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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=18387700461786482126|title=Body LanguageThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=A K TurnerElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=TwentyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five'luxury' apartments -year-old Cassie Raven is when they discovered the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herbones of a child beneath a doorway. It's not something she's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will beThere was no skull. She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old HarrovianRuth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's very conscious of his position and isndifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't even inclined to ask for the view , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that one night they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each bodyspent together some three months ago. That Her condition will prove be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to be a mistakesudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=14722559170008551324|title=The Roots of Evil Devil You Know (Bob SkinnerD S Max Craigie)|author=Quintin JardineNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New YearIt's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at unusual for anyone from the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and Hardie family to approach the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonpolice. Jackson would be better-known to Neither side likes or has any respect for the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's reformed and prepared to tell the police where the new name reflects body of a new manmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse This person, he promises, is someone big and are dropped home not long into it will be worth the new yearpolice doing what he wants. Skinner's tempted And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to let serve the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for remainder of his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghsentence and to get an early parole date. SkinnerNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's not technically with even prepared to do the police now other thing that Hardie demanded - hemake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencehappening.
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|isbn=18003211040008405026|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 investigation ground to a 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 positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Body on the IslandKellerby Code|author=Nick LouthJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old Robert and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wifeStanza. Only that wasnRobert't who he wass a theatre director. SixtyHe's also self-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenhim. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going 's drunkenly confided how he feels to be set free on 2 July 2019Robert. He appeared to be Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a reformed character relationship had begun between them but he had 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengedark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQJo Callaghan|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was When a furious storm going man is found crucified on and she'd already refused the offer top of help from one man a hill in a big vehicleNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. WeIt'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is bundled into the car suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and driven offa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. There has been no sign of her - Will they be able to solve the case in time, or her body - in will Kat find herself taken off the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatecase and, potentially, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stopped.of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=David C Mason1035021803|title=PandoraThe Antique Hunter's GardenerGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston is 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 gardenerrequest for help from her beloved aunt, although what he did before he became a gardenerCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, he claimsArthur Crockleford, is classifieddead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. That is just 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 well because he is about antique hunters, she has not felt able to be caught up near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotcafe, where only he can save met and married James (on the rebound from the daylove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn=0956180523
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|isbn=18387731691398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's early 2016 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is at Windsor for the Easter Courtnot. She's having a dine Shortly afterwards, Etty and sleep at Greg, find the request body of Prince Charles, whoGreg's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought father, Duncan Ackerley, in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesriver. The immediate reaction is that one of It was an easy assumption for the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador police to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Sir David Attenborough. One then committed suicide when he couldn't bear to go down any of stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there''those'' roadss little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1529900360|title=The Coral BrideGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and- shut cases which didn't need the help of a female fisherwomanpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, making her living in a manDelaware's worldpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off She knew that the involvement was something that the coast of Quebecman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Detective Morales is called though. Two lovers were murdered in to come and head the investigationswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Although He was the signs seem heir to point an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, extremely rich man and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsit's not the Italian. At But which of them was the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.|isbn=1913193322primary target?
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 178763681X|title= The Last Resort Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 3.5 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a private islandresidential cookery school in Belgravia. They have been invited He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to an all-expenses paid retreat do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to test assist Paul, who had a brandbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -new product from and the mysterious Timeo Technology companyproblems - are all his own. The group includes a games designerone thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, social media influencer, gossip columnist he was the person who discovered the body and hedge fund managereveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect. Everyone seems to have an area }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of expertise those flash downpours that makes their attendance necessarythe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. All except Amelia whose presence is In a gully, a mystery. We follow human skeleton came to the group as they explore surface and forensic testing proved the islandbody to be Lee Geary, and each otherwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He's histories d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it becomes clear that they all could have been a dark secret they would rather keep hiddensimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. As 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 clock ticks downtime. 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, these well-kept secrets there are revealedtwo D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is really a gilded cagenot. He's not any of those things. In He's white, originated from a race against timetrailer park, Amelia must struggle barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his 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 uncover the reason a police procedural written for her attendance and protect the rest laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the guests from same policing coin. Sometimes the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. |isbn=1542020018}}  
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|isbn=05713626721529431735|title=SnowThe Winter Visitor|author=John BanvilleJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It''Wells February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, at least youwhich made Bruce Hopkins're a Wexford manreturn all the more surprising. He'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of d been exiled on the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at DunkirkCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The niceties return has come about because he's had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was letter from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-butex-shabby suitwife, marked him out as of Osbornesaying that she's class ill and obviously Protestanthasn't long to live. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, who - despite the different religions - was stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the habit boot of spending time at Ballyglass Housea stolen Ford Sierra. His horse was stabled there.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=17874776300861541774|title=The Postscript MurdersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Elly GriffithsSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldnDCI Domenic Jejeune't be suspicious s close friend and that was the view former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke a short holiday in Singapore to Peggy Smith's carermeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Natalka Kolisnyk Maik was adamant involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that there he was more to Peggy's death than met the eye facing a man armed with a knife - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that Peggy had worried suggested that she was being followedhe might have planned to murder the man. Then there was Now he could be facing the fact that Peggy was death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowt help Danny at all.
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|isbn=14721270131521129886|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a bit of work on handgood 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. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was Stuart's concerned about his managing directorsister, Harold CheesemanLucy, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did 's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not like it therethriving. This was unusualLucy, he says, as is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australianature. Then there was The police and the coroner have accepted that the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick death was convinced that his wifesuicide, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations but Stuart's prepared to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted pay Greg to know find out what happened on the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Geneva. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murdernight Gil died
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|isbn=1408712288B0CK3MYJ56|title=Still Life Responsibilities (DCI Karen PirieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Val McDermidAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1838954481|title=A Song of IsolationThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|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
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|isbn=02414254411448309743|title=The Thursday Murder ClubDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Richard OsmanCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=15098895151529077699|title=The Darkest Evening Raging Storm (D I Vera StanhopeTwo Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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?
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|isbn=15069094421529427045|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=15420174321787636607|title=The Nidderdale MurdersTrap|author=J R EllisCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=00083147211405957174|title=Truth Be ToldA Death at the Party|author=Kia AbdullahAmy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, 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 obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''effortfulInfamous'' family, a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. Flowers are sent for More to the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent point, they're going to thank and do this prompts a phone call in returnlive on camera, episode by episode. There are two sons 's no dump of the family, seventeenwhole box set -yearand no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-old Kamran father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and sixteenher step-year-old Adambrother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Their motherWe first meet Nancy outside the court, Sofia, regrets after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she didn't name them the other way round: s received a 'silent sentence'Adam and Kamran- she' trips off s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort rest of thingher life. Both boys go to Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite papers are making the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park homemost of it. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and all seemed to ''rich bitch'' might not be going well until the night when he was rapedprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|authorisbn=1529413680|title=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger A Chateau Under Siege (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=The Seven DoorsMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre One of the main events of any kind until we'the Sarlat tourist season is the re a full fifth -enactment of the liberation of the way throughtown from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. We start with our coupleIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, she a literature lecturerKerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he big in medical provision departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, man is whisked away in a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearshelicopter. The building A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughtersenior government employee, the man who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in and you're moving out'. NowOne daughter lives nearby and another, at this stage you may wellwho lives in California, if you know this is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre read=Crime|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, think so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us not too long before Knight appears in the 1980scourt, but nocharged with Cliveden's murder. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case Knight was told that has any bearing on what happens here, the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and seeing how an olderit's Taylor-middle aged couple live their livesCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedcontrary.|isbn=1913193381
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