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|isbn=02419961041035021803|title=Coming The Antique Hunter's Guide to Find YouMurder|author=Jane CorryC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=NancyIt's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been convicted of their murderback to the English country village where she grew up. We first meet Nancy outside the courtShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, after Martin receives a life sentenceCarole. The barrister tells her that sheFreya's received a 'silent sentence' - sheformer 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 found guilty of anything but will have back to live with what happened for the rest of village: Arthur, she feels, let her lifedown 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. Of courseAfter the split, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the papers are making rebound from the most love of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet her life, who was murdered) and Freya and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokenJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=15294136801398524085|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and BrunoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's there to see the show with some friendsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all been very carefully choreographed worried but goes badly wrong when- strangely - her husband, KerquelinAlec, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the scriptnot. LuckilyShortly afterwards, his doctor is there Etty and Greg, find the man is whisked away body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in a helicopterthe river. A local doctor (It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as then committed suicide when hecouldn's a senior government employee, t stand the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped inguilt. One daughter The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaywonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=15291963881529900360|title=The TrialGhost Orchid|author=Rob RinderJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that was good Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and honest and looked up to by just about everyoneeven after Alex recovered, so there Sturgis was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileyreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. ThereHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's just one man in t need the frame help of a psychologist only worked for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's not too long before Knight appears in courtpartner, charged with Cliveden's murderwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Knight She knew that the involvement was told something that the best barrister for him man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himnot the Italian. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to But which of them was the contrary.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel178763681X|title=Death in Fine ConditionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in particular a series called Sleuth HoundBelgravia. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes He didn'tweaking' them, t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to add value, in somewhat fraudulent waysdo what he wanted. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Paul ''somehow'' got the background of a photograph on her drug dealerimpression that he's living room walld be at the school to assist Paul, and so she sets about discovering where this collection iswho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and how she can steal it! the problems - are all his own. ItThe one thing he hadn's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too fart expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and what will happen when everyone knows that the owner of police consider that person to be the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947prime suspect.
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|isbn=14483093791529421284|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Laying Out the Bones|author=David MarkKate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a surprise human skeleton came to find that you're deadthe surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, particularly when youwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He're thinking that you're actually on d been a break with your wife known drug user and childrenhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but thatDI Matt Lockyer wasn's what happened to DS Aector McAvoyt convinced. Whilst he Geary was relieved to find that he was stilla townie, officially, alive, it so what was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but There are connections to the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the early hours time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the morning when it was obvious Major Crimes Review Unit (that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - cold cases to you and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorme) investigate.
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|isbn=15291353891529425867|title=The FallLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Gilly MacmillanSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned homeIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. There was no sign D I Ryan Wilkins, son of her husband but opera was playing on the state-Ryan and father of-the-art music system installed in The Glass BarnRyan, is not. TheyHe'd s not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponany of those things. Some He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of them fought with each other shell suits and didntrackies. They't work as reliably as they shouldre usually in lime green or acid yellow. It had all come about through You might wonder if you're being introduced to a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of money, toothe same policing coin. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in Sometimes the swimming pool with a wound to his headcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529431735|title=To Die in JuneThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man more surprising. He'd been exiled on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister Costa del Sol as another body is discovered, and then anothera wanted drug smuggler for a decade. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so The return has come about because he's had a letter from his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abodeex-wife, saying that she's ill and he has been for yearshasn't long to live. At the same time as facing these possible murdersIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Harry is also dealing with a move stripped to his underwear and sent to a different police station, and watery grave in the arrival there boot of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundstolen Ford Sierra. 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 onIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=18045456000861541774|title=The MonkA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tim SullivanSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the woods near Bristol Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a nasty shock street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a monk strapped to man armed with a chair knife - and dumped in he killed a ditchGhurka. He'd been savagely beaten. It's Initially, he faced a while before D S George Cross and charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicman. He'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeyNow he could be facing the death penalty. As the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as an investment banker, brother, neighbour any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and friend. Hewouldn'd also been very wealthy but had given it t help Danny at all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170101521129886|title=Death Under a Little SkyThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stig AbellKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It might 's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have been different if a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the pregnancies hadn't ended baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jakelaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's side struggling to make ends meet and he didn't think there was for Faye eitherher son is not thriving. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - but didnit simply wasn't wish to remain marriedin his nature. The perfect solution arrived in police and the coroner have accepted that the form of a legacy from Jakedeath was suicide, but Stuart's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money prepared to pay Greg to live there without find out what happened on the need to worknight Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyB0CK3MYJ56|title=One Puzzling AfternoonResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old Edie has lived . He used to have a high-flying job in the same small town for almost her whole life, city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now she is facing set himself up as a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', as Edie is starting to lose her memoryyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? However, Edie is tormented by On the memory of her childhood friendother hand, Lucyhe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, who went missing over 60 years agoor rather, and the worry that there they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agotragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. After Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as t understand what she was the last time she saw her, doing there - or how she starts could come to find pockets fall in front of memories coming back to hera train. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day Greg's been asked to day lifeinvestigate. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250
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|isbn=00085512781838954481|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)The Misper|author=Neil LancasterKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of Fyrish, where sheRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'd been doing her trainings no doubt about that. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics He was the fifteen-year- old holding the gun and pointing it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadat DI Kieran Shaw. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came He pulled the trigger but due to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age vagaries of twelve. She was rescued when she the jury system he was carrying a kilo found not guilty of drugs both the murder and three years later she's happy with her foster familythe manslaughter of the officer. There's just one cloud And so lives must go on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a childrenmissing teenager is found on her territory she's home in Tirana drawn into a wider investigation - and anyone could get to herback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|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=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 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re- well, apart enactment of the liberation of the town from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentEnglish in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's now a year since her sonall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, MasonKerquelin, was stolen from his bed in the middle man playing one of the night and Izzy main characters is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning seriously injured when she thought he was sleeping indeparts from the script. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about Luckily, his doctor is there and the caseman is whisked away in a helicopter. She does interviews A local doctor (and when we meet her, shefriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. On the plane backOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, sheis flying in with some of her father's approached by friends for 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 conferencespre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=057137493X1529196388|title=The Other HalfTrial|author=Charlotte VassellRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The room Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two mengood and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, both with what looks like so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the same surnameOld Bailey. Rupert Beauchamp is There's just one man in the heir to a baronetcy and frame for his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredmurder -withJimmy Knight -butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced it'Beechams not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with Knight was told that the Metropolitan police best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and is biit's Taylor-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see itCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie OKnight'Haras determined to plead not guilty, Rupertdespite all Taylor-Cameron's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushrecommendations to the contrary.
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|isbnauthor=0857051741Andrew Cartmel|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Death in Fine Condition|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicseries called Sleuth Hound. The problem is She spends her time hunting out copies that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsshe can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. Raimo Koskela disappeared without One day she discovers a trace near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in 1962. He was the father background of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case photograph on which her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she can take no action: the problem is that sets about discovering where this collection is a dying man, and how she can steal it! It's wish. The situation changes when a postnext-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkarilevel step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection between owner of the two deathscollection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=15294212411448309379|title=Stay BuriedFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Kate WebbDavid Mark|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until It's something of a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you realise 're thinking that ityou's re actually on a cold case unit break with your wife and there are just two of them doing the job. Lockyer's not unduly worriedchildren, though although hebut that's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterwhat happened to DS Aector McAvoy. It Whilst he was a bit of a shock when relieved to find that he got was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the phone call partially clad man who'd dashed from Hedy Lambert: she's her flat in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and the early hours of the morning when it was Lockyer who put obvious that someone was tampering with her therecar, fourteen years agowas not. SheThor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's keen to see him doppelganger - and to tell him not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesPharoah was sweet on Aector.
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|isbn=13997022891529135389|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)The Fall|author=Louise PennyGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, Nicole Booth had spent the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying morning at the arrival of springcounty fair before she returned home. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector JeanThere was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-Guy Beauvoir of -the Sûreté du Québec-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after the murder of her mother: heThey'd not been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jeanin the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-Guy, it tech systems Tom had always been the other way aroundinsisted upon. Now they're both in the village Some of them fought with each other and neither can fathom whatdidn's happeningt work as reliably as they should. Armand will soon find It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his lifehead.
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|author=Joe ThomasAlan Parks|title=White RiotTo Die in June|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always What first seems like the danger unfortunate, accidental death of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture a homeless man on the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer streets, suddenly starts to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historyfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Austerity Britain This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – more so much of what because his own father isa down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has beenfor years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, written in and the immediate aftermath arrival there of these phenomena a woman who claims her little boy has been proven by time to gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately found. Something feels wrong - not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), just with the best writing about current political events is that which is written when woman’s story but also with the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience other officers where he has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn= 15294233761805300784}}
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|isbn=18387761841804545600|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalThe Monk|author=S J BennettTim Sullivan
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like body in the sunrise woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and the tides, was generally dumped in a reliable way of marking timeditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It' It seemed to begin as s a coldwhile before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had He'd been suffering missing for a couple of few days but seemed and certainly hadn't asked permission to be getting betterleave his abbey. Hopefully, As the Queen thought, her cold would go team gradually unpick the same way. Shemonk's past it becomes clear that he'd probably caught it from one of the greatbeen well-grandchildren. Unfortunatelyloved as an investment banker, brother, it didn't get better neighbour and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downfriend. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out also been very wealthy but had to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following daygiven it all up for his faith. It was annoying: people Why would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappoint.someone savagely murder him?
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