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|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Alan ParksAnn 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=To Die in JuneUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
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|genre=Crime, Thrillers |summary=What first seems like the unfortunateEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, accidental death of his daughter's defence against a homeless man on the streetsmurder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, suddenly starts has been trying to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then anotherpersuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyThat's what 'ordinary people do', but all '' He's not been entirely up front about the more so because state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his own father case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a down and out alcoholicmiscarriage 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, with no fixed abodethe country's most famous living artist, and he has been was not going to show up for yearsthe opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. At Still, he arrived in the same nick of time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing complete with a move 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 different police stationrecord of the protest. Lexi Williams, and an intern at the arrival there RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingchair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, only no record of whilst shouting ''Stop the boy having existed can be foundWar''. Something feels wrong It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue- not just with the woman’s story face' attacks, but also this was different. The can had been laced with the other officers where he has been stationedcyanide, but can Harry uncover just what is going on? |isbn=1804181250and Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|isbn=18045456000008551375|title=The MonkWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Tim SullivanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Leanne Wilson's body in was found at the woods near Bristol was bottom of a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a ditchtragic accident. HeShe'd been savagely beatenlooked 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. It's a while before D S George Cross and Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominiclast year. He'd been missing All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for a few days what they were doing and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeysensible people. As the team gradually unpick None of the monk's past it becomes clear that hewhat a stupid thing to do'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friendexplanations applied. HeThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faiths a killer on the loose. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170100008643660|title=Death Under a Little SkyThe Burial Place
|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the local police are keen that Jake should be 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 young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a 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 Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to 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 wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he'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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseA 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. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else The dead man was involved Josh - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there one of the care workers who was for Faye eitherdue to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. They were still polite D I Vera Stanhope is called in to each other and wished each other well investigate the murder - but didn't wish to remain marriedher only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. The perfect solution arrived in Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the form of a legacy from Jakegirl's Uncle Arthurdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money She knows that she has to find Chloe to live there without the need discover what happened to workJosh.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529428289|title=One Puzzling AfternoonA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the same small town for almost her whole lifegrave but when they found it, but now she is facing a move as her son wants it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to move to another house World War II and bring Edie it fell to live with his familyBruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by discover the memory identities of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, the bodies and the worry that there was establish whether or not a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agocrime had been committed. After As if this isn'seeing' Lucy in the high streett enough to worry about, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is forgetting more and more in her day to day lifeflowing at record levels. Will she uncover the truth about LucyIt's disappearance before her move, not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=0008551278152919640X|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)The Suspect|author=Neil LancasterRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was snatched from the bottom of Fyrish, where shemurdered live on television and it seems that there'd been doing her trainings only one suspect. SheHe'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadhis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. ThatShe's quite seriously allergic and carries an achievement for someone with her background: you seeEpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, Affo came live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelveHolby. She Her EpiPen was rescued when nowhere to be found and she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familydead within minutes. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herIt was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=Thirty Days of DarknessDavid Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as It seemed like an unlikeableopen-and-shut case. A man, bitter woman, an author of failing if wellcovered in mud and blood -regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at and carrying a book fairknife, she flukes her way comes into a public argument with the latest hot shot in police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the world bottom of crime fiction, saying a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up been stabbed to that accusationdeath. Her publisher duly books her flights DCI John Tanner is just back from Denmark to Icelandhis honeymoon, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on which coincided with the point birth of despairing – about her writing, about his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the people words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the lack point of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyfalling asleep at work but he's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=13985095820008517061|title=The FavourDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Nicci FrenchStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 amFormer Metropolitan Police detective, not long after A levelsJake Johnson, when has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the car crash happened. It future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would cause problems mean a lot of 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 Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he herself and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. daughter? Liam was For the reverse. He just acted ''as if moment they’re enjoying life just rolled him over in the present and carried him along''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: putting the legal effects of future on the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any moreback burner.
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|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Robert DugoniElly 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=Her Deadly GameThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has been any respect for the lifeother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's work prepared to tell the police where the body of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation a missing person is buried and who was responsible for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientsher death. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawThis person, he promises, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion is someone big and inevitably it will be worth the latter was beginning police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to overshadow serve the formerremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Enter Keera DugganNot much to ask, former competitive chess prodigy is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and proven Seattle Prosecutor she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement works with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southhim is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049760008405026|title=The Close 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 because never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of Rula Jacques the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closesuspicious. If you're What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a regular reader of complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series explanation lies in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itRosalie's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems very, very real. But disappearance: others (theresuch as Derwent's always a 'but'boss, isn't there?Una Burt) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainare less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks0571379877|title=Promise BoysThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school Edward Jevons is murdereda working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspectsRobert and Stanza. Each, seemingly, has Robert's a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murdertheatre director. But who killed himHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and why, entitled and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able uses Edward to clear run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their names?|isbn=1035003155university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. 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 to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1529125960Jo Callaghan|title=Unnatural History|author=Jonathan KellermanLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was When a photographer. Wellman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, it was AdonisDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itthe AI detective Lock. It's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel GornickBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is distraught suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series very high profile case that draws a lot of photographs called ''The Wishers''unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He'd Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken eight homeless people off the streets case and asked them what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with potentially, out of a generous gift in dollars.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1035021803|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the start English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her maternity leave when there is a brutalbeloved aunt, shocking murder of an expectant woman in DunedinCarole. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womencircumstances seem suspicious, with all to say the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfleast. Finding herself put on desk dutiesArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, which she rails againstfeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she just can't let has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the case go and split, she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happeningworked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the increasingly disturbing worry love of just what might happen nexther life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931398524085|title=All the Dangerous ThingsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Stacy WillinghamNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't really slept for a year s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - wellher husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, apart from find the odd occasion when she lost track body of time or drifted off for a moment. ItGreg's now a year since her sonfather, MasonDuncan Ackerley, was stolen from his bed in the middle of river. It was an easy assumption for the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt police to make that she heard nothing Duncan had murdered Charlie and particularly about her relief in the morning then committed suicide when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year shecouldn's done everything she could to raise awareness about t stand the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationguilt. On the plane back, sheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could little else they can do a podcast but get on with their lives and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferenceswonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=057137493X1529900360|title=The Other HalfGhost Orchid|author=Charlotte VassellJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'The room s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' ''The Other Half'' is t need the story help of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is psychologist only worked for a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townwhile. Think Bollinger and cocaineFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with She knew that the involvement was something that the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialman she loved needed. His surname is pronounced as you see itThe next case did look simple, though. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across Two lovers were murdered in the body swimming pool of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfrienda remote property in Bel Air. Rupert thought that He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she was being deliberately late for his partyis married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. She But which of them was dead under a bush.the primary target?
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|isbn=0857051741178763681X|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationKnife Skills for Beginners|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only Chef Paul Delamare took a few weeks teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to live but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what hewanted. Paul 's determined 'somehow'' got the impression that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer he'd be at the home of school to assist Paul, who had a deceased alcoholicbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The problem is that teaching - and the case has long passed the statute of limitationsproblems - are all his own. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. He Unfortunately, he was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: person who discovered the problem is body and everyone knows that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes the police consider that Henry Pekkari, person to be the dead alcoholic, was also murderedprime suspect. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212411529421284|title=Stay BuriedLaying Out the Bones
|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise It was one of those flash downpours that it's actually the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a cold case unit human skeleton came to the surface and there are just two of them doing forensic testing proved the jobbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. LockyerHe's not unduly worriedd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: sheit could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's probably capable of something bettert convinced. It Geary was a bit of a shock when townie, so what was he got doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - suicide of Holly Gilbert and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. SheLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's keen cold cases to see him you and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesme) investigate.
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|isbn=13997022891529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector GamacheD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Louise PennySimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winterIn Oxford, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is enjoying the arrival of springNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir father of the Sûreté du QuébecRyan, is not. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after the murder He's not any of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherthose things. For Jean-GuyHe's white, originated from a trailer park, it had always been the other way aroundbarely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Now theyThey're both usually in the village and neither can fathom whatlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's happeningre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Armand will soon find that theyWell, you're not . The two men are just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifedifferent sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529431735|title=White RiotThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Knee The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-jerk observations wife, saying that she's ill and hot takes that donhasn't age well or properly capture the spirit of the momentlong to live. It takes a truly talented writer 's hard to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what feel any sympathy when Hopkins isabducted, stripped to his underwear and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time sent to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events a watery grave in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit boot of a more objective viewstolen Ford Sierra.|isbn= 1529423376 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}
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|isbn=18387761840861541774|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalA Nye of Pheasants|author=S J BennettSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The Queens close friend and former colleague, like the sunrise and the tidesDanny Maik, was generally has taken a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed short holiday in Singapore to begin as a coldmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for Maik was involved in a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold street brawl - he would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one of the greatlater maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -grandchildrenand he killed a Ghurka. UnfortunatelyInitially, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go light that suggested that he might have planned to Sandringham by train that day but murder the doctor put his foot downman. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to Now he could be satisfied with facing the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following daydeath penalty. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Her Majesty did not like to disappointwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=08615419951521129886|title=Wolf PackThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Will DeanKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the road north of Visbergpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She sees blood on the road It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a creature on its side near the pine treesbaby and they're both delighted. It Joyce will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who has been attacked by a wolfmore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to the vethave killed himself. Bronco didnStuart't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for s concerned about his niecesister, twenty-year-old Elsa NybergLucy, who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought struggling to the foremake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then ownerLucy, Johan Svenson murdered his wifehe says, and his two eldest children and then is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself- it simply wasn't in his nature. His newborn childThe police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?night Gil died.
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|isbn=1405951184B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Girls Who DisappearedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Claire DouglasAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out. As she passed through It's the darkly-wooded Devil1990s and Greg Mason's Corridor, a figure appeared in the roadtwenty-eight years old. Olivia swerved He used to avoid him and have a high-flying job in the car smashed into city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a treeprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', leaving her trappedyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedOn the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Ralph MiddletonJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, who lived or rather, they were until Helen was killed in the woods helped what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her before the police parents, Oliver and ambulance arrived. But Pam Hetherington - can't understand what had happened she was doing there - or how she could come to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening fall in the Stafferbury area front of Wiltshirea train. It was thought of as AveburyGreg's poor relationbeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=15420372391838954481|title=Death in HeelsThe Misper|author=Kitty MurphyKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the story of Fi McKinnery gun and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. What is meant He pulled the trigger but due to be a night the vagaries of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. As if the night could jury system he was found not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet guilty of both the drag community, murder and the Guards, accept it as an accidentmanslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Fi takes it upon herself to solve For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the mystery as she fears capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her friends, but instead ruins relationships as territory she delves deeper's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1448309743|title=The Dark RoomDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across five members of a photograph wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This if the stone is what happens to Leonard in this storyremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and since leaving journalism hethat's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls easy conclusion given that two of film and develops them in his own dark room at home'discovered' the body. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he met some years agodisappears, and who he DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535X
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529077699|title=The Night Watch Raging Storm (D S Max CraigieTwo Rivers)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it suicide, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his deathSir? Or was he pushed? On balance'' Well yes, it looked like is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an accident but autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then his 'accident' was linked turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the deaths village of others associated with himGreystone, in Devon. Scott Paterson was released after Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I 'not'nearly'' said 'all-provenround good egg' verdict meant that Scotlandbut as we's most notorious criminal wasnll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientexactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=000837936X1529427045|title=The Last Girl to Diein the Eagle's Talons|author=Helen FieldsKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen''Life has more to offer than people -year-old Adriana Clarkeprime numbers for example''s family moved . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Tobermory, on the Isle small town of MullGasskas, in search of a new life. It was a bit where the so-far-untapped natural resources of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing area have sparked a social life - until she disappearedgold rush. The local police demonstrated little interest criminal underworld has not been slow in the case (could it have been because Adrianacoming forward. Salander's niece's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called the latest woman in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersthe area to have vanished without trace. Brandon, Adriana's twin, It was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew only with reluctance that she missed Salander became her big sister. It took four days, niece's guardian but Sadie found Adriana it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in Mackinnonher father's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingdeath.
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