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|isbn=18388510111035043092|title=The SidemanKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Caro RamsayAnn Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008643660|title=The Burial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=No one thought that A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it could happen 's idyllic and can't ''quite'' believe that it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlandsome of the excavations are being televised. ItThere's all down to her pursuit even a hoard of George Haggerty whom she believes to Roman gold worth millions which will be responsible for split between the murder of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) finders and Malcolm (her son)the landowner. It's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Haggerty has Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a water-tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotlandsimpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the letters, no less) it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the powers local police are keen that Jake should be have told Costello to lay off: involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|title=A Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's decided to go her own way rather than be hampered by the badgeyoung, ambitious, and ruthless. She didntalks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she't even bother telling her long-time partners concerned, DCI Colin Andersonshe has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to Diane and has twin sons. Management's opinion of him is that she was goinghe thinks too highly of himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Since then there might have been the occasional text Ryan Wilkins comes from hera trailer park - in fact, but it could be said thathe's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.
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|isbn=B084H8F2CF1529077745|title=The Body Under the BridgeDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Nick LouthAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from A man walking his dog in the funeral service for a serving police officer, particularly when he early morning discovered that he was to take charge the body of a man in the enquiry into park near Rosebank, a missing womancare home for troubled teens. Beatrice Ulbricht The dead man was twentyJosh -five years old and one of the care workers who was due to work a student of music at shift the Royal College of Musicnight before but who had never turned up. She had been due D I Vera Stanhope is called in to play with investigate the other members murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the Lysander String Quartet at the Church of St Martinresidents, fourteen-inyear-the-Fields but hadn't turned upold Chloe Spencer. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained Some people believe that Beatrice's father Chloe was Karl-Otto Ulbricht, Germanyresponsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's Minister of Justicediary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=B083Z3ZZ611529428289|title=Broken Silence A Grave in the Woods (DS Nikki Parekh 2A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Liz MistryMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the UK grave but when they found it, it came with his daughter Maria three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a whilecrime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He came expecting 's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to work Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a gardener busy, live television studio - and Maria Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be a nannyfound and she was dead within minutes. Stefan ends up doing slave labour It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an eighteeneasy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-yeardeprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going -old girlprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbnauthor=0008390169Stuart Douglas|title=Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1)|author=Jenny O'BrienLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alys Grant was only During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a few fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days old when her father took her out for off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the first timeSecond World War. Her motherBut is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, Izzyhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, was tired Livia and fell asleepher daughter Diana, but when she woke as moving in together would mean a couple lot of hours later there compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was no sign going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of Charlie Dawson or Alysa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a hand-delivered postcard which simply said:result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'I've got Alyss prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Don Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't try think so and she's even prepared to find us, Charlie'do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=00081490890008405026|title=The Cutting Place A Stranger in the Family (DS Maeve Kerrigan11)
|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was Kim Weldon who never found and the first bits of the body - she was investigation ground to a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a handhalt. Now, her mother, a right handHelena, and her father are dead in facttheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body partssuspicious. Identification of the body What looked as though it was not going to be easyan open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but eventuallyUna Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, it would be given a name obsessed with his upper- Paige Hargreavesclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a twentytheatre director. He's also self-eightobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -year-old freelance journalistand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadnrelationship had begun between them but he't been willing s not like most men: Edward is left to share any stumble upon the two of the details with Biancathem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B0867X8NW7Jo Callaghan|title=Access Point|author=T R GabbayLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device man is found crucified on the top of her own invention she's helped a man who has been blind for decades hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see an image of a hummingbirdthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt's thirty-six years old and her life is about to change radically astheir first live case together, cycling home, she's involved in an accident having previously been very successful with a busseveral cold cases. It's two years before we meet her again and in the meantimeBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she's spent 392 days in Kat is suddenly struggling with a coma potential serial killer and now walks with a stickvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a spare bedroom to bring in some income.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=17864855751035021803|title=Magpie LaneThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lucy AtkinsC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee sheCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's talking to Nick Law, the new college masterfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Law's lately of the BBC Her children, sons Niall, Paul and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a bully Ollie and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversationher daughter, Etty. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nannyare all worried but - strangely - her husband, but somehow she finds herself going to see MariahAlec, the Danish wife of the masteris not. She's pregnant Shortly afterwards, Etty and looking for helpGreg, not with find the new baby bit with the masterbody of Greg's daughter by his first wifefather, Duncan Ackerley, Anain the river. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk It was an easy assumption for the police to her father, but to no one elsemake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and struggling at schoolwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=17886380261529900360|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)The Ghost Orchid|author=M J LeeJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was easy reluctant to assume ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the death help of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicidea psychologist only worked for a while. Her throat Finally, it was cutRobin, there was a lot of blood and the knife was on the floor at the side of the bedDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was due to be deported something that daythe man she loved needed. ButThe next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air.. how did the knife get into the secure centre and why He was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, the coroner's officer, is sent heir to investigate an Italian shoe empire and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's a snag though: the inquest she is due married to open in a couple of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China an extremely rich man and they want to take their daughterit's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve not the caseItalian. The coroner is disinclined to delay But which of them was the inquest: for her, it's about giving closure to the parents.primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1471166023178763681X|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Kate RhodesOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of November was D I Ben Kittogetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow''s thirty-fifth birthday and got the occasion for impression that he'd be at the usual bonfire celebrationsschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it would be marred this year by didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfireproblems - are all his own. HeThe one thing he hadn'd obviously been alive when he t expected was put on the fire and can only have died a terrible deathfor someone to turn up dead. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenUnfortunately, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is was the welfare of person who discovered the birds he looks after. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with everyone knows that the result police consider that he's person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=18388806581529421284|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)Laying Out the Bones|author=Helena DixonKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the summer of 1933 surface and Kitty Underhay is on her way forensic testing proved the body to visit the family which she never knew she be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and hadlearning disabilities, at Enderley Hallso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and Great Aunt Livvy are back to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouthtime. Kitty gets easily bored working at Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for going away is Major Crimes Review Unit (that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack 's cold cases to you and an attempt on her lifeme) investigate.
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|isbn=02413968401529425867|title=KeeperLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jessica MoorSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked in the women's refuge and the women who lived In Oxford, there liked are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and respected heralways exquisitely dressed. She treated them well D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and seemed to have an understanding father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of what they were going throughthose things. Why then did she jump He's white, originated from the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and she his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and her boyfriend seemed trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi police procedural written for the time when she diedlaughs. Well, but what other explanation could there be for her death? you're not. The police two men are convinced that just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's suicide, but the women who knew her believed otherwiseproblematic.
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|isbn=178730101X1529431735|title=Keep Him CloseThe Winter Visitor|author=Emily KochJames Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Benoît, actually) and Louiswhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. LouHe's seventeen and d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's just got had a letter from his A level results ex-wife, saying that she's ill and he and his brother are going out hasn't long to celebratelive. Someone has It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to find something his underwear and sent to celebrate a watery grave in the letters, D, D and Eboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Alice has always had Is it a warning from a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's Spanish gang or a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming problem closer to my mind were ADHD.home?
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|isbn=05713423530861541774|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Peter SwansonSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was the co-owner DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Boston. The store specialises in crime novelsformer colleague, Danny Maik, but Mal has given taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up reading crimewith an old ally, Guy Trueman. His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wife, Claire Mallory, died Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he's never really got over itkilled a Ghurka. She was driving whilst inebriatedInitially, having just been he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to see murder the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affair. His interest in crime fiction comes back when Now he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveycould be facing the death penalty. She's interested in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders'diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=17868971481521129886|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever They Had It Coming (Harry McCoyGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Alan ParksKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry and Jamie. HeGreg Mason'd had s just beginning to get his father confidence as an investigator to sign the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasnpoint where he't old enoughll warn someone about how much he charges. And his father had been reluctant - heIt'd s a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the regular moneymorning sickness. By July 1973 Bobby Greg is back approached by an old friend whose brother-in Glasgow-law appears to have killed himself. The Beatkickers didnStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who't survive s struggling to make ends meet and March her son is on his own, but hardly not thriving. ThereLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's an obvious drug habitt in his nature. Meanwhile, The police and the police are consumed by coroner have accepted that the search for a missing girldeath was suicide, Alice Kelly but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZXB0CK3MYJ56|title=Little Doubt Responsibilities (D I Kelly PorterGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Rachel LynchAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson was in It's the wrong place at the wrong time1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. She was out running He used to have a high-flying job in the park when she was randomly attacked and stabbed to deathcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Her husband'Shades of Cameron Strike', Thomasyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged but where's the life experience that a decentbacks up this profession? On the other hand, middle-class woman should be the victim of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined has been asked to distance himself from the case look into something. Joyce and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in how the case was handled. He wasnwhat't anywhere near s been written off as interested when a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours latertragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and OrmondPam Hetherington - can's view seemed t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to be that anyone living there should expect this sort fall in front of thing to happena train. He could hardly bring himself to mention KeiraGreg's namebeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=14711809211838954481|title=FirewatchingThe Misper|author=Russ ThomasKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there are those who think that he's lucky to be there, given no doubt about that he decked a superior officer. He's there because Tyler came off worse in was the exchange fifteen- there's a scar on his face year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to prove it - the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the superior manslaughter of the officer was forced to take early retirement. There's a suggestion too And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that Tyler's godmother (she's on means leaving the force too) has looked after him capital and that his current boss hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is keen to have a tame gay to put found on the town hall steps come Pride. Either way, heher territory she's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth drawn into a wider investigation - and back intothe orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=17874775331448309743|title=The Lantern Men Devil Stone (Dr Ruth GallowayDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Elly GriffithsCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's no longer providing assistance to In the police and isn't even working at village of Cronchie on the University West coast of Scotland, five members of North Norfolka wealthy family are found murdered. She's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, KatieOtterburn House, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking gooddeath will follow. Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry NelsonThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Katiethat's father, because Katie sees him regularly and therean easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's a close relationship with his familythe body. You might The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'almost'' think that Ruth's life is settling downhim.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B1529077699|title=In Plain Sight The Raging Storm (D I Clare MackayTwo Rivers)|author=Marion ToddAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at 's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the beach when local pub one evening in the baby was stolen. They were there middle of an autumn gale, stayed for the fun run about a month and then turned up, naked and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to disrupt the racevillage of Greystone, in Devon. They're against Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh world sailor and the firm is sponsoring the fun runall round ''celebrity''. It was Lisa MitchellI 's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when nearly''anysaid 'all-round good egg' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of as we'll find out, he could be more than a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to livelittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=15291243951529427045|title=When You See MeThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Lisa GardnerKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet and Chuck''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, it was a hiking break in where the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off so-far-untapped natural resources of the beaten track to find area have sparked a stickgold rush. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called The criminal underworld has not been slow in, along with Sergeant D D Warrencoming forward. Both women were experienced Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique area to the tablehave vanished without trace. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluablepart Salander played in her father's death.
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