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|isbn=17874776811035043092|title=The Shooting at Chateau Rock Killing Stones (A BrunoJimmy 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, Chief she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of Police Novel)a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Martin WalkerDai Henley

|summary=It was Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a couple of days after old DriantPrivate Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from defence against a murder charge drained his sonsavings. GastonHis wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's father had sold what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life state of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchtheir savings. Before he even got When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to go there he diedtake his case, apparently of a heart attack, and the retirement home collected it's the proceeds thought of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of the farmhouse. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced justice that she was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinheritedhe really should put right.

|isbn=Pronko1529934753|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)The Protest|author=Michael PronkoRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=There were three young womenFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their ages. Sukayana was Thai and she'd come to Japan in the belief that shecountry'd be able s most famous living artist, was not going to pick show up for the documentation to get to opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the Statesnick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Celeste Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was just fourteen and when we meet her she's already dead of a heart attack caused by an overdose record of amphetaminesthe protest. Then there's RatanaLexi Williams, who's an intern at the de facto leader RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the groupface, but shewhilst shouting ''s disappeared too with Stop the groupWar's passports, leaving Sukayana in the midst '. It seemed to be part of a scene an ongoing series of carnage at the Jack and Jill Studios'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead bodies are definitely not props though.

|isbn=07278892300008551375|title=The Red, Red SnowWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Caro RamsayNeil Lancaster

|summary=In GlasgowLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, Eric Callaghan seemingly the result of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wifea tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, Geraldine and daughtertoo, Lisa when he she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was stabbed 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 Planet Burgerthe last year. He died within minutesAll were experienced climbers, but his murder seemed motiveless properly equipped for what they were doing and there were no cluessensible people. He was None of the 'what a genuine man and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead endstupid thing to do' explanations applied. There They were two deaths to investigate in the north of Scotlandall alone when they died: it wasnDS Max Craigie is certain there't thought wise to involve the local murder team as someone s a killer on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the case. Christmas - and a lot of snow were rapidly approachingloose.

|isbn=B07S6DBCFT0008643660|title=Little Girls Tell TalesThe Burial Place|author=Rachel BennettStig Abell

|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and Dallin were walking in some of the excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the boggy wetlands by Rosalie finders and Dallinthe landowner. It's cottageperfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Beth and DallinJake Jackson, both twelve-years-olda former police detective, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasnis trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he't long before she realised that she was losts inevitably drawn in to investigate. Trying to find her way back to Reading the main path she found a skeletonletters, but when she finally got it's difficult to avoid the road she could never find her way back to conclusion that there will be violence and even the bog when she'd seen the body. Most people didn't believe her, putting the story down to her vivid imaginationlocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.

|isbn=00082737901529425905|title=Remain SilentA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Susie SteinerSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Matis and DimitriThere's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, Matis is in a bad wayambitious, vomiting and obviously traumatisedruthless. When heShe talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she's able to speak he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead'concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Lukas was in his late teens and he Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuaniaalways immaculately dressed. TheyHe'd answered an advert offering good money s married to Diane and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have a decent life 'has twin sons. Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself andhis last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end' send money home to their families. SadlyRyan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it doesncould be said that he't work out like thats never really left it. When they arrive He lives in the UK - on an oldshell suits and tracksuits, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the flooralways in vivid colours. ItPrevious management was adamant that he should ''never's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workersbe given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.

|isbn=B084VNRRD61529077745|title=Killing Mind The Dark Wives (D I Kim StoneVera Stanhope)|author=Angela MarsonsAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=It looked very like A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a suicideman in the park near Rosebank, and a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to begin with, that was how both DI Kim Stone and Keats, work a shift the pathologist called itnight before but who had never turned up. It was D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only later that Stone and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not clue is the only hand holding disappearance of one of the kniferesidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. It Some people believe that Chloe was murder. Sammyresponsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's parentsdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Myles and Kate were a little bit reluctant She knows that she has to find Chloe to say discover what their daughter had been doing recently. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about happened to accuse her husband of saying that Sammy was readyJosh... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?

|isbn=18388510111529428289|title=The SidemanA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Caro RamsayMartin Walker

|summary=No one thought that Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it could happen and can't ''quite'' believe that , it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlandcame with three sets of bones. It's all down They dated back to World War II and it fell to her pursuit Bruno, the Chief of George Haggerty whom she believes Police for St Denis, to be responsible for discover the murder identities of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) the bodies and Malcolm (her son)establish whether or not a crime had been committed. Haggerty has a water-tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotland, no less) and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: sheAs if this isn's decided t enough to go her own way rather than be hampered by worry about, the badgeDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. She didnIt't even bother telling her long-time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, s not just the local autumn rains that she was going. Since then there might have been caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the occasional text from her, but that's itpossibility of a devastating flood.

|isbn=B084H8F2CF152919640X|title=The Body Under the BridgeSuspect|author=Nick LouthRob Rinder

|summary=DCI Craig Gillard The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was annoyed murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be pulled away from the funeral service for in a serving police officerbusy, particularly when he discovered that he live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to take charge of the enquiry into a missing womanbe found and she was dead within minutes. Beatrice Ulbricht It was twentysoon clear that this was 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-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood -five years old and carrying a student of music knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the Royal College bottom of Music. She had a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been due stabbed to play death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the other members birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Lysander String Quartet at words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the Church point of St Martinfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going -inprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries -Death at the-Fields but hadn't turned upDress Rehearsal|rating=3. Gillard didn't understand why 5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatrice1970's father was Karl-Otto Ulbrichtsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, Germany's Minister and he enlists the help of Justicea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=B083Z3ZZ610008517061|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Liz MistryStig Abell

|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has been in settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the UK future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Maria Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of 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 future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a whiledoorway. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria There was to be no skull. Was this a nannyritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens 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 an eighteen-year-old girlsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=00083901690008551324|title=Silent Cry The Devil You Know (Gaby Darin Book 1D S Max Craigie)|author=Jenny O'BrienNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=Alys Grant It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was only a few days old when her father took responsible for her out for the first timedeath. Her motherThis person, Izzyhe promises, was tired is someone big and fell asleep, but when she woke a couple 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 hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alyshis sentence and to get an early parole date. There was a hand-delivered postcard which simply said: Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Is even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what've got Alyss happening. Don't try to find us, Charlie''

|isbn=00081490890008405026|title=The Cutting Place A Stranger in the Family (DS Maeve Kerrigan11)

|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was Kim Weldon who never found and the first bits of the body - she was investigation ground to a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a handhalt. Now, her mother, a right handHelena, and her father are dead in facttheir 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's team would later find three other body partssuspicious. Identification of the body What looked as though it was not going to be easy, but eventually, it would be given a name an open-and- Paige Hargreaves, shut case is now a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalistcomplex double murder. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said Kerrigan is convinced that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadnthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't been willing to share any of the details with Biancas boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B0867X8NW70571379877|title=Access PointThe Kellerby Code|author=T R GabbayJonny 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

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device man is found crucified on the top of her own invention she's helped a man who has been blind for decades hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see an image of a hummingbirdthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt's thirty-six years old and her life is about to change radically astheir first live case together, cycling home, she's involved in an accident having previously been very successful with a busseveral cold cases. It's two years before we meet her again and in the meantimeBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she's spent 392 days in Kat is suddenly struggling with a coma potential serial killer and now walks with a stickvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a spare bedroom to bring in some income.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=17864855751035021803|title=Magpie LaneThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lucy AtkinsC 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

|summary=When we first meet Dee sheCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's talking to Nick Law, the new college masterfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Law's lately of the BBC Her children, sons Niall, Paul and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a bully Ollie and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversationher daughter, Etty. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nannyare all worried but - strangely - her husband, but somehow she finds herself going to see MariahAlec, the Danish wife of the masteris not. She's pregnant Shortly afterwards, Etty and looking for helpGreg, not with find the new baby bit with the masterbody of Greg's daughter by his first wifefather, Duncan Ackerley, Anain the river. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk It was an easy assumption for the police to her father, but to no one elsemake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and struggling at schoolwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=17886380261529900360|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)The Ghost Orchid|author=M J LeeJonathan Kellerman

|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was easy reluctant to assume ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the death help of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicidea psychologist only worked for a while. Her throat Finally, it was cutRobin, there was a lot of blood and the knife was on the floor at the side of the bedDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was due to be deported something that daythe man she loved needed. ButThe next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air.. how did He was the knife get into the secure centre heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and why was the girlit's room not the only one Italian. But which of them was unlockedthe primary target? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|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. DI Thomas Ridpath, the coronerHe didn's officer, is sent t really want to investigate but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he quickly becomes suspiciouswanted. 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. ThereThe one thing he hadn's a snag though: t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the inquest is due police consider that person to open be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a couple of days' timeheatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the girlbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's parents are coming over from China d been a known drug user and they want to take their daughterhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's body home with themt convinced. Ridpath has just five days Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to solve two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the casetime. The coroner is disinclined to delay Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the inquest: for her, itMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's about giving closure cold cases to the parentsyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=14711660231529425867|title=Burnt Island Lost and Never Found (Ben KittoA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Kate RhodesSimon Mason

|summary=The 5th In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of November was Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsfather of Ryan, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Roganis not. He's body on a bonfirenot any of those things. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and can only have died s white, originated from a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwentrailer park, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his only concern is the welfare wardrobe consists mainly of the birds he looks aftershell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. His instinct is to cover RoganYou might wonder if you's body and he uses his sheepskin coat re being introduced to do thisa police procedural written for laughs. Well, with you're not. The two men are just different sides of the result that hesame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's the prime suspectproblematic.

|isbn=18388806581529431735|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)The Winter Visitor|author=Helena DixonJames Henry

|summary=It's the summer of 1933 February 1991 and Kitty Underhay Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on her way to visit the family which she never knew she Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's hada letter from his ex-wife, at Enderley Hallsaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel sent to a watery grave in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs boot of a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifestolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbn=02413968400861541774|title=KeeperA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jessica MoorSteve 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.5 Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4

|summary=Katie Straw worked in the womenIt's refuge and the women who lived there liked 1990s and respected herGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. She treated them well and seemed He used to have an understanding a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of what they were going throughCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Why then did she jump from On the local suicide spot other hand, he has been asked to look into the river below? something. There had been no signs that she Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have killed in what's been content together written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she diedher parents, but Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what other explanation she was doing there - or how she could there be for her death? come to fall in front of a train. The police are convinced that itGreg's suicide but the women who knew her believed otherwisebeen asked to investigate.

|isbn=178730101X1838954481|title=Keep Him CloseThe Misper|author=Emily KochKate London|rating=3.54

|summary=Alice had two childrenRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louisthere's no doubt about that. Lou's seventeen He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebratepointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Someone has He pulled the trigger but due to find something to celebrate in the letters, D, D vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and Ethe manslaughter of the officer. Alice has always had And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny quieter life in the countryside but itwhen a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a touch problematic with Lou wider investigation - and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHDback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=05713423531448309743|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Peter SwansonCaro Ramsay

|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was In the co-owner and manager village of Cronchie on the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in BostonWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The store specialises in crime novelsonly item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, but Mal has given up reading crimedeath will follow. His lifeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's been pretty chaotic an easy conclusion given that two of late: Itthem 's five years since his wife, Claire Mallory, died and hediscovered's never really got over it. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just been to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairbody. His interest in crime fiction comes back The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She's interested disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murdersto 'shadow'him.