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|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=02419851101803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=All Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Rage future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly 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 I FawleyS Max Craigie)|author=Cara HunterNeil Lancaster

|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the outskirts of Oxfordpolice. She didnNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't want to go s prepared to tell the police station or 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 hospital: she just wanted police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be taken hometransferred 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 driver wasnnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain though 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=It's sixteen years since nine-year- old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and after dropping the girl at home he went investigation ground to the policea halt. Now, her mother, Helena, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her motherfather are dead in their bed. Both were adamant Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that this makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was nothing more than going to be an April Foolopen-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=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's joke which had gone wronga theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. No crime had Edward has been committed in love with Stanza since their university days - and Faith didnhe't want s drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to take the matter any furthercase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Fawley But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and his team weren't prepared a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to leave it at that and they began investigatingtheir AI Future Policing project. What Will they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem be able to have much solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a history.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=15420154211035021803|title=The Royal Baths Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=J R EllisC L Miller

|summary=When Damian Penrose It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered there ) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was no shortage expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of suspects: Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a deeply unpleasant psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the manshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. In fact He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the only surprising thing Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that there wasnhe'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't more expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a queue waiting gully, a human skeleton came to do the dirty deedsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. What was He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a bit simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a headline maker townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Penrose was 's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a crime writer trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and that he was strangled his 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 laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the midst of Harrogatesame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's crime writing festivalproblematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He went 'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a swim at the Royal Baths decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and never returnedhasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his body being found by underwear and sent to a watery grave in the receptionistboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Jim Oldroyd Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. 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. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man tasked with investigating . Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the crimepoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It would not 's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the only deathbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was only because of suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the quick actions city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of his sergeantCameron Strike', Andy Carteryou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that Oldroydbacks up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not one guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of themRyan Kennedy.

|authorisbn=1448309743|title= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor= It Would Be Night in CaracasCaro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates In the village of Cronchie on the everyday horrors West coast of modern day VenezuelaScotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. It begins with The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of Adelaida Falconthem 's mother and chronicles Adelaidadiscovered's coming to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts to escape itthe body. Danger stalks the shadows and The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867'shadow' him.

Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little 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?}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" 1529427045<!-- Nicci French -->|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|-author=Karin Smirnoff| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre=Crime[[image:1471179230.jpg|linksummary=http://www''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471179230/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lying Room by Nicci French]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. He has a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Lying Room by Nicci French|Full Review]] <!-- Nicola Monaghan -->Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|0241996104[[image:0857308025.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VRSX3SN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Coming to Find You| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Jane Corry===[[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It was more than a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of Nottingham. Then it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she'd even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. They'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were the man and the woman, wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on the Murder Squad, ending up as a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get. [[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan|Full Review]] <!-- Ann Cleeves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:15098895664.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509889566/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves]]==genre=Thrillers [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]] When we first meet DI Matthew Venn heNancy's at his mother and step-father's funeral, although 'were brutally stabbed at' rather overstates the proximity. He sees everyone - his mother their Sussex farmhouse and the preacher included from a distance her step- but he doesn't go it. He wouldn't be welcome. Those attending are part brother, Martin, has been convicted of the Barum Brethren and the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told the congregation how wrong they were in their beliefsmurder. It coincided with him leaving university and joining We first meet Nancy outside the police forcecourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The announcement of Matthewbarrister tells her that she's marriage to Jonathan Church was in the local paper and whilst he doesnreceived a 't know if his father saw it, he cansilent sentence't imagine that it will have gone down well. [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves|Full Review]] <!-- Stephen Booth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:075157628X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/075157628X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Drowned Lives by Stephen Booth]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an old man who wants his help in healing a decades' old family rift heshe's reluctant to get involved, but then Chris is reluctant to get involved in not been found guilty of anything but a pint in the pub these days. It could just be the way that he is, or the fact that he's just lost both his parents within three months of each other. He's currently existing in the family home and wondering when he's going will have to be made redundant from his job live with what happened for the councilrest of her life. The short answer to that one is 'soon'. Chris does his best to deter the old manOf course, but it's not before hemade worse because Nancy's left a lot of rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers with his neighbour. Then are making the old man is murdered and the police come calling on Chris. [[Drowned Lives by Stephen Booth|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1784742783.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742783/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Benefit most of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler) by Susan Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky and - all things considered - his life is as good as it could be. He's back at work after a long break to recuperate from the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his life. When he's not at work heFarmhouse slaughter daughter's spending his time in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restored. There's talk of an exhibition of his drawings. Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. Itfavourite epithet and 's the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a call. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robbery. Itrich bitch's a serious error of judgement in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubtmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. [[The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler) by Susan Hill|Full Review]]}}<!-- Lynda La Plante -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785768506.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785768506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) by Lynda La Plante]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Jane Tennison had worked hard to get a place on the Flying Squad and she felt that she was there on merit. The Squad wondered who she'd slept with to get the place and bets were being taken as to who she'd sleep with in the first week. What none of them - Jane included - knew was that she was there as an experiment, in the hope that a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised and Jane was the only female who applied who ticked all the boxes. She doesn't tick all the boxes for the head of the Squad, DCI Murphy. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experience, and the appropriate set of genitals - and he's determined that Jane will fail. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) by Lynda La Plante|Full Review]] <!-- Steve Burrows -->|-Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1529413680[[image:1786075776.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786075776/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Dance of Cranes by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy HeyChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, the estrangement being Chief of his making, not hers. He hasn't explained to her that he is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant and now has her first murder case. It looks as though there's an obvious suspect, but Salter isn't so certain. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficiallyPolice Novel) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey to rescue his brother, Damian, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parks. [[A Dance of Cranes by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Oates -->|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Martin Walker[[image:1785656775.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785656775/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Crime===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musician, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition of ''The Triumph One of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''. [[The Triumph main events of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates|Full Review]] <!-- Paula Daly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787632105.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787632105/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Clear My Name by Paula Daly]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating Sarlat tourist season is the cases of prisoners who can convince them that they've been wrongly convicted and they're just moving on to their next case. She's somewhat surprised when Clive, the head -enactment of the charity, announces that she'll have someone shadowing her. Avril's in her mid twenties and rather gauche as well as prone to putting her foot in it. One liberation of the reasons they're now going to look at town from the case of Carrie Kamara is that she's female and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a woman: such impressions matter. [[Clear My Name by Paula Daly|Full Review]] <!-- Denzil Meyrick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1846974755.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846974755/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed English in Kinloch harbour 1370 and on board are high-powered international delegates. ItBruno's hard there to avoid see the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, golfing and sightseeing show with their entourage of security personnelsome friends. It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quicklyall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfortKerquelin, but it's not long before the man playing one of the crew members and a local bird watcher go missing. [[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick|Full Review]] <!-- Stuart MacBride -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0007419449.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007419449/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Stuart MacBride]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] DS Logan McRae main characters is just back seriously injured when he departs from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killerthe script. He's just about OK Luckily, his doctor is there and he's supposed to be easing himself back into the swing of the job in a gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body man is discovered whisked away in a ditchhelicopter. He'd been missing for some time A local doctor (and it came friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as no surprise that he was dead but he's a senior government employee, the first of several child murders. To add to man who runs Frenchelon - the complications the police even have a body but no child reported missingmilitary has stepped in. A serial killer, a child killer One daughter lives nearby and abuseranother, is on the loose who lives in Aberdeen and the press are missing no opportunity to bay for blood. As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalistCalifornia, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happening. [[Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Stuart MacBride|Full Review]] <!-- Kate Atkinson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9780552772464.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0552772461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] I guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre is flying in Leeds, blew most people's ideas of an impulse purchase out with some of the water one morning. Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Waterhouse followed the woman and bought the girl for £3000. The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and Tracyfather's humdrum life is replaced with one of stress, fear and an overwhelming love friends for foura pre-year-old Courtneyarranged holiday. [[Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson|Full Review]]}}<!-- Angela Marsons -->|-{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1529196388[[image:B07QPKB7N7.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QPKB7N7/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Trial| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Rob Rinder===[[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the coldness of the killer. [[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Full Review]] <!-- M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:15290081234.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529008123/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Crime===[[A Nearly Normal Family by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:CategoryGrant Cliveden was a hero:Thrillers|Thrillers]] We're going to hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Adam's a pastor in the Church of Sweden and Ulrika is a lawyer. Stella is, well, just difficult. You sense that she's always been difficult and there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip policeman who stood for all that she wishes that Stella was more like her best friend, Amina Bešic - good and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. We first meet the family on Stella's 18th birthday honest and we get a sense of Adam's controlling nature. Permission has looked up to be given for a glass of wine for Stella at the celebration meal. [[A Nearly Normal Family by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Caz Frear -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0062849883.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0062849883/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] DC Cat Kinsella is back just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor's Office: the hours were good but the job was boringOld Bailey. SheThere's grateful to be back with just one man in the old team frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. Sheit's still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the knowledge that shetoo long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, the brother of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her career. Kinsella and Parnell are called to Knight was told that the discovery best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twentyStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-two years old Cameron and her body was discovered by her flat matehis pupil, Kieran DrakeAdam Green, an ex-offender. [[Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear|Full Review]] <!-- Jo Spain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787474372.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787474372/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Boy Who Fell (Inspector Tom Reynolds) by Jo Spain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] There were six friends: four men and two womenwho eventually represent him. TheyKnight're s determined to plead not guilty, despite all about eighteen and they've known each other since they started school. Both girls Taylor- Hazel Brophy and Charlotte Burke - have been in relationships with one of the boys, but Charlotte was determined that it would not be sexual. HazelCameron's views were so dramatically opposite that you wondered how they could be friends. They were all partying in a derelict house when Luke Connelly was pushed recommendations to his death from a third floor window and Daniel Konaté Jones was charged with rape and murder. Daniel was loosely associated with the group but never felt himself one of them. He didn't come from a wealthy background, is of mixed race and openly gay. Targets don't come much easier than that, except for one thingcontrary. [[The Boy Who Fell (Inspector Tom Reynolds) by Jo Spain|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}}