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|isbn=15291963881035021803|title=The TrialAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Rob RinderC L Miller|rating=43.5|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=Grant Cliveden Charlotte Salter was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and honest Ollie and looked up to by just about everyoneher daughter, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old BaileyEtty. There's just one man in the frame for his murder are all worried but - Jimmy Knight strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and itGreg, find the body of Greg's not too long before Knight appears father, Duncan Ackerley, in court, charged with Cliveden's murderthe river. Knight It was told an easy assumption for the police to make that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers Duncan had murdered Charlie and itthen committed suicide when he couldn's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himt stand the guilt. Knight's determined to plead The Salter children are not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameronconvinced but there's recommendations to the contrarylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529900360|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIt 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 in particular -shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a series called Sleuth Houndwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She spends her time hunting out copies knew that the involvement was something that the man she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add valueloved needed. The next case did look simple, in somewhat fraudulent waysthough. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them Two lovers were murdered in the background swimming pool of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, married to an extremely rich man and how she can steal it! It's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when not the owner Italian. But which of them was the collection comes looking for their booksprimary target?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=1448309379178763681X|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=David MarkOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's something t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a surprise getting both men and women to find that youdo what he wanted. Paul ''somehow're dead, particularly when you're thinking got the impression that youhe're actually on d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a break with your wife and childrenbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoyway. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. Whilst The one thing he hadn't expected was relieved for someone to find that he was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahturn up dead. Her protegee - McAvoy - Unfortunately, he was still alive but the partially clad man person who'd dashed from her flat in discovered the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - body and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected knows that the police consider that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorperson to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=15291353891529421284|title=The FallLaying Out the Bones|author=Gilly MacmillanKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent It was one of those flash downpours that the morning at the county fair before she returned homeBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on In a gully, a human skeleton came to the state-of-surface and forensic testing proved the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. TheyHe'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long a known drug user and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of them fought with each other and didnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't work as reliably as they shouldconvinced. It had all come about through Geary was a ten-million-pound lottery win townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and they to two other deaths which were still getting used to having that sort of money, toonot considered suspicious at the time. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the swimming pool with a wound Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to his headyou and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529425867|title=To Die in JuneLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like the unfortunateIn Oxford, accidental death there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredNigerian descent, Balliol educated and then anotheralways exquisitely dressed. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyD I Ryan Wilkins, but all the more so because his own son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a down trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and he has been for yearstrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move You might wonder if you're being introduced to a different police stationprocedural written for laughs. Well, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record you're not. The two men are just different sides of the boy having existed can be foundsame policing coin. Something feels wrong - not just with Sometimes 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=1805300784combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=18045456001529431735|title=The MonkWinter Visitor|author=Tim SullivanJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchmore surprising. He'd been savagely beatenexiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It The return has come about because he's had a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish letter from his ex-wife, saying that this is Father Dominic. Heshe'd been missing for a few days s ill and certainly hadnhasn't asked permission long to leave his abbeylive. As the team gradually unpick the monkIt's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankerhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, brother, neighbour stripped to his underwear and friendsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. He'd also been very wealthy but had given Is it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder hima warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=00085170100861541774|title=Death Under a Little SkyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Stig AbellSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended Maik was involved in miscarriages but no one else a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was involved facing a man armed with a knife - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was for Faye eitherkilled a Ghurka. They were still polite Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish light that suggested that he might have planned to remain marriedmurder the man. The perfect solution arrived in Now he could be facing the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurdeath penalty. He'd been left Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - diplomatic incident and enough money to live there without the need to workwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1521129886|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|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 and bring Edie Greg Mason's just beginning to live with get his family, confidence as Edie is starting an investigator to lose her memorythe point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, It's a good job too because Greg and the worry that there was Joyce will soon have a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the thing that reveals baby when she gets past the truth of what happened all that time agomorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. After 'seeingStuart' s concerned about his sister, Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back who's struggling to make ends meet and herson is not thriving. And yet as she remembers the pastLucy, he says, she is forgetting more and more convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in her day to day lifehis nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Will she uncover the truth about Lucybut Stuart's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=0008551278B0CK3MYJ56|title=Blood Runs Cold Responsibilities (D S Max CraigieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from It's the bottom of Fyrish, where she1990s and Greg Mason'd been doing her trainings twenty-eight years old. She'd been a bit of He used to have a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics high- and flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now looks set himself up as though she could a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be heading for the national squadthinking. ThatNice bloke, but where's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seethe life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, Affo came he has been asked to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelvelook into something. She Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later shekilled in what's happy with her foster familybeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. There's just one cloud on her horizon: Joyce - and her little sisterparents, Melodi is Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a childrentrain. Greg's home in Tirana - and anyone could get been asked to herinvestigate.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1838954481|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if wellRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-regarded literary short novelsold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Sorry He pulled the trigger but due to leave her bottles the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with both the latest hot shot in murder and the world manslaughter of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writethe officer. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationAnd so lives must go on. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a wintry month away from it all. Just quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the lack orbit of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=13985095821448309743|title=The FavourDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Nicci FrenchCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 amIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, not long after A levels, when the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. Liam was The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the reversestone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. He just acted The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'as if life just rolled him over and carried him alongdiscovered''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didn't worry him at allbody. The relationship broke up soon after that - or ratherSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Liam simply didnDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 't see Jude any moreshadow' him.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1529077699|title=Her Deadly GameThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life''It's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in defence the middle of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent autumn gale, stayed for the lawabout a month and then turned up, naked and dead, Patsy also has in a gift for drinking himself small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the formervillage of Greystone, in Devon. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in Rosco had the hideous position status of asking her father for a job at national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the family firm because world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a romantic entanglement little bit close with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southmoney and his background isn't exactly an open book.|isbn=1662500181 Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=00084049761529427045|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Jane CaseyKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1787636607|title=Promise BoysThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the principal (headmaster) morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the police station night bus that will only go as far as suspectsone of the outlying villages. EachThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', seeminglyparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, has the final stop on the bus leaves her a grudge long way short of some description against Principal Moore, her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and each could have been there at collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the time of bus driver to let her use his murder. But who killed him, There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15291259601405957174|title=Unnatural HistoryA Death at the Party|author=Jonathan KellermanAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. Well, it was AdonisFrom the first page, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itwe know that Nadine Walsh's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartparty will not end well. The PA, Mel Gornick, victim - a man - is distraught dying when we first meet him and it falls Nadine consciously makes no effort to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as call the ambulance he tries to establish what's happenedso desperately needs. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers'What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. HeI'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them better give you a little more background so that you can understand what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarss happening.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0008530025|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the start body of her maternity leave when there is a brutalstepfather, Luke Ryder, shocking murder in the garden of their West London home. He had an expectant woman in Dunedininjury 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. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womenTwenty years later, no one has been charged with all his murder and it's now the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfsubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let A group of experts has been brought together to review the case go evidence and she starts to follow every thread take the investigation further. More to uncover whatthe point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's actually happening, no dump of the whole box set - and the increasingly disturbing worry no shortage of just what might happen nextcliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544930241996104|title=All the Dangerous ThingsComing to Find You|author=Stacy WillinghamJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnNancy't really slept for a year s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step- wellbrother, Martin, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track has been convicted of time or drifted off for a momenttheir murder. It's now We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping inlife sentence. In The barrister tells her that year she's done everything received a 'silent sentence' - she could 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to raise awareness about live with what happened for the caserest of her life. She does interviews and when we meet herOf course, sheit's made worse because Nancy's just been to TrueCrimeCon where rich - she gave a keynote presentationinherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=057137493X1529413680|title=The Other HalfA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Charlotte VassellMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The room was full One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the sort liberation of people the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno''Tatler'' thinks you should knows there to see the show with some friends. It'' ''The Other Half'' is s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the story man playing one of two men, both with what looks like the same surnamemain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Rupert Beauchamp Luckily, his doctor is there and the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party man is whisked away in a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townhelicopter. Think Bollinger A local doctor (and cocaine. His surname is pronounced friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is s a detective inspector with senior government employee, the Metropolitan police and is biman who runs Frenchelon -racialthe military has stepped in. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when CaiusOne daughter lives nearby and another, out for a runwho lives in California, stumbles across the body is flying in with some of Clemmie O'Hara, Ruperther father's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late friends for his party. She was dead under a bushpre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=08570517411529196388|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationTrial|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only Grant Cliveden was a few weeks hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to live but by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found was murdered in a freezer plain sight at the home of a deceased alcoholicOld Bailey. The problem is that There's just one man in the case has frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace before Knight appears in 1962court, charged with Cliveden's murder. He Knight was told that the father best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Olympic boxing champion Borje StromStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Rebecka wants nothing Knight's determined to do with a fifty-yearplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying manCameron's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, recommendations to the dead alcoholic, was also murderedcontrary. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbnauthor=1529421241Andrew Cartmel|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbDeath in Fine Condition|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itfor profit, sometimes 'tweaking's actually them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a cold case unit and there are just two near perfect collection of these books after seeing them doing in the job. Lockyerbackground of a photograph on her drug dealer's not unduly worriedliving room wall, though although he's not quite and so sure she sets about DC Gemma Broad: discovering where this collection is, and how she's probably capable of something better. can steal it! It was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's a next-level step in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her therepetty crime career, but has she reached too far, fourteen years ago. She's keen to see him and to tell him that what will happen when the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but owner of the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away collection comes looking for decades.their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=13997022891448309379|title=A World of Curiosities Flesh and Blood (Chief Inspector GamacheDS McAvoy 11)|author=Louise PennyDavid Mark|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After It's something of a harsh wintersurprise to find that you're dead, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québecchildren, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. Gamache had offered help Whilst he was relieved to a young woman after the murder of her mother: find that he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherwas still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. For JeanHer protegee -Guy, it had always been McAvoy - was still alive but the other way around. Now theypartially clad man who're both d dashed from her flat in the village and neither can fathom whatearly hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's happeningdoppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. Armand will soon find It had always been suspected that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifePharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529135389|title=White RiotThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always Nicole Booth had spent the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture morning at the spirit of the momentcounty fair before she returned home. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist There was no sign of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britain, her husband but opera was playing on the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much state-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 -art music system installed 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=''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking timeGlass Barn. They'' It seemed to begin as a cold. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had d not been suffering in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for a couple of days but seemed long and were still getting used to be getting better. Hopefully, all the Queen thought, her cold would go the same wayhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. She'd probably caught it from one Some of the great-grandchildren. Unfortunately, it them fought with each other and didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown fluwork as reliably as they should. She It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and the Duke they were due still getting used to go to Sandringham by train having that day but the doctor put his foot downsort of money, too. He'd have preferred that Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the queen have swimming pool with a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had wound to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappointhis head.
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|isbnauthor=0861541995Alan Parks|title=Wolf Pack|author=Will DeanTo Die in June|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on What first seems like the road north unfortunate, accidental death of Visberg. She sees blood a homeless man on the road streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and a creature on its side near the pine treesthen another. It will turn This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out to be Broncoalcoholic, a Swedish Elkhoundwith no fixed abode, who and he has been attacked by a wolffor years. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerAt the same time as facing these possible murders, Bengt NybergHarry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, to and the vet. Bronco didn't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, arrival there of a woman who had claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought to Something feels wrong - not just with the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists woman’s story but back in 1987 also with the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn childother officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nybergwhat is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=14059511841804545600|title=The Girls Who DisappearedMonk|author=Claire DouglasTim Sullivan|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back The body in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford the woods near Bristol was driving her three friends home after a night outnasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilHe'd been savagely beaten. It's Corridor, a figure appeared in while before D S George Cross and the roadMajor Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Olivia swerved He'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to avoid him and the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trappedleave his abbey. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, who lived in As the woods helped her before team gradually unpick the police monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and ambulance arrivedfriend. But what He'd also been very wealthy but had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? given it all up for his faith. Their disappearance Why would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relation.someone savagely murder him?
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