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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=B07S6DBCFT0008517061|title=Little Girls Tell TalesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Rachel BennettStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2004 RosalieFormer 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, Beth as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Dallin 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 walking demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was 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 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 Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the boggy wetlands by Rosalie other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Dallinhe's cottageprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Beth And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Dallinto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, both twelveis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years-old, got ahead of tensince nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it wasnlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't long before she realised s something about the positioning of the bodies that she makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was lostgoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Trying to find her way back to Kerrigan is convinced that the main path she found explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a skeletontheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, but when she finally got handsome and entitled and uses Edward to the road she could never find her way back run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the bog when she'd seen the bodyRobert. Most people didnmen in Robert't believe her, putting 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 story down to her vivid imaginationtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0008273790Jo Callaghan|title=Remain Silent|author=Susie SteinerLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in a bad wayNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, vomiting and obviously traumatisedthe AI detective Lock. When heIt's able to speak he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead''their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Lukas was in his late teens But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have a decent life ''and'' send money home very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their families. Sadly, it doesn't work out like thatAI Future Policing project. When Will they arrive be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the UK - on an oldcase and, uncomfortable buspotentially, - they're dropped at out of a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. It's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workers.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B084VNRRD61035021803|title=Killing Mind The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (D I Kim Stoneon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered)and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Angela MarsonsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It looked very like a suicideCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and to begin withher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, that was how both DI Kim Stone Etty and KeatsGreg, find the pathologist called itbody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was only later an easy assumption for the police to make that Stone Duncan had murdered Charlie and her team realised that then committed suicide when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not the only hand holding he couldn't stand the knifeguilt. It was murder. SammyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's parents. Myles and Kate were a little bit reluctant to say what else they can do but get on with their daughter had been doing recently. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was lives and wonder about to accuse her husband of saying that Sammy was readywhat really happened... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?
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|isbn=18388510111529900360|title=The SidemanGhost Orchid|author=Caro RamsayJonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, 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 the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=No one thought that it could happen and canChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''quitesomehow'' believe got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlanddidn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. ItThe one thing he hadn's all down t expected was for someone to her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be responsible for the murder prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) and Malcolm (her son)those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Haggerty has In a water-tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotlandgully, no less) a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided body to go her own way rather than be hampered by the badgeLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. She didnHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't even bother telling her long-time partner, DCI Colin Andersonconvinced. Geary was a townie, that she so what was goinghe 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. Since then there might have been Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the occasional text from her, but Major Crimes Review Unit (that's itcold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=B084H8F2CF1529425867|title=The Body Under the BridgeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Nick LouthSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from the funeral service for a serving police officerIn Oxford, particularly when he discovered that he was to take charge there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the enquiry into a missing womanNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old 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 student trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of music at the Royal College of Musicshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. She had been due You might wonder if you're being introduced to play with the other members a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the Lysander String Quartet at the Church of St Martin-in-same policing coin. Sometimes the-Fields but hadn't turned upcombination works brilliantly well. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatrice's father was Karl-Otto Ulbricht, GermanySometimes it's Minister of Justiceproblematic.
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|isbn=B083Z3ZZ611529431735|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)The Winter Visitor|author=Liz MistryJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been in exiled on the UK with his daughter Maria Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a whiledecade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. He came expecting It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to work as a gardener his underwear and Maria was sent to be a nannywatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens problem closer to an eighteen-year-old girl.home?
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|isbn=00083901690861541774|title=Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Jenny O'BrienSteve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alys Grant was only DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a few days short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old when her father took her out for the first timeally, Guy Trueman. Her mother, Izzy, Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was tired facing a man armed with a knife - and fell asleephe killed a Ghurka. Initially, but when she woke he faced a couple charge of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alysmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. There was Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a hand-delivered postcard which simply said: diplomatic incident and wouldn''I've got Alyst help Danny at all. Don't try to find us, Charlie''
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|isbn=00081490891521129886|title=The Cutting Place They Had It Coming (DS Maeve KerriganGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Jane CaseyKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was 's a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames good job too because Greg and when she turned over what looked like Joyce will soon have a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan baby and DI Josh Derwentthey's team would later find three other body partsre both delighted. Identification of Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the body was not going morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be easyhave killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, but eventuallyLucy, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalistwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Her friendLucy, Bianca Drummondhe says, another journalist, said is convinced that she was working on a story which she reckoned Gil would be explosive never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and she hadnthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart't been willing s prepared to pay Greg to share any of find out what happened on the details with Biancanight Gil died.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW7B0CK3MYJ56|title=Access PointResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=T R GabbayAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's having something of twenty-eight years old. He used to have a professional success: using high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a device private investigator. 'Shades of her own invention sheCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's helped a man who the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been blind for decades asked to see an image of a hummingbirdlook into something. She's thirtyJoyce and Helen are half-six years old and her life is about to change radically assisters, cycling homeor rather, shethey were until Helen was killed in what's involved in been written off as a tragic accident at an accident with a busunmanned level crossing. It's two years before we meet Joyce - and her again parents, Oliver and in the meantime, Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she's spent 392 days could come to fall in front of a coma and now walks with a sticktrain. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom Greg's been asked to bring in some incomeinvestigate.
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|isbn=17864855751838954481|title=Magpie LaneThe Misper|author=Lucy AtkinsKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee sheRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's talking to Nick Law, no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the new college mastergun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Law's lately He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the BBC and jury system he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit was found not guilty of a bully both the murder and Dee can sense something the manslaughter of that in their first conversationthe officer. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking And so lives must go on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the master. She's pregnant For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and looking hoping for help, not with a quieter life in the new baby bit with the mastercountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, but to no one else. The eightdrawn into a wider investigation -year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=17886380261448309743|title=Where the Innocent Die The Devil Stone (D I RidpathDCI Christine Caplan)|author=M J LeeCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume that the death of the young Chinese girl at In the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, there was a lot village of blood and the knife was Cronchie on the floor at the side West coast of the bedScotland, She was due to be deported that dayfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. But... how did The only item missing from the knife get into home is the secure centre and why was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, Devil Stone: myth says that if the coroner's officer, stone is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspiciousremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. ThereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's a snag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple an easy conclusion given that two of daysthem 'discovered' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughter's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve the case. The coroner Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is disinclined pulled in to delay the inquest: for her, it's about giving closure to the parentsshadow' him.
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|isbn=14711660231529077699|title=Burnt Island The Raging Storm (Ben KittoTwo Rivers)|author=Kate RhodesAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto''It's thirty-fifth birthday and all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the occasion 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 usual bonfire celebrationsvillage of Greystone, but it would be marred this year by in Devon. Rosco had the discovery status of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the fire world sailor and can only have died a terrible deathall round ''celebrity''. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks could be more than a little or nothing bit close with money and his only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks afterbackground isn't exactly an open book. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and Where did he uses get the money for his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that first boat? How did he's finance the prime suspect.trip?
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|isbn=18388806581529427045|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Helena DixonKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the summer small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her way to visit the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Hallarea have sparked a gold rush. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel The criminal underworld has not been slow in Dartmouthcoming forward. Kitty gets easily bored working at Salander's niece's mother is the Dolphin - every day is much latest woman in the same - area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but her real reason for going away it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is that she needs a break after remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifefather's death.
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|isbn=02413968401787636607|title=KeeperThe Trap|author=Jessica MoorCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked It's a scene replicated all too often in the women's refuge and early hours of the women who lived there liked morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and respected herlooking for a way to get home. She treated them well Some are lucky and seemed manage to have an understanding get one of what they were going throughthe few taxis available. Why then did she jump from 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 local suicide spot into final stop on the river below? bus leaves her a long way short of her home. There She had been no signs that she was unhappy intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she and her boyfriend seemed had the chance to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for beg the time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for bus driver to let her death? use his. The police are convinced that itThere's suicide, no option but the women who knew her believed otherwiseto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=178730101X1405957174|title=Keep Him CloseA Death at the Party|author=Emily KochAmy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. Lou's seventeen The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrateso desperately needs. Someone has to find something What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to celebrate in the letters, D, D and Ehave him die. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but itI's d better give you a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, helittle more background so that you can understand what's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHDhappening.
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|isbn=05713423530008530025|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersMurder in the Family|author=Peter SwansonCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw It was the coin December 2003 that fifteen-year-owner old Maura Howard came home and manager found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the Old Devils Bookstore garden of their West London home. He had an injury on Beacon Hill in Bostonthe 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. The store specialises in crime novelsTwenty years later, but Mal no one has given up reading crime. His lifebeen charged with his murder and it's been pretty chaotic now the subject of late: It's five years since his wife'Infamous'', Claire Mallory, died and he's never really got over ita true-crime show. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just A group of experts has been brought together to see review the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairevidence and to take the investigation further. His interest in crime fiction comes back when heMore to the point, they's approached re going to do this live on camera, episode by Special Agent Gwen Mulveyepisode. SheThere's interested in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders'no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=17868971480241996104|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)Coming to Find You|author=Alan ParksJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way to London with fellow band members TomNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, ScottMartin, Barry and Jamiehas been convicted of their murder. He'd had to get his father to sign We first meet Nancy outside the contract for The Beatkickerscourt, as Bobby wasn't old enoughafter Martin receives a life sentence. And his father had been reluctant The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - heshe'd s not been found guilty of anything but will have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, live with what happened for the regular moneyrest of her life. By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgow. The Beatkickers didnOf course, it't survive and March is on his own, but hardly thriving. Theres made worse because Nancy's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the police papers are consumed by making the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellymost 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=B083NMCSZX1529413680|title=Little Doubt A Chateau Under Siege (D I Kelly PorterA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Rachel LynchMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson was in One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the wrong place at town from the wrong time. She was out running English in the park when she was randomly attacked 1370 and stabbed Bruno's there to deathsee the show with some friends. Her husband, ThomasIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decentKerquelin, middle-class woman should be the victim man playing one of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan the main characters is seriously injured when he declined to distance himself departs from the case script. Luckily, his doctor is there and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking the man is whisked away in a great deal of interest in how the case was handledhelicopter. He wasnA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he't anywhere near as interested when s a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours latersenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate One daughter lives nearby and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there should expect this sort another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of thing to happen. He could hardly bring himself to mention Keiraher father's namefriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=14711809211529196388|title=FirewatchingThe Trial|author=Russ ThomasRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who think stood for all that he's lucky was good and honest and looked up to be by just about everyone, so there, given that was public uproar when he decked a superior officerwas murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. HeThere's there because Tyler came off worse just one man in the exchange frame for his murder - there's a scar on his face to prove it Jimmy Knight - and the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. Thereit's a suggestion not too that Tylerlong before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's godmother (shemurder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's on the force too) has looked after him Taylor-Cameron and that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pridepupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Either wayKnight's determined to plead not guilty, hedespite all Taylor-Cameron's there, but without anything really interesting recommendations to get his teeth intothe contrary.
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