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|isbn=00081490891035043092|title=The Cutting Place Killing Stones (DS Maeve KerriganJimmy Perez)|author=Jane CaseyAnn Cleeves
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Kim Weldon I can't have been the only person who found the first bits of the body - she was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a mudlarker new life on the banks of the Thames Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a handtheir young son, James, a right handas well as Cassie, in factthe daughter of his former partner. DS Maeve Kerrigan Willow's also his boss, and DI Josh Derwentshe ''should''s team would later find three other body parts. Identification of the body was not going to be easyon maternity leave, but eventually, it would be given when the body of a name - Paige Hargreavespopular islander, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her friendArchie Stout, Bianca Drummondis found, another journalistin the aftermath of a storm, said that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadncan't resist getting involved. He'd been willing to share any of battered about the details head with Biancaa Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW7henleyA|title=Access PointUltimate Obsession|author=T R GabbayDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a professional success: using a device of her own invention shePrivate Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's helped defence against a man who murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been blind for decades trying to persuade him to see an image of a hummingbirdretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. SheThat's what 'ordinary people do','' He's thirty-six years old and her life is not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to change radically 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 asthough Sir Max Bruce, cycling home, shethe country's involved 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 accident with influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a busrecord of the protest. It's two years before we meet her again 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 meantimeface, shewhilst shouting ''Stop the War''s spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom It seemed to bring in some incomebe 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.
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|isbn=17864855750008551375|title=Magpie LaneWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lucy AtkinsNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee sheLeanne Wilson's talking to Nick Law, body was found at the new college master. Law's lately bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the BBC and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit result of a bully and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversationtragic accident. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking 'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on a new job Facebook. Her friends were relieved as a nannyshe was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but somehow it looked like she finds herself going to see Mariah, was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the Danish wife of the masterlast year. She's pregnant All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and looking for help, not with sensible people. None of the new baby bit with the master's daughter by his first wife, Anawhat a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. Felicity is selectively muteThey were all alone when they died: she does talk to her father, but to no one else. The eight-year-old DS Max Craigie is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolcertain there's a killer on the loose.
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|isbn=17886380260008643660|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)The Burial Place|author=M J LeeStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to assume that the death Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicideexcavations are being televised. Her throat was cut, there was There's even a lot hoard of blood Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the knife was on landowner. It's perfect until the floor group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the side of the bedletters, She was due it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be deported violence and even the local police are keen that dayJake should be involved. But}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|title=A Voice in the Night (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.. how did the knife get into the secure centre She talks a good talk about work/life balance and why was the girlfamily values, but as far as she's room the only one which was unlocked? concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. DI Thomas RidpathRay Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, the coronerBaliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's officer, is sent married to investigate Diane and he quickly becomes suspicious, has twin sons. ThereManagement's a snag though: the inquest opinion of him is due to open in a couple that he thinks too highly of dayshimself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called ' time, the girlwet end's parents are coming over . Ryan Wilkins comes from China and they want to take their daughtera trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's body home with themnever really left it. Ridpath has just five days to solve the caseHe lives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. The coroner is disinclined to delay the inquest: for her, itPrevious management was adamant that he should ''never''s about giving closure to the parentsbe given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.
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|isbn=14711660231529077745|title=Burnt Island The Dark Wives (Ben KittoD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Kate RhodesAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for a man in the usual bonfire celebrationspark near Rosebank, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfirecare home for troubled teens. He'd obviously been alive when he The dead man was put on Josh - one of the fire and can only have died care workers who was due to work a terrible deathshift the night before but who had never turned up. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his murder - but her only concern clue is the welfare disappearance of one of the birds he looks afterresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. His instinct Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is to cover Roganunlikely as the girl's body and he uses his sheepskin coat diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspectJosh.
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|isbn=18388806581529428289|title=Murder at Enderley Hall A Grave in the Woods (Miss UnderhayA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helena DixonMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the summer grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of 1933 bones. They dated back to World War II and Kitty Underhay is on her way it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to visit discover the identities of the family which she never knew she bodies and establish whether or not a crime had, at Enderley Hallbeen committed. Her grandmother As if this isn't enough to worry about, Mrs Treadwell, and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin Dordogne River - normally tranquil - every day is much flowing at record levels. It's not just the same - but her real reason for going away is local autumn rains that she needs have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifedevastating flood.
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|isbn=0241396840152919640X|title=KeeperThe Suspect|author=Jessica MoorRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked in the womenThe nation's refuge favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and the women who lived it seems that there liked 's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and respected herhis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She treated them well 's seriously allergic and seemed to have carries an understanding EpiPen in case of what emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they were going throughcan be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Why then did Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she jump from the local suicide spot into the river below? was dead within minutes. There had been no signs It was soon clear that she this was unhappy no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and she -shut case. A man, covered in mud and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together blood - and Noah has carrying a decent alibi for knife, comes into the time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for her death? The police are convinced station shouting that ithe hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's suicidebeen 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 women who knew her believed otherwisewords '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.
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|isbnauthor=178730101XStuart Douglas|title=Keep Him Close|author=Emily KochLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. LouDuring location filming for his 1970's seventeen sitcom 'Floggit and heLeggit's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrate, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. Someone has The police seem happy to find assign it as an accidental death, but something to celebrate in about the letterswhole thing bothers Lowe, Dand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, D and EJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's a touch problematic with Lou They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and being honest, he's not terribly likeableseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. The letters which kept coming But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to my mind were ADHD.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=05713423530008517061|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Peter SwansonStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was the co-owner and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Boston. The store specialises in crime novelsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, but Mal has given up reading crimesettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. His There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life's been pretty chaotic with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of latecompromise: It's five years since does Jake give up his wife, Claire Mallory, died off-grid and he's never really got over it. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just been relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to see Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the man with whom Kershaw suspected future she was having an affair. wants for herself and her daughter? His interest For the moment they’re enjoying life in crime fiction comes the present and putting the future on the back when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She's interested in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''burner.
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|isbn=17868971481786482126|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the 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 McCoyNelson. 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=Alan ParksNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry and Jamieapproach the police. HeNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd had s prepared to get his father to sign tell the police where the contract body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for The Beatkickersher death. This person, he promises, as Bobby wasn't old enoughis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his father had been reluctant - he'd have preferred Bobby sentence and to get an apprenticeship, for the regular moneyearly parole date. By July 1973 Bobby Not much to ask, is back in Glasgow. it? The Beatkickers didnnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't survive think so and March she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is on his own, but hardly thriving. Therekept well away from what's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellyhappening.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZX0008405026|title=Little Doubt A Stranger in the Family (D I Kelly PorterMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Rachel LynchJane 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 but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|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 was randomly attacked and stabbed to death. Her husband, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that When a decent, middle-class woman should be man is found crucified on the victim top of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to distance himself from the case and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case was handledtogether, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. He wasn't anywhere near as interested But when there is a second woman was stabbed to death body found crucified a few hours days later. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate , Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Ormond's view seemed to be a very high profile case that anyone living there should expect this sort draws a lot of thing unwanted attention to happentheir AI Future Policing project. He could hardly bring himself Will they be able to mention Keira's name.solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=14711809211035021803|title=FirewatchingThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC 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 (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=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit Charlotte Salter was expected at South Yorkshire Police her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and there Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are those who think that heall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's lucky father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to be there, given make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he decked a superior officercouldn't stand the guilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - therelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's a scar fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on his face to prove it difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- and -shut cases which didn't need the superior officer was forced to take early retirementhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. ThereFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's a suggestion too partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and involvement was something that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Prideman she loved needed. Either wayThe next case did look simple, hethough. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth intonot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1787477533178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=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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|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 the firm is sponsoring same policing coin. Sometimes 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 itcloser to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, she he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have only forty-eight hours planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to livehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=15291243951521129886|title=When You See MeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lisa GardnerKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet 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 Chuck, it was Joyce will soon have a hiking break in baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off baby when she gets past the beaten track to find a stickmorning sickness. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in, along with Sergeant D D Warren-law appears to have killed himself. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith EdgarStuart's concerned about his sister, a computer analystLucy, and Flora Dane who brought something unique 's struggling to the tablemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Flora had been kidnapped Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and held for 472 days by the notorious killercoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything but Stuart's prepared to do with pay Greg to find out what happened on the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluablenight Gil died.
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|isbn=0008297169B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Guest ListResponsibilities (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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|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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|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 's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and Adam Latimer returned home dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to Spanish Cove after an absence the village of ten yearsGreystone, in Devon. The family Rosco had thought him dead - in factthe status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, thatround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''s what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where heI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg'd been but as we'll find out, he seemed content, if not happy, to could be hopemore than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. What brought himWhere did he get the money for his first boat? Well, nine years ago his mother died and How did hefinance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle'd seen the s Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''in memoriamLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'' in . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the paper: this was so-far-untapped natural resources of the first he'd heard about what had happenedarea have sparked a gold rush. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delightedThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. In fact, heSalander's niece's determined mother is the latest woman in the area to have a partyvanished without trace. Only, It was only with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - itreluctance that Salander became her niece's nine years since Kathleen died and heguardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's been lonely. Heunaware of the part Salander played in her father's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marrieddeath.
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