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|isbn=00085512781035043092|title=Blood Runs Cold The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)
|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith Leanne Wilson's body was snatched from found at the bottom of Fyrisha Scottish mountain, where sheseemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd been looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing her trainingand sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. SheThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there'd been s a bit killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008643660|title=The Burial Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=A group of archaeologists are uncovering a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and it now looks as though she could some of the excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be heading for split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the national squadgroup begin receiving threatening letters. ThatJake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeinevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the letters, Affo came it's difficult to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the local police are keen that Jake should be involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|title=A Voice in the age of twelveNight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She was rescued when talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she was carrying a kilo has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of drugs Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and three years later shealways immaculately dressed. He's happy with her foster familymarried to Diane and has twin sons. ThereManagement's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in a childrenfact, it could be said that he's home never really left it. He lives in Tirana - shell suits and anyone could get to hertracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.
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|authorisbn=1529077745|title=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney The Dark Wives (translatorD I Vera Stanhope)|titleauthor=Thirty Days of DarknessAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot man in the world of crime fictionpark near Rosebank, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writea care home for troubled teens. Cue The dead man was Josh - one of the bet that she cannot live care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she only clue is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point disappearance of one of despairing – about her writingthe residents, about the fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people and believe that Chloe was responsible for the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the landladygirl's nephew diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=13985095821529428289|title=The FavourA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Nicci FrenchMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 amBecause of various property transactions, not long after A levels, when people were searching for the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch grave but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherwhen they found it, it came with three sets of bones. She was utterly driven by her determination They dated back to go World War II and it fell to medical school. Liam was Bruno, the reverse. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over and carried him along''. A bit Chief of weed herePolice for St Denis, a few drinks there: to discover the legal effects identities of the car crash really didnbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry him about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at allrecord levels. The relationship broke up soon after It's not just the local autumn rains that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any morehave caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni152919640X|title=Her Deadly GameThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeThe nation's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there'The Irish Brawlers only one suspect. He' due s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in defence case of his clientsemergencies. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, Patsy also has live television studio - and Brooks served a gift for drinking himself ragout to oblivion Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and inevitably the latter she was beginning to overshadow the formerdead within minutes. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southIt was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=0008404976B0CYV674G2|title=The Close Swanton Morley (DS Maeve KerriganJohn Tanner)|author=Jane CaseyDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan seemed like an open-and DI Josh Derwent were living together -shut case. A man, covered in Jellicoe Close. If you're mud and blood - and carrying a regular reader of knife, comes into the [[Jane Caseypolice station shouting that he hasn's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itt killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's a massive spoiler because there been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is a delicious sexual chemistry between just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the two which seems very, very realbirth of his daughter Samantha. But (there's always a You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer butthe words ', isnperverse't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky'John Tanner' were made for each other. As for Maeve, sheHe's just come out sleep-deprived to the point of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|author=Nick BrooksStuart Douglas|title=Promise BoysLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the principal (headmaster) dead body of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police station seem happy to assign it as suspectsan 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. EachThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at link to death during the time of his murderSecond World War. But who killed him, and why, and if any of is there really a link between the boys are innocent, deaths? And will they be able manage to clear uncover who is responsible before more people lose their nameslives?|isbn=10350031551803368209
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|isbn=15291259600008517061|title=Unnatural HistoryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jonathan KellermanStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. Well, it was AdonisFormer Metropolitan Police detective, actuallyJake Johnson, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as has settled into his PA found him dead in his bedrustic life at Little Sky. Three shots were placed neatly through There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his heart. The PAvet girlfriend, Mel Gornick, is distraught Livia and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated daughter Diana, as he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished moving in together would mean a series lot of photographs called ''The Wishers''. He'd taken eight homeless people 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 streets future she wants for herself and asked them what they'd really like to be. her daughter? They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and sent putting the future on their way with a generous gift in dollarsthe back burner.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1786482126|title=Expectant The Janus Stone (Detective Sam ShephardDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the start bones of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. ? Suddenly she Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, working with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfDCI Harry Nelson. Finding herself put on desk dutiesIt's difficult as Ruth knows, which she rails againstbut Nelson doesn't, that she just can't let is pregnant with his child as a result of the case go and she starts to follow every thread one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry sudden bouts of just what might happen nextsickness.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544930008551324|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stacy WillinghamNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept s unusual for a year - well, apart anyone from the odd occasion when she lost track of time Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or drifted off has any respect for a momentthe other. ItBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's now prepared to tell the police where the body of a year since missing person is buried and who was responsible for her sondeath. This person, Masonhe promises, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing someone big and particularly about her relief in it will be worth the morning when she thought police doing what he was sleeping inwants. In that year she's done everything she could And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to raise awareness about serve the caseremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. She does interviews Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and when we meet her, she's just been even prepared to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On do the plane back, sheother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferenceshappening.
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|isbn=057137493X0008405026|title=The Other HalfA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Charlotte VassellJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''The room s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was full of never found and the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'' ''The Other Half'' is s something about the story positioning of two men, both with what looks like the same surnamebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir What looked as though it was going to a baronetcy be an open-and his thirtieth birthday party -shut case is now a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocainecomplex double murder. His surname Kerrigan is pronounced convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'Beechams disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. Caius Beauchamp }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a detective inspector working-class young man, obsessed with the Metropolitan police his upper-class friends, Robert and is bi-racialStanza. His surname is pronounced as you see itRobert's a theatre director. The two encounter each other when CaiusHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, out handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Ruperthim. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's girlfrienddrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Rupert thought Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushrelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0857051741Jo Callaghan|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Leave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only When a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson man is going to investigate found crucified on the case top of a body found hill in a freezer at Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the home of a deceased alcoholicAI detective Lock. The problem is that the It's their first live case has long passed the statute of limitationstogether, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Raimo Koskela disappeared without But when there is a second body found crucified a trace in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a fifty-year-old potential serial killer and a very high profile case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is draws a dying man's wishlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry PekkariWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the dead alcoholiccase and, was also murdered. Is there potentially, out of a connection between the two deathscareer?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15294212411035021803|title=Stay BuriedThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Kate WebbC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itIt's actually a cold case unit and there are just two of them doing twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the jobEnglish country village where she grew up. LockyerShe's not unduly worriedback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, though although heCarole. Freya's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: sheformer mentor and Carole's probably capable of something betterclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It Arthur was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambertreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put feels, let her there, fourteen years agodown badly. She's keen Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to see him and to tell him that be near the man everyone thought or pursue the profession she'd loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=13997022891398524085|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Louise PennyNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Inspector Jeanher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québecstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the murder body of her mother: heGreg'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guys father, Duncan Ackerley, it had always been in the other way aroundriver. Now they're both in It was an easy assumption for the village police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and neither can fathom whatthen committed suicide when he couldn's happeningt stand the guilt. Armand will soon find that The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they're not just in Three Pines can do but in his home get on with their lives and in his lifewonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529900360|title=White RiotThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Knee His assertions that there were only open-jerk observations and hot takes that don-shut cases which didn't age well or properly capture need the spirit help of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of psychologist only worked for a particular event or era of political historywhile. Austerity Britain Finally, the student riotsit was Robin, Donald TrumpDelaware's partner, Brexit – so much of what iswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and has been, written though. Two lovers were murdered in the immediate aftermath swimming pool of these phenomena has been proven by time a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to be frothy an Italian shoe empire and insubstantial she is married to an extremely rich man and ultimately it's not particularly powerful or incisivethe Italian. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction But which of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when them was the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376primary target?}}
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|isbn=1838776184178763681X|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalKnife Skills for Beginners|author=S J BennettOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally Chef Paul Delamare took a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed to begin as teaching job at a coldresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Hardly surprising, He didn't really, as Prince Philip want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been suffering for a couple way of days but seemed getting both men and women to be getting betterdo what he wanted. Hopefully, Paul ''somehow'' got the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. Sheimpression that he'd probably caught it from one of be at the great-grandchildren. Unfortunatelyschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't get better turn out that way. The teaching - and when the doctor called he diagnosed fullproblems -blown fluare all his own. She and the Duke were due The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downturn up dead. He'd have preferred Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had police consider that person 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 disappointprime suspect.
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|isbn=08615419951529421284|title=Wolf PackLaying Out the Bones|author=Will DeanKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north It was one of Visberg. She sees blood on those flash downpours that the road and British weather often delivers in a creature on its side near the pine treesheatwave. It will turn out to be Bronco, In a Swedish Elkhoundgully, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, human skeleton came to the vet. Bronco didn't make it but on surface and forensic testing proved the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nybergbody to be Lee Geary, who had gone missingdisappeared nine years earlier. SheHe'd been working at Rose Farm a known drug user and Moodysonhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's journalist's instincts t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are soon brought connections to the foresuicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Rose Farm is now home to a group Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedme) investigate. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511841529425867|title=The Girls Who DisappearedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Claire DouglasSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998In 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, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outis not. He's not any of those things. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilHe's Corridorwhite, originated from a figure appeared trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in the roadlime green or acid yellow. Olivia swerved You might wonder if you're being introduced to avoid him and the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trappedpolice procedural written for laughs. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedWell, you're not. Ralph Middleton, who lived in The two men are just different sides of the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedsame policing coin. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in Sometimes the Stafferbury area of Wiltshirecombination works brilliantly well. It was thought of as AveburySometimes it's poor relationproblematic.
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|isbn=15420372391529431735|title=Death in HeelsThe Winter Visitor|author=Kitty MurphyJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag sceneFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'Death in Heels'' tells d been exiled on the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut Costa del Sol as drag queen Mae Ba wanted drug smuggler for a decade. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes The return has come about because he's had a downward turn when fellow drag queenletter from his ex-wife, Eve, takes saying that she's ill and hasn't long to the stage live. It's hard to mock Mae B. As if the night could not get feel any worse, sympathy when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi Hopkins is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communityabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the Guards, accept it as an accidentboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Fi takes Is it upon herself a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.home?
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray0861541774|title=The Dark RoomA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, because you'd watched them die several years agoDanny Maik, but then you come across has taken a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened short holiday in a different place and time? This is what happens Singapore to Leonard in this storymeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He is an exMaik was involved in a street brawl -crime reporter for he would later maintain that he was facing a newspaper, man armed with a knife - and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homekilled a Ghurka. One Initially, he faced a charge of these photographs turns out manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to show murder the murder scene of a young woman man. Now he met some years ago, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotelcould be facing the death penalty. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadnwouldn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xhelp Danny at all.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81521129886|title=The Night Watch They Had It Coming (D S Max CraigieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Neil LancasterKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for 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 runbaby and they're both delighted. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the cliffs at Dunnett Headmorning sickness. Was it suicide, or did he Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- for some reason in- climb over the stone wall and fall law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his death? Or was he pushed? On balancesister, Lucy, it looked like an accident but then his who'accident' was linked s struggling to the deaths of others associated with himmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal it simply wasn't facing life imprisonmentin his nature. Paterson The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was Grigorsuicide, but Stuart's last clientprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=000837936XB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Last Girl to DieResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Helen FieldsAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=SeventeenIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-yeareight years old. He used to have a high-old Adriana Clarkeflying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of MullCameron Strike', in search of a new lifeyou might be thinking. It was a bit of a change from Las VegasNice bloke, but where's the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappeared. experience that backs up this profession? The local police demonstrated little interest in On the case (could it have other hand, he has been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) asked to look into something. Joyce and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from BanffHelen are half-sisters, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandonor rather, Adrianathey were until Helen was killed in what's twinbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, was upset Oliver and surly. FourPam Hetherington -yearcan't understand what she was doing there -old Luna just knew that or how she missed her big sistercould come to fall in front of a train. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonGreg's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingasked to investigate.
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|isbn=15098896121838954481|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Misper|author=Ann CleevesKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandno doubt about that. Some of them found He was the fifteen-year-old holding the Only Connect course transformative gun and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. There was a tragedy at He pulled the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off trigger but due to the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with vagaries of the group each year as her husband, Ken, jury system he was one found not guilty of both the original teenagers. Ken now has Alzheimer's murder and he's a shadow the manslaughter of the man he used to beofficer. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapel And so lives must go on. Annie Laidler lives locally For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and she provides much of hoping for a quieter life in the food: countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her deli is famous in territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the areaorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=02419901651448309743|title=Hope to Die The Devil Stone (D I FawleyDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Cara HunterCaro Ramsay|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 In the call hadn't come from village of Cronchie on the householder. A couple West coast of Scotland, five members 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 inwealthy family are found murdered. In The only item missing from the kitchen there was a body on home is the floorDevil Stone: myth says that if the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Richard Swann told the police The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that he'd heard sounds s an easy conclusion given that two of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigatethem 'discovered' the body. The ignorant young lout had called him ''GrandadSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defence.
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|isbn=178763566X1529077699|title=Listen to MeThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Tess GerritsenAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow thatIt's now falling. As she crosses the roadall bloody peculiar, a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesnisn't stop.it, Sir?''
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|isbn=18011092651529427045|title=The CompanionGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Lesley ThomsonKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was Life has more to offer than people - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilbur, prime numbers for their example'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more Lisbeth Salander has headed north to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boy's attention, his mother, Annasmall town of Gasskas, promised him a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are where the victims so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a double stabbing on the beachgold rush. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policecriminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. SheSalander's feeling niece's mother is the pressurelatest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when 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 going gets toughpart Salander played in her father's death.
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