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|isbn=15293793851786482126|title=The Madness of Crowds Janus Stone (Chief Inspector GamacheDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Louise PennyElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Canadian village of Three Pines, wesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury're postapartments -pandemic: when they discovered the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normalbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the AubergeWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. TheyIt're visiting each others difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's homes and having friends and relatives to stayt, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people prone to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=183885410X0008551324|title=The Dark RemainsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=William McIlvanney Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Ian Rankinanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-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 her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was Edward Jevons is a lawyer working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies GlasgowStanza. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigationRobert's a theatre director. I say He''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be a part of itrun errands for him. He does his own thing, goes his own way 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'The Dark Remainss position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'' uncovers s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the truth two of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Jo Callaghan|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's When a man is found crucified on the culturetop of a hill in Nuneaton, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to case alongside her sidekick, the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru OnizukaAI detective Lock. When he was found dead in front of Senden CentralIt's headquarters in Tokyo their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there was nothing in the way of regret or griefis a second body found crucified a few days later, even from his family, but there was Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a mild curiosity as lot of unwanted attention to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descenttheir AI Future Policing project. Gossip revolves around Will they be able to solve the fact that he left case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the roof at the exact same spot that an employeecase and, Mayu Yamasepotentially, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka out of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=02414254251035021803|title=The Man Who Died TwiceAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Richard OsmanC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she received the lettergrew up. It came from She's back now because of a man whose body she had helped to pull request for help from the Thames her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and who had never existed but then this Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the sort of conundrum which retired spies have circumstances seem suspicious, to deal with on a regular basissay the least. When she visits Arthur was the sender of reason why Freya had not been back to the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as no surprise that it's someone with whom antique hunters, she has a long professional history - and who used not felt able to be her husbandnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. He's made After the split, she worked in a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the range love of a CCTV camera on a raidher life, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds who was murdered) and Freya and a few death threats. He's James have now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressdivorced.
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1398524085|title=The Rabbit FactorHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet HenriCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. With a mind so much more focused on maths Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and calculations than it is other human beingsher daughter, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be Etty. are all openworried but -plan, holistic and keen on stupidstrangely -as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has diedher husband, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channelAlec, and has left Henri everythingis not. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park Shortly afterwards, Etty and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mindGreg, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in find the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacebody of Greg's father, despite some desultory staff ideasDuncan Ackerley, but loans have been made out and in the amount vanishedriver. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on It was an easy assumption for the scene police to explain make that missing money – itDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and t stand the activities of these guys guilt. The Salter children are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=191319387X
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0925KS87N1529900360|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)The Ghost Orchid|author=Neil LancasterJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been determined badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to find the grave ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. It Finally, it was a strange thing for ScotlandRobin, Delaware's premier criminal to dopartner, but Tam who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was getting old and there were things he wanted to dosomething that the man she loved needed. OnlyThe next case did look simple, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found though. Two lovers were murdered in the grave - swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - heir to an Italian shoe empire and his three sons began she is married to worry. Tam Junior, Frankie an extremely rich man and Dave wouldnit't normally go to s not the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone178763681X|title=The Great SilenceKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk Chef Paul Delamare took a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does teaching job at a good job of bringing the backstory residential cookery school in without being heavy handed about itBelgravia. Skelf isn He didn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought really want to be, it is merely the surname of but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a family way of undertakers. Undertakers getting both men and private investigatorswomen to do what he wanted. Dorothy is Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctschool to assist Paul, she married who had a scot broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and ended the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up helping to run dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the Edinburgh undertaking firm body and everyone knows that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about consider that person to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join be the academic staff next termprime suspect.|isbn=1913193837
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00082690411529421284|title=Risk of HarmLaying Out the Bones|author=Lucie WhitehouseKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Meta heatwave. She might have been reinstated but In a gully, a human skeleton came to the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then surface and forensic testing proved the man body to be Lee Geary, who had broken her heart nearly twenty disappeared nine years beforeearlier. She He'd been a known drug user and her fifteen-year-old daughter had learning disabilities, so it could have moved out been a simple case of her parent's home into a rented house misadventure but thereDI Matt Lockyer wasn's still t convinced. Geary was a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of his way Holly Gilbert and to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childtwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. HeLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's married cold cases to Natalie, now you and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinme) investigate.
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|isbn=18469757191529425867|title=For Any Other Truth Lost and Never Found (DCI Jim DaleyA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Denzil MeyrickSimon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn that MI5 In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. But thatHe's London, isn't it? not any of those things. WhatHe's happening in Kinloch? When white, originated from a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airporttrailer park, DCI Jim Daley barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for the airport straight awaylaughs. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take offWell, you're not. How could that be? The sort two men are just different sides of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying publicsame policing coin. And why have Sometimes the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14091816691529431735|title=The MaidensWinter Visitor|author=Alex MichaelidesJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders It's February 1991 and looked likely to get away with them bothEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton He'd been exiled on the Paradise nature reserve in CambridgeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. SheThe return has come about because he'd been brutally stabbed and Marianas had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend ill and she was struggling hasn't long to copelive. Mariana wasnIt't ''entirely'' happy about having s hard to go feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana his underwear and Zoe were close and had been made all sent to a watery grave in the more so by the death boot of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierstolen Ford Sierra. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=02414001200861541774|title=The Girl Who DiedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheDCI Domenic Jejeune'd given up her medical studies s close friend and retrained as former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a teachershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She Maik was thirty years old involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and money was tighthe killed a Ghurka. Her friendInitially, Sara, showed her an advert for he faced a job in Skalar on charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Langanes Peninsulaman. There were only ten people in Now he could be facing the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provideddeath penalty. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could let her flat in Reykjavik provoke a diplomatic incident and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredwouldn't help Danny at all.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15294072491521129886|title=The Perfect LieThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jo SpainKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happyGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatIt's always a dangerous thing to do when yougood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're married to a cop but both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she was hopefulgets past the morning sickness. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment Greg is approached by the sea an old friend whose brother-in Newport, Long Island-law appears to have killed himself. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, DannyStuart's partnerconcerned about his sister, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one lookLucy, turned, walked who's struggling to the open window make ends meet and jumped to his death from the fourth floorher son is not thriving. Eighteen months laterLucy, Erin he says, is convinced that Gil would be on trial for her husbandnever have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's murderprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1788549759B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Distant DeadResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lesley ThomsonAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-foureight years old. He used to have a high-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for flying job in the evening city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'with her friend IdaShades of Cameron Strike' leaving her three-year-old son, Williamyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, at home with her parentshe has been asked to look into something. The boy thought that Maple was his sister Joyce and Helen are half- it sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and Williamkilled in what's) on been written off as a better footingtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. She was going to meet Joyce - and her wellparents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington -tocan't understand what she was doing there -do fiancé, hoping or how she could come to persuade him to come and meet her family the following weekfall in front of a train. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken herGreg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=00084049251838954481|title=The Killing KindMisper|author=Jane CaseyKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Ryan Kennedy killed a surprisepolice officer: there's no doubt about that. After all, it He was her crossthe fifteen-year-examination of old holding the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencegun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He'd been accused of stalking pulled the woman trigger but it didn't take long due to establish that - if anything - it the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the other way aroundofficer. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and then she came to see him as hoping for a threat and was forced to remember that quieter life in the police officer at his trial had told countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her that this was the best chance theyterritory she'd had to put Webster away for s drawn into a long time: he was a very dangerous manwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=walker141448309743|title=The Coldest Case Devil Stone (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Martin WalkerCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in In the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief village of police Bruno Courreges had Cronchie on the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief West coast of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-JScotland, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. The body five members of a young male was wealthy family are found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justicemurdered. What if an artist could recreate the face The only item missing from the skull and home is the resulting publicity be used to identify Devil Stone: myth says that if the young man? stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. J-J calls the skull The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Oscardiscovered' and has a picture on his door: the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesndisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justicehim.
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|isbn=14711814051529077699|title=NighthawkingThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sheffield''It's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Roadall bloody peculiar, isn't it, if youSir?'d like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discovered Well yes, it is. It had obviously been buried in Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been evening in the earth middle of an autumn gale, stayed for months about a month and then turned up, naked and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to establish who stabbed her - and who left the twovillage of Greystone, very rare, gold aurei on her eyesin Devon. DCI Diane Jordan is Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the Investigating Officer world sailor and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbaniall round ''celebrity''. TheyI 're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks henearly'' said 'all-round good egg's but as obnoxious as ever but suspects that we'll find out, hecould be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn's not fully recovered from t exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his injuries.first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=02419851371529427045|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Cara HunterKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got 'Life has more to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to see the Principalsmall town of Gasskas, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation where the so-far-untapped natural resources of sexual assault by the area have sparked a professor on a studentgold rush. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing The criminal underworld has not been slow in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? coming forward. The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''wasSalander's niece' s mother is the 'victim' and latest woman in the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherarea to have vanished without trace. Just to complicate matters further, CalebIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's mother guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is Petra Newson, a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys part Salander played in her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be father''very'' publics death.
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|isbn=19131935271787636607|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Trap|author=Vanda SymonCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the murder morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffway to get home. His wife had been bound and gagged Some are lucky and placed so that she was forced manage to watch get one of the murder, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outfew taxis available. The subsequent investigation would prove Others squash onto the night bus that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind particularly in the light of thing'the missing women'. For one young woman, as Hendersonthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's employee, Blair Harveyno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-Boyd explainedheeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1405957174|title=True Crime StoryA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who 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 happening.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008530025
|title=Murder in the Family
|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. 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 obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a 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, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0241996104
|title=Coming to Find You
|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Joseph KnoxNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan WaitsMartin, has created been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"life sentence. The story follows barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the disappearance rest of Zoe Nolan her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her university halls mother - and the papers are making the most of residenceit. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. Split into four parts}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One of the main events of the reader Sarlat tourist season is taken through the life and disappearance re-enactment of Zoe through the eyes liberation of her twin sister, other familythe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, friends and professionalsKerquelin, such as the police. The various accounts help man playing one of the reader get to know Zoe, or at least main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the Zoe she presented to othersscript. However Luckily, his doctor is there and the twists man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and turns at the end friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of each chapter leave you shockedsurvival but - as he's a senior government employee, confused the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and unsure another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of what is true or fabricatedher father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14722761401529196388|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)The Trial|author=James OswaldRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily Slater's body Grant Cliveden was found, she'd already been dead for a week - in hero: a house fire policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in deserted woodland near Edinburghplain sight at the Old Bailey. Heavy rain had washed away most of There's just one man in the evidence, but DI Tony McLean, demoted frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and just returned from suspensionit's not too long before Knight appears in court, is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentcharged with Cliveden's murder. There were indications Knight was told that Slater had been savagelythe best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, almost ritualistically beaten before the fireAdam Green, who eventually represent him. But who would hate a ninetyKnight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-year-old woman Cameron's recommendations to the extent of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?contrary.
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