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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=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= 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 daughter Diana, 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 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 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=05713626720008551324|title=SnowThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=John BanvilleNeil 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 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 responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not 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 (Historical)|summary=It''Well, at least you're s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a Wexford manhalt.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957 Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Osborne was master Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the Keelmore Hounds bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The niceties had What looked as though it was going to be established even when there was an open-and-shut case is now a Catholic priest dead on complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingexplanation 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. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, along obsessed with his goodupper-butclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-shabby suitobsessed, marked demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him out as of Osborne. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's class and obviously Protestantdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Scallanstown, who - despite 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 different religions - was two of them kissing in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therea dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1787477630Jo Callaghan|title=The Postscript Murders|author=Elly GriffithsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with man is found crucified on the top of a heart condition dies peacefully hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her armchairsidekick, it really shouldn't be suspicious and that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy SmithAI detective Lock. It's carertheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that But when there was more to Peggy's death than met the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that Peggy had worried that she was being followeddraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Then there was Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the fact that Peggy was case and, potentially, out of a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to know.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=14721270131035021803|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot The Antique Hunter's Guide to TrotMurder|author=M C Beaton 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 R W Greenthe 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 (on 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=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit of work on handCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directorHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Harold CheesemanAlec, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did is not like it there. This was unusualShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there was find the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifebody of Greg's father, SheratonDuncan Ackerley, was seeing another manin the river. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations It was an easy assumption for the police to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he wanted to know what couldn't stand the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Genevaguilt. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then Salter children are not convinced but there was the murder's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=14087122881529900360|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Ghost Orchid|author=Val McDermidJonathan 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 middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out help of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of psychologist only worked for a lobster potwhile. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and Finally, it didnwas Robin, Delaware't take too long to establish s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchmanshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghthough. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was the prime suspect Two lovers were murdered in the disappearance and possible murder swimming pool of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Aulda remote property in Bel Air. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been He was the last person heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to review the case, a couple of years earlier an extremely rich man and it seemed sensible to bring her into 's not the case at an early stageItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone178763681X|title=A Song of IsolationKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up 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 career way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that is only beginning to hit he'd be at the heights to retire school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of problems - are all things, though to his credit own. The one thing he would rather be working in forestryhadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateUnfortunately, but things are starting he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to feel wrong between thembe the prime suspect. |isbn=1913193365
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|isbn=02414254411529421284|title=The Thursday Murder ClubLaying Out the Bones|author=Richard OsmanKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first member It was one of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroftthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She used In a gully, a human skeleton came to be a nurse the surface and is thus forensic testing proved the perfect person for Elizabeth body to consult about how long it would take a person be Lee Geary, who has been stabbed to bleed outhad disappeared nine years earlier. Details of where He'd been a known drug user and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that had learning disabilities, so it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if shea simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'd received prompt medical helpt convinced. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it Geary was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubtownie, 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. They meet each Thursday Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (as that's cold cases to you might have guessedand me) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageinvestigate.
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|isbn=15098895151529425867|title=The Darkest Evening Lost and Never Found (A D I Vera StanhopeWilkins Mystery)|author=Ann CleevesSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seatfather of Ryan, particularly as the car door had been left openis not. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitationHe's not any of those things. She He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading'thoughts not ''really'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - shell suits and Hector was the black sheep trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the familysame policing coin. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in Sometimes the circumstancescombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=15069094421529431735|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryWinter Visitor|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonJames 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. The greatest hatredreturn 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 abducted, like the greatest virtue stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the worst dogs, is silentboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.'' Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774The |title =A Nye of this enjoyable crime proceduralPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, is from German romantic writer Jean PaulGuy Trueman. But who are the worst dogs Maik was involved in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will man. Now he could be thinking about unwarranted hatred all facing the way throughdeath penalty. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't: it's honesthelp Danny at all.
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|isbn=15420174321521129886|title=The Nidderdale MurdersThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=J R EllisKeith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The shooters at the butts were It's a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner of the moor good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a retired judgebaby and they're both delighted. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a bankerJoyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: Lucy, hesays, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn'd sold him an expensive car t in his nature. The police and Fraser the coroner have accepted that the death was being slow to pay. suicide, Other people had reason to comment on Fraserbut Stuart's attitude prepared to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult pay Greg to work forfind out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=0008314721B0CK3MYJ56|title=Truth Be ToldResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Kia AbdullahAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an It's the 1990s and Greg Mason'effortful'' familys twenty-eight years old. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent He used to thank and this prompts have a phone call high-flying job in returnthe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. There are two sons 'Shades of the familyCameron Strike', seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamyou might be thinking. Their motherNice bloke, Sofia, regrets but where's the life experience that she didn't name them backs up this profession? On the other way round: 'Adam hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and KamranHelen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what' trips s been written off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and AdamPam Hetherington - can'. Sofia worries about that sort t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of thinga train. Both boys go Greg's been asked to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedinvestigate.
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1838954481|title=The Seven DoorsMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for Ryan Kennedy killed a thriller police officer: there's no doubt about that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and decisions pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the council, being forced trigger but due to move out the vagaries of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building the jury system he's inherited, meanwhile, was found not guilty of both the murder and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but nomanslaughter of the officer. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing And so lives must go on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something For DI Sarah Collins that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until means leaving the point where capital and hoping for a quieter life in the evicted tenant countryside but when a missing teenager is found to have completely vanishedon her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|isbn=1913193381
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|isbn=14711792731448309743|title=House of CorrectionThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Nicci FrenchCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing five members of a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearswealthy family are found murdered. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a showerThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, unpleasant as the whole processes might bedeath will follow. And how did Tabitha get here? WellThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, on 21 December the body that's an easy conclusion given that two of Stuart Robert Rees was them 'discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with ' the renovations to Tabitha's housebody. So far as the police are concerned The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Tabitha DCI Christine Caplan is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered pulled in his bloodto 'shadow' him.
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|isbn=14087124151529077699|title=Cry BabyThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Mark BillinghamAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's June 1996 and footballall bloody peculiar, isn's European Championships are about to start in London. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and t it's one he has regularly. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guilty, but didnSir?'t take any action until the man's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself.
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|isbn=15294022711529427045|title=Murder on The Girl in the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Eagle's Talons|author=Helen CoxKarin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt Hartley's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into a spot Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of bandage nowGasskas, although where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the details are (mercifully) scantarea have sparked a gold rush. After a night of passion Halloran is called away The criminal underworld has not been slow in the early hours of the morningcoming forward. ThereSalander's niece's been a murder mother is the latest woman in Irendale, where Halloran used the area to live and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agohave vanished without trace. There are sufficient details It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the current murder to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered his wife - and others - is part Salander played in some way involved, despite being in prison. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy Kerrher father's death.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1787636607|title=BetrayalThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted It's a scene replicated all too often in from outside the leading party to cover early hours of the post morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a yearway to get home. You might Some are lucky and manage to get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the children who are ignorant night bus that will only go as far as one of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectoroutlying villages. YouThe woman all regret the 'll meet her ministrytaxi problem's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into particularly in the task light of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile'the missing women'. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken For one look at a newspaper image of Ursulayoung woman, and, knowing the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herhome. YouShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone'll meet s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the ministerial bodyguard and bus driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptlet her use his. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterThere's rape get looked at no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=14091874381405957174|title=The First LieA Death at the Party|author=A J ParkAmy Stuart|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On From the second of October 37first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim -yeara man -old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to find his house in darkness and call the front door openambulance he so desperately needs. His wife was in What we don't know is who the bedroom in a state of shock and in the bathroom there was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paul's paper-knifeis or why Nadine prefers to have him die. In that moment Paul takes I'd better give you a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides little more background so that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. Theyyou can understand what're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happeneds happening.
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|isbn=15294018010008530025|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)Murder in the Family|author=William ShawCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gram HickmanIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, who worked for in the garden of their West London home. He had an estate agent, took injury on the back of his girlfriend, Angela Booth, to a house head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his firm face had taken was marketingobviously deliberate. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and was on it's now the market for millions subject of pounds''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Gram was hoping that he could get Angela into bed A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and heto take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There'd brought a bottle s no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of prosecco alongcliffhangers. It was when searching for somewhere 's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to chill 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 bottle court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that he she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the body rest of a man in her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the freezer in papers are making the garagemost of it. DS Alexandra Cupidi ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and DC Jill Ferriter are on the case''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|authorisbn=Anders de la Motte1529413680|title=End A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of SummerPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the summer liberation of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He was chasing a rabbit, through the garden, town from the English in 1370 and into Bruno's there to see the maize field behindshow with some friends. He has not It's all been seen sincevery 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. In the present dayLuckily, Veronica Lindh his doctor is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for there and the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, man is whisked away in a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on to her jobhelicopter. ItA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's clear that she a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted stepped in restraining orders against her. One daughter lives nearby and another, a deal of therapywho lives in California, a change is flying in with some of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs tofather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|isbn=1785768239
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|isbn=17857656981529196388|title=Shed No TearsThe Trial|author=Caz FrearRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man who would become known as 'in the roommate killerframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, strangled three women in a fortnightcharged with Cliveden's murder. When he Knight was arrested he admitted told that the killings. A fourth death best barrister for him was attributed to him Jonathan Taylor- that Cameron of Holly Kemp Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- Cameron and on occasionshis pupil, Masters admitted to the killingAdam Green, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied itwho eventually represent him. He played with the police, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings Knight's determined to put him away for a long time and the CPS were plead not convinced about the Holly Kemp case. There was no body and once Masters was murdered in prisonguilty, no hope of progressing despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the case furthercontrary.
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