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|isbn=15294212411035021803|title=Stay BuriedThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Kate WebbC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itIt's actually a cold case unit and there are just two of them doing twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the jobEnglish country village where she grew up. LockyerShe's not unduly worriedback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, though although heCarole. Freya's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: sheformer mentor and Carole's probably capable of something betterclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It Arthur was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambertreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put feels, let her there, fourteen years agodown badly. She's keen Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to see him and to tell him that be near the man everyone thought or pursue the profession she'd 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 - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=13997022891398524085|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Louise PennyNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Inspector Jeanher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québecstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the murder body of her mother: heGreg'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guys father, Duncan Ackerley, it had always been in the other way aroundriver. Now they're both in It was an easy assumption for the village police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and neither can fathom whatthen committed suicide when he couldn's happeningt stand the guilt. Armand will soon find that The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they're not just in Three Pines can do but in his home get on with their lives and in his lifewonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529900360|title=White RiotThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Knee His assertions that there were only open-jerk observations and hot takes that don-shut cases which didn't age well or properly capture need the spirit help of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of psychologist only worked for a particular event or era of political historywhile. Austerity Britain Finally, the student riotsit was Robin, Donald TrumpDelaware's partner, Brexit – so much of what iswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and has been, written though. Two lovers were murdered in the immediate aftermath swimming pool of these phenomena has been proven by time a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to be frothy an Italian shoe empire and insubstantial she is married to an extremely rich man and ultimately it's not particularly powerful or incisivethe Italian. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction But which of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when them was the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376primary target?}}
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|isbn=1838776184178763681X|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalKnife Skills for Beginners|author=S J BennettOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally Chef Paul Delamare took a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed to begin as teaching job at a coldresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Hardly surprising, He didn't really, as Prince Philip want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been suffering for a couple way of days but seemed getting both men and women to be getting betterdo what he wanted. Hopefully, Paul ''somehow'' got the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. Sheimpression that he'd probably caught it from one of be at the great-grandchildren. Unfortunatelyschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't get better turn out that way. The teaching - and when the doctor called he diagnosed fullproblems -blown fluare all his own. She and the Duke were due The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downturn up dead. He'd have preferred Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had police consider that person to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappointprime suspect.
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|isbn=08615419951529421284|title=Wolf PackLaying Out the Bones|author=Will DeanKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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?
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|isbn=14059511841529425867|title=The Girls Who DisappearedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Claire DouglasSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=15420372391529431735|title=Death in HeelsThe Winter Visitor|author=Kitty MurphyJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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?
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray0861541774|title=The Dark RoomA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81521129886|title=The Night Watch They Had It Coming (D S Max CraigieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Neil LancasterKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=000837936XB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Last Girl to DieResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Helen FieldsAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=15098896121838954481|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Misper|author=Ann CleevesKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=02419901651448309743|title=Hope to Die The Devil Stone (D I FawleyDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Cara HunterCaro Ramsay|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 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.
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|isbn=178763566X1529077699|title=Listen to MeThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Tess GerritsenAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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?''
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|isbn=18011092651529427045|title=The CompanionGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Lesley ThomsonKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|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
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|isbn=152941363X1787636607|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Trap|author=Martin WalkerCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=07278505471405957174|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)A Death at the Party|author=David MarkAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)0008530025|title=Little DrummerMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture back of police procedural and thrillerhis head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Beginning Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the death subject of a young woman in a carpark''Infamous'', that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a fartrue-reaching investigation crime show. A group 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 in Norway whilst Frolich is led experts has been brought together to Africa as they follow review the twists evidence and turns of to take the investigationfurther. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down More to the truth in increasingly difficultpoint, frustrating circumstancesthey're going to do this live on camera, trying hard to uncover episode by episode. There's no dump of the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, whole box set - and much more dangerous, is going onno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=13985075040241996104|title=Cold ReckoningComing to Find You|author=Russ ThomasJane 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 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.
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|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide One 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 for Bruno's there to see the last sixteen years heshow with some friends. It's all been searching for evidence to prove that very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he's rightdeparts from the script. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir Luckily, his doctor is there was a link back to and the man is whisked away in a cold case from 2002helicopter. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the case his military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father was investigating before he died. Above all there's friends for a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openpre-arranged holiday. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbn=17876349061529196388|title=No Less the DevilThe Trial|author=Stuart MacBrideRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Oldcastle Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and Malcolm is looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in troubleplain sight at the Old Bailey. HeThere's just one man in an abandoned house the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and heit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's being threatened by two young peoplemurder. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn Knight was told that shethe best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Allegra DeanTaylor-Edwards) Cameron and Hugohis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Knight's determined to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopleplead not guilty, apparently) but shedespite all Taylor-Cameron'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going s recommendations to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backscontrary.
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|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXAndrew Cartmel|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob Keeleyin Fine Condition|rating=43
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Innparticular a series called Sleuth Hound. For aspiring barristersShe spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, moots test the participantssometimes ' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: ittweaking's them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a great way near perfect collection of getting invaluable practice and these books after seeing them in the background of getting yourself noticed. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial universityphotograph on her drug dealer' s living room wall, and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of so she sets about discovering where this. collection is, and how she can steal it! The other contestants It's a next- Becca Decker-Hamilton level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance what will happen when the owner of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=15291259441448309379|title=City of the DeadFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Jonathan KellermanDavid Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When It's something of a surprise to find that you drive large vehicles for a living're dead, particularly when you're careful and it's not just about the way thinking that you drive. You restrict 're actually on a break with your alcohol intake wife and if itchildren, but that's a trip what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. Whilst he was relieved to find that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleephe was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. When youHer protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when d dashed from her flat in the early hours of the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up morning when you get to where you're going. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Villageobvious that someone was tampering with her car, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeleswas not. The man Thor Ingolfsson was stark naked Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and couldn't be identifiednot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11529135389|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Fall|author=Tim SullivanGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's SyndromeNicole 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. He can be rude, difficult They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalwere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. It's just that he thinks differently Some of them fought with each other and social niceties simply dondidn't occur to himwork as reliably as they should. There's It had all come about through a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit ten-million-pound lottery win and it's they were still getting used to having that he has the best conviction rate with casessort of money, evertoo. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts a wound to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourhis head.
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|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerAlan Parks|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)To Die in June|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is What first seems like the third book in unfortunate, accidental death of a series of stories featuring Alexander Blixhomeless man on the streets, a police officersuddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistthen another. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleaguesThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, Kovic, uncovers but all the more so because his own father is a connection between several Oslo casesdown and out alcoholic, she tries to contact her superiorwith no fixed abode, Blixand he has been for years. Before she can reach himAt the same time as facing these possible murders, however, she Harry is murderedalso dealing with a move to a different police station, and Blix's daughter Iselin the arrival there of a woman who shares claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooboy having existed can be found. We then find ourselves a few days later Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix other officers where he has shot and killed someonebeen stationed, and Ramm saw it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And but can Harry uncover just what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someoneis going on?|isbn=19145850031805300784
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|isbn=15291516001804545600|title=Give Unto OthersThe Monk|author=Donna LeonTim Sullivan
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedThe body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. The He'd been savagely beaten. It'pandemia'' stripped s a while before D S George Cross and the city of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopenMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. ThereHe's now d been missing for a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to greedleave his abbey. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all As the team gradually unpick the money which is coming their way? Whilst hemonk's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone past it becomes clear that he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friend. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and sheHe'd like Brunetti's advicealso been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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