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|isbn=00085170101035021803|title=Death Under The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a Little Skyrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Stig AbellNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It might have been different if was an easy assumption for the pregnancies hadnpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't ended in miscarriages stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but no one there's little else was involved - certainly not they can do but get on Jakewith their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's side fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and he didn't think there even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for Faye eitherhis help on difficult cases. They His assertions that there were still polite to each other only open-and wished each other well - but shut cases which didn't wish to remain marriedneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The perfect solution arrived next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the form swimming pool of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurremote property in Bel Air. He'd been left a secluded property in was the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - heir to an Italian shoe empire and enough money she is married to live there without an extremely rich man and it's not the need to workItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley178763681X|title=One Puzzling AfternoonKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the same small town for almost her whole life, Belgravia. He didn't really want to but now she is facing celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a move as her son wants to move to another house way of getting both men and bring Edie women to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memorydo what he wanted. However, Edie is tormented by Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the memory of her childhood friend, Lucyschool to assist Paul, who went missing over 60 years agohad a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened problems - are all that time agohis own. After The one thing he hadn'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she t expected was the last time she saw her, she starts for someone to find pockets of memories coming back to herturn up dead. And yet as she remembers Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the past, she is forgetting more body and more in her day everyone knows that the police consider that person to day lifebe the prime suspect. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250
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|isbn=00085512781529421284|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)Laying Out the Bones|author=Neil LancasterKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith It was snatched from one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the bottom of Fyrishsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, where she'd been doing her trainingwho had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadhave been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeGeary was a townie, Affo came so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the age of twelvetime. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of drugs and three years later shethe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's happy with her foster family. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - cold cases to you and anyone could get to herme) investigate.
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|authorisbn=1529425867|title=Jenny Lund Madsen Lost and Megan E Turney Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Thirty Days of DarknessSimon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableIn Oxford, bitter womanthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, an author son of Ryan and father of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsRyan, is not. Sorry to leave her bottles He's not any of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairthose things. He's white, she flukes her way into originated from a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictiontrailer park, saying hebarely educated (reading's populist trash not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and only writing what anyone could writetrackies. Cue the bet that she cannot live up They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to that accusationa police procedural written for laughs. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandWell, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allyou're not. Just on the point The two men are just different sides of despairing – about her writing, about the people and same policing coin. Sometimes the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladycombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615problematic.
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|isbn=13985095821529431735|title=The FavourWinter Visitor|author=Nicci FrenchJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, not long after A levels, when which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togethermore surprising. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. Liam was He'd been exiled on the reverseCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. He just acted The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'as if life just rolled him over s ill and carried him along'hasn't long to live. A bit of weed hereIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a few drinks there: watery grave in the legal effects boot of the car crash really didn't worry him at alla stolen Ford Sierra. The relationship broke up soon after that - Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.a problem closer to home?
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni0861541774|title=Her Deadly GameA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeDCI Domenic Jejeune's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in defence of his clientsa street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawInitially, Patsy also has he faced a gift for drinking himself charge of manslaughter but evidence came to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning light that suggested that he might have planned to overshadow murder the formerman. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in Now he could be facing the hideous position of asking her father for death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a job diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southall.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761521129886|title=The Close They Had It Coming (DS Maeve KerriganGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Jane CaseyKeith Redfern|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 youGreg Mason're a regular reader of s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] youpoint where he'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itwarn someone about how much he charges. It's a massive spoiler good job too because there is Greg and Joyce will soon have a delicious sexual chemistry between baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the two which seems very, very realbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. But (thereStuart's always a 'but'concerned about his sister, Lucy, isnwho't there?) Josh has a partner s struggling to make ends meet and he dotes on her sonis not thriving. Lucy, he says, even if is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, As for Maeve, shebut Stuart's just come prepared to pay Greg to find out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainwhat happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Nick BrooksB0CK3MYJ56|title=Promise BoysResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When It's the principal (headmaster) 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedCameron Strike', three boys find themselves called you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into the police station as suspectssomething. EachJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, seeminglyor rather, has they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there tragic accident at the time of his murderan unmanned level crossing. But who killed him, Joyce - and whyher parents, Oliver and if any Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of the boys are innocent, will they be able a train. Greg's been asked to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155investigate.
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|isbn=15291259601838954481|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Misper|author=Jonathan KellermanKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was Ryan Kennedy killed a photographerpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. Well, it He was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever the fifteen-year- old holding the gun and pointing it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedat DI Kieran Shaw. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls He pulled the trigger but due to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as the vagaries of the jury system he tries to establish what's happenedwas found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''And so lives must go on. He'd taken eight homeless people off For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the streets capital and asked them what theyhoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed s drawn into a wider investigation - and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarsback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1448309743|title=Expectant The Devil Stone (Detective Sam ShephardDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching In the village of Cronchie on the start West coast of her maternity leave when there is a brutalScotland, shocking murder five members of an expectant woman in Dunedina wealthy family are found murdered. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in The only item missing from the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all home is the extra pressure Devil Stone: myth says that entails being pregnant herselfif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Finding herself put on desk dutiesThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, which she rails against, she just canthat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered't let the case go and she starts body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextshadow' him.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931529077699|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Stacy WillinghamAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. 'It's now a year since her sonall bloody peculiar, isn't it, MasonSir?'' Well yes, was stolen from his bed it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of the night an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing then turned up, naked and particularly about her relief dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the morning when she thought he was sleeping village of Greystone, inDevon. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the case. She does interviews world sailor and when we meet her, sheall round ''celebrity''s just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, sheI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we's approached by a podcasterll find out, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she he could do a podcast and get to so many be more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferenceslittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=057137493X1529427045|title=The Other HalfGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Charlotte VassellKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The room was full of the sort of Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''Tatler'' thinks you should know.''
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|isbn=08570517411787636607|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationTrap|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate a scene replicated all too often in the case early hours of a body found in a freezer at the home morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a deceased alcoholicway to get home. The problem is that Some are lucky and manage to get one of the case has long passed few taxis available. Others squash onto the statute night bus that will only go as far as one of limitationsthe outlying villages. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in 1962the light of 'the missing women'. He was For one young woman, the final stop on the father bus leaves her a long way short of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromher home. Rebecka wants nothing She had intended to do with a fiftyring someone to come and collect her -year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying manbut her phone's wishdead. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the dead alcoholic, was also murderedbus driver to let her use his. Is there a connection between the two deaths?There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15294212411405957174|title=Stay BuriedA Death at the Party|author=Kate WebbAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise From the first page, we know that itNadine Walsh's actually party will not end well. The victim - a cold case unit man - is dying when we first meet him and there are just two of them doing Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the job. Lockyer's not unduly worried, though although ambulance he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterdesperately needs. It was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheWhat we don's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer t know is who put her there, fourteen years agothe man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. SheI's keen to see him and to tell him d better give you a little more background so that the man everyone thought sheyou can understand what'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadess happening.
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|isbn=13997022890008530025|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Murder in the Family|author=Louise PennyCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the tiny Canadian village body of Three Pines is enjoying her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the arrival garden of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québectheir West London home. Gamache He had offered help to a young woman after an injury on the murder back of her mother: his head which could have happened if he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherslipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. For Jean-GuyTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it had always 's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the other way aroundevidence and to take the investigation further. Now More to the point, they're both in going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the village whole box set - and neither can fathom what's happeningno shortage of cliffhangers. Armand will soon find that theyIt're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifes compelling viewing.
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|isbn=08615419950241996104|title=Wolf PackComing to Find You|author=Will DeanJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her Hilux pickup truck on the road north step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of Visbergtheir murder. She sees blood on We first meet Nancy outside the road and court, after Martin receives a creature on its side near the pine treeslife sentence. It will turn out to be Bronco, The barrister tells her that she's received a Swedish Elkhound, who has 'silent sentence' - she's not been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the vetrest of her life. Bronco didn't make Of course, it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalistmade worse because Nancy's instincts rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are soon brought to making the foremost of it. Rose Farm ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is now home to a group of survivalists one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but back 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 survivedis undoubtedly spoken. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511841529413680|title=The Girls Who DisappearedA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Claire DouglasMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends home after a night out. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilIt's Corridorall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, a figure appeared in Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the roadscript. Olivia swerved to avoid him Luckily, his doctor is there and the car smashed into man is whisked away in a tree, leaving her trappedhelicopter. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph MiddletonA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who lived runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrived. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole One daughter lives nearby and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening , who lives in the Stafferbury area California, is flying in with some of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Aveburyher father's poor relationfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=15420372391529196388|title=Death in HeelsThe Trial|author=Kitty MurphyRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the backdrop of DublinOld Bailey. There's drag scene, just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it''Death s not too long before Knight appears in Heelscourt, charged with Cliveden'' tells s murder. Knight was told that the story best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Fi McKinnery Stag Court Chambers and her best friendit's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, RobynAdam Green, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Beventually represent him. What is meant Knight's determined to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. As if the night could plead not get any worseguilty, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deepercontrary.
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|author=Lisa GrayAndrew Cartmel|title=The Dark RoomDeath in Fine Condition|rating=43
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened and in particular a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storyseries called Sleuth Hound. He is an ex-crime reporter She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for a newspaperprofit, and since leaving journalism hesometimes 'tweaking's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldthem, to add value, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homesomewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these photographs turns out to show books after seeing them in the murder scene background of a young woman he met some years agophotograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightso she sets about discovering where this collection is, and lost everything because of how she can steal it ! It's a next- his fiancee and his level step in her petty crime career - , but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night has she was with himreached too far, and what on earth actually happenedwill happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=154203535X1789098947
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81448309379|title=The Night Watch Flesh and Blood (D S Max CraigieDS McAvoy 11)|author=Neil LancasterDavid Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for It's something of a run. The lawyer was surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on his honeymoon a break with your wife and children, but his body was found dashed that's what happened to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett HeadDS Aector McAvoy. Was it suicide, or did Whilst he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall was relieved to his death? Or find that he was he pushed? On balancestill, officially, alive, it looked like an accident was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but then his the partially clad man who'accident' was linked to d dashed from her flat in the deaths early hours of others associated the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with himher car, was not. Scott Paterson Thor Ingolfsson was released after a Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not-proven' verdict meant everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson Pharoah was Grigor's last clientsweet on Aector.
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|isbn=000837936X1529135389|title=The Last Girl to DieFall|author=Helen FieldsGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifecounty fair before she returned home. It There was a bit no sign of a change from Las Vegas, her husband but opera was playing on the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs state-of developing a social life - until she disappearedthe-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. The local police demonstrated little interest They'd not been in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had successfully tracked down missing teenagersinsisted upon. Brandon, AdrianaSome of them fought with each other and didn's twin, was upset and surlyt work as reliably as they should. FourIt had all come about through a ten-yearmillion-old Luna just knew pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that she missed her big sistersort of money, too. It took four daysEventually, but Sadie Nicole found Adriana Tom dead in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like the swimming pool with a ritual killingwound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=1509889612Alan Parks|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesTo Die in June|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a group of teenagers went homeless man on a weekend retreat the streets, suddenly starts to Holy Islandfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Some of them found This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the Only Connect course transformative more so because his own father is a down and they've out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close move to high tide a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, little boy has returned with the group each year as her husbandgone missing, Ken, was one only no record of the original teenagersboy having existed can be found. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the man other officers where he used to be. Philip Robson now a priesthas been stationed, 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 but can Harry uncover just what is famous in the area.going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=02419901651804545600|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Monk|author=Cara HunterTim Sullivan
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There The body in the woods near Bristol was a 999 call suggesting that nasty shock - a monk strapped to a shot had been fired chair and dumped in an isolated house but the call hadna ditch. He't come from the householderd been savagely beaten. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite It's a while for before D S George Cross and the elderly householder to answer the doorMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was a body on the floor: the head had been blown off with missing for a shotgun few days and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handcertainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey. Richard Swann told As the police team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd heard sounds of been well-loved as an intruder investment banker, brother, neighbour and had come downstairs to investigatefriend. The ignorant young lout He'd also been very wealthy but had called him ''Grandad'' and come at him with a knifegiven it all up for his faith. Swann had shot Why would someone savagely murder him in self-defence.?
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