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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1035043092|title=Dark Memories The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann 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 Nikki Parekh 3)Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008643660|title=The Burial Place|author=Liz MistryStig Abell
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|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and hadn't worn wellsome of the excavations are being televised. She was There's even a drug addict hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordlandowner. It's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Her killer thought that Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out of her misery's inevitably drawn in to investigate. DS Nikki Parekh Reading the letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and DC Sajid Malik even the local police are on keen that Jake should be involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|title=A Voice in the caseNight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4. Nikki can5|genre=Crime|summary=There't quite understand why s a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's been sent an anonymous letter with young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a press report good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of the deathNigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. It had been impossible He's married to make any progress in the case Diane and has twin sons. Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the note seemed to taunt the policewet end'. Then another note arrived with Ryan Wilkins comes from a report of a seemingly unconnected death trailer park - in Cambridgefact, it could be said that he's never really left it. The third death - He lives in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communicationshell suits and tracksuits, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki always in vivid colours. Previous management was sure adamant that there was something personal in the casehe should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.
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|isbn=17874778001529077745|title=The Night Hawks Dark Wives (Dr Ruth GallowayD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Cleeves
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|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be foundbefore but who had never turned up. Unfortunately, D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the youngest disappearance of one of the groupresidents, twenty-onefourteen-year-old Troy Evans, finds the body of a man floating on the incoming tideChloe Spencer. After pulling it ashore, they call Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the police. DCI Nelson death but Vera thinks that it's probably this is unlikely as the body of an asylum seeker but theregirl's no evidence of any activity diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to be had from the coastguard. The dead man turns out discover what happened to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonJosh.
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|isbn=00083793001529428289|title=The Shadow ManA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helen FieldsMartin Walker
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with 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 crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is in his late thirties 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 he knows it seems that hethere's dyingonly one suspect. His body is giving up on him, He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his internal organs beginning contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to putrify but before he dies he wants 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 wifebusy, live television studio - and Brooks served a child ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. 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 brotherknife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. HeA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been on stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the lookout birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the perfect people words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's made certain preparationsdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. The flat where }}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the family will live is prepared Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and even windows with curtainsLeggit', and pictures in frames have been painted onto leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the wallsedge of a reservoir. Angela Fernycroft was The police seem happy to be his wife. Her husbandassign it as an accidental death, Calbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, had taken and he enlists the children - a boy help of seven and a girl of fivefellow actor, away for the weekendJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. UnfortunatelyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, it doesn't go according a link to plan and Angela diesdeath during the Second World War. But 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
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S0008517061|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Ragnar JonassonStig Abell
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the police inspector in Siglufjordur future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and he's still living her daughter Diana, as moving in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his wife Kristin off-grid and son Stefnir before Kristin left relaxing life to go move in with Livia or does Livia move to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her. daughter? They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. It's now For the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive moment they’re enjoying life in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: present and putting the body of a young woman has been found future on Adalgata, the main street of the townback burner.
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|isbn=178089905X1786482126|title=SerpentineThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jonathan KellermanElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a 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 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's 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. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from thirty-six years ago her bed one summer night. She was never found and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answersinvestigation ground to a halt. She had money Now, her mother, Helena, and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Miloher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's toessomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Dorothy Swoboda What looked as though it was twentygoing to be an open-and-four years old when she died in shut case is now a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamescomplex double murder. It turned out Kerrigan is convinced that she wasnthe explanation lies in Rosalie't actually married to the s disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una 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 , obsessed with whom shehis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkers a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, optometristdemanding, was a good man handsome and entitled and he took out adoption papers uses Edward to run errands for Ellie him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and she took his namehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Ellie was three when her mother Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing to stumble upon the two of her but one photograph of her mother and father and them kissing in a necklace made of serpentinedark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=000820831XJo Callaghan|title=The Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Stuart MacBrideLeave No Trace
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|summary=At When a man is found crucified on the coastal village top of Clachmaraa hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the headland is slowly eroding into case alongside her sidekick, the seaAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Storm Trevor speeds up the processBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. A ship - Will they be able to solve the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the rocks case and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking , potentially, out of the house a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to see whatMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's happeningtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Margaret runs after She's back now because of a request for help from her son beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and as she grabs him Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to pull him say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to safety the village: Arthur, she glances across at feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesman or pursue the profession she loved. Gordon Smith's home is falling into After the North Sea split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the evidence love of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1398524085|title=The KhanHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and four times as good as white menher daughter, Etty. This has served are all worried but - strangely - her well in her rise through the criminal justice system husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and by Greg, find the time she is called home for her sisterbody of Greg's wedding after fifteen years father, Duncan Ackerley, in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her gameriver. Returning to It was an easy assumption for the city of her birth, police to old scars make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the future guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with her sense of honour their lives and dutywonder about what really happened.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=B08BTXSS841529900360|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jenny O'BrienJonathan Kellerman
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|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and sheIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's looking through cold fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteenHis assertions that there were only open-yearand-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intrigued. She canshut cases which didn't see any immediate failings in need the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from help of a room in psychologist only worked for a securely-locked housewhile. Finally, it was Robin, wearing her pyjamasDelaware's partner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno something that the man she loved needed. The next daycase did look simple, though. She was wearing Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeremote property in Bel Air. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told He was the whole story: he's heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Kate Brock, Angelicaan extremely rich man and it's younger sisternot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1472134710178763681X|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathKnife Skills for Beginners|author=M C BeatonOrlando Murrin
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|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a cottage residential cookery school in the Cotswold village of CarsleyBelgravia. SheHe didn's have preferred one of the more romantic names t really want to but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a different way of life - getting both men and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant women to peopledo what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The first move is to enter the village quicheteaching -baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummingsproblems -Browne, and are all his wife Vera out own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to dinnerturn up dead. She knows she's being ripped off at Unfortunately, he was the pub in person who discovered the next village but this is necessary body and it's a good investment as she everyone knows that she's going the police consider that person to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1529421284|title= Fallen AngelsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg VeumIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, lone wolf detectivea human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, is backwho had disappeared nine years earlier. After attending He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a former friendsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's funeralt convinced. Geary was a townie, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are opened and connections to the sins suicide of the past are exposed Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the light time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the present. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to root out the clues hidden in his own history you and to catch a killerme) investigate.|isbn=1913193063
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|isbn=15294103471529425867|title=Death Awaits in Durham Lost and Never Found (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Helen CoxSimon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistantIn Oxford, Grace Edwardsthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, has left her library job Balliol educated and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academyalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's vocational library studies course in Durhamnot any of those things. ItHe's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or theyacid yellow. You might wonder if you've managed, somehow, re being introduced to scrape together the moneya police procedural written for laughs. GraceWell, whoyou's 22, comes into re not. The two men are just different sides of the last categorysame policing coin. Her parents agreed to fund Sometimes the course but told her that if that was what she chose to do then they were finished with hercombination works brilliantly well. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agoSometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529431735|title= The CaptiveWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the cagemore surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, intimatelysaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It lurks 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the corner boot of her eyea stolen Ford Sierra. Soon, Is it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts himhome?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbn=18388873340861541774|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Angela MarsonsSteve Burrows
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|summary=DI Kim Stone DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude short holiday in Singapore to everyonemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It Maik was involved in the shopping centre a street brawl - he would later maintain that Stone caught sight of he was facing a little girl clutching man armed with a teddy bear in the absence of her motherknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to which this case was going light that suggested that he might have planned to occupy their minds as murder the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterman. Her neck had been broken and it had all Now he could be facing the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do that nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a young mother out shopping with her child?diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=18387700461521129886|title=Body LanguageThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=A K TurnerKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
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|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's not something shea good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction re both delighted. Joyce will bemore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. SheStuart's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistconcerned about his sister, Dr Archie ChuffLucy, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket who's struggling to make ends meet and old Harrovianher son is not thriving. HeLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's very conscious of t in his position nature. The police and isnthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart't even inclined s prepared to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time pay Greg to spend find out what happened on each body. That will prove to be a mistakethe night Gil died.
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|isbn=1472255917B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Roots of Evil Responsibilities (Bob SkinnerGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Quintin JardineAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
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|summary=On New YearIt's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner 1990s and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic JacksonGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Jackson would be betterHe used to have a high-known to flying job in the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith city but it wasn't satisfying so he's reformed and the new name reflects now set himself up as a new manprivate investigator. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new yearShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. SkinnerNice bloke, but where's tempted to let the phone ring but knows life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he cannot: ithas been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's Mario McGuire asking for his presence been written off as a tragic accident at a crime scene an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in the centre front of Edinburgha train. SkinnerGreg's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencebeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=18003211041838954481|title=The Body on the IslandMisper|author=Nick LouthKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring HillRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who He was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasn't who he was. Sixty-threefifteen-yearsyear-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between holding the ages of ten gun and seventeenpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was being ghosted out found not guilty of Wakefield both the murder and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts manslaughter of the body of one of his victimsofficer. The Bogeyman was going to be set free And so lives must go on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a reformed character quieter life in the countryside but he had when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a list wider investigation - and back into the orbit of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1448309743|title=The Long Dark RoadDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=P R BlackCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along In the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going village of Cronchie on and she'd already refused the offer West coast of Scotland, five members of help from one man in a big vehiclewealthy family are found murdered. We'll see - but no one else will know - The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that another car stops and Stephanie if the stone is bundled into the car and driven offremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. There has been no sign The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of her - or her them 'discovered' the body - in the two years since. Georgia The Senior Investigating Office is back DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is Ferngate, determined pulled in to find out what happened and she's not going to be stoppedshadow' him.
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|authorisbn=David C Mason1529077699|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a gardenermonth and then turned up, although what he did before he became naked and dead, in a gardenersmall boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, he claimsin Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, is classifiedround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. That is just I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as well because we'll find out, he is about to could be caught up in more than a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only little 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 can save finance the day. |isbn=0956180523trip?
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|isbn=18387731691529427045|title=Her Majesty The Girl in the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotEagle's Talons|author=S J BennettKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for the Easter Court. Sheexample's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the evening and one small town of Gasskas, where the performers brought in to play so-far-untapped natural resources of the piano area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been found dead slow in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancescoming forward. The immediate reaction Salander's niece's mother is that one of the guests is responsiblelatest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. The Queen mentally rules out It was only with reluctance that Salander became her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldnniece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who't bear to go down any s unaware of the part Salander played in her father''those'' roadss death.
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