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|isbn=057137493XB0CYV674G2|title=The Other HalfSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Charlotte VassellDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|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''The room was full of t killed the man. A body at the sort bottom of people a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he''Tatler'' thinks you should knows been stabbed to death.'' ''The Other Half'' DCI John Tanner is the story of two menjust back from his honeymoon, both which coincided with what looks like the same surnamebirth of his daughter Samantha. Rupert Beauchamp is You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger words 'perverse' and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'BeechamJohn Tanner'were made for each other. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is biHe's sleep-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across deprived to the body point of Clemmie Ofalling asleep at work but he'Hara, Ruperts determined to keep going - probably because he can's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a busht get any sleep at home.
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|isbnauthor=0857051741Stuart Douglas|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson Lowe and Frank Perry (Translator)Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heDuring location filming for his 1970's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the case dead body of a body found in a freezer at woman on the home edge of a deceased alcoholicreservoir. The problem is that police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the case has long passed whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the statute help of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. He was They travel across the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, death during the dead alcoholic, was also murderedSecond World War. Is But is there really a connection link between the two deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=15294212410008517061|title=Stay BuriedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Kate WebbStig Abell|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually a cold case unit and there are just two of them doing the jobFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Lockyer's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable the future of something better. It was his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a bit lot of a shock when he got compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the phone call from Hedy Lambert: future she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park wants for murder - herself and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. daughter? She's keen to see him For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and to tell him that putting the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but future on the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesback burner.
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|isbn=13997022891786482126|title=A World of Curiosities The Janus Stone (Chief Inspector GamacheDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Louise PennyElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the arrival bones of springa child beneath a doorway. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du QuébecThere was no skull. Gamache had offered help to Was this a young woman after the ritual killing or murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. ? For Jean-GuyInevitably, it had always been the other way aroundDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Now theyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn're both in t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the village and neither can fathom what's happeningone night they spent together some three months ago. Armand Her condition will soon find that they're be obvious before long, not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifeleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas0008551324|title=White RiotThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawpolice. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well Neither side likes or properly capture the spirit of has any respect for the momentother. It takes a truly talented writer But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to be able to capture tell the police where the zeitgeist body of a particular event or era of political historymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Austerity Britain This person, the student riotshe promises, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, someone big and has been, written in it will be worth the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be frothy transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisiveto get an early parole date. Inevitably ( Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and perhaps disappointingly for people who she's even prepared to do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events is other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that which DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewkept well away from what's happening.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbn=18387761840008405026|title=Her Majesty A Stranger in the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=S J BennettJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''The Queen, like the sunrise s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed investigation ground to begin as a coldhalt. Hardly surprisingNow, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefullyher mother, the Queen thoughtHelena, and her cold would go the same wayfather are dead in their bed. SheInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd probably caught it from one s something about the positioning of the great-grandchildrenbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Unfortunately, What looked as though it didn't get better was going to be an open-and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flushut case is now a complex double murder. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train Kerrigan is convinced that day but the doctor put his foot down. Heexplanation lies in Rosalie'd have preferred that the queen have a few dayss disappearance: others (such as Derwent' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappoints boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=08615419950571379877|title=Wolf PackThe Kellerby Code|author=Will DeanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north of VisbergEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. She sees blood on the road and Robert's a creature on its side near the pine treestheatre director. It will turn out to be BroncoHe's also self-obsessed, a Swedish Elkhounddemanding, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco handsome and entitled and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, uses Edward to the vetrun errands for him. Bronco didnEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that s drunkenly confided how he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missingfeels to Robert. She'd been working at Rose Farm and MoodysonMost men in Robert's journalistposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's instincts are soon brought not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group two of survivalists but back them kissing in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old surviveda dark passageway. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbnauthor=1405951184Jo Callaghan|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after When a night out. As she passed through man is found crucified on the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, top of a figure appeared hill in the road. Olivia swerved Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to avoid him and the car smashed into a treecase alongside her sidekick, leaving her trappedthe AI detective Lock. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph MiddletonIt's their first live case together, who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But what had happened to Sally Thornewhen there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Tamsin Cole Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Hetty Riding? a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Their disappearance would Will they be yet another mysterious happening able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the Stafferbury area case and, potentially, out of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relation.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15420372391035021803|title=Death 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 Heelsa cafe, met and married James (on 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=Kitty MurphyNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's drag scenefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery Paul and Ollie and her best frienddaughter, RobynEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bnot. What is meant to be a night Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenGreg's father, EveDuncan Ackerley, takes to in the stage to mock Mae Briver. As if It was an easy assumption for the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant police to make that Eve was Duncan had murdered, yet the drag community, Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Guards, accept it as an accidentguilt. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529900360|title=The Dark RoomGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'd watched them die several years ago, s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place he felt responsible and time? This is what happens even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to Leonard in this storyask for his help on difficult cases. He is an exHis assertions that there were only open-and-crime reporter shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a newspaperwhile. Finally, it was Robin, and since leaving journalism heDelaware's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldpartner, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homewho nudged Milo into asking for help again. One of these photographs turns out to show She knew that the involvement was something that the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agoman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die though. Two lovers were murdered in front the swimming pool of him one night a remote property in a hotelBel Air. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died s not the night she Italian. But which of them was with him, what on earth actually happenedthe primary target?|isbn=154203535X
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ8178763681X|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Neil LancasterOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a runresidential cookery school in Belgravia. The lawyer was on his honeymoon He didn't really want to but his body was found dashed celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to pieces below do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the cliffs impression that he'd be at Dunnett Headthe school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Was it suicide, or did he The teaching - for some reason and the problems - climb over the stone wall and fall to are all his death? Or was own. The one thing he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accidenthadn' t expected was linked for someone to the deaths of others associated with himturn up dead. Scott Paterson Unfortunately, he was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientperson to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=000837936X1529421284|title=The Last Girl to DieLaying Out the Bones|author=Helen FieldsKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on It was one of those flash downpours that the Isle of Mull, British weather often delivers in search of a new lifeheatwave. It was In a bit of gully, a change from Las Vegas, but human skeleton came to the family seemed determined surface and Adriana forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearednine years earlier. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could it have been because Adrianaa simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagerst convinced. Brandon, Adriana's twinGeary was a townie, so what was upset he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and surlyto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Four-year-old Luna just knew Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that she missed her big sister. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered cold cases to you and it looked like a ritual killingme) investigate.
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|isbn=15098896121529425867|title=The Rising Tide Lost and Never Found (A D I Vera StanhopeWilkins Mystery)|author=Ann CleevesSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy IslandIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Some Raymond Wilkins is of them found the Only Connect course transformative Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenalways exquisitely dressed. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and her car was swept awayfather of Ryan, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one is not. He's not any of the original teenagersthose things. Ken now has AlzheimerHe's and hewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's a shadow not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the man he used shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to bea police procedural written for laughs. Philip Robson now a priest Well, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelyou're not. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much The two men are just different sides of the food: her deli is famous in same policing coin. Sometimes the areacombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=02419901651529431735|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Winter Visitor|author=Cara HunterJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the householdermore surprising. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was a body been exiled on the floor: the head had been blown off with Costa del Sol as a shotgun and the corpse was holding wanted drug smuggler for a knife in its right handdecade. Richard Swann told the police The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that heshe'd heard sounds of an intruder s ill and had come downstairs hasn't long to investigatelive. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'It' s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and come at him with sent to a watery grave in the boot of a knifestolen Ford Sierra. Swann had shot him in self-defence.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=178763566X0861541774|title=Listen to MeA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tess GerritsenSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeDCI Domenic Jejeune're s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Boston Singapore to meet up with Amyan old ally, Guy Trueman. When she set out for university this morning it Maik was involved in a spring day and she wore her new, butterystreet brawl -leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows he would later maintain that they're going to be ruined he was facing a man armed with a knife - and unsafe - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, he killed a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stopGhurka. Two months later Initially, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and he faced a keen defender charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesman. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has Now he could be facing the time death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to watch whathelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in t help Danny at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsall.
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|isbn=18011092651521129886|title=The CompanionThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lesley ThomsonKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself 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 punctual man who was inexplicably never on timebaby and they'' and he was 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- as usual in- late law appears to pick up have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sonsister, WilburLucy, for their 'boys' day outwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur andLucy, he says, competing for the boyis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's attention, t in his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnednature. The dinner would never be served, as James police and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on coroner have accepted that the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. death was suicide, Shebut Stuart's feeling prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughnight Gil died.
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|authorisbn=David LagercrantzB0CK3MYJ56|title=Dark MusicResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from It's the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. This does He used to have a wonderhigh-mind at flying job in the heart of what little investigating is going on, city but there is not it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthprivate investigator. For one, the main focus 'Shades of the narrativeCameron Strike', Micaelayou might be thinking. Nice bloke, is no John Watson MD. Shebut where's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows life experience that backs up this profession? On the prime suspect of oldother hand, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned he has been asked to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumlook into something. BeppeJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, the suspector rather, they were until Helen was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see killed in what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is 's been written off as a shamblestragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crimeJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she Pam Hetherington - can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, understand what she was doing there - or how she manages could come to stop him fall in the middle front of an apparent suicide attempt.a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X1838954481|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Misper|author=Martin WalkerKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''Nobody knows what the truth is any mores no doubt about that.'' Bruno Courrèges is He was the police chief for St Denis and much of fifteen-year-old holding the Vézère valley gun and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the head of detectives for trigger but due to the départment vagaries of the Dordogne. They're jury system he was found not just policemen - they're guilty of both deeply committed to the well-being murder and prosperity the manslaughter of this most beautiful part of Francethe officer. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them And so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped lives must go on the base, which they found in the car. Oh, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and there was hoping for a golf ball too, which didn't belong to quieter life in the owner of the car. A golf bag would be countryside but when a good place to hide a snipermissing teenager is found on her territory she's weapondrawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbn=07278505471448309743|title=Blind Justice The Devil Stone (DS McAvoy 10DCI Christine Caplan)|author=David MarkCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when In the call came through. A body had been found in village of Cronchie on the roots West coast of Scotland, five members of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullwealthy family are found murdered. When he gets to The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the scenestone is removed from Otterburn House, he death will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedfollow. A young manThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's corpse is entangled with the roots an easy conclusion given that two of a newly-fallen tree – them 'discovered' the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesbody. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyshadow' him.
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|authorisbn=1529077699|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=Little DrummerAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, this crime story it is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the death middle of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdoseautumn gale, it unravels into stayed for about a far-reaching investigation of murdermonth and then turned up, fraudnaked and dead, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichin a small boat, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains anchored in Norway whilst Frolich is led Scully Cove close to Africa as they follow the twists and turns village of the investigationGreystone, in Devon. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down Rosco had the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstancesstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, trying hard to uncover round the truth world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as they are sure that something much biggerwe'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and much more dangerous, is going onhis background isn't exactly an open book.|isbn=1914585127 Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=13985075041529427045|title=Cold ReckoningThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Russ ThomasKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the last sixteen years heso-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's been searching for evidence to prove that heniece's right. When a frozen body was found mother is the latest woman in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back the area to a cold case from 2002have vanished without trace. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection It was only with DI Richard Tylerreluctance that Salander became her niece's death guardian but Adam Tyler senses it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a link to remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the case his part Salander played in her father was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the opendeath. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbn=17876349061787636607|title=No Less the DevilThe Trap|author=Stuart MacBrideCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're s a scene replicated all too often in Oldcastle the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Malcolm is in troublelooking for a way to get home. He's in an abandoned house Some are lucky and he's being threatened by two young peoplemanage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. One is Allegra (weThe woman all regret the 'll soon learn that shetaxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a new coat long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) come and collect her - but sheher phone'd put a tracking device in it so that s dead. The bus had driven off before she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepinghad the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. It wonThere't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going s no option but to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1405957174|title=A Death at Friar's Innthe Party|author=Rob KeeleyAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in From the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friarfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's Inn. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as party will not end well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticed. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of this. The other contestants victim - Becca Deckera man -Hamilton is dying when we first meet him and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have Nadine consciously makes no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidenceeffort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesnWhat we don't make know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him feel any die. I'd bettergive you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=15291259440008530025|title=City of Murder in the DeadFamily|author=Jonathan KellermanCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a livingIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, youin the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he're careful 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 it's not just about now the way that you drivesubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. You restrict your alcohol intake A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and if itto take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepno dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. When youIt's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at 5 atheir Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder.m. when We first meet Nancy outside the roads are quietercourt, even if you 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 wait up when you get to where you're goinglive with what happened for the rest of her life. And Of course, it was going well until 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood most of Los Angelesit. The man was stark naked ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and couldn't 'rich bitch'' might not be identifiedprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11529413680|title=The Patient A Chateau Under Siege (A DS Cross thrillerBruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Tim SullivanMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerOne 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 Syndrome. He can be rude, difficult and awkward there to see the show with people, although it's never intentionalsome friends. It's just that all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he thinks differently departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and social niceties simply don't occur to himthe man is whisked away in a helicopter. ThereA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a reason why he's senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in Bristol's Major Crime Unit . One daughter lives nearby and it's that he has the best conviction rate with casesanother, who lives in California, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross flying in with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crossher father's behaviourfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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