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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=BetrayalLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post During location filming for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she canhis 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit't believe she deserves, and leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the children who are ignorant dead body of just how she spent all her empathy for them a woman on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task edge of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profilereservoir. You'll certainly meet a homeless trampThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulabut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and, knowing her he enlists the help of olda fellow actor, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. You'll meet They travel across the ministerial bodyguard country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and driver , seemingly, a link to death during the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptSecond World War. But as for the first ministerial case, of is there really a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with link between the woman have been wiped…deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19131934031803368209

|isbn=14091874380008517061|title=The First LieDeath in a Lonely Place|author=A J ParkStig Abell|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the second future of October 37-year-old barristerhis life with his vet girlfriend, Paul ReeveLivia and her daughter Diana, returned home at 9 pm as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to find his house move in darkness 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 front door open. His wife was moment they’re enjoying life in the bedroom in a state of shock present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bathroom there bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with PaulDCI Harry Nelson. It's paper-knifedifficult 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. In that moment Paul takes a decision that Her condition will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are obvious before long, not going least because Ruth is prone to ring the police and tell the truth. They're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15294018010008551324|title=Grave's End The Devil You Know (DS Alexandra CupidiD S Max Craigie)|author=William ShawNeil Lancaster

|summary=Gram Hickman, who worked It's unusual for an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela Booth, anyone from the Hardie family to a house which his firm was marketingapproach the police. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was on the market responsible for millions of poundsher death. Gram was hoping that This person, he could get Angela into bed promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he'd brought a bottle wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of prosecco alonghis sentence and to get an early parole date. It was when searching for somewhere Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to chill do the bottle other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that he DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the body of investigation ground to a man halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the freezer in positioning of the garagebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. DS Alexandra Cupidi What looked as though it was going to be an open-and DC Jill Ferriter -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, Una Burt) are on 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 theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the casetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Anders de la MotteJo Callaghan|title=End of SummerLeave No Trace

|summary= In When a man is found crucified on the summer top of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He was chasing a rabbithill in Nuneaton, through DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the gardencase alongside her sidekick, and into the maize field behindAI detective Lock. He has not It's their first live case together, having previously been seen sincevery successful with several cold cases. In the present dayBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Veronica Lindh Kat is suddenly struggling with a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, potential serial killer and a scar on her arm very high profile case that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on draws a lot of unwanted attention to her jobtheir AI Future Policing project. It's clear that she has just returned Will they be able to work after an episode that seems to have resulted solve the case in restraining orders against hertime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, a deal out of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs to.career?|isbn=1785768239139851120X

|isbn=17857656981035021803|title=Shed No TearsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Caz FrearC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, the man who would become known as It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the roommate killerEnglish country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, strangled three women in a fortnightCarole. When he was arrested he admitted Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the killingsleast. A fourth death Arthur was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - and on occasions, Masters admitted the reason why Freya had not been back to the killingvillage: Arthur, then he denied it - then admitted itshe feels, then denied itlet her down badly. He played with the policeEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings she has not felt able to put him away for a long time and be near the CPS were not convinced about man or pursue the Holly Kemp caseprofession she loved. There was no body After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and once Masters married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing the case further) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Hazel Barkworth1398524085|title= HeatstrokeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Too hot to sleeps fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Too hot to think straight Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Too hot to go back'' During a British heatwave 15are all worried but -yearstrangely -oldher husband, Lily DixonAlec, has left home and is reported missingnot. Rachel is a teacher at Lily's school Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the mother body of Mia, LilyGreg's best friendfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. As Lily's family and It was an easy assumption for the police struggle to find any evidence make that may lead to Lily, Rachel takes it upon herself to start looking for cluesDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. However, as the case goes The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily with their lives and finds herself crossing boundaries, breaking trust and facing some impossible choiceswonder about what really happened. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want to be found? And will life for Rachel ever be the same again?|isbn=1472265602

|isbn=17873014351529900360|title=Dark WatersThe Ghost Orchid|author=G R HallidayJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted 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 drive down the private road in Glen Turritask for his help on difficult cases. It was a long road through some breathHis assertions that there were only open-taking scenery and she could push -shut cases which didn't need the car to its limits without fear help of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treepsychologist only worked for a while. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she Finally, it wasRobin, but it obviously wasnDelaware't a conventional hospitals partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She'd made her first mistake some time agoknew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, although though. Two lovers were murdered in the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for swimming pool of a long timeremote property in Bel Air. She'd made it when He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she chose is married to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=0008214700178763681X|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Roz WatkinsOrlando Murrin

|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with the case of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a missing teenagerresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Violet Armstrong is well-known as He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a vlogger - championing the cause way of meat-eating. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini getting both men and has attracted the attention of animal rights activistswomen to do what he wanted. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (Paul ''obviouslysomehow'' she only got the job because sheimpression that he's d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a woman) because shebroken arm, but it didn's a vegetariant turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. As if the case wasnThe one thing he hadn't enoughexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, Meg's father is coming to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years he was the person who discovered the body and Jai's convinced everyone knows that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and the police consider that she wants more, but he doesn'tperson to be the prime suspect.

|isbn=17808998581529421284|title=To Tell You Laying Out the TruthBones|author=Gilly MacmillanKate Webb

|summary=When Lucy Bewley It was nine-years-old she crept out one of those flash downpours that the house on British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the night of surface and forensic testing proved the summer solstice body to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Her four-year-old brotherHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, Teddy, would so it could have woken the house if she hadnbeen a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't taken him with herconvinced. But in 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 early hours time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the morningMajor 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=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, Lucy returned home without Teddythere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, hoping that he would have got home before heris not. He's not any of those things. He hadn't s white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and no one has seen him sincetrackies. LucyThey's story was crucial re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to the a police investigationprocedural written for laughs. Well, but you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it keeps subtly changing's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Lucy 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. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is being advised by her imaginary friendabducted, Eliza Grey stripped to his underwear and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell sent to a watery grave in the policeboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbn=B0859115X50861541774|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Marion ToddSteve Burrows

|summary=When we DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrieran old ally, BenjyGuy Trueman. She's just had Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a postcard from Geoffrey Dark knife - and he's in Provincetown, Cape Codkilled a Ghurka. He wishes that she was thereInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but Clare's struggling evidence came to think of what light that suggested that he ''actually'' is might have planned to her nowmurder the man. Is Now he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? could be facing the death penalty. She can't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably Domenic Jejeune can't either. Work's about do nothing to get very busy help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she canwouldn't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. They're off somewhere top secrethelp Danny at all.

|isbn=17874776811521129886|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock They Had It Coming (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Martin WalkerKeith Redfern

|summary=It was a couple of days after old DriantGreg Mason's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got just beginning to get his confidence as an angry phone call from his soninvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. GastonIt's father had sold a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the family farm baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used -law appears to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchhave killed himself. Before he even got to go there he diedStuart's concerned about his sister, apparently of a heart attackLucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhouseher son is not thriving. The family hadnLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away in his nature. The police and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced the coroner have accepted that she the death was gaysuicide, but they werenStuart't expecting s prepared to pay Greg to be almost completely disinheritedfind out what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=0727889230B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Red, Red SnowResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Caro RamsayAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to It's the ice show with his wife, Geraldine 1990s and daughter, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet BurgerGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He died within minutes, but his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues. He was used to have a genuine man and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead end. There were two deaths to investigate high-flying job in the north of Scotland: city but it wasn't thought wise to involve satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the local murder team as someone on life experience that backs up this profession? On the Glen Riske police force other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was indirectly involved killed in the casewhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Christmas Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a lot of snow were rapidly approachingtrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.

|isbn=B07S6DBCFT1838954481|title=Little Girls Tell TalesThe Misper|author=Rachel BennettKate London

|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and DallinRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's cottageno doubt about that. Beth and Dallin, both twelve-years-old, got ahead of tenHe was the fifteen-year-old Rosalie holding the gun and pointing it wasn't long before she realised that she was lostat DI Kieran Shaw. Trying to find her way back He pulled the trigger but due to the main path she vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a skeleton, quieter life in the countryside but when she finally got to the road she could never find a missing teenager is found on her way back to the bog when territory she'd seen s drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the body. Most people didn't believe her, putting the story down to her vivid imaginationorbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=00082737901448309743|title=Remain SilentThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Susie SteinerCaro Ramsay

|summary=When we first meet Matis and DimitriIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Matis is in five members of a bad way, vomiting and obviously traumatisedwealthy family are found murdered. When he's able to speak he tells Dimitri The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that ''Lukas if the stone is dead''removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Lukas was The only suspects are known Satanists but in his late teens and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. Theymany ways, that'd answered s an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have a decent life easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'and'' send money home to their familiesthe body. Sadly The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. It's modern slavery, which isnshadow't uncommon amongst agricultural workershim.

|isbn=B084VNRRD61529077699|title=Killing Mind The Raging Storm (D Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I Kim Stone)''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Angela MarsonsKarin Smirnoff

|summary=It looked very like a suicide, and ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to begin with, that was how both DI Kim Stone and Keatsthe small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the pathologist called itarea to have vanished without trace. It was only later with reluctance that Stone and Salander became her team realised niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that when Samantha Brown cut Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her throat, hers was not the only hand holding the knifefather's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=It was murder. Sammy's parentsa scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Myles Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Kate were looking for a little bit reluctant way to say what their daughter had been doing recentlyget home. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about Some are lucky and manage to accuse her husband get one of saying the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that Sammy was readywill 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. But what was Sammy ready ''forShe 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 where was their other daughter, Sophie?in high-heeled shoes.

|isbn=18388510111405957174|title=The SidemanA Death at the Party|author=Caro RamsayAmy Stuart

|summary=No one thought that it could happen and can't ''quite'' believe From the first page, we know that it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotland. ItNadine Walsh'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)party will not end well. Haggerty has The victim - a waterman -tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotland, is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no less) and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided effort to go her own way rather than be hampered by call the badgeambulance he so desperately needs. She didnWhat we don't even bother telling her long-time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, that she was goingknow is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Since then there might have been the occasional text from her, but I'd better give you a little more background so thatyou can understand what's ithappening.

|isbn=B084H8F2CF0008530025|title=The Body Under Murder in the BridgeFamily|author=Nick LouthCara Hunter

|summary=DCI Craig Gillard It was annoyed to be pulled away from in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the funeral service for a serving police officerbody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, particularly when he discovered that in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he 'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was to take charge of the enquiry into a missing womanobviously deliberate. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five Twenty years old later, no one has been charged with his murder and a student of music at it's now the Royal College subject of Music''Infamous'', a true-crime show. She had A group of experts has been due brought together to play with review the other members of evidence and to take the Lysander String Quartet at investigation further. More to the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadnpoint, they't turned upre going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that BeatriceThere's father was Karlno dump of the whole box set -Otto Ulbricht, Germanyand no shortage of cliffhangers. It's Minister of Justicecompelling viewing.

|isbn=B083Z3ZZ610241996104|title=Broken Silence 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 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 (DS Nikki Parekh 2A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Liz MistryMartin Walker

|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the UK show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his daughter Maria for doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a whilehelicopter. He came expecting to work A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a gardener and Maria was to be a nannysenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Stefan ends up doing slave labour One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-yearpre-old girlarranged holiday.