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|isbn=17857692941786482126|title=Man at the Window The Janus Stone (Detective CardiliniDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Robert JeffreysElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's apartments - when we read that they discovered the bones of a young boy is creeping reluctantly to child beneath a teacher's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrongdoorway. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this There was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the childno skull. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit in the most horrific fashionWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When he reached Captain EdmundIt's bedroom he found the man dead on the floordifficult as Ruth knows, the top of his skull missing. The schoolbut Nelson doesn's initial reaction was t, that this was a dreadful accident: there had been she is pregnant with his child as a cull result of kangaroos in the one night they spent together some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed the Captainthree months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=14722557980008551324|title=The Bad Fire Devil You Know (Bob SkinnerD S Max Craigie)|author=Quintin JardineNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her own life after being accused death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of shoplifting from a local supermarkethis sentence and to get an early parole date. It Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's always been assumed even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that she couldnDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't live with s happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the shameFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before She was never found and the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight investigation ground to clear a halt. Now, her namemother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. She said that she Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd been set up because she was hot on s something about the trail positioning of corruption in the councilbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Her ex What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as retired Police Constable Bob SkinnerDerwent's daughterboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and asked that she look into clearing BrownStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's name: italso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's something which drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he has 's not like most men: Edward is left to do stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in memory Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of his son who was murdered recentlyunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15294022551035021803|title=A Body in the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Helen CoxC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Evie Bowes 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 very conscious of dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the scars on village: Arthur, she feels, let her facedown badly. They Even though they were acquired when in business together as antique hunters, she was rescued from a car in has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the River Ouse by Inspector Halloranprofession she loved. She’d been suspected of After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the murder love of her boyfriendlife, 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=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Owensons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the process of clearing her name she river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and her best friendeven after Alex recovered, Kitt Hartley developed a taste Sturgis was reluctant to ask for detectionhis help on difficult cases. Kitt developed His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a taste psychologist only worked for Inspector Halloran Tooa while. Finally, but they’re taking it slowlywas Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. WellShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, sort though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of slowlya remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178763681X
|title=Knife Skills for Beginners
|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529421284
|title=Laying Out the Bones
|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529425867
|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)
|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529431735
|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'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 letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0861541774
|title=A Nye of Pheasants
|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI 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. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing 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 man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1521129886
|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)
|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg 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's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56
|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)
|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838954481
|title=The Misper
|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan 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. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1448309743
|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)
|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the 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 little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=02419851101529427045|title=All The Girl in the Rage (D Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of 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 night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a 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 chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I Fawley)'d better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family
|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A very beautifulIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on in the outskirts garden of Oxfordtheir West London home. She didnHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he't want to go to d slipped down the police station or steps but the hospital: she just wanted to be vicious beating his face had taken homewas obviously deliberate. The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policeTwenty years later, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford no one has been charged with his murder and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Foolit's joke which had gone wrongnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. No crime had A group of experts has been committed brought together to review the evidence and Faith didn't want to take the matter any investigation further. Fawley and his team werenMore to the point, they't prepared re going to leave it at that do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and they began investigatingno shortage of cliffhangers. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didnIt't seem to have much of a historys compelling viewing.
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|isbn=15420154210241996104|title=The Royal Baths MurderComing to Find You|author=J R EllisJane Corry|rating=34.5|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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant man. In fact the only surprising thing was that town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there wasn't more of a queue waiting to do see the dirty deedshow with some friends. What was a bit It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer and that the main characters is seriously injured when he was strangled in departs from the midst of Harrogate's crime writing festivalscript. He went for a swim at the Royal Baths and never returnedLuckily, his body being found by doctor is there and the receptionistman is whisked away in a helicopter. DCI Jim Oldroyd was A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man tasked with investigating who runs Frenchelon - the crimemilitary has stepped in. It would not be the only death, One daughter lives nearby and it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeantanother, Andy Carterwho lives in California, that Oldroydis flying in with some of her father's was not one of themfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|authorisbn= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)1529196388|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it'It Would Be Night s not too long before Knight appears in Caracascourt, charged with Cliveden'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelas murder. It begins with Knight was told that the death best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Adelaida FalconStag Court Chambers and it's mother Taylor-Cameron and chronicles Adelaidahis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's coming determined to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to escape itthe contrary. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867
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