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|isbn=15291259601035021803|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jonathan KellermanC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. Well, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itIt's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. The PAFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Mel GornickArthur Crockleford, is distraught dead and it falls the circumstances seem suspicious, to psychologist Alex Delaware say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to calm the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''badly. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what Even though they'd really like were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to benear the man or pursue the profession she loved. They were then dressed up as their fantasyAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, photographed met and sent married James (on their way with a generous gift in dollarsthe rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1398524085|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is approaching not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the start body of her maternity leave when there is a brutalGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinthe river. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt It was an easy assumption for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure police to make that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just canDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't let stand the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover whatguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's actually happening, little else they can do but get on with their lives and the increasingly disturbing worry of just wonder about what might happen nextreally happened.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931529900360|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Stacy WillinghamJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt hadn't really slept been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for a year his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and- well, apart from shut cases which didn't need the odd occasion when she lost track help of time or drifted off a psychologist only worked for a momentwhile. ItFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's now a year since her son, Masonpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt something that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when man she thought he was sleeping inloved needed. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the The next casedid look simple, though. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a keynote presentationremote property in Bel Air. On He was the plane back, heir to an Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=057137493X178763681X|title=The Other HalfKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Charlotte VassellOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn''The room was full t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul '' somehow''The Other Halfgot the impression that he'' is d be at the story of two menschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, both with what looks like the same surnamebut it didn't turn out that way. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredThe teaching -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 biproblems -racial. His surname is pronounced as you see itare all his own. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupertone thing he hadn's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she t expected was being deliberately late for his partysomeone to turn up dead. She Unfortunately, he was dead under a bushthe person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=08570517411529421284|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationLaying Out the Bones|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined It was one of those flash downpours that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found British weather often delivers in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicheatwave. The problem is that In a gully, a human skeleton came to the case has long passed surface and forensic testing proved the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared without a trace in 1962nine years earlier. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with 'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a fifty-year-old simple case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying manof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's wisht convinced. The situation changes when Geary was a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholictownie, so what was also murdered. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Is there a connection between There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths?which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=15294212411529425867|title=Stay BuriedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Kate WebbSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually a cold case unit and In Oxford, there are just 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 them doing the jobRyan, is not. LockyerHe's not unduly worriedany of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, though although hebarely educated (reading's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable 'really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of something bettershell suits and trackies. It was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheThey's re usually in H M Prison Eastwood Park lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her therelaughs. Well, fourteen years agoyou're not. SheThe two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's keen to see him and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesproblematic.
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|isbn=13997022891529431735|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)The Winter Visitor|author=Louise PennyJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winterIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springmore surprising. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of He'd been exiled on the Sûreté du QuébecCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Gamache The return has come about because he's had offered help to a young woman after the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jeanletter from his ex-Guywife, it had always been the other way around. Now theysaying that she're both in the village s ill and neither can fathom whathasn's happeningt long to live. Armand will soon find that theyIt're not just in Three Pines but in s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his home underwear and sent to a watery grave in his lifethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas0861541774|title=White Riot|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger A Nye of making it too reactionary; too raw. 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 of what is, and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), 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 of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1838776184|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalPheasants|author=S J BennettSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The Queens close friend and former colleague, like the sunrise and the tidesDanny Maik, was generally has taken a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed short holiday in Singapore to begin as a coldmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for Maik was involved in a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold street brawl - he would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one of the greatlater maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -grandchildrenand he killed a Ghurka. UnfortunatelyInitially, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go light that suggested that he might have planned to Sandringham by train that day but murder the doctor put his foot downman. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to Now he could be satisfied with facing the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following daydeath penalty. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Her Majesty did not like to disappointwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=08615419951521129886|title=Wolf PackThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Will DeanKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the road north of Visbergpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She sees blood on the road It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a creature on its side near the pine treesbaby and they're both delighted. It Joyce will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who has been attacked by a wolfmore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to the vethave killed himself. Bronco didnStuart't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for s concerned about his niecesister, twenty-year-old Elsa NybergLucy, who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought struggling to the foremake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then ownerLucy, Johan Svenson murdered his wifehe says, and his two eldest children and then is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself- it simply wasn't in his nature. His newborn childThe police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?night Gil died.
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|isbn=1405951184B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Girls Who DisappearedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Claire DouglasAnn Macarthur
|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 It's the darkly-wooded Devil1990s and Greg Mason's Corridor, a figure appeared in the roadtwenty-eight years old. Olivia swerved He used to avoid him and have a high-flying job in the car smashed into city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a treeprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', leaving her trappedyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedOn the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Ralph MiddletonJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, who lived or rather, they were until Helen was killed in the woods helped what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her before the police parents, Oliver and ambulance arrived. But Pam Hetherington - can't understand what had happened she was doing there - or how she could come to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening fall in the Stafferbury area front of Wiltshirea train. It was thought of as AveburyGreg's poor relationbeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=15420372391838954481|title=Death in HeelsThe Misper|author=Kitty MurphyKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the story of Fi McKinnery gun and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. What is meant He pulled the trigger but due to be a night the vagaries of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. As if the night could jury system he was found not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet guilty of both the drag community, murder and the Guards, accept it as an accidentmanslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Fi takes it upon herself to solve For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the mystery as she fears capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her friends, but instead ruins relationships as territory she delves deeper's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1448309743|title=The Dark RoomDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across five members of a photograph wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This if the stone is what happens to Leonard in this storyremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and since leaving journalism hethat's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls easy conclusion given that two of film and develops them in his own dark room at home'discovered' the body. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he met some years agodisappears, and who he DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'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=154203535X
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529077699|title=The Night Watch Raging Storm (D S Max CraigieTwo Rivers)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it suicide, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his deathSir? Or was he pushed? On balance'' Well yes, it looked like is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an accident but autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then his 'accident' was linked turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the deaths village of others associated with himGreystone, in Devon. Scott Paterson was released after Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I 'not'nearly'' said 'all-provenround good egg' verdict meant that Scotlandbut as we's most notorious criminal wasnll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientexactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=000837936X1529427045|title=The Last Girl to Diein the Eagle's Talons|author=Helen FieldsKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen''Life has more to offer than people -year-old Adriana Clarkeprime numbers for example''s family moved . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Tobermory, on the Isle small town of MullGasskas, in search of a new life. It was a bit where the so-far-untapped natural resources of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing area have sparked a social life - until she disappearedgold rush. The local police demonstrated little interest criminal underworld has not been slow in the case (could it have been because Adrianacoming forward. Salander's niece's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called the latest woman in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersthe area to have vanished without trace. Brandon, Adriana's twin, It was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew only with reluctance that she missed Salander became her big sister. It took four days, niece's guardian but Sadie found Adriana it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in Mackinnonher father's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingdeath.
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|isbn=15098896121787636607|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Trap|author=Ann CleevesCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since a group scene replicated all too often in the early hours of teenagers went on the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a weekend retreat way to Holy Islandget home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenfew taxis available. There was a tragedy at Others squash onto the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year night bus that will only go as far as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagersoutlying villages. Ken now has AlzheimerThe woman all regret the 's and hetaxi problem's a shadow , particularly in the light of 'the man he used to bemissing women'. Philip Robson now a priest For one young woman, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelfinal stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Annie Laidler lives locally She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she provides much of had the chance to beg the food: bus driver to let her deli is famous use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the areahigh-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=02419901651405957174|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)A Death at the Party|author=Cara HunterAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddlyFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. There was The victim - a 999 man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadnambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't come from know is who the householderman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. A couple 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 theyI'd better come in. In the kitchen there was give you a body on the floor: the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right hand. Richard Swann told the police little more background so that he'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'you can understand what' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defences happening.
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|isbn=178763566X0008530025|title=Listen to MeMurder in the Family|author=Tess GerritsenCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Boston with Amythe garden of their West London home. When she set out for university this morning it He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was a spring day obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and she wore her newit's now the subject of ''Infamous'', butterya true-leather pumps but as she comes out crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the library she knows that investigation further. More to the point, they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow thatdo this live on camera, episode by episode. There's now falling. As she crosses no dump of the road, a car comes out whole box set - and no shortage of nowhere and hits hercliffhangers. It doesn't stops compelling viewing.}}
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|isbn=18011092651529413680|title=The CompanionA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Lesley ThomsonMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought One of himself as 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''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was - as usual - late s there to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'see the show with some friends. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyIt's attentionall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, his motherKerquelin, Anna, promised him a roast dinner the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he returneddeparts from the script. The dinner would never be servedLuckily, as James his doctor is there and Wilbur are the victims of man is whisked away in a double stabbing on the beachhelicopter. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of Sussex police. Shesurvival but - as he's feeling a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the pressuremilitary has stepped in. You can always tell One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre- she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tougharranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529196388|title=Dark MusicThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can Grant Cliveden was a hero: a book allegedly inspired policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onjust about everyone, but so there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus of was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDOld Bailey. SheThere's a Chilean just one man in the Stockholm police, put on a frame for his murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchcourt, and just outside the stadiumcharged with Cliveden's murder. Beppe, Knight was told that the suspect, best barrister for him was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks Jonathan Taylor-Cameron 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 Stag Court Chambers and how she might dress – 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 's Taylor-Cameron and the investigation is a shambles. But taken off the casehis pupil, she can no longer help solve the crimeAdam Green, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allwho eventually represent him. UntilKnight's determined to plead not guilty, that may be, she manages despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..contrary.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbnauthor=152941363XAndrew Cartmel|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerDeath in Fine Condition|rating=4.53
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth is any moreCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as profit, sometimes 'JJtweaking')them, to add value, the head in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of detectives for these books after seeing them in the départment background of the Dordogne. Theya photograph on her drug dealer're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being s living room wall, and prosperity of so she sets about discovering where this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeotcollection is, crashed and abandoned in how she can steal it! It's a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found next-level step in the car. Ohher petty crime career, and there was a golf ball but has she reached toofar, which didn't belong to and what will happen when the owner of the car. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain directioncollection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=07278505471448309379|title=Blind Justice Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 1011)
|author=David Mark
|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt's something of a surprise to find that you't even had time for breakfast re dead, particularly when the call came through. A body had been found in the roots of you're thinking that you're actually on a fallen tree at Brantinghambreak with your wife and children, near Hullbut that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. When Whilst he gets was relieved to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than that he could have imaginedwas still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. A young Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad manwho's corpse is entangled with d dashed from her flat in the roots early hours 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 morning when it was obvious that this someone was done whilst the man tampering with her car, was still alivenot. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy makes a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. But justice It had always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familybeen suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1529135389|title=Little DrummerThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part 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 Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture state-of police procedural and thriller-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Beginning with They'd not been in the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a fararchitect-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and international pharmaceutical dealingswere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda Some of them fought with each other and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case didn't work as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa reliably as they follow the twists should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and turns they were still getting used to having that sort of the investigationmoney, too. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious Eventually, chasing down Nicole found Tom dead in the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard swimming pool with a wound to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going onhis head.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbnauthor=1398507504Alan Parks|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasTo Die in June|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father committed suicide is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and for the last sixteen years he's has been searching for evidence to prove that he's rightyears. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir At the same time as facing these possible murders, there was Harry is also dealing with a link back move to a cold case from 2002. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to different police station, and the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all arrival there's of a growing sense that woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to boy having existed can be brought out into found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the open. Perhaps Tyler other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going to get the answers he needson?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=17876349061804545600|title=No Less the DevilThe Monk|author=Stuart MacBrideTim Sullivan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're The body in Oldcastle the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and Malcolm is dumped in troublea ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's in an abandoned house a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. He'd been missing for a few days and hecertainly hadn's being threatened by two young peoplet asked permission to leave his abbey. One is Allegra (weAs the team gradually unpick the monk'll soon learn s past it becomes clear that shehe's Allegra Deand been well-Edwards) loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and Hugofriend. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but sheHe'd put a tracking device in also been very wealthy but had given it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingall up for his faith. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.Why would someone savagely murder him?
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