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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1035021803|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Sorry to leave her bottles She's back now because of red wine behind her a request for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes help from her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictionbeloved aunt, saying heCarole. Freya's populist trash former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and only writing what anyone could writethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Cue Arthur was the bet that reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she cannot live up to that accusationfeels, let her down badly. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to Iceland, where be near the man or pursue the profession she is put up for a wintry month away from it allloved. Just on After the point of despairing – about her writingsplit, she worked in a cafe, about met and married James (on the people and rebound from the lack love of stimulus for her plotlife, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=13985095821398524085|title=The FavourHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
|author=Nicci French
|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was 2 amexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, not long after A levelssons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, when the car crash happenedEtty. It would cause problems for Liam Birch are all worried but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by - strangely - her determination to go to medical schoolhusband, Alec, is not. Liam was Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the reverse. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over and carried him along'body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: It was an easy assumption for the legal effects of the car crash really didnpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't worry him at allstand the guilt. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didnSalter children are not convinced but there't see Jude any mores little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1529900360|title=Her Deadly GameThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has It hadn't been the lifeLt Milo Sturgis's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to his reputation ask for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientshelp on difficult cases. Along with an indisputable talent His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for the lawa while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, Patsy also has a gift who nudged Milo into asking for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably help again. She knew that the latter involvement was beginning to overshadow something that the formerman she loved needed. Enter Keera DugganThe next case did look simple, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself though. Two lovers were murdered in the hideous position swimming pool of asking her father for a job at remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southItalian.|isbn=1662500181 But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=0008404976178763681X|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Jane CaseyOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Jellicoe CloseBelgravia. If you He didn're t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a regular reader way of the [[Jane Caseygetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read got the impression that sentence twice and wondered if ithe's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between d be at the two which seems veryschool to assist Paul, very real. But (there's always who had a 'broken arm, but', isnit didn't there?) Josh has a partner turn out that way. The teaching - and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rockyproblems - are all his own. As The one thing he hadn't expected was for Maevesomeone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainhe was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529421284|title=Promise BoysLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) It was one of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into those flash downpours that the police station as suspectsBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. EachIn a gully, seeminglya human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, has who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a grudge of some description against Principal Mooreknown drug user and had learning disabilities, and each so it could have been there a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time of his murder. But who killed him, Lockyer and why, and if any DC Gemma Broad of the boys are innocent, will they be able Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=15291259601529425867|title=Unnatural HistoryLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jonathan KellermanSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. Well, it was Adonis, actuallyIn Oxford, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedthere are two D I Wilkins. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The PAD I Ryan Wilkins, Mel Gornickson of Ryan and father of Ryan, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish whatnot. He's happenednot any of those things. Donny had just finished He's white, originated from a series of photographs called trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''The Wishersreally''his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. HeThey'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what theyre usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'd really like re being introduced to bea police procedural written for laughs. They were then dressed up as their fantasyWell, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarsyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529431735|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd It's February 1991 and Essex is approaching bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinmore surprising. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in He'd been exiled on the hunt Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfdecade. Finding herself put on desk dutiesThe 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''.
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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 the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Ba true-crime show. What is meant to be a night A group of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes experts has been brought together to review the stage evidence and to mock Mae Btake the investigation further. As if More to the night could not get any worsepoint, they're going to do this live on camera, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutterepisode by episode. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet There's no dump of the drag community, whole box set - and the Guards, accept it as an accidentno shortage of cliffhangers. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Lisa GrayJane 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|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
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|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 to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more a monk strapped 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 d been missing for 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 a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, few days and just outside the stadium. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic certainly hadn't asked permission to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationleave his abbey. When some disreputable coppers (As the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, team gradually unpick the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – monk's past it becomes clear that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allhe'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent neighbour and the investigation is a shamblesfriend. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canHe't get his full verdict on d also been very wealthy but had given it allup for his faith. Until, that may be, she manages to stop Why would someone savagely murder him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192?
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