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|isbnauthor=1471166023Stuart Douglas|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate RhodesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoDuring location filming for his 1970's thirty-fifth birthday sitcom 'Floggit and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsLeggit', but it would be marred this year by leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the discovery dead body of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put woman on the fire and can only have died edge of a terrible deathreservoir. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwenpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, better known on St Agnes as but something about the Bird Man because whole thing bothers Lowe, and he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is enlists the welfare help of the birds he looks aftera fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and he uses his sheepskin coat , seemingly, a link to do this, with death during the result that he's Second World War. But is there really a link between the prime suspect.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=18388806580008517061|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Helena DixonStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the summer future of 1933 his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Kitty Underhay is on her way daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to visit move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the family which future she never knew she had, at Enderley Hall. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, wants for herself and Great Aunt Livvy are back at her daughter? For the Dolphin Hotel moment they’re enjoying life in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much present and putting the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt future on her lifethe back burner.
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|isbn=02413968401786482126|title=KeeperThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jessica MoorElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the womensite was going to hold seventy-five 's refuge and luxury' apartments - when they discovered the women who lived there liked and respected herbones of a child beneath a doorway. She treated them well and seemed to have an understanding of what they were going throughThere was no skull. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river belowWas this a ritual killing or murder? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she diedInevitably, but what other explanation could there be for her death? Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The police are convinced that itIt's suicidedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the women who knew her believed otherwiseone 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.
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|isbn=178730101X0008551324|title=Keep Him CloseThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emily KochNeil 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=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Benoîtobsessed with his upper-class friends, actually) Robert and LouisStanza. LouRobert's seventeen and hea theatre director. He's just got his A level results also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and he entitled and his brother are going out uses Edward to celebraterun errands for him. Someone Edward has to find something to celebrate been in the letters, D, D love with Stanza since their university days - and Ehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Alice has always had Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny had begun between them but it's a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming like most men: Edward is left to my mind were ADHDstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0571342353Jo Callaghan|title=Rules for Perfect Murders|author=Peter SwansonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the co-owner AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and manager a very high profile case that draws a lot of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostonunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The store specialises Will they be able to solve the case in crime novelstime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, but Mal out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has given been back to the English country village where she grew up reading crime. His lifeShe's been pretty chaotic back now because of late: Ita request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's five years since his wifeclose friend, Claire MalloryArthur Crockleford, died is dead and he's never really got over itthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. She Arthur was driving whilst inebriated, having just the reason why Freya had not been back to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected village: Arthur, she was having an affairfeels, let her down badly. His interest Even though they were in crime fiction comes back when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveybusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. She's interested After the split, she worked in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=17868971481398524085|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alan ParksNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Charlotte Salter was on his way to London with fellow band members Tomexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Scottsons Niall, Barry Paul and JamieOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd had to get his s father to sign , Duncan Ackerley, in the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enoughriver. And his father It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been reluctant - murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for t stand the regular money. By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgowguilt. The Beatkickers didn't survive and March is on his own, Salter children are not convinced but hardly thriving. Therethere's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZX1529900360|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)The Ghost Orchid|author=Rachel LynchJonathan Kellerman
|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 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 randomly attacked and stabbed reluctant to deathask for his help on difficult cases. Her husband, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie His assertions that there were devastated only open-and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decent, middle-class woman should be shut cases which didn't need the victim help of knife crimea psychologist only worked for a while. Despite being a golfing Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from , who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the case and told DI Kelly Porter involvement was something that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handledman she loved needed. He wasn't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours laterThe next case did look simple, though. Keira Bradley lived on Two lovers were murdered in the Beacon estate and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there should expect this sort swimming pool of thing to happena remote property in Bel Air. He could hardly bring himself was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to mention Keiraan extremely rich man and it's namenot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1471180921178763681X|title=FirewatchingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Russ ThomasOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he's lucky to be there, given that he decked a superior officerresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Hedidn's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a scar on his face to prove it - way of getting both men and the superior officer was forced women to take early retirementdo what he wanted. TherePaul 's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (shesomehow''s on got the force too) has looked after him and impression that his current boss is keen he'd be at the school to have assist Paul, who had a tame gay to put on broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the town hall steps come Prideproblems - are all his own. Either way, The one thing hehadn's theret expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, but without anything really interesting he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to get his teeth intobe the prime suspect.
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|isbn=17874775331529421284|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Laying Out the Bones|author=Elly GriffithsKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She's no longer providing assistance In a gully, a human skeleton came to the police surface and isn't even working at forensic testing proved the University of North Norfolkbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe's lecturing at Cambridge d been a known drug user and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, Katiehad learning disabilities, has settled into school better than she so it could ever have hoped and life is looking goodbeen a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Settled. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and there's a close relationship with his familyto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. You might ''almost'' think Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Ruth's life is settling downcold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B1529425867|title=In Plain Sight Lost and Never Found (A D I Clare MackayWilkins Mystery)|author=Marion ToddSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 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 coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolentrackies. They were there 're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the racelaughs. TheyWell, you're against not. The two men are just different sides of the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and same policing coin. Sometimes the firm is sponsoring the fun runcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was Lisa Mitchell's scream February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which stopped everythingmade Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had He'd been taken from her pram whilst no one was lookingexiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's had a major incident when letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any'' child sympathy when Hopkins is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because , stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a heart stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours closer to live.home?
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|isbn=15291243950861541774|title=When You See MeA Nye of Pheasants|author=Lisa GardnerSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Chuckformer colleague, it was Danny Maik, has taken a hiking break in the Appalachians short holiday in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track Singapore to find a stickmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. What Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he found was facing a man armed with a human bone knife - and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D Warrenhe killed a Ghurka. Both women were experienced in this type Initially, he faced a charge of rather gruesome work manslaughter but they also called on the services of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the tableman. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by Now he could be facing the notorious killer, Jacob Nessdeath penalty. If Ness had anything to Domenic Jejeune can do with the current discoveries then what Flora had nothing to say help as any interference from another police force could be invaluableprovoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=00082971691521129886|title=The Guest ListThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lucy FoleyKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip out Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have been enough to put some guests off, but it was a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the wedding of baby when she gets past the yearmorning sickness. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the islandhave killed himself. The brideStuart's concerned about his sister, OliviaLucy, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife who's struggling to make ends meet and her husbandson is not thriving. Lucy, Freddyhe says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. They gave a huge discount to get The police and the couple to coroner have accepted that the islanddeath was suicide, but surely it would be worth it for Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the publicity?night Gil died.
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|isbn=0008275246B0CK3MYJ56|title=Perfect Kill Responsibilities (D I CallanachGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Helen FieldsAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away It's the 1990s and just waking from a chemicallyGreg Mason's twenty-induced sleepeight years old. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrongHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Bart 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be twenty thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs 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 considerate of his mother and wouldnkilled in what't have stayed out all night without letting her knows been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. BesidesJoyce - and her parents, he didn't have his phone with him Oliver and he wouldnPam Hetherington - can't have gone far without thatunderstand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. ItGreg's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way been asked to France, where his fate has already been decidedinvestigate.
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|authorisbn= Luke Arnold1838954481|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 24|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. ''The Last Smile in Sunder City'' is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke ArnoldHe 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 guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. It centres And so lives must go on . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a Private Detective, Fetch Philips, as he attempts to find quieter life in the countryside but when a missing vampire in teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a world filled with magical creatures where all wider investigation - and back into the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequencesorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|isbn=0356512886
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|isbn=15294002791448309743|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Jo SpainCaro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. 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 them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where heall bloody peculiar, isn'd been but he seemed contentt it, if not happySir?'' Well yes, to be hopeit is. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen Jem Rosco blew into the ''in memoriam'' local pub one evening in the paper: this was the first he'd heard middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about what had happened. His three sisters a month and two brothers had mixed feelings about his returnthen turned up, but his father is delighted. In factnaked and dead, he's determined to have in a party. Onlysmall boat, with Frazer Latimeranchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, what happens has to be about himin Devon. He has an announcement to make - it Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. HeI ''s met Ananearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a Polish immigrant, little bit close with money and theyhis background isn're getting marriedt 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=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the 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 part Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=17860756951787636607|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)The Trap|author=Helen SedgwickCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with 's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the discovery morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a body under the swings in the children's playgroundway to get home. It was Dr Alexis Crosse Some are lucky and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason manage to mistrust himget one of the few taxis available. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', but such professions are misunderstood particularly in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsiderlong way short of her home. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - youbut her phone've only got s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to look at her skin beg the bus driver to realise that, and let her husband, Fergus, well, heuse his. There's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)1405957174|title=The Honjin MurdersA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To many readersFrom the first page, the phrase 'locked room murder mysterywe know that Nadine Walsh' s party will not end well. The victim - a man - is enough to make the book one dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to read; preferably quantified by call the words 'clever' or 'good'ambulance he so desperately needs. For those who need more, here is the extra background – What wedon're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family t know is belatedly getting married, although who the whole affair man is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations or why Nadine prefers to have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriagehim die. What with I'd better give you a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|isbn=1782275002
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|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Will Dean Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Black River 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 Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re- enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and this third book in Bruno's there to see the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifeshow with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, returning her to the isolated town man playing one of Gavrik the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and into the man is whisked away in a desperate search for her missing best helicopter. A local doctor (and friend. With of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the Midsommar sun blocked out by man who runs Frenchelon - the dark pines military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendfather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116
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|isbn=17857692941529196388|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardilini)The Trial|author=Robert JeffreysRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's when we read that Grant Cliveden was a young boy is creeping reluctantly to hero: a teacher's bedroom one October night policeman who stood for all that we realise something is badly wrong. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done was good and honest and looked up to by just about it fairly quickly but this everyone, so there was 1965 and child abuse public uproar when he was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the child. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit murdered in plain sight at the most horrific fashionOld Bailey. When he reached Captain EdmundThere's bedroom he found the just one man dead on in the floorframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, the top of his skull missing. The schoolcharged with Cliveden's initial reaction murder. Knight was told that this the best barrister for him was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of kangaroos in some nearby fields Stag Court Chambers and it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed 's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the Captaincontrary.
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