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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=14711814051784165263|title=NighthawkingInvite Me In|author=Russ ThomasEmma Curtis
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=SheffieldMartin Curran's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Roadwife, if you'd like Eliza knew that she had to be home to visit) are an oasis of calm in whatmake his lunch for one o's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when clock on the dot, despite the body of a young woman fact that she was discovered. It had obviously been buried in actually painting one of the beds but who would have started their properties prior to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsit being let. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the twoIf she didn't get home, very rare, gold aurei on her eyesthere would be trouble. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbaniconfined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. TheyHe was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're joined by DS Guy Daley whogood at being a disappointment''s just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks heAll this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as obnoxious Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesbeing available.
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|isbn=02419851371784742775|title=The Whole Truth A Change of Circumstance (D I FawleySimon Serrailler)|author=Cara HunterSusan Hill
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam FawleyDrugs hadn's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstt really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principala great extent, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There but Serrailler knew that something had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a studentto be done. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the alleged perpetrator doing in drugs and the room before they'd even got operation running the details from county lines was tight. A mule might know the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'name (although it probably wouldn' t be the 'victim' and correct one) of the alleged perpetrator person who was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Calebrunning him but he certainly wouldn's mother is Petra Newson, t know anything about those higher up in the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligenceorganisation. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 The police might catch a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When few of the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be runners but they''very'' publicd never get anywhere near those higher up.
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|isbn=1913193527B09HTWX47X|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)Endless Obsession|author=Vanda SymonDai Henley|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the murder of Met but now a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffwell-respected private investigator. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced He's married to watch Laura, formerly his DS in the murderMurder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, with Gemma and Pippa, have flown the scene being discovered by their sonnest, DeclanPippa to Australia, when he returned home from an evening outwhere she has very little contact with the family, and Gemma to married life. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson She's had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and certainly questionable if not illegalLaura hope that married life will provide the support she needs. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed Flood''vitamin-type supplements s business is going well and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind was why he felt able to turn down the case of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedLisa Black.
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1529379385|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end Madness of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472276140|title=What Will Burn Crowds (Chief Inspector McLeanGamache)|author=James OswaldLouise Penny|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily Slater's body was foundIn the Canadian village of Three Pines, shewe'd already been dead for a week re post- in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh. Heavy rain had washed away most of pandemic: the evidence, scars are still there but DI Tony McLean, demoted and just returned from suspension, life is reluctant starting to get back to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentnormal. There were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the fireAuberge. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to the extent of doing something like that? stay. She was a virtual recluse: A young Sudanese woman who could has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she have upset soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to that extent?be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saint.
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|isbn=000845552X183885410X|title=Where Ravens RoostThe Dark Remains|author=Karin NordinWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen Bobby Carter was a murder in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything lawyer and go consigliere to Varsund. Actually, 'drop everything' rather overstates one of the situationmajor crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. Nygaard was DC Jack Laidlaw is on suspension following the shooting of a suspect in CID team charged with the Aubuchon murder enquiryinvestigation. There had been a complication: I say ''on the Kattegat Killer turned out team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be Nils Hedin, Nygaard's best frienda part of it. StillHe does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldnGlasgow't be underestimateds seedier pubs.
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|isbn=18387734281942410255|title=The Art of DeathTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=David FennellMichael Pronko
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It was an art installation of 's the type culture, isn't it? The hours for which does appear in Trafalgar Square: you're paid are really just a depiction statement of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time itthe minimum you's not a depictionll be required to do: these are you'll work more hours to get the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton job done and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is done to the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version satisfaction of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followbullies like Shigeru Onizuka. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by name: When hewas found dead in front of Senden Central's been headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the Lumberyard Cafe with way of regret or grief, even from his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain penfamily, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is but there with her son, Jordan, and shewas a mild curiosity as to whether he's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about d jumped from the state roof of her marriagethe building or been assisted in his descent. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind roof at the counterexact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. ThereShe's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tood accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R0241425425|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)The Man Who Died Twice|author=Liz MistryRichard Osman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson Elizabeth Best was in her sixties and hadn't worn wella little surprised when she received the letter. She was It came from a drug addict man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and was living under who had never existed but then this is the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordsort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. Her killer thought that When she visits the sender of the letter (he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are on 's moved into the case. Nikki canCooper't quite understand why shes Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's been sent an anonymous letter someone with whom she has a press report of the death. It had been impossible to make any progress in the case long professional history - and the note seemed who used to taunt the policebe her husband. Then another note arrived He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a report mask being removed within the range of a seemingly unconnected CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death in Cambridgethreats. The third death - He's now in the street where Nikki lived as hiding with a child - brought another communicationyoung woman called Polly, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the casewho's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.
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|isbnauthor=1787477800Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsRabbit Factor|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists 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 insurance company – until theydecide he're out on Blakeney Point where s not a team-member, that they suspect that there's treasure d prefer everyone to be foundall open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately(or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, the youngest of the groupand nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the body of but he perks up a man floating on little when he sees huge holes in the incoming tide. After pulling finances – it ashoreruns at a steady money-moving pace, they call despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the policeamount vanished. DCI Nelson thinks Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's probably been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the body activities of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity these guys are not conducive to be had from the coastguardgetting a cheap life insurance plan.. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=0008379300B0925KS87N|title=The Shadow Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Helen FieldsNeil Lancaster
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding, in his late thirties an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he knows that he's dyingwanted to do. His body is giving up on himOnly, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before family didn't hear from him again after he dies 'd said that he wants a wife, a child and a brother. He's been on d found the lookout for grave - the perfect people and heone which said that it shouldn's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared t be opened - and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was his three sons began to be his wifeworry. Her husbandTam Junior, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of seven Frankie and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesnDave wouldn't normally go according to plan the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and Angela diesthey were worried.
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|isbnauthor=B08BC4D58SDoug Johnstone|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)|author=Ragnar JonassonThe Great Silence
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is For those who, like me, haven't come across the police inspector in Siglufjordur and heSkelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's still living who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the 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 merely the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do surname of a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herfamily of undertakers. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledUndertakers and private investigators. It's now Dorothy is the Thursday of Holy Week matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and his ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonhaunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. Ari Thor And grand-daughter is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed about to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of graduate with a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of first-class physics degree and join the townacademic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=178089905X0008269041|title=SerpentineRisk of Harm|author=Jonathan KellermanLucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answersMet. She had money and money translated into clout and so might have been reinstated but the problem was dropped onto Milo's toeswhole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. Dorothy Swoboda She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamesbefore. It turned She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out that she wasnof her parent's home into a rented house but there't actually married to the man s still a difficult situation with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took brother Luke who has gone out adoption papers of his way to make life difficult for Ellie - and Robin since she took his namewas a young child. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker He's married to Natalie, now and she has nothing of her a young child but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinehe's still got it in for Robin.
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|isbn=000820831X1846975719|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenFor Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Stuart MacBrideDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=At the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland We learn that MI5 is slowly eroding into the seahaving its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. Storm Trevor speeds up But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the processairport straight away. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the house to see what's happeningplane were dead before take off. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonespaying public. Gordon Smith's home is falling into And why have the North Sea and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it man no identification on them - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruin.or even labels in their clothes?
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1409181669|title=The KhanMaidens|author=Alex Michaelides
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by 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 motto be twice as good as men Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and four times as good as white men. This has served Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her well in distress. Tara had been her rise through the criminal justice system best friend and by the time she is called home for her sisterwas struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely''s wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilehappy about having to go to Cambridge, but she is at caught the top of her gamefirst fast train from King's Cross. Returning to Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the city death of her birthMariana's husband, to old scars and fresh woundsSebastian, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the future with her sense death of honour Zoe's mother and dutyMariana's sister, Eliza.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=B08BTXSS840241400120|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Girl Who Died|author=Jenny O'BrienRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she's looking through cold cases for inspiration d given up her medical studies and retrained as to which one she should have a good look atteacher. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteen-year-She was thirty years old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedmoney was tight. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked houseHer friend, Sara, wearing showed her pyjamas, and was found dead by an advert for a dog walker job in Skalar on the Gt Orme Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in Llandudno the next day. She village but a teacher was wearing required for two children: a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforesalary would be paid and accommodation provided. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told Una was the only applicant and the whole story: he's married to Kate Brockjob meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, Angelica's younger sistersave some money over the winter which her contract covered.
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|isbn=14721347101529407249|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Perfect Lie|author=M C BeatonJo Spain|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement It was July 2019 and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in the Cotswold village of CarsleyErin was happy. Sheand Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's have preferred one of the more romantic names always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months and life was good with all a decent apartment by the problems that bringssea in Newport, Long Island. Now The knock on the problem is settling into door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a different way couple of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peopleother officers. The first move is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge Danny took one look, Reginald Cummings-Browneturned, and his wife Vera out walked to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary open window and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going jumped to winhis death from the fourth floor. How? WellEighteen months later, ''Erin would be on trial for herhusband'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..s murder.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1788549759|title= Fallen AngelsThe Distant Dead|author=Lesley Thomson|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a former It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friendIda's funeralleaving her three-year-old son, William, Veum catches up at home with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and her parents. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the sins shame of the past are exposed to the light illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of the presentputting her life (and William's) on a better footing. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out meet her family the clues hidden following week. Later, her body would be found in his own history and to catch a killerthe bombed-out home where he had taken her.|isbn=1913193063
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|isbn=15294103470008404925|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Killing Kind|author=Helen CoxJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistantDifficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, Grace Edwards, has left it was her library job and taken a place on cross-examination of the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamvictim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. ItHe's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most d been accused of stalking the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or theywoman but it didn've managed, somehow, t take long to scrape together establish that - if anything - it was the moneyother way around. Grace, who's 22, comes into the last category. Her parents agreed Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to fund remember that the course but police officer at his trial had told her that if that this was what she chose the best chance they'd had to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came put Webster away for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from long time: he was a year agovery dangerous man.
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connorwalker14|title= The CaptiveColdest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the cageidea which he thought might help his boss, intimatelychief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. It lurks The body of a young male was found in the corner of her eyewoods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justice. Soon, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to heridentify the young man? What if J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he escapes? What if leaves his office: he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.
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|isbn=18388873341471181405|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Nighthawking|author=Angela MarsonsRuss Thomas|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to everyone. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight visit) are an oasis of a little girl clutching a teddy bear calm in the absence what's otherwise thought of her mother. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which as an industrial city but this case was going to occupy their minds as disrupted when the body of Katrina Nock is a young woman was discovered some hours later. Her neck It had obviously been broken and it had all buried in one of the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, beds but who would do that have started to a young mother out shopping with dig her childup? 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, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.
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