Dark Dawn writing that the lead character "O'Neill is a great creation";

Maxine Clarke reviews Hakan Nesser's latest Van Veeteren (and team) Hour of the Wolf, tr. Laurie Thompson which she highly recommends;

Sister Fidelma's has her twentieth adventure in Peter Tremayne's Behold a Pale Horse reviewed here by Amanda Gillies

and Lizzie Hayes recommends Evonne Wareham's debut novel, Never Coming Home to those who like romance along with a good mystery.

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 Aifric Campbell, Kate Darby, Matthew Dunn, Sam Eastland, Ewart Hutton, Michael Marshall, Val McDermid, Shirley McKay, Louise Millar, Denise Mina, Niamh O'Connor, Marco Vichi, Voss & Edwards and Tom Winship have been added to these pages this week.

New Reviews: Mankell and Tremayne

Two competitions for March, both close 31st March:
1.Win a signed copy of Complicit by Nicci French UK only
2.Win From the Dead by Mark Billingham UK & Europe only

Here are this week's reviews (apologies for the reduced number which is due to circumstances beyond my control):

a few days ago, on this blog, I reviewed Henning Mankell's The Troubled Man, tr Laurie Thompson, the last of the Wallanders

and Amanda Gillies reviews Peter Tremayne's latest Sister Fidelma, The Chalice of Blood which is now out in paperback.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found by author or date, here.

Non euro but I also reviewed a YA mystery last week on my teenage blog, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead which was charming and enthralling.

The Dove of Death - Cover Opinions

This week's selection for "cover opinions" is the US and UK covers for Peter Tremayne's The Dove of Death. The US hardback edition came out in October and the UK paperback edition came out last February.

So what are you thoughts on the US (LHS) and UK (RHS) covers? Which would entice you to pick the book up if you were not familiar with Peter Tremayne?

If you have read it, how well does the cover match the story?

Here is Amanda Gillies' Euro Crime review of The Dove of Death.

You can read an extract from Chapter 1 on the US Macmillan website.

New Reviews: Fuentes, Lennon, McGilloway, Rees, Shepherd, Tremayne

This month's competitions:

Win the complete Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson on Unabridged Audiobooks (UK & Ireland) (closes 16 April)
Win a copy of Daisychain by G J Moffat (UK only)

Here are this week's new reviews:

Maxine Clarke gives a 5 star rating to Eugenio Fuentes's At Close Quarters, tr. Martin Schifino;

Terry Halligan enjoyed the page-turner that is Cut Out by Patrick Lennon;

Maxine also says that Brian McGilloway is in top-form with The Rising the fourth in the Devlin series;

Laura Root says that Matt Rees maintains the same high quality even when his sleuth leaves Palestine for a trip to New York in The Fourth Assassin;

Michelle Peckham has mixed views on Lynn Shepherd's Murder at Mansfield Park though she enjoyed it overall

and Amanda Gillies starts her association with Sister Fidelma in the latest paperback - The Dove of Death by Peter Tremayne.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found by author or date, here.

New Reviews: Mike Ripley's round-up, Carofiglio, Charney, Holt, Sampson and Tremayne

Here are this week's new reviews and a reminder of this month's new competition:

Latest Reviews:

In Mike Ripley's latest crime file he reviews The Minutes of the Lazarus Club by Tony Pollard, October Skies by Alex Scarrow and Ashes To Ashes by Barbara Nadel;

Amanda Gillies joins the Gianrico Carofiglio fan club with her review of the paperback edition of the standalone The Past is a Foreign Country and recommends that "you go out to buy it today";

Laura Root reviews The Art Thief by American historian Noah Charney which jaunts across Europe with refreshingly little bloodshed;

Sunnie Gill reviews the seventeenth in the long running Sheila Malory series by Hazel Holt: A Death in the Family ;

Maxine Clarke reviews The Slaughter Pavilion by Catherine Sampson which is set mainly in China and the lead characters, Song, Wolf and Blue, have all come from the previous book, The Pool of Unease; Maxine says the author has come into her own with this book

and our regular historical crime fiction reviewer, Terry Halligan says that Peter Tremayne's The Council of the Cursed is the best historical mystery he's ever read.


Current Competition:

Win a copy of Nemesis by Jo Nesbo*

* no geographical restrictions on entrants (ends 30 September)