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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1035021803|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has lived in been back to the same small town for almost her whole life, but English country village where she grew up. She's back now she is facing because of a move as request for help from her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familybeloved aunt, as Edie is starting to lose her memoryCarole. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agoArthur Crockleford, is dead and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals circumstances seem suspicious, to say the truth of what happened all that time agoleast. After 'seeing' Lucy in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the high streetvillage: Arthur, just as she was the last time she saw herfeels, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to let herdown badly. And yet Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she remembers has not felt able to be near the past, man or pursue the profession she is forgetting more and more in her day to day lifeloved. Will After the split, she uncover worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the truth about Lucy's disappearance before rebound from the love of her movelife, who was murdered) and Freya and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250James have now divorced.
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|isbn=00085512781398524085|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Neil LancasterNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith Charlotte Salter was snatched from the bottom of Fyrishexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, where she'd been doing Paul and Ollie and her trainingdaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - Shortly afterwards, Etty and it now looks as though she could be heading for Greg, find the national squad. Thatbody of Greg's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seefather, Duncan Ackerley, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at in the age of twelveriver. She It was rescued an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later shehe couldn's happy with her foster familyt stand the guilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's just one cloud little else they can do but get on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - with their lives and anyone could get to herwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1529900360|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Sorry to leave her bottles His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of red wine behind her a psychologist only worked for an afternoon at a book fairwhile. Finally, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictionit was Robin, saying heDelaware's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Cue She knew that the bet involvement was something that the man she cannot live up to that accusationloved needed. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandThe next case did look simple, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allthough. Just on Two lovers were murdered in the point swimming pool of despairing – about her writing, about a remote property in Bel Air. He was the people heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the lack Italian. But which of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that them was the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615primary target?
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|isbn=1398509582178763681X|title=The FavourKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Nicci FrenchOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when the car crash happenedChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. It would cause problems for Liam Birch He didn't really want to but then no one could really understand why he celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination women to go to medical schooldo what he wanted. Liam was the reverse. He just acted Paul ''somehow'as if life just rolled him over and carried him along'got the impression that he'. A bit of weed hered be at the school to assist Paul, who had a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really broken arm, but it didn't worry him at turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are allhis own. The relationship broke one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up soon after dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any morethe police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1529421284|title=Her Deadly GameLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been It was one of those flash downpours that the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances British weather often delivers in defence of his clientsa heatwave. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawIn a gully, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself human skeleton came to oblivion the surface and inevitably forensic testing proved the latter body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was beginning he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to overshadow the formersuicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy Lockyer and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position DC Gemma Broad 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, southMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761529425867|title=The Close Lost and Never Found (DS Maeve KerriganA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jane CaseySimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closefather of Ryan, is not. If you He're a regular reader s not any of the [[Jane Caseythose things. He's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is white, originated from a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems verytrailer park, very real. But barely educated (therereading's always a not ''butreally', isn't there?his thing) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if the relationship with Melissa can be you're being introduced to a little rockypolice procedural written for laughs. As for MaeveWell, sheyou's re not. The two men are just come out different sides of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529431735|title=Promise BoysThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school It's February 1991 and Essex is murderedbitingly cold, three boys find themselves called into which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the police station Costa del Sol as suspectsa wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Each, seemingly, The return has come about because he's had a grudge of some description against Principal Mooreletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and each could have been there at the time of his murderhasn't long to live. But who killed himIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and why, and if any sent to a watery grave in the boot of the boys are innocent, will they be able a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to clear their nameshome?|isbn=1035003155
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|isbn=15291259600861541774|title=Unnatural HistoryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jonathan KellermanSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a photographershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Well, it Maik was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he got Danny but whichever was facing a man armed with a knife - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartand he killed a Ghurka. The PAInitially, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as light that suggested that he tries might have planned to establish what's happenedmurder the man. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''Now he could be facing the death penalty. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be. They were then dressed up help as their fantasy, photographed any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarswouldn't help Danny at all.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1521129886|title=Expectant They Had It Coming (Detective Sam ShephardGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching Greg 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 a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the start of her maternity leave baby when there she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is a brutal, shocking murder of approached by an expectant woman old friend whose brother-in Dunedin-law appears to have killed himself. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womenStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Finding herself put on desk dutiesLucy, which she rails againsthe says, she just canis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't let in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the case go and she starts death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to follow every thread pay Greg to uncover find out what's actually happening, and happened on the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextnight Gil died.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=0008454493B0CK3MYJ56|title=All the Dangerous ThingsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stacy WillinghamAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for s the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a year high- well, apart from flying job in the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. Itcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a year since her sonprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', Masonyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, was stolen from his bed in the middle of but where's the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt life experience that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in backs up this profession? On the morning when she thought other hand, he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could has been asked to raise awareness about the caselook into something. She does interviews Joyce and when we meet herHelen are half-sisters, or rather, shethey were until Helen was killed in what's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave written off as a keynote presentationtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. On the plane backJoyce - and her parents, sheOliver and Pam Hetherington - can's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that t understand what she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than was doing there - or how she could by giving speeches come to fall in front of a few hundred people at conferencestrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=057137493X1838954481|title=The Other HalfMisper|author=Charlotte VassellKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''The room s no doubt about that. He was full of the sort fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story jury system he was found not guilty of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is murder and the manslaughter of the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townofficer. Think Bollinger and cocaineAnd so lives must go on. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the Metropolitan police capital and is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out hoping for a run, stumbles across quieter life in the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupertcountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under drawn into a bushwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=08570517411448309743|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Caro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate In the case village of a body found in a freezer at Cronchie on the home West coast of Scotland, five members of a deceased alcoholicwealthy family are found murdered. The problem only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the case has long passed the statute of limitationsstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace The only suspects are known Satanists but in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is many ways, that this is a dying man's wishan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The situation changes Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkarihe disappears, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212411529077699|title=Stay BuriedThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Kate WebbAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''s actually a cold case unit and there are just two of them doing the job Well yes, it is. Lockyer's not unduly worriedJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, though although he's not quite so sure stayed for about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of something betterGreystone, in Devon. It was Rosco had the status of a bit of national treasure: a shock when he got renowned adventurer, round the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''s in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. SheI 's keen to see him and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered nearly'' said 'all- round good egg' but the body turned as we'll find out to , he could be someone else - has returned home after being away more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for decades.his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=13997022891529427045|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Louise PennyKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the tiny Canadian village small town of Three Pines is enjoying Gasskas, where the arrival of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jeanso-far-Guy Beauvoir untapped natural resources of the Sûreté du Québec. Gamache had offered help to area have sparked a young woman after the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brothergold rush. For Jean-Guy, it had always The criminal underworld has not been the other way aroundslow in coming forward. Now theySalander's niece're both s mother is the latest woman in the village and neither can fathom what's happeningarea to have vanished without trace. Armand will soon find It was only with reluctance that theySalander became her niece're not just in Three Pines s guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in his home and in his lifeher father's death.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1787636607|title=White RiotThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always the danger of making it a scene replicated all too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture often in the spirit early hours of the momentmorning. It takes Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a truly talented writer way to be able get home. Some are lucky and manage to capture get one of the zeitgeist few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of a particular event or era of political historythe outlying villages. Austerity Britain The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much light of what is'the missing women'. For one young woman, and has been, written in the immediate aftermath final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of these phenomena has been proven by time her home. She had intended to ring someone to be frothy come and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivecollect her - but her phone's dead. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), The bus had driven off before she had the best writing about current political events is that which is written when chance to beg the events in question are bus driver to let her use his. There's no longer current option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewin high-heeled shoes.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbn=18387761841405957174|title=Her Majesty A Death at the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalParty|author=S J BennettAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and From the tidesfirst page, was generally a reliable way of marking time.we know that Nadine Walsh'' It seemed to begin as a colds party will not end well. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for The victim - a couple of days but seemed man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to be getting better. Hopefully, call the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildrenambulance he so desperately needs. Unfortunately, it didnWhat we don't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and know is who the Duke were due man is or why Nadine prefers to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downhave him die. HeI'd have preferred that the queen have better give you a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with the thought little more background so that theyyou can understand what'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappoints happening.
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|isbn=08615419950008530025|title=Wolf PackMurder in the Family|author=Will DeanCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her Hilux pickup truck on stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the road north garden of Visbergtheir West London home. She sees blood He had an injury on the road and a creature on its side near back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the pine treesvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. It will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish ElkhoundTwenty years later, who no one has been attacked by charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a wolftrue-crime show. Tuva takes Bronco A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, to take the vetinvestigation further. Bronco didnMore to the point, they't make it but re going to do this live on the waycamera, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missingepisode by episode. She'd been working at Rose Farm and MoodysonThere's journalist's instincts are soon brought to the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group no dump of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, whole box set - and his two eldest children and then killed himselfno shortage of cliffhangers. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedIt's compelling viewing. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511840241996104|title=The Girls Who DisappearedComing to Find You|author=Claire DouglasJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Back in November 1998Nancy'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, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after Martin receives a night outlife sentence. As The barrister tells her that she passed through the darkly's received a 'silent sentence' -wooded Devilshe's Corridor, a figure appeared in the road. Olivia swerved not been found guilty of anything but will have to avoid him and live with what happened for the car smashed into a tree, leaving rest of her trappedlife. When Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she regained consciousness inherited five million pounds from her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, who lived in mother - and the woods helped her before papers are making the police and ambulance arrivedmost of it. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would ''rich bitch'' might not be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15420372391529413680|title=Death in HeelsA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Kitty MurphyMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the backdrop re-enactment of Dublinthe liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's drag sceneall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story man playing one of Fi McKinnery and her best friendthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, Robyn, who his doctor is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What there and the man is meant to be whisked away in a night helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of excitement soon takes survival but - as he's a downward turn when fellow drag queensenior government employee, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. As if man who runs Frenchelon - the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead military has stepped in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered One daughter lives nearby and another, yet the drag communitywho lives in California, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for is flying in with some of her father's friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperfor a pre-arranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529196388|title=The Dark RoomTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone Grant Cliveden was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph hero: a policeman who stood for all that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place was good and honest and time? This is what happens looked up to Leonard by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in this storyplain sight at the Old Bailey. He is an exThere's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight -crime reporter for a newspaper, and since leaving journalism heit's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldnot too long before Knight appears in court, undeveloped rolls charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of film Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and develops them 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 agopupil, Adam Green, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of eventually represent him one night in a hotel. HeKnight'd felt s determined to plead not guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it despite all Taylor- his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadnCameron't really died s recommendations to the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xcontrary.
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|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8Andrew Cartmel|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterDeath in Fine Condition|rating=4.53
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a runseries called Sleuth Hound. The lawyer was She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicide, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balanceprofit, it looked like an accident but then his sometimes 'accidenttweaking' was linked them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the deaths background of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotlandphotograph on her drug dealer's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigorliving room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! It's last client.a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=000837936X1448309379|title=The Last Girl to DieFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Helen FieldsDavid Mark|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeIt's family moved something of a surprise to Tobermoryfind that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new life. It was a bit of a change from Las Vegasbreak with your wife and children, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adrianathat's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagerswhat happened to DS Aector McAvoy. BrandonWhilst he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, Adriana's twinalive, it was upset and surlydifficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. FourHer protegee -yearMcAvoy -old Luna just knew was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that she missed someone was tampering with her big sistercar, was not. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonThor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's Cavedoppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. She'd It had always been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingsuspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|isbn=15098896121529135389|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Fall|author=Ann CleevesGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island. Some of them found Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thencounty fair before she returned home. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and no sign of her car husband but opera was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with playing on the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one state-of -the original teenagers-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Ken now has AlzheimerThey's d not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and he's a shadow of the man he were still getting used to beall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelthey should. Annie Laidler lives locally It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and she provides much they were still getting used to having that sort of the food: her deli is famous money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the areaswimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=0241990165Alan Parks|title=Hope to To Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunterin June|rating=54
|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 What first seems like the householder. A couple unfortunate, accidental death of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for homeless man on the elderly householder streets, suddenly starts to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come infeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. In This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the kitchen there was more so because his own father is a body on the floor: the head had been blown off down and out alcoholic, with a shotgun no fixed abode, and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handhe has been for years. Richard Swann told At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police that he'd heard sounds station, and the arrival there of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' and come at him with a knifewoman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Swann had shot him in selfSomething feels wrong -defence.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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|isbn=178763566X1804545600|title=Listen to MeThe Monk|author=Tess GerritsenTim Sullivan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're The body in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it the woods near Bristol was a spring day and she wore her new, butterynasty shock -leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going a monk strapped to be ruined - a chair and unsafe - dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and the snow Major Crime Unit establish thatthis is Father Dominic. He's now falling. As she crosses the road, d been missing for a car comes out of nowhere few days and hits her. It doesncertainly hadn't stopasked permission to leave his abbey. Two months later, we As the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he're with Angela Rizzolid been well-loved as an investment banker, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolibrother, neighbour and a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesfriend. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for 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 suspicionsfaith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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