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|isbn=00085300251035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder |author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the Familyprofession 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=Cara HunterNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was in December 2003 that fifteenexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Maura Howard came home her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and found Greg, find the body of her stepfatherGreg's father, Luke RyderDuncan Ackerley, in the garden of their West London homeriver. He had It was an injury on easy assumption for the back of his head which could have happened if police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd slipped down t stand the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberateguilt. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and itThe Salter children are not convinced but there's now the subject of ''Infamous'', 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, little else they're going to can do this live but get on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - with their lives and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=02419961041529900360|title=Coming to Find YouThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jane CorryJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=NancyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's mother fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brothereven after Alex recovered, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentenceSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. The barrister tells her His assertions that she's received a 'silent sentence' there were only open-and- sheshut cases which didn's not been found guilty t need the help of anything but will have to live with what happened a psychologist only worked for the rest of her lifea while. Of courseFinally, itwas Robin, Delaware's made worse because Nancy's rich - partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the papers are making the most swimming pool of ita remote property in Bel Air. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is one favourite epithet married to an extremely rich man and it''rich bitch'' might s not be printed but is undoubtedly spokenthe Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1529413680178763681X|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin WalkerOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the town from the English in 1370 getting both men and Bruno's there women to see the show with some friendsdo what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow''s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, got the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when impression that he departs from 'd be at the scriptschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Luckily, his doctor is there The teaching - and the man is whisked away in a helicopterproblems - are all his own. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as The one thing hehadn's a senior government employeet expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the man person who runs Frenchelon - discovered the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby body and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidayeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=15291963881529421284|title=The TrialLaying Out the Bones|author=Rob RinderKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a hero: heatwave. In a policeman who stood for all that was good gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and honest and looked up forensic testing proved the body to by just about everyonebe Lee Geary, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileywho had disappeared nine years earlier. ThereHe's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's not too long before Knight appears in courtt convinced. Geary was a townie, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight so what was told that he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron suicide of Stag Court Chambers Holly Gilbert and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. KnightLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's determined cold cases to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contraryyou and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529425867|title=Death in Fine ConditionLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndalways exquisitely dressed. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitD I Ryan Wilkins, sometimes 'tweaking' themson of Ryan and father of Ryan, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent waysis not. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a photograph on her drug dealertrailer park, barely educated (reading's living room wall, not ''really'' his thing) and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and how she can steal it! trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. ItYou might wonder if you's re being introduced to a next-level step in her petty crime careerpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when you're not. The two men are just different sides of the owner of same policing coin. Sometimes the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=14483093791529431735|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)The Winter Visitor|author=David MarkJames Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something of a surprise to find that you're deadFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, particularly when youwhich made Bruce Hopkins're thinking that youreturn all the more surprising. He're actually d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a break with your letter from his ex-wife and children, but saying thatshe's what happened ill and hasn't long to DS Aector McAvoylive. Whilst he was relieved It's hard to find that he was stillfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the early hours boot of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was nota stolen Ford Sierra. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=15291353890861541774|title=The FallA Nye of Pheasants|author=Gilly MacmillanSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned homeDCI 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. There Maik was no sign of her husband but opera involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was playing on the statefacing a man armed with a knife -and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of-manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnman. They'd not been in Now he could be facing the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upondeath penalty. Some of them fought with each other Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and didnwouldn't work as reliably as they should. It had help Danny at all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks1521129886|title=To Die in JuneThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts Greg Mason's just beginning to feel like something more sinister get his confidence as another body is discovered, and then anotheran investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so It's a good job too because his own father is Greg and Joyce will soon have a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, baby and he has been for yearsthey're both delighted. At Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry morning sickness. Greg is also dealing with a move approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to a different police stationhave killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundson is not thriving. Something feels wrong Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - not just with it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the woman’s story but also with coroner have accepted that the other officers where he has been stationeddeath was suicide, but can Harry uncover just Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what is going happened on?|isbn=1805300784the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1804545600B0CK3MYJ56|title=The MonkResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Tim SullivanAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in It's the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty- a monk strapped eight years old. He used to have a chair and dumped high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a ditchprivate investigator. He'd been savagely beatenShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. ItNice bloke, but where's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish life experience that backs up this is Father Dominic. profession? He'd On the other hand, he has been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeylook into something. As the team gradually unpick the monkJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved written off as a tragic accident at an investment bankerunmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, brother, neighbour Oliver and friendPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. HeGreg'd also s been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faithasked to investigate. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170101838954481|title=Death Under a Little SkyThe Misper|author=Stig AbellKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It might have been different if He pulled the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages trigger but no one else due to the vagaries of the jury system he was involved - certainly found not on Jake's side guilty of both the murder and he didn't think there was for Faye eitherthe manslaughter of the officer. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain marriedAnd so lives must go on. The perfect solution arrived For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the form of countryside but when a legacy from Jakemissing teenager is found on her territory she's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left drawn into a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky wider investigation - and enough money to live there without back into the need to workorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1448309743|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in In the village of Cronchie on the same small town for almost her whole lifeWest coast of Scotland, but now she is facing five members of a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his wealthy family, as Edie is starting to lose her memoryare found murdered. However, Edie The only item missing from the home is tormented by the memory of her childhood friendDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, Lucydeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy 's an easy conclusion given that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth two of what happened all that time ago. After them 'seeingdiscovered' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to herbody. And yet as she remembers the past The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, she DCI Christine Caplan is forgetting more and more pulled in her day to day life'shadow' him. 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=00085512781529077699|title=Blood Runs Cold The Raging Storm (D S Max CraigieTwo Rivers)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of Fyrish''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, where sheSir?'d been doing her training. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and Well yes, it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadis. That's quite Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an achievement autumn gale, stayed for someone with her background: you seeabout a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, Affo came anchored in Scully Cove close to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age village of twelveGreystone, in Devon. She was rescued when she was carrying Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a kilo of drugs renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and three years later sheall round ''celebrity''s happy with her foster family. ThereI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterll find out, Melodi is in he could be more than a childrenlittle bit close with money and his background isn's home in Tirana - and anyone could t exactly an open book. Where did he get to her.the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1529427045|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well''Life has more to offer than people -regarded literary short novelsprime numbers for example''. Sorry Lisbeth Salander has headed north to leave her bottles the small town of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairGasskas, she flukes her way into where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a public argument with gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest hot shot woman in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writearea to have vanished without trace. Cue the bet It was only with reluctance that she cannot live up to Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she Svala is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for part Salander played in her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyfather's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615death.
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|isbn=13985095821787636607|title=The FavourTrap|author=Nicci FrenchCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when 's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the car crash happenedmorning. It would cause problems Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togethera way to get home. She was utterly driven by her determination Some are lucky and manage to go to medical schoolget one of the few taxis available. Liam was Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the reverseoutlying villages. He just acted The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'as if life just rolled him over and carried him along, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. A bit of weed hereFor one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a few drinks there: long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the legal effects of chance to beg the car crash really didn't worry him at allbus driver to let her use his. The relationship broke up soon after that There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high- or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any moreheeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1405957174|title=Her Deadly GameA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been From the lifefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh'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 clientsparty will not end well. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has The victim - a gift for drinking himself to oblivion man - is dying when we first meet him and inevitably the latter was beginning Nadine consciously makes no effort to overshadow call the formerambulance he so desperately needs. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor What we don't know is who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049760008530025|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Murder in the Family|author=Jane CaseyCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because 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. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan 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 DI Josh Derwent were living it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together in Jellicoe Closeto 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.}}
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks0241996104|title=Promise BoysComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=When 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 principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murderedcourt, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspectsafter Martin receives a life sentence. Each, seemingly, has The barrister tells her that she's received a grudge 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of some description against Principal Moore, and each could anything but will have been there at to live with what happened for the time rest of his murderher life. But who killed him, and whyOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and if any of the boys papers are innocent, will they making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15291259601529413680|title=Unnatural HistoryA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Jonathan KellermanMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographerOne 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 Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. Well It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, it was AdonisKerquelin, actually, but Donny had stuck unless the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his beddeparts from the script. Three shots were placed neatly through Luckily, his heartdoctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught A local doctor (and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets One daughter lives nearby and asked them what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasyanother, who lives in California, photographed and sent on their way is flying in with some of her father's friends for a generous gift in dollarspre-arranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529196388|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is Grant Cliveden was a hero: a brutalpoliceman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, shocking murder of an expectant woman so there was public uproar when he was murdered in Dunedinplain sight at the Old Bailey. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled There's just one man in the hunt frame for a killer targeting pregnant womenhis murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with all Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfbest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just canKnight't let the case go and she starts s determined to follow every thread to uncover whatplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's actually happening, and recommendations to the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextcontrary.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbnauthor=0008454493Andrew Cartmel|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy WillinghamDeath in Fine Condition|rating=4.53
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't Cordelia really slept for a year - wellloves classic paperback crime fiction, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for and in particular a momentseries called Sleuth Hound. ItShe spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking's now a year since her sonthem, Masonto add value, was stolen from his bed in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the middle background of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about a photograph on her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year shedrug dealer's done everything living room wall, and so she could to raise awareness sets about the case. She does interviews discovering where this collection is, and when we meet her, how shecan steal it! It's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane backnext-level step in her petty crime career, but has she's approached by a podcasterreached too far, 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 conferences.what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=057137493X1448309379|title=The Other HalfFlesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=Charlotte VassellDavid Mark|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''The room was full s something of the sort of people a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you'Tatler'' thinks re thinking that you should know.'re actually on a break with your wife and children, but that' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two men, both with s what looks like the same surnamehappened to DS Aector McAvoy. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir Whilst he was relieved to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredfind that he was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee -withMcAvoy -butler event at McDonalds was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see early hours of the morning when itwas obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie O'Hara, RupertThor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's girlfrienddoppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. Rupert thought It had always been suspected that she Pharoah was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushsweet on Aector.
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|isbn=08570517411529135389|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationFall|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate Nicole Booth had spent the case of a body found in a freezer morning at the county fair before she returned home of a deceased alcoholic. The problem is that There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the case has long passed state-of-the statute of limitations-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace They'd not been in 1962the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. He was the father Some of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromthem fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. Rebecka wants nothing to do with It had all come about through a fiftyten-yearmillion-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that this is a dying man's wishsort of money, too. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry PekkariEventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the dead alcoholic, was also murderedswimming pool with a wound to his head. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbnauthor=1529421241Alan Parks|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbTo Die in June|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually a cold case unit discovered, and there are just two of them doing the jobthen another. Lockyer's not unduly worriedThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, though although and he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterhas been for years. It was At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a bit move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer woman who put claims her therelittle boy has gone missing, fourteen years agoonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. She's keen to see him and to tell him that Something feels wrong - not just with the man everyone thought she'd murdered - woman’s story but also with the body turned out to be someone else - other officers where he has returned home after being away for decades.been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=13997022891804545600|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)The Monk|author=Louise PennyTim Sullivan
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|genre=Crime
|summary=After The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a harsh winter, ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines Major Crime Unit establish that this is enjoying the arrival of springFather Dominic. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache He'd been missing for a few days and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québeccertainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after As the team gradually unpick the murder of her mother: monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been less certain about her charismatic well-loved as an investment banker, brother. For Jean-Guy, it had always been the other way around. Now they're both in the village neighbour and neither can fathom what's happeningfriend. Armand will soon find that theyHe're not just in Three Pines d also been very wealthy but in his home and in had given it all up for his lifefaith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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