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|isbn=18045456001035021803|title=The MonkAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Tim SullivanC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (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=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol Charlotte Salter was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He'd been savagely beatenHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is Father Dominicnot. He'd been missing for a few days Shortly afterwards, Etty and certainly hadnGreg, find the body of Greg't asked permission to leave his abbeys father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. As It was an easy assumption for the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friendt stand the guilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd also been very wealthy s little else they can do but had given it all up for his faithget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170101529900360|title=Death Under a Little SkyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Stig AbellJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jakebeen 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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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas0241996104|title=White RiotComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereNancy's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Kneemother and step-jerk observations father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the momentcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. It takes The barrister tells her that she's received a truly talented writer 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to be able to capture live with what happened for the zeitgeist of a particular event or era rest of political historyher life. Austerity Britain Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much papers are making the most of what it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is, one favourite epithet and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to ''rich bitch'' might not be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events printed but is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewundoubtedly spoken.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbn=18387761841529413680|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=S J BennettMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the sunrise and re-enactment of the tides, was generally a reliable way liberation of marking time.the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno'' It seemed s there to begin as a coldsee the show with some friends. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had It's all been suffering for a couple of days very carefully choreographed but seemed to be getting better. Hopefullygoes badly wrong when, the Queen thoughtKerquelin, her cold would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from man playing one of the great-grandchildrenmain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. UnfortunatelyLuckily, it didn't get better his doctor is there and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown fluman is whisked away in a helicopter. She A local doctor (and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but the doctor put his foot down. He- as he'd have preferred that the queen have s a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with senior government employee, the thought that they'd go by helicopter man who runs Frenchelon - the following daymilitary has stepped in. It was annoying: people would be ready One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappointa pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=08615419951529196388|title=Wolf PackThe Trial|author=Will DeanRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north of Visberg. She sees blood on the road and Grant Cliveden was a creature on its side near the pine trees. It will turn out to be Bronco, hero: a Swedish Elkhound, policeman who has been attacked stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerjust about everyone, Bengt Nyberg, to so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the vetOld Bailey. Bronco didnThere't make it but on s just one man in the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking frame for his niece, twentymurder -yearJimmy Knight -old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodysonit's journalistnot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's instincts are soon brought to murder. Knight was told that the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of survivalists but back in 1987 the then ownerStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Johan Svenson murdered his wifeAdam Green, and his two eldest children and then killed himselfwho eventually represent him. His newborn childKnight's determined to plead not guilty, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?contrary.
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|isbnauthor=1405951184Andrew Cartmel|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasDeath in Fine Condition|rating=43
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after particular a night outseries called Sleuth Hound. As She spends her time hunting out copies that she passed through the darkly-wooded Devilcan sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking's Corridorthem, a figure appeared in the road. Olivia swerved to avoid him and the car smashed into a treeadd value, leaving her trappedin somewhat fraudulent ways. When One day she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, who lived discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the woods helped background of a photograph on her before the police drug dealer's living room wall, and ambulance arrived. But what had happened to Sally Thorneso she sets about discovering where this collection is, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? how she can steal it! Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening It's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the Stafferbury area owner of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relation.the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=15420372391448309379|title=Death in HeelsFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Kitty MurphyDavid Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop It's something of Dublina surprise to find that you's drag scenere dead, particularly when you're thinking that you'Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery re actually on a break with your wife and her best friendchildren, Robyn, who is about but that's what happened to debut as drag queen Mae BDS Aector McAvoy. What is meant Whilst he was relieved to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenfind that he was still, officially, Evealive, takes to it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the stage to mock Mae B. As if early hours of the night could not get any worse, morning when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant it was obvious that Eve someone was murdered, yet the drag communitytampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and the Guards, accept it as an accidentnot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a runNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. The lawyer There was on his honeymoon no sign of her husband but his body opera was found dashed to pieces below playing on the state-of-the cliffs at Dunnett Head-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Was it suicide, or did he They'd not been in the architect- designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for some reason - climb over the stone wall long and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked were still getting used to all the deaths high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of others associated them fought with himeach other and didn't work as reliably as they should. Scott Paterson was released after It had all come about through a 'notten-million-proven' verdict meant pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmentsort of money, too. Paterson was Grigor's last client Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=000837936XAlan Parks|title=The Last Girl to To Die|author=Helen Fieldsin June|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to TobermoryWhat first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the Isle of Mullstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, in search of a new lifeand then another. It was a bit of a change from Las VegasThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the family seemed determined more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedhe has been for years. The local police demonstrated little interest in At the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is obviously Latino?) also dealing with a move to a different police station, and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, the arrival there of a woman who had successfully tracked down claims her little boy has gone missing teenagers. Brandon, Adriana's twin, was upset and surlyonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. Four-yearSomething feels wrong -old Luna not just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four dayswith the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killing.can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=15098896121804545600|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Monk|author=Ann CleevesTim Sullivan
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandwhile before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyHe've d been coming back missing for a reunion every five years since thenfew days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey. There was a tragedy at As the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off team gradually unpick the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as her husbandan investment banker, Kenbrother, was one of the original teenagersneighbour and friend. Ken now has AlzheimerHe's and he's a shadow of the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapeld also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the area.Why would someone savagely murder him?
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