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|isbn=14059511841035021803|title=The Girls Who DisappearedAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Claire DouglasC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outCarole. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilFreya's former mentor and Carole's Corridorclose friend, a figure appeared in Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the roadleast. Olivia swerved Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to avoid him and the car smashed into a treevillage: Arthur, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness feels, let her three friends had disappeareddown badly. Ralph MiddletonEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, who lived in she has not felt able to be near the woods helped her before man or pursue the police and ambulance arrivedprofession she loved. But what had happened to Sally ThorneAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, Tamsin Cole met and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in married James (on the rebound from the Stafferbury area love of Wiltshire. It her life, who was thought of as Avebury's poor relationmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=15420372391398524085|title=Death in HeelsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kitty MurphyNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's drag scenefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery Paul and Ollie and her best frienddaughter, RobynEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bnot. What is meant to be a night Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenGreg's father, EveDuncan Ackerley, takes to in the stage to mock Mae Briver. As if It was an easy assumption for the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant police to make that Eve was Duncan had murdered, yet the drag community, Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Guards, accept it as an accidentguilt. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529900360|title=The Dark RoomGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'd watched them die several years ago, s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place he felt responsible and time? This is what happens even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to Leonard in this storyask for his help on difficult cases. He is an exHis assertions that there were only open-and-crime reporter shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a newspaperwhile. Finally, it was Robin, and since leaving journalism heDelaware's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldpartner, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homewho nudged Milo into asking for help again. One of these photographs turns out to show She knew that the involvement was something that the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agoman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die though. Two lovers were murdered in front the swimming pool of him one night a remote property in a hotelBel Air. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died s not the night she Italian. But which of them was with him, what on earth actually happenedthe primary target?|isbn=154203535X
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ8178763681X|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Neil LancasterOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a runresidential cookery school in Belgravia. The lawyer was on his honeymoon He didn't really want to but his body was found dashed celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to pieces below do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the cliffs impression that he'd be at Dunnett Headthe school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Was it suicide, or did he The teaching - for some reason and the problems - climb over the stone wall and fall to are all his death? Or was own. The one thing he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accidenthadn' t expected was linked for someone to the deaths of others associated with himturn up dead. Scott Paterson Unfortunately, he was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientperson to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=000837936X1529421284|title=The Last Girl to DieLaying Out the Bones|author=Helen FieldsKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on It was one of those flash downpours that the Isle of Mull, British weather often delivers in search of a new lifeheatwave. It was In a bit of gully, a change from Las Vegas, but human skeleton came to the family seemed determined surface and Adriana forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearednine years earlier. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could it have been because Adrianaa simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagerst convinced. Brandon, Adriana's twinGeary was a townie, so what was upset he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and surlyto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Four-year-old Luna just knew Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that she missed her big sister. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered cold cases to you and it looked like a ritual killingme) investigate.
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|isbn=15098896121529425867|title=The Rising Tide Lost and Never Found (A D I Vera StanhopeWilkins Mystery)|author=Ann CleevesSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy IslandIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Some Raymond Wilkins is of them found the Only Connect course transformative Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenalways exquisitely dressed. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and her car was swept awayfather of Ryan, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one is not. He's not any of the original teenagersthose things. Ken now has AlzheimerHe's and hewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's a shadow not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the man he used shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to bea police procedural written for laughs. Philip Robson now a priest Well, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelyou're not. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much The two men are just different sides of the food: her deli is famous in same policing coin. Sometimes the areacombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=02419901651529431735|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Winter Visitor|author=Cara HunterJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the householdermore surprising. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was a body been exiled on the floor: the head had been blown off with Costa del Sol as a shotgun and the corpse was holding wanted drug smuggler for a knife in its right handdecade. Richard Swann told the police The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that heshe'd heard sounds of an intruder s ill and had come downstairs hasn't long to investigatelive. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'It' s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and come at him with sent to a watery grave in the boot of a knifestolen Ford Sierra. Swann had shot him in self-defence.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=178763566X0861541774|title=Listen to MeA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tess GerritsenSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeDCI Domenic Jejeune're s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Boston Singapore to meet up with Amyan old ally, Guy Trueman. When she set out for university this morning it Maik was involved in a spring day and she wore her new, butterystreet brawl -leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows he would later maintain that they're going to be ruined he was facing a man armed with a knife - and unsafe - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, he killed a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stopGhurka. Two months later Initially, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and he faced a keen defender charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesman. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has Now he could be facing the time death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to watch whathelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in t help Danny at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsall.
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|isbn=18011092651521129886|title=The CompanionThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lesley ThomsonKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a punctual man who was inexplicably never on timebaby and they'' and he was re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- as usual in- late law appears to pick up have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sonsister, WilburLucy, for their 'boys' day outwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur andLucy, he says, competing for the boyis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's attention, t in his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnednature. The dinner would never be served, as James police and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on coroner have accepted that the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. death was suicide, Shebut Stuart's feeling prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughnight Gil died.
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|authorisbn=David LagercrantzB0CK3MYJ56|title=Dark MusicResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from It's the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. This does He used to have a wonderhigh-mind at flying job in the heart of what little investigating is going on, city but there is not it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthprivate investigator. For one, the main focus 'Shades of the narrativeCameron Strike', Micaelayou might be thinking. Nice bloke, is no John Watson MD. Shebut where's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows life experience that backs up this profession? On the prime suspect of oldother hand, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned he has been asked to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumlook into something. BeppeJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, the suspector rather, they were until Helen was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see killed in what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is 's been written off as a shamblestragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crimeJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she Pam Hetherington - can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, understand what she was doing there - or how she manages could come to stop him fall in the middle front of an apparent suicide attempt.a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X1838954481|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Misper|author=Martin WalkerKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''Nobody knows what the truth is any mores no doubt about that.'' Bruno Courrèges is He was the police chief for St Denis and much of fifteen-year-old holding the Vézère valley gun and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the head of detectives for trigger but due to the départment vagaries of the Dordogne. They're jury system he was found not just policemen - they're guilty of both deeply committed to the well-being murder and prosperity the manslaughter of this most beautiful part of Francethe officer. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them And so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped lives must go on the base, which they found in the car. Oh, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and there was hoping for a golf ball too, which didn't belong to quieter life in the owner of the car. A golf bag would be countryside but when a good place to hide a snipermissing teenager is found on her territory she's weapondrawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy. 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=07278505471448309743|title=Blind Justice The Devil Stone (DS McAvoy 10DCI Christine Caplan)|author=David MarkCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when In the call came through. A body had been found in village of Cronchie on the roots West coast of Scotland, five members of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullwealthy family are found murdered. When he gets to The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the scenestone is removed from Otterburn House, he death will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedfollow. A young manThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's corpse is entangled with the roots an easy conclusion given that two of a newly-fallen tree – them 'discovered' the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesbody. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyshadow' him.
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|authorisbn=1529077699|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=Little DrummerAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, this crime story it is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the death middle of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdoseautumn gale, it unravels into stayed for about a far-reaching investigation of murdermonth and then turned up, fraudnaked and dead, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichin a small boat, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains anchored in Norway whilst Frolich is led Scully Cove close to Africa as they follow the twists and turns village of the investigationGreystone, in Devon. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down Rosco had the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstancesstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, trying hard to uncover round the truth world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as they are sure that something much biggerwe'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and much more dangerous, is going onhis background isn't exactly an open book.|isbn=1914585127 Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=13985075041529427045|title=Cold ReckoningThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Russ ThomasKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the last sixteen years heso-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's been searching for evidence to prove that heniece's right. When a frozen body was found mother is the latest woman in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back the area to a cold case from 2002have vanished without trace. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection It was only with DI Richard Tylerreluctance that Salander became her niece's death guardian but Adam Tyler senses it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a link to remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the case his part Salander played in her father was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the opendeath. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbn=17876349061787636607|title=No Less the DevilThe Trap|author=Stuart MacBrideCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're s a scene replicated all too often in Oldcastle the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Malcolm is in troublelooking for a way to get home. He's in an abandoned house Some are lucky and he's being threatened by two young peoplemanage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. One is Allegra (weThe woman all regret the 'll soon learn that shetaxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a new coat long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) come and collect her - but sheher phone'd put a tracking device in it so that s dead. The bus had driven off before she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepinghad the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. It wonThere't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going s no option but to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1405957174|title=A Death at Friar's Innthe Party|author=Rob KeeleyAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in From the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friarfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's Inn. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as party will not end well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticed. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of this. The other contestants victim - Becca Deckera man -Hamilton is dying when we first meet him and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have Nadine consciously makes no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidenceeffort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesnWhat we don't make know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him feel any die. I'd bettergive you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=15291259440008530025|title=City of Murder in the DeadFamily|author=Jonathan KellermanCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a livingIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, youin the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he're careful and it's not just about d slipped down the steps but the way that you drivevicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. You restrict your alcohol intake Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and if it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleeptrue-crime show. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 aA group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further.m. when More to the roads are quieterpoint, even if you have to wait up when you get to where youthey're goingto do this live on camera, episode by episode. And it was going well until There's no dump of the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood whole box set - and no shortage of Los Angelescliffhangers. The man was stark naked and couldnIt't be identifieds compelling viewing.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The Patient barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A DS Cross thrillerBruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Tim SullivanMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's Syndrome. He can be rude, difficult and awkward there to see the show with people, although it's never intentionalsome friends. It's just that all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he thinks differently departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and social niceties simply don't occur to himthe man is whisked away in a helicopter. ThereA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a reason why he's senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in Bristol's Major Crime Unit . One daughter lives nearby and it's that he has the best conviction rate with casesanother, who lives in California, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross flying in 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 Crossher father's behaviourfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1529196388|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is the third book in Grant Cliveden was a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, hero: a police officer, policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and Emma Rammlooked up to by just about everyone, a crime journalistso there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. In this book we find that when There's just one of Blixman in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's colleaguesnot too long before Knight appears in court, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blixcharged with Cliveden's murder. Before she can reach Knight was told that the best barrister for him, however, she is murdered, was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and Blixit's daughter Iselin Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooeventually represent him. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and RammKnight's determined to plead not guilty, who are being interviewed by despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happencontrary. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbnauthor=1529151600Andrew Cartmel|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonDeath in Fine Condition|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. The ''pandemiaShe spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closedthem, most never to reopenadd value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. There's now One day she discovers a cascade near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greed. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how a photograph on earth are they going to launder all the money which is coming their way? Whilst heher drug dealer's thinking living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where thiscollection is, Brunetti encounters someone heand how she can steal it! It's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a child. Elisabetta Foscarini next-level step in her petty crime career, but has a problem she reached too far, and she'd like Brunetti's advice.what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1448309379|title=The Flesh and Blood Tide (DS Max CraigieMcAvoy 11)|author=Neil LancasterDavid Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon It's something of a surprise to find that you'isre dead, particularly when you're thinking that you' the back of beyond: therere actually on a break with your wife and children, but that's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place what happened to land illegal deliveries of drugsDS Aector McAvoy. Jimmy McLeish thought that Whilst he was onto a nice little earner, only relieved to find that Maccahe was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man he thought he who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was working tampering withher car, is deadwas not. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and Callumnot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. As the story progresses we'll get to know them quite wellIt had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|isbn=15294096591529135389|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Fall|author=Elly GriffithsGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father Nicole Booth had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by spent the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on morning at the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years county fair before Ruth was bornshe returned home. It There was before no sign of her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she husband but opera was determined to find out what was behind playing on the photograph but Covid intervened and state-of-the country was -art music system installed in lockdownThe Glass Barn. Ruth They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Kate are restricted were still getting used to all the cottage high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with Ruth attempting to home school Kate each other and continue with her university teaching dutiesdidn't work as reliably as they should. The good thing was meeting ZoeIt had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the new tenant from next door whom they got swimming pool with a wound to know whilst clapping for carershis head.
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WAlan Parks|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's What first seems like the third murder in the space unfortunate, accidental death of a few weeks homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and they've then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been because of machetes used on teenagersfor years. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on At the outskirts of Bradford. Only, this same timeas facing these possible murders, it's going Harry is also dealing with a move to be a different. The body appears to Nikki to be that police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her beloved nephewlittle boy has gone missing, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression.?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=15291355671804545600|title=One Step Too FarThe Monk|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's five years since the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529346541|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeSullivan
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|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's late July a while before D S George Cross and Deborah St James the Major Crime Unit establish that this is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary Father Dominic. He'd been missing for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didnfew days and certainly hadn't catch but would later turn out asked permission to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerleave his abbey. It follows on from As the team gradually unpick the success of Deborahmonk's book past it becomes clear that he''London Voices'': the meeting is d been well-loved as an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesinvestment banker, brother, neighbour and friend. DeborahHe's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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