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|author= Deborah O'ConnorStuart Douglas|title= The CaptiveLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the cagedead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, intimately. It lurks in but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the corner help of her eyea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Soon They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, it will be occupieda link to death during the Second World War. Then what But is there really a link between the deaths? What if he speaks And will they manage to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts himuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=18387726501803368209
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|isbn=18388873340008517061|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Angela MarsonsStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The need for coffee overtook Stone - There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the course had been a complete waste future of time for his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as she knew that she was equally rude to everyone. It was moving in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight together would mean a lot of a little girl clutching a teddy bear 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 absence of future she wants for herself and her mother. daughter? Stone For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Bryant didn't realise putting the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as future on the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterback burner. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?
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|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 Ollie and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is at Windsor not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the Easter Courtpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. SheThe 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 having a dine 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 sleep at -shut cases which didn't need the request help of Prince Charlesa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, whoit was Robin, Delaware's attempting partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to raise money from some an extremely rich Russians man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for one Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of his pet projectsgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. TherePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd been be at the school to assist Paul, who had a distinctly Russian flavour broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the evening person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the performers brought British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to play the piano has surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been found dead in a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what can only be called embarrassing circumstanceswas he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. The immediate reaction Raymond Wilkins is that one of the guests Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is responsiblenot. He's not any of those things. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerHe's white, an ex-ambassador to Moscoworiginated from a trailer park, the Archbishop barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Canterbury shell suits and Sir David Attenboroughtrackies. One couldnThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you't bear re being introduced to go down any a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'thoses ill and hasn't long to live. It' roadss hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard0861541774|title=The Coral BrideA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an oddity - a female fisherwomanold ally, making her living Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man's worldarmed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast Initially, he faced a charge of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to come and head murder the investigationman. Although Now he could be facing the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsdeath penalty. At the same time Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny 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 difficultiesall.|isbn=1913193322
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1521129886|title= The Last Resort They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 3.5 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an all-expenses paid retreat investigator to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companypoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The group includes It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist baby and hedge fund managerthey're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Everyone seems Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessarykilled himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. All except Amelia whose presence Lucy, he says, is a mysteryconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. We follow The police and the group as they explore coroner have accepted that the islanddeath was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's the 1990s and each otherGreg Mason's histories and twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it becomes clear that they all have wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. As Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the clock ticks downother hand, these wellhe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-kept secrets are revealedsisters, or rather, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a gilded cagetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. In a race against time Joyce - and her parents, Amelia must struggle Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest fall in front of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall thema train. Greg's been asked to investigate. |isbn=1542020018}}  
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|isbn=05713626721838954481|title=SnowThe Misper|author=John BanvilleKate London|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Well, at least you're Ryan Kennedy killed a Wexford man.police officer: there'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957s no doubt about that. Osborne He was master of the Keelmore Hounds fifteen-year-old holding the gun and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons pointing it at DunkirkDI Kieran Shaw. The niceties had He pulled the trigger but due to be established even when there the vagaries of the jury system he was a Catholic priest dead on found not guilty of both the murder and the library floor with some precious bits manslaughter of his anatomy missingthe officer. And so lives must go on. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and this, along with his good-hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osbornewhen a missing teenager is found on her territory she's class drawn into a wider investigation - and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite back into the different religions - was in the habit orbit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=17874776301448309743|title=The Postscript MurdersDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Elly GriffithsCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldn't be suspicious and wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that was if the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smith's carerstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that there was more to Peggy's death than met the eye - particularly as she knew an easy conclusion given that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followed. Then there was the fact that Peggy was a two of them 'murder consultantdiscovered' who helped authors with knotty plot lines the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to know'shadow' him.
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|isbn=14721270131529077699|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit of work on hand. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing director''It's all bloody peculiar, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like isn't it there. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wife, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Geneva. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll.Sir?''
Then there was Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the murderlocal pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. 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 part Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=14087122881787636607|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Trap|author=Val McDermidCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 's a scene replicated all too often in the middle early hours of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of St Monans pulled clubs and looking for a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potway to get home. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd Some are lucky and DS Daisy Mortimer manage to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the man was Paul Allard'taxi problem', ostensibly a Frenchman, but particularly in reality James Auld the light of Edinburgh'the missing women'. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was For one young woman, the prime suspect in final stop on the disappearance and possible murder bus leaves her a long way short of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldher home. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had been the last person chance to review beg the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible bus driver to bring let her into the case at an early stageuse his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1405957174|title=A Song of IsolationDeath at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a career that man - is only beginning dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to hit call the heights to retire to ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though man is or why Nadine prefers to his credit he would rather be working in forestryhave him die. They have found I'd better give you a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between themlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening. |isbn=1913193365
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|isbn=02414254410008530025|title=The Thursday Murder Clubin the Family|author=Richard OsmanCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first member 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 The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcrofttheir 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. She used to be a nurse Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and is thus it's now the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take subject of ''Infamous'', a person who true-crime show. A group of experts has been stabbed brought together to bleed outreview the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Details There's no dump of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about fortythe whole box set -five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpno shortage of cliffhangers. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd'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 Villagecompelling viewing.
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|isbn=15098895150241996104|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Coming to Find You|author=Ann CleevesJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard. If she hadnNancy't the car might not have been found until the morning s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seather step-brother, Martin, particularly as the car door had has been left openconvicted of their murder. Vera took We first meet Nancy outside the boy and drove to the nearest habitationcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. She The barrister tells her that she's received a 'thoughtsilent sentence'- she' it would be the village s not been found guilty of anything but it was Brockburn, will have to live with what happened for the ancestral home rest of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and Hector was the black sheep papers are making the most of the familyit. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be embarrassing, printed but there was little else that she could do in the circumstancesis undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15069094421529413680|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The greatest hatred, like One of the greatest virtue and main events of the worst dogs, Sarlat tourist season is silent.'' The title the re-enactment of the liberation of this enjoyable crime procedural, is the town from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are the worst dogs English in de Lacey Davidson1370 and Bruno's latest novel and for whom is there to see the hatred? This mystery will last show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the way to man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the very last script. Luckily, his doctor is there and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way throughman is whisked away in a helicopter. It sounds uncomfortable A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - but it isnas he't: its a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's honestfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=15420174321529196388|title=The Nidderdale MurdersTrial|author=J R EllisRob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Grant Cliveden was a Friday in mid-September 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 the shoot he was held on murdered in plain sight at the grouse moor near NiddersgillOld Bailey. The shooters at There's just one man in the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to frame for his friends) murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the owner best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the moor Stag Court Chambers and a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner it's Taylor-Cameron and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsleyhis pupil, Adam Green, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold eventually represent him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment on FraserKnight's attitude determined to money: his gamekeeperplead not guilty, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to work forthe contrary.
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