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|isbn=14091816691786482126|title=The MaidensJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Alex MichaelidesElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders 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, 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 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 anyone 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=Mariana It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders never found and looked likely the investigation ground to get away with them botha halt. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Now, her mother, Helena, and decide how she should proceedher father are dead in their bed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the death positioning of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distressboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Tara had been her best friend and she What looked as though it was struggling going to copebe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Mariana wasnKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't s disappearance: others (such as Derwent''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridges boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, but she caught the first fast train from KingRobert and Stanza. Robert's Crossa theatre director. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of MarianaHe's husbandalso self-obsessed, Sebastiandemanding, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Zoe had Edward has been in love with Stanza since their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoeuniversity days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's mother and Marianaposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's sister, Elizanot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0241400120Jo Callaghan|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was not thriving When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Reykjavik: it was some years since Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teachersidekick, the AI detective Lock. She was thirty years old and money was tightIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her friendBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Sara, showed her an advert for Kat is suddenly struggling with a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but potential serial killer and a teacher was required for two children: very high profile case that draws a salary would be paid and accommodation providedlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Una was Will they be able to solve the only applicant and case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik case and, hopefullypotentially, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15294072491035021803|title=The Perfect LieAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jo SpainC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always back now because of a dangerous thing to do when yourequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya're married to a cop but she was hopeful. Theys former mentor and Carole'd been married for six months s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportcircumstances seem suspicious, Long Islandto say the least. The knock on Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the door was insistent and when it was openedvillage: Arthur, Danny's partnershe feels, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officerslet her down badly. Danny took one look Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, turned, walked she has not felt able to be near the open window and jumped to his death from man or pursue the fourth floorprofession she loved. Eighteen months laterAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, Erin would be met and married James (on trial for the rebound from the love of her husband's murderlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=17885497591398524085|title=The Distant DeadHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Lesley ThomsonNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with expected at her friend Idahusband' leaving s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her threedaughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old sonher husband, WilliamAlec, at home with her parentsis not. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes body of putting her life (and WilliamGreg's) on a better footingfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. She It was going an easy assumption for the police to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and meet her family then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the following weekguilt. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken herThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=00084049251529900360|title=The Killing KindGhost Orchid|author=Jane CaseyJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients 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 nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a surprisepsychologist only worked for a while. After allFinally, it was her cross-examination of the Robin, Delaware'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentences partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. He'd been accused of stalking She knew that the woman but it didn't take long to establish involvement was something that - if anything - it was the other way aroundman 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. Soon Ingrid never seemed He was the heir to be free of John Webster an Italian shoe empire and then she came is married to see him as a threat an extremely rich man and was forced to remember that it's not the police officer at his trial had told her that this Italian. But which of them was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.primary target?
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|isbn=walker14178763681X|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin WalkerOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was when Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he saw Elisabeth Dayneswanted. Paul ''somehow'' work in got the prehistory museum impression that he'd be at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his bossschool to assist Paul, chief of detectives Jalipeauwho had a broken arm, known as Jbut it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -J, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty yearsand the problems - are all his own. The body of a young male was found in the woods but one thing he hadn't expected was never identified and his killer never brought for someone to justiceturn up dead. What if an artist could recreate Unfortunately, he was the face from person who discovered the skull body and everyone knows that the resulting publicity police consider that person to be used to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justiceprime suspect.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14711814051529421284|title=NighthawkingLaying Out the Bones|author=Russ ThomasKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis It was one of calm those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discoveredheatwave. It had obviously been buried in one of In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the beds but body to be Lee Geary, who would have started to dig her up? had disappeared nine years earlier. It had He'd been in the earth for months a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been undiscovered for yearsa simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The police need Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to establish who stabbed her - the suicide of Holly Gilbert and who left to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyestime. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler Lockyer and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that he's not fully recovered from his injuriescold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=02419851371529425867|title=The Whole Truth Lost and Never Found (A D I FawleyWilkins Mystery)|author=Cara HunterSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstIn Oxford, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principalare two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Professor Hilary ReynoldsBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. There had been an accusation D I Ryan Wilkins, son of sexual assault by a professor on a studentRyan and father of Ryan, is not. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before theyHe'd even got the details from the victim? s not any of those things. The problem was that Caleb Morgan He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading'wass not '' the really'victim' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishertrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Just You might wonder if you're being introduced to complicate matters furthera police procedural written for laughs. Well, Calebyou's mother is Petra Newson, re not. The two men are just different sides of the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencesame policing coin. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by Sometimes the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerscombination works brilliantly well. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be Sometimes it''very'' publics problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=19131935271529431735|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Winter Visitor|author=Vanda SymonJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the murder of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffmore surprising. His wife had He'd been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced to watch exiled on the murder, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson return has come about because he's had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegal. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed ''vitamina letter from his ex-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancerswife, saying that kind of thingshe's ill and hasn', as Hendersont long to live. It's employeehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedstripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0861541774|title=True Crime StoryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan WaitsDanny Maik, has created taken a new genre short holiday in Singapore to meet up with his latest novelan old ally, "True Crime Story"Guy Trueman. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Split into four parts Initially, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance he faced a charge of Zoe through manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as man. Now he could be facing the policedeath penalty. The various accounts Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and turns wouldn't help Danny at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedall. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14722761401521129886|title=What Will Burn They Had It Coming (Inspector McLeanGreg Mason mysteries)|author=James OswaldKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterGreg Mason's body was found, shejust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'd already been dead for s a week good 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 a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh-law appears to have killed himself. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceStuart's concerned about his sister, but DI Tony McLeanLucy, demoted who's struggling to make ends meet and just returned from suspension, her son is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentnot thriving. There were indications Lucy, he says, is convinced that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before the fire. But who Gil would hate a ninetynever have killed himself -year-old woman to it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the extent of doing something like coroner have accepted that? the death was suicide, She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to that extent?find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=000845552XB0CK3MYJ56|title=Where Ravens RoostResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Karin NordinAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got It's the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he1990s and Greg Mason'd seen s twenty-eight years old. He used to have a murder high-flying job in the barn on his land city but it wasn't satisfying so he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsunds now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. ActuallyNice bloke, but where'drop everything' rather overstates s the situation. life experience that backs up this profession? Nygaard was on suspension following On the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiryother hand, he has been asked to look into something. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils HedinJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, Nygaardthey were until Helen was killed in what's best friendbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. StillJoyce - and her parents, the tenOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there -hour drive from Gothenburg or how she could come to fall in the south front of Sweden a train. Greg's been asked to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimatedinvestigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=18387734281838954481|title=The Art of DeathMisper|author=David FennellKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar SquareRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidthere's no doubt about that. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are He was the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34fifteen-year-old Noel Tippingholding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The installation is He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the work jury system he was found not guilty of @nonymous, underground artist both the murder and extreme version the manslaughter of Banksythe officer. He's made a macabre promise: more will follow And so lives must go on. In fact, we've already met For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the artist although not by name: he's been capital and hoping for a quieter life in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly countryside but when a missing teenager is there with found on her son, Jordan, and territory she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the state orbit of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tooRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1448309743|title=Dark Memories The Devil Stone (DS Nikki Parekh 3DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Liz MistryCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadn't worn well. She was a drug addict and was living under In the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradford. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out village of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are Cronchie on the case. Nikki can't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with West coast of Scotland, five members of a press report of the deathwealthy family are found murdered. It had been impossible to make any progress in The only item missing from the case and home is the note seemed to taunt Devil Stone: myth says that if the police. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected stone is removed from Otterburn House, death in Cambridgewill follow. The third death - only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communicationbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the caseto 'shadow' him.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17874778001529077699|title=The Night Hawks Raging Storm (Dr Ruth GallowayTwo Rivers)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there'It's treasure to be foundall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Unfortunately, Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the youngest middle of the groupan autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evansin a small boat, finds anchored in Scully Cove close to the body village of a man floating on the incoming tideGreystone, in Devon. After pulling it ashoreRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, they call round the policeworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. DCI Nelson thinks that itI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg's probably the body of an asylum seeker but thereas we's no evidence of any activity to be had from the coastguard. The dead man turns ll find out to , he could be Jem Taylor, more than a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonlittle bit close with money and his background 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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|isbn=00083793001529427045|title=The Shadow ManGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Helen FieldsKarin Smirnoff|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifethe small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a child and a brothergold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. HeSalander's been on niece's mother is the latest woman in the lookout for area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the perfect people and hepart Salander played in her father's made certain preparationsdeath. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The flat where Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the family will live is prepared morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and even windows with curtains, looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and pictures in frames have been painted manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the wallsnight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifeThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. Her husbandFor one young woman, Cal, had taken the children - final stop on the bus leaves her a boy long way short of seven her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and a girl of five, away for collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the weekendbus driver to let her use his. Unfortunately, it doesnThere't go according s no option but to plan start walking - unsuitably clothed and Angela diesin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1405957174|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)A Death at the Party|author=Ragnar JonassonAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is From the police inspector in Siglufjordur and hefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do party will not end well. The victim - a Masters degree, taking threeman -year-old Stefnir with her. They were supposed is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledcall the ambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's now t know is who the Thursday of Holy Week and his family man is due or why Nadine prefers to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonhave him die. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of I'd better give you a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=178089905X0008530025|title=SerpentineMurder in the Family|author=Jonathan KellermanCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtywas in December 2003 that fifteen-year-six years ago old Maura Howard came home and found the daughter body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the woman who died wanted some answersgarden of their West London home. She He had money and money translated into clout and so an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the problem vicious beating his face had taken was dropped onto Miloobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's toesnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and burst into flamesto take the investigation further. It turned out that she wasn't actually married More to the man with whom shepoint, they'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometristre going to do this live on camera, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his nameepisode by episode. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing There's no dump of her but one photograph of her mother the whole box set - and father and a necklace made no shortage of serpentinecliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=000820831X0241996104|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. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The Coffinmakerbarrister 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 rest of her life. Of course, it's Gardenmade worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Stuart MacBrideMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At One of the coastal village main events of Clachmara, the headland Sarlat tourist season is slowly eroding into the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up re-enactment of the process. A ship - liberation of the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on town from the rocks English in 1370 and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house Bruno's there to see whatthe show with some friends. It's happeningall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Margaret runs after her son Luckily, his doctor is there and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesman is whisked away in a helicopter. Gordon SmithA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's home is falling into a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the North Sea military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and the evidence another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of what heher father's been doing friends for decades is going with it a pre- except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinarranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1529196388|title=The KhanTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived Grant Cliveden was a hero: a 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 plain sight at the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menOld Bailey. This has served her well There's just one man in her rise through the criminal justice system frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and by it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the time she is called home best barrister for her sisterhim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's wedding after fifteen years in selfTaylor-imposed exileCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, she is at the top of her gamewho eventually represent him. Returning Knight's determined to the city of her birthplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutycontrary.|isbn=1786079097
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