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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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|isbn=15098896121787636607|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Trap|author=Ann CleevesCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since a group scene replicated all too often in the early hours of teenagers went on the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a weekend retreat way to Holy Islandget home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenfew taxis available. There was a tragedy at Others squash onto the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year night bus that will only go as far as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagersoutlying villages. Ken now has AlzheimerThe woman all regret the 's and hetaxi problem's a shadow , particularly in the light of 'the man he used to bemissing women'. Philip Robson now a priest For one young woman, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelfinal stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Annie Laidler lives locally She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she provides much of had the chance to beg the food: bus driver to let her deli is famous use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the areahigh-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=02419901651405957174|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)A Death at the Party|author=Cara HunterAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddlyFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. There was The victim - a 999 man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadnambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't come from know is who the householderman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that theyI'd better come in. In the kitchen there was give you a body on the floor: the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right hand. Richard Swann told the police little more background so that he'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'you can understand what' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defences happening.
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|isbn=178763566X0008530025|title=Listen to MeMurder in the Family|author=Tess GerritsenCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Boston with Amythe garden of their West London home. When she set out for university this morning it 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 was a spring day obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and she wore her newit's now the subject of ''Infamous'', butterya true-leather pumps but as she comes out crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the library she knows that investigation further. More to the point, they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow thatdo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's now falling. As she crosses no dump of the road, a car comes out whole box set - and no shortage of nowhere and hits hercliffhangers. It doesn't stops compelling viewing.}}
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|isbn=18011092650241996104|title=The CompanionComing to Find You|author=Lesley ThomsonJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'Nancy' s mother and he was step- as usual father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step- late to pick up his sonbrother, WilburMartin, for has been convicted of their 'boys' day out'murder. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for We first meet Nancy outside the boy's attention, his mothercourt, Anna, promised him after Martin receives a roast dinner when he returnedlife sentence. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are the victims barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of a double stabbing on anything but will have to live with what happened for the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp rest of Sussex policeher life. SheOf course, it's feeling made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the pressuremost of it. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529413680|title=Dark MusicA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from One of the main events of the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before Sarlat tourist season is the allusion breaks? This does have a wonderre-mind at enactment of the heart liberation of what little investigating is going on, but the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, to see the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDshow with some friends. SheIt's a Chilean in the Stockholm policeall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect man playing one of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the stadiumscript. BeppeLuckily, his doctor is there and the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationman is whisked away in a helicopter. When some disreputable coppers A local doctor (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kindfriend of Bruno) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks wonders about his chances of it all, she can only smirk when survival but - as he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is 's a shambles. But taken off the casesenior government employee, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke man who runs Frenchelon - the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allmilitary has stepped in. UntilOne daughter lives nearby and another, that may bewho lives in California, she manages to stop him is flying in the middle with some of an apparent suicide attempt..her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X1529196388|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Trial|author=Martin WalkerRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for St Denis all that was good and much of the Vézère valley honest and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneOld Bailey. TheyThere're not s just policemen one man in the frame for his murder - they're both deeply committed to the wellJimmy Knight -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnit't normally have worried them so much had it s not been for the strange bullettoo long before Knight appears in court, charged with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carCliveden's murder. Oh, and there Knight was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to told that the owner best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the carStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. A golf bag would be a good place Knight's determined to hide a sniperplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's weapon. Was there going recommendations to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?contrary.
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|isbnauthor=0727850547Andrew Cartmel|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)|author=David MarkDeath in Fine Condition|rating=43
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for breakfast when the call came throughprofit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. A body had been found One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the roots background of a fallen tree at Brantinghamphotograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, near Hull. When he gets to the sceneand so she sets about discovering where this collection is, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. and how she can steal it! A young manIt's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newlynext-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem that this was done whilst what will happen when the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to owner of the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always collection comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own family.looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|authorisbn=1448309379|title=Kjell Ola Dahl Flesh and Don Bartlett Blood (translatorDS McAvoy 11)|titleauthor=Little DrummerDavid Mark|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part It's something of the Oslo Detectives seriesa surprise to find that you're dead, this crime story is particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a mixture of police procedural break with your wife and thrillerchildren, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, Whilst he was relieved to find that looks very much like an overdosehe was still, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murderofficially, fraudalive, and international pharmaceutical dealingsit was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains 'd dashed from her flat in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns early hours of the investigationmorning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Gunnarstranda Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going Pharoah was sweet onAector.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=13985075041529135389|title=Cold ReckoningThe Fall|author=Russ ThomasGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the last sixteen years he-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They's d not been searching in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for evidence long and were still getting used to prove that he's rightall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002. There Some of them fought with each other and didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before he diedwork as reliably as they should. Above It had all there's come about through a growing sense ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going swimming pool with a wound to be brought out into the openhis head. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbnauthor=1787634906Alan Parks|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideTo Die in June|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is in trouble. He's in an abandoned house discovered, and he's being threatened by two young peoplethen another. One This is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this worrying enough for homeless peopledetective Harry McCoy, apparently) but she'd put all the more so because his own father is a tracking device in it so that she down and Hugo could find out where alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he was sleepinghas been for years. It won't be long before At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police realise that Malcolm was one station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of their own: the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not many just with the woman’s story but also with the other people are officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1804545600|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Monk|author=Rob KeeleyTim Sullivan|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were The body in the finals of the Moots woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Inna chair and dumped in a ditch. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participantsHe' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: itd been savagely beaten. It's a great way of getting invaluable practice while before D S George Cross and of getting yourself noticedthe Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Tom and Nat are from He'd been missing for a provincial university' few days and theycertainly hadn're ''almost'' looked down on because of thist asked permission to leave his abbey. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia As the team gradually unpick the monk'Mouses past it becomes clear that he' Dawes have no such disadvantage d been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and Becca has an abundance of confidencefriend. TomHe's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make d also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him feel any better.?
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