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|isbn=17860756951786482126|title=When The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 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 his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Dead Come Calling Family (Burrowhead Mysteries 1Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Helen SedgwickJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the children's playgroundsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It She was Dr Alexis Crosse never found and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason the investigation ground to mistrust hima halt. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceNow, her mother, Helena, but such professions and her father are misunderstood dead in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)their bed. Initially, it looks like a community which regards anyone not born straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and brought up there her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an outsideropen-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. DI Georgie Strachan Kerrigan is an outsider - youconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent've only got to look at her skin to realise thats boss, and her husbandUna 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, Fergusobsessed with his upper-class friends, well, heRobert and Stanza. Robert's a little strange tootheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, not entirely 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 drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'here's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=The Honjin MurdersLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To many readersWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the phrase 'locked room murder mysteryAI 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 enough suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to make solve the book one to read; preferably quantified by case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the words case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter'clevers Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It' or 'goods 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. For those who need moreFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, here is dead and the extra background – we're in rural Japan in circumstances seem suspicious, to say the 1930sleast. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although Arthur was the whole affair is really reason why Freya had not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned upbeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing let her family, for one thingdown badly. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead Even though they were in business together as plannedantique hunters, only for the wedded couple she has not felt able to be slashed to death in their private annex before near the man or pursue the sun rises on their marriageprofession she loved. What with After the split, she worked in a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhoodcafe, met and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at married James (on the rebound from the time love of the crimeher life, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Will Dean 1398524085|title=Black River Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifedaughter, returning Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her to husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the isolated town body of Gavrik and into a desperate search Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for her missing best friend. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the dark pines of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendguilt. But who’ll be The Salter children are not convinced but there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=17857692941529900360|title=Man 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 even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the 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 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?}}{{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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Window (Detective Cardilini)Bones|author=Robert JeffreysKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly to a teacher's bedroom was one October night that we realise something is badly wrong. Nowadays you ''might'' hope of those flash downpours that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the child. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit British weather often delivers in the most horrific fashiona heatwave. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found In a gully, a human skeleton came to the man dead on surface and forensic testing proved the floorbody to be Lee Geary, the top of his skull missingwho had disappeared nine years earlier. The schoolHe's initial reaction was that this was d been a dreadful accident: there known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a cull simple case of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was obviously a stray bullet 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 had killed were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the CaptainMajor 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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|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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14722557981787636607|title=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Trap|author=Quintin JardineCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of shoplifting from clubs and looking for a local supermarketway to get home. It's always been assumed that she couldn't live with Some are lucky and manage to get one of the shamefew taxis available. People were surprised Others squash onto the night bus that she committed suicide just before will only go as far as one of the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight to clear her nameoutlying villages. She said that she The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'd been set up because she was hot . For one young woman, the final stop on the trail bus leaves her a long way short of corruption in the councilher home. Her ex She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinnerbut her phone's daughter, and asked that dead. The bus had driven off before she look into clearing Brownhad the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's name: it's something which he feels that he has no option but to do start walking - unsuitably clothed and in memory of his son who was murdered recentlyhigh-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15294022551405957174|title=A Body in Death at the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Party|author=Helen CoxAmy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious of From the scars on her facefirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. They were acquired The victim - a man - is dying when she was rescued from a car in we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the River Ouse by Inspector Halloranambulance he so desperately needs. She’d been suspected of What we don't know is who the murder of her boyfriend, Owen, and in the process of clearing her name she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detectionman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Kitt developed I'd better give you a taste for Inspector Halloran Too, but they’re taking it slowly. Well, sort of slowlylittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=02419851100008530025|title=All Murder in the Rage (D I Fawley)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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