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|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=ACCESSPOINT0008517061|title=Access PointDeath in a Lonely Place|author=T R GabbayStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a professional successlot of compromise: using a device of does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her own invention reservations about whether or not this is the future she's helped a man who has been blind wants for decades herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to see an image hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a hummingbirdchild beneath a doorway. SheThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's thirty-six years old and her life is about to change radically difficult asRuth knows, cycling homebut Nelson doesn't, that she's involved in an accident is pregnant with his child as a busresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's two years before we meet 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 again death. This person, he promises, is someone big and in 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 meantimeremainder 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 spent 392 days in a coma even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and now walks anyone who works with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incomehim is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=17864855750008405026|title=Magpie LaneA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Lucy AtkinsJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee sheIt's talking to Nick Law, the new college mastersixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Law's lately of She was never found and the BBC and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's investigation ground to a bit of a bully halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and Dee can sense something of that her father are dead in their first conversationbed. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on Initially, it looks like a new job as a nanny, straightforward murder/suicide but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, there's something about the Danish wife positioning of the masterbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She's pregnant What looked as though it was going to be an open-and looking for help, not with -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the new baby bit with the masterexplanation lies in Rosalie's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mutedisappearance: she does talk to her fatherothers (such as Derwent's boss, but to no one else. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=17886380260571379877|title=Where The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's 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 Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=M J LeeJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume that When a man is found crucified on the death top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the young Chinese girl at case alongside her sidekick, the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicideAI detective Lock. Her throat was cutIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there was is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of blood and the knife was on the floor at the side of the bed, She was due unwanted attention to be deported that daytheir AI Future Policing project. But... how did Will they be able to solve the knife get into case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the secure centre case and why was the girl, potentially, 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 room twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the only one which was unlocked? English country village where she grew up. DI Thomas RidpathShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, the coronerCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's officerclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is sent to investigate dead and he quickly becomes the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. There's a snag though: Arthur was the inquest is due reason why Freya had not been back to open in a couple of days' timethe village: Arthur, she feels, the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughter's body home with themlet her down badly. Ridpath Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has just five days not felt able to solve be near the man or pursue the caseprofession she loved. The coroner is disinclined to delay After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the inquest: for love of herlife, it's about giving closure to the parentswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=14711660231398524085|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kate RhodesNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's thirtyfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-fifth birthday and -shut cases which didn't need the occasion help of a psychologist only worked for the usual bonfire celebrationsa while. Finally, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Roganwas Robin, Delaware's body on a bonfirepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. He'd obviously been alive when he She knew that the involvement was put on something that the fire and can only have died a terrible deathman she loved needed. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwennext case did look simple, better known on St Agnes as though. Two lovers were murdered in the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the welfare swimming pool of the birds he looks aftera remote property in Bel Air. His instinct He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to cover Rogan's body an extremely rich man and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that heit's not the prime suspectItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1838880658178763681X|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Helena DixonOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's the summer t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of 1933 getting both men and Kitty Underhay is on her way women to visit do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the family which she never knew she had, impression that he'd be at Enderley Hall. Her grandmotherthe school to assist Paul, Mrs Treadwellwho had a broken arm, and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouthbut it didn't turn out that way. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin The teaching - every day is much and the same problems - but her real reason are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for going away is that she needs a break after her recent adventuressomeone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack he was the person who discovered the body and an attempt on her lifeeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=02413968401529421284|title=KeeperLaying Out the Bones|author=Jessica MoorKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the women's refuge surface and forensic testing proved the women body to be Lee Geary, who lived there liked and respected herhad disappeared nine years earlier. She treated them well He'd been a known drug user and seemed to had learning disabilities, so it could have an understanding been a simple case of what they were going throughmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river belowGeary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There had been no signs that she was unhappy are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for her death? . The police are convinced Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that it's suicide, but the women who knew her believed otherwisecold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=178730101X1529425867|title=Keep Him CloseLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Emily KochSimon Mason|rating=34.5|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=Alice had two children: Benny (wellIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Benoît, actually) and Louiswhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. LouHe's seventeen and d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's just got had a letter from his A level results ex-wife, saying that she's ill and he and his brother are going out hasn't long to celebratelive. Someone has It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to find something his underwear and sent to celebrate a watery grave in the letters, D, D and Eboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Alice has always had Is it a warning from a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's Spanish gang or a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming problem closer to my mind were ADHD.home?
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|isbn=05713423530861541774|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Peter SwansonSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was the co-owner DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Boston. The store specialises in crime novelsformer colleague, Danny Maik, but Mal has given taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up reading crimewith an old ally, Guy Trueman. His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wife, Claire Mallory, died Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he's never really got over itkilled a Ghurka. She was driving whilst inebriatedInitially, having just been he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to see murder the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affair. His interest in crime fiction comes back when Now he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveycould be facing the death penalty. She's interested in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders'diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=17868971481521129886|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever They Had It Coming (Harry McCoyGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Alan ParksKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry and Jamie. HeGreg Mason'd had s just beginning to get his father confidence as an investigator to sign the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasnpoint where he't old enoughll warn someone about how much he charges. And his father had been reluctant - heIt'd s a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the regular moneymorning sickness. By July 1973 Bobby Greg is back approached by an old friend whose brother-in Glasgow-law appears to have killed himself. The Beatkickers didnStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who't survive s struggling to make ends meet and March her son is on his own, but hardly not thriving. ThereLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's an obvious drug habitt in his nature. Meanwhile, The police and the police are consumed by coroner have accepted that the search for a missing girldeath was suicide, Alice Kelly but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZXB0CK3MYJ56|title=Little Doubt Responsibilities (D I Kelly PorterGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Rachel LynchAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson was in It's the wrong place at the wrong time1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. She was out running He used to have a high-flying job in the park when she was randomly attacked and stabbed to deathcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Her husband'Shades of Cameron Strike', Thomasyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged but where's the life experience that a decentbacks up this profession? On the other hand, middle-class woman should be the victim of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined has been asked to distance himself from the case look into something. Joyce and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in how the case was handled. He wasnwhat't anywhere near s been written off as interested when a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours latertragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and OrmondPam Hetherington - can's view seemed t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to be that anyone living there should expect this sort fall in front of thing to happena train. He could hardly bring himself to mention KeiraGreg's namebeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=14711809211838954481|title=FirewatchingThe Misper|author=Russ ThomasKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there are those who think that he's lucky to be there, given no doubt about that he decked a superior officer. He's there because Tyler came off worse in was the exchange fifteen- there's a scar on his face year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to prove it - the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the superior manslaughter of the officer was forced to take early retirement. There's a suggestion too And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that Tyler's godmother (she's on means leaving the force too) has looked after him capital and that his current boss hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is keen to have a tame gay to put found on the town hall steps come Pride. Either way, heher territory she's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth drawn into a wider investigation - and back intothe orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=17874775331448309743|title=The Lantern Men Devil Stone (Dr Ruth GallowayDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Elly GriffithsCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's no longer providing assistance to In the police and isn't even working at village of Cronchie on the University West coast of Scotland, five members of North Norfolka wealthy family are found murdered. She's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, KatieOtterburn House, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking gooddeath will follow. Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry NelsonThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Katiethat's father, because Katie sees him regularly and therean easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's a close relationship with his familythe body. You might The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'almost'' think that Ruth's life is settling downhim.
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|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B1529077699|title=In Plain Sight The Raging Storm (D I Clare MackayTwo Rivers)|author=Marion ToddAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at 's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the beach when local pub one evening in the baby was stolen. They were there middle of an autumn gale, stayed for the fun run about a month and then turned up, naked and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to disrupt the racevillage of Greystone, in Devon. They're against Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh world sailor and the firm is sponsoring the fun runall round ''celebrity''. It was Lisa MitchellI 's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when nearly''anysaid 'all-round good egg' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of as we'll find out, he could be more than a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to livelittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=15291243951529427045|title=When You See MeThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Lisa GardnerKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet and Chuck''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, it was a hiking break in where the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off so-far-untapped natural resources of the beaten track to find area have sparked a stickgold rush. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called The criminal underworld has not been slow in, along with Sergeant D D Warrencoming forward. Both women were experienced Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique area to the tablehave vanished without trace. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do 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 current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluablepart Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=00082971691787636607|title=The Guest ListTrap|author=Lucy FoleyCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip 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 Inis Amploir, off get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was few taxis available. Others squash onto the wedding night bus that will only go as far as one of the yearoutlying villages. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisherThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the ruined chapel on light of 'the islandmissing women'. The bride's sisterFor one young woman, Olivia, would be the final stop on the bus leaves her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and a long way short of her husband, Freddyhome. They gave a huge discount She had intended to ring someone to get come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the couple chance to beg the island, bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=00082752461405957174|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)A Death at the Party|author=Helen FieldsAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her sonFrom the first page, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away we know that something was wrongNadine Walsh's party will not end well. Bart might be twenty but The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her knowso desperately needs. Besides, he didnWhat we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without thatdie. ItI's not long before Bart realises d better give you a little more background so that heyou can understand what's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decidedhappening.
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|authorisbn= Luke Arnold0008530025|title= The Last Smile Murder in Sunder Citythe Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 24.5|genre= FantasyCrime|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 'The Last Smile in Sunder City'Infamous'' is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold, a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. It centres More to the point, they're going to do this live on a Private Detectivecamera, Fetch Philips, as he attempts to find a missing vampire in a world filled with magical creatures where all episode by episode. There's no dump of the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequenceswhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|isbn=0356512886
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|isbn=15294002790241996104|title=Six Wicked ReasonsComing to Find You|author=Jo SpainJane 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.
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|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence One of the main events of ten years. The family had thought him dead the Sarlat tourist season is the re- enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in fact, that1370 and Bruno's what there to see the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told themshow with some friends. He was cagey about exactly where heIt'd s all been very carefully choreographed but he seemed contentgoes badly wrong when, if not happyKerquelin, to be hopethe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. What brought him? WellLuckily, nine years ago his mother died doctor is there and he'd seen the ''man is whisked away in memoriam'' in the paper: this was the first he'd heard about what had happeneda helicopter. His three sisters A local doctor (and two brothers had mixed feelings friend of Bruno) wonders about his return, chances of survival but his father is delighted. In fact, - as he's determined to have a party. Onlysenior government employee, with Frazer Latimer, what happens the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has to be about himstepped in. He has an announcement to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died One daughter lives nearby and heanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's been lonely. He's met Ana, friends for a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedpre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=17860756951529196388|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)The Trial|author=Helen SedgwickRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with the discovery of Grant Cliveden was a hero: a body under policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the swings Old Bailey. There's just one man in the childrenframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's playgroundmurder. It Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Dr Alexis Crosse Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and he was found by PC Simon Hunterit's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, who loved him deeplyAdam Green, but who had reason to mistrust eventually represent him. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsider. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - youKnight've only got s determined to look at her skin to realise thatplead not guilty, and her husband, Fergus, well, hedespite all Taylor-Cameron's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''recommendations to the contrary.
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