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|isbn=00084049761035021803|title=The Close Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (DS Maeve Kerriganon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered)and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was because of expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closeher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. If you're a regular reader Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of the [[Jane CaseyGreg's Maeve Kerrigan series father, Duncan Ackerley, in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sentence twice Duncan had murdered Charlie and wondered if itthen committed suicide when he couldn's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between t stand the two which seems very, very realguilt. But (The Salter children are not convinced but there's always a 'little else they can do but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes get on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertaintheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529900360|title=Promise BoysThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When It hadn't 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 his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the principal (headmaster) help of Urban Promise Prep school is murdereda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, three boys find themselves called who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the police station as suspectsinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. EachThe next case did look simple, seemingly, has though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and each could have been there at it's not the time of his murderItalian. But who killed him, and why, and if any which of them was the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their namesprimary target?|isbn=1035003155
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|isbn=1529125960178763681X|title=Unnatural HistoryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jonathan KellermanOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a photographerresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Well, it was Adonis, actually, He didn't really want to but Donny celebrity chef Christian Wagner had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught a way of getting both men and it falls women to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as do what he tries to establish what's happenedwanted. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called Paul ''The Wisherssomehow''. Hegot the impression that he'd taken eight homeless people off be at the streets school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and asked them what theythe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'd really like t expected was for someone to beturn up dead. They were then dressed up as their fantasyUnfortunately, photographed he was the person who discovered the body and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarseveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529421284|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It was one of those flash downpours that the start of her maternity leave when there is British weather often delivers in a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinheatwave. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for In a killer targeting pregnant womengully, with all a human skeleton came to the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Finding herself put on desk dutiesHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, which she rails against, she just canso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't let convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the case go suicide of Holly Gilbert and she starts to follow every thread to uncover whattwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's actually happening, cold cases to you and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextme) investigate.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931529425867|title=All the Dangerous ThingsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stacy WillinghamSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track s not any of time or drifted off for a momentthose things. ItHe's now white, originated from a year since her sontrailer park, Mason, was stolen from barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his bed in the middle wardrobe consists mainly of the night shell suits and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping trackies. They're usually inlime green or acid yellow. In that year sheYou might wonder if you's done everything she could re being introduced to raise awareness about the casea police procedural written for laughs. She does interviews and when we meet herWell, sheyou's re not. The two men are just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote different sides of the same policing coin. presentationSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. On the plane back, sheSometimes 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 conferencesproblematic.
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|isbn=057137493X1529431735|title=The Other HalfWinter Visitor|author=Charlotte VassellJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''The room was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' s February 1991 and Essex is the story of two menbitingly cold, both with what looks like which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the same surnamemore surprising. Rupert Beauchamp is He'd been exiled on the heir to Costa del Sol as a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is wanted drug smuggler for a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Towndecade. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced The return has come about because he'Beechams had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police s ill and is bi-racialhasn't long to live. His surname It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caiusabducted, out for stripped to his underwear and sent to a run, stumbles across watery grave in the body boot of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfrienda stolen Ford Sierra. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a bush.problem closer to home?
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|isbn=08570517410861541774|title=The Sins A Nye of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationPheasants|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has only taken a few weeks short holiday in Singapore to live but meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he's determined would later maintain that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of he was facing a body found in man armed with a freezer at the home of knife - and he killed a deceased alcoholicGhurka. The problem is Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the case has long passed the statute of limitationsman. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was Now he could be facing the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromdeath penalty. Rebecka wants Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is help as any interference from another police force could provoke a dying mandiplomatic incident and wouldn's wisht help Danny at all. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212411521129886|title=Stay BuriedThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Kate WebbKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's actually a cold case unit good job too because Greg and there are just two of them doing Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the jobmorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. LockyerStuart's not unduly worriedconcerned about his sister, Lucy, though although hewho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterthriving. It was a bit of a shock when Lucy, he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: shesays, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's t in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - his nature. The police and it the coroner have accepted that the death was Lockyer who put her theresuicide, fourteen years ago. Shebut Stuart's keen prepared to see him and pay Greg to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but find out what happened on the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesnight Gil died.
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|isbn=1399702289B0CK3MYJ56|title=A World of Curiosities Responsibilities (Chief Inspector GamacheGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Louise PennyAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, It's the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache 1990s and Inspector JeanGreg Mason's twenty-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québeceight years old. Gamache had offered help He used to have a young woman after high-flying job in the murder city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of her mother: heCameron Strike'd been less certain about her charismatic brother, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? For Jean-GuyOn the other hand, it had always he has been the other way aroundasked to look into something. Now Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they're both were until Helen was killed in the village and neither can fathom what's happeningbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Armand will soon find that theyJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can're not just t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifefront of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1838954481|title=White RiotThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's always no doubt about that. He was the danger of making fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it too reactionary; too rawat DI Kieran Shaw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture He pulled the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer trigger but due to be able to capture the zeitgeist vagaries of a particular event or era the jury system he was found not guilty of political history. Austerity Britain, both the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, murder and has been, written in the immediate aftermath manslaughter of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivethe officer. And so lives must go on. Inevitably ( For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and perhaps disappointingly hoping for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), a quieter life in the best writing about current political events countryside but when a missing teenager is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and when time and experience has afforded back into the writer the benefit orbit of a more objective viewRyan Kennedy.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbn=18387761841448309743|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=S J BennettCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like In the sunrise and village of Cronchie on the tidesWest coast of Scotland, was generally a reliable way five members of marking time.'' It seemed to begin as a coldwealthy family are found murdered. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefully, The only item missing from the home is the Queen thought, her cold would go Devil Stone: myth says that if the same way. She'd probably caught it stone is removed from one of the great-grandchildrenOtterburn House, death will follow. UnfortunatelyThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot down. He'd have preferred s an easy conclusion given that the queen have a few daystwo of them ' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with the thought that theydiscovered'd go by helicopter the following daybody. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to disappoint'shadow' him.
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|isbn=08615419951529077699|title=Wolf PackThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Will DeanAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north of Visberg''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. She sees blood on Jem Rosco blew into the road and a creature on its side near local pub one evening in the pine trees. It will turn out to be Broncomiddle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a Swedish Elkhoundmonth and then turned up, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco naked and his ownerdead, Bengt Nybergin a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the vetvillage of Greystone, in Devon. Bronco didn't make it but on Rosco had the waystatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missinground the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. SheI 'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalistnearly'' said 'all-round good egg's instincts are soon brought to the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wifeas we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his two eldest children and then killed himselfbackground isn't exactly an open book. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Where did he get the money for his first boat? Does this have any connection to How did he finance the disappearance of Elsa Nybergtrip?
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|isbn=14059511841529427045|title=The Girls Who DisappearedGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Claire DouglasKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. As she passed through Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridorsmall town of Gasskas, a figure appeared in where the road. Olivia swerved to avoid him and so-far-untapped natural resources of the car smashed into area have sparked a tree, leaving her trappedgold rush. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Ralph Middleton, who lived in the woods helped her before Salander's niece's mother is the police and ambulance arrived. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening latest woman in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshireto have vanished without trace. It was thought only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of as Aveburythe part Salander played in her father's poor relationdeath.
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|isbn=15420372391787636607|title=Death in HeelsThe Trap|author=Kitty MurphyCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag a scene, ''Death replicated all too often in Heels'' tells the story early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Fi McKinnery clubs and her best friend, Robyn, who is about looking for a way to debut as drag queen Mae Bget home. What is meant Some are lucky and manage to be a get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae Boutlying villages. As if The woman all regret the night could not get any worse'taxi problem', when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead particularly in a gutterthe light of 'the missing women'. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered For one young woman, yet the drag community, 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 dead. The bus had driven off before she had the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself chance to solve beg the mystery as she fears for bus driver to let her friends, use his. There's no option but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1405957174|title=The Dark RoomA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadFrom the first page, because youwe know that Nadine Walsh'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storys party will not end well. He is an exThe victim -crime reporter for a newspaper, man - is dying when we first meet him and since leaving journalism Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homeso desperately needs. One of these photographs turns out What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years ago, and who he ''thought'' he had watched have him die in front of him one night in a hotel. HeI'd felt guilty ever since better give you a little more background so that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadnyou can understand what't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xs happening.
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ80008530025|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Murder in the Family|author=Neil LancasterCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a runIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. The lawyer was He had an injury on the back of his honeymoon head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his body face had taken was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Headobviously deliberate. Was Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it suicide's now the subject of ''Infamous'', or did he a true- for some reason - climb over crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the stone wall evidence and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balancetake the investigation further. More to the point, it looked like an accident but then his 'accidentthey' was linked re going to the deaths of others associated with himdo this live on camera, episode by episode. Scott Paterson was released after a There'nots no dump of the whole box set -proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmentand no shortage of cliffhangers. Paterson was Grigor It's last clientcompelling viewing.
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|isbn=000837936X0241996104|title=The Last Girl Coming to DieFind You|author=Helen FieldsJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=SeventeenNancy's mother and step-yearfather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermorybrother, Martin, on has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the Isle of Mullcourt, in search of after Martin receives a new lifesentence. It was The barrister tells her that she's received a bit 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of a change from Las Vegas, anything but will have to live with what happened for the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs rest of developing a social her life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could Of course, it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandon, Adrianamade worse because Nancy's twin, was upset and surly. Fourrich -year-old Luna just knew that she missed inherited five million pounds from her big sistermother - and the papers are making the most of it. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and it looked like a ritual killing''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15098896121529413680|title=The Rising Tide A Chateau Under Siege (D I Vera StanhopeA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ann CleevesMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat there to Holy Islandsee the show with some friends. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyIt've s all been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the first reunion very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sisterKerquelin, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was man playing one of the original teenagersmain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. Ken now has Alzheimer's A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a shadow of senior government employee, the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in the chapel. Annie Laidler One daughter lives locally nearby and she provides much another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of the food: her deli is famous in the areafather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=02419901651529196388|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from the householder. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was 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 that he'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defence.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763566X|title=Listen to MeTrial|author=Tess GerritsenRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for university this morning it all that was a spring day good and honest and she wore her newlooked up to by just about everyone, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the library she knows that theyOld Bailey. There're going to be ruined s just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and unsafe - it's not too long before Knight appears in the snow thatcourt, charged with Cliveden's now fallingmurder. As she crosses Knight was told that the road, a car comes out best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of nowhere Stag Court Chambers and hits her. It doesnit't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, s Taylor-Cameron and a keen defender of the suburb of Reverehis pupil, north of BostonAdam Green, where she liveswho eventually represent him. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend Knight's determined to plead not guilty, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch whatdespite all Taylor-Cameron's happening in recommendations to the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionscontrary.
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|isbnauthor=1801109265Andrew Cartmel|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonDeath in Fine Condition|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a punctual man who was inexplicably never series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on timefor profit, sometimes 'tweaking' and he was - as usual - late them, to pick up his sonadd value, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'in somewhat fraudulent ways. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the boybackground of a photograph on her drug dealer's attentionliving room wall, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be servedand so she sets about discovering where this collection is, as James and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. how she can steal it! The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. SheIt's feeling the pressure. You can always tell a next- level step in her petty crime career, but has she shoplifts Snickers Bars reached too far, and what will happen when the going gets tough.owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1448309379|title=Dark MusicFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart It's something of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot surprise to find that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For oneyou're dead, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. Sheparticularly when you're thinking that you's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put re actually on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of oldbreak with your wife and children, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned but that's what happened to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumDS Aector McAvoy. Beppe, the suspect, Whilst he was drunkenly antagonistic relieved to the ref during the closing minutesfind that he was still, officially, but refuses to admit anythingalive, through days and weeks of interrogationit was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. When some disreputable coppers (Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the kind partially clad man who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela 'd dashed from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks flat in the early hours of the morning when it allwas obvious that someone was tampering with her car, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shambleswas not. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict not everyone who commented on it allthis was doing so kindly. Until, It had always been suspected that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..Pharoah was sweet on Aector.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X1529135389|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Fall|author=Martin WalkerGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Nobody knows what Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the truth is any morecounty fair before she returned home.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jeanstate-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), the head of detectives for -the départment of the Dordogne-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They're d not just policemen been in the architect- they're both deeply committed designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the wellhigh-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francetech systems Tom had insisted upon. The discovery Some of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, fought with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the car. Oh, each other and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of the carwork as reliably as they should. A golf bag would be It had all come about through a good place ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to hide a sniper's weaponhaving that sort of money, too. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someoneEventually, or were Nicole found Tom dead in the detectives being pushed in swimming pool with a certain direction?wound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=0727850547Alan Parks|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)|author=David MarkTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when What first seems like the call came through. A body had been found in the roots unfortunate, accidental death of a fallen tree at Brantinghamhomeless man on the streets, near Hull. When he gets suddenly starts to the scenefeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedand then another. A young man's corpse This is entangled with worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the roots of more so because his own father is a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and two silver Roman coins have he has been nailed through his eyesfor years. It would seem that this was done whilst At the man was still alive. McAvoy makes same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a promise move to a different police station, and the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at arrival there of a cost and this time woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the cost might boy having existed can be to McAvoy's own familyfound. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1804545600|title=Little DrummerThe Monk|author=Tim Sullivan|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of The body in the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a mixture of police procedural chair and thriller. Beginning with the death of a young woman dumped in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a far-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, while before D S George Cross and international pharmaceutical dealingsthe Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda He'd been missing for a few days and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led certainly hadn't asked permission to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of the investigationleave his abbey. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down As the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover team gradually unpick the truth monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as they are sure that something much biggeran investment banker, brother, neighbour and much more dangerous, is going onfriend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith.|isbn=1914585127 Why would someone savagely murder him?
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