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|isbn=14483093791035021803|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=David MarkC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a surprise to find that you're deadrequest for help from her beloved aunt, particularly when youCarole. Freya're thinking that yous former mentor and Carole're actually on a break with your wife s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and childrenthe circumstances seem suspicious, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoysay the least. Whilst he Arthur was relieved the reason why Freya had not been back to find that he was stillthe village: Arthur, officiallyshe feels, alivelet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the partially clad man who'd dashed rebound from her flat in the early hours love of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carlife, who was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - murdered) and Freya and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on AectorJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=15291353891398524085|title=The FallHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Gilly MacmillanNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning Charlotte Salter was expected at the county fair before she returned homeher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. There was no sign of Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her husband daughter, Etty. are all worried but opera was playing on the state-ofstrangely -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnher husband, Alec, is not. TheyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd not been s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula river. It was an easy assumption for long and were still getting used the police to all the high-tech systems Tom make that Duncan had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other murdered Charlie and didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't work as reliably as they shouldstand the guilt. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool can do but get on with a wound to his headtheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529900360|title=To Die in JuneThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the unfortunate, accidental death help of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then anotherpsychologist only worked for a while. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyFinally, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholicit was Robin, with no fixed abodeDelaware's partner, and he has been who nudged Milo into asking for yearshelp again. At She knew that the same time as facing these possible murdersinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and though. Two lovers were murdered in the arrival there swimming pool of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundremote property in Bel Air. Something feels wrong - He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not just with the woman’s story but also with Italian. But which of them was the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going onprimary target?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=1804545600178763681X|title=The MonkKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Tim SullivanOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was Chef Paul Delamare took a nasty shock - teaching job at a monk strapped to a chair and dumped residential cookery school in a ditchBelgravia. Hedidn'd been savagely beaten. It's t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a while before D S George Cross way of getting both men and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicwomen to do what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey. As got the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear impression that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankerbe at the school to assist Paul, brotherwho had a broken arm, neighbour but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and friendthe problems - are all his own. HeThe one thing he hadn'd also been very wealthy but had given it all t expected was for someone to turn up for his faithdead. Why would someone savagely murder him?Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=00085170101529421284|title=Death Under a Little SkyLaying Out the Bones|author=Stig AbellKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if was one of those flash downpours that the pregnancies hadn't ended British weather often delivers in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was for Faye eithera heatwave. They were still polite In a gully, a human skeleton came to each other the surface and wished each other well - but didn't wish forensic testing proved the body to remain marriedbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The perfect solution arrived in the form He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of a legacy from Jakemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's Uncle Arthurt convinced. He'd been left Geary was a secluded property in townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the hamlet suicide of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - Holly Gilbert and enough money to live there without two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the need time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to workyou and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529425867|title=One Puzzling AfternoonLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole lifeIn Oxford, but now she there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is facing a move as her of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son wants to move to another house of Ryan and bring Edie to live with his familyfather of Ryan, as Edie is starting to lose her memorynot. However, Edie is tormented by the memory He's not any of her childhood friendthose things. He's white, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agooriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth his wardrobe consists mainly of what happened all that time agoshell suits and trackies. After They'seeingre usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you' Lucy in the high streetre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just as she was different sides of the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to hersame policing coin. And yet as she remembers Sometimes the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day lifecombination works brilliantly well. Will she uncover the truth about LucySometimes it's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250problematic.
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|isbn=00085512781529431735|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)The Winter Visitor|author=Neil LancasterJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of FyrishIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, where shewhich made Bruce Hopkins'd been doing her trainingreturn all the more surprising. SheHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a bit of wanted drug smuggler for a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squaddecade. ThatThe return has come about because he's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seehad a letter from his ex-wife, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelve. She was rescued when saying that she was carrying a kilo of drugs 's ill and three years later shehasn's happy with her foster familyt long to live. ThereIt's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Melodi is stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a children's stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home in Tirana - and anyone could get to her.?
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)0861541774|title=Thirty Days A Nye of DarknessPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, bitter womanDanny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an author of failing if wellold ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -regarded literary short novelsand he killed a Ghurka. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairInitially, she flukes her way into he faced a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world charge of crime fiction, saying manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writemight have planned to murder the man. Cue Now he could be facing the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationdeath penalty. Her publisher duly books her flights Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for another police force could provoke a wintry month away from it diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615
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|isbn=13985095821521129886|title=The FavourThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Nicci FrenchKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the car crash happenedpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he 's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and Jude Winter were togetherthey're both delighted. She was utterly driven Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by her determination to go an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to medical schoolhave killed himself. Liam was the reverse. He just acted Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'as if life just rolled him over s struggling to make ends meet and carried him along''her son is not thriving. A bit of weed hereLucy, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didnhe says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't worry him at allin his nature. The relationship broke up soon after police and the coroner have accepted that - or ratherthe death was suicide, Liam simply didn but Stuart't see Jude any mores prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Robert DugoniB0CK3MYJ56|title=Her Deadly GameResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been It's the life1990s and Greg Mason's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he'The Irish Brawlers now set himself up as a private investigator. ' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence Shades of his clientsCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Along with an indisputable talent for On the lawother hand, Patsy also he has a gift for drinking himself been asked to oblivion look into something. Joyce and inevitably the latter Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was beginning to overshadow the formerkilled in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Enter Keera DugganJoyce - and her parents, former competitive chess prodigy Oliver and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in the hideous position front 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, southtrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761838954481|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Misper|author=Jane CaseyKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe CloseKieran Shaw. If you're a regular reader He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice murder and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems very, very realmanslaughter of the officer. But (there's always And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a 'quieter life in the countryside but', isn't there?) Josh has when a partner and he dotes missing teenager is found on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, territory she's just come out drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainRyan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1448309743|title=Promise BoysThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When In the principal (headmaster) village of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into Cronchie on the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge West coast of some description against Principal MooreScotland, and each could have been there at the time five members of his murdera wealthy family are found murdered. But who killed himThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, and whydeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and if any that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the boys are innocentbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, will they be able DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155'shadow' him.
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|isbn=15291259601529077699|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Jonathan KellermanAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. Well''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it was Adonis, actuallySir?'' Well yes, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedis. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PAJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, Mel Gornickstayed for about a month and then turned up, is distraught naked and it falls dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happenedthe village of Greystone, in Devon. Donny Rosco had just finished the status of a national treasure: a series of photographs called renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''The Wisherscelebrity''. HeI ''nearly'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up said 'all-round good egg' but as their fantasywe'll find out, photographed he could be more than a little bit close with money and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarshis 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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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529427045|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the start small town of her maternity leave when there is a brutalGasskas, shocking murder where the so-far-untapped natural resources of an expectant woman the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in Dunedincoming forward. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, area to have vanished without trace. It was only with all the extra pressure reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just canSvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who't let s unaware of the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover whatpart Salander played in her father's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextdeath.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931787636607|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Trap|author=Stacy WillinghamCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for s a year - well, apart from scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the odd occasion when she lost track morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of time or drifted off clubs and looking for a momentway to get home. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in Some are lucky and manage to get one of the middle of few taxis available. Others squash onto the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt bus that she heard nothing and will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping inlight of 'the missing women'. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about For one young woman, the final stop on the casebus leaves her a long way short of her home. She does interviews had intended to ring someone to come and when we meet collect her, she- but her phone's just been dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationbeg the bus driver to let her use his. On the plane back, sheThere's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=057137493X1405957174|title=The Other HalfA Death at the Party|author=Charlotte VassellAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The room was full of From the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should first page, we know.that Nadine Walsh'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surnames party will not end well. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to The victim - a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party man - is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger dying when we first meet him and cocaineNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. His surname is pronounced What we don'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp t know is a detective inspector with who the Metropolitan police and man is bi-racialor why Nadine prefers to have him die. His surname is pronounced as I'd better give you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupertlittle more background so that you can understand what's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushhappening.
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|isbn=08570517410008530025|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationMurder in the Family|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined It was in December 2003 that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the case body of a body found her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in a freezer at the garden of their West London home . He had an injury on the back of a deceased alcoholichis head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The problem is that the case Twenty years later, no one has long passed been charged with his murder and it's now the statute subject of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without ''Infamous'', a trace in 1962true-crime show. He was A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strominvestigation further. Rebecka wants nothing More to the point, they're going to do with a fifty-year-old case this live on which she can take camera, episode by episode. There's no action: dump of the problem is that this is a dying manwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's wishcompelling viewing. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212410241996104|title=Stay BuriedComing to Find You|author=Kate WebbJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itNancy's actually a cold case unit mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and there are just two her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of them doing their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the jobcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. LockyerThe barrister tells her that she's not unduly worried, though although hereceived a 'silent sentence's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: - she's probably capable not been found guilty of something betteranything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. It was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. She's keen to see him 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - 'rich bitch'' might not be printed but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesis undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=13997022891529413680|title=A World of Curiosities Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief Inspector Gamacheof Police Novel)|author=Louise PennyMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, One of the tiny Canadian village main events of Three Pines the Sarlat tourist season is enjoying the arrival re-enactment of the liberation of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache the town from the English in 1370 and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of Bruno's there to see the Sûreté du Québecshow with some friends. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the murder man playing one of her mother: the main characters is seriously injured when he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherdeparts from the script. For Jean-GuyLuckily, it had always been his doctor is there and the other way aroundman is whisked away in a helicopter. Now they're both in the village A local doctor (and neither can fathom whatfriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's happeninga senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Armand will soon find that they're not just One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in Three Pines but California, is flying in his home and in his lifewith some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529196388|title=White RiotThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about politics everyone, so therewas public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's always just one man in the danger of making frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it 's not too reactionary; too rawlong before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. KneeKnight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-jerk observations Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and hot takes that donit't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britains Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, the student riotsAdam Green, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately plead not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature)guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the best writing about current political events 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 viewcontrary.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbnauthor=1838776184Andrew Cartmel|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal|author=S J BennettDeath in Fine Condition|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The QueenCordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally in particular a reliable way of marking series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time.hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' It seemed them, to begin as a coldadd value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for One day she discovers a couple near perfect collection of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefully, these books after seeing them in the Queen thought, background of a photograph on her cold would go the same way. Shedrug dealer'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildren. Unfortunatelys living room wall, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot down. how she can steal it! HeIt'd have preferred that the queen have s a few days' bed rest before venturing out next-level step in her petty crime career, but had to be satisfied with has she reached too far, and what will happen when the thought that they'd go by helicopter owner of the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready collection comes looking for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappoint.their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=08615419951448309379|title=Wolf PackFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Will DeanDavid Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north It's something of Visberg. She sees blood on the road and a creature on its side near the pine trees. It will turn out surprise to be Broncofind that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a Swedish Elkhound, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco break with your wife and his owner, Bengt Nybergchildren, but that's what happened to the vetDS Aector McAvoy. Bronco didn't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva Whilst he was relieved to find that he was out looking still, officially, alive, it was difficult for his niece, twentyDetective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee -yearMcAvoy -old Elsa Nyberg, was still alive but the partially clad man who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought to dashed from her flat in the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group early hours of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wifemorning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and his two eldest children and then killed himselfnot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedIt had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511841529135389|title=The Girls Who DisappearedFall|author=Claire DouglasGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home after a night out. As she passed through There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the darkly-wooded Devilart music system installed in The Glass Barn. They's Corridor, a figure appeared d not been in the road. Olivia swerved architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to avoid him and all the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness her three friends high-tech systems Tom had disappearedinsisted upon. Ralph Middleton, who lived in the woods helped her before the police Some of them fought with each other and ambulance arriveddidn't work as reliably as they should. But what It had happened all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to Sally Thornehaving that sort of money, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? too. Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationswimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=1542037239Alan Parks|title=Death To Die in Heels|author=Kitty MurphyJune
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against What first seems like the backdrop unfortunate, accidental death of Dublin's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells a homeless man on the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friendstreets, Robyn, who is about suddenly starts to debut feel like something more sinister as drag queen Mae Banother body is discovered, and then another. What This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queendown and out alcoholic, Evewith no fixed abode, takes to the stage to mock Mae Band he has been for years. As if At the night could not get any worsesame time as facing these possible murders, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in Harry is also dealing with a move to a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdereddifferent police station, yet and the drag communityarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, and only no record of the Guards, accept it as an accidentboy having existed can be found. Fi takes it upon herself to solve Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the mystery as she fears for her friendsother officers where he has been stationed, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1804545600|title=The Dark RoomMonk|author=Tim Sullivan|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone The body in the woods near Bristol was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed nasty shock - a monk strapped to show their murder happened a chair and dumped in a different place ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and time? This the Major Crime Unit establish that this is what happens to Leonard in this storyFather Dominic. He is an ex-crime reporter 'd been missing for a newspaper, few days and since leaving journalism hecertainly hadn's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in t asked permission to leave his own dark room at homeabbey. One of these photographs turns out to show As the team gradually unpick the murder scene of a young woman monk's past it becomes clear that he met some years ago'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotelfriend. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of also been very wealthy but had given it - all up for his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with faith. Why would someone savagely murder him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535X
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