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|isbnauthor=178730101XStuart Douglas|title=Keep Him Close|author=Emily KochLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. LouDuring location filming for his 1970's seventeen sitcom 'Floggit and heLeggit's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrate, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. Someone has The police seem happy to find assign it as an accidental death, but something to celebrate in about the letterswhole thing bothers Lowe, Dand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, D and EJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's a touch problematic with Lou They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and being honest, he's not terribly likeableseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. The letters which kept coming But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to my mind were ADHD.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=05713423530008517061|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Peter SwansonStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was the co-owner and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Boston. The store specialises in crime novelsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, but Mal has given up reading crimesettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. His There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life's been pretty chaotic with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of latecompromise: It's five years since does Jake give up his wife, Claire Mallory, died off-grid and he's never really got over it. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just been relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to see Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the man with whom Kershaw suspected future she was having an affair. wants for herself and her daughter? His interest For the moment they’re enjoying life in crime fiction comes the present and putting the future on the back when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She's interested in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''burner.
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|isbn=17868971481786482126|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever The Janus Stone (Harry McCoyDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Alan ParksElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was on his way going to London 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 fellow band members TomDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Scottbut Nelson doesn't, Barry and Jamiethat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. HeHer 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'd had s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to get his father 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 sign tell the police where the contract body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for The Beatkickersher death. This person, he promises, as Bobby wasn't old enoughis 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 father had been reluctant - he'd have preferred Bobby sentence and to get an apprenticeship, for the regular moneyearly parole date. By July 1973 Bobby Not much to ask, is back in Glasgow. it? The Beatkickers didnnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't survive think so and March 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 on his ownkept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, but hardly thrivingand her father are dead in their bed. ThereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an obvious drug habitopen-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. MeanwhileKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, the police Una Burt) are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellyless convinced.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZX0571379877|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)The Kellerby Code|author=Rachel LynchJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked and stabbed to death. Her husband, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that When a decent, middle-class woman should be man is found crucified on the victim top of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to distance himself from the case and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case was handledtogether, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. He wasn't anywhere near as interested But when there is a second woman was stabbed to death body found crucified a few hours days later. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate , Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Ormond's view seemed to be a very high profile case that anyone living there should expect this sort draws a lot of thing unwanted attention to happentheir AI Future Policing project. He could hardly bring himself Will they be able to mention Keira's name.solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=14711809211035021803|title=FirewatchingThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's lucky to be thereback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, given that he decked a superior officerCarole. HeFreya's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - thereformer mentor and Carole's a scar on his face close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to prove it - and say the superior officer least. Arthur was forced the reason why Freya had not been back to take early retirementthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she's on the force too) has looked after him and that his current boss is keen not felt able to have a tame gay to put on be near the man or pursue the town hall steps come Prideprofession she loved. Either wayAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, he's theremet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth intowho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=17874775331398524085|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. SheCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's no longer providing assistance to the police and isn't even working at the University of North Norfolkfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She's lecturing at Cambridge Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridgedaughter, Etty. Her daughterare all worried but - strangely - her husband, KatieAlec, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking goodnot. Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry NelsonShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, Katiefind the body of Greg's father, because Katie sees him regularly Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and therethen committed suicide when he couldn's a close relationship with his familyt stand the guilt. You might ''almost'' think that RuthThe Salter children are not convinced but there's life is settling downlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B1529900360|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)The Ghost Orchid|author=Marion ToddJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a coincidence hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Detective Sergeant Chris West Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was stolenreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. They His assertions that there were there for the fun run only open-and their attention was taken by -shut cases which didn't need the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the racehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. TheyFinally, it was Robin, Delaware're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun runs partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It She knew that the involvement was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everythingsomething that the man she loved needed. Her daughter, six-month-old AbiThe next case did look simple, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was lookingthough. It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a heart problem: without it, remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she might have only forty-eight hours is married to livean extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1529124395178763681X|title=When You See MeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Lisa GardnerOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a hiking break residential cookery school in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a stickBelgravia. What he found was He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a human bone way of getting both men and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D Warrenwomen to do what he wanted. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the services of Keith Edgarschool to assist Paul, who had a computer analystbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and Flora Dane who brought something unique to the tableproblems - are all his own. Flora had been kidnapped and held The one thing he hadn't expected was for 472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Nesssomeone to turn up dead. If Ness had anything to do with Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the current discoveries then what Flora had police consider that person to say could be invaluablethe prime suspect.
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|isbn=00082971691529421284|title=The Guest ListLaying Out the Bones|author=Lucy FoleyKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it It was the wedding one of those flash downpours that the yearBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Will Slater (television personalityIn a gully, if not yet a celebrity) was human skeleton came to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on surface and forensic testing proved the islandbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The brideHe's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife d been a known drug user and her husbandhad learning disabilities, Freddyso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. They gave Geary was a huge discount townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to get the couple suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the island, but surely it would be worth it for time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the publicity?Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=00082752461529425867|title=Perfect Kill Lost and Never Found (A D I CallanachWilkins Mystery)|author=Helen FieldsSimon 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 trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and 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 same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her sonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrongHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Bart might be twenty but The return has come about because he was considerate of 's had a letter from his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besidesex-wife, he didnsaying that she't have his phone with him s ill and he wouldnhasn't have gone far without thatlong to live. It's not long before Bart realises that he's alonehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, trapped stripped 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 shipping container and on his way problem closer to France, where his fate has already been decided.home?
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|authorisbn= Luke Arnold0861541774|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 24|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= DCI Domenic Jejeune''The Last Smile s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Sunder City'' is Singapore to meet up with an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnoldold ally, Guy Trueman. It centres on 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 Private DetectiveGhurka. Initially, Fetch Philips, as he attempts faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to find murder the man. 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 missing vampire in a world filled with magical creatures where diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequences.|isbn=0356512886
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|isbn=15294002791521129886|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jo SpainKeith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted.5 Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. 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 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 was early summer 2018 's the 1990s and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten Greg Mason's twenty-eight yearsold. The family had thought him dead He used to have a high- flying job in fact, thatthe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's what the now set himself up as a private detective his mother had insisted upon had told theminvestigator. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, if not happyShades of Cameron Strike', to you might be hopethinking. What brought him? WellNice bloke, nine years ago his mother died and hebut where'd seen s the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: life experience that backs up this was profession? On the first other hand, he'd heard about what had happenedhas been asked to look into something. His three Joyce and Helen are half-sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delighted. In factor rather, hethey were until Helen was killed in what's determined to have been written off as a partytragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Only, with Frazer Latimer Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what happens has she was doing there - or how she could come to be about himfall in front of a train. He has an announcement to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he Greg's been lonely. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedasked to investigate.
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|isbn=17860756951838954481|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)The Misper|author=Helen SedgwickKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with the discovery of Ryan Kennedy killed a body under the swings in the childrenpolice officer: there's playgroundno doubt about that. It He was Dr Alexis Crosse 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 by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust himnot guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Crosse was For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a psychotherapist who grew up quieter life in Greece, the countryside but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), when a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsider. DI Georgie Strachan missing teenager is an outsider - you've only got to look at her skin to realise that, and found on her husband, Fergus, well, heterritory she's drawn into a little strange too, not entirely ''here''wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=The Honjin MurdersCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To many readers, In the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make village of Cronchie on the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need moreWest coast of Scotland, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930sfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The oldest son of an esteemed family only item missing from the home is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned upremoved from Otterburn House, what with it being arranged at great hastedeath will follow. She The only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death suspects are known Satanists but in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhoodmany ways, and some mysterious use that's an easy conclusion given that two of a traditional musical instrument at them 'discovered' the time of the crimebody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|isbn=1782275002
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|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Will Dean Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' 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|isbn=1529427045|title=Black River The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns ''Life has more to offer than people - and this third book in prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifesmall town of Gasskas, returning her to where the isolated town so-far-untapped natural resources of Gavrik and into the area have sparked a desperate search for her missing best friendgold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. With Salander's niece's mother is the Midsommar sun blocked out by latest woman in the dark pines 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 forest, Tuva fights to save part Salander played in her friendfather's death. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116
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|isbn=17857692941787636607|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardilini)The Trap|author=Robert JeffreysCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to a teacher's bedroom get one October of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that we realise something is badly wrongwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Nowadays you The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'might, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief . For one young woman, the final stop on the part bus leaves her a long way short of the childher home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit in bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the most horrific fashionbus driver to let her use his. When he reached Captain EdmundThere's bedroom he found no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the man dead on Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the floorfirst page, the top of his skull missingwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The school's initial reaction was that this was victim - a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields man - is dying when we first meet him and it was obviously Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a stray bullet which had killed the Captainlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=14722557980008530025|title=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Murder in the Family|author=Quintin JardineCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her own life after being accused stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of shoplifting from a local supermarkettheir West London home. It He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's always d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been assumed that she couldncharged with his murder and it't live with s now the shamesubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before the court case when she had A group of experts has been adamant that she would fight brought together to clear her name. She said that she'd been set up because she was hot on review the trail of corruption in evidence and to take the councilinvestigation further. Her ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner More to the point, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinnerthey's daughterre going to do this live on camera, and asked that she look into clearing Brownepisode by episode. There's name: itno dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's something which he feels that he has to do in memory of his son who was murdered recentlycompelling viewing.
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|isbn=15294022550241996104|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 barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made 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 Body in the Bookshop Chateau Under Siege (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helen CoxMartin Walker|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Evie Bowes One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is very conscious the re-enactment of the liberation of the scars on her face. They were acquired when she was rescued town from a car the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the River Ouse by Inspector Halloranshow with some friends. She’d It's all been suspected very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the murder of her boyfriend, Owenmain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in the process of clearing her name she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detectionhelicopter. Kitt developed A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a taste for Inspector Halloran Toosenior government employee, but they’re taking it slowlythe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. WellOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, sort is flying in with some of slowlyher father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=02419851101529196388|title=All the Rage (DI Fawley)The Trial|author=Cara HunterRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A very beautiful, but the extremely distressed teenage girl Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was picked good and honest and looked up to by a minicab driver on just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the outskirts of OxfordOld Bailey. She didnThere't want to go to s just one man in the police station or the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home. The driver wasn't so certain though frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policeit's not too long before Knight appears in court, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mothercharged with Cliveden's murder. Both were adamant Knight was told that this the best barrister for him was nothing more than an April FoolJonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed Taylor-Cameron and Faith didn't want to take the matter any furtherhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Fawley and his team werenKnight't prepared s determined to leave it at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didnplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron't seem s recommendations to have much of a historythe contrary.
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