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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=19131935271786482126|title=Bound The Janus Stone (Detective Sam ShephardDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Vanda SymonElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was shocked going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when it heard of they discovered the murder bones of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffchild beneath a doorway. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she There was forced to watch the no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the scene being discovered by their sonDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Declanbut Nelson doesn't, when he returned home from an evening out. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalthree months ago. His companyHer condition will be obvious before long, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedsickness.
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0008551324|title=True Crime StoryThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph Knox, known It's unusual for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows any respect for the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceother. Split into four parts, the reader But Davie Hardie is taken through struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the life and disappearance of Zoe through police where the eyes body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her twin sisterdeath. This person, other familyhe promises, friends is someone big and professionals, such as it will be worth the policedoing what he wants. The various accounts help And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the reader remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to know Zoeask, or at least the Zoe is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she presented 's even prepared to others. However, do the twists other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of anyone who works with him is kept well away from what is true or fabricated's happening. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|isbn=14722761400008405026|title=What Will Burn A Stranger in the Family (Inspector McLeanMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=James OswaldJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterIt's body sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found, she'd already been dead for and the investigation ground to a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghhalt. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceNow, her mother, but DI Tony McLeanHelena, demoted and just returned from suspension, is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidenther father are dead in their bed. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyInitially, almost ritualistically beaten before the fire. But who would hate it looks like a ninety-year-old woman to straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the extent positioning of doing something like the bodies that? makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a virtual reclusecomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: who could she have upset to that extent?others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=000845552X0571379877|title=Where Ravens RoostThe Kellerby Code|author=Karin NordinJonny 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=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been estranged from his fathervery successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Stenar, for more than Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying very high profile case that he'd seen draws a murder lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the barn on his land he didncase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter't hesitate s Guide to drop everything and go Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Varsundthe English country village where she grew up. ActuallyShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'drop everythings former mentor and Carole' rather overstates s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the situationleast. Nygaard Arthur was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the Aubuchon murder enquiryman or pursue the profession she loved. There had been After the split, she worked in a complication: cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedinlove of her life, Nygaardwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's best friendfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. StillHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, the tenEtty. are all worried but - strangely -hour drive from Gothenburg in her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the south body of Sweden to Varsund Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the far north shouldnriver. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't be underestimatedstand 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.
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|isbn=18387734281529900360|title=The Art of DeathGhost Orchid|author=David FennellJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was an art installation reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidpsychologist only worked for a while. Only this time Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's not a depiction: these are partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tippingman she loved needed. The installation is the work of @nonymousnext case did look simple, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followthough. In fact, we've already met Two lovers were murdered in the artist although not by name: he's been swimming pool of a remote property in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Bel Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she's explaining is married to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actually, an extremely rich man and it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite not the foundation she's appliedItalian. Chau Ho is behind But which of them was the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, too.primary target?
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R178763681X|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Liz MistryOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in her sixties and hadnBelgravia. He didn't worn well. She was really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a drug addict way of getting both men and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordwomen to do what he wanted. Her killer thought Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he was probably doing her 'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a favour by putting her broken arm, but it didn't turn out of her miserythat way. DS Nikki Parekh The teaching - and DC Sajid Malik the problems - are on the caseall his own. Nikki canThe one thing he hadn't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of the deathexpected was for someone to turn up dead. It had been impossible to make any progress in Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the case body and the note seemed to taunt everyone knows that the police. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridge. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communication, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure consider that there was something personal in person to be the caseprime suspect.
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|isbn=17874778001529421284|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)Laying Out the Bones|author=Elly GriffithsKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect It was one of those flash downpours that there's treasure to be foundthe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. UnfortunatelyIn a gully, a human skeleton came to the youngest of surface and forensic testing proved the groupbody to be Lee Geary, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evanswho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, finds the body so it could have been a simple case of a man floating on the incoming tidemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. After pulling it ashoreGeary was a townie, they call the police. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably There are connections to the body suicide of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity Holly Gilbert and to be had from two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the coastguardtime. The dead man turns out Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonyou and me) investigate.
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|isbn=00083793001529425867|title=The Shadow ManLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Helen FieldsSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is in his late thirties of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and he knows that he's dyingalways exquisitely dressed. His body is giving up on himD I Ryan Wilkins, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifeson of Ryan and father of Ryan, a child and a brotheris not. He's not any of those things. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people and hewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's made certain preparationsnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures They're usually in frames have been painted onto the wallslime green or acid yellow. Angela Fernycroft was You might wonder if you're being introduced to be his wifea police procedural written for laughs. Her husbandWell, Cal, had taken you're not. The two men are just different sides of the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for same policing coin. Sometimes the weekendcombination works brilliantly well. Unfortunately, Sometimes it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diess problematic.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1529431735|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)The Winter Visitor|author=Ragnar JonassonJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the police inspector in Siglufjordur and Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with had a letter from his ex-wife Kristin , saying that she's ill and son Stefnir before Kristin left hasn't long to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with her. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledlive. It's now the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due hard to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor feel any sympathy when Hopkins is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed abducted, stripped to get his underwear and sent to sleep a watery grave in the phone rings: the body boot of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townstolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=178089905X0861541774|title=SerpentineA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jonathan KellermanSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasnDCI Domenic Jejeune't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a death from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toesshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Dorothy Swoboda Maik was twentyinvolved in a street brawl -four years old when she died in he would later maintain that he was facing a car which went off man armed with a cliff on Mulholland Drive knife - and burst into flameshe killed a Ghurka. It turned out Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that she wasn't actually married suggested that he might have planned to murder the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and . Now he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his namecould be facing the death penalty. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has Domenic Jejeune can do nothing of her but one photograph of her mother to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and father and a necklace made of serpentinewouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=000820831X1521129886|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stuart MacBrideKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is slowly eroding into the seapoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Storm Trevor speeds up Joyce will be more delighted about the processbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. A ship Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- the Oceanin-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house law appears to see whathave killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's happening. Margaret runs after struggling to make ends meet and her son and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesis not thriving. Gordon SmithLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's home is falling into t in his nature. The police and the North Sea and coroner have accepted that the evidence of what hedeath was suicide, but Stuart's been doing for decades is going with it - except for prepared to pay Greg to find out what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes happened on the tumbling ruinnight Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Saima MirB0CK3MYJ56|title=The KhanResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by It's the motto be twice as good as men 1990s and four times as good as white menGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. This has served her well He used to have a high-flying job in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sistercity but it wasn't satisfying so he's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilenow set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, she is at but where's the top of her game. Returning to life experience that backs up this profession? On the city of her birthother hand, he has been asked to old scars look into something. Joyce and fresh woundsHelen are half-sisters, Jia must confront 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 past parents, Oliver and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of honour and dutya train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=B08BTXSS841838954481|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Misper|author=Jenny O'BrienKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbsRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and shethere's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look atno doubt about that. DS Owen Bates suggests He was the murder of eighteenfifteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 holding the gun and Gaby is intriguedpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. She can't see any immediate failings in He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and jury system he was found dead by a dog walker on not guilty of both the murder and the Gt Orme in Llandudno manslaughter of the next dayofficer. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeAnd so lives must go on. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the whole story: hecountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterdrawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=14721347101448309743|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=M C BeatonCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in In the Cotswold village of Carsley. She's have preferred one Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peoplewealthy family are found murdered. The first move only item missing from the home is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of Devil Stone: myth says that if the campaign stone is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browneremoved from Otterburn House, and his wife Vera out to dinnerdeath will follow. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub The only suspects are known Satanists but in the next village but this is necessary and itmany ways, that's a good investment as she knows an easy conclusion given that shetwo of them 'discovered's going to winthe body. How? Well The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..him.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1529077699|title= Fallen AngelsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum''It's all bloody peculiar, lone wolf detectiveisn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is back. After attending Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a former friend's funeralmonth and then turned up, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the sins village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the past are exposed to the light status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the presentworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds 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 Veum is thrust into his background isn't exactly an investigation to root out open book. Where did he get the clues hidden in money for his own history and to catch a killer.|isbn=1913193063first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=15294103471529427045|title=Death Awaits The Girl in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)the Eagle's Talons|author=Helen CoxKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace Edwards, 'Life has left her library job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academymore to offer than people - prime numbers for example''s vocational library studies course in Durham. It's an unusual place  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most of the people attending are scions small town of Gasskas, where the seriously rich, scholarship students so-far- or they've managed, somehow, to scrape together untapped natural resources of the moneyarea have sparked a gold rush. Grace, whoThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's 22, comes into mother is the latest woman in the last categoryarea to have vanished without trace. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her that if that It was what she chose to do then they were finished only with reluctance that Salander became her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of a student from a year agothe part Salander played in her father's death.
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1787636607|title= The CaptiveTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows 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 cagenight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', intimately. It lurks particularly in the corner light of her eye'the missing women'. Soon For one young woman, it will be occupiedthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Then what? What if he speaks She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts - but her? What if phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650had 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=18388873341405957174|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)A Death at the Party|author=Angela MarsonsAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The need for coffee overtook Stone victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the course had been man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a complete waste of time for her as she knew little more background so that she was equally rude to everyoneyou can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the shopping centre that Stone caught sight body of a little girl clutching a teddy bear her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the absence garden of her mothertheir West London home. Stone and Bryant didnHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't realise d slipped down the steps but the extent to which this case vicious beating his face had taken was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterobviously deliberate. Her neck had Twenty years later, no one has been broken charged with his murder and it had all 's now the hallmarks subject of ''Infamous'', a quicktrue-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, functional killthey're going to do this live on camera, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=18387700460241996104|title=Body LanguageComing to Find You|author=A K TurnerJane 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=TwentyOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-five-year-old Cassie Raven is enactment of the liberation of the town from the senior mortuary technician English in 1370 and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to her. It's not something sheBruno's inclined there to share see the show with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will besome friends. SheIt's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Dr Archie ChuffKerquelin, wearer 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 whisked away in a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianhelicopter. He's very conscious A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his position and isnchances of survival but - as he't even inclined to ask for s a senior government employee, the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite man who runs Frenchelon - the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he military has only a limited amount of time to spend on each bodystepped in. That will prove to be One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a mistakepre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=14722559171529196388|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Trial|author=Quintin JardineRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New Year's EveGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner so there was celebrating public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic JacksonOld Bailey. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but heThere's reformed and the new name reflects a new just one man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at in the clubhouse frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and are dropped home it's not too long into the new year. Skinnerbefore Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's tempted to let murder. Knight was told that the phone ring but knows that he cannot: best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Mario McGuire asking for Taylor-Cameron and his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghpupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. SkinnerKnight's determined to plead not technically with the police now guilty, despite all Taylor- heCameron's chairman of InterMedia UK - but recommendations to the police value his knowledge and experiencecontrary.
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