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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=00082737900008517061|title=Remain SilentDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Susie SteinerStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis 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 Dimitriher daughter Diana, Matis is as moving in together would mean a bad way, vomiting lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and obviously traumatised. When he's able relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to speak he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is dead''. the future she wants for herself and her daughter? Lukas was For the moment they’re enjoying life in his late teens the present and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuaniaputting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. They'd answered 5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an advert offering good money and accommodation old house in return for their labour: Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they could have discovered the bones of a child beneath a decent life ''and'' send money home to their familiesdoorway. Sadly, it doesn't work out like thatThere was no skull. When they arrive in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable busWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floorDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's modern slaverydifficult as Ruth knows, which isnbut Nelson doesn't uncommon amongst agricultural workers, 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 obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=B084VNRRD60008551324|title=Killing Mind The Devil You Know (D I Kim StoneS Max Craigie)|author=Angela MarsonsNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It looked very like a suicide, and 's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to begin with, that was how both DI Kim Stone and Keats, approach the pathologist called itpolice. It was only later that Stone Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not he's prepared to tell the only hand holding police where the knifebody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It was murderThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Sammy's parents. Myles And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Kate were a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recentlyget an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The property where new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about 's even prepared to accuse her husband of saying do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that Sammy was ready... But DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?s happening.
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|isbn=18388510110008405026|title=The SidemanA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Caro RamsayJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=No one thought that it could happen and canIt't ''quite'' believe that it has: Costello has resigned s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Police Scotlandher bed one summer night. It's all down She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes to be responsible for the murder of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) mother, Helena, and Malcolm (her son)father are dead in their bed. Haggerty has Initially, it looks like a water-tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotland, no less) and straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the powers bodies that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided to go makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her own way rather than be hampered by the badgeboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She didn't even bother telling her long-time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, that she What looked as though it was goingto be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Since then there might have been Kerrigan is convinced that the occasional text from her, but thatexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's itboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B084H8F2CF0571379877|title=The Body Under the BridgeKellerby Code|author=Nick LouthJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from the funeral service for Edward Jevons is a serving police officerworking-class young man, particularly when he discovered that he was to take charge of the enquiry into obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a missing womantheatre director. Beatrice Ulbricht was twentyHe's also self-five years old obsessed, demanding, handsome and a student of music at the Royal College of Musicentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. She had Edward has been due to play in love with the other members of the Lysander String Quartet at the Church of St MartinStanza since their university days -in-the-Fields but hadnand he't turned ups drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Gillard didnMost men in Robert't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Beatricea relationship had begun between them but he's father was Karl-Otto Ulbricht, Germany's Minister 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 Charlotte Salter was Kim Weldon who found 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 first bits body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the body - she river. It was a mudlarker on an easy assumption for the banks of police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Thames guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and when she turned over wonder about what looked like a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in factreally happened. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's team would later find three other body partsfault 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. Identification His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of the body was not going to be easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, psychologist only worked for a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalistwhile. Her friendFinally, Bianca Drummondit was Robin, another journalistDelaware's partner, said who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was working on a story which the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she reckoned would be explosive - is married to an extremely rich man and she hadnit't been willing to share any s not the Italian. But which of them was the details with Bianca.primary target?
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|isbn=B0867X8NW7178763681X|title=Access PointKnife Skills for Beginners|author=T R GabbayOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of Chef Paul Delamare took a professional success: using teaching job at a device of her own invention sheresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's helped t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a man who has been blind for decades way of getting both men and women to see an image of a hummingbirddo what he wanted. ShePaul 's thirty'somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -six years old and her life is about the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to change radically asturn up dead. Unfortunately, cycling home, she's involved he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in an accident with a busheatwave. It's two years before we meet her again In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and in forensic testing proved the meantimebody to be Lee Geary, shewho had disappeared nine years earlier. He's spent 392 days in d been a coma known drug user and now walks with had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a sticktownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. A professional colleague persuades Ula Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that she should let out a spare bedroom 's cold cases to bring in some incomeyou and me) investigate.
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|isbn=17864855751529425867|title=Magpie LaneLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lucy AtkinsSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee she's talking to Nick LawIn Oxford, the new college masterthere are two D I Wilkins. Law's lately Raymond Wilkins is of the BBC Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of a bully Ryan and Dee can sense something father of that in their first conversationRyan, is not. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife He's not any of the masterthose things. SheHe's pregnant and looking for helpwhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not with the new baby bit with the master's daughter by 'really'' his thing) and his first wife, Anawardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk You might wonder if you're being introduced to her fathera police procedural written for laughs. Well, but to no one elseyou're not. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schooltwo men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=17886380261529431735|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)The Winter Visitor|author=M J LeeJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume that the death of 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicidemore surprising. Her throat was cut, there was a lot of blood and the knife was He'd been exiled on the floor at the side of the bed, She was due to be deported that dayCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girlThe return has come about because he's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpathhad a letter from his ex-wife, the coronersaying that she's officer, is sent ill and hasn't long to investigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, live. ThereIt's a snag though: the inquest hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is due abducted, stripped to open in a couple of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China his underwear and they want sent to take their daughter's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve a watery grave in the caseboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The coroner is disinclined to delay the inquest: for her, Is it's about giving closure a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to the parents.home?
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|isbn=14711660230861541774|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Kate RhodesSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoDCI Domenic Jejeune's thirty-fifth birthday close friend and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsformer colleague, Danny Maik, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on has taken a bonfireshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He'd obviously been alive when Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was put on the fire facing a man armed with a knife - and can only have died he killed a terrible deathGhurka. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenInitially, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the welfare faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the birds man. Now he looks aftercould be facing the death penalty. His instinct is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to cover Rogan's body help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that hewouldn's the prime suspectt help Danny at all.
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|isbn=18388806581521129886|title=Murder at Enderley Hall They Had It Coming (Miss UnderhayGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Helena DixonKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItGreg Mason's the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her way just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to visit the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Hallpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and Great Aunt Livvy are back at they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. Kitty baby when she gets easily bored working at past the Dolphin morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- every day is much the same in- but law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her real reason for going away son is that she needs a break after her recent adventuresnot thriving. Lucy, which involved three vicious murdershe says, an arson attack is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and an attempt the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on her lifethe night Gil died.
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|isbn=0241396840B0CK3MYJ56|title=KeeperResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jessica MoorAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked in the womenIt's refuge and the women who lived there liked 1990s and respected herGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. She treated them well and seemed He used to have an understanding a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of what they were going throughCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Why then did she jump from On the local suicide spot other hand, he has been asked to look into the river below? something. There had been no signs that she Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have killed in what's been content together written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she diedher parents, but Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what other explanation she was doing there - or how she could there be for her death? come to fall in front of a train. The police are convinced that itGreg's suicide, but the women who knew her believed otherwisebeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=178730101X1838954481|title=Keep Him CloseThe Misper|author=Emily KochKate London|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two childrenRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louisthere's no doubt about that. Lou's seventeen He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebratepointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Someone has He pulled the trigger but due to find something to celebrate in the letters, D, D vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and Ethe manslaughter of the officer. Alice has always had And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny quieter life in the countryside but itwhen a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a touch problematic with Lou wider investigation - and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHDback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=05713423531448309743|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Peter SwansonCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was In the co-owner and manager village of Cronchie on the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in BostonWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The store specialises in crime novelsonly item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, but Mal has given up reading crimedeath will follow. His lifeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's been pretty chaotic an easy conclusion given that two of late: them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's five years since his wifeall bloody peculiar, Claire Malloryisn't it, died and heSir?''s never really got over  Well yes, itis. She was driving whilst inebriatedJem 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, having just been anchored in Scully Cove close to see the man 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 whom Kershaw suspected she was having money and his background isn't exactly an affairopen book. His interest Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in crime fiction comes back when hethe Eagle's approached by Special Agent Gwen MulveyTalons|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. SheThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's interested 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 blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murdersremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=17868971481787636607|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)The Trap|author=Alan ParksCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his 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 London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry and Jamieget home. He'd had Some are lucky and manage to get his father to sign one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the contract for outlying villages. The Beatkickerswoman all regret the 'taxi problem', as Bobby wasnparticularly in the light of 'the missing women't old enough. And his father had been reluctant - he'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeshipFor one young woman, for the regular moneyfinal stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. By July 1973 Bobby is back in GlasgowShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The Beatkickers didn't survive and March is on bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his own, but hardly thriving. There's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellyno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZX1405957174|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)A Death at the Party|author=Rachel LynchAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson 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 Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the wrong place at body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the wrong timegarden of their West London home. She was out running in He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the park when she vicious beating his face had taken was randomly attacked and stabbed to deathobviously deliberate. Her husband, ThomasTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and childrenit's now the subject of ''Infamous'', Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decent, middletrue-class woman should be the victim of knife crimeshow. Despite being a golfing partner A group of Thomas Jordan he declined experts has been brought together to distance himself from review the case evidence and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how to take the case was handledinvestigation further. He wasnMore to the point, they't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed re going to death a few hours laterdo this live on camera, episode by episode. Keira Bradley lived on There's no dump of the Beacon estate whole box set - and Ormondno shortage of cliffhangers. It's view seemed compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to be Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that anyone living there should expect this sort she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of thing anything but will have to happenlive with what happened for the rest of her life. He could hardly bring himself to mention KeiraOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's namerich - 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=14711809211529413680|title=FirewatchingA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Russ ThomasMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police 1370 and there are those who think that heBruno's lucky there to be there, given that he decked a superior officersee the show with some friends. HeIt's there because Tyler came off worse in all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the exchange - script. Luckily, his doctor is there's a scar on his face to prove it - and the superior officer was forced to take early retirementman is whisked away in a helicopter. ThereA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the force too) military has looked after him and that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pridestepped in. Either wayOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, heis flying in with some of her father's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth intofriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=17874775331529196388|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Trial|author=Elly GriffithsRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everything has changed Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's no longer providing assistance all that was good and honest and looked up to the police and isn't even working by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the University of North NorfolkOld Bailey. SheThere's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker just one man in Cambridge. Her daughter, Katie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and life is looking good. Settled. She canit't help thinking about Harry Nelsons not too long before Knight appears in court, Katiecharged with Cliveden's father, because Katie sees murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him regularly was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and thereit's a close relationship with Taylor-Cameron and his familypupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. You might ''almostKnight'' think that Ruths determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's life is settling downrecommendations to the contrary.
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