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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1035021803|title=White RiotThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the danger English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of making it too reactionary; too rawa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Knee-jerk observations Freya's former mentor and hot takes that donCarole't age well or properly capture s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the spirit of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the momentleast. It takes a truly talented writer Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be 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 capture be near the zeitgeist of a particular event man or era of political historypursue the profession she loved. Austerity Britain, After the student riotssplit, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what isshe worked in a cafe, met and has been, written in married James (on the rebound from the immediate aftermath love of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people her life, who do enjoy fiction of this naturewas murdered), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time Freya and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewJames have now divorced.|isbn= 1529423376}}

|isbn=18387761841398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French

|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'The Queens father, Duncan Ackerley, like in the river. It was an easy assumption for the sunrise police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking timeguilt. The 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to begin as ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a coldwhile. Hardly surprisingFinally, it was Robin, reallyDelaware's partner, as Prince Philip had been suffering who nudged Milo into asking for a couple of days but seemed to be getting betterhelp again. Hopefully, She knew that the involvement was something that the Queen thoughtman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, her cold would go though. Two lovers were murdered in the same wayswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. SheHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it'd probably caught it from one s not the Italian. But which of them was the great-grandchildrenprimary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Unfortunately, it He didn't get better really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and when the doctor called women to do what he diagnosed full-blown fluwanted. She and Paul ''somehow'' got the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train impression that day but the doctor put his foot down. Hehe'd have preferred that be at the queen have school to assist Paul, who had a few daysbroken arm, but it didn' bed rest before venturing t turn out but had to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter way. The teaching - and the following dayproblems - are all his own. It The one thing he hadn't expected was annoying: people would be ready for her today someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and Her Majesty did not like everyone knows that the police consider that person to disappointbe the prime suspect.

|isbn=08615419951529421284|title=Wolf PackLaying Out the Bones|author=Will DeanKate Webb

|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north It was one of Visberg. She sees blood on those flash downpours that the road and British weather often delivers in a creature on its side near the pine treesheatwave. It will turn out to be Bronco, In a Swedish Elkhoundgully, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, human skeleton came to the vet. Bronco didn't make it but on surface and forensic testing proved the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nybergbody to be Lee Geary, who had gone missingdisappeared nine years earlier. SheHe'd been working at Rose Farm a known drug user and Moodysonhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's journalist's instincts t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are soon brought connections to the foresuicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Rose Farm is now home to a group Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedme) investigate. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?

|isbn=14059511841529425867|title=The Girls Who DisappearedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Claire DouglasSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=Back in November 1998In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outis not. He's not any of those things. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilHe's Corridorwhite, originated from a figure appeared trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in the roadlime green or acid yellow. Olivia swerved You might wonder if you're being introduced to avoid him and the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trappedpolice procedural written for laughs. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedWell, you're not. Ralph Middleton, who lived in The two men are just different sides of the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedsame policing coin. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in Sometimes the Stafferbury area of Wiltshirecombination works brilliantly well. It was thought of as AveburySometimes it's poor relationproblematic.

|isbn=15420372391529431735|title=Death in HeelsThe Winter Visitor|author=Kitty MurphyJames Henry

|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag sceneFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'Death in Heels'' tells d been exiled on the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut Costa del Sol as drag queen Mae Ba wanted drug smuggler for a decade. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes The return has come about because he's had a downward turn when fellow drag queenletter from his ex-wife, Eve, takes saying that she's ill and hasn't long to the stage live. It's hard to mock Mae B. As if the night could not get feel any worse, sympathy when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi Hopkins is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communityabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the Guards, accept it as an accidentboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Fi takes Is it upon herself a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.home?

|authorisbn=Lisa Gray0861541774|title=The Dark RoomA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=What if you knew someone was deadDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, because you'd watched them die several years agoDanny Maik, but then you come across has taken a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened short holiday in a different place and time? This is what happens Singapore to Leonard in this storymeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He is an exMaik was involved in a street brawl -crime reporter for he would later maintain that he was facing a newspaper, man armed with a knife - 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 homekilled a Ghurka. One Initially, he faced a charge of these photographs turns out manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to show murder the murder scene of a young woman man. Now he met some years ago, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotelcould be facing the death penalty. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadnwouldn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xhelp Danny at all.

|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81521129886|title=The Night Watch They Had It Coming (D S Max CraigieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Neil LancasterKeith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for 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 runbaby and they're both delighted. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the cliffs at Dunnett Headmorning sickness. Was it suicide, or did he Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- for some reason in- climb over the stone wall and fall law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his death? Or was he pushed? On balancesister, Lucy, it looked like an accident but then his who'accident' was linked s struggling to the deaths of others associated with himmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal it simply wasn't facing life imprisonmentin his nature. Paterson The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was Grigorsuicide, but Stuart's last clientprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=000837936XB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Last Girl to DieResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Helen FieldsAnn Macarthur|rating=54

|summary=SeventeenIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-yeareight years old. He used to have a high-old Adriana Clarkeflying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of MullCameron Strike', in search of a new lifeyou might be thinking. It was a bit of a change from Las VegasNice bloke, but where's the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappeared. experience that backs up this profession? The local police demonstrated little interest in On the case (could it have other hand, he has been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) asked to look into something. Joyce and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from BanffHelen are half-sisters, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandonor rather, Adrianathey were until Helen was killed in what's twinbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, was upset Oliver and surly. FourPam Hetherington -yearcan't understand what she was doing there -old Luna just knew that or how she missed her big sistercould come to fall in front of a train. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonGreg's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingasked to investigate.

|isbn=15098896121838954481|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Misper|author=Ann CleevesKate London|rating=54

|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandno doubt about that. Some of them found He was the fifteen-year-old holding the Only Connect course transformative gun and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. There was a tragedy at He pulled the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off trigger but due to the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with vagaries of the group each year as her husband, Ken, jury system he was one found not guilty of both the original teenagers. Ken now has Alzheimer's murder and he's a shadow the manslaughter of the man he used to beofficer. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapel And so lives must go on. Annie Laidler lives locally For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and she provides much of hoping for a quieter life in the food: countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her deli is famous in territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the areaorbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=02419901651448309743|title=Hope to Die The Devil Stone (D I FawleyDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Cara HunterCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but In the call hadn't come from village of Cronchie on the householder. A couple West coast of Scotland, five members 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 inwealthy family are found murdered. In The only item missing from the kitchen there was a body on home is the floorDevil Stone: myth says that if the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Richard Swann told the police The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that he'd heard sounds s an easy conclusion given that two of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigatethem 'discovered' the body. The ignorant young lout had called him ''GrandadSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defence.

|isbn=178763566X1529077699|title=Listen to MeThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Tess GerritsenAnn Cleeves

|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out 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 they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow thatIt's now falling. As she crosses the roadall bloody peculiar, a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesnisn't stop.it, Sir?''

Two months laterWell yes, we're with Angela Rizzoliit is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolistayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a keen defender of small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the suburb village of RevereGreystone, north in Devon. Rosco had the status of Bostona national treasure: a renowned adventurer, where she livesround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Nothing gets past her I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the time to watch what's happening in money for his first boat? How did he finance the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.trip?

|isbn=18011092651529427045|title=The CompanionGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Lesley ThomsonKarin Smirnoff

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was Life has more to offer than people - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilbur, prime numbers for their example'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boy's attentionsmall town of Gasskas, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are where the victims so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a double stabbing on the beachgold rush. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policecriminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. SheSalander's niece's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough.}}{{Frontpage|author=David Lagercrantz|title=Dark Music|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating mother 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 latest woman in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned area to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumhave vanished without trace. Beppe, the suspect, It 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 only with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from reluctance that Salander became her fringe and how she might dress – niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious 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 Svala is a shambles. But taken off remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canpart Salander played in her father't get his full verdict on it alls death. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192

|isbn=152941363X1787636607|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Trap|author=Martin WalkerCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=It''Nobody knows what s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the truth is any moremorning.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for St Denis a way to get home. Some are lucky and much manage to get one of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as 'JJ'), the head one of detectives for the départment of the Dordogneoutlying villages. TheyThe woman all regret the 're not just policemen - theytaxi problem're both deeply committed to , particularly in the well-being and prosperity light of this most beautiful part of France'the missing women'. The discovery of an old, stolen PeugeotFor one young woman, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped final stop on the base, which they found in the carbus leaves her a long way short of her home. Oh, She had intended to ring someone to come and there was a golf ball too, which didncollect her - but her phone't belong s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the owner of the carbus driver to let her use his. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperThere's weapon. Was there going no option but to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed start walking - unsuitably clothed and in a certain direction?high-heeled shoes.

|isbn=07278505471405957174|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)A Death at the Party|author=David MarkAmy Stuart

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughs party will not end well. A body had been found in the roots of The victim - a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hull. When he gets man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than ambulance he could have imaginedso desperately needs. A young manWhat we don's corpse t know is entangled with who the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots man is or why Nadine prefers to have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alivedie. McAvoy makes a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at 'd better give you a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoylittle more background so that you can understand what's own familyhappening.

|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)0008530025|title=Little Drummer|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains Murder in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of the investigation. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth 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.|isbn=1914585127}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398507504|title=Cold ReckoningFamily|author=Russ ThomasCara Hunter

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed It was in December 2003 that his father committed suicide fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and for found the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that he's right. When a frozen body was found of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back to a cold case from 2002. There didnof his head which could have happened if he't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death d slipped down the steps but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case vicious beating his father face had taken was investigating before he diedobviously deliberate. Above all there Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a growing sense that true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going evidence and to be brought out into take the openinvestigation further. Perhaps Tyler is More to the point, they're going to get do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the answers he needs?whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.

|isbn=17876349060241996104|title=No Less the DevilComing to Find You|author=Stuart MacBrideJane Corry

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=WeNancy're in Oldcastle s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Malcolm is in troubleher step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. HeThe barrister tells her that she's in an abandoned house and hereceived a 's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (wesilent sentence'll soon learn that - she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugonot been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopleOf course, apparently) but sheit's made worse because Nancy'd put a tracking device in it so that s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingthe papers are making the most of it. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one of their own: favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsbe printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1529413680|title=Death at Friar's InnA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Rob KeeleyMartin Walker

|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the finals re-enactment of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society liberation of Friarthe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's Innthere to see the show with some friends. For aspiring barristersIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, moots test the participants' knowledge man playing one of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Tom Luckily, his doctor is there and Nat are from 'the man is whisked away in a provincial university' helicopter. A local doctor (and they're ''almost'' looked down on because friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of this. The other contestants survival but - Becca Deckeras he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca the military has an abundance of confidencestepped in. TomOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.

|isbn=15291259441529196388|title=City of the DeadThe Trial|author=Jonathan KellermanRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=When you drive large vehicles Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for a living, you're careful all that was good and honest and it's not looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the way that you driveOld Bailey. You restrict your alcohol intake There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and if it's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieternot too long before Knight appears in court, even if you have to wait up when you get to where youcharged with Cliveden're goings murder. And it Knight was going well until told that the men hit something in Westwood Villagebest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeleswho eventually represent him. The man was stark naked and couldnKnight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron't be identifieds recommendations to the contrary.

|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Andrew Cartmel|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanDeath in Fine Condition|rating=53

|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorderCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, quite probably Asperger's Syndromeand in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. He She spends her time hunting out copies that she can be rude, difficult and awkward with peoplesell on for profit, although it's never intentional. Itsometimes 's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply dontweaking't occur them, to himadd value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. There's One day she discovers a reason why he's near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Bristolthe background of a photograph on her drug dealer's Major Crime Unit living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! It's that he a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognisereached too far, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some what will happen when the owner of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947

|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1448309379|title=Unhinged Flesh and Blood (Volume 3) (Blix and RammDS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark|rating=43.5

|summary=This is the third book in It's something of a series of stories featuring Alexander Blixsurprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a police officer, break with your wife and Emma Rammchildren, a crime journalistbut that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. In this book we Whilst he was relieved to find that when one of Blix's colleagueshe was still, Kovicofficially, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesalive, she tries to contact her superior, Blixit was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and BlixHer protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who's daughter Iselin who shares d dashed from her flat in the early hours of the same apartmentmorning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, narrowly escapes being murdered toowas not. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and Ramm, not everyone who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happencommented on this was doing so kindly. What It had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover always been suspected that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003Pharoah was sweet on Aector.

|isbn=15291516001529135389|title=Give Unto OthersThe Fall|author=Donna LeonGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5

|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They''pandemia'' stripped d not been in the city of its tourists architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for nearly two years long and a lot of businesses have closed, most never were still getting used to reopenall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. ThereSome of them fought with each other and didn's now a cascade of money t work as reliably as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedthey should. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they going were still getting used to launder all the having that sort of money which is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childtoo. Elisabetta Foscarini has Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a problem and she'd like Brunetti's advicewound to his head.

|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKAlan Parks|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterTo Die in June

|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' What first seems like the back unfortunate, accidental death of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was a homeless man on the perfect place streets, suddenly starts to land illegal deliveries of drugsfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a nice little earnerdown and out alcoholic, only to find that Maccawith no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the man he thought he was working same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing witha move to a different police station, is dead. His remains would never and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|isbn=15294096591804545600|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Monk|author=Elly GriffithsTim Sullivan

|summary=It The body in the woods near Bristol was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen a nasty shock - a monk strapped to do some decorating a chair and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingsdumped in a ditch. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said He'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornd been savagely beaten. It was 's a while before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened D S George Cross and the country was in lockdownMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Ruth He'd been missing for a few days and Kate are restricted certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey. As the team gradually unpick the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and continue with her university teaching dutiesfriend. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for carershis faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?