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|isbn=B083Z3ZZ611786482126|title=Broken Silence The Janus Stone (DS Nikki Parekh 2Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Liz MistryElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the UK with his daughter Maria for site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a whiledoorway. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria There was to be no skull. Was this a nannyritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens 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 an eighteen-year-old girlsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=00083901690008551324|title=Silent Cry The Devil You Know (Gaby Darin Book 1D S Max Craigie)|author=Jenny O'BrienNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=Alys Grant 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 only a few days old when her father took responsible for her out for the first timedeath. Her motherThis person, Izzyhe promises, was tired is someone big and fell asleep, but when she woke a couple 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 hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alyshis sentence and to get an early parole date. There was a hand-delivered postcard which simply said: Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Is 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've got Alyss happening. Don't try to find us, Charlie''

|isbn=00081490890008405026|title=The Cutting Place A Stranger in the Family (DS Maeve Kerrigan11)

|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was Kim Weldon who never found and the first bits of the body - she was investigation ground to a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a handhalt. Now, her mother, a right handHelena, and her father are dead in facttheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body partssuspicious. Identification of the body What looked as though it was not going to be easyan open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but eventuallyUna 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, it would be given a name obsessed with his upper- Paige Hargreavesclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a twentytheatre director. He's also self-eightobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -year-old freelance journalistand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadnrelationship had begun between them but he't been willing s not like most men: Edward is left to share any stumble upon the two of the details with Biancathem kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B0867X8NW7Jo Callaghan|title=Access Point|author=T R GabbayLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin shea 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 AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having something of 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 professional success: using very high profile case that draws a device lot of unwanted 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 her own invention shea career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's helped a man who twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been blind for decades back to see an image the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a hummingbirdrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's thirty-six years old former mentor and her life Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is about dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to change radically 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 asantique hunters, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a bushas not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. It's two years before we meet her again and in After the meantimesplit, she's spent 392 days worked in a coma cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incomedivorced.

|isbn=17864855751398524085|title=Magpie LaneHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Lucy AtkinsNicci French

|summary=When we first meet Dee sheCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's talking to Nick Law, the new college masterfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Law's lately of the BBC Her children, sons Niall, Paul and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a bully Ollie and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversationher daughter, Etty. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nannyare all worried but - strangely - her husband, but somehow she finds herself going to see MariahAlec, the Danish wife of the masteris not. She's pregnant Shortly afterwards, Etty and looking for helpGreg, not with find the new baby bit with the masterbody of Greg's daughter by his first wifefather, Duncan Ackerley, Anain the river. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk It was an easy assumption for the police to her father, but to no one elsemake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and struggling at schoolwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=17886380261529900360|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)The Ghost Orchid|author=M J LeeJonathan Kellerman

|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 easy reluctant to assume ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the death help of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicidea psychologist only worked for a while. Her throat Finally, it was cutRobin, there was a lot of blood and the knife was on the floor at the side of the bedDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was due to be deported something that daythe man she loved needed. ButThe next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air.. how did the knife get into the secure centre and why He was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, the coroner's officer, is sent heir to investigate an Italian shoe empire and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's a snag though: the inquest she is due married to open in a couple of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China an extremely rich man and they want to take their daughterit's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve not the caseItalian. The coroner is disinclined to delay But which of them was the inquest: for her, it's about giving closure to the parents.primary target?

|isbn=1471166023178763681X|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)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 Bones|author=Kate RhodesWebb

|summary=The 5th It was one of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and those flash downpours that the occasion for British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by surface and forensic testing proved the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfireto be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire a known drug user and can only had learning disabilities, so it could have died been a terrible deathsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The body Geary was first discovered by Jimmy Curwena townie, better known so what was he doing out on St Agnes as Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing suicide of Holly Gilbert and his only concern is to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the welfare of the birds he looks aftertime. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body Lockyer and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with DC Gemma Broad of the result Major Crimes Review Unit (that he's the prime suspectcold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=18388806581529425867|title=Murder at Enderley Hall Lost and Never Found (Miss UnderhayA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Helena DixonSimon 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=It's the summer of 1933 February 1991 and Kitty Underhay Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on her way to visit the family which she never knew she Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's hada letter from his ex-wife, at Enderley Hallsaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel sent to a watery grave in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs boot of a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifestolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbn=02413968400861541774|title=KeeperA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jessica MoorSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=Katie Straw worked in the womenDCI Domenic Jejeune's refuge close friend and the women who lived there liked and respected her. She treated them well and seemed former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to have meet up with an understanding of what they were going throughold ally, Guy Trueman. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that she he was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together facing a man armed with a knife - and Noah has he killed a decent alibi for the time when she diedGhurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but what other explanation evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could there be for her facing the death? penalty. The Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police are convinced that itforce could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's suicide, but the women who knew her believed otherwiset help Danny at all.

|isbn=178730101X1521129886|title=Keep Him CloseThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Emily KochKeith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. LouGreg Mason's seventeen and just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's just got his A level results a good job too because Greg and he Joyce will soon have a baby and his 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 are going out -in-law appears to celebratehave killed himself. Someone has to find something to celebrate in the lettersStuart's concerned about his sister, DLucy, D who's struggling to make ends meet and Eher son is not thriving. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteenLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -year-old Benny but itsimply wasn's a touch problematic with Lou t in his nature. The police and being honestthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, he but Stuart's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming prepared to pay Greg to my mind were ADHDfind out what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=0571342353B0CK3MYJ56|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Peter SwansonAnn Macarthur

|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was It's the co1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-owner and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostoneight years old. The store specialises He used to have a high-flying job in crime novels, the city but Mal has given it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up reading crimeas a private investigator. His life's been pretty chaotic Shades of late: ItCameron Strike's five years since his wife, Claire Malloryyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, died and hebut where's never really got over it. the life experience that backs up this profession? She was driving whilst inebriatedOn the other hand, having just he has been asked to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairlook into something. His interest Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in crime fiction comes back when hewhat's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveybeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. SheJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can's interested t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders'train. Greg's been asked to investigate.

|isbn=17868971481838954481|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)The Misper|author=Alan ParksKate London|rating=4.5

|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was on his way to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Jamiepointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He'd had pulled the trigger but due to get his father to sign the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enough. And his father had been reluctant - vagaries of the jury system he'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the regular moneyofficer. By July 1973 Bobby is back in GlasgowAnd so lives must go on. The Beatkickers didn't survive For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and March hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on his own, but hardly thriving. Thereher territory she's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellyorbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=B083NMCSZX1448309743|title=Little Doubt The Devil Stone (D I Kelly PorterDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Rachel LynchCaro Ramsay

|summary=Ella Watson was in In the wrong place at village of Cronchie on the wrong time. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked and stabbed to death. Her husbandWest coast of Scotland, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that five members of a decent, middle-class woman should be the victim of knife crimewealthy family are found murdered. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself The only item missing from the case and told DI Kelly Porter home is the Devil Stone: myth says that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how if the case was handled. He wasn't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed to stone is removed from Otterburn House, death a few hours laterwill follow. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate and OrmondThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's view seemed to be an easy conclusion given that anyone living there should expect this sort two of thing to happenthem 'discovered' the body. He could hardly bring himself The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to mention Keira's nameshadow' him.

|isbn=14711809211529077699|title=FirewatchingThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and there are those who think that he's lucky then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to be therethe village of Greystone, given that he decked a superior officerin Devon. He's there because Tyler came off worse in Rosco had the exchange - there's status of a national treasure: a scar on his face to prove it - renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and the superior officer was forced to take early retirementall round ''celebrity''. ThereI 's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (shenearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we's on the force too) has looked after him ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pridebackground isn't exactly an open book. Either way, Where did he's there, but without anything really interesting to get the money for his teeth into.first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=17874775331529427045|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Elly GriffithsKarin Smirnoff

|summary=Everything ''Life has changed more to offer than people - prime numbers for Dr Ruth Gallowayexample''. She's no longer providing assistance  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the police and isn't even working at small town of Gasskas, where the University so-far-untapped natural resources of North Norfolkthe area have sparked a gold rush. She's lecturing at Cambridge and The criminal underworld has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker not been slow in Cambridge. Her daughter, Katie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking good. Settledcoming forward. She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, KatieSalander's father, because Katie sees him regularly and thereniece's a close relationship with his familymother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. You might 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'almost'' think that Ruths unaware of the part Salander played in her father's life is settling downdeath.

|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B1787636607|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)The Trap|author=Marion ToddCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=It was 's a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at scene replicated all too often in the beach when early hours of the baby was stolenmorning. They were there Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the fun run and their attention was taken by few taxis available. Others squash onto the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt night bus that will only go as far as one of the raceoutlying villages. TheyThe woman all regret the 're against taxi problem', particularly in the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun runbus leaves her a long way short of her home. It was Lisa MitchellShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's scream which stopped everythingdead. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, The bus had driven off before she had been taken from the chance to beg the bus driver to let her pram whilst no one was lookinguse his. ItThere's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted no option but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only fortyto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-eight hours to liveheeled shoes.

|isbn=15291243951405957174|title=When You See MeA Death at the Party|author=Lisa GardnerAmy Stuart

|summary=For Janet and ChuckFrom the first page, it was a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance we know that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a stick. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D WarrenNadine Walsh's party will not end well. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith Edgar, The victim - a computer analyst, man - is dying when we first meet him and Flora Dane who brought something unique Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the tableambulance he so desperately needs. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by What we don't know is who the notorious killer, Jacob Nessman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. If Ness had anything to do with the current discoveries then I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what Flora had to say could be invaluable's happening.

|isbn=00082971690008530025|title=The Guest ListMurder in the Family|author=Lucy FoleyCara Hunter

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis AmploirIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, off in the Irish coastgarden of their West London home. 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, might have no one has been enough to put some guests off, but charged with his murder and it was 's now the wedding subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the yearevidence and to take the investigation further. Will Slater (television personalityMore to the point, if not yet a celebrity) was they're going to marry Jules Keegando this live on camera, online magazine publisher, in episode by episode. There's no dump of the ruined chapel on the islandwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. The brideIt's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's sistermother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, OliviaMartin, would be her only bridesmaid and has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husbandcourt, Freddyafter Martin receives a life sentence. They gave The barrister tells her that she's received a huge discount 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to get 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 couple to papers are making the island, but surely most of it would . ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be worth it for the publicity?printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=00082752461529413680|title=Perfect Kill A Chateau Under Siege (D I CallanachA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helen FieldsMartin Walker

|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her sonOne 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. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, BartKerquelin, was missing the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he was already 200 miles away and just waking departs from a chemically-induced sleepthe script. Maggie knew straight Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away that something was wrongin a helicopter. Bart might be twenty A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her knows a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. BesidesOne daughter lives nearby and another, he didn't have his phone who lives in California, is flying in with him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. Itsome of her father's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in friends for a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decidedpre-arranged holiday.