Book reviews: A Clutch of Euro crime fiction to whet your appetite!

Fancy a tour of Europe this summer ?  Well, here's my crime fiction recommendations as The Crime Warp winds it's way round top European destinations in the search for crime to whet your appetite.  From Austria to Denmark, from Spain to Germany and from France to Italy, where there's people there's crime and where there's crime there's crime fiction... Enjoy!


 Five by Ursula Archer 
Set in Salzburg, Austria Five is a proper mystery adventure

filled with cryptic clues and fraught with danger and tension. Detectives Beatrice Karasky and Florin Wenninger are taunted by a Geo - caching killer who, instead of the normal Geo-cache souvenirs leaves body parts and a cryptic clue to the next cache destination.  As the body part count increases this intriguing plot has many twists and turns leaving us guessing till the dramatic end.  Five is tantalisingly addictive, flows well and if you like a good murder mystery Five is one for you.
Available on Kindle £3.66 or PB £3.85
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Ursula-P-Archer/dp/0099583860/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430046888&sr=8-1&keywords=Five++ursula+archer

Death Under A Tuscan Sun by Michele Giuttari
Set in Tuscany this is beautifully written with dreamy descriptions and a hard hitting storyline.  When killer Daniele De Roberta escapes prison in Pisa Police Chief Michele Ferrara comes up against the highest in Italian society and politics and a dark mafiosi cult.  Death Under A Tuscan Sun is, as the title suggests, under the warm sun's rays lurks a dark, atmospheric and chilling story. A lovely Euro read for the summer.
Available in kindle for £7.49, PB £7.99 and HB £11.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Under-Tuscan-Michele-Ferrara-ebook/dp/B00QQNW288/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432375757&sr=1-1&keywords=death+under+a+Tuscan+sun
Where The Bones are Buried by Jeanne Matthews, set in  Berlin, this is a lovely fast paced entertaining read.  Dinah Pelerin a Native Seminole Indian anthropologist lives in Berlin with her Norwegian anti terrorist partner Thor.  All is idyllic until her mother Swan turns up with her friend Margaret (both of whom appear to be pathalogical liars) and suddenly Dinah's colourful heritage in the form of her mother's many marriages, Swan's gangster ex husband (now deceased) and his killer (Margaret) in tow is thrust in her face again.  However when Swan and Margaret reveal they are searching for a tax evading friend of the deceased gangster and they are shot at and nearly run off the road, Dinah becomes concerned for their safety. A lovely light- hearted mystery with the dynamics between Dinah and the two older women beautifully portrayed.  Despite being the fifth in the Dinah Pelerin series it reads well as a stand alone
Available in PB £9.67 or HB £16.49
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Bones-Are-Buried-Pellerin/dp/1464203482/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432377085&sr=1-1&keywords=where+The+Bones+are+buried

Falling In love by Donna Leon .What is more Italian than the opera and what is more opera than Tosca?   Flavia Petrelli, a famous opera singer, rescued from life imprisonment for murder by Commissario Brunetti a few years ago returns to Venice.  However she acquires a mysterious stalker who inundates her with yellow roses. When the stalker becomes murderous Commissario Brunetti investigates.  The beauty of Falling in Love is the real slow paced Italian feel as Leon takes us through the nooks and crannies of Venice and is the 24th in the Commissario Brunetti series. A lovely indulgent read!
Available on kindle £7.99 or HB £12.91
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Falling-Love-Brunetti-Donna-Leon-x/dp/0434023582/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432635771&sr=8-1&keywords=falling+in+love

Camille by Pierre Lemaitre This is the third in a trilogy of

books set in Paris (the first Alex and the second Irene) with Camille Verhoeven as the unlikely hero.  After suffering the loss of his wife Irene, Camille is faced by the loss of his girlfriend Anne who is mercilessly attacked and critically injured in a botched jewellery robbery that takes us deeper into Camille's psyche.  He is a man on the edge with nothing to lose and his desire for revenge is strong and his determination to protect his endangered girlfriend paramount. LeMaitre delivers a thrilling convincing read with more than a dash of dark humour along the way.
available on kindle £8.54 and HB £14.39
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Camille-Verhoeven-Trilogy-Pierre-Lemaitre-ebook/dp/B00RXX5BXS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432635900&sr=1-1&keywords=camille+pierre+lemaitre

The Dangerous Game by Mari Jungestedt , the 8th Anders Knutas book.  Set in an area of Gotland near Vispy in Sweden The Dangerous Game deals with the murky world of fashion and the cat walk.  When a renowned fashion photographer is severely attacked on a photo shoot Detectives Anders Knutas and Karin Jacobsson are called in.  But what are the links between the attack and a severely traumatised anorexia sufferer? Great characterisation and plenty of action!
Available in kindle £8.54 and PB £7.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Game-Anders-Knutas-ebook/dp/B00GO8HW6C/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432636015&sr=1-1&keywords=the+dangerous+game

Until The Debt Is Paid by Alexander Hartung
Set in Berlin this book is fast paced, edgy and funny.  I loved

it.  The dynamic Detective Jan Tommen wakes up groggy and disorientated to be accused of the murder of a judge he once had a run in with.  when evidence mounts up Jan decides to go AWOL and instead of trusting his police colleagues to clear him of the crime he enlists a troupe of diverse friends; Chandu a debt collector and underground informant, Max  a teenage hacker and Zoe an enigmatic pathologist with an edgy personality.  Once you start this you won't put it down!
Buy it on Aazon kindle for £3.98 (free on unlimited) or PB £8.99
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Until-Debt-Paid-Alexander-Hartung-ebook-x/dp/B00KHGWQO0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433251253&sr=1-1&keywords=until+the+debt+is+paid