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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=17873014350008517061|title=Dark WatersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=G R HallidayStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road daughter Diana, as moving in Glen Turrit. It was together would mean a long road through some breathlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-taking scenery 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 could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. wants for herself and her daughter? When For the blond child stepped out moment they’re enjoying life in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel present and hit a tree. When she came round after putting the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although future on the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4back burner.
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|isbn=00082147001786482126|title=Cut to the Bone The Janus Stone (DI Meg DaltonDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Roz WatkinsElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the case of a missing teenager. Violet Armstrong is wellsite was going to hold seventy-known as a vlogger five 'luxury' apartments - championing when they discovered the cause bones of meat-eatinga child beneath a doorway. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini and has attracted the attention of animal rights activistsThere was no skull. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got the job because she's a woman) because she's Was this a vegetarian. ritual killing or murder? As if the case wasn't enoughInevitably, Meg's father is coming to stay Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years and JaiDCI Harry Nelson. It's convinced that his girlfriend, Sukidifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't like his children and , that she wants moreis 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, but he doesn'tnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=17808998580008551324|title=To Tell The Devil You the TruthKnow (D S Max Craigie)|author=Gilly MacmillanNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the house on police where the night 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 summer solstice police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to watch serve the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Her fourNot 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 - 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 brotherRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, TeddyHelena, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with and herfather are dead in their bed. But in Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the early hours positioning of the morningbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Lucy returned home without TeddyUna 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, hoping that he would have got home before herobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He hadn't s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and no one has seen uses Edward to run errands for him since. LucyEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's story was crucial drunkenly confided how he feels to the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changingRobert. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that there are certain things which Lucy must a relationship had begun between them but he's not tell like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the policetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Jo Callaghan|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage a man is found crucified on the outskirts top of St Andrews with a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her English Bull Terriersidekick, Benjythe AI detective Lock. SheIt's just had their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a postcard from Geoffrey Dark potential serial killer and he's a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in Provincetowntime, Cape Cod. He wishes that she was thereor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, but Clareout of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's struggling Guide to think of what he 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'actuallys 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 nowdown 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. Is he After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her boyfriendlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? |author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her exchildren, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -boyfriend? strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. She can't work it out Shortly afterwards, Etty and thinks that Geoffrey probably canGreg, find the body of Greg't eithers father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Work's about It was an easy assumption for the police to get very busy make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and she canthen committed suicide when he couldn't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firststand the guilt. TheyThe Salter children are not convinced but there're off somewhere top secrets little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=17874776811529900360|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Ghost Orchid|author=Martin WalkerJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a couple of days after old Drianthadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's funeral fault that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his sonhelp on difficult cases. GastonHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's father had sold t need the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure help of a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by psychologist only worked for a Russian oligarchwhile. Before he even got to go there he diedFinally, it was Robin, apparently of a heart attackDelaware's partner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the retirement home collected man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the proceeds swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the policy heir to an Italian shoe empire and Gaston she is married to an extremely rich man and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of it's not the farmhouseItalian. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out But which of favour when she announced that she them was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.the primary target?
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|isbn=Pronko178763681X|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Michael PronkoOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There were three young Chef 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, girls really if you to do what he wanted to be pedantic about their ages. Sukayana was Thai and shePaul ''somehow''d come to Japan in got the belief impression that shehe'd be able to pick up at the documentation to get school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the Statesproblems - are all his own. Celeste The one thing he hadn't expected was just fourteen and when we meet her she's already for someone to turn up dead of a heart attack caused by an overdose of amphetamines. Then there's RatanaUnfortunately, he was the person who's discovered the de facto leader of body and everyone knows that the group, but she's disappeared too with the group's passports, leaving Sukayana in police consider that person to be the midst of a scene of carnage at the Jack and Jill Studios. The dead bodies are definitely not props thoughprime suspect.
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|isbn=07278892301529421284|title=The RedLaying 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 a heatwave. In a gully, Red Snowa human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'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 convinced. Geary was a townie, 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. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Caro RamsaySimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In GlasgowOxford, Eric Callaghan there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wifeNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, Geraldine son of Ryan and daughterfather of Ryan, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burgeris not. He died within minutes, but his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues's not any of those things. He was 's white, originated from a genuine man trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a dead endpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. There were The two deaths to investigate in the north men are just different sides of Scotland: it wasn't thought wise to involve the local murder team as someone on same policing coin. Sometimes the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the casecombination works brilliantly well. Christmas - and a lot of snow were rapidly approachingSometimes it's problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B07S6DBCFT1529431735|title=Little Girls Tell TalesThe Winter Visitor|author=Rachel BennettJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2004 RosalieIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Beth and Dallin were walking in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and Dallinmore surprising. He's cottaged been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Beth and Dallin, both twelve-yearsThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-oldwife, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie saying that she's ill and it wasnhasn't long before she realised that she was lostto live. Trying It's hard to find her way back to the main path she found a skeletonfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but when she finally got stripped to the road she could never find her way back his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the bog when she'd seen the bodyboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Most people didn't believe her, putting the story down Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to her vivid imagination.home?
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|isbn=00082737900861541774|title=Remain SilentA Nye of Pheasants|author=Susie SteinerSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Dimitriformer colleague, Danny Maik, Matis is has taken a short holiday in a bad waySingapore to meet up with an old ally, vomiting and obviously traumatisedGuy Trueman. When Maik was involved in a street brawl - he's able to speak would later maintain that he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead''. Lukas was in his late teens facing a man armed with a knife - and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuaniakilled a Ghurka. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have a decent life ''and'' send money home planned to their familiesmurder the man. Sadly, it doesn't work out like thatNow he could be facing the death penalty. When they arrive in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a filthy house where several men have to share rooms diplomatic incident and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. It's modern slavery, which isnwouldn't uncommon amongst agricultural workershelp Danny at all.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B084VNRRD61521129886|title=Killing Mind They Had It Coming (D I Kim StoneGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Angela MarsonsKeith 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 looked very like 's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a suicide, baby and to begin with, that was how they're both DI Kim Stone and Keats, the pathologist called itdelighted. It was only later that Stone and her team realised that Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not she gets past the only hand holding the knifemorning sickness. It was murderGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. SammyStuart's parents. Myles and Kate were a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recently. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to accuse make ends meet and her husband of saying that Sammy was ready..son is not thriving. But what was Sammy ready ''for'Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn' t in his nature. The police and where the coroner have accepted that the death was their other daughtersuicide, Sophie? but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1838851011B0CK3MYJ56|title=The SidemanResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Caro RamsayAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=No one thought that It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it could happen and canwasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'quiteShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where' believe s the life experience that it backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlandbeen asked to look into something. ItJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's all down to her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes to be responsible for the murder of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) and Malcolm (her son)been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Haggerty has a waterJoyce -tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotlandand her parents, no less) Oliver and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided to go her own way rather than be hampered by the badge. She didnPam Hetherington - can't even bother telling her longunderstand what she was doing there -time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, that or how she was goingcould come to fall in front of a train. Since then there might have been the occasional text from her, but thatGreg's itbeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=B084H8F2CF1838954481|title=The Body Under the BridgeMisper|author=Nick LouthKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from the funeral service for Ryan Kennedy killed a serving police officer, particularly when he discovered : there's no doubt about that he was to take charge of the enquiry into a missing woman. Beatrice Ulbricht He was twentythe fifteen-year-five years old holding the gun and a student of music pointing it at the Royal College of MusicDI Kieran Shaw. She had been He pulled the trigger but due to play with the other members vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the Lysander String Quartet at murder and the Church manslaughter of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadn't turned upofficer. And so lives must go on. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained For DI Sarah Collins that Beatricemeans leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's father was Karldrawn into a wider investigation -Otto Ulbricht, Germany's Minister and back into the orbit of JusticeRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B083Z3ZZ611448309743|title=Broken Silence The Devil Stone (DS Nikki Parekh 2DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Liz MistryCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in In the village of Cronchie on the UK with his daughter Maria for West coast of Scotland, five members of a whilewealthy family are found murdered. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria was to be a nannyThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Stefan ends up doing slave labour The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-year-old girl'shadow' him.
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|isbn=00083901691529077699|title=Silent Cry The Raging Storm (Gaby Darin Book 1Two Rivers)|author=Jenny O'BrienAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alys Grant was only a few days old when her father took her out for the first time. Her mother''It's all bloody peculiar, Izzyisn't it, was tired and fell asleep, but when she woke a couple of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alys. There was a hand-delivered postcard which simply said: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've got Alys. Don't try to nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find usout, Charlie'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?
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|isbn=00081490891529427045|title=The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Jane CaseyKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Kim Weldon who found ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the first bits small town of Gasskas, where the body so-far- she was a mudlarker on the banks untapped natural resources of the Thames and when she turned over what looked like area have sparked a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in factcoming forward. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent Salander's niece's team would later find three other body partsmother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. Identification of the body It was not going to be easy, only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said quickly becomes obvious that she was working on Svala is a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadnremarkably gifted teenager who't been willing to share any s unaware of the details with Biancapart Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW71787636607|title=Access PointThe Trap|author=T R GabbayCatherine 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=ThrillersCrime|summary=When From the first page, we first meet Ula Mishkin sheknow that Nadine Walsh's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's helped party will not end well. The victim - a man who has been blind for decades - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to see an image of a hummingbirdcall the ambulance he so desperately needs. SheWhat we don's thirty-six years old and her life t know is who the man is about or why Nadine prefers to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a bushave him die. ItI's two years before we meet her again and in the meantime, shed better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incomehappening.
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|isbn=17864855750008530025|title=Magpie LaneMurder in the Family|author=Lucy AtkinsCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee she's talking to Nick LawIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the new college mastergarden of their West London home. Law's lately He had an injury on the back of the BBC and his head which could have happened if he doesn't come d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with an entirely good reputation: hehis murder and it's a bit now the subject of ''Infamous'', a bully and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversationtrue-crime show. She had A group of experts has been planning brought together to review the evidence and to return home take the investigation further. More to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nannythe point, but somehow she finds herself they're going to see Mariahdo this live on camera, the Danish wife of the masterepisode by episode. SheThere's pregnant no dump of the whole box set - and looking for help, not with the new baby bit with the master's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, but to no one elseshortage of cliffhangers. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolIt's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=17886380260241996104|title=Where Coming to 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 Innocent Die court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (D I RidpathA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=M J LeeMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume that One of the death main events of the young Chinese girl at Sarlat tourist season is the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, there was a lot re-enactment of blood and the knife was on the floor at the side liberation of the bed, She was due to be deported that day. But... how did town from the knife get into the secure centre English in 1370 and why was the girlBruno's room there to see the only one which was unlocked? show with some friends. DI Thomas Ridpath, the coronerIt's officerall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is sent to investigate and seriously injured when he quickly becomes suspiciousdeparts from the script. Luckily, There's a snag though: his doctor is there and the inquest man is due to open whisked away in a couple helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of dayssurvival but - as he' times a senior government employee, the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughter's body home with them. Ridpath man who runs Frenchelon - the military has just five days to solve the casestepped in. The coroner One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is disinclined to delay the inquest: for flying in with some of her, itfather's about giving closure to the parentsfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=14711660231529196388|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)The Trial|author=Kate RhodesRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November 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 D I Ben Kittomurdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's thirtyjust one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight -fifth birthday and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsit's not too long before Knight appears in court, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogancharged with Cliveden's body on a bonfiremurder. He'd obviously been alive when he Knight was put on told that the fire best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and can only have died a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing it's Taylor-Cameron and his only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks afterpupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. His instinct is to cover RoganKnight's body and he uses his sheepskin coat determined to do thisplead not guilty, with the result that hedespite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the prime suspectcontrary.
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