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|isbn=08615419951035021803|title=Wolf PackThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Will DeanC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove Charlotte Salter was expected at her Hilux pickup truck on the road north of Visberghusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She sees blood on the road and a creature on its side near the pine trees. It will turn out to be BroncoHer children, a Swedish Elkhoundsons Niall, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco Paul and Ollie and his ownerher daughter, Bengt Nyberg, to the vetEtty. Bronco didn't make it are all worried but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-yearstrangely -old Elsa Nybergher husband, who had gone missingAlec, is not. She'd been working at Rose Farm Shortly afterwards, Etty and MoodysonGreg, find the body of Greg's journalist's instincts are soon brought to father, Duncan Ackerley, in the foreriver. Rose Farm is now home It was an easy assumption for the police to a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson make that Duncan had murdered his wife, and his two eldest children Charlie and then killed himselfcommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511841529900360|title=The Girls Who DisappearedGhost Orchid|author=Claire DouglasJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Olivia Rutherford Sturgis was driving her three friends home after a night outreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. As she passed through the darklyHis assertions that there were only open-and-wooded Devilshut cases which didn's Corridor, t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a figure appeared in the roadwhile. Olivia swerved to avoid him and the car smashed Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into a tree, leaving her trappedasking for help again. When She knew that the involvement was something that the man she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedloved needed. Ralph MiddletonThe next case did look simple, who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedthough. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening Two lovers were murdered in the Stafferbury area swimming pool of Wiltshirea remote property in Bel Air. It He was thought of as Aveburythe heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's poor relationnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1542037239178763681X|title=Death in HeelsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Kitty MurphyOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Dublingetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul 's drag scene, 'somehow'Death in Heels'got the impression that he' tells d be at the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robynschool to assist Paul, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be had a night of excitement soon takes a downward broken arm, but it didn't turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to out that way. The teaching - and the stage problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to mock Mae Bturn up dead. As if the night could not get any worse Unfortunately, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve he was murdered, yet the drag community, person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself police consider that person to solve be the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperprime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529421284|title=The Dark RoomLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone It was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph one of those flash downpours that seemed to show their murder happened the British weather often delivers in a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storyheatwave. He is an ex-crime reporter for In a newspapergully, a human skeleton came to the surface and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at home. One of these photographs turns out forensic testing proved the body to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agobe Lee Geary, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hoteldisappeared nine years earlier. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightbeen a known drug user and had learning disabilities, and lost everything because so it could have been a simple case of it - his fiancee and his career - misadventure but now finds himself wondering if she hadnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't really died the night she convinced. Geary was with hima townie, so what was he doing out on earth actually happenedSalisbury Plain alone?|isbn=154203535X There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529425867|title=The Night Watch Lost and Never Found (A D S Max CraigieI Wilkins Mystery)|author=Neil LancasterSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a runIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Was it suicide D I Ryan Wilkins, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall son of Ryan and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balancefather of Ryan, it looked like an accident but then his is not. He'accident' was linked to the deaths s not any of others associated with himthose things. Scott Paterson was released after He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasnreally'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you't facing life imprisonmentre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Paterson was Grigor Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's last clientproblematic.
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|isbn=000837936X1529431735|title=The Last Girl to DieWinter Visitor|author=Helen FieldsJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeIt's family moved to TobermoryFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, on which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifemore surprising. It was a bit of He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing wanted drug smuggler for a social life - until she disappeareddecade. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been return has come about because Adrianahe's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque had a letter from Banffhis ex-wife, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandon, Adrianasaying that she's twin, was upset ill and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sisterhasn't long to live. It took four days's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but Sadie found Adriana stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in Mackinnon's Cavethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. She'd been murdered and Is it looked like a ritual killing.warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=15098896120861541774|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Ann CleevesSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide friend and her car was swept awayformer colleague, but her younger sister, LouisaDanny Maik, has returned taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with the group each year as her husband, Kenan old ally, was one of the original teenagersGuy Trueman. Ken now has Alzheimer's and Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he's was facing a shadow of the man armed with a knife - and he used to bekilled a Ghurka. Philip Robson now a priest Initially, always gets there early as he likes faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have some quiet time alone in planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the chapeldeath penalty. Annie Laidler lives locally Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areawouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=02419901651521129886|title=Hope to Die They Had It Coming (D I FawleyGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Cara HunterKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an isolated house but investigator to the call hadnpoint where he't come from the householderll warn someone about how much he charges. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright It's a good job too because Greg and it took quite Joyce will soon have a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that baby and they'd better come inre both delighted. In Joyce will be more delighted about the kitchen there was a body on baby when she gets past the floor: the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handmorning sickness. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds of Greg is approached by an intruder and had come downstairs old friend whose brother-in-law appears to investigatehave killed himself. The ignorant young lout had called him ''GrandadStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who' s struggling to make ends meet and come at him with a knifeher son is not thriving. Swann had shot him Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in self-defencehis nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=178763566XB0CK3MYJ56|title=Listen to MeResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Tess GerritsenAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day s the 1990s and she wore her new, butteryGreg Mason's twenty-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going eight years old. He used to be ruined - and unsafe have a high- flying job in the snow thatcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now fallingset himself up as a private investigator. As she crosses the road, a car comes out 'Shades of nowhere and hits her. It doesnCameron Strike't stop, you might be thinking. Two months laterNice bloke, webut where're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolis the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and a keen defender of the suburb of RevereHelen are half-sisters, north of Bostonor rather, where she livesthey were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Nothing gets past her Joyce - and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sisterparents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she has the time could come to watch whatfall in front of a train. Greg's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsbeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=18011092651838954481|title=The CompanionMisper|author=Lesley ThomsonKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Ryan Kennedy killed a punctual man who was inexplicably never on timepolice officer: there'' and he s no doubt about that. He was the fifteen- as usual year- late to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. These were always days which appealed more He pulled the trigger but due to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boy's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when vagaries of the jury system he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James was found not guilty of both the murder and Wilbur are the victims manslaughter of a double stabbing on the beachofficer. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeAnd so lives must go on. SheFor DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's feeling the pressure. You can always tell drawn into a wider investigation - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when and back into the going gets toughorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1448309743|title=Dark MusicThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before In the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart village 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 wavelength. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put Cronchie on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect West coast of oldScotland, in a case where a referee five members of a junior football match was wealthy family are found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiummurdered. Beppe, The only item missing from the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to home is the ref during Devil Stone: myth says that if the closing minutesstone is removed from Otterburn House, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationdeath will follow. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up withThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, 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 's an easy conclusion given that two of it all, she can only smirk them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he says Beppe disappears, DCI Christine Caplan 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 canpulled in to 'shadow't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X1529077699|title=To Kill a Troubadour The Raging Storm (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelTwo Rivers)|author=Martin WalkerAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
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|isbn=07278505471529427045|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=David MarkKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for breakfast when example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the call came through. A body had been found in small town of Gasskas, where the roots so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullgold rush. When he gets to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. A young manSalander's corpse niece's mother is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – latest woman in the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins area to have been nailed through his eyesvanished without trace. It would seem was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes Svala is a promise to remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of 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 McAvoypart Salander played in her father's own familydeath.
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1787636607|title=Little DrummerThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a mixture way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of police procedural and thrillerthe few taxis available. Beginning with Others squash onto the death night bus that will only go as far as one of a young the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation the light of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings'the missing women'. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich For one young woman, who end up working separately the final stop on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to Africa as they follow the twists come and turns of the investigationcollect her - but her phone's dead. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down The bus had driven off before she had the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard chance to uncover beg the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and much more dangerous, is going onin high-heeled shoes.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=13985075041405957174|title=Cold ReckoningA Death at the Party|author=Russ ThomasAmy Stuart|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for From the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove first page, we know that heNadine Walsh's rightparty will not end well. When The victim - a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to a cold case from 2002call the ambulance he so desperately needs. There didn What we don't immediately seem know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerhave him die. I's death but Adam Tyler senses d better give you a link to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all therelittle more background so that you can understand what's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openhappening. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbn=17876349060008530025|title=No Less Murder in the DevilFamily|author=Stuart MacBrideCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're It was in Oldcastle December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Malcolm is found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in troublethe garden of their West London home. He's in had an abandoned house and injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's being threatened by two young peopled slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. One is Allegra (weTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean, a true-Edwards) crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and Hugoto take the investigation further. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat More to the point, they're going to keep him warm (she often does do this for homeless peoplelive on camera, apparently) but sheepisode by episode. There'd put a tracking device in it so that she s no dump of the whole box set - and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingno shortage of cliffhangers. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backss compelling viewing.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0241996104|title=Death at Friar's InnComing to Find You|author=Rob KeeleyJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Nat Webber Nancy's mother and Tom Barton step-father were in the finals brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the Moots to take place at court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The Honourable Society of Friarbarrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's Innnot been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. For aspiring barristersOf course, moots test the participantsit' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: its made worse because Nancy's a great way of getting invaluable practice rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of getting yourself noticedit. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial university' and they're ''almostFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' looked down on because of this. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton is one favourite epithet and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tomrich bitch's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any bettermight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15291259441529413680|title=City A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of the DeadPolice Novel)|author=Jonathan KellermanMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, you'One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re careful -enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and itBruno's not just about there to see the way that you driveshow with some friends. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleephelicopter. When youA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he're taking s a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're goingmilitary has stepped in. And it was going well until the men hit something One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in Westwood VillageCalifornia, an upmarket neighbourhood is flying in with some of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldnher father't be identifieds friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11529196388|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Trial|author=Tim Sullivan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's Syndrome. He can be rude, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentional. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur to him. There's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. 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 Cross's behaviour.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)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 GardnerTim Sullivan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since The body in the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who woods near Bristol was usually called Miggy), Neil a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and Joshdumped in a ditch. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and in the night Scot managed to wander offMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. The remaining four searched He'd been missing for him in vain a few days and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didncertainly hadn't come the remaining three finally made their way back asked permission to townleave his abbey. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, TimAs the team gradually unpick the monk's fatherpast it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, Martinbrother, neighbour and the four friends have friend. He'd also been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking very wealthy but had given it all up for 'remains' rather than for Timhis faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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