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|isbn=15420372391035021803|title=Death in HeelsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Kitty MurphyC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the backdrop of DublinEnglish country village where she grew up. She's drag sceneback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best s close friend, RobynArthur Crockleford, who is about dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to debut as drag queen Mae Bsay the least. What is meant Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenthe village: Arthur, she feels, Evelet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, takes she has not felt able to be near the stage to mock Mae Bman or pursue the profession she loved. As if After the night could not get any worsesplit, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead worked in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communitycafe, met and married James (on the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve rebound from the mystery as she fears for love of her friendslife, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1398524085|title=The Dark RoomHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone Charlotte Salter was deadexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, because you'd watched them die several years agosons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This - strangely - her husband, Alec, is what happens to Leonard in this storynot. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperShortly afterwards, Etty and since leaving journalism heGreg, find the body of Greg's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldfather, Duncan Ackerley, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homethe river. One of these photographs turns out It was an easy assumption for the police to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years ago, make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and who then committed suicide when he couldn''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotelt stand the guilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - s little else they can do but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was get on with him, their lives and wonder about what on earth actually really happened?|isbn=154203535X.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529900360|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Ghost Orchid|author=Neil LancasterJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but his body he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was found dashed reluctant to pieces below ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the cliffs at Dunnett Headhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Was Finally, it suicidewas Robin, Delaware's partner, or did he - who nudged Milo into asking for some reason - climb over help again. She knew that the stone wall and fall to his death? Or involvement was he pushed? On balancesomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to though. Two lovers were murdered in the deaths swimming pool of others associated with hima remote property in Bel Air. Scott Paterson He was released after a the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmentthe Italian. Paterson But which of them was Grigor's last client.the primary target?
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|isbn=000837936X178763681X|title=The Last Girl to DieKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Helen FieldsOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in search of a new lifeBelgravia. It was He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a bit way of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined getting both men and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedwomen to do what he wanted. The local police demonstrated little interest in Paul ''somehow'' got the case (could it have been because Adrianaimpression that he's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banffd be at the school to assist Paul, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandona broken arm, Adrianabut it didn's twin, was upset and surlyt turn out that way. FourThe teaching -yearand the problems -old Luna just knew that she missed her big sisterare all his own. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonThe one thing he hadn's Cavet expected was for someone to turn up dead. She'd been murdered Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and it looked like a ritual killingeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=15098896121529421284|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Laying Out the Bones|author=Ann CleevesKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since a group was one of teenagers went on those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a weekend retreat to Holy Islandheatwave. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for In a reunion every five years since then. There was gully, a tragedy at human skeleton came to the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off surface and forensic testing proved the island too close body to high tide and her car was swept awaybe Lee Geary, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagerswho had disappeared nine years earlier. Ken now has AlzheimerHe's d been a known drug user and he's had learning disabilities, so it could have been a shadow simple case of the man he used to bemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Philip Robson now Geary was a priesttownie, always gets there early as so what was he likes doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to have some quiet two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time alone in the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally Lockyer and she provides much DC Gemma Broad of the food: her deli is famous in the areaMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=02419901651529425867|title=Hope to Die Lost and Never Found (A D I FawleyWilkins Mystery)|author=Cara HunterSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddlyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from the householderRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. A couple D I Ryan Wilkins, son of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright Ryan and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the doorfather of Ryan, is not. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come ins not any of those things. In the kitchen there was He's white, originated from a body on the floor: the head had been blown off with a shotgun trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and the corpse was holding a knife trackies. They're usually in its right handlime green or acid yellow. Richard Swann told the You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police that heprocedural written for laughs. Well, you'd heard sounds re not. The two men are just different sides of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigatethe same policing coin. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' and come at him with a knifeSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Swann had shot him in self-defenceSometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=178763566X1529431735|title=Listen to MeThe Winter Visitor|author=Tess GerritsenJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins're in Boston with Amyreturn all the more surprising. When she set out He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that theydecade. The return has come about because he're going to be ruined s had a letter from his ex- and unsafe - in the snow wife, saying thatshe's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere ill and hits her. It doesnhasn't stoplong to live. Two months later, we It're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolis hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a keen defender of watery grave in the suburb boot of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesa stolen Ford Sierra. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.home?
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|isbn=18011092650861541774|title=The CompanionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Lesley ThomsonSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as 'DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was - as usual - late short holiday in Singapore to pick meet up his sonwith an old ally, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'Guy Trueman. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boy's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him Maik was involved in a roast dinner when street brawl - he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Wilbur are the victims of he killed a double stabbing on the beachGhurka. The case falls Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policelight that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. She's feeling Now he could be facing the pressuredeath penalty. You Domenic Jejeune can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughdo nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1521129886|title=Dark MusicThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes Greg Mason's just beginning to get before his confidence as an investigator to the allusion breaks? point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. This does It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthbaby and they're both delighted. For one, Joyce will be more delighted about the main focus of baby when she gets past the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDmorning sickness. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of Greg is approached by an old, friend whose brother-in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned -law appears to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumhave killed himself. BeppeStuart's concerned about his sister, the suspectLucy, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses who's struggling to admit anything, through days make ends meet and weeks of interrogationher son is not thriving. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up withLucy, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe , is innocent and the investigation is a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't get in his full verdict on it allnature. Until, The police and the coroner have accepted that may bethe death was suicide, she manages but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to stop him in find out what happened on the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..night Gil died.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363XB0CK3MYJ56|title=To Kill a Troubadour Responsibilities (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Martin WalkerAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason'Nobody knows what s twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the truth is any more.city but it wasn't satisfying so he' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known s now set himself up as a private investigator. 'JJShades of Cameron Strike'), the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordogneyou might be thinking. TheyNice bloke, but where're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to s the well-being and prosperity of life experience that backs up this most beautiful part of Franceprofession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. The discovery of an oldJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, stolen Peugeotor rather, crashed and abandoned they were until Helen was killed in a ditch wouldnwhat't normally have worried them so much had it not s been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carwritten off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. OhJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and there was a golf ball too, which didnPam Hetherington - can't belong understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to the owner fall in front of the cara train. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperGreg's weaponbeen asked to investigate. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbn=07278505471838954481|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Misper|author=David MarkKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughs no doubt about that. A body had been found in He was the fifteen-year-old holding the roots of a fallen tree gun and pointing it at Brantingham, near HullDI Kieran Shaw. When he gets He pulled the trigger but due to the scene, vagaries of the jury system he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled with was found not guilty of both the murder and the roots manslaughter of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesofficer. And so lives must go on. It would seem For DI Sarah Collins that this was done whilst means leaving the man was still alive. McAvoy makes capital and hoping for a promise to quieter life in the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a cost wider investigation - and this time back into the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=Little DrummerCaro Ramsay|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part In the village of Cronchie on the Oslo Detectives seriesWest coast of Scotland, this crime story is five members of a mixture of police procedural and thrillerwealthy family are found murdered. Beginning with The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death of a young woman will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in a carparkmany ways, that looks very much like 's an overdose, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our easy conclusion given that two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of them 'discovered' the investigationbody. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, chasing down the truth DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going on'shadow' him.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=13985075041529077699|title=Cold ReckoningThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years he''It's been searching for evidence to prove that heall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''s right Well yes, it is. When Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a frozen body was found month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Damflask ReservoirScully Cove close to the village of Greystone, there was in Devon. Rosco had the status of a link back to national treasure: a cold case from 2002renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. There didn I 't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but Adam Tyler senses as we'll find out, he could be more than a link to the case little bit close with money and his father was investigating before he died. Above all therebackground isn's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the t exactly an openbook. Perhaps Tyler is going to Where did he get the answers money for his first boat? How did he needsfinance the trip?
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|isbn=17876349061529427045|title=No Less The Girl in the DevilEagle's Talons|author=Stuart MacBrideKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in troublecoming forward. HeSalander's in an abandoned house and heniece's being threatened by two young peoplemother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn It was only with reluctance that sheSalander became her niece's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) guardian but she'd put a tracking device in it so quickly becomes obvious that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It wonSvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one s unaware of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backspart Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1787636607|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Trap|author=Rob KeeleyCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were It's a scene replicated all too often in the finals early hours of the Moots morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to take place at The Honourable Society get one of Friar's Innthe few taxis available. For aspiring barristers, moots test Others squash onto the participants' knowledge of several areas of law night bus that will only go as well far as their advocacy skills: it's a great way one of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedthe outlying villages. Tom and Nat are from The woman all regret the 'a provincial universitytaxi problem' and they, particularly in the light of 're the missing women''almost'' looked down . For one young woman, the final stop on because the bus leaves her a long way short of thisher home. The other contestants - Becca DeckerShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -Hamilton and Lucia but her phone'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidences dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. TomThere's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15291259441405957174|title=City of A Death at the DeadParty|author=Jonathan KellermanAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a livingFrom the first page, you're careful and itwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not just about the way that you driveend well. You restrict your alcohol intake The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and if it's a trip that Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When youWhat we don're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when t know is who the roads are quieter, even if you man is or why Nadine prefers to have to wait up when him die. I'd better give you get to where a little more background so that youcan understand what're going. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identifieds happening.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10008530025|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Murder in the Family|author=Tim SullivanCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Aspergerinjury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's Syndromed slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. He can be rudeTwenty years later, difficult no one has been charged with his murder and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. It's just that he thinks differently A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and social niceties simply donto take the investigation further. More to the point, they't occur re going to himdo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit no dump of the whole box set - and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everno shortage of cliffhangers. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into CrossIt's behaviourcompelling viewing.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0241996104|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, a police officerMartin, and Emma Rammhas been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a crime journalistlife sentence. In this book we find The barrister tells her that when one of Blixshe's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers received a connection between several Oslo cases, 'silent sentence' - she tries 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to contact live with what happened for the rest of her superior, Blixlife. Before she can reach him, howeverOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she is murdered, inherited five million pounds from her mother - and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who papers are being interviewed by making the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw most of it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15291516001529413680|title=Give Unto OthersA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Donna LeonMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The ''pandemia'' stripped One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the city liberation of its tourists for nearly two years the town from the English in 1370 and a lot of businesses have closed, most never Bruno's there to reopensee the show with some friends. ThereIt's now a cascade of money as life begins again all been very carefully choreographed but even 125goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin,000 deaths have not put an end to greedthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Luckily, his doctor is there and the money which man is coming their way? whisked away in a helicopter. Whilst he's thinking A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about this, Brunetti encounters someone his chances of survival but - as he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem One daughter lives nearby and she'd like Brunettianother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's advicefriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529196388|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Trial|author=Neil LancasterRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back of beyondGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there's not even any light pollution which is why it was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsOld Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy McLeish thought that he Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was onto a nice little earner, only to find told that Macca, the man he thought he best barrister for him was working withJonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, is deadwho eventually represent him. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses weKnight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'll get s recommendations to know them quite wellthe contrary.
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|isbnauthor=1529409659Andrew Cartmel|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsDeath in Fine Condition|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear hunting out her mothercopies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking's belongingsthem, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. She was intrigued by One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the discovery background of a picture of photograph on her own house: it was an old photographdrug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, taken in misty conditions and on the back how she can steal it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was born. ! It was before 's a next-level step in her parents were married. When petty crime career, but has she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out reached too far, and what was behind will happen when the photograph but Covid intervened and owner of the country was in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping collection comes looking for carers.their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1448309379|title=Flesh and Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4McAvoy 11)|author=Liz MistryDavid Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the third murder in the space something of a few weeks and theysurprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you've all been because of machetes used re actually on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh a break with your wife and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradford. Onlychildren, this time, itbut that's going what happened to be differentDS Aector McAvoy. The body appears to Nikki Whilst he was relieved to be find that of her beloved nephewhe was still, officially, Haqibalive, and she has a very public meltdownit was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the body is partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in designer clothes the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and comes from an obviously monied backgroundnot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. What it does mean though is It had always been suspected that Nikki is going to be Pharoah was sweet on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionAector.
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|isbn=15291355671529135389|title=One Step Too FarThe Fall|author=Lisa GardnerGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the stag weekendcounty fair before she returned home. Five There was no sign of them had set out: Tim (her husband but opera was playing on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty state-of alcohol - too much really the- and art music system installed in the night Scot managed to wander offThe Glass Barn. The remaining four searched They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for him in vain long and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpwere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. When help Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come the remaining three finally made their way back about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign having that sort of Timmoney, too. Every yearEventually, Tim's father, Martin, and Nicole found Tom dead in the four friends have been back swimming pool with a wound to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timhis head.
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Alan Parks|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeTo Die in June|rating=54
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|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for What first seems like the school systemunfortunate, accidental death of a representative from homeless man on the NHSstreets, Mr Oh from Barnardossuddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerthen another. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting This is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the book being used to highlight an area which more so because his own father is causing concern in some communitiesa down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be At the same time as the problem seems facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to occur in Nigerian a different police station, and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the people she speaks to and photographsboy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=13987069061804545600|title=The LostMonk|author=Simon BeckettTim Sullivan|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colley's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedbody in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gonebeen savagely beaten. It cost him his marriage 's a while before D S George Cross and his homethe Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Ten years later heHe's largely come through it d been missing for a few days and hecertainly hadn's out with t asked permission to leave his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyabbey. Gavin used to be his best friend but itAs the team gradually unpick the monk's a long time since theypast it becomes clear that he've spokend been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friend. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear d also been very wealthy but had given it in all up for his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quayfaith. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.Why would someone savagely murder him?
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