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|isbnauthor=1846975719Stuart Douglas|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But thatDuring location filming for his 1970's London, isnsitcom 't it? WhatFloggit and Leggit's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants dead body of a woman on the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort edge of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying publica reservoir. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely police seem happy to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully assign it as an accidental death, but something about what she knew the whole thing bothers Lowe, and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with he enlists the death help of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. She'd been brutally stabbed They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Mariana's niece, Zoeseemingly, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling a link to copedeath during the Second World War. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught But is there really a link between the first fast train from King's Cross. deaths? Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been people lose their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=02414001200008517061|title=The Girl Who DiedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation 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 since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a teacher. She was thirty years old lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her an advert for a job in Skalar on reservations about whether or not this is the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required future she wants for two children: a salary would be paid herself and accommodation provided. her daughter? Una was For the only applicant moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over future on the winter which her contract coveredback burner.
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|isbn=15294072491786482126|title=The Perfect LieJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jo SpainElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatgoing to hold seventy-five 'luxury's always apartments - when they discovered the bones of a dangerous thing to do when you're married to child beneath a cop but she doorway. There was hopefulno skull. They'd been married for six months and life was good with Was this a decent apartment by the sea in Newportritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Long IslandDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was openedIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Dannybut Nelson doesn's partnert, Ben Mitchell was there that she is pregnant with his child as a couple result of other officers. Danny took the one look, turned, walked to the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floornight they spent together some three months ago. Eighteen months laterHer condition will be obvious before long, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murdernot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=17885497590008551324|title=The Distant DeadDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lesley ThomsonNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out 's unusual for anyone from the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parentsHardie family to approach the police. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better Neither side likes or has any respect for the family than other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the shame body of illegitimacya missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (is someone big and William's) on a better footingit will be worth the police doing what he wants. She was going And what he wants is to meet her well-be transferred to-do fiancé, hoping an open prison to persuade him serve the remainder of his sentence and to come and meet her family the following weekget an early parole date. LaterNot much to ask, her body would be found in is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the bombedother thing that Hardie demanded -out home where he had taken hermake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=00084049250008405026|title=The Killing KindA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)
|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to barrister Ingrid Lewis a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but John Webster came as there's something about the positioning of a surprisethe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. After all, What looked as though it was her crossgoing to be an open-and-examination of shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'victims boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert' which saved him from s a lengthy prison sentencetheatre director. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that s also self- if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and then she came uses Edward to see run errands for him as a threat . Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and was forced he's drunkenly confided how he feels to remember Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the police officer at his trial a relationship had told her that this was the best chance theybegun between them but he'd had s not like most men: Edward is left to put Webster away for stumble upon the two of them kissing in a long time: he was a very dangerous mandark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=walker14Jo Callaghan|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in When a man is found crucified on the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief top of police Bruno Courreges had a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the idea which he thought might help his bosscase alongside her sidekick, chief of detectives Jalipeauthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, known as J-J, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty yearshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The But when there is a second body of found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified potential serial killer and his killer never brought a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to justicetheir AI Future Policing project. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity Will they be used able to identify solve the young man? J-J calls case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the skull 'Oscar' case and has , potentially, out of a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=14711814051035021803|title=NighthawkingThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://wwwtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up.sbg She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you Freya'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in whats former mentor and Carole's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the body of a young woman was discoveredleast. It Arthur was the reason why Freya had obviously not been buried in one of back to the beds but who would have started to dig village: Arthur, she feels, let her up? down badly. It had been Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsprofession she loved. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left After the twosplit, very rareshe worked in a cafe, gold aurei met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer life, who was murdered) and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler Freya and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=02419851371398524085|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Cara HunterNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam FawleyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Professor Hilary ReynoldsEtty. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a studentare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the alleged perpetrator doing body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? river. The problem It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Caleb Morgan ''was'Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn' t stand the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherguilt. Just to complicate matters further, CalebThe Salter children are not convinced but there's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month little else they can do but get on clothes with their lives and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' publicwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=19131935271529900360|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Ghost Orchid|author=Vanda SymonJonathan Kellerman|rating=4|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 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 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 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. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin It was shocked when it heard one of those flash downpours that the murder of British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a wealthy human skeleton came to the surface and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. His wife He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been bound 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 gagged to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and placed so DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that she was forced 's cold cases to watch the murderyou and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, with the scene being discovered by their sonof Ryan and father of Ryan, Declanis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, when he returned home originated from an evening outa trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved They're usually in some activities which lime green or acid yellow. You might have been considered shady and certainly questionable wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not illegal. His companyThe two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he'vitamins had a letter from his ex-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancerswife, saying that kind of thingshe's ill and hasn', as Hendersont long to live. It's employeehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedstripped 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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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0861541774|title=True Crime StoryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan WaitsDanny Maik, has created taken a new genre short holiday in Singapore to meet up with his latest novelan old ally, "True Crime Story"Guy Trueman. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Split into four parts Initially, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance he faced a charge of Zoe through manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as man. Now he could be facing the policedeath penalty. The various accounts Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and turns wouldn't help Danny at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedall. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|isbn=14722761401521129886|title=What Will Burn They Had It Coming (Inspector McLeanGreg Mason mysteries)|author=James OswaldKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterGreg Mason's body was found, shejust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'd already been dead for s a week good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh-law appears to have killed himself. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceStuart's concerned about his sister, but DI Tony McLeanLucy, demoted who's struggling to make ends meet and just returned from suspension, her son is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentnot thriving. There were indications Lucy, he says, is convinced that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before the fire. But who Gil would hate a ninetynever have killed himself -year-old woman to it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the extent of doing something like coroner have accepted that? the death was suicide, She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to that extent?find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=000845552XB0CK3MYJ56|title=Where Ravens RoostResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Karin NordinAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got It's the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he1990s and Greg Mason'd seen s twenty-eight years old. He used to have a murder high-flying job in the barn on his land city but it wasn't satisfying so he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsunds now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. ActuallyNice bloke, but where'drop everything' rather overstates s the situation. life experience that backs up this profession? Nygaard was on suspension following On the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiryother hand, he has been asked to look into something. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils HedinJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, Nygaardthey were until Helen was killed in what's best friendbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. StillJoyce - and her parents, the tenOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there -hour drive from Gothenburg or how she could come to fall in the south front of Sweden a train. Greg's been asked to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimatedinvestigate.
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|isbn=18387734281838954481|title=The Art of DeathMisper|author=David FennellKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar SquareRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidthere's no doubt about that. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are He was the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34fifteen-year-old Noel Tippingholding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The installation is He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the work jury system he was found not guilty of @nonymous, underground artist both the murder and extreme version the manslaughter of Banksythe officer. He's made a macabre promise: more will follow And so lives must go on. In fact, we've already met For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the artist although not by name: he's been capital and hoping for a quieter life in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly countryside but when a missing teenager is there with found on her son, Jordan, and territory she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the state orbit of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tooRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1448309743|title=Dark Memories The Devil Stone (DS Nikki Parekh 3DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Liz MistryCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadn't worn well. She was a drug addict and was living under In the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradford. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out village of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are Cronchie on the case. Nikki can't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with West coast of Scotland, five members of a press report of the deathwealthy family are found murdered. It had been impossible to make any progress in The only item missing from the case and home is the note seemed to taunt Devil Stone: myth says that if the police. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected stone is removed from Otterburn House, death in Cambridgewill follow. The third death - only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communicationbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the caseto 'shadow' him.
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|isbn=17874778001529077699|title=The Night Hawks Raging Storm (Dr Ruth GallowayTwo Rivers)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there'It's treasure to be foundall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. UnfortunatelyJem 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 dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the youngest village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the groupstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, twentyround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-oneround good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people -year-old Troy Evansprime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, finds where the body so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a man floating on the incoming tidegold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. After pulling it ashore, they call Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the policearea to have vanished without trace. DCI Nelson thinks It was only with reluctance that itSalander became her niece's probably the body of an asylum seeker guardian but thereit quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's no evidence unaware of any activity to be had from the coastguard. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonpart Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=00083793001787636607|title=The Shadow ManTrap|author=Helen FieldsCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heIt's dyinga scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child get home. Some are lucky and a brothermanage to get one of the few taxis available. He's been on Others squash onto the lookout for night bus that will only go as far as one of the perfect people and he's made certain preparationsoutlying villages. The flat where woman all regret the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains'taxi problem', and pictures particularly in frames have been painted onto the wallslight of 'the missing women'. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandFor one young woman, Cal, had taken the children - final stop on the bus leaves her a boy long way short of seven her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and a girl of five, away for collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the weekendbus driver to let her use his. Unfortunately, it doesnThere't go according s no option but to plan start walking - unsuitably clothed and Angela diesin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1405957174|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)A Death at the Party|author=Ragnar JonassonAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is From the police inspector in Siglufjordur and hefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do party will not end well. The victim - a Masters degree, taking threeman -year-old Stefnir with her. They were supposed is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledcall the ambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's now t know is who the Thursday of Holy Week and his family man is due or why Nadine prefers to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonhave him die. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of I'd better give you a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=178089905X0008530025|title=SerpentineMurder in the Family|author=Jonathan KellermanCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtywas in December 2003 that fifteen-year-six years ago old Maura Howard came home and found the daughter body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the woman who died wanted some answersgarden of their West London home. She He had money and money translated into clout and so an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the problem vicious beating his face had taken was dropped onto Miloobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's toesnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and burst into flamesto take the investigation further. It turned out that she wasn't actually married More to the man with whom shepoint, they'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometristre going to do this live on camera, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his nameepisode by episode. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing There's no dump of her but one photograph of her mother the whole box set - and father and a necklace made no shortage of serpentinecliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=000820831X0241996104|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 Coffinmakerbarrister 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 Gardenmade 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Stuart MacBrideMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the coastal village liberation of Clachmarathe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the headland man playing one of the main characters is slowly eroding into seriously injured when he departs from the seascript. Storm Trevor speeds up Luckily, his doctor is there and the processman is whisked away in a helicopter. A ship local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the Oceanman who runs Frenchelon -Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of the house to see whather father's happeningfriends for a pre-arranged holiday. Margaret runs after her son }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and as she grabs him looked up to pull him back to safety she glances across by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesOld Bailey. Gordon SmithThere's home is falling into just one man in the North Sea frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the evidence best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of what heStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's been doing for decades is going with it determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor- except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes Cameron's recommendations to the tumbling ruincontrary.
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