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|isbn=00084544931035021803|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Stacy WillinghamC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - well, apart from s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the odd occasion when English country village where she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentgrew up. ItShe's back now because of a year since request for help from her sonbeloved aunt, MasonCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing dead and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping incircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. In that year she's done everything she could Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to raise awareness about the casevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She does interviews and when we meet herEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she's just been has not felt able to TrueCrimeCon where be near the man or pursue the profession she gave a keynote presentationloved. On After the plane backsplit, she's approached by worked in a podcastercafe, Waylon Spencermet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who points out that she could do a podcast was murdered) and Freya and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesJames have now divorced.

|isbn=057137493X1398524085|title=The Other HalfHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Charlotte VassellNicci French

|summary=''The room Charlotte Salter was full of the sort of people expected at her husband''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth s fiftieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townbut never turned up. Think Bollinger Her children, sons Niall, Paul and cocaineOllie and her daughter, Etty. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is biare all worried but - strangely -racial. His surname her husband, Alec, is pronounced as you see itnot. The two encounter each other when CaiusShortly afterwards, out for a runEtty and Greg, stumbles across find the body of Clemmie OGreg'Haras father, Duncan Ackerley, Rupert's girlfriendin the river. Rupert thought that she It was being deliberately late an easy assumption for his partythe police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. She was dead under a bushThe 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.

|isbn=08570517411529900360|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationGhost Orchid|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54

|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's determined fault that Rebecka Martinsson is going Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to investigate ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the case help of a body found in psychologist only worked for a freezer at while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the home of a deceased alcoholicman she loved needed. The problem is that the next case has long passed did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the statute swimming pool of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace remote property in 1962Bel Air. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing heir to do with a fifty-year-old case on which an Italian shoe empire and she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying married to an extremely rich manand it's wishnot the Italian. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, But which of them was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deathsprimary target?

|isbn=1529421241178763681X|title=Stay BuriedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Kate WebbOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's actually t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a cold case unit way of getting both men and there are just two of them doing the jobwomen to do what he wanted. LockyerPaul 's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: shesomehow''s probably capable of something better. It was a bit of a shock when got the impression that he got 'd be at the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder t turn out that way. The teaching - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agothe problems - are all his own. SheThe one thing he hadn's keen t expected was for someone to see him turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and to tell him everyone knows that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out police consider that person to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesthe prime suspect.

|isbn=13997022891529421284|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Laying Out the Bones|author=Louise PennyKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village It was one of Three Pines is enjoying those flash downpours that the arrival of springBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of forensic testing proved the Sûreté du Québecbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Gamache He'd been a known drug user and had offered help to learning disabilities, so it could have been a young woman after the murder simple case of her mother: hemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'd been less certain about her charismatic brothert convinced. For Jean-GuyGeary was a townie, it had always been so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other way arounddeaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Now they're both in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the village and neither can fathom whatMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's happening. Armand will soon find that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home cold cases to you and in his lifeme) investigate.

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529425867|title=White RiotLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics In Oxford, there's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raware two D I Wilkins. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much Raymond Wilkins is of what isNigerian descent, Balliol educated and has beenalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, written in the immediate aftermath son of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (Ryan and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction father of this nature)Ryan, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit not. He's not any of a more objective viewthose things.|isbn= 1529423376}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1838776184|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal|author=S J Bennett|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= He''The Queens white, like the sunrise and the tidesoriginated from a trailer park, was generally a reliable way of marking time.barely educated (reading's not '' It seemed to begin as a cold. Hardly surprising, 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 Sometimes the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with 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.

|isbn=08615419951529431735|title=Wolf PackThe Winter Visitor|author=Will DeanJames Henry|rating=4.5

|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?

|isbn=14059511840861541774|title=The Girls Who DisappearedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Claire DouglasSteve Burrows

|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.

|isbn=15420372391521129886|title=Death in HeelsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Kitty MurphyKeith Redfern

|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.

|authorisbn=Lisa GrayB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Dark RoomResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|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.

|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81838954481|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Misper|author=Neil LancasterKate London|rating=4.5

|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.

|isbn=000837936X1448309743|title=The Last Girl to DieDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Helen FieldsCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|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.

|isbn=15098896121529077699|title=The Rising Tide Raging Storm (D I Vera StanhopeTwo Rivers)

|rating=4.5

|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?

|isbn=02419901651529427045|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Cara HunterKarin Smirnoff

|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.

|isbn=178763566X1787636607|title=Listen to MeThe Trap|author=Tess GerritsenCatherine Ryan Howard

|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.

|isbn=18011092651405957174|title=The CompanionA Death at the Party|author=Lesley ThomsonAmy Stuart|rating=54

|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.

|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz0008530025|title=Dark MusicMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|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 steps but the narrative, Micaelavicious 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 the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows now 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 they're going to admit anythingdo this live on camera, through days episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and weeks no shortage of interrogationcliffhangers. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their superior comes up withSussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the kind who think they can judge Micaela from court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her fringe and how that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she might dress – that kind) are told 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to go and see live with what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks happened for the rest of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblesher life. But taken off the caseOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she can no longer help solve inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the crime, and with Rekke papers are making the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|isbn=1529413192

|isbn=152941363X1529413680|title=To Kill a Troubadour A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)

|rating=4.5

|summary=''Nobody knows what One of the main events of the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges Sarlat tourist season is the police chief for St Denis and much re-enactment of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), the head liberation of detectives for the départment of town from the Dordogne. TheyEnglish in 1370 and Bruno're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed s there to see the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceshow with some friends. The discovery of an oldIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, stolen PeugeotKerquelin, 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 on man playing one of the base, which they found in main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the carscript. OhLuckily, his doctor is there and there was the man is whisked away in a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of the carhelicopter. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperlocal doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's weapona senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someoneOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, or were the detectives being pushed is flying in with some of her father's friends for a certain direction?pre-arranged holiday.

|isbn=07278505471529196388|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Trial|author=David MarkRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for breakfast all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the call came throughOld Bailey. A body had been found There's just one man in the roots of a fallen tree at Brantinghamframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, near Hullcharged with Cliveden's murder. When he gets to Knight was told that the scene, he will find what greets best barrister for him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manwas Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newlyTaylor-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – Cameron and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyespupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise Knight's determined to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoyplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's own familyrecommendations to the contrary.

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Andrew Cartmel|title=Little DrummerDeath in Fine Condition

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a seriescalled Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, this crime story is to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a mixture near perfect collection of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with these books after seeing them in the death background of a young woman in a carparkphotograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, that looks very much like an overdoseand so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it unravels into ! It's a farnext-reaching investigation of murderlevel step in her petty crime career, fraudbut has she reached too far, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on what will happen when the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns owner 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.collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=19145851271789098947

|isbn=13985075041448309379|title=Cold ReckoningFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Russ ThomasDavid Mark|rating=43.5

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed It's something of a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that his father committed suicide you're actually on a break with your wife and for the last sixteen years hechildren, but that's been searching for evidence what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. Whilst he was relieved to prove find that he's rightwas still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. When a frozen body Her protegee - McAvoy - was found still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in Damflask Reservoirthe early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002not. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was investigating before he dieddoing so kindly. Above all there's a growing sense It had always been suspected that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openPharoah was sweet on Aector. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|isbn=17876349061529135389|title=No Less the DevilThe Fall|author=Stuart MacBrideGilly Macmillan

|summary=We're 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 state-of-the-art music system installed in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubleThe Glass Barn. HeThey's d not been in an abandoned the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and he's being threatened by two young peoplewere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. One is Allegra (weSome of them fought with each other and didn'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugot work as reliably as they should. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm had all come about through a new coat ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplehaving that sort of money, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingtoo. It won't be long before Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going swimming pool with a wound to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backshis head.

|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXAlan Parks|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyTo Die in June

|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in What first seems like the finals unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the Moots streets, suddenly starts to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Innfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. For aspiring barristersThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, moots test but all the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's more so because his own father is a great way of getting invaluable practice down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and of getting yourself noticedhe has been for years. Tom At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and Nat are from 'the arrival there of a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of thisthe boy having existed can be found. The Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca officers where he has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|isbn=15291259441804545600|title=City of the DeadThe Monk|author=Jonathan KellermanTim Sullivan|rating=45

|summary=When you drive large vehicles for The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a living, you're careful chair and itdumped in a ditch. He's not just about the way that you drived been savagely beaten. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itIt's a trip while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepthis is Father Dominic. When youHe're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 d been missing for afew days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey.m. when As the team gradually unpick the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get to where youmonk're going. And s past it was going becomes clear that he'd been well until the men hit something in Westwood Village-loved as an investment banker, brother, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angelesneighbour and friend. The man was stark naked and couldnHe't be identifiedd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?