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|isbn=15294317351035043092|title=The Winter VisitorKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=James HenryAnn Cleeves|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItI can's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly coldt have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprisingBook 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. HeIt'd s been exiled on 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 Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decadedaughter of his former partner. The return has come about because heWillow's had a letter from also his ex-wifeboss, saying that and she's ill and hasn't long to live. Itshould''s hard to feel any sympathy be on maternity leave, but when Hopkins the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is abductedfound, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot aftermath of a stolen Ford Sierrastorm, she can't resist getting involved. Is it He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a warning pair - which had been stolen from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?museum.
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|isbn=0861541774henleyA|title=A Nye of PheasantsUltimate Obsession|author=Steve BurrowsDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ex-DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, Andy Flood has taken been a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old allyPrivate Investigator for some time now, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurkashould be doing quite well financially. InitiallyUnfortunately, he faced his daughter's defence against a murder charge of manslaughter but evidence came drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to light that suggested that he might have planned persuade him to murder the manretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Now he could be facing That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the death penaltystate of their savings. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to help as any interference from another police force take his case, it's the thought of the money he could provoke make that convinces him that this is a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at allmiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.
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|isbn=15211298861529934753|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)The Protest|author=Keith RedfernRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg MasonFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's just beginning most famous living artist, was not going to get show up for the opening of his confidence as 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 investigator influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargesprotest. It's Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have spray can of blue paint from under a baby chair and theyproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''re both delighted. Joyce will It seemed to be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by part of an old friend whose brother-inongoing series of 'blue-law appears to have killed himself. Stuartface's concerned about his sisterattacks, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thrivingbut this was different. Lucy, he saysThe can had been laced with cyanide, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death Sir Max Bruce was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil dieddead.
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|isbn=B0CK3MYJ560008551375|title=Responsibilities When Shadows Fall (Greg Mason mysteriesD S Max Craigie)|author=Ann MacarthurNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItLeanne Wilson's body was found at the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have bottom of a high-flying job in Scottish mountain, seemingly the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as result of a private investigatortragic accident. She'Shades of Cameron Strike'd looked so happy, too, you might be thinkingwhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. Nice bloke Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but where's the it looked like she was living her best life experience now. Then it emerged that backs up this profession? On five other women had died in similar circumstances in the other hand, he has been asked to look into somethinglast year. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or ratherAll were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossingdoing and sensible people. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - canNone of the 't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come a stupid thing to fall in front of a traindo' explanations applied. GregThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's been asked to investigatea killer on the loose.
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|isbn=18389544810008643660|title=The MisperBurial Place|author=Kate LondonStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed A group of archaeologists are uncovering a police officerRoman site close to Little Sky: thereit's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding idyllic and some of the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawexcavations are being televised. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder finders and the manslaughter of landowner. It's perfect until the officergroup begin receiving threatening letters. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a quieter simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory sheletters, it's drawn into a wider investigation - difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and back into even the orbit of Ryan Kennedylocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.
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|isbn=14483097431529425905|title=The Devil Stone A Voice in the Night (DCI Christine CaplanA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Caro RamsaySimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of ScotlandThere's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, five members of and ruthless. She talks a wealthy good talk about work/life balance and family are found murderedvalues, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. The only item missing from the home Ray Wilkins is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn Houseof Nigerian descent, death will followBaliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to Diane and has twin sons. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, thatManagement's an easy conclusion given opinion of him is that two he thinks too highly of them himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'discoveredthe wet end' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he disappears's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled always in to vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'shadow' himbe given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15290776991529077745|title=The Raging Storm Dark Wives (Two RiversD I Vera Stanhope)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into A man walking his dog in the local pub one evening in early morning discovered the middle body of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored man in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystonepark near Rosebank, in Devona care home for troubled teens. Rosco had The dead man was Josh - one of the status of care workers who was due to work a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round shift the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''night before but who had never turned up. D I ''nearly'' said 'allVera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder -round good egg' but as we'll find outher only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open bookfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Where did he get Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the money for his first boat? How did he finance death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the trip?girl's diary 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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15294270451529428289|title=The Girl A Grave in the Eagle's TalonsWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Karin SmirnoffMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than Because of various property transactions, people - prime numbers were searching for example''the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. Lisbeth Salander has headed north They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the small town Chief of GasskasPolice for St Denis, where to discover the so-far-untapped natural resources identities of the area have sparked bodies and establish whether or not a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not crime had been slow in coming forwardcommitted. SalanderAs if this isn's niece's mother t enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without traceflowing at record levels. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious not just the local autumn rains that Svala is have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's deathdevastating flood.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1787636607152919640X|title=The TrapSuspect|author=Catherine Ryan HowardRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's a scene replicated all too often seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in the early hours case of the morningemergencies. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and looking for Brooks served a way ragout to get homeHolby. Some are lucky Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and manage to get one of the few taxis availableshe was dead within minutes. Others squash onto the night bus It was soon clear that will only go as far as one of the outlying villagesthis 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. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'A man, particularly covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the light of police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the missing womenbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. For one young womanDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short birth of her homehis daughter Samantha. She had intended to ring someone to come You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and collect her - but her phone'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance sleep-deprived to beg the bus driver to let her use his. Therepoint of falling asleep at work but he's no option but determined to start walking keep going - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbnauthor=1405957174Stuart Douglas|title=A Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the PartyDress 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=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Amy StuartStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=From the first pageFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end wellhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The victim - There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a man lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- is dying when we first meet him grid and Nadine consciously makes no effort relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to call Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the ambulance he so desperately needs. future she wants for herself and her daughter? What we don't know is who For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happeningback burner.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00085300251786482126|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Cara HunterElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was in December 2003 that fifteengoing to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Maura Howard came home and found when they discovered the body bones of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London homea child beneath a doorway. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken There was obviously deliberateno skull. Twenty years laterWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, no one has been charged Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his murder and itDCI Harry Nelson. It's now the subject of ''Infamous'difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a true-crime show. A group result of experts has been brought the one night they spent together to review the evidence and to take the investigation furthersome three months ago. More to the pointHer condition will be obvious before long, they're going not least because Ruth is prone to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage sudden bouts of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingsickness.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=02419961040008551324|title=Coming to Find The Devil YouKnow (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jane CorryNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=NancyIt's mother 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 step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her step-brotherdeath. This person, Martinhe promises, has been convicted of their murderis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. We first meet Nancy outside And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the court, after Martin receives a life remainder of his sentenceand to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The barrister tells her that shenew Deputy Police Constable doesn's received a 'silent sentence' - t think so and she's not been found guilty of anything but will have even prepared to live 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 happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancyhappening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's rich sixteen years since nine-year- she inherited five million pounds old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother - , Helena, and the papers her father are making dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the most positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though itwas going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' Kerrigan is one favourite epithet and convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokens boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15294136800571379877|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A BrunoThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Chief demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university 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 Police Novel)them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Martin WalkerJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season When a man is found crucified on the re-enactment top of the liberation of the town from the English a hill in 1370 and Bruno's there Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see the show with some friendscase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's all their first live case together, having previously been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong successful with several cold cases. But when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters there is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckilya second body found crucified a few days later, his doctor Kat is there suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the man is whisked away in a helicoptervery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employeeWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby case and another, who lives in Californiapotentially, is flying in with some out of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15291963881035021803|title=The TrialAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Rob RinderC L Miller|rating=43.5|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=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that was good Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and honest and looked up to by just about everyoneeven after Alex recovered, so there Sturgis was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileyreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. ThereHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's just one man in t need the frame help of a psychologist only worked for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's not too long before Knight appears in courtpartner, charged with Cliveden's murderwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Knight She knew that the involvement was told something that the best barrister for him man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himnot the Italian. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to But which of them was the contrary.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel178763681X|title=Death in Fine ConditionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in particular a series called Sleuth HoundBelgravia. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes He didn'tweaking' them, t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to add value, in somewhat fraudulent waysdo what he wanted. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Paul ''somehow'' got the background of a photograph on her drug dealerimpression that he's living room walld be at the school to assist Paul, and so she sets about discovering where this collection iswho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and how she can steal it! the problems - are all his own. ItThe one thing he hadn's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too fart expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and what will happen when everyone knows that the owner of police consider that person to be the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947prime suspect.
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|isbn=14483093791529421284|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Laying Out the Bones|author=David MarkKate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a surprise human skeleton came to find that you're deadthe surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, particularly when youwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He're thinking that you're actually on d been a break with your wife known drug user and childrenhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but thatDI Matt Lockyer wasn's what happened to DS Aector McAvoyt convinced. Whilst he Geary was relieved to find that he was stilla townie, officially, alive, it so what was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but There are connections to the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the early hours time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the morning when it was obvious Major Crimes Review Unit (that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - cold cases to you and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorme) investigate.
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|isbn=15291353891529425867|title=The FallLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Gilly MacmillanSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned homeIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. There was no sign D I Ryan Wilkins, son of her husband but opera was playing on the state-Ryan and father of-the-art music system installed in The Glass BarnRyan, is not. TheyHe'd s not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponany of those things. Some He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of them fought with each other shell suits and didntrackies. They't work as reliably as they shouldre usually in lime green or acid yellow. It had all come about through You might wonder if you're being introduced to a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of money, toothe same policing coin. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in Sometimes the swimming pool with a wound to his headcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529431735|title=To Die in JuneThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man more surprising. He'd been exiled on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister Costa del Sol as another body is discovered, and then anothera wanted drug smuggler for a decade. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so The return has come about because he's had a letter from his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abodeex-wife, saying that she's ill and he has been for yearshasn't long to live. At the same time as facing these possible murdersIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Harry is also dealing with a move stripped to his underwear and sent to a different police station, and watery grave in the arrival there boot of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundstolen Ford Sierra. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going onIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=1805300784
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=18045456000861541774|title=The MonkA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tim SullivanSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the woods near Bristol Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a nasty shock street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a monk strapped to man armed with a chair knife - and dumped in he killed a ditchGhurka. He'd been savagely beaten. It's Initially, he faced a while before D S George Cross and charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicman. He'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeyNow he could be facing the death penalty. As the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as an investment banker, brother, neighbour any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and friend. Hewouldn'd also been very wealthy but had given it t help Danny at all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00085170101521129886|title=Death Under a Little SkyThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stig AbellKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It might 's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have been different if a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the pregnancies hadn't ended baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jakelaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's side struggling to make ends meet and he didn't think there was for Faye eitherher son is not thriving. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - but didnit simply wasn't wish to remain marriedin his nature. The perfect solution arrived in police and the coroner have accepted that the form of a legacy from Jakedeath was suicide, but Stuart's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money prepared to pay Greg to live there without find out what happened on the need to worknight Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyB0CK3MYJ56|title=One Puzzling AfternoonResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old Edie has lived . He used to have a high-flying job in the same small town for almost her whole life, city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now she is facing set himself up as a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', as Edie is starting to lose her memoryyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? However, Edie is tormented by On the memory of her childhood friendother hand, Lucyhe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, who went missing over 60 years agoor rather, and the worry that there they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agotragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. After Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as t understand what she was the last time she saw her, doing there - or how she starts could come to find pockets fall in front of memories coming back to hera train. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day Greg's been asked to day lifeinvestigate. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250
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|isbn=00085512781838954481|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)The Misper|author=Neil LancasterKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of Fyrish, where sheRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'd been doing her trainings no doubt about that. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics He was the fifteen-year- old holding the gun and pointing it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadat DI Kieran Shaw. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came He pulled the trigger but due to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age vagaries of twelve. She was rescued when she the jury system he was carrying a kilo found not guilty of drugs both the murder and three years later she's happy with her foster familythe manslaughter of the officer. There's just one cloud And so lives must go on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a childrenmissing teenager is found on her territory she's home in Tirana drawn into a wider investigation - and anyone could get to herback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=Thirty Days of DarknessCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author In the village of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles Cronchie on the West coast of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairScotland, she flukes her way into five members of a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writewealthy family are found murdered. Cue The only item missing from the bet home is the Devil Stone: myth says that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights if the stone is removed from Denmark to IcelandOtterburn House, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it alldeath will follow. Just on the point The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of despairing – about her writing, about them 'discovered' the people and the lack of stimulus for her plotbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615him.
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|isbn=13985095821529077699|title=The FavourRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Nicci FrenchAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was 2 am's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, not long after A levelsSir?'' Well yes, when it is. Jem Rosco blew into the car crash happened. It would cause problems local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for Liam Birch but about a month and then no one could really understand why he turned up, naked and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to go to medical schoolthe village of Greystone, in Devon. Liam was Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the reverseworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. He just acted I ''as if life just rolled him over and carried him alongnearly''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didnsaid 't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or ratherround good egg' but as we'll find out, Liam simply didnhe could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't see Jude any moreexactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1529427045|title=Her Deadly GameThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates ''Life has been more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the life's work so-far-untapped natural resources of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'the area have sparked a gold rush. The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances criminal underworld has not been slow in defence of his clientscoming forward. Along with an indisputable talent for Salander's niece's mother is the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably latest woman in the latter was beginning area to overshadow the formerhave vanished without trace. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor 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 finds herself 's unaware of the part Salander played in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south's death.|isbn=1662500181
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