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|isbnauthor=walker14Stuart 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 Coldest Case 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. (A BrunoThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, Chief of Police Novel)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=Martin WalkerStig Abell

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief future of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his bosslife with his vet girlfriend, chief of detectives JalipeauLivia and her daughter Diana, known as Jmoving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-J, grid and relaxing life to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the woods but he was never identified future she wants for herself and his killer never brought to justice. her daughter? What if an artist could recreate For the face from moment they’re enjoying life in the skull present and putting the resulting publicity be used to identify future on the young man? Jback 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 -J calls the skull site was going to hold seventy-five 'Oscarluxury' and has apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he 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 want to forget Oscar until , that she is pregnant with his killer has been brought 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 justicesudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=14711814050008551324|title=NighthawkingThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Russ ThomasNeil Lancaster

|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://wwwunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police.sbg Neither side likes or has any respect for the other.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm But Davie Hardie is struggling in whatprison and he's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when prepared to tell the police where the body of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been missing person is buried in one of the beds but and who would have started to dig was responsible for her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsdeath. The police need to establish who stabbed her - This person, he promises, is someone big and who left it will be worth the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyespolice doing what he wants. DCI Diane Jordan And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the Investigating Officer remainder of his sentence and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbanito get an early parole date. TheyNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn're joined by t think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Guy Daley Max Craigie and anyone who's just returned works with him is kept well away from extended sick leave. Mina thinks hewhat's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injurieshappening.

|isbn=02419851370008405026|title=The Whole Truth A Stranger in the Family (D I FawleyMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cara HunterJane Casey

|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldssixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on She was never found and the investigation ground to a studenthalt. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishertheir bed. Just to complicate matters furtherInitially, Calebit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's mother is Petra Newson, something about the positioning of the local MP, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligenceher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She has What looked as though it was going to be an eightopen-yearand-old son, buys her wine by the shut case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 is now a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerscomplex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'very'' publics boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=19131935270571379877|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Kellerby Code|author=Vanda SymonJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of Edward Jevons is a wealthy working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and apparently respectable businessman out at SeacliffStanza. Robert's a theatre director. His wife had been bound He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and gagged entitled and placed so that she was forced uses Edward to watch the murder, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outrun errands for him. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had Edward has been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady love with Stanza since their university days - and certainly questionable if not illegalhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed Most men in Robert''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that kind of thing'', as Hendersona relationship had begun between them but he's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainednot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Joseph KnoxJo Callaghan|title=True Crime StoryLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxWhen 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, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, has created having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a new genre few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The story follows Will they be able to solve the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four partscase in time, the reader is or will Kat find herself taken through off the life case and disappearance , potentially, out of Zoe through 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 back to the eyes English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her twin sisterbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, other familyArthur Crockleford, friends is dead and professionalsthe circumstances seem suspicious, such as to say the policeleast. The various accounts help Arthur was the reader get reason why Freya had not been back to know Zoethe 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 at least pursue the Zoe profession she presented to othersloved. However After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the twists and turns at rebound from the end love of each chapter leave you shockedher life, confused who was murdered) and Freya and unsure of what is true or fabricatedJames have now divorced. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|isbn=14722761401398524085|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=James OswaldNicci French

|summary=When Cecily SlaterCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's body was foundfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, she'd already been dead for a week Etty. are all worried but - strangely - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghher husband, Alec, is not. Heavy rain had washed away most Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of the evidenceGreg's father, but DI Tony McLeanDuncan Ackerley, demoted and just returned from suspension, is reluctant in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to accept make that this is nothing more than a careless accidentDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. There were indications The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Slater Alex Delaware had been savagelybadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, almost ritualistically beaten before the fireSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. But who would hate a ninetyHis assertions that there were only open-yearand-old woman to shut cases which didn't need the extent help of doing a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something like that? the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. She He was a virtual recluse: who could the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she have upset is married to that extentan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=000845552X178763681X|title=Where Ravens RoostKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Karin NordinOrlando Murrin

|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than a decade but when way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the rather muddled phone call from him saying impression that he'd seen be at the school to assist Paul, who had a murder in broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the barn on problems - are all his land own. The one thing he didnhadn't hesitate expected was for someone to drop everything turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and go everyone knows that the police consider that person to Varsundbe the prime suspect. Actually, 'drop everything' rather overstates }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the situationBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4. Nygaard 5|genre=Crime|summary=It was on suspension following one of those flash downpours that the shooting of British weather often delivers in a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiryheatwave. There had been In a gully, a complication: human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the Kattegat Killer turned out body to be Nils HedinLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, Nygaardso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's best friendt convinced. StillGeary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the south time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldnMajor Crimes Review Unit (that't be underestimateds cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=18387734281529425867|title=The Art of DeathLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=David FennellSimon Mason

|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies Raymond Wilkins is of Billy PerrinNigerian descent, Stan Buxton Balliol educated and 34-year-old Noel Tippingalways exquisitely dressed. The installation is the work D I Ryan Wilkins, son of @nonymous, underground artist Ryan and extreme version father of BanksyRyan, is not. He's made a macabre promise: more will follownot any of those things. In factHe's white, originated from a trailer park, webarely educated (reading've already met the artist although s not by name: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with 'really'' his thing) and his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and iPhonetrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and sheYou might wonder if you's explaining re being introduced to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagea police procedural written for laughs. ActuallyWell, it doesnyou't take a lot re not. The two men are just different sides of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's appliedsame policing coin. Chau Ho is behind Sometimes the countercombination works brilliantly well. ThereSometimes it's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tooproblematic.

|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1529431735|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)The Winter Visitor|author=Liz MistryJames Henry

|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties It's February 1991 and hadnEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins't worn wellreturn all the more surprising. She was He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug addict and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordsmuggler for a decade. Her killer thought that The return has come about because he was probably doing her 's had a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and DC Sajid Malik are on the case. Nikki canhasn't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of the deathlong to live. It had been impossible 's hard to make feel any progress in the case sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and the note seemed sent to taunt a watery grave in the police. Then another note arrived with a report boot of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridgestolen Ford Sierra. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as Is it a warning from a child - brought another communication, with Spanish gang or a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the case.problem closer to home?

|isbn=17874778000861541774|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Elly GriffithsSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's treasure close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to be foundmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Unfortunately, the youngest of the group, twentyMaik was involved in a street brawl -onehe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -year-old Troy Evans, finds the body of and he killed a man floating on the incoming tideGhurka. After pulling it ashoreInitially, they call the police. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably the body he faced a charge of an asylum seeker manslaughter but there's no evidence of any activity came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be had from facing the coastguarddeath penalty. The dead man turns out Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be Jem Taylor, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a North Norfolk man recently released from prisondiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbn=00083793001521129886|title=The Shadow ManThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Helen FieldsKeith Redfern

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heGreg Mason's dying. His body is giving up on him, just beginning to get his internal organs beginning confidence as an investigator to putrify but before the point where he dies 'll warn someone about how much he wants charges. It's a wife, good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a child baby and a brotherthey're both delighted. He's been on Joyce will be more delighted about the lookout for baby when she gets past the perfect people and he's made certain preparationsmorning sickness. The flat where the family will live Greg is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures approached by an old friend whose brother-in frames -law appears to have been painted onto the wallskilled himself. Angela Fernycroft was Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to be his wifemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Her husbandLucy, Calhe says, had taken the children is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - a boy of seven it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and a girl of fivethe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesnbut Stuart't go according s prepared to pay Greg to plan and Angela diesfind out what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=B08BC4D58SB0CK3MYJ56|title=Winterkill Responsibilities (Dark IcelandGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ragnar JonassonAnn Macarthur

|summary=Ari Thor Arason is It's the police inspector in Siglufjordur 1990s and heGreg Mason's still living twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the house on Eyrargata which city but it wasn't satisfying so he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do 's now set himself up as a Masters degreeprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', taking three-year-old Stefnir with heryou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? They were supposed On the other hand, he has been asked to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledlook into something. ItJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's now the Thursday of Holy Week been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and his family is due Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to arrive fall in Siglufjordur that afternoonfront of a train. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get Greg's been asked to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the towninvestigate.

|isbn=178089905X1838954481|title=SerpentineThe Misper|author=Jonathan KellermanKate London|rating=54

|summary=It wasnRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there't exactly s no doubt about that. He was the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtyfifteen-year-six years ago old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the daughter trigger but due to the vagaries of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toesmanslaughter of the officer. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff And so lives must go on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out For DI Sarah Collins that she wasn't actually married to means leaving the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man capital and he took out adoption papers hoping for Ellie - and she took his name. Ellie was three a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her mother left her with Dr Barker and territory she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother 's drawn into a wider investigation - and father and a necklace made back into the orbit of serpentineRyan Kennedy.

|isbn=000820831X1448309743|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Stuart MacBrideCaro Ramsay

|summary=At In the coastal village of ClachmaraCronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the headland home is slowly eroding into the seaDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Storm Trevor speeds up The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the processbody. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house pulled in to see what'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's happeningall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Margaret runs after her son Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and as she grabs him dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and sees human bonesall round ''celebrity''. Gordon SmithI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we's home is falling into the North Sea ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the evidence of what he's been doing money for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as his first boat? How did he later escapes finance the tumbling ruin.trip?

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1529427045|title=The KhanGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=Jia Khan ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has alway lived by headed north to the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white mensmall town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. This The criminal underworld has served her well not been slow in her rise through coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the criminal justice system and by latest woman in the time she area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is called home for a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her sisterfather's wedding after fifteen years 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 self-imposed exilethe early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', she is at particularly in the top light of her game'the missing women'. Returning to For one young woman, the final stop on the city bus leaves her a long way short of her birth, home. She had intended to ring someone to old scars come and fresh wounds, Jia must confront collect her past and reconcile - but her visions for phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the future with bus driver to let her sense of honour use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and dutyin high-heeled shoes.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=B08BTXSS841405957174|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)A Death at the Party|author=Jenny O'BrienAmy Stuart

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: From the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and shefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look atparty will not end well. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteenThe victim -yeara man -old Angelica Brock in 1995 is dying when we first meet him and Gaby is intriguedNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. She canWhat we don't see any immediate failings in know is who the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. She was wearing I'd better give you a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told the whole story: he's married to Kate Brock, Angelicalittle more background so that you can understand what's younger sisterhappening.

|isbn=14721347100008530025|title=Agatha Raisin and Murder in the Quiche of DeathFamily|author=M C BeatonCara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the Cotswold village garden of Carsleytheir West London home. SheHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's have preferred one of d slipped down the more romantic names steps but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that bringsvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Now Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the problem is settling into subject of ''Infamous'', a different way of life true- and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peoplecrime show. The first move is A group of experts has been brought together to enter review the village quiche-baking competition evidence and to take the beginning of investigation further. More to the campaign is taking the judgepoint, Reginald Cummings-Brownethey're going to do this live on camera, and his wife Vera out to dinnerepisode by episode. She knows sheThere's being ripped off at no dump of the pub in the next village but this is necessary whole box set - and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to winno shortage of cliffhangers. How? Well, It''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..s compelling viewing.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen0241996104|title= Fallen AngelsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg VeumNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, lone wolf detectiveMartin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, is backafter Martin receives a life sentence. After attending The barrister tells her that she's received a former friend'silent sentence' - she's funeral, Veum catches up not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and what happened for the sins rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the past papers are exposed to making the light most of the presentit. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Veum ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killerundoubtedly spoken.|isbn=1913193063

|isbn=15294103471529413680|title=Death Awaits in Durham A Chateau Under Siege (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helen CoxMartin Walker

|summary=Kitt HartleyOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken a place on there to see the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamshow with some friends. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, so most of the people attending are scions man playing one of the main characters is seriously richinjured when he departs from the script. Luckily, scholarship students his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - or theyas he've manageds a senior government employee, somehow, to scrape together the moneyman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. GraceOne daughter lives nearby and another, who's 22lives in California, comes into the last category. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her that if that was what she chose to do then they were finished is flying in with some of her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came father's friends for a visit pre- and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agoarranged holiday.

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529196388|title= The CaptiveTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the cageframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, intimatelycharged with Cliveden's murder. It lurks in Knight was told that the corner best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of her eyeStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Soon Knight's determined to plead not guilty, it will be occupieddespite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650