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|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=000845552X1784165263|title=Where Ravens RoostInvite Me In|author=Karin NordinEmma Curtis|rating=4.5
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|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had been estranged from to be home to make his fatherlunch for one o'clock on the dot, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got despite the rather muddled phone call from him saying fact that heshe was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn'd seen t get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a murder in the barn on his land he didnparaplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but don't hesitate be too quick to drop everything and go to Varsundbe understanding. Actually, He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment'drop everything' rather overstates the situation. Nygaard All this was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiry. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, NygaardEliza's best friend. Stillmind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the south lease of Sweden flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to Varsund get in the far north shouldn't be underestimatedbefore it was advertised as being available.
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|isbn=18387734281784742775|title=The Art A Change of DeathCircumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=David FennellSusan Hill|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation Drugs hadn't really been that much of the type which does appear a problem in Trafalgar Square: Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a depiction bit of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquida waste of time. Only this time it's not They still were, to a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perringreat extent, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tippingbut Serrailler knew that something had to be done. The installation is Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the work of @nonymous, underground artist drugs and extreme version of Banksythe operation running the county lines was tight. He's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, we've already met A mule might know the artist name (although not by name: heit probably wouldn's been in t be the correct one) of the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and sheperson who was running him but he certainly wouldn's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris t know anything about those higher up in the state of her marriageorganisation. Actually, it doesn't take The police might catch a lot few of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation sherunners but they's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tood never get anywhere near those higher up.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2RB09HTWX47X|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)Endless Obsession|author=Liz MistryDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in her sixties and hadn't worn the Met but now a well-respected private investigator. She was a drug addict and was living under He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in the arches in Forster Square Station Murder Squad but now working in Bradford. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out of her miseryforensics laboratory. DS Nikki Parekh Flood's daughters, Gemma and DC Sajid Malik are on Pippa, have flown the case. Nikki can't quite understand why nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she's been sent an anonymous letter has very little contact with a press report of the deathfamily, and Gemma to married life. It She's had been impossible to make any progress in the case mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the note seemed to taunt the policesupport she needs. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridge. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communication, with a further clue under the victim - Flood's business is going well and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in why he felt able to turn down the caseof Lisa Black.
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|isbn=17874778001529379385|title=The Night Hawks Madness of Crowds (Dr Ruth GallowayChief Inspector Gamache)|author=Elly GriffithsLouise Penny
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, In the youngest Canadian village of the groupThree Pines, twenty-onewe're post-year-old Troy Evans, finds pandemic: the body of a man floating on the incoming tide. After pulling it ashore, they call the police. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably the body of an asylum seeker scars are still there but there's no evidence of any activity life is starting to get back to be had from the coastguardnormal. The dead man turns out villagers are beginning to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008379300|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning return to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child the Bistro and a brotherthe Auberge. HeThey're visiting each other's been on the lookout for the perfect people homes and having friends and he's made certain preparationsrelatives to stay. The flat where A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the family will live Nobel Peace Prize is prepared one such visitor and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children around - a boy of seven and a girl of fivebit like Vincent Gilbert, away for known in the village as the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diesAsshole Saint.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S183885410X|title=Winterkill (The Dark Iceland)Remains|author=Ragnar JonassonWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he's still living major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the house on Eyrargata which he shared CID team charged with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herthe investigation. They were supposed I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledbe a part of it. ItHe does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains''s now uncovers the Thursday truth of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the why Bobby Carter's body of a young woman has been was found on Adalgata, the main street behind one of the townGlasgow's seedier pubs.
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|isbn=178089905X1942410255|title=SerpentineTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Jonathan KellermanMichael Pronko|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It wasn's the culture, isn't exactly it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming aboutminimum you'll be required to do: a death from thirty-six years ago you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the daughter satisfaction of the woman who died wanted some answersbullies like Shigeru Onizuka. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem When he was dropped onto Milofound dead in front of Senden Central's toes. Dorothy Swoboda headquarters in Tokyo there was twenty-four years old when she died nothing in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasn't actually married to the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkerway of regret or grief, optometristeven from his family, but there was a good man and mild curiosity as to whether he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took 'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his namedescent. Ellie was Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three when her mother left years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of forcing her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made to work an unreasonable amount of serpentineovertime.
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|isbn=000820831X0241425425|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenMan Who Died Twice|author=Stuart MacBrideRichard Osman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=At Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the coastal village of Clachmara, letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the headland Thames and who had never existed but then this is slowly eroding into the seasort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. Storm Trevor speeds up When she visits the process. A ship - sender of the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of letter (he's moved into the house to see whatCooper's happening. Margaret runs after her son and Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she grabs him has a long professional history - and who used to pull him back be her husband. He's made a bad mistake - something to safety she glances across at do with a mask being removed within the newlyrange of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-exposed cliff front million pounds in diamonds and sees human bonesa few death threats. Gordon SmithHe's home is falling into the North Sea and the evidence of what henow in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab his MI5 handler as well as he later escapes the tumbling ruinbeing an incompetent waitress.
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|author=Saima MirAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The KhanRabbit Factor|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the motto insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be twice as good as men all open-plan, holistic and four times as good keen on stupid-as white menworkshopping. This is when he finds his brother has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and by the time she has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is called home for her sisterjust an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun''s wedding after fifteen years is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in selfthe finances – it runs at a steady money-imposed exilemoving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, she is at but loans have been made out and the top of her gameamount vanished. Returning to Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the city of her birth, scene to old scars and fresh woundsexplain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense activities of honour and dutythese guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=1786079097191319387X
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|isbn=B08BTXSS84B0925KS87N|title=Fallen Angel Dead Man's Grave (Gaby Darin Book 3DS Max Craigie)|author=Jenny O'BrienNeil Lancaster
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: Tam Hardie had been determined to find the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than grave - and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a dribble and shestrange thing for Scotland's looking through cold cases for inspiration as premier criminal to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteen-year-do, but Tam was getting old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedthere were things he wanted to do. She canOnly, his family didn't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared hear from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was him again after he'd said that he'd found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno grave - the next day. She was wearing a handone which said that it shouldn't be opened -made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeand his three sons began to worry. Bates hasnTam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't ''quite'' told normally go to the whole story: hepolice but they weren's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sistert certain where their father had been and they were worried.
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|isbnauthor=1472134710Doug Johnstone|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonThe Great Silence
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and sheFor those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I's left South Moulton Street for ll risk a cottage in the Cotswold village quick synopsis of Carsley. Shewho's have preferred one who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the more romantic names but at least Carsley backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is off merely the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into surname of a different way family of life - undertakers. Undertakers and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peopleprivate investigators. The first move Dorothy is to enter the village quiche-baking competition matriarch – Californian by birth and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browneinstinct, she married a scot and his wife Vera out ended up helping to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at run the pub Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the next village but this is necessary family for generations. Recently widowed and it's now involved with a good investment as she knows that she's going to winblack Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. How? WellDaughter Jenny, ''46, is haunted by her'' quiche still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is coming from about to graduate with a Chelsea Bakery..first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen0008269041|title= Fallen AngelsRisk of Harm|author=Lucie Whitehouse|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, DCI Robin Lyons is backin her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. After attending She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a former friendrented house but there's funeral, Veum catches up still a difficult situation with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins her brother Luke who has gone out of the past are exposed his way to the light of the presentmake life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation He's married to root out the clues hidden in his own history Natalie, now and to catch has a killeryoung child but he's still got it in for Robin.|isbn=1913193063
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|isbn=15294103471846975719|title=Death Awaits in Durham For Any Other Truth (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesDCI Jim Daley)|author=Helen CoxDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt HartleyWe learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's assistant, Grace EdwardsLondon, has left her library job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academyisn's vocational library studies course in Durham. t it? ItWhat's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedhappening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously richDCI Jim Daley and his colleague, scholarship students - or they've managedActing DI Brian Scott, somehow, to scrape together head off for the moneyairport straight away. Grace, who's 22, comes into It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the last categoryplane were dead before take off. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her How could that if be? The sort of tech which would make that was what she chose possible isn't available to do then they were finished with herthe paying public. Not long after she started And why have the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit man no identification on them - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year ago.or even labels in their clothes?
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1409181669|title= The CaptiveMaidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the cageParadise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, intimatelybut she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. It lurks Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the corner death of her eye. SoonZoe's mother and Mariana's sister, it will be occupiedEliza. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbn=18388873340241400120|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Girl Who Died|author=Angela MarsonsRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingsince then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. The need Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for coffee overtook Stone - a job in Skalar on the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyoneLanganes Peninsula. It was There were only ten people in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of village but a little girl clutching teacher was required for two children: a teddy bear in the absence of her mothersalary would be paid and accommodation provided. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case Una was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken only applicant and it had all the hallmarks of a quickjob meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, functional killhopefully, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with save some money over the winter which her child?contract covered.
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|isbn=18387700461529407249|title=Body LanguageThe Perfect Lie|author=A K TurnerJo Spain
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician It was July 2019 and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herErin was happy. ItShe and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's not something shealways a dangerous thing to do when you's inclined re married to share with people as a cop but she's pretty certain about what their reaction will bewas hopeful. She They's certainly not going to share it d been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuffsea in Newport, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old HarrovianLong Island. HeThe knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's very conscious partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of his position and isn't even inclined other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him open window and he has only a limited amount of time jumped to spend on each bodyhis death from the fourth floor. That will prove to Eighteen months later, Erin would be a mistakeon trial for her husband's murder.
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|isbn=14722559171788549759|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Distant Dead|author=Quintin JardineLesley Thomson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner It was celebrating at December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the golf club evening 'with his wifeher friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, Professor Sarah GraceWilliam, daughter Alex Skinner and the man at home with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonher parents. Jackson would be The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better-known to for the family than the criminal fraternity shame of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith illegitimacy, but heMaple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's reformed and the new name reflects ) on a new manbetter footing. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and are dropped home not long into meet her family the new yearfollowing week. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene Later, her body would be found in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now bombed- out home where he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencehad taken her.
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|isbn=18003211040008404925|title=The Body on the IslandKilling Kind|author=Nick LouthJane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron Difficult clients were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of his wifea surprise. Only that wasn't who he After all, it was. Sixty-three-yearsher cross-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder examination of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeen'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. He was being ghosted out 'd been accused of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged stalking the whereabouts of woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the body of one of his victimsother way around. The Bogeyman was going Soon Ingrid never seemed to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared of John Webster and then she came to be see him as a reformed character but he threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a list of people upon whom long time: he wished to exact revengewas a very dangerous man.
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQwalker14|title=The Long Dark RoadColdest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=P R BlackMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIt was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along work in the lonely A928 prehistory museum at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the offer idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of help from one man in detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a big vehiclecase which had haunted him for thirty years. We'll see - The body of a young male was found in the woods but no one else will know - that another car stops he was never identified and Stephanie is bundled into his killer never brought to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the car skull and driven off. the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? There has been no sign of her J- or her body - in J calls the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened skull 'Oscar' and shehas a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn's not going t want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to be stoppedjustice.
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|authorisbn=David C Mason1471181405|title=Pandora's GardenerNighthawking|author=Russ Thomas|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston is a gardenerSheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, although if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what he did before he became 's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a gardeneryoung woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the two, he claimsvery rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is classifiedthe Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. That is They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as well because obnoxious as ever but suspects that he is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the day's not fully recovered from his injuries. |isbn=0956180523
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