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|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17874778001786482126|title=The Night Hawks Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)
|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 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. 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 she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night hawks are metal detectorists and theyspent 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're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that theres 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 treasure prepared to tell the police where the 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 foundworth the police doing what he wants. Unfortunately, And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the youngest 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 group, twentyother thing that Hardie demanded -onemake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|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 Troy Evans, finds Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the body of investigation ground to a man floating on the incoming tidehalt. After pulling it ashoreNow, her mother, Helena, they call the policeand her father are dead in their bed. DCI Nelson thinks that Initially, it's probably the body of an asylum seeker looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's no evidence something about the positioning of any activity to be had from the coastguardbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The dead man turns out What looked as though it was going to be Jem Tayloran 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, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=00083793000571379877|title=The Shadow ManKellerby Code|author=Helen FieldsJonny 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in his late thirties and he knows that heNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's dyingtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. His But when there is a second body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants found crucified a wifefew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a child potential serial killer and a brothervery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. HeWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been on back to the lookout English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for the perfect people help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and heCarole's made certain preparationsclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The flat where Arthur was the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have reason why Freya had not been painted onto back to the wallsvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Angela Fernycroft was Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be his wifenear the man or pursue the profession she loved. Her husbandAfter the split, Calshe worked in a cafe, had taken met and married James (on the rebound from the children - a boy love of seven her life, who was murdered) and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan Freya and Angela diesJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1398524085|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ragnar JonassonNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and heCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degreeher daughter, taking threeEtty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Stefnir with herhusband, Alec, is not. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It's now was an easy assumption for the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due police to arrive in Siglufjordur make that afternoonDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townwith their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=178089905X1529900360|title=SerpentineThe Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasnhadn't exactly the case been Lt Milo Sturgis 's fault that Alex Delaware had been dreaming about: a death from thirtybadly 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-six years ago and -shut cases which didn't need the daughter help of the woman who died wanted some answersa psychologist only worked for a while. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem Finally, it was dropped onto MiloRobin, Delaware's toespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Dorothy Swoboda She knew that the involvement was twenty-four years old when something that the man she died loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamesremote property in Bel Air. It turned out that He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she wasn't actually is married to the an extremely rich man with whom sheand it'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his names not the Italian. Ellie But which of them was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentine.the primary target?
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|isbn=000820831X178763681X|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Stuart MacBrideOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is slowly eroding into the seaChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Storm Trevor speeds up the processHe didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. A ship - Paul ''somehow'' got the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on impression that he'd be at the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house school to see whatassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's happeningt turn out that way. Margaret runs after her son The teaching - and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newlyproblems -exposed cliff front and sees human bonesare all his own. Gordon SmithThe one thing he hadn's home is falling into t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the North Sea body and everyone knows that the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes police consider that person to be the tumbling ruinprime suspect.
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|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Saima MirKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the 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=The KhanLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and four times as good as white menalways exquisitely dressed. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and by the time she father of Ryan, is called home for her sisternot. He's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top not any of her gamethose things. Returning to the city of her birth He's white, originated from a trailer park, to old scars barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and reconcile her visions trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the future with her sense of honour and dutycombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=B08BTXSS841529431735|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Winter Visitor|author=Jenny O'BrienJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and sheIt's looking through February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold cases for inspiration as to , which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests made Bruce Hopkins' return all the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedmore surprising. She canHe't see any immediate failings in d been exiled on the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from Costa del Sol as a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by wanted drug smuggler for a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next daydecade. She was wearing The return has come about because he's had a handletter from his ex-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't ''quite'' told the whole story: helong to live. It's married hard to Kate Brockfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Angelica's younger sisterstripped 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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|isbn=14721347100861541774|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche A Nye of DeathPheasants|author=M C BeatonSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Raisin DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage short holiday in the Cotswold village of CarsleySingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She's have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with all the problems that bringsa knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Now the problem is settling into Initially, he faced a different way charge of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant manslaughter but evidence came to people. The first move is light that suggested that he might have planned to enter the village quiche-baking competition and murder the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, and his wife Vera out to dinnerman. She knows she's being ripped off at Now he could be facing the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to windeath penalty. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a Chelsea Bakery..diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1521129886|title= Fallen AngelsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 24|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is backGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. After attending a former friend It's funeral, Veum catches up with old friends but a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon historic grievances have a baby and wounds are opened and the sins of they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past are exposed to the light of the presentmorning sickness. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum Greg is thrust into approached by an investigation old friend whose brother-in-law appears to root out the clues hidden have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his own history nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to catch a killerpay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|isbn=1913193063
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|isbn=1529410347B0CK3MYJ56|title=Death Awaits in Durham Responsibilities (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Helen CoxAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt HartleyIt's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library job the 1990s and taken a place on the Venerable Bede AcademyGreg Mason's vocational library studies course in Durhamtwenty-eight years old. ItHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's an unusual place to study now set himself up as students with government grants are not accepted, so most a private investigator. 'Shades of the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or theyCameron Strike've managed, somehow, to scrape together the moneyyou might be thinking. GraceNice bloke, whobut where's 22the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, comes he has been asked to look into the last categorysomething. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her that if that Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what she chose to do then they were finished with her's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Not long after Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit was doing there - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance or how she could come to fall in front of a student from a year agotrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1838954481|title= The CaptiveMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the cage, intimatelygun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It lurks in He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the corner manslaughter of her eyethe officer. Soon, it will be occupied And so lives must go on. Then what? What if he speaks to For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if territory she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=18388873341448309743|title=Deadly Cry The Devil Stone (D I Kim StoneDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Angela MarsonsCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were In the village of Cronchie on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingthe West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The need for coffee overtook only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone - : myth says that if the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyonestone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. It was The only suspects are known Satanists but in the shopping centre many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that Stone caught sight two of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her mother. Stone and Bryant didnthem 'discovered't realise the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock . The Senior Investigating Office is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of a quickDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, functional kill, but who would do that DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to a young mother out shopping with her child?'shadow' him.
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|isbn=18387700461529077699|title=Body LanguageThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=A K TurnerAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is . Jem Rosco blew into the senior mortuary technician local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and not only does she talk dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the deadvillage of Greystone, she also hears what they have to say to herin Devon. ItRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''s not something shecelebrity's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. SheI ''nearly's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologist' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of he could be more than a genuine Barbour jacket little bit close with money and old Harrovian. He's very conscious of his position and background isn't even inclined to ask exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact 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 to be a mistake.trip?
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|isbn=14722559171529427045|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Quintin JardineKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the golf club with his wifesmall town of Gasskas, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and where the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be betterso-far-known to the criminal fraternity untapped natural resources of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects area have sparked a new mangold rush. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home criminal underworld has not long into the new yearbeen slow in coming forward. SkinnerSalander's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: itniece's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene mother is the latest woman in the centre of Edinburgharea to have vanished without trace. SkinnerIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's not technically with the police now - heguardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's chairman unaware of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencepart Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=18003211041787636607|title=The Body on the IslandTrap|author=Nick LouthCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring HillIt's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and had served six years looking for the manslaughter of his wifea way to get home. Only that wasn't who he wasSome are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for Others squash onto the murder night bus that will only go as far as one of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenoutlying villages. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts light of 'the body of missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of his victimsher home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The Bogeyman was going bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to be set free on 2 July 2019let her use his. He appeared to be a reformed character There's no option but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengestart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1405957174|title=The Long Dark RoadA Death at the Party|author=P R BlackAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeparty will not end well. There was The victim - a furious storm going on man - is dying when we first meet him and she'd already refused Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the offer of help from one man in a big vehicleambulance he so desperately needs. WeWhat we don'll see - but no one else will t know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into who the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - man is or her body - in the two years sincewhy Nadine prefers to have him die. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what happened and she's not going to be stoppedhappening.
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|authorisbn=David C Mason0008530025|title=Pandora's GardenerMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston is a gardenerIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, although what in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he did before he became a gardener'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, he claimsno one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', is classifieda true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. That is just as well because he is about More to the point, they're going to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotdo this live on camera, where only he can save episode by episode. There's no dump of the daywhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=09561805230241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of 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=18387731691529413680|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=S J BennettMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is at Windsor for the Easter Court. She's having a dine and sleep at re-enactment of the request liberation of Prince Charles, whothe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's attempting there to raise money from see the show with some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsfriends. ThereIt'd s all been a distinctly Russian flavour to very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the evening and man playing one of the performers brought in to play main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesscript. The immediate reaction Luckily, his doctor is that one of there and the guests man is responsiblewhisked away in a helicopter. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, an exthe man who runs Frenchelon -ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenboroughmilitary has stepped in. One couldn't bear to go down any daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father''those'' roadss friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1529196388|title=The Coral BrideTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - Grant Cliveden was a hero: a female fisherwomanpoliceman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, making her living so there was public uproar when he was murdered in a plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one manin the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's worldmurder. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off Knight was told that the coast best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and head the investigation. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionhis pupil, Morales feels something more sinister is going onAdam Green, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudswho eventually represent him. At the same time as trying Knight's determined to run his investigationplead not guilty, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesthe contrary.|isbn=1913193322
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