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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1035021803|title=Promise Boys|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able The Antique Hunter's Guide to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529125960|title=Unnatural HistoryMurder|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 RiotA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations close friend 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 Britainformer colleague, the student riotsDanny Maik, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, and has been, written taken a short holiday in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time Singapore to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. 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 Maik was involved 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 Royal|author=S J Bennett|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, street brawl - he would later maintain that he was generally facing a man armed with a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed to begin as knife - and he killed a coldGhurka. Hardly surprisingInitially, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for he faced a couple charge of days manslaughter but seemed evidence came to be getting better. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildren. Unfortunately, it didn't get better and when the doctor called light that suggested that he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due to go 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 where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a new lifegold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a bit remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a change from Las Vegas, but scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the family seemed determined morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and Adriana had shown signs manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of developing a social life - until she disappearedthe outlying villages. The local police demonstrated little interest woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the case (could it have been because Adrianalight of 's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down the missing teenagerswomen'. BrandonFor one young woman, Adrianathe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's twin, was upset and surlydead. Four-year-old Luna just knew that The bus had driven off before she missed had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her big sisteruse his. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonThere's Cave. She'd been murdered no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and it looked like a ritual killingin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15098896121405957174|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)A Death at the Party|author=Ann CleevesAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandparty will not end well. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for The victim - a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the man - is dying when we first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with call the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagersambulance he so desperately needs. Ken now has AlzheimerWhat we don's and he's a shadow of t know is who the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes is or why Nadine prefers to have some quiet time alone in the chapelhim die. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areaI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=02419901650008530025|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)Murder in the Family
|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|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 to make certain December 2003 that everything was alright fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and it took quite a while for found the elderly householder to answer body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the doorgarden of their West London home. He somewhat reluctantly told them that theyhad an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd better come in. In slipped down the kitchen there was a body on steps but the floor: the head vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been blown off charged with a shotgun his murder and it's now the corpse was holding subject of ''Infamous'', a knife in its right handtrue-crime show. Richard Swann told A group of experts has been brought together to review the police that he'd heard sounds of an intruder evidence and had come downstairs to investigatetake the investigation further. The ignorant young lout had called him ''GrandadMore to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There' s no dump of the whole box set - and come at him with a knifeno shortage of cliffhangers. Swann had shot him in self-defenceIt's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=178763566X0241996104|title=Listen Coming to MeFind You|author=Tess GerritsenJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We'One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out enactment of the liberation of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - town from the English in 1370 and unsafe - in the snow thatBruno's now falling. As she crosses there to see the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits hershow with some friends. It doesn't stop. Two months laters all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, we're with Angela RizzoliKerquelin, mother the man playing one of Detective Jane Rizzolithe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a keen defender helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of the suburb Bruno) wonders about his chances of Reveresurvival but - as he's a senior government employee, north of Boston, where she the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives. Nothing gets past her nearby and whilst her boyfriendanother, Vince Korsakwho lives in California, is flying in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch whatwith some of her father's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=18011092651529196388|title=The CompanionTrial|author=Lesley ThomsonRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Grant Cliveden was a hero: a punctual man policeman who stood for all that was inexplicably never on time'' 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 Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - as usual Jimmy Knight - late to pick up his sonand it's not too long before Knight appears in court, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day outcharged with Cliveden's murder. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and, competing for the boyit's attention, Taylor-Cameron and his motherpupil, AnnaAdam Green, promised who eventually represent him a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be servedKnight's determined to plead not guilty, as James and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. Shedespite all Taylor-Cameron's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when recommendations to the going gets toughcontrary.
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|author=David LagercrantzAndrew Cartmel|title=Dark MusicDeath in Fine Condition
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? series called Sleuth Hound. This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot She spends her time hunting out copies that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as she can sell on their exact wavelength. For onefor profit, the main focus of the narrativesometimes 'tweaking' them, Micaelato add value, is no John Watson MDin somewhat fraudulent ways. She's One day she discovers a Chilean near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect background of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchphotograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and just outside the stadium. Beppe, the suspectso she sets about discovering where this collection is, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of can steal it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is ! It's a shambles. But taken off the casenext-level step in her petty crime career, but has she can no longer help solve the crimereached too far, and with Rekke what will happen when the most erratic, irregular kind owner of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=15294131921789098947
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|isbn=152941363X1448309379|title=To Kill a Troubadour Flesh and Blood (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelDS McAvoy 11)|author=Martin WalkerDavid Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much s something of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as a surprise to find that you'JJ')re dead, the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordogne. Theyparticularly when you're not just policemen - theythinking that you're both deeply committed actually on a break with your wife and children, but that's what happened to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of FranceDS Aector McAvoy. The discovery of an oldWhilst he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, stolen Peugeotalive, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been was difficult for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carDetective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Oh, and there Her protegee - McAvoy - was a golf ball too, which didnstill alive but the partially clad man who't belong to d dashed from her flat in the owner early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperThor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's weapondoppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|isbn=07278505471529135389|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Fall|author=David MarkGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even Nicole Booth had time for breakfast when spent the morning at the call came throughcounty fair before she returned home. A body had been found in There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the roots state-of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hull-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. When he gets They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. A young man's corpse is entangled Some of them fought with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – each other and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesdidn't work as reliably as they should. It would seem had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that this was done whilst the man was still alivesort of money, too. McAvoy makes a promise to Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at swimming pool with a cost and this time the cost might be wound to McAvoy's own familyhis head.
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|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Alan Parks|title=Little DrummerTo Die in June|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of What first seems like the Oslo Detectives seriesunfortunate, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with the accidental death of a young woman in a carparkhomeless man on the streets, that looks very much suddenly starts to feel like an overdosesomething more sinister as another body is discovered, it unravels into and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a far-reaching investigation of murderdown and out alcoholic, fraudwith no fixed abode, and international pharmaceutical dealingshe has been for years. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on At the case same time as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich facing these possible murders, Harry is led also dealing with a move to Africa as they follow a different police station, and the twists and turns arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the investigationboy having existed can be found. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstancesother officers where he has been stationed, trying hard to but can Harry uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, just what is going on.?|isbn=19145851271805300784
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|isbn=13985075041804545600|title=Cold ReckoningThe Monk|author=Russ ThomasTim Sullivan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that he's right. When a frozen The body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there the woods near Bristol was a link back nasty shock - a monk strapped to a cold case from 2002chair and dumped in a ditch. There didn He't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerd been savagely beaten. It's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to while before D S George Cross and the case his father was investigating before he diedMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Above all there He's d been missing for a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to be brought out into leave his abbey. As the open. Perhaps Tyler is going to get team gradually unpick the answers monk's past it becomes clear that he needs'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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