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|author=Doug JohnstoneStuart 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 Great Silencepolice 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=For those whoFormer Metropolitan Police detective, like meJake Johnson, haven't come across has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Skelfs beforefuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, I'll risk as moving in together would mean a quick synopsis lot of who's who – although Johnstone compromise: does a good job of bringing the backstory Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in without being heavy handed with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it whether or not this is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers future she wants for herself and private investigators. Dorothy is her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the matriarch – Californian by birth present and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run putting the future on the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with bones of a child beneath a black Swedish police officerdoorway. Swedish by nationality There was no skull. Scottish police Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Daughter Jenny It's difficult as Ruth knows, 46but Nelson doesn't, that she is haunted by her still-living husband – pregnant with his child as a violent escaped prisonerresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And grand-daughter Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is about prone to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next termsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=00082690410008551324|title=Risk of HarmThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lucie WhitehouseNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Robin Lyons It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is back struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the Metremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. She might have been reinstated but Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the whole episode left a nasty taste other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her mouthbed one summer night. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then never found and the man who had broken investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her heart nearly twenty years beforefather are dead in their bed. She Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her fifteenboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-yearand-old daughter have moved out of her parentshut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's home into a rented house but theredisappearance: others (such as Derwent's still 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 difficult situation working-class young man, obsessed with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a young childtheatre director. He's married to Nataliealso self-obsessed, demanding, now 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 young child relationship had begun between them but he's still got it 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=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in for RobinNuneaton, 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 very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a 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 case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=18469757191035021803|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Denzil MeyrickC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to awkward placesthe English country village where she grew up. But thatShe's Londonback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, isnCarole. Freya't it? Whats former mentor and Carole's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, DCI Jim Daley is dead and his colleaguethe circumstances seem suspicious, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for to say the airport straight awayleast. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the plane were dead before take offvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. How could that Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available to near the man or pursue the paying publicprofession she loved. And why have After the man no identification split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on them - or even labels in their clothes?the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=14091816691398524085|title=The MaidensHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alex MichaelidesNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mariana Charlotte Salter was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and decide how she should proceedher daughter, Etty. Everything are all worried but - or so she thought strangely - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeher husband, Alec, is not. She'd been brutally stabbed Shortly afterwards, Etty and MarianaGreg, find the body of Greg's niecefather, ZoeDuncan Ackerley, had telephoned her in distressthe river. Tara It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been her best friend murdered Charlie and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasnthen committed suicide when he couldn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught stand the first fast train from King's Crossguilt. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of MarianaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident little else they can do but get on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been with their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother lives and Mariana's sister, Elizawonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=02414001201529900360|title=The Girl Who DiedGhost Orchid|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una 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 not thriving in Reykjavik: 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 some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheRobin, Delaware'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teachers partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was thirty years old and money was tightsomething that the man she loved needed. Her friend, SaraThe next case did look simple, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulathough. There Two lovers were only ten people murdered in the village but swimming pool of a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedremote property in Bel Air. Una He was the only applicant heir to an Italian shoe empire and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik is married to an extremely rich man and, hopefully, save some money over it's not the winter Italian. But which her contract covered.of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1529407249178763681X|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 Perfect Lieteaching - 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=Jo SpainKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happyone of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She and Danny Ryan were planning In a few days away: that's always gully, a dangerous thing human skeleton came to do when you're married the surface and forensic testing proved the body to a cop but she was hopefulbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. They He'd been married for six months a known drug user and life was good with had learning disabilities, so it could have been a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Islandsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The knock on the door Geary was insistent and when it was openeda townie, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell so what was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the open window suicide of Holly Gilbert and jumped to his death from two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the fourth floortime. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's murdercold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=17885497591529425867|title=The Distant DeadLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lesley ThomsonSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, sonof Ryan and father of Ryan, William, at home with her parentsis not. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame He's not any of illegitimacythose things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life barely educated (and Williamreading'snot ''really'' his thing) on and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a better footingpolice procedural written for laughs. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancéWell, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family you're not. The two men are just different sides of the following weeksame policing coin. Later, her body would be found in Sometimes the bombed-out home where he had taken hercombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=00084049251529431735|title=The Killing KindWinter Visitor|author=Jane CaseyJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencemore surprising. He'd been accused of stalking exiled on the woman but it didnCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way aroundlive. Soon Ingrid never seemed It's hard to be free of John Webster feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and then she came sent to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that watery grave in the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a long time: he was Spanish gang or a very dangerous man.problem closer to home?
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|isbn=walker140861541774|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief Nye of Police Novel)Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was when involved in a street brawl - he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies would later maintain that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as Jwas facing a man armed with a knife -J, to solve and he killed a case which had haunted him for thirty yearsGhurka. The body Initially, he faced a charge of a young male was found in the woods manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he was never identified and his killer never brought might have planned to justicemurder the man. What if an artist Now he could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify facing the young man? death penalty. J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesnwouldn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justicehelp Danny at all.
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|isbn=14711814051521129886|title=NighthawkingThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Russ ThomasKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=SheffieldGreg Mason's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like just beginning to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of get his confidence as an industrial city but this was disrupted when investigator to the body of a young woman was discoveredpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would 's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months a baby and could have been undiscovered for yearsthey're both delighted. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyesmorning sickness. DCI Diane Jordan Greg is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbaniapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. TheyStuart're joined by DS Guy Daley s concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's just returned from extended sick leavestruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Mina thinks Lucy, hesays, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's as obnoxious as ever t in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but suspects that heStuart's not fully recovered from his injuriesprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=0241985137B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Whole Truth Responsibilities (D I FawleyGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Cara HunterAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by He used to have a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing high-flying job in the room before theycity but it wasn'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan t satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'wasShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where' s the 'victim' and life experience that backs up this profession? On the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Just to complicate matters furtherJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, Calebthey were until Helen was killed in what's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is been written off as a big name is Artificial Intelligencetragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. She has an eightJoyce -year-old son, buys and her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddparents, spends more than £1000 Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerstrain. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going Greg's been asked to be ''very'' publicinvestigate.
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|isbn=19131935271838954481|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Misper|author=Vanda SymonKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was shocked when it heard of the murder of a wealthy fifteen-year-old holding the gun and apparently respectable businessman out pointing it at SeacliffDI Kieran Shaw. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was forced to watch found not guilty of both the murder, with and the manslaughter of the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outofficer. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalAnd so lives must go on. His company, Eros Global, manufactured For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and marketed hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she''vitamins drawn into a wider investigation -type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind back into the orbit of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedRyan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1448309743|title=True Crime StoryThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created five members of a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"wealthy family are found murdered. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan only item missing from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader home is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through Devil Stone: myth says that if the eyes of her twin sister, other familystone is removed from Otterburn House, friends and professionals, such as the policedeath will follow. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoeonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, or at least that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the Zoe she presented to othersbody. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, confused and unsure of what DCI Christine Caplan is true or fabricatedpulled in to 'shadow' him. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|isbn=14722761401529077699|title=What Will Burn The Raging Storm (Inspector McLeanTwo Rivers)|author=James OswaldAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily Slater''It's body was foundall bloody peculiar, sheisn't it, Sir?''d already been dead  Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a week - month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a house fire small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in deserted woodland near EdinburghDevon. Heavy rain Rosco had washed away most the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the evidence, world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but DI Tony McLeanas we'll find out, demoted and just returned from suspension, is reluctant to accept that this is nothing he could be more than a careless accidentlittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. There were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before Where did he get the fire. money for his first boat? But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to How did he finance the extent of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extenttrip?
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|isbn=000845552X1529427045|title=Where Ravens RoostThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin NordinSmirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for ''Life has more to offer than a decade but when he got people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen area have sparked a murder gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsundcoming forward. Actually, Salander'drop everythings niece' rather overstates s mother is the situation. Nygaard was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect latest woman in the Aubuchon murder enquiryarea to have vanished without trace. There had been It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, Nygaardremarkably gifted teenager who's best friend. Still, unaware of the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg part Salander played in the south of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldnher father't be underestimateds death.
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|isbn=18387734281787636607|title=The Art of DeathTrap|author=David FennellCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation 's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidmorning. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies Drunken revellers spilling out of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton clubs and 34-year-old Noel Tippinglooking for a way to get home. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist Some are lucky and extreme version manage to get one of Banksythe few taxis available. He's made a macabre promise: more Others squash onto the night bus that will followonly go as far as one of the outlying villages. In factThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', weparticularly in the light of 've already met the artist although not by name: hemissing women's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her sonFor one young woman, Jordan, and she's explaining to the final stop on the bus leaves her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state a long way short of her marriagehome. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her face despite the foundation shephone's applieddead. Chau Ho is behind The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the counterbus driver to let her use his. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toono option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1405957174|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)A Death at the Party|author=Liz MistryAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadnFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh't worn s party will not end well. She was The victim - a drug addict man - is dying when we first meet him and was living under Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradford. Her killer thought that ambulance he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out of her miseryso desperately needs. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are on the case. Nikki canWhat we don't quite understand know is who the man is or why she's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of the death. It had been impossible Nadine prefers to make any progress in the case and the note seemed to taunt the policehave him die. 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 I'd better give you a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure little more background so that there was something personal in the caseyou can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=17874778000008530025|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)Murder in the Family|author=Elly GriffithsCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect It was in December 2003 that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, the youngest of the group, twenty-onefifteen-year-old Troy Evans, finds Maura Howard came home and found the body of a man floating on her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the incoming tidegarden of their West London home. After pulling it ashore, they call He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the policevicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. DCI Nelson thinks that Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's probably now the body subject of an asylum seeker but there's no 'Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence of any activity and to be had from take the coastguardinvestigation further. The dead man turns out More to the point, they're going to be Jem Taylordo this live on camera, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonepisode 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=00083793000241996104|title=The Shadow ManComing to Find You|author=Helen FieldsJane Corry|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heNancy's dyingmother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. His body is giving up on himWe first meet Nancy outside the court, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants after Martin receives a wife, a child and a brotherlife sentence. HeThe barrister tells her that she's been on the lookout for the perfect people and hereceived a 'silent sentence' - she's made certain preparations. The flat where the family not been found guilty of anything but will have to live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto what happened for the wallsrest of her life. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandOf course, Cal, had taken the children it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - a boy of seven and a girl the papers are making the most of five, away for the weekendit. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Angela dies''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1529413680|title=Winterkill A Chateau Under Siege (Dark IcelandA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ragnar JonassonMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the police inspector re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in Siglufjordur 1370 and heBruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's still living in all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the house on Eyrargata which main characters is seriously injured when he shared with departs from the script. Luckily, his wife Kristin doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a Masters degreesenior government employee, taking threethe man who runs Frenchelon -year-old Stefnir the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of herfather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday. They were supposed }}{{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 looked up to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledby just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. ItThere's now just one man in the Thursday 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 best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Holy Week Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonpupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed Knight's determined to get plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the towncontrary.
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