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|isbn=18003211041786482126|title=The Body on the IslandJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Nick LouthElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldBuilders 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, heading not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for HMP Spring Hillanyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Steve Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and had served six years for it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the manslaughter remainder of his wifesentence and to get an early parole date. Only that wasnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who he wasworks with him is kept well away from what's happening. Sixty}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-three-yearsyear-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He She was being ghosted out of Wakefield never found and into the investigation ground to a new identity set up halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a deal whereby he divulged straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the whereabouts positioning of the body of one of his victimsbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The Bogeyman What looked as though it was going to be set free on 2 July 2019an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0571379877|title=The Long Dark RoadKellerby Code|author=P R BlackJonny 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, 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 them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was When a furious storm going man is found crucified on and she'd already refused the offer top of help from one man a hill in a big vehicleNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. WeIt'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is bundled into the car suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and driven offa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. There has been no sign of her - Will they be able to solve the case in time, or her body - in will Kat find herself taken off the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatecase and, potentially, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stopped.of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=David C Mason1035021803|title=PandoraThe Antique Hunter's GardenerGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston is 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 gardenerrequest for help from her beloved aunt, although what he did before he became a gardenerCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, he claimsArthur Crockleford, is classifieddead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. That is just 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 well because he is about antique hunters, she has not felt able to be caught up near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotcafe, where only he can save met and married James (on the rebound from the daylove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn=0956180523
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|isbn=18387731691398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's early 2016 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is at Windsor for the Easter Courtnot. She's having a dine Shortly afterwards, Etty and sleep at Greg, find the request body of Prince Charles, whoGreg's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought father, Duncan Ackerley, in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesriver. The immediate reaction is that one of It was an easy assumption for the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador police to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Sir David Attenborough. One then committed suicide when he couldn't bear to go down any of stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there''those'' roadss little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1529900360|title=The Coral BrideGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and- shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a female fisherwomanwhile. Finally, making her living it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the 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 the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich manand it's worldnot the Italian. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off But which of them was the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to come but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and head the investigationwomen to do what he wanted. Although Paul ''somehow'' got the signs seem impression that he'd be at the school to point to an obvious conclusionassist Paul, Morales feels something more sinister is going onwho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and finds himself frustrated at every the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn by hidden agendasup dead. Unfortunately, fishing histories he was the person who discovered the body and secret family feudseveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. At In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the same time as trying body to run his investigationbe Lee Geary, he also has his grown up sonwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, Sebastien arriving at his doorso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, weighed down with personal problems that so what was he is unable doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to talk the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to his father about, two other deaths which tie up with Morales own marital difficultieswere not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=1913193322
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1529425867|title= The Last Resort Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The group includes a games designer D I Ryan Wilkins, social media influencerson of Ryan and father of Ryan, gossip columnist and hedge fund manageris not. Everyone seems to have an area He's not any of expertise that makes their attendance necessarythose things. All except Amelia whose presence is He's white, originated from a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the islandtrailer park, and each otherbarely educated (reading's histories not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and it becomes clear that they all have trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenpolice procedural written for laughs. As the clock ticks down Well, these well-kept secrets you're not. The two men are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest just different sides of the guests from same policing coin. Sometimes the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. |isbn=1542020018}}  
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|isbn=05713626721529431735|title=SnowThe Winter Visitor|author=John BanvilleJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It''Wells February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, at least youwhich made Bruce Hopkins're a Wexford manreturn all the more surprising. He'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of d been exiled on the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at DunkirkCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The niceties return has come about because he's had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was letter from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-butex-shabby suitwife, marked him out as of Osbornesaying that she's class ill and obviously Protestanthasn't long to live. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, who - despite the different religions - was stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the habit boot of spending time at Ballyglass Housea stolen Ford Sierra. His horse was stabled there.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17874776300861541774|title=The Postscript MurdersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Elly GriffithsSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldnDCI Domenic Jejeune't be suspicious s close friend and that was the view former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke a short holiday in Singapore to Peggy Smith's carermeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Natalka Kolisnyk Maik was adamant involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that there he was more to Peggy's death than met the eye facing a man armed with a knife - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that Peggy had worried suggested that she was being followedhe might have planned to murder the man. Then there was Now he could be facing the fact that Peggy was death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowt help Danny at all.
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|isbn=14721270131521129886|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Greg 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's a bit of work on handgood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was Stuart's concerned about his managing directorsister, Harold CheesemanLucy, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did 's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not like it therethriving. This was unusualLucy, he says, as is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australianature. Then there was The police and the coroner have accepted that the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick death was convinced that his wifesuicide, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations but Stuart's prepared to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted pay Greg to know find out what happened on the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Geneva. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murdernight Gil died
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|isbn=1408712288B0CK3MYJ56|title=Still Life Responsibilities (DCI Karen PirieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Val McDermidAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 's the middle of February 1990s and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. It fell He used to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and have a high-flying job in the city but it didnwasn't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allardsatisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', ostensibly a Frenchmanyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. A decade earlier hewhere's gone missing when he was the prime suspect in life experience that backs up this profession? On the disappearance other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and possible murder of his brotherHelen are half-sisters, prominent civil servantor rather, Iain Auldthey were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. DCI Karen PirieJoyce - and her parents, as head Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had a train. Greg's been the last person asked to review the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stageinvestigate.
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1838954481|title=A Song of IsolationThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Ryan Kennedy killed a career police officer: there's no doubt about that is only beginning to hit . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the heights to retire trigger but due to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant vagaries of all things, though to his credit the jury system he would rather be working in forestrywas found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. They have For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found a hideaway on her territory she's drawn into a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between themwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy. |isbn=1913193365
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|isbn=02414254411448309743|title=The Thursday Murder ClubDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Richard OsmanCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first member In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcrofta wealthy family are found murdered. She used to be a nurse and The only item missing from the home is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Details of where and how The only suspects are exchanged and Joyce confirms known Satanists but in many ways, that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpbody. It didn The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 't put Joyce off her shepherdshadow's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagehim.
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|isbn=15098895151529077699|title=The Darkest Evening Raging Storm (D I Vera StanhopeTwo Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. If she hadn't Jem Rosco blew into the car might not have been found until local pub one evening in the morning middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and who knows what would have happened dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the toddler strapped into the car seatvillage of Greystone, particularly as the car door had been left openin Devon. Vera took Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the boy world sailor and drove to the nearest habitationall round ''celebrity''. She I ''nearly''thoughtsaid 'all-round good egg' it would be the village but it was Brockburnas we'll find out, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - he could be more than a little bit close with money and Hector was the black sheep of his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the family. money for his first boat? Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in How did he finance the circumstances.trip?
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|isbn=15069094421529427045|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent.Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
The title Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of this enjoyable crime proceduralGasskas, is from German romantic writer Jean Paulwhere the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. But who are the worst dogs The criminal underworld has not been slow in de Lacey Davidsoncoming forward. Salander's niece's latest novel and for whom mother is the hatred? This mystery will last all latest woman in the way area to the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way throughhave vanished without trace. It sounds uncomfortable - was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it isnquickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who't: its unaware of the part Salander played in her father's honestdeath.
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|isbn=15420174321787636607|title=The Nidderdale MurdersTrap|author=J R EllisCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 's a Friday scene replicated all too often in mid-September when the shoot was held on early hours of the grouse moor near Niddersgillmorning. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner Drunken revellers spilling out of the moor clubs and looking for a retired judgeway to get home. James Symonds was a local landowner Some are lucky and Henry Saunders was a bankermanage to get one of the few taxis available. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsleywoman all regret the 'taxi problem', who dealt particularly in exclusive cars in nearby Riponthe light of 'the missing women'. Rawnsley had For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to paylong way short of her home. Other people She had reason intended to ring someone to comment on Frasercome and collect her - but her phone's attitude dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to money: let her use his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy . There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and very difficult to work forin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=00083147211405957174|title=Truth Be ToldA Death at the Party|author=Kia AbdullahAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh''effortful'' familys party will not end well. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamambulance he so desperately needs. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didnWhat we don't name them know is who the other way round: man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue d better give you a little more background so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adamthat you can understand what'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapeds happening.
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0008530025|title=The Seven DoorsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller It was in December 2003 that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our coupleher stepfather, she a literature lecturerLuke Ryder, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out garden of their West London home, a building that . He had existed throughout her life since childhood and an injury on the back of his head which theycould have happened if he'd occupied for over thirty yearsslipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The building heTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's inheritednow the subject of ''Infamous'', meanwhilea true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, and which they let out 're going to a single motherdo this live on camera, is needed episode by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant episode. There'take a hike, I'm moving in s no dump of the whole box set - and youno shortage of cliffhangers. It're moving outs compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. NowWe first meet Nancy outside the court, at this stage you may well, if you know this is after Martin receives a genre read, think itlife sentence. The barrister tells her that she's going to be received a throwback to those 'home invasionsilent sentence' - she' thrillers Hollywood gave us in s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the 1980s, but norest of her life. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens hereOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesthe papers are making the most of it. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is found to have completely vanishedundoubtedly spoken.|isbn=1913193381
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|isbn=14711792731529413680|title=House A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of CorrectionPolice Novel)|author=Nicci FrenchMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's in prison, on remandthere to see the show with some friends. SheIt's sharing a cell with Michaelaall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, who's more caring than she first appearsthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. She delivers tough love Luckily, his doctor is there and gets Tabitha eating the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and drinking friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - and encourages her to have as he's a showersenior government employee, unpleasant as the whole processes might beman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. And how did Tabitha get here? WellOne daughter lives nearby and another, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered who lives in her garden shed by Andrew KaneCalifornia, who was helping is flying in with the renovations to Tabithasome of her father's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees friends for a pre- and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodarranged holiday.
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|isbn=14087124151529196388|title=Cry BabyThe Trial|author=Mark BillinghamRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's June 1996 Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and football's European Championships are looked up to by just about to start everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in Londonplain sight at the Old Bailey. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and itThere's just one he has regularly. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guilty, but didn't take any action until in the manframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with their sons Kieron and Josh. ItCliveden's a happy combination in murder. Knight was told that the boys are devoted to each other best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- despite differences in the where Cameron and how they live - the women are best friendshis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings in the park and then dash off Knight's determined to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing the hiding plead not guilty, despite all Taylor- but he returned tearfully Cameron's recommendations to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieroncontrary.
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