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|isbnauthor=1786485575Stuart Douglas|title=Magpie Lane|author=Lucy AtkinsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee sheDuring location filming for his 1970's talking to Nick Lawsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the new college master. Law's lately dead body of a woman on the BBC and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit edge of a bully and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversationreservoir. She had been planning to return home The police seem happy to Scotland before taking on a new job assign it as a nannyan accidental death, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariahsomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the Danish wife help of the mastera fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. She's pregnant They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and looking for help, not with the new baby bit with seemingly, a link to death during the master's daughter by his first wife, AnaSecond World War. Felicity But is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, but there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to no one else. The eight-year-old uncover who is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at school.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=17886380260008517061|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)Death in a Lonely Place|author=M J LeeStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume that the death of the young Chinese girl Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicideLittle Sky. Her throat was cut, there was There’s perhaps a lot of blood and the knife was on little uncertainty about the floor at the side future of the bedhis life with his vet girlfriend, She was due to be deported that day. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre Livia and why was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, the coroner's officerher daughter Diana, is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's a snag though: the inquest is due to open as moving in together would mean a couple lot of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and they want relaxing life to take their daughter's body home move in with them. Ridpath has just five days Livia or does Livia move to solve the case. The coroner Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is disinclined to delay the inquest: future she wants for herself and her, it's about giving closure to daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the parentsback burner.
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|isbn=14711660231786482126|title=Burnt Island The Janus Stone (Ben KittoDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Kate RhodesElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was D I Ben Kittogoing to hold seventy-five 's thirtyluxury' apartments -fifth birthday and when they discovered the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by the discovery bones of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfirechild beneath a doorway. He'd obviously been alive when he There was put on the fire and can only have died no skull. Was this a terrible deathritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, better known on St Agnes that she is pregnant with his child as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the welfare a result of the birds he looks afterone night they spent together some three months ago. His instinct Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspectsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=18388806580008551324|title=Murder at Enderley Hall The Devil You Know (Miss UnderhayD S Max Craigie)|author=Helena DixonNeil 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 summer other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of 1933 a missing person is buried and Kitty Underhay is on who was responsible for her way to visit the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Halldeath. Her grandmother This person, Mrs Treadwellhe promises, is someone big and Great Aunt Livvy are back at it will be worth the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouthpolice doing what he wants. Kitty gets easily bored working at And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the Dolphin - every day remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is much it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the same other thing that Hardie demanded - but her real reason for going away is make certain that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack DS Max Craigie and an attempt on her lifeanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=02413968400008405026|title=KeeperA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jessica MoorJane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked in the womenIt's refuge and the women who lived there liked and respected sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from herbed one summer night. She treated them well was never found and seemed the investigation ground to have an understanding of what they were going througha halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Why then did she jump from Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the local suicide spot into positioning of the river below? There had been no signs bodies that she was unhappy and she makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boyfriend seemed boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to have been content together be an open- and Noah has -shut case is now a decent alibi for the time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for her death? complex double murder. The police are Kerrigan is convinced that itthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's suicideboss, but the women who knew her believed otherwiseUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=178730101X0571379877|title=Keep Him CloseThe Kellerby Code|author=Emily KochJonny 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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|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 a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolenIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. They were there for the fun run Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the racealways exquisitely dressed. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and the firm father of Ryan, is sponsoring the fun runnot. It was Lisa MitchellHe's scream which stopped everythingnot any of those things. Her daughterHe's white, six-month-old Abioriginated from a trailer park, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. Itbarely educated (reading's a major incident when not ''anyreally'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because 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 heart problem: without 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, she might have only forty-eight hours to live's problematic.
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|isbn=15291243951529431735|title=When You See MeThe Winter Visitor|author=Lisa GardnerJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet It's February 1991 and ChuckEssex is bitingly cold, it was a hiking break in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off more surprising. He'd been exiled on the beaten track to find Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a stickdecade. What The return has come about because he found was 's had a human bone letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D Warrenhasn't long to live. Both women were experienced It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services boot of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to the tablestolen Ford Sierra. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to say could be invaluable.home?
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|isbn=00082971690861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI 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. 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 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. 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 Guest Listpolice 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=Lucy FoleyAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip out It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to Inis Amploir, off have a high-flying job in the Irish coastcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might have been enough to put some guests offbe thinking. Nice bloke, but it was where's the wedding of life experience that backs up this profession? On the yearother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Will Slater (television personalityJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, if not yet a celebrity) or rather, they were until Helen was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, killed in the ruined chapel on the islandwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife Joyce - and her husbandparents, FreddyOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. They gave a huge discount Greg's been asked to get the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?investigate.
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|isbn=00082752461838954481|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)The Misper|author=Helen FieldsKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something He was wrongthe fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Bart might be twenty He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was considerate found not guilty of his mother both the murder and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her knowthe manslaughter of the officer. Besides, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without thatAnd so lives must go on. It's not long before Bart realises For DI Sarah Collins that hemeans leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's alone, trapped in drawn into a shipping container wider investigation - and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decidedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn= Luke Arnold1448309743|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 24|genre= FantasyCrime|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 Last Smile only suspects are known Satanists but in Sunder Citymany ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold. It centres on a Private DetectiveDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Fetch Philips, as he attempts DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to find a missing vampire in a world filled with magical creatures where all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequences'shadow' him.|isbn=0356512886
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|isbn=15294002791529077699|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Jo SpainAnn 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 Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and 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 little more background so that you can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)Family|author=Helen SedgwickCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the discovery body of a body under the swings her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the children's playgroundgarden of their West London home. It was Dr Alexis Crosse and He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, 'd slipped down the steps but who the vicious beating his face had reason to mistrust himtaken was obviously deliberate. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceTwenty years later, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along no one has been charged with foreigners)his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a community which regards anyone not born true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and brought up there as an outsiderto take the investigation further. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - youMore to the point, they've only got re going to look at her skin to realise thatdo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and her husband, Fergus, well, heno shortage of cliffhangers. It's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''compelling viewing.
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|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Seishi Yokomizo 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 Louise Heal Kawai ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=The Honjin MurdersMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To many readers, One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the phrase English in 1370 and Bruno'locked room murder mysterys there to see the show with some friends. It' is enough to make s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the book man playing one to read; preferably quantified by of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the words 'clever' or 'good'script. For those who need moreLuckily, here his doctor is there and the extra background – we're man is whisked away in rural Japan in the 1930sa helicopter. The oldest son A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of an esteemed family is belatedly getting marriedsurvival but - as he's a senior government employee, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody man who runs Frenchelon - the military has turned upstepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, what is flying in with it being some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged at great hasteholiday. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only 5|genre=Crime|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for the wedded couple all that was good and honest and looked up to be slashed to death by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in their private annexe before plain sight at the sun rises on their marriageOld Bailey. What with a There's just one man missing parts of in the frame for his fingers being murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in the neighbourhoodcourt, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the time best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the crimeStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, this case has a lot of despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the peculiar about itcontrary.|isbn=1782275002
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