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|isbn=057137493X1035021803|title=The Other HalfAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Charlotte VassellC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'The room was full s back now because of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' ''The Other Half'' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the story of two mencircumstances seem suspicious, both with what looks like to say the same surnameleast. Rupert Beauchamp is Arthur was the heir reason why Freya had not been back to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. His surname is pronounced Even though they were in business together as you see itantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The two encounter each other when CaiusAfter the split, out for she worked in a runcafe, stumbles across met and married James (on the body rebound from the love of Clemmie O'Haraher life, Rupert's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she who was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=08570517411398524085|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's determined that Rebecka Martinsson 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 going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicnot. The problem is that Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the case has long passed the statute body of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in 1962the river. He It was an easy assumption for the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing police to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is make that this is a dying manDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's wisht stand the guilt. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedSalter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212411529900360|title=Stay BuriedThe Ghost Orchid|author=Kate WebbJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's actually a cold case unit fault 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. His assertions that there are just two were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of them doing the joba psychologist only worked for a while. LockyerFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's not unduly worriedpartner, who 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, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something better. It was a bit Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's remote property in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoBel Air. She's keen He was the heir to see him an Italian shoe empire and she is married to tell him that the an extremely rich man everyone thought sheand it'd murdered - but s not the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1399702289178763681X|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Louise PennyOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After Chef Paul Delamare took a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québecwomen to do what he wanted. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Paul ''somehow'' got the murder of her mother: impression that he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherbe at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. For JeanThe teaching -Guy, it had always been and the other way aroundproblems - are all his own. Now theyThe one thing he hadn're both in t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the village body and neither can fathom what's happening. Armand will soon find everyone knows that the police consider that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifeperson to be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529421284|title=White RiotLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger It was one of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes those flash downpours that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the momentBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. It takes In a gully, a truly talented writer human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be able to capture the zeitgeist of Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a particular event or era simple case of political historymisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Austerity Britain, the student riots Geary was a townie, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, and has been, written in was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the immediate aftermath suicide of these phenomena has been proven by time Holly Gilbert and to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately two other deaths which were not particularly powerful or incisiveconsidered suspicious at the time. Inevitably ( Lockyer and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction DC Gemma Broad of this nature), the best writing about current political events is Major Crimes Review Unit (that which is written when the events in question are no longer current 's cold cases to you and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewme) investigate.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbn=18387761841529425867|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=S J BennettSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The QueenIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, like the sunrise Balliol educated and the tidesalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, was generally a reliable way son of Ryan and father of marking timeRyan, is not. He's not any of those things. He' It seemed to begin as s white, originated from a cold. Hardly surprisingtrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for a couple '' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of days but seemed to be getting bettershell suits and trackies. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same wayThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. SheYou might wonder if you'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildrenre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. UnfortunatelyWell, it didnyou't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flure not. She and The two men are just different sides of the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downsame policing coin. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with Sometimes the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following daycombination works brilliantly well. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappointSometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=08615419951529431735|title=Wolf PackThe Winter Visitor|author=Will DeanJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the road north of Visbergmore surprising. She sees blood He'd been exiled on the road and Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a creature on its side near the pine treesdecade. It will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who The return has been attacked by come about because he's had a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco and letter from his ownerex-wife, Bengt Nyberg, to the vet. Bronco didnsaying that she's ill and hasn't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missinglong to live. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalistIt's instincts are soon brought hard to the fore. Rose Farm feel any sympathy when Hopkins is now home abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a group of survivalists but back watery grave in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himselfboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberghome?
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|isbn=14059511840861541774|title=The Girls Who DisappearedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Claire DouglasSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilDCI Domenic Jejeune's Corridorclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a figure appeared short holiday in the roadSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Olivia swerved to avoid him Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and the car smashed into he killed a tree, leaving her trappedGhurka. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph MiddletonInitially, who lived in he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedman. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would Now he could be yet another mysterious happening in facing the Stafferbury area of Wiltshiredeath penalty. It was thought of Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as Aveburyany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's poor relationt help Danny at all.
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|isbn=15420372391521129886|title=Death in HeelsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Kitty MurphyKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinGreg Mason's drag scene, ''Death in Heelsjust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is ll warn someone about to debut as drag queen Mae Bhow much he charges. What is meant to be It's a night of excitement good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon takes have a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae Bbaby and they're both delighted. As if Joyce will be more delighted about the night could not get any worse, baby when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in a gutter-law appears to have killed himself. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered Stuart's concerned about his sister, yet the drag communityLucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and the Guardsher son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, accept is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it as an accidentsimply wasn't in his nature. Fi takes it upon herself to solve The police and the coroner have accepted that the mystery as she fears for her friendsdeath was suicide, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperStuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Lisa GrayB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Dark RoomResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', because you'd watched them die several years agomight be thinking. Nice bloke, but then you come across a photograph where's the life experience that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and timebacks up this profession? This is what happens On the other hand, he has been asked to Leonard in this storylook into something. He is an exJoyce and Helen are half-crime reporter for a newspapersisters, or rather, and since leaving journalism hethey were until Helen was killed in what's found himself been written off as a tragic accident at an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homeunmanned level crossing. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agoJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and who he Pam Hetherington - can''thought'' he had watched die t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of him one night in a hoteltrain. HeGreg'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xs been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81838954481|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Misper|author=Neil LancasterKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Ryan Kennedy killed a runpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body He was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicide, or did he fifteen- for some reason year- climb over old holding the stone wall gun and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, pointing it looked like an accident at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but then his 'accident' was linked due to the deaths vagaries of others associated with him. Scott Paterson the jury system he was released after a 'found not-proven' verdict meant guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigorin the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's last clientdrawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=000837936X1448309743|title=The Last Girl to DieDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Helen FieldsCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, In the village of Cronchie on the Isle West coast of MullScotland, in search five members of a new lifewealthy family are found murdered. It was a bit of a change The only item missing from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother stone is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque removed from BanffOtterburn House, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersdeath will follow. BrandonThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Adrianathat's twin, was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew an easy conclusion given that she missed her big sistertwo of them 'discovered' the body. It took four days The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but Sadie found Adriana DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in Mackinnonto 's Cave. Sheshadow'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killinghim.
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|isbn=15098896121529077699|title=The Rising Tide Raging Storm (D I Vera StanhopeTwo Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Some Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back an autumn gale, stayed for about a reunion every five years since month and then. There was turned up, naked and dead, in a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to high tide and her car was swept awaythe village of Greystone, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with in Devon. Rosco had the group each year as her husbandstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, Ken, was one of round the original teenagersworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Ken now has AlzheimerI ''nearly'' said 's and heall-round good egg' but as we's a shadow of the man ll find out, he used to could bemore than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as Where did he likes to have some quiet time alone in get the chapel. money for his first boat? Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of How did he finance the food: her deli is famous in the area.trip?
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|isbn=02419901651529427045|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Cara HunterKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from the householder. A couple of PCs went 'Life has more to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while offer than people - prime numbers for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that theyexample''d better come in. In Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the kitchen there was a body on small town of Gasskas, where the floor: so-far-untapped natural resources of the head had area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife slow in its right handcoming forward. Richard Swann told Salander's niece's mother is the police that he'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs latest woman in the area to investigatehave vanished without trace. The ignorant young lout had called him It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'Grandad's unaware of the part Salander played in her father' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defences death.
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|isbn=178763566X1787636607|title=Listen to MeThe Trap|author=Tess GerritsenCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're s a scene replicated all too often in Boston with Amythe early hours of the morning. When she set Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for university this morning it was a spring day way to get home. Some are lucky and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as she comes out one of the library she knows that theyoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem're going to be ruined - and unsafe - , particularly in the snow thatlight of 'the missing women's now falling. As she crosses For one young woman, the final stop on the road, bus leaves her a car comes out long way short of nowhere and hits herhome. It doesn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, She had intended to ring someone to come and a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past collect her and whilst - but her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she has had the chance to beg the time bus driver to watch whatlet her use his. There's happening no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionshigh-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=18011092651405957174|title=The CompanionA Death at the Party|author=Lesley ThomsonAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as 'From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' - is dying when we first meet him and he was - as usual - late Nadine consciously makes no effort to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for call the boy's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when ambulance he returnedso desperately needs. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are What we don't know is who the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls man is or why Nadine prefers to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policehave him die. SheI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughhappening.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz0008530025|title=Dark MusicMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|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 wonderIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-mind at old Maura Howard came home and found the heart body of what little investigating is going onher stepfather, Luke Ryder, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on in the garden of their exact wavelengthWest London home. For one, He had an injury on the main focus back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the narrative, Micaelasteps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, is no John Watson MD. Sheone has been charged with his murder and it's a Chilean in now the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect subject of old''Infamous'', in a case where a referee true-crime show. A group of a junior football match was found stoned experts has been brought together to death shortly after review the match, evidence and just outside to take the stadiuminvestigation further. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic More to the ref during the closing minutespoint, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told 're going to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it alldo this live on camera, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblesepisode by episode. But taken off the case, she can There's no longer help solve dump of the crime, whole box set - and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind no shortage of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allcliffhangers. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..It's compelling viewing.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X0241996104|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Coming to Find You|author=Martin WalkerJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Nancy''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis s mother and much of the Vézère valley step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and works closely with Commissaire Jeanher step-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')brother, Martin, the head of detectives for the départment has been convicted of the Dordognetheir murder. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to We first meet Nancy outside the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francecourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in barrister tells her that she's received a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carrest of her life. OhOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner papers are making the most of the carit. A golf bag would ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be a good place to hide a sniper's weaponprinted but is undoubtedly spoken. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbn=07278505471529413680|title=Blind Justice A Chateau Under Siege (DS McAvoy 10A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=David MarkMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno't even had time for breakfast when s there to see the call came throughshow with some friends. A body had It's all been found in very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the roots man playing one of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. When he gets to Luckily, his doctor is there and the scene, he will find what greets him man is even worse than he could have imaginedwhisked away in a helicopter. A young manlocal doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem that this was done whilst senior government employee, the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to who runs Frenchelon - the victim: I will find answers. You will know justicemilitary has stepped in. But justice always comes at a cost One daughter lives nearby and this time the cost might be to McAvoyanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's own familyfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1529196388|title=Little DrummerThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is Grant Cliveden was a hero: a mixture of police procedural policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and thrillerlooked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. Beginning with There's just one man in the death of a young woman frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in a carparkcourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a farthe best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-reaching investigation Cameron of murder, fraud, Stag Court Chambers and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda it's Taylor-Cameron and Frolichhis pupil, Adam Green, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led eventually represent him. Knight's determined to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of the investigation. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenaciousplead not guilty, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going oncontrary.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbnauthor=1398507504Andrew Cartmel|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasDeath in Fine Condition|rating=4.53
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that his father committed suicide and she can sell on for the last sixteen years heprofit, sometimes 'tweaking's been searching for evidence them, to prove that he's rightadd value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. When One day she discovers a frozen body was found near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to the background of a cold case from 2002. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerphotograph on her drug dealer's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all thereliving room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! It's a growing sense that next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the criminality owner of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the open. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needscollection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=17876349061448309379|title=No Less the DevilFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Stuart MacBrideDavid Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt's something of a surprise to find that you're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in trouble. Hedead, particularly when you're thinking that you's in an abandoned house re actually on a break with your wife and hechildren, but that's being threatened by two young peoplewhat happened to DS Aector McAvoy. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn Whilst he was relieved to find that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugohe was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but shethe partially clad man who'd put a tracking device dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it so was obvious that she someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and Hugo could find out where he not everyone who commented on this was sleepingdoing so kindly. It won't be long before the police realise had always been suspected that Malcolm Pharoah was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed sweet on their backsAector.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1529135389|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Fall|author=Rob KeeleyGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in Nicole 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 finals state-of -the Moots to take place at -art music system installed in The Honourable Society of Friar's InnGlass Barn. For aspiring barristers, moots test They'd not been in the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and of were still getting yourself noticedused to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Tom Some of them fought with each other and Nat are from didn'a provincial university' and t work as reliably as they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thisshould. The other contestants It had all come about through a ten- Becca Deckermillion-Hamilton pound lottery win and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance they were still getting used to having that sort of confidencemoney, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterdead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Alan Parks|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a livinghomeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, you're careful and it's not just about the way that you drivethen another. You restrict your alcohol intake This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and if it's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepout alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. When you're taking At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a removals truck through move to a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 different police station, and the arrival there of a.m. when woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're goingboy having existed can be found. And it was going well until Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the men hit something in Westwood Villageother officers where he has been stationed, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identified.but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11804545600|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Monk
|author=Tim Sullivan
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's SyndromeThe body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. He can be rude, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentionald been savagely beaten. It's just a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that he thinks differently this is Father Dominic. He'd been missing for a few days and social niceties simply doncertainly hadn't occur asked permission to himleave his abbey. There's a reason why heAs the team gradually unpick the monk's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and past it's becomes clear that he has the best conviction rate with cases'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, everneighbour and friend. 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 CrossHe's behaviourd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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