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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1035021803|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth HoundIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She spends 's back now because of a request for help from her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitbeloved aunt, sometimes Carole. Freya'tweakings former mentor and Carole' thems close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayssay the least. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wallvillage: Arthur, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isfeels, and how she can steal it! let her down badly. It's a next-level step Even though they were in her petty crime careerbusiness together as antique hunters, but she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she reached too farworked in a cafe, met and what will happen when married James (on the owner rebound from the love of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=14483093791398524085|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=David MarkNicci French|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's something of a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife and children, fiftieth birthday party but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoynever turned up. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillHer children, officiallysons Niall, alivePaul and Ollie and her daughter, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish PharoahEtty. Her protegee are all worried but - McAvoy strangely - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carhusband, Alec, was is not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindlyfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on Aectorwith their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=15291353891529900360|title=The FallGhost Orchid|author=Gilly MacmillanJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband been badly injured but opera he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was playing reluctant to ask for his help on the statedifficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-ofand-shut cases which didn't need the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. TheyFinally, it was Robin, Delaware'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponhelp again. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they shouldShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of moneyThe next case did look simple, toothough. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool with of a wound remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to his headan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks178763681X|title=To Die in JuneKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and then anotherwomen to do what he wanted. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and . The one thing he has been hadn't expected was for yearssomeone to turn up dead. At the same time as facing these possible murdersUnfortunately, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and he was the arrival there of a woman person who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of discovered the body and everyone knows that the boy having existed can police consider that person to be foundthe prime suspect. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=18045456001529421284|title=The MonkLaying Out the Bones|author=Tim SullivanKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in It was one of those flash downpours that the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped British weather often delivers in a ditchheatwave. He'd been savagely beaten. It's In a gully, a while before D S George Cross human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been missing for a few days known drug user and certainly hadnhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't asked permission convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to leave his abbeythe suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. As Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the team gradually unpick the monkMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour cold cases to you and friend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faithme) investigate. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170101529425867|title=Death Under a Little SkyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stig AbellSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadnHe't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly s not on Jakeany of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's side not ''really'' his thing) and he didnhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They't think there was re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for Faye eitherlaughs. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well - but didnWell, you't wish to remain marriedre not. The perfect solution arrived in two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurcombination works brilliantly well. HeSometimes it'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to works problematic.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529431735|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house It's February 1991 and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie Essex is starting to lose her memory. Howeverbitingly cold, Edie is tormented by which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, 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 all that time agomore surprising. After He'seeing' Lucy in d been exiled on the high street, just Costa del Sol as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to hera wanted drug smuggler for a decade. And yet as she remembers the pastThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she is forgetting more 's ill and more in her day hasn't long to day lifelive. Will she uncover the truth about LucyIt's disappearance before her movehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and before her memories are gone foreversent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=1804181250
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|isbn=00085512780861541774|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Neil LancasterSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of FyrishDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, where she'd been doing her trainingGuy Trueman. She'd been Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a bit of man armed with a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics knife - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadhe killed a Ghurka. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeInitially, Affo he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the age of twelveman. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familyNow he could be facing the death penalty. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a childrendiplomatic incident and wouldn's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to hert help Danny at all.
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|authorisbn=1521129886|title=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=Thirty Days of DarknessKeith Redfern|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry investigator to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying point where he'll warn someone about how much hecharges. It's populist trash a good job too because Greg and only writing what anyone could writeJoyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Cue Joyce will be more delighted about the bet that baby when she cannot live up gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to that accusationhave killed himself. Her publisher duly books Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her flights from Denmark to Icelandson is not thriving. Lucy, he says, where she is put up for a wintry month away from convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it allsimply wasn't in his nature. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people The police and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes coroner have accepted that the landladydeath was suicide, but Stuart's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1398509582B0CK3MYJ56|title=The FavourResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Nicci FrenchAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when 's the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he 1990s and Jude Winter were togetherGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. She was utterly driven by her determination He used to go to medical school. Liam was have a high-flying job in the reverse. He just acted city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as if life just rolled him over and carried him alonga private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. A bit of weed hereNice bloke, a few drinks there: but where's the legal effects of life experience that backs up this profession? On the car crash really didnother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what't worry him s been written off as a tragic accident at allan unmanned level crossing. The relationship broke up soon after that Joyce - or ratherand her parents, Liam simply didnOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't see Jude any moreunderstand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1838954481|title=Her Deadly GameThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientsdoubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Along with an indisputable talent for He pulled the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself trigger but due to oblivion the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow manslaughter of the formerofficer. And so lives must go on. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself hoping for a quieter life in the hideous position of asking countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her father for territory she's drawn into a job at wider investigation - and back into the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761448309743|title=The Close Devil Stone (DS Maeve KerriganDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Jane CaseyCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close. If you're a regular reader of The only item missing from the home is the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read Devil Stone: myth says that sentence twice and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there the stone is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems veryremoved from Otterburn House, very realdeath will follow. But (thereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's always a 'butan easy conclusion given that two of them ', isndiscovered't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rockybody. As for Maeve The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, sheDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainhim.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529077699|title=Promise BoysThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the principal (headmaster) middle of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedan autumn gale, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Eachstayed for about a month and then turned up, seeminglynaked and dead, has in a grudge of some description against Principal Mooresmall boat, and each could have been there at anchored in Scully Cove close to the time village of his murderGreystone, in Devon. But who killed himRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and whyall round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and if any of his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their namestrip?|isbn=1035003155
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|isbn=15291259601529427045|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Jonathan KellermanKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Well Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever where the so-far- it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his beduntapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish whatSalander's happened. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called niece''The Wishers''. He'd taken eight homeless people off s mother is the latest woman in the streets and asked them what they'd really like area to behave vanished without trace. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a generous gift remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in dollarsher father's death.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1787636607|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It's a scene replicated all too often in the start early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of her maternity leave when there is clubs and looking for a brutal, shocking murder way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of an expectant woman in Dunedinthe outlying villages. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselffinal stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Finding herself put on desk duties, which She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she rails against, she just can't let had the case go and she starts chance to follow every thread beg the bus driver to uncover whatlet her use his. There's actually happening, no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextin high-heeled shoes.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931405957174|title=All A Death at the Dangerous ThingsParty|author=Stacy WillinghamAmy Stuart|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh't really slept for a year - s party will not end well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now The victim - a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy man - is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing dying when we first meet him and particularly about her relief in Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the morning when she thought ambulance he was sleeping inso desperately needs. In that year sheWhat we don's done everything she could t know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to raise awareness about the casehave him die. She does interviews and when we meet her, sheI's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave d better give you a keynote presentation. On the plane back, shelittle more background so that you can understand what's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferenceshappening.
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|isbn=057137493X0008530025|title=The Other HalfMurder in the Family|author=Charlotte VassellCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it'The room was full of s now the sort subject of people ''TatlerInfamous'' thinks you should know, a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}}
{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'The Other Halfsilent sentence'- she' is the story s not been found guilty of two men, both anything but will have to live with what looks like happened for the same surnamerest of her life. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich -withshe inherited five million pounds from her mother -butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocainethe papers are making the most of it. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police one favourite epithet and is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushrich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=08570517411529413680|title=The Sins A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationPolice Novel)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Martin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is going to investigate the case re-enactment of a body found in a freezer at the home liberation of a deceased alcoholic. The problem is that the case has long passed town from the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace English in 19621370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. He was It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the father man playing one of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: Luckily, his doctor is there and the problem is that this man is whisked away in a dying manhelicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's wish. The situation changes when a postsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -mortem establishes that the military has stepped in. Henry PekkariOne daughter lives nearby and another, the dead alcoholicwho lives in California, was also murderedis flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212411529196388|title=Stay BuriedThe Trial|author=Kate WebbRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that it's actually a cold case unit was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there are just two of them doing was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the jobOld Bailey. LockyerThere's not unduly worried, though although hejust one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: shetoo long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's probably capable of something bettermurder. It Knight was told that the best barrister for him was a bit Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheStag Court Chambers and it's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder Taylor- Cameron and it was Lockyer his pupil, Adam Green, who put her there, fourteen years agoeventually represent him. SheKnight's keen determined to see him and plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadescontrary.
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|isbnauthor=1399702289Andrew Cartmel|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyDeath in Fine Condition|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=After Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springseries called Sleuth Hound. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du QuébecShe spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. Gamache had offered help to One day she discovers a young woman near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the murder background of a photograph on her mother: hedrug dealer'd been less certain s living room wall, and so she sets about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guydiscovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it had always been the other way around. ! Now theyIt're both s a next-level step in the village her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and neither can fathom what's happening. Armand will soon find that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his life.happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1448309379|title=White RiotFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David Mark|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always the danger something of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes a surprise to find that donyou'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 Britain, the student riots, Donald Trumpre dead, Brexit – so much of what is, and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to 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 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 view.|isbn= 1529423376}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1838776184|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal|author=S J Bennett|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=you're thinking that you'The Queen, like the sunrise re actually on a break with your wife and the tideschildren, was generally a reliable way of marking time.but that'' It seemed s what happened to begin as a coldDS Aector McAvoy. Hardly surprisingWhilst he was relieved to find that he was still, reallyofficially, as Prince Philip had been suffering alive, it was difficult for a couple of days but seemed to be getting betterDetective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Hopefully, Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. Shepartially clad man who'd probably caught it dashed from one her flat in the early hours of the great-grandchildrenmorning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Unfortunately, it didnThor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed fulls doppelganger -blown flu. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downnot everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but It had to be satisfied with the thought always been suspected that they'd go by helicopter the following day. It Pharoah was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappointsweet on Aector.
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|isbn=08615419951529135389|title=Wolf PackThe Fall|author=Will DeanGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the road north of Visbergcounty fair before she returned home. She sees blood There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the road and a creature on its side near state-of-the pine trees-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. It will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who has They'd not been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, were still getting used to all the vethigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Bronco Some of them fought with each other and didn't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twentywork as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-yearmillion-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm pound lottery win and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought they were still getting used to the forehaving that sort of money, too. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists but back Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered swimming pool with a wound to his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himselfhead. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbnauthor=1405951184Alan Parks|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998What first seems like the unfortunate, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after accidental death of a night out. As she passed through homeless man on the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridorstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, a figure appeared in the roadand then another. Olivia swerved to avoid him and This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the car smashed into more so because his own father is a treedown and out alcoholic, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middletonwith no fixed abode, who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedhe has been for years. But what had happened At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to Sally Thornea different police station, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area arrival there of Wiltshirea woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relation.Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=15420372391804545600|title=Death in HeelsThe Monk|author=Kitty MurphyTim Sullivan|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against The body in the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, ''Death woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in Heelsa ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It' tells s a while before D S George Cross and the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who Major Crime Unit establish that this is about to debut as drag queen Mae BFather Dominic. What is meant to be He'd been missing for a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to mock Mae Bleave his abbey. As if the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that Eve was murderedhe'd been well-loved as an investment banker, yet the drag communitybrother, neighbour and the Guards, accept it as an accidentfriend. Fi takes He'd also been very wealthy but had given it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears all up for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperhis faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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