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|author= Gunnar StaalesenStuart Douglas|title= Fallen AngelsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 23.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg VeumDuring 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, lone wolf 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 backburner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. After attending Was this a former friendritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's funeraldifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, Veum catches up that she is pregnant with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the sins body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the past are exposed police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the light remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the presentother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds 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 Veum is thrust into an the investigation ground to root out 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 clues hidden in his own history bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to catch be an open-and-shut case is now a killercomplex 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=19131930630571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1529410347Jo Callaghan|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken When a place man is found crucified on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course top of a hill in Durham. It's an unusual place Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously richcase alongside her sidekick, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehow, to scrape together the moneyAI detective Lock. Grace, whoIt's 22their first live case together, comes into the last categoryhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that if that was what she chose draws a lot of unwanted attention to do then they were finished with hertheir AI Future Policing project. Not long after she started Will they be able to solve the coursecase in time, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - or will Kat find herself taken off the case and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance , potentially, out of a student from a year ago.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1035021803|title= The CaptiveAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the cageEnglish country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, intimatelyto say the least. It lurks in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the corner of village: Arthur, she feels, let her eyedown badly. Soon Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it will she has not felt able to be occupiednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. Then what? What if he speaks to After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=18388873341398524085|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Angela MarsonsNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 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, is 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 police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The 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=DI Kim Stone It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and DS Jim Bryant were even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingdifficult cases. The His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been a complete waste of time while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for her as she help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she was equally rude to everyoneloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. It was Two lovers were murdered in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight swimming pool of a little girl clutching a teddy bear remote property in the absence of her motherBel Air. Stone and Bryant didn't realise He was the extent heir to which this case was going an Italian shoe empire and she is married to occupy their minds as an extremely rich man and it's not the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterItalian. Her neck had been broken and it had all But which of them was the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her childprimary target?
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|isbn=1838770046178763681X|title=Body LanguageKnife Skills for Beginners|author=A K TurnerOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician 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 getting both men and not only does she talk women to the dead, she also hears do what they have to say to herhe wanted. ItPaul 's not something she's inclined to share with people as shesomehow'' got the impression that he's pretty certain about what their reaction will d be. She's certainly not going at the school to share it with the new pathologistassist Paul, Dr Archie Chuffwho had a broken arm, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and old Harrovianthe problems - are all his own. He's very conscious of his position and isnThe one thing he hadn't even inclined expected was for someone to ask for turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the view of person who discovered the anatomical pathology technicians despite body and everyone knows that the fact police consider that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove person to be a mistakethe prime suspect.
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|isbn=14722559171529421284|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Laying Out the Bones|author=Quintin JardineKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner It was celebrating at one of those flash downpours that the golf club with his wifeBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the man with whom she shares a housebody to be Lee Geary, Dominic Jacksonwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Jackson would be better-He'd been a known to the criminal fraternity drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith misadventure but heDI Matt Lockyer wasn's reformed and the new name reflects t convinced. Geary was a new man. townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at There are connections to the clubhouse suicide of Holly Gilbert and are dropped home to two other deaths which were not long into considered suspicious at the new yeartime. Skinner's tempted to let Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the phone ring but knows Major Crimes Review Unit (that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge cold cases to you and experienceme) investigate.
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|isbn=18003211041529425867|title=The Body on the IslandLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Nick LouthSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldIn Oxford, heading for HMP Spring Hillthere are two D I Wilkins. Steve Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and had served six years for the manslaughter father of his wifeRyan, is not. Only that wasnHe't who he wass not any of those things. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of ten shell suits and seventeentrackies. He was They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being ghosted out of Wakefield and into introduced to a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the body of one of his victimssame policing coin. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeSometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1529431735|title=The Long Dark RoadWinter Visitor|author=P R BlackJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIt's HealeyFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along return all the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgemore surprising. There was a furious storm going on and sheHe'd already refused been exiled on the offer of help from one man in Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a big vehicledecade. WeThe return has come about because he'll see - but no one else will know s had a letter from his ex- wife, saying that another car stops she's ill and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offhasn't long to live. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is back is Ferngateabducted, determined stripped to find out what happened his underwear and she's not going sent to be stoppeda 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=David C Mason0861541774|title=Pandora's GardenerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a gardenershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, although what Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he did before would later maintain that he became was facing a gardenerman armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he claims, is classifiedfaced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. That is just as well because Now he is about could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be caught up in help as any interference from another police force could provoke a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the daydiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. |isbn=0956180523
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|isbn=18387731691521129886|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=S J BennettKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItGreg Mason's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the Easter Courtpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. SheIt's having a dine good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and sleep at they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the request of Prince Charlesmorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's attempting struggling to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. ThereLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought t in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstanceshis nature. The immediate reaction is police and the coroner have accepted that one of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscowdeath was suicide, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldnbut Stuart't bear s prepared to pay Greg to go down any of ''those'' roadsfind out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Roxanne BouchardB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Coral BrideResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty- eight years old. He used to have a female fisherwoman, making her living high-flying job in a manthe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's worldnow set himself up as a private investigator. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast 'Shades of QuebecCameron Strike', Detective Morales is called in to come and head you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the investigation. life experience that backs up this profession? Although On the signs seem other hand, he has been asked to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels look into something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigationJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, he also has his grown up sonor rather, Sebastien arriving they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at his dooran unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to talk fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesinvestigate.|isbn=1913193322
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1838954481|title= The Last Resort Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 3.5 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on Ryan Kennedy killed a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each otherpolice officer: there's histories and it becomes clear no doubt about that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As He was the clock ticks down, these wellfifteen-year-kept secrets are revealed, old holding the gun and pointing it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cageat DI Kieran Shaw. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle He pulled the trigger but due to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest vagaries of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=Snow|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Well, at least you're a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne when jury system he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master found not guilty of both the Keelmore Hounds murder and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkmanslaughter of the officer. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead And so lives must go on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. 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=1787636607
|title=The Trap
|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to 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 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=14087122881405957174|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)A Death at the Party|author=Val McDermidAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was From the middle of February 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 bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potambulance he so desperately needs. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didnWhat we don't take too long to establish that know is who the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghis or why Nadine prefers to have him die. A decade earlier heI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's gone missing when he was the prime suspect in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auld. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person to review the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stagehappening.
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone0008530025|title=A Song of IsolationMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career It was in December 2003 that is only beginning to hit fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the heights to retire to body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the highlands with garden of their West London home. He had an ordinary guy…an accountant injury on the back of all things, though to his credit head which could have happened if he would rather be working in forestry'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. They have found Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a hideaway true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on a small Scottish estatecamera, but things are starting to feel wrong between themepisode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing. |isbn=1913193365
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|isbn=02414254410241996104|title=The Thursday Murder ClubComing to Find You|author=Richard OsmanJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first member One of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is Joyce Meadowcroftthe re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. She used to be a nurse It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take whisked away in a person who has been stabbed to bleed outhelicopter. Details A local doctor (and friend of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken Bruno) wonders about fortyhis chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpmilitary has stepped in. It didn't put Joyce off One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her shepherdfather's pie (which tells us that it was friends for 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 Villagepre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=15098895151529196388|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Trial|author=Ann CleevesRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Grant Cliveden was a mercy hero: a policeman who stood for all that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning was good and honest and who knows what would have happened looked up to the toddler strapped into the car seatby just about everyone, particularly as so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the car door had been left openOld Bailey. Vera took There's just one man in the boy frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and drove to the nearest habitation. She it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden'thought'' it would be s murder. Knight was told that the village but it best barrister for him was Brockburn, the ancestral home Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- Cameron and Hector was the black sheep of the familyhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Calling there unannouncedKnight's determined to plead not guilty, particularly as they seemed despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstancescontrary.
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