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|isbnauthor=1800321104Stuart Douglas|title=The Body on Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Island|author=Nick LouthDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading During location filming for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasnLeggit't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the murder dead body of five boys between a woman on the ages edge of ten and seventeena reservoir. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged enlists the whereabouts help of the body of one of his victimsa fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. The Bogeyman was going They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be set free on 2 July 2019death during the Second World War. He appeared But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to be a reformed character but he had a list of uncover who is responsible before more people upon whom he wished to exact revenge.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0008517061|title=The Long Dark RoadDeath in a Lonely Place|author=P R BlackStig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student 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 went missing 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 walked along wants for herself and her daughter? For the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgemoment 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. There 5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a furious storm going on and sheto hold seventy-five 'luxury'd already refused apartments - when they discovered the offer bones of help from one man in a big vehiclechild 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. WeIt'll see - s difficult as Ruth knows, but no one else will know - Nelson doesn't, that another car stops and Stephanie she is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign pregnant with his child as a result of her - or her body - in the two years sinceone night they spent together some three months ago. Georgia is back is FerngateHer condition will be obvious before long, determined to find out what happened and she's not going least because Ruth is prone to be stoppedsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=David C Mason0008551324|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary= John Cranston 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 a gardener, although what struggling in prison and he did before he became 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a gardenermissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he claimspromises, is classifiedsomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. That is just as well because And what he wants is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plottransferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, where only he can save is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the dayother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=18387731690008405026|title=Her Majesty A Stranger in the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=S J BennettJane Casey

|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Courtsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's having a dine was never found and sleep at the request of Prince Charlesinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsand her father are dead in their bed. ThereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to s something about the evening and one positioning of the performers brought in bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesan open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. The immediate reaction Kerrigan is convinced that one of the guests is responsibleexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, an exobsessed with his upper-ambassador to Moscowclass friends, the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert and Sir David AttenboroughStanza. Robert's a theatre director. One couldnHe't bear s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to go down any of 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'thoses position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'' roadss not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Roxanne BouchardJo Callaghan|title=The Coral BrideLeave No Trace

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living in When a man's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off crucified on the coast top of Quebeca hill in Nuneaton, Detective Morales is called in DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to come and head the investigationcase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionIt's their first live case together, Morales feels something more sinister having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is going ona second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. At Will they be able to solve the same case in time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up sonor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, Sebastien arriving at his doorpotentially, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.out of a career?|isbn=1913193322139851120X

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1035021803|title= The Last Resort Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been invited back to an all-expenses paid retreat to test the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a brand-new product request for help from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyher beloved aunt, Carole. The group includes a games designer Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, social media influencerArthur Crockleford, gossip columnist is dead and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems the circumstances seem suspicious, to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessarysay the least. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow Arthur was the group as they explore reason why Freya had not been back to the islandvillage: Arthur, she feels, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that let her down badly. Even though they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenwere in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. As After the clock ticks downsplit, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In she worked in a race against timecafe, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance met and protect the rest of married James (on the guests rebound from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn=1542020018}}  

|isbn=05713626721398524085|title=SnowHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=John BanvilleNicci French

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Wells fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, at least you're a Wexford manis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Osborne It was master of an easy assumption for the Keelmore Hounds police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and had done something memorable with then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkguilt. The niceties Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had to be established been badly injured but he felt responsible and even when there after Alex recovered, Sturgis was a Catholic priest dead reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the library floor with some precious bits help of his anatomy missinga psychologist only worked for a while. Strafford Finally, it was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisRobin, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of OsborneDelaware's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstownpartner, who - despite nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the different religions - involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the habit swimming pool of spending time at Ballyglass Housea remote property in Bel Air. His horse He was stabled therethe heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=1787477630178763681X|title=The Postscript MurdersKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Elly GriffithsOrlando Murrin

|summary=When Chef Paul Delamare took a 90-year-old-woman with teaching job at a heart condition dies peacefully residential cookery school in her armchair, it really shouldnBelgravia. He didn't be suspicious really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke women to Peggy Smith's carerdo what he wanted. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that there was more he'd be at the school to Peggyassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's death than met t turn out that way. The teaching - and the eye problems - particularly as she knew that there are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedfor someone to turn up dead. Then there Unfortunately, he was the fact person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need person to knowbe the prime suspect.

|isbn=14721270131529421284|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotLaying Out the Bones|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenKate Webb

|summary=Raisin Investigations It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a 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 quite learning disabilities, so it could have been a bit simple case of work misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on handSalisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The chairman 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=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there 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 Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directorRyan, Harold Cheesemanis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, who had apparently returned originated from Australia because a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wife did 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 police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not like . The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it there'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. This was unusual, He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife had died before Cheeseman went , saying that she's ill and hasn't long to Australialive. Then there was It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the Chadwick divorce: boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|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, Guy Trueman. Chadwick Maik was convinced involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that his wife, Sheraton, he was seeing another facing a manarmed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to instal listening devices in murder the staff canteen: man. Now he wanted could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to know what the staff were saying point where he'll warn someone about him how much he charges. It's 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 baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his secretarysister, Lucy, who was from Geneva's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. ApparentlyLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the murdernight Gil died. 

|isbn=1408712288B0CK3MYJ56|title=Still Life Responsibilities (DCI Karen PirieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Val McDermidAnn Macarthur

|summary=It was 's the middle of February 1990s and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. It fell He used to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and have a high-flying job in the city but it didnwasn't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allardsatisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', ostensibly a Frenchmanyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. A decade earlier hewhere's gone missing when he was the prime suspect in life experience that backs up this profession? On the disappearance other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and possible murder of his brotherHelen are half-sisters, prominent civil servantor rather, Iain Auldthey were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. DCI Karen PirieJoyce - and her parents, as head Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had a train. Greg's been the last person asked to review the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stageinvestigate.

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1838954481|title=A Song of IsolationThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=34

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Ryan Kennedy killed a career police officer: there's no doubt about that is only beginning to hit . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the heights to retire trigger but due to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant vagaries of all things, though to his credit the jury system he would rather be working in forestrywas found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. They have For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found a hideaway on her territory she's drawn into a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between themwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy. |isbn=1913193365

|isbn=02414254411448309743|title=The Thursday Murder ClubDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Richard OsmanCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=The first member In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcrofta wealthy family are found murdered. She used to be a nurse and The only item missing from the home is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Details of where and how The only suspects are exchanged and Joyce confirms known Satanists but in many ways, that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpbody. It didn The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 't put Joyce off her shepherdshadow's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagehim.

|isbn=15098895151529077699|title=The Darkest Evening Raging Storm (D I Vera StanhopeTwo Rivers)

|summary=''It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. If she hadn't Jem Rosco blew into the car might not have been found until local pub one evening in the morning middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and who knows what would have happened dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the toddler strapped into the car seatvillage of Greystone, particularly as the car door had been left openin Devon. Vera took Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the boy world sailor and drove to the nearest habitationall round ''celebrity''. She I ''nearly''thoughtsaid 'all-round good egg' it would be the village but it was Brockburnas we'll find out, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - he could be more than a little bit close with money and Hector was the black sheep of his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the family. money for his first boat? 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 How did he finance the circumstances.trip?

|isbn=15069094421529427045|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonKarin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=''The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent.Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.

The title Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of this enjoyable crime proceduralGasskas, is from German romantic writer Jean Paulwhere the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. But who are the worst dogs The criminal underworld has not been slow in de Lacey Davidsoncoming forward. Salander's niece's latest novel and for whom mother is the hatred? This mystery will last all latest woman in the way area to the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way throughhave vanished without trace. It sounds uncomfortable - was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it isnquickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who't: its unaware of the part Salander played in her father's honestdeath.

|isbn=15420174321787636607|title=The Nidderdale MurdersTrap|author=J R EllisCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=It was 's a Friday scene replicated all too often in mid-September when the shoot was held on early hours of the grouse moor near Niddersgillmorning. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner Drunken revellers spilling out of the moor clubs and looking for a retired judgeway to get home. James Symonds was a local landowner Some are lucky and Henry Saunders was a bankermanage to get one of the few taxis available. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsleywoman all regret the 'taxi problem', who dealt particularly in exclusive cars in nearby Riponthe light of 'the missing women'. Rawnsley had For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to paylong way short of her home. Other people She had reason intended to ring someone to comment on Frasercome and collect her - but her phone's attitude dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to money: let her use his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy . There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and very difficult to work forin high-heeled shoes.

|isbn=00083147211405957174|title=Truth Be ToldA Death at the Party|author=Kia AbdullahAmy Stuart|rating=54

|summary=The Hadids are an From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh''effortful'' familys party will not end well. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamambulance he so desperately needs. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didnWhat we don't name them know is who the other way round: man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue d better give you a little more background so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adamthat you can understand what'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go 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 rapeds happening.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0008530025|title=The Seven DoorsMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Come here for a thriller It was in December 2003 that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our coupleher stepfather, she a literature lecturerLuke Ryder, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out garden of their West London home, a building that . He had existed throughout her life since childhood and an injury on the back of his head which theycould have happened if he'd occupied for over thirty yearsslipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The building heTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant now the subject of 'take a hike, I'm moving in and youInfamous're moving out', a true-crime show. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going A group of experts has been brought together to be a throwback review the evidence and to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in take the 1980s, but noinvestigation further. We avoid genre completelyMore to the point, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing they're going to do this live on what happens herecamera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesno shortage of cliffhangers. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedIt's compelling viewing.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792730241996104|title=House 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 Correctiontheir 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 (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Nicci FrenchMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheOne 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 in prison, on remandthere to see the show with some friends. SheIt's sharing a cell with Michaelaall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, who's more caring than she first appearsthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. She delivers tough love Luckily, his doctor is there and gets Tabitha eating the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and drinking friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - and encourages her to have as he's a showersenior government employee, unpleasant as the whole processes might beman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. And how did Tabitha get here? WellOne daughter lives nearby and another, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered who lives in her garden shed by Andrew KaneCalifornia, who was helping is flying in with the renovations to Tabithasome of her father's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees friends for a pre- and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodarranged holiday.

|isbn=14087124151529196388|title=Cry BabyThe Trial|author=Mark BillinghamRob Rinder

|summary=It's June 1996 Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and football's European Championships are looked up to by just about to start everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in Londonplain sight at the Old Bailey. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and itThere's just one he has regularly. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guilty, but didn't take any action until in the manframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with their sons Kieron and Josh. ItCliveden's a happy combination in murder. Knight was told that the boys are devoted to each other best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- despite differences in the where Cameron and how they live - the women are best friendshis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings in the park and then dash off Knight's determined to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing the hiding plead not guilty, despite all Taylor- but he returned tearfully Cameron's recommendations to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieroncontrary.