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|isbn=1471166023B0CYV674G2|title=Burnt Island Swanton Morley (Ben KittoJohn Tanner)|author=Kate RhodesDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoDuring location filming for his 1970's thirty-fifth birthday sitcom 'Floggit and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsLeggit', but it would be marred this year by leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the discovery dead body of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put woman on the fire and can only have died edge of a terrible deathreservoir. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwenpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, better known on St Agnes as but something about the Bird Man because whole thing bothers Lowe, and he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is enlists the welfare help of the birds he looks aftera fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and he uses his sheepskin coat , seemingly, a link to do this, with death during the result that he's Second World War. But is there really a link between the prime suspect.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=18388806580008517061|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Helena DixonStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the summer future of 1933 his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Kitty Underhay is on her way daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to visit move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the family which future she never knew she had, at Enderley Hall. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, wants for herself and Great Aunt Livvy are back at her daughter? For the Dolphin Hotel moment they’re enjoying life in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much present and putting the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt future on her lifethe back burner.
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|isbn=02413968401786482126|title=KeeperThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jessica MoorElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the womensite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's refuge unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the women body of a missing person is buried and who lived there liked and respected was responsible for herdeath. She treated them well This person, he promises, is someone big and seemed it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to have an understanding open prison to serve the remainder of what they were going throughhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Why then did Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she jump 's even prepared to do the 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 local 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 bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide spot into but there's something about the river below? There had been no signs positioning of the bodies that she was unhappy and she makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boyfriend seemed boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to have been content together be an open- and Noah has -shut case is now a decent alibi for the time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for her death? complex double murder. The police are Kerrigan is convinced that itthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's suicideboss, but the women who knew her believed otherwiseUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=178730101X0571379877|title=Keep Him CloseThe Kellerby Code|author=Emily KochJonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Benoîtobsessed with his upper-class friends, actually) Robert and LouisStanza. LouRobert's seventeen and hea theatre director. He's just got his A level results also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and he entitled and his brother are going out uses Edward to celebraterun errands for him. Someone Edward has to find something to celebrate been in the letters, D, D love with Stanza since their university days - and Ehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Alice has always had Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny had begun between them but it's a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming like most men: Edward is left to my mind were ADHDstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0571342353Jo Callaghan|title=Rules for Perfect Murders|author=Peter SwansonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was When a man is found crucified on the co-owner and manager top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Boston. The store specialises in crime novelscase alongside her sidekick, but Mal has given up reading crimethe AI detective Lock. His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wife, Claire Mallory, died and he's never really got over it. She was driving whilst inebriatedtheir first live case together, having just previously been to see the man very successful with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairseveral cold cases. His interest in crime fiction comes back But when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveythere 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. She's interested Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=17868971481035021803|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever 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 English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (Harry McCoyon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered)and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alan ParksNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Charlotte Salter was on his way to London with fellow band members Tomexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Scottsons Niall, Barry Paul and JamieOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd had to get his s father to sign , Duncan Ackerley, in the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enoughriver. And his father It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been reluctant - murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for t stand the regular money. By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgowguilt. The Beatkickers didn't survive and March is on his own, Salter children are not convinced but hardly thriving. Therethere's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZX1529900360|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)The Ghost Orchid|author=Rachel LynchJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was out running in the park when she 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 randomly attacked and stabbed reluctant to deathask for his help on difficult cases. Her husband, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie His assertions that there were devastated only open-and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decent, middle-class woman should be shut cases which didn't need the victim help of knife crimea psychologist only worked for a while. Despite being a golfing Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from , who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the case and told DI Kelly Porter involvement was something that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handledman she loved needed. He wasn't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours laterThe next case did look simple, though. Keira Bradley lived on Two lovers were murdered in the Beacon estate and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there should expect this sort swimming pool of thing to happena remote property in Bel Air. He could hardly bring himself was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to mention Keiraan extremely rich man and it's namenot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1471180921178763681X|title=FirewatchingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Russ ThomasOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he's lucky to be there, given that he decked a superior officerresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Hedidn's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a scar on his face to prove it - way of getting both men and the superior officer was forced women to take early retirementdo what he wanted. TherePaul 's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (shesomehow''s on got the force too) has looked after him and impression that his current boss is keen he'd be at the school to have assist Paul, who had a tame gay to put on broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the town hall steps come Prideproblems - are all his own. Either way, The one thing hehadn's theret expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, but without anything really interesting he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to get his teeth intobe the prime suspect.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17874775331529421284|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Laying Out the Bones|author=Elly GriffithsKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She's no longer providing assistance In a gully, a human skeleton came to the police surface and isn't even working at forensic testing proved the University of North Norfolkbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe's lecturing at Cambridge d been a known drug user and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, Katiehad learning disabilities, has settled into school better than she so it could ever have hoped and life is looking goodbeen a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Settled. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and there's a close relationship with his familyto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. You might ''almost'' think Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Ruth's life is settling downcold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B1529425867|title=In Plain Sight Lost and Never Found (A D I Clare MackayWilkins Mystery)|author=Marion ToddSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolentrackies. They were there 're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the racelaughs. TheyWell, you're against not. The two men are just different sides of the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and same policing coin. Sometimes the firm is sponsoring the fun runcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was Lisa Mitchell's scream February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which stopped everythingmade Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had He'd been taken from her pram whilst no one was lookingexiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's had a major incident when letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any'' child sympathy when Hopkins is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because , stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a heart stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours closer to live.home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15291243950861541774|title=When You See MeA Nye of Pheasants|author=Lisa GardnerSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Chuckformer colleague, it was Danny Maik, has taken a hiking break in the Appalachians short holiday in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track Singapore to find a stickmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. What Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he found was facing a man armed with a human bone knife - and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D Warrenhe killed a Ghurka. Both women were experienced in this type Initially, he faced a charge of rather gruesome work manslaughter but they also called on the services of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the tableman. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by Now he could be facing the notorious killer, Jacob Nessdeath penalty. If Ness had anything to Domenic Jejeune can do with the current discoveries then what Flora had nothing to say help as any interference from another police force could be invaluableprovoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=00082971691521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. 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-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The Guest Listpolice and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lucy FoleyAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip out It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to Inis Amploir, off have a high-flying job in the Irish coastcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might have been enough to put some guests offbe thinking. Nice bloke, but it was where's the wedding of life experience that backs up this profession? On the yearother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Will Slater (television personalityJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, if not yet a celebrity) or rather, they were until Helen was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, killed in the ruined chapel on the islandwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife Joyce - and her husbandparents, FreddyOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. They gave a huge discount Greg's been asked to get the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00082752461838954481|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)The Misper|author=Helen FieldsKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something He was wrongthe fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Bart might be twenty He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was considerate found not guilty of his mother both the murder and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her knowthe manslaughter of the officer. Besides, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without thatAnd so lives must go on. It's not long before Bart realises For DI Sarah Collins that hemeans leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's alone, trapped in drawn into a shipping container wider investigation - and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decidedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn= Luke Arnold1448309743|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 24|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. ''The Last Smile only suspects are known Satanists but in Sunder Citymany ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold. It centres on a Private DetectiveDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Fetch Philips, as he attempts DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to find a missing vampire in a world filled with magical creatures where all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequences'shadow' him.|isbn=0356512886
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15294002791529077699|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Jo SpainAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where heall bloody peculiar, isn'd been but he seemed contentt it, if not happySir?'' Well yes, to be hopeit is. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen Jem Rosco blew into the ''in memoriam'' local pub one evening in the paper: this was the first he'd heard middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about what had happened. His three sisters a month and two brothers had mixed feelings about his returnthen turned up, but his father is delighted. In factnaked and dead, he's determined to have in a party. Onlysmall boat, with Frazer Latimeranchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, what happens has to be about himin Devon. He has an announcement to make - it Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. HeI ''s met Ananearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a Polish immigrant, little bit close with money and theyhis background isn're getting marriedt exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{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 - prime numbers for example''.
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the 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 a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17860756951787636607|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)The Trap|author=Helen SedgwickCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with 's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the discovery morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a body under the swings in the children's playgroundway to get home. It was Dr Alexis Crosse Some are lucky and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason manage to mistrust himget one of the few taxis available. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', but such professions are misunderstood particularly in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsiderlong way short of her home. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - youbut her phone've only got s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to look at her skin beg the bus driver to realise that, and let her husband, Fergus, well, heuse his. There's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)1405957174|title=The Honjin MurdersA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To many readersFrom the first page, the phrase 'locked room murder mysterywe know that Nadine Walsh' s party will not end well. The victim - a man - is enough to make the book one dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to read; preferably quantified by call the words 'clever' or 'good'ambulance he so desperately needs. For those who need more, here is the extra background – What wedon're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family t know is belatedly getting married, although who the whole affair man is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations or why Nadine prefers to have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriagehim die. What with I'd better give you a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Will Dean 0008530025|title=Black River Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns It was in December 2003 that fifteen- year-old Maura Howard came home and this third book in found the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into body of her personal lifestepfather, returning her to Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the isolated town back of Gavrik his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and into it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a desperate search for her missing best friendtrue-crime show. With A group of experts has been brought together to review the Midsommar sun blocked out by evidence and to take the dark pines of investigation further. More to the forestpoint, Tuva fights they're going to save her frienddo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17857692940241996104|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardilini)Coming to Find You|author=Robert JeffreysJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItOne 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 when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly there to a teachersee the show with some friends. It's bedroom one October night that we realise something is all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on when, Kerquelin, the part man playing one of the childmain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in the most horrific fashiona helicopter. When A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found a senior government employee, the man dead on who runs Frenchelon - the floormilitary has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, the top is flying in with some of his skull missing. The schoolher father's initial reaction was that this was friends for a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed the Captainpre-arranged holiday.
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