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|isbn=15291353891786482126|title=The FallJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gilly MacmillanElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the morning at site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the county fair before she returned homebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnskull. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Some of them fought with each other and didnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't work as reliably , that she is pregnant with his child as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and result of the one night they were still getting used to having that sort of money, toospent together some three months ago. EventuallyHer condition will be obvious before long, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound not least because Ruth is prone to his headsudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks0008551324|title=To Die in JuneThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the streets, suddenly starts other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to feel like something more sinister as another tell the police where the body of a missing person is discovered, buried and then anotherwho was responsible for her death. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyperson, he promises, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he has been for yearswants. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry And what he wants is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and be transferred to an open prison to serve the arrival there remainder of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missinghis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, only no record of is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong other thing that Hardie demanded - not just make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just him is kept well away from what is going on?|isbn=1805300784's happening.
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|isbn=18045456000008405026|title=The MonkA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Tim SullivanJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped investigation ground to a chair halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and dumped her father are dead in a ditchtheir bed. He'd been savagely beaten. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a while before D S George Cross and something about the positioning of the Major Crime Unit establish bodies that this is Father Dominicmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He'd been missing for What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeycomplex double murder. As Kerrigan is convinced that the team gradually unpick the monkexplanation lies in Rosalie's past it becomes clear that hedisappearance: others (such as Derwent'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brothers boss, neighbour and friend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faithUna Burt) are less convinced. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170100571379877|title=Death Under a Little SkyThe Kellerby Code|author=Stig AbellJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadnRobert't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jakes a theatre director. He's side also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and he didn't think there was entitled and uses Edward to run errands for Faye eitherhim. They were still polite to each other Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and wished each other well - but didnhe't wish s drunkenly confided how he feels to remain marriedRobert. The perfect solution arrived Most men in the form of Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a legacy from Jakerelationship had begun between them but he's Uncle Arthur. He'd been not like most men: Edward is left a secluded property in to stumble upon the hamlet two of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to workthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Emily CritchleyJo Callaghan|title=One Puzzling AfternoonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in When a man is found crucified on the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing top of a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyhill in Nuneaton, as Edie is starting DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of case alongside her childhood friendsidekick, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agoAI detective Lock. After It'seeing' Lucy in the high streets their first live case together, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to herhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. And yet as she remembers the pastBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she Kat is forgetting more suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and more in her day a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to day lifetheir AI Future Policing project. Will she uncover they be able to solve the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her movecase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and before her memories are gone forever, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1804181250139851120X
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|isbn=00085512781035021803|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the bottom of Fyrish, English country village where she'd been doing her traininggrew up. She'd been a bit s back now because of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading request for the national squadhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. ThatFreya's former mentor and Carole's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at say the age of twelveleast. She Arthur was rescued when the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she's happy with her foster familyloved. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterAfter the split, Melodi is she worked in a children's home in Tirana - cafe, met and anyone could get to married James (on the rebound from the love of herlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1398524085|title=Thirty Days of DarknessHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon Charlotte Salter was expected at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying hehusband's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live fiftieth birthday party but never turned up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her flights from Denmark to Icelandhusband, Alec, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allnot. Just on Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the point body of despairing – about her writingGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, about in the people and river. It was an easy assumption for the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the landladyguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=13985095821529900360|title=The FavourGhost Orchid|author=Nicci FrenchJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after A levelsAlex recovered, when 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 car crash happenedhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. It would cause problems Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherhelp again. She knew that the involvement was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical schoolsomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Liam was Two lovers were murdered in the reverseswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and carried him along'it's not the Italian. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects But which of them was the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni178763681X|title=Her Deadly GameKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's work t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due getting both men and women to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientsdo what he wanted. Along with an indisputable talent for Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the lawschool to assist Paul, Patsy also has who had a gift for drinking himself to oblivion broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and inevitably the latter problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was beginning for someone to overshadow the formerturn up dead. Enter Keera DugganUnfortunately, former competitive chess prodigy he was the person who discovered the body and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in everyone knows that the hideous position of asking her father for a job at police consider that person to be the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southprime suspect.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761529421284|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Laying Out the Bones|author=Jane CaseyKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because one of Rula Jacques those flash downpours that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together the British weather often delivers in Jellicoe Closea heatwave. If you're In a gully, a regular reader of human skeleton came to the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice surface and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between forensic testing proved the two which seems verybody to be Lee Geary, very realwho had disappeared nine years earlier. But (thereHe's always d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a 'simple case of misadventure but', isnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't there?) Josh has convinced. Geary was a partner and townie, so what was he dotes doing out on her son, even if Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the relationship with Melissa can be a little rockytime. As for Maeve, sheLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertaincold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529425867|title=Promise BoysLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedNigerian descent, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspectsBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. EachD I Ryan Wilkins, seemingly, has a grudge son of Ryan and father of some description against Principal MooreRyan, and each could have been there at the time is not. He's not any of his murderthose things. But who killed himHe's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and why, his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if any you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=15291259601529431735|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Winter Visitor|author=Jonathan KellermanJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. WellIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itwhich made Bruce Hopkins's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedreturn all the more surprising. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as return has come about because he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishersletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. HeIt'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like s hard to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasyfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, photographed stripped to his underwear and sent on their way with to a generous gift watery grave in dollarsthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0861541774|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a brutalshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, shocking murder of an expectant woman in DunedinGuy Trueman. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled Maik was involved in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womenstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, with all he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfdeath penalty. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just Domenic Jejeune cando nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nexthelp Danny at all.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931521129886|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stacy WillinghamKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnGreg Mason't really slept for a year - well, apart from s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night good job too because Greg and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing Joyce will soon have a baby and particularly they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about her relief in the morning baby when she thought he was sleeping gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. In that year sheStuart's done everything she could to raise awareness concerned about the case. She does interviews and when we meet herhis sister, Lucy, shewho's just been struggling to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote make ends meet and her son is not thriving. presentationLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. On The police and the coroner have accepted that the plane backdeath was suicide, she but Stuart's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get prepared to so many more people than she could by giving speeches pay Greg to a few hundred people at conferencesfind out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=057137493XB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Other HalfResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Charlotte VassellAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason'The room was full of s twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the sort of people city but it wasn't satisfying so he'Tatlers now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike' thinks , you should knowmight be thinking.Nice bloke, but where'' ''The Other Half'' is s the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. life experience that backs up this profession? Rupert Beauchamp is On the heir other hand, he has been asked to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townlook into something. Think Bollinger Joyce and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is biHelen are half-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caiussisters, out for a runor rather, stumbles across the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupertthey were until Helen was killed in what's girlfriendbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Rupert thought that Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was being deliberately late for his partydoing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. She was dead under a bushGreg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=08570517411838954481|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationMisper|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Kate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only Ryan Kennedy killed a few weeks to live but hepolice officer: there's determined no doubt about that Rebecka Martinsson is going . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to investigate the case vagaries of a body the jury system he was found in a freezer at not guilty of both the murder and the home manslaughter of a deceased alcoholicthe officer. And so lives must go on. The problem is For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without capital and hoping for a trace quieter life in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with countryside but when a fifty-year-old case missing teenager is found on which her territory she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when drawn into a postwider investigation -mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, and back into the dead alcoholic, was also murderedorbit of Ryan Kennedy. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212411448309743|title=Stay BuriedThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Kate WebbCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is In the village of Cronchie on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually the West coast of Scotland, five members of a cold case unit and there wealthy family are just two of them doing the jobfound murdered. Lockyer's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma BroadThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: she's probably capable of something better. It was a bit of a shock when he got myth says that if the phone call stone is removed from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her thereOtterburn House, fourteen years agodeath will follow. SheThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's keen to see him and to tell him an easy conclusion given that the man everyone thought shetwo of them 'discovered'd murdered - but the body turned out . The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades'shadow' him.
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|isbn=13997022891529077699|title=A World of Curiosities The Raging Storm (Chief Inspector GamacheTwo Rivers)|author=Louise PennyAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying local pub one evening in the arrival middle of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of the Sûreté du QuébecGreystone, in Devon. Gamache Rosco had offered help to a young woman after the murder status of her mothera national treasure: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guya renowned adventurer, it had always been round the other way aroundworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Now theyI ''nearly''re both in the village and neither can fathom whatsaid 's happening. Armand will soon find that theyall-round good egg're not just in Three Pines but in his home as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and in his lifebackground isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529427045|title=White Riot|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereThe Girl in the Eagle's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer 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 is, and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time 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 in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1838776184|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalTalons|author=S J BennettKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking time.Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
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|isbn=08615419951787636607|title=Wolf PackThe Trap|author=Will DeanCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on It's a scene replicated all too often in the road north early hours of Visbergthe morning. She sees blood on the road Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a creature on its side near way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the pine treesfew taxis available. It Others squash onto the night bus that will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who has been attacked by a wolfonly go as far as one of the outlying villages. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', Bengt Nyberg, to particularly in the light of 'the vetmissing women'. Bronco didn't make it but For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missingshort of her home. She'd been working at Rose Farm had intended to ring someone to come and Moodysoncollect her - but her phone's journalist's instincts are soon brought dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the forebus driver to let her use his. Rose Farm is now home There's no option but to a group of survivalists but back start walking - unsuitably clothed and in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedhigh-heeled shoes. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511841405957174|title=The Girls Who DisappearedA Death at the Party|author=Claire DouglasAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998From the first page, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. As she passed through the darklyThe victim -wooded Devil's Corridor, a figure appeared in the road. Olivia swerved to avoid man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trappedambulance he so desperately needs. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, What we don't know is who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. But I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationhappening.
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|isbn=15420372390008530025|title=Death Murder in Heelsthe Family|author=Kitty MurphyCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the backdrop body of Dublinher 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 drag scene, now the subject of ''Death in HeelsInfamous'' tells , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the story of Fi McKinnery evidence and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Btake the investigation further. What is meant More to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenthe point, Evethey're going to do this live on camera, takes to episode by episode. There's no dump of the stage whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to mock Mae BFind You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4. As if 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. We first meet Nancy outside the night could not get any worsecourt, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in after Martin receives a gutterlife sentence. Fi is adamant The barrister tells her that Eve was murdered, yet she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the drag communityrest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the Guards, accept papers are making the most of it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperis undoubtedly spoken.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529413680|title=The Dark RoomA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youOne 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'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed s there to see the show their murder happened in a different place and time? with some friends. This It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is what happens to Leonard in this storyseriously injured when he departs from the script. He Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is an ex-crime reporter for whisked away in a newspaper, helicopter. A local doctor (and since leaving journalism friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds olda senior government employee, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in his own dark room at home. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agodaughter lives nearby and another, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die lives in California, is flying in front with some of him one night in her father's friends for a hotelpre-arranged holiday. 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=B09SGWCXQ81529196388|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Trial|author=Neil LancasterRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for a run. The lawyer all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was on his honeymoon but his body public uproar when he was found dashed to pieces below murdered in plain sight at the cliffs at Dunnett HeadOld Bailey. Was it suicide, or did he There's just one man in the frame for his murder - for some reason Jimmy Knight - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accidents not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden' s murder. Knight was linked to told that the deaths best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of others associated with Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Scott Paterson was released after a Knight's determined to plead notguilty, despite all Taylor-proven' verdict meant that ScotlandCameron's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientrecommendations to the contrary.
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