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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=18388510110008517061|title=The SidemanDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Caro RamsayStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=No one thought that it could happen and can't ''quite'' believe that it Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlandsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It's all down to her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes to be responsible for There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the murder future of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Malcolm (her son). Haggerty has daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a waterlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotland, no less) grid and the powers that be have told Costello relaxing life to lay off: she's decided move in with Livia or does Livia move to go Little Sky despite her own way rather than be hampered by reservations about whether or not this is the badge. She didn't even bother telling future she wants for herself and her long-time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, that she was going. daughter? Since then there might have been For the occasional text from her, but that's itmoment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=B084H8F2CF1786482126|title=The Body Under the BridgeJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Nick LouthElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was annoyed going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be pulled away 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 unusual for anyone from the funeral service 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 serving 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 officer, particularly when doing what he discovered that wants. And what he was wants is to be transferred to an open prison to take charge serve the remainder of the enquiry into a missing womanhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Beatrice Ulbricht was twentyNot 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 -five 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 student 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 music at the Royal College of Musicbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She had been due What looked as though it was going to play with the other members of the Lysander String Quartet at be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the Church of St Martin-explanation lies inRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-theclass young man, obsessed with his upper-Fields but hadnclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert't turned ups a theatre director. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that BeatriceHe's father was Karlalso self-Otto Ulbrichtobsessed, Germanydemanding, 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 Minister drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of Justicethem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B083Z3ZZ61Jo Callaghan|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)|author=Liz MistryLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we 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 AI detective Lock. It's their first meet him Stefan Marcovici has live case together, having previously been in the UK very successful with his daughter Maria for a whileseveral cold cases. He came expecting to work as But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a gardener potential serial killer and Maria was a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to be a nannytheir AI Future Policing project. Stefan ends up doing slave labour Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-year-old girl.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00083901691035021803|title=Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jenny O'BrienC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alys Grant was only It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a few days old when request for help from her father took her out for the first timebeloved aunt, Carole. Her motherFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, IzzyArthur Crockleford, was tired is dead and fell asleepthe circumstances seem suspicious, but when she woke a couple of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alysto say the least. There Arthur was a hand-delivered postcard which simply saidthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village''I've got AlysArthur, she feels, let her down badly. Don't try Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to find usbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, Charlie''who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=00081490891398524085|title=The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it Charlotte Salter was a hand, a right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwentexpected at her husband's team would later find three other body partsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Identification of the body was not going to be easyHer children, but eventuallysons Niall, it would be given a name - Paige HargreavesPaul and Ollie and her daughter, a twentyEtty. are all worried but -eightstrangely -year-old freelance journalisther husband, Alec, is not. Her friendShortly afterwards, Bianca DrummondEtty and Greg, another journalistfind the body of Greg's father, said Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - Duncan had murdered Charlie and she hadnthen committed suicide when he couldn't been willing to share any of stand the details guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with Biancatheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW71529900360|title=Access PointThe Ghost Orchid|author=T R GabbayJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheIt hadn's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention shet been Lt Milo Sturgis's helped a man who has fault that Alex Delaware had been blind badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for decades to see an image of a hummingbirdhis help on difficult cases. She's thirtyHis assertions that there were only open-six years old and her life is about to change radically as, cycling home, she-shut cases which didn's involved in an accident with t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a buswhile. ItFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's two years before we meet her partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again and in . She knew that the involvement was something that the meantimeman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, she's spent 392 days though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a coma and now walks with a stickremote property in Bel Air. A professional colleague persuades Ula that He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she should let out a spare bedroom is married to bring in some incomean extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1786485575178763681X|title=Magpie LaneKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Lucy AtkinsOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee she's talking to Nick Law, the new college masterChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. LawHe didn's lately t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the BBC getting both men and women to do what he doesnwanted. Paul 't come with an entirely good reputation: 'somehow'' got the impression that he's a bit of a bully and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversation. She d be at the school to assist Paul, who had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nannybroken arm, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the masterit didn't turn out that way. She's pregnant The teaching - and looking for help, not with the new baby bit with the master's daughter by problems - are all his first wife, Anaown. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to her father, but to no one elseturn up dead. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and struggling at schooleveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=17886380261529421284|title=Where Laying Out the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)Bones|author=M J LeeKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume one of those flash downpours that the death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicideBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Her throat was cutIn a gully, there was a lot of blood human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the knife was on the floor at the side of the bed, She was due body to be deported that dayLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre He'd been a known drug user and why was the girlhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's room the only one which t convinced. Geary was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpatha townie, the coroner's officer, is sent to investigate and so what was he quickly becomes suspicious, doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There's a snag though: are connections to the inquest is due to open in a couple suicide of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China Holly Gilbert and they want to take their daughter's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the casetime. The coroner is disinclined to delay Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the inquest: for her, itMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's about giving closure cold cases to the parentsyou and me) investigate.
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|isbn=14711660231529425867|title=Burnt Island Lost and Never Found (Ben KittoA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Kate RhodesSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of November was Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsfather of Ryan, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Roganis not. He's body on a bonfirenot any of those things. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and can only have died s white, originated from a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwentrailer park, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his only concern is the welfare wardrobe consists mainly of the birds he looks aftershell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. His instinct is to cover RoganYou might wonder if you's body and he uses his sheepskin coat re being introduced to do thisa police procedural written for laughs. Well, with you're not. The two men are just different sides of the result that hesame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's the prime suspectproblematic.
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|isbn=18388806581529431735|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)The Winter Visitor|author=Helena DixonJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the summer of 1933 February 1991 and Kitty Underhay Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on her way to visit the family which she never knew she Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's hada letter from his ex-wife, at Enderley Hallsaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel sent to a watery grave in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs boot of a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifestolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=02413968400861541774|title=KeeperA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jessica MoorSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked in the womenDCI Domenic Jejeune's refuge close friend and the women who lived there liked and respected her. She treated them well and seemed former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to have meet up with an understanding of what they were going throughold ally, Guy Trueman. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that she he was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together facing a man armed with a knife - and Noah has he killed a decent alibi for the time when she diedGhurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but what other explanation evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could there be for her facing the death? penalty. The Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police are convinced that itforce could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's suicide, but the women who knew her believed otherwiset help Danny at all.
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|isbn=178730101X1521129886|title=Keep Him CloseThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Emily KochKeith Redfern|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. LouGreg Mason's seventeen and just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's just got his A level results a good job too because Greg and he Joyce will soon have a baby and his 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 are going out -in-law appears to celebratehave killed himself. Someone has to find something to celebrate in the lettersStuart's concerned about his sister, DLucy, D who's struggling to make ends meet and Eher son is not thriving. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteenLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -year-old Benny but itsimply wasn's a touch problematic with Lou t in his nature. The police and being honestthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, he but Stuart's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming prepared to pay Greg to my mind were ADHDfind out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=0571342353B0CK3MYJ56|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Peter SwansonAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was It's the co1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-owner and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostoneight years old. The store specialises He used to have a high-flying job in crime novels, the city but Mal has given it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up reading crimeas a private investigator. His life's been pretty chaotic Shades of late: ItCameron Strike's five years since his wife, Claire Malloryyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, died and hebut where's never really got over it. the life experience that backs up this profession? She was driving whilst inebriatedOn the other hand, having just he has been asked to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairlook into something. His interest Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in crime fiction comes back when hewhat's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveybeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. SheJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can's interested t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders'train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17868971481838954481|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)The Misper|author=Alan ParksKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was on his way to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Jamiepointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He'd had pulled the trigger but due to get his father to sign the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enough. And his father had been reluctant - vagaries of the jury system he'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the regular moneyofficer. By July 1973 Bobby is back in GlasgowAnd so lives must go on. The Beatkickers didn't survive For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and March hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on his own, but hardly thriving. Thereher territory she's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellyorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZX1448309743|title=Little Doubt The Devil Stone (D I Kelly PorterDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Rachel LynchCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson was in In the wrong place at village of Cronchie on the wrong time. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked and stabbed to death. Her husbandWest coast of Scotland, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that five members of a decent, middle-class woman should be the victim of knife crimewealthy family are found murdered. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself The only item missing from the case and told DI Kelly Porter home is the Devil Stone: myth says that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how if the case was handled. He wasn't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed to stone is removed from Otterburn House, death a few hours laterwill follow. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate and OrmondThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's view seemed to be an easy conclusion given that anyone living there should expect this sort two of thing to happenthem 'discovered' the body. He could hardly bring himself The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to mention Keira's nameshadow' him.
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|isbn=14711809211529077699|title=FirewatchingThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he's lucky 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to be therethe small town of Gasskas, given that he decked where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a superior officergold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. HeSalander's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - thereniece's a scar on his face to prove it - and mother is the latest woman in the superior officer was forced area to take early retirementhave vanished without trace. There's a suggestion too It was only with reluctance that TylerSalander became her niece's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that his current boss Svala is keen to have a tame gay to put on remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the town hall steps come Pride. Either way, hepart Salander played in her father's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth intodeath.
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|isbn=17874775331787636607|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Trap|author=Elly GriffithsCatherine 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=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. She's The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no longer providing assistance effort to call the police and isnambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't even working at know is who the University of North Norfolk. She's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage man is or why Nadine prefers to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, Katie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking goodhim die. Settled. She canI't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and there's d better give you a close relationship with his family. You might ''almost'' think little more background so that Ruthyou can understand what's life is settling downhappening.
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|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B0008530025|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)Murder in the Family|author=Marion ToddCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a coincidence in December 2003 that Detective Sergeant Chris fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West and DI Clare Mackay were at London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the beach when steps but the baby vicious beating his face had taken was stolenobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. They were there for A group of experts has been brought together to review the fun run evidence and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt take the raceinvestigation further. TheyMore to the point, they're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant going to be constructed do this live on Priory Marsh camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and the firm is sponsoring the fun runno shortage of cliffhangers. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everythingcompelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4. Her daughter, six5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-monthfather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-old Abibrother, Martin, had has been taken from her pram whilst no one was lookingconvicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. ItThe barrister tells her that she's received a major incident when 'silent sentence'any- 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' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of a heart problem: without it, she . ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might have only forty-eight hours to livenot be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15291243951529413680|title=When You See MeA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Lisa GardnerMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it was a hiking break in One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the Appalachians English in Georgia 1370 and pure chance that Chuck went off Bruno's there to see the beaten track to find a stickshow with some friends. What It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he found was a human bone departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called the man is whisked away in, along with Sergeant D D Warrena helicopter. Both women were experienced in this type A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of rather gruesome work survival but they also called on the services of Keith Edgar, - as he's a computer analystsenior government employee, and Flora Dane the man who brought something unique to runs Frenchelon - the tablemilitary has stepped in. Flora had been kidnapped One daughter lives nearby and held for 472 days by the notorious killeranother, who lives in California, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do is flying in with the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluablesome of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=1529196388
|title=The Trial
|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a 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 Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it'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 contrary.
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