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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=B08BTXSS840008517061|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Jenny O'BrienStig Abell

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin 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 twiddling the future she wants for herself and her thumbs: daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the usual flood bones of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that sheis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's looking through cold cases unusual for inspiration as 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 which one she should have tell the police where the body of a good look atmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Owen Bates suggests Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the murder of eighteenFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She can't see any immediate failings in was never found and the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from ground to a room in a securely-locked househalt. Now, wearing her pyjamasmother, Helena, and was found her father are dead by in their bed. Initially, it looks like a dog walker on straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the Gt Orme in Llandudno positioning of the next daybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She What looked as though it was wearing going to be an open-and-shut case is now a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforecomplex double murder. Bates hasnKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't ''quite'' told the whole storys disappearance: heothers (such as Derwent's married to Kate Brockboss, Angelica's younger sisterUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=14721347100571379877|title=Agatha Raisin 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 Quiche two of Deaththem kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=M C BeatonJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for When a man is found crucified on the top of a cottage hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Cotswold village of Carsleycase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt's have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail their first live case together, having previously been very successful with all the problems that bringsseveral cold cases. Now the problem But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is settling into suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a different way lot of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant unwanted attention to peopletheir AI Future Policing project. The first move is Will they be able to enter solve the village quiche-baking competition case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Brownepotentially, and his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's of a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. Howcareer? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery...|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1035021803|title= Fallen AngelsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 23.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been backto the English country village where she grew up. After attending She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former friendmentor and Carole's funeralclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened is dead and the sins of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the past are exposed reason why Freya had not been back to the light of village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the presentprofession she loved. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out married James (on the rebound from the clues hidden in his own history love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and to catch a killerJames have now divorced.|isbn=1913193063

|isbn=15294103471398524085|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Helen CoxNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Kitt HartleyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's assistantfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Grace Edwardssons Niall, has left Paul and Ollie and her library job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamdaughter, Etty. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not accepted. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, so most of find the people attending are scions body of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or theyGreg've manageds father, somehowDuncan Ackerley, to scrape together in the moneyriver. Grace, whoIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's 22, comes into t stand the last categoryguilt. Her parents agreed to fund the course The Salter children are not convinced but told her that if that was what she chose to there's little else they can do then they were finished but get on with her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - their lives and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agowonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529900360|title= The CaptiveGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows the cageIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, intimatelySturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. It lurks in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the corner help of her eyea psychologist only worked for a while. Soon Finally, it will be occupiedwas Robin, Delaware's 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. Then what? What if he speaks Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if an Italian shoe empire and she hurts himis married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=1838887334178763681X|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Angela MarsonsOrlando Murrin

|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been a complete waste way of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude getting both men and women to everyonedo what he wanted. It was in Paul ''somehow'' got the shopping centre impression that Stone caught sight of he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a little girl clutching a teddy bear in broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the absence of her motherproblems - are all his own. Stone and Bryant didnThe one thing he hadn't realise the extent expected was for someone to which this case turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was going to occupy their minds as the person who discovered the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken and it had all everyone knows that the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do police consider that person to a young mother out shopping with her child?be the prime suspect.

|isbn=18387700461529421284|title=Body LanguageLaying Out the Bones|author=A K TurnerKate Webb

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is It was one of those flash downpours that the senior mortuary technician British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and not only does she talk forensic testing proved the body to the deadbe Lee Geary, she also hears what they have to say to herwho had disappeared nine years earlier. ItHe's not something shed been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what their reaction will be. was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She's certainly not going There are connections to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer suicide of a genuine Barbour jacket Holly Gilbert and old Harrovianto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. He's very conscious of his position Lockyer and isn't even inclined to ask for the view DC Gemma Broad of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact Major Crimes Review Unit (that they have a lot more experience than him 's cold cases to you and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakeme) investigate.

|isbn=14722559171529425867|title=The Roots of Evil Lost and Never Found (Bob SkinnerA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Quintin JardineSimon Mason

|summary=On New Year's EveIn Oxford, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wifethere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Professor Sarah GraceBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, daughter Alex Skinner son of Ryan and the man with whom she shares a housefather of Ryan, Dominic Jacksonis not. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity He's not any of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but hethose things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's reformed not ''really'' his thing) and the new name reflects a new manhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. The Skinners donThey't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new yearre usually in lime green or acid yellow. SkinnerYou might wonder if you's tempted re being introduced to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking a police procedural written for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghlaughs. SkinnerWell, you's re not technically with . The two men are just different sides of the police now - hesame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experienceproblematic.

|isbn=18003211041529431735|title=The Body on the IslandWinter Visitor|author=Nick LouthJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, heading which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for HMP Spring Hilla decade. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and The return has come about because he's had served six years for the manslaughter of a letter from his ex-wife. Only , saying that wasnshe's ill and hasn't who he waslong to live. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and seventeen. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into sent to a new identity set up watery grave in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts boot of the body of one of his victimsa stolen Ford Sierra. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be Is it a warning from a reformed character but he had Spanish gang or a list of people upon whom he wished problem closer to exact revenge.home?

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0861541774|title=The Long Dark RoadA Nye of Pheasants|author=P R BlackSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaDCI Domenic Jejeune's Healey's nineteen-year-close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeally, Guy Trueman. There Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a furious storm going on knife - and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in he killed a big vehicleGhurka. We'll see - Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but no one else will know - evidence came to light that suggested that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into he might have planned to murder the car and driven offman. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in Now he could be facing the two years sincedeath penalty. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to find out what happened help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and shewouldn's not going to be stoppedt help Danny at all.

|authorisbn=1521129886|title=David C They Had It Coming (Greg Masonmysteries)|titleauthor=Pandora's GardenerKeith Redfern|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston is a gardener, although what Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he did before 'll warn someone about how much he became charges. It's a gardenergood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, he claimsLucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is classifiednot thriving. That is just as well because Lucy, he says, is about to be caught up convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in a criminal / spy / terrorist plothis nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, where only he can save but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the daynight Gil died. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=1838773169B0CK3MYJ56|title=Her Majesty Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the Queen Investigates: life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Windsor KnotMisper|author=S J BennettKate London|rating=54

|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's early 2016 no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is pointing it at Windsor for the Easter CourtDI Kieran Shaw. She's having a dine and sleep at He pulled the trigger but due to the request vagaries of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one the jury system he was found not guilty of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to both the evening murder and one the manslaughter of the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesofficer. And so lives must go on. The immediate reaction is For DI Sarah Collins that one of means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the guests countryside but when a missing teenager is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out found on her racing manager, an exterritory she's drawn into a wider investigation -ambassador to Moscow, and back into the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any orbit of ''those'' roadsRyan Kennedy.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1448309743|title=The Coral BrideDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwomanIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, making her living in five members of a man's worldwealthy family are found murdered. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off The only item missing from the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales home is called in to come and head the investigation. Although Devil Stone: myth says that if the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister stone is going onremoved from Otterburn House, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsdeath will follow. At The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the same time as trying to run his investigation, body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his doordisappears, weighed down with personal problems that he DCI Christine Caplan is unable pulled in to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties'shadow' him.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1529077699|title= The Last Resort Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on 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 other''It's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downbloody peculiar, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and isn't it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} Sir?''

|isbn=05713626721529427045|title=SnowThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=John BanvilleKarin Smirnoff

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Well, at least youLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''re a Wexford man.''

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 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'Sinjuns niece') Strafford s mother is the latest woman in the area to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957have vanished without trace. Osborne It was master 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 Keelmore Hounds part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|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 had done something memorable with 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 Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkoutlying villages. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the library floor with some precious bits bus leaves her a long way short of his anatomy missingher home. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody She had intended to ring someone to come and this, along with his goodcollect her -but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborneher phone's class and obviously Protestantdead. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite bus had driven off before she had the different religions - was in chance to beg the habit of spending time at Ballyglass Housebus driver to let her use his. His horse was stabled thereThere's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

|isbn=17874776301405957174|title=The Postscript MurdersA Death at the Party|author=Elly GriffithsAmy Stuart

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairFrom the first page, it really shouldn't be suspicious and we know that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy SmithNadine Walsh's carerparty will not end well. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that there was more The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to Peggycall the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don's death than met t know is who the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Then there was the fact I'd better give you a little more background so that Peggy was a you can understand what'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knows happening.

|isbn=14721270130008530025|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotMurder in the Family|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenCara Hunter

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit 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 work on handtheir West London home. The chairman He had an injury on the back of Philpott Electronics his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was concerned about his managing directorobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because no one has been charged with his wife did not like murder and it there's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to Australiatake the investigation further. Then there was More to the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifepoint, Sheratonthey're going to do this live on camera, was seeing another manepisode by episode. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in There's no dump of the staff canteen: he wanted to know what the staff were saying about him whole box set - and his secretary, who was from Genevano shortage of cliffhangers. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss RollIt's compelling viewing. Then there was the murder.}}

|isbn=14087122881529413680|title=Still Life A Chateau Under Siege (DCI Karen PirieA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Val McDermidMartin Walker

|summary=It was One of the middle main events of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth liberation of Forth instead of a lobster potthe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish that s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man was Paul Allardplaying one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, ostensibly his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghhelicopter. A decade earlier local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's gone missing when he was a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the prime suspect military has stepped in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auld. DCI Karen PirieOne daughter lives nearby and another, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unitwho lives in California, had been the last person to review the case, a couple is flying in with some of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stagefather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1529196388|title=A Song of IsolationThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Grant Cliveden was a hero: a career policeman who stood for all that is only beginning was good and honest and looked up to hit by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the heights to retire to Old Bailey. There's just one man in the highlands frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with an ordinary guy…an accountant Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of all thingsStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestrywho eventually represent him. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateKnight's determined to plead not guilty, but things are starting despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to feel wrong between themthe contrary. |isbn=1913193365