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|isbn=13985095821035021803|title=The FavourAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Nicci FrenchC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the car crash happenedEnglish country village where she grew up. It would cause problems She's back now because of a request for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. She was utterly driven by her determination Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to go to medical schoolsay the least. Liam Arthur was the reversereason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He just acted ''Even though they were in business together as if life just rolled him over and carried him along''antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. A bit of weed hereAfter the split, she worked in a few drinks there: cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the legal effects love of the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or ratherher life, Liam simply didn't see Jude any morewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1398524085|title=Her Deadly GameHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's work 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 not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed Greg'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances s father, Duncan Ackerley, in defence of his clientsthe river. Along with It was an indisputable talent easy assumption for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself police to oblivion make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and inevitably then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the latter was beginning to overshadow the formerguilt. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761529900360|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Ghost Orchid|author=Jane CaseyJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close. If youhadn're a regular reader of the [[Jane Caseyt been Lt Milo Sturgis's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read fault that sentence twice Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems veryeven after Alex recovered, very realSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. But (His assertions that therewere only open-and-shut cases which didn's always t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a 'but'while. Finally, it was Robin, isnDelaware't there?) Josh has a s partner and he dotes on her son, even if who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the relationship with Melissa can be swimming pool of a little rockyremote property in Bel Air. As for Maeve, He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's just come out not the Italian. But which of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertain.them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks178763681X|title=Promise BoysKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspectsgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. EachPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, seemingly, has who had a grudge of some description against Principal Moorebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and each could have been there at the time of problems - are all his murderown. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. But Unfortunately, he was the person who killed him, and why, discovered the body and if any of everyone knows that the boys are innocent, will they police consider that person to be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155the prime suspect.
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|isbn=15291259601529421284|title=Unnatural HistoryLaying Out the Bones|author=Jonathan KellermanKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a photographerheatwave. Well In a gully, it was Adonis, actuallya human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, but Donny who had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his beddisappeared nine years earlier. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PAHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, Mel Gornick, is distraught and so it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish whatcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's happenedt convinced. Donny had just finished Geary was a series townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of photographs called ''The Wishers''Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. He'd taken eight homeless people off Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the streets and asked them what theyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that'd really like s cold cases to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed you and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarsme) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529425867|title=Expectant Lost and Never Found (Detective Sam ShephardA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a brutaltrailer park, shocking murder barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of an expectant woman shell suits and trackies. They're usually in Dunedinlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in Sometimes the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womencombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, with which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfmore surprising. Finding herself put He'd been exiled on desk dutiesthe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, which saying that she rails against, she just can's ill and hasn't let the case go and she starts long to follow every thread to uncover whatlive. It's actually happeninghard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the increasingly disturbing worry boot of just what might happen nexta stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1914585577 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=00084544930861541774|title=All the Dangerous ThingsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Stacy WillinghamSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnDCI Domenic Jejeune't really slept for s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a year - wellshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentGuy Trueman. It's now Maik was involved in a year since her son, Mason, street brawl - he would later maintain that he was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed facing a man armed with guilt that she heard nothing a knife - and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping inkilled a Ghurka. In Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that year she's done everything she could suggested that he might have planned to raise awareness about murder the caseman. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationNow he could be facing the death penalty. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could Domenic Jejeune can do a podcast and get nothing to so many more people than she help as any interference from another police force could by giving speeches to provoke a few hundred people diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at conferencesall.
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|isbn=057137493X1521129886|title=The Other HalfThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Charlotte VassellKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg Mason''The room was full of s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the sort of people point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Tatlers a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they'' thinks you should knowre both delighted.'' ''The Other Half'' is Joyce will be more delighted about the story of two men, both with what looks like baby when she gets past the same surnamemorning sickness. Rupert Beauchamp Greg is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredapproached by an old friend whose brother-within-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townlaw appears to have killed himself. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced Stuart'Beechams concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police s struggling to make ends meet and her son is bi-racialnot thriving. His surname Lucy, he says, is pronounced as you see convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - itsimply wasn't in his nature. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across police and the coroner have accepted that the body of Clemmie O'Haradeath was suicide, Rupert but Stuart's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=0857051741B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going twenty-eight years old. He used to investigate the case of have a body found high-flying job in a freezer at the home of city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a deceased alcoholicprivate investigator. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute 'Shades of limitationsCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was On the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyJoyce and Helen are half-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying mansisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's wishbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The situation changes when a postJoyce -mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholicand her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was also murdereddoing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Is there a connection between the two deaths?Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=15294212411838954481|title=Stay BuriedThe Misper|author=Kate WebbLondon|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually Ryan Kennedy killed a cold case unit and police officer: there are just two of them doing the job. Lockyer's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure no doubt about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterthat. It He was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder fifteen-year- old holding the gun and pointing it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoat DI Kieran Shaw. She's keen He pulled the trigger but due to see him the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and to tell him the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the man everyone thought capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she'd murdered s drawn into a wider investigation - but and back into the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=13997022891448309743|title=A World of Curiosities The Devil Stone (Chief Inspector GamacheDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Louise PennyCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, In the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying Cronchie on the arrival West coast of Scotland, five members of springa wealthy family are found murdered. But something The only item missing from the home is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Devil Stone: myth says that if the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guystone is removed from Otterburn House, it had always been the other way arounddeath will follow. Now they're both The only suspects are known Satanists but in the village and neither can fathom whatmany ways, that's happening. Armand will soon find an easy conclusion given that theytwo of them 're not just in Three Pines discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in his home and in his lifeto 'shadow' him.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529077699|title=White RiotThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there''It's always the danger of making all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it too reactionary; too rawis. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture Jem Rosco blew into the spirit of local pub one evening in the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britainmonth and then turned up, the student riotsnaked and dead, Donald Trumpin a small boat, Brexit – so much anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of what is, and has beenGreystone, written in Devon. Rosco had the immediate aftermath status of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisiveall round ''celebrity''. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature) I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current he could be more than a little bit close with money and when time and experience has afforded his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the writer money for his first boat? How did he finance the benefit of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376trip?}}
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|isbn=18387761841529427045|title=Her Majesty The Girl in the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalEagle's Talons|author=S J BennettKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking time.Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
It seemed Lisbeth Salander has headed north to begin as a cold. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for a couple the small town of days but seemed to be getting better. HopefullyGasskas, where the Queen thought, her cold would go so-far-untapped natural resources of the same wayarea have sparked a gold rush. She'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildrenThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Unfortunately, it didnSalander's niece't get better and when s mother is the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and latest woman in the Duke were due area to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downhave vanished without trace. He'd have preferred It was only with reluctance that the queen have a few daysSalander became her niece' bed rest before venturing out s guardian but had to be satisfied with the thought it quickly becomes obvious that theySvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'd go by helicopter s unaware of the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for part Salander played in her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappointfather's death.
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|isbn=08615419951787636607|title=Wolf PackThe Trap|author=Will DeanCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on It's a scene replicated all too often in the road north early hours of Visbergthe morning. She sees blood on the road Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a creature on its side near way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the pine treesfew taxis available. It Others squash onto the night bus that will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who has been attacked by a wolfonly go as far as one of the outlying villages. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', Bengt Nyberg, to particularly in the light of 'the vetmissing women'. Bronco didn't make it but For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missingshort of her home. She'd been working at Rose Farm had intended to ring someone to come and Moodysoncollect her - but her phone's journalist's instincts are soon brought dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the forebus driver to let her use his. Rose Farm is now home There's no option but to a group of survivalists but back start walking - unsuitably clothed and in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedhigh-heeled shoes. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511841405957174|title=The Girls Who DisappearedA Death at the Party|author=Claire DouglasAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998From the first page, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. As she passed through the darklyThe victim -wooded Devil's Corridor, a figure appeared in the road. Olivia swerved to avoid man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trappedambulance he so desperately needs. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, What we don't know is who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. But I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationhappening.
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|isbn=15420372390008530025|title=Death Murder in Heelsthe Family|author=Kitty MurphyCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the backdrop body of Dublinher stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. 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 obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's drag scene, now the subject of ''Death in HeelsInfamous'' tells , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the story of Fi McKinnery evidence and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Btake the investigation further. What is meant More to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenthe point, Evethey're going to do this live on camera, takes to episode by episode. There's no dump of the stage whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to mock Mae BFind You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4. As if 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 night could not get any worsecourt, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in after Martin receives a gutterlife sentence. Fi is adamant The barrister tells her that Eve was murdered, yet she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the drag communityrest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the Guards, accept papers are making the most of it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperis undoubtedly spoken.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529413680|title=The Dark RoomA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youOne 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'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed s there to see the show their murder happened in a different place and time? with some friends. This It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is what happens to Leonard in this storyseriously injured when he departs from the script. He Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is an ex-crime reporter for whisked away in a newspaper, helicopter. A local doctor (and since leaving journalism friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds olda senior government employee, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in his own dark room at home. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agodaughter lives nearby and another, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die lives in California, is flying in front with some of him one night in her father's friends for a hotelpre-arranged holiday. 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=B09SGWCXQ81529196388|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Trial|author=Neil LancasterRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for a run. The lawyer all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was on his honeymoon but his body public uproar when he was found dashed to pieces below murdered in plain sight at the cliffs at Dunnett HeadOld Bailey. Was it suicide, or did he There's just one man in the frame for his murder - for some reason Jimmy Knight - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accidents not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden' s murder. Knight was linked to told that the deaths best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of others associated with Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Scott Paterson was released after a Knight's determined to plead notguilty, despite all Taylor-proven' verdict meant that ScotlandCameron's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientrecommendations to the contrary.
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|isbnauthor=000837936XAndrew Cartmel|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen FieldsDeath in Fine Condition|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking's family moved them, to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mulladd value, in search of a new lifesomewhat fraudulent ways. It was One day she discovers a bit near perfect collection of a change from Las Vegas, but these books after seeing them in the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs background of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adrianaphotograph on her drug dealer's mother living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is obviously Latino?) , and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. how she can steal it! Brandon, AdrianaIt's twin, was upset and surly. Foura next-year-old Luna just knew that she missed level step in her big sister. It took four dayspetty crime career, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered has she reached too far, and it looked like a ritual killing.what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=15098896121448309379|title=The Rising Tide Flesh and Blood (D I Vera StanhopeDS McAvoy 11)|author=Ann CleevesDavid Mark|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since something of a group of teenagers went surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a weekend retreat break with your wife and children, but that's what happened to Holy IslandDS Aector McAvoy. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back Whilst he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for a reunion every five years since thenDetective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. There Her protegee - McAvoy - was a tragedy at still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the first reunion morning when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car it was obvious that someone was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned tampering with the group each year as her husband, Kencar, was one of the original teenagersnot. Ken now has AlzheimerThor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and he's a shadow of the man he used to benot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. Philip Robson now a priest, It had always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areabeen suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|isbn=02419901651529135389|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Fall|author=Cara HunterGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot Nicole Booth had been fired in an isolated house but spent the call hadn't come from morning at the householdercounty fair before she returned home. A couple There was no sign of PCs went to make certain that everything her husband but opera was alright and it took quite a while for playing on the elderly householder to answer state-of-the door-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they They'd better come not been in. In the kitchen there was a body architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the floor: the head high-tech systems Tom had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handinsisted upon. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds Some of an intruder them fought with each other and had come downstairs to investigatedidn't work as reliably as they should. The ignorant young lout It had called him ''Grandad'' and all come at him with about through a knifeten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Swann had shot him Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in self-defencethe swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=178763566XAlan Parks|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenTo Die in June|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her newWhat first seems like the unfortunate, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out accidental death of a homeless man on the library she knows that they're going streets, suddenly starts to be ruined - feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and unsafe - in the snow that's now fallingthen another. As she crosses This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the road, more so because his own father is a car comes down and out of nowhere alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and hits herhe has been for years. It doesn't stop. Two months later At the same time as facing these possible murders, we're Harry is also dealing with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolia move to a different police station, and a keen defender of the suburb arrival there of Reverea woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, north only no record of Boston, the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where she lives. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsakhe has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=18011092651804545600|title=The CompanionMonk|author=Lesley ThomsonTim Sullivan
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|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''The body in the woods near Bristol was a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was nasty shock - as usual - late a monk strapped to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boy's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James chair and Wilbur are the victims of dumped in a double stabbing on the beachditch. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeHe'd been savagely beaten. SheIt's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough.}}{{Frontpage|author=David Lagercrantz|title=Dark Music|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get while before D S George Cross and the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot Major Crime Unit establish that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, this is no John Watson MDFather Dominic. SheHe's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of d been missing for a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadium. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through few 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 certainly hadn't asked permission to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblesleave his abbey. But taken off As the case, she can no longer help solve team gradually unpick the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canmonk't get his full verdict on s past it all. Until, becomes clear that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152941363X|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=he''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jeand been well-Jaques Jalipeau (known loved as 'JJ')an investment banker, brother, the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being neighbour and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francefriend. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnHe't normally have worried them so much d also been very wealthy but had given it not been all up for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carhis faith. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of the car. A golf bag Why 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 directionsavagely murder him?
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