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|isbn=00082147001035043092|title=Cut to The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the Bone only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (DI Meg DaltonShetland, 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=Roz WatkinsDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Meg Dalton Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with the case of a missing teenagerhe should be doing quite well financially. Violet Armstrong is well-known as Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a vlogger - championing the cause of meat-eatingmurder charge drained his savings. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini and His wife, Laura, has attracted the attention of animal rights activistsbeen trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (That's what 'obviouslyordinary people do',' she only got the job because she's a woman) because she He's a vegetariannot been entirely up front about the state of their savings. As if the When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case wasn't enough, Megit's father the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is coming to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years and Jai's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and a miscarriage of justice that she wants more, but he doesn'treally should put right.
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|isbn=17808998581529934753|title=To Tell You the TruthThe Protest|author=Gilly MacmillanRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Lucy Bewley For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was nine-years-old she crept out not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the house on Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the night nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodswhom filmed what happened. Her four-year-old brotherBeing an influencer, Teddyyou tend to do things like that, would have woken but it was fortunate that there was a record of the house if she hadn't taken him with herprotest. But in Lexi Williams, an intern at the early hours RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the morningface, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before herwhilst shouting ''Stop the War''. He hadnIt seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 't and no one has seen him since. Lucyblue-face's story was crucial to the police investigationattacks, but it keeps subtly changingthis was different. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendThe can had been laced with cyanide, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policeSir Max Bruce was dead.
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|isbn=B0859115X50008551375|title=Lies to Tell When Shadows Fall (DI Clare MackayD S Max Craigie)|author=Marion ToddNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd 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 and sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008643660|title=The Burial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again sheA group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's at Daisy Cottage on idyllic and some of the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, Benjyexcavations are being televised. SheThere's just had even a postcard from Geoffrey Dark hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the 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 Provincetown, Cape Codto investigate. He wishes Reading the letters, it's difficult to 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 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 was there's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but Clareas far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's struggling married to think Diane and has twin sons. Management's 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'actually'' is to her now. Is Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? She can't work s never really left it out . He lives in shell suits and thinks tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that Geoffrey probably canhe should 't either. Work's about to get very busy and she cannever't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firstbe given responsibility. They're off somewhere top secretWainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.
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|isbn=17874776811529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a couple Because of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his son. Gaston's father had sold various property transactions, people were searching for the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchbones. Before he even got They dated back to go there he diedWorld War II and it fell to Bruno, apparently the Chief of a heart attackPolice for St Denis, and the retirement home collected to discover the proceeds identities of the policy bodies and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhouseestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. The family hadnAs if this isn't exactly fallen outenough to worry about, but Gaston lived some way away the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and Claudette had fallen out St Denis faces the possibility of favour when she announced that she was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinheriteda devastating flood.
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|isbn=Pronko152919640X|title=Tokyo Traffic The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was 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 in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (Detective HiroshiJohn Tanner)|author=Michael PronkoDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom '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, and he enlists the help of a 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There were three young womenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their ageshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Sukayana was Thai There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and she'd come relaxing life to Japan move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the belief that future she'd be able to pick up 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 documentation to get site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the Statesbones of a child beneath a doorway. Celeste There was just fourteen and when we meet her she's already dead of no skull. Was this a heart attack caused by an overdose of amphetaminesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Then thereIt's Ratanadifficult as Ruth knows, whobut Nelson doesn's the de facto leader of the groupt, but that she's disappeared too is pregnant with the group's passports, leaving Sukayana in the midst of his child as a scene result of carnage at the Jack and Jill Studiosone night they spent together some three months ago. The dead bodies are definitely Her condition will be obvious before long, not props thoughleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=07278892300008551324|title=The Red, Red SnowDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Caro RamsayNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the ice show with his wife, Geraldine police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and daughter, Lisa when he 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was stabbed in Planet Burgerresponsible for her death. He died within minutesThis person, he promises, but his murder seemed motiveless is someone big and there were no cluesit will be worth the police doing what he wants. He was a genuine man And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead endto get an early parole date. There were two deaths Not much to investigate in the north of Scotland: ask, is it wasn? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't thought wise think so and she's even prepared to involve the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in do the case. Christmas other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and a lot of snow were rapidly approachinganyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B07S6DBCFT0008405026|title=Little Girls Tell TalesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Rachel BennettJane 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=In 2004 RosalieWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and DallinAI detective Lock. It's cottagetheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Beth and DallinBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, both twelve-years-old, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and it wasn't long before she realised a very high profile case that she was lostdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Trying to find her way back Will they be able to solve the main path she found a skeletoncase in time, but when she finally got to the road she could never or will Kat find her way back to herself taken off the bog when she'd seen the body. Most people didn't believe hercase and, potentially, putting the story down to her vivid imagination.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00082737901035021803|title=Remain SilentThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Susie SteinerC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis is in 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 bad wayrequest for help from her beloved aunt, vomiting and obviously traumatisedCarole. When heFreya's able to speak he tells Dimitri that former mentor and Carole''Lukas s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead''and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Lukas Arthur was in his late teens and he and Matis the reason why Freya had come not been back to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuaniathe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation Even though they were in return for their labour: they could have a decent life ''and'' send money home business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to their familiesbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. SadlyAfter the split, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive she worked in the UK - on an olda cafe, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms met and sleep on dirty mattresses married James (on the floor. It's modern slaveryrebound from the love of her life, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workerswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B084VNRRD61398524085|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Angela MarsonsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It looked very like a suicideCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and to begin withher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, that was how both DI Kim Stone Etty and KeatsGreg, find the pathologist called itbody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was only later an easy assumption for the police to make that Stone Duncan had murdered Charlie and her team realised that then committed suicide when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not the only hand holding he couldn't stand the knifeguilt. It was murder. SammyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's parents. Myles and Kate were a little bit reluctant to say what else they can do but get on with their daughter had been doing recently. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was lives and wonder about to accuse her husband of saying that Sammy was readywhat really happened... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=18388510111529900360|title=The SidemanGhost Orchid|author=Caro RamsayJonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|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 reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who 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, though. 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 not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=No one thought that it could happen and canChef 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 ''quitesomehow'' believe got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlanddidn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. ItThe one thing he hadn's all down t expected was for someone to her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be responsible for the murder prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) and Malcolm (her son)those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Haggerty has In a water-tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotlandgully, no less) a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided body to go her own way rather than be hampered by the badgeLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. She didnHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't even bother telling her long-time partner, DCI Colin Andersonconvinced. Geary was a townie, that she so what was goinghe doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Since then there might have been Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the occasional text from her, but Major Crimes Review Unit (that's itcold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B084H8F2CF1529425867|title=The Body Under the BridgeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Nick LouthSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from the funeral service for a serving police officerIn Oxford, particularly when he discovered that he was to take charge there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the enquiry into a missing womanNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old 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 student trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of music at the Royal College of Musicshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. She had been due You might wonder if you're being introduced to play with the other members a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the Lysander String Quartet at the Church of St Martin-in-same policing coin. Sometimes the-Fields but hadn't turned upcombination works brilliantly well. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatrice's father was Karl-Otto Ulbricht, GermanySometimes it's Minister of Justiceproblematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B083Z3ZZ611529431735|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)The Winter Visitor|author=Liz MistryJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been in exiled on the UK with his daughter Maria Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a whiledecade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. He came expecting It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to work as a gardener his underwear and Maria was sent to be a nannywatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens problem closer to an eighteen-year-old girl.home?
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|isbn=00083901690861541774|title=Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Jenny O'BrienSteve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alys Grant was only DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a few days short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old when her father took her out for the first timeally, Guy Trueman. Her mother, Izzy, Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was tired facing a man armed with a knife - and fell asleephe killed a Ghurka. Initially, but when she woke he faced a couple charge of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alysmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. There was Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a hand-delivered postcard which simply said: diplomatic incident and wouldn''I've got Alyst help Danny at all. Don't try to find us, Charlie''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00081490891521129886|title=The Cutting Place They Had It Coming (DS Maeve KerriganGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Jane CaseyKeith Redfern|rating=54
|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 was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was 's a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames good job too because Greg and when she turned over what looked like Joyce will soon have a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan baby and DI Josh Derwentthey's team would later find three other body partsre both delighted. Identification of Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the body was not going morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be easyhave killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, but eventuallyLucy, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalistwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Her friendLucy, Bianca Drummondhe says, another journalist, said is convinced that she was working on a story which she reckoned Gil would be explosive never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and she hadnthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart't been willing s prepared to pay Greg to share any of find out what happened on the details with Biancanight Gil died.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW7B0CK3MYJ56|title=Access PointResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=T R GabbayAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's having something of twenty-eight years old. He used to have a professional success: using high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a device private investigator. 'Shades of her own invention sheCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's helped a man who the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been blind for decades asked to see an image of a hummingbirdlook into something. She's thirtyJoyce and Helen are half-six years old and her life is about to change radically assisters, cycling homeor rather, shethey were until Helen was killed in what's involved in been written off as a tragic accident at an accident with a busunmanned level crossing. It's two years before we meet Joyce - and her again parents, Oliver and in the meantime, Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she's spent 392 days could come to fall in front of a coma and now walks with a sticktrain. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom Greg's been asked to bring in some incomeinvestigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17864855751838954481|title=Magpie LaneThe Misper|author=Lucy AtkinsKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee sheRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's talking to Nick Law, no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the new college mastergun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Law's lately He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the BBC and jury system he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit was found not guilty of a bully both the murder and Dee can sense something the manslaughter of that in their first conversationthe officer. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking And so lives must go on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the master. She's pregnant For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and looking hoping for help, not with a quieter life in the new baby bit with the mastercountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, but to no one else. The eightdrawn into a wider investigation -year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17886380261448309743|title=Where the Innocent Die The Devil Stone (D I RidpathDCI Christine Caplan)|author=M J LeeCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume that the death of the young Chinese girl at In the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, there was a lot village of blood and the knife was Cronchie on the floor at the side West coast of the bedScotland, She was due to be deported that dayfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. But... how did The only item missing from the knife get into home is the secure centre and why was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, Devil Stone: myth says that if the coroner's officer, stone is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspiciousremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. ThereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's a snag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple an easy conclusion given that two of daysthem 'discovered' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughter's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve the case. The coroner Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is disinclined pulled in to delay the inquest: for her, it's about giving closure to the parentsshadow' him.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14711660231529077699|title=Burnt Island The Raging Storm (Ben KittoTwo Rivers)|author=Kate RhodesAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto''It's thirty-fifth birthday and all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the occasion middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the usual bonfire celebrationsvillage of Greystone, but it would be marred this year by in Devon. Rosco had the discovery status of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the fire world sailor and can only have died a terrible deathall round ''celebrity''. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks could be more than a little or nothing bit close with money and his only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks afterbackground isn't exactly an open book. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and Where did he uses get the money for his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that first boat? How did he's finance the prime suspect.trip?
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|isbn=18388806581529427045|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Helena DixonKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the summer small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her way to visit the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Hallarea have sparked a gold rush. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel The criminal underworld has not been slow in Dartmouthcoming forward. Kitty gets easily bored working at Salander's niece's mother is the Dolphin - every day is much latest woman in the same - area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but her real reason for going away it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is that she needs a break after remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifefather's death.
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