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|isbn=07278892301786482126|title=The RedJanus 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, Red Snownot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Caro RamsayNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the ice show with his wife, Geraldine other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and daughter, Lisa when he 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was stabbed in Planet Burgerresponsible for her death. He died within minutesThis person, he promises, but his murder seemed motiveless is someone big and there were no cluesit will be worth the police doing what he wants. He was a genuine man And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead endto get an early parole date. There were two deaths Not much to investigate in the north of Scotland: ask, is it wasn? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't thought wise think so and she's even prepared to involve do the local murder team as someone on 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 Glen Riske police force Family (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. She was indirectly involved never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the casebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Christmas What looked as though it was going to be an open- and -shut case is now a lot of snow were rapidly approachingcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B07S6DBCFT0571379877|title=Little Girls Tell TalesThe Kellerby Code|author=Rachel BennettJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also 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 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's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2004 RosalieWhen 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, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and DallinAI detective Lock. It's cottagetheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Beth and DallinBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, both twelve-years-old, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and it wasn't long before she realised a very high profile case that she was lostdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Trying to find her way back Will they be able to solve the main path she found a skeletoncase in time, but when she finally got to the road she could never or will Kat find her way back to herself taken off the bog when she'd seen the body. Most people didn't believe hercase and, potentially, putting the story down to her vivid imagination.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00082737901035021803|title=Remain SilentThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Susie SteinerC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis is in 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 bad wayrequest for help from her beloved aunt, vomiting and obviously traumatisedCarole. When heFreya's able to speak he tells Dimitri that former mentor and Carole''Lukas s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead''and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Lukas Arthur was in his late teens and he and Matis the reason why Freya had come not been back to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuaniathe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation Even though they were in return for their labour: they could have a decent life ''and'' send money home business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to their familiesbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. SadlyAfter the split, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive she worked in the UK - on an olda cafe, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms met and sleep on dirty mattresses married James (on the floor. It's modern slaveryrebound from the love of her life, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workerswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=B084VNRRD61398524085|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Angela MarsonsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It looked very like a suicideCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and to begin withher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, that was how both DI Kim Stone Etty and KeatsGreg, find the pathologist called itbody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was only later an easy assumption for the police to make that Stone Duncan had murdered Charlie and her team realised that then committed suicide when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not the only hand holding he couldn't stand the knifeguilt. It was murder. SammyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's parents. Myles and Kate were a little bit reluctant to say what else they can do but get on with their daughter had been doing recently. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was lives and wonder about to accuse her husband of saying that Sammy was readywhat really happened... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?
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|isbn=18388510111529900360|title=The SidemanGhost Orchid|author=Caro RamsayJonathan 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=No one thought that it could happen and canChef 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 ''quitesomehow'' believe got the impression that it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotland. Ithe's all down to her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes to d be responsible for at the murder of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) and Malcolm (her son)school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Haggerty has a waterThe teaching -tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotland, no less) and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided to go her problems - are all his own way rather than be hampered by the badge. She didnThe one thing he hadn't even bother telling her long-time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, that she expected was goingfor someone to turn up dead. Since then there might have been Unfortunately, he was the occasional text from her, but person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that's itperson to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=B084H8F2CF1529421284|title=The Body Under Laying Out the BridgeBones|author=Nick LouthKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard It was annoyed to be pulled away from one of those flash downpours that the funeral service for British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a serving police officergully, particularly when he discovered that he was a human skeleton came to take charge of the enquiry into a missing womansurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a student simple case of music at the Royal College of Musicmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. She had been due Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to play with the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other members of the Lysander String Quartet deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Church time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadnMajor Crimes Review Unit (that't turned ups cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{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. Gillard didnHe't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatrices not any of those things. He's father was Karl-Otto Ulbrichtwhite, originated from a trailer park, Germanybarely educated (reading's Minister not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Justiceshell 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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|isbn=B083Z3ZZ611529431735|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)The Winter Visitor|author=Liz MistryJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been in exiled on the UK with his daughter Maria Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a whiledecade. 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. He came expecting It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to work as a gardener his underwear and Maria was sent to be a nannywatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens problem closer to an eighteen-year-old girl.home?
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|isbn=00083901690861541774|title=Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Jenny O'BrienSteve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alys Grant was only DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a few days short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old when her father took her out for the first timeally, Guy Trueman. Her mother, Izzy, Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was tired facing a man armed with a knife - and fell asleephe killed a Ghurka. Initially, but when she woke he faced a couple charge of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alysmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. There was Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a hand-delivered postcard which simply said: diplomatic incident and wouldn''I've got Alyst help Danny at all. Don't try to find us, Charlie''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00081490891521129886|title=The Cutting Place They Had It Coming (DS Maeve KerriganGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Jane CaseyKeith Redfern|rating=54
|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 was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was 's a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames good job too because Greg and when she turned over what looked like Joyce will soon have a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan baby and DI Josh Derwentthey's team would later find three other body partsre both delighted. Identification of Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the body was not going morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be easyhave killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, but eventuallyLucy, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalistwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Her friendLucy, Bianca Drummondhe says, another journalist, said is convinced that she was working on a story which she reckoned Gil would be explosive never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and she hadnthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart't been willing s prepared to pay Greg to share any of find out what happened on the details with Biancanight Gil died.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW7B0CK3MYJ56|title=Access PointResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=T R GabbayAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's having something of twenty-eight years old. He used to have a professional success: using high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a device private investigator. 'Shades of her own invention sheCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's helped a man who the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been blind for decades asked to see an image of a hummingbirdlook into something. She's thirtyJoyce and Helen are half-six years old and her life is about to change radically assisters, cycling homeor rather, shethey were until Helen was killed in what's involved in been written off as a tragic accident at an accident with a busunmanned level crossing. It's two years before we meet Joyce - and her again parents, Oliver and in the meantime, Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she's spent 392 days could come to fall in front of a coma and now walks with a sticktrain. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom Greg's been asked to bring in some incomeinvestigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17864855751838954481|title=Magpie LaneThe Misper|author=Lucy AtkinsKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee sheRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's talking to Nick Law, no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the new college mastergun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Law's lately He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the BBC and jury system he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit was found not guilty of a bully both the murder and Dee can sense something the manslaughter of that in their first conversationthe officer. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking And so lives must go on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the master. She's pregnant For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and looking hoping for help, not with a quieter life in the new baby bit with the mastercountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, but to no one else. The eightdrawn into a wider investigation -year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=17886380261448309743|title=Where the Innocent Die The Devil Stone (D I RidpathDCI Christine Caplan)|author=M J LeeCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume that the death of the young Chinese girl at In the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, there was a lot village of blood and the knife was Cronchie on the floor at the side West coast of the bedScotland, She was due to be deported that dayfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. But... how did The only item missing from the knife get into home is the secure centre and why was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, Devil Stone: myth says that if the coroner's officer, stone is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspiciousremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. ThereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's a snag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple an easy conclusion given that two of daysthem 'discovered' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughter's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve the case. The coroner Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is disinclined pulled in to delay the inquest: for her, it's about giving closure to the parentsshadow' him.
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|isbn=14711660231529077699|title=Burnt Island The Raging Storm (Ben KittoTwo Rivers)|author=Kate RhodesAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto''It's thirty-fifth birthday and all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the occasion 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 usual bonfire celebrationsvillage of Greystone, but it would be marred this year by in Devon. Rosco had the discovery status of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the fire world sailor and can only have died a terrible deathall round ''celebrity''. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks could be more than a little or nothing bit close with money and his only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks afterbackground isn't exactly an open book. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and Where did he uses get the money for his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that first boat? How did he's finance the prime suspect.trip?
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|isbn=18388806581529427045|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Helena DixonKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the summer small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her way to visit the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Hallarea have sparked a gold rush. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel The criminal underworld has not been slow in Dartmouthcoming forward. Kitty gets easily bored working at Salander's niece's mother is the Dolphin - every day is much latest woman in the same - area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but her real reason for going away it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is that she needs a break after remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifefather's death.
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|isbn=02413968401787636607|title=KeeperThe Trap|author=Jessica MoorCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked It's a scene replicated all too often in the women's refuge and early hours of the women who lived there liked morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and respected herlooking for a way to get home. She treated them well Some are lucky and seemed manage to have an understanding get one of what they were going throughthe few taxis available. Why then did she jump from 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 local suicide spot into light of 'the river below? missing women'. There For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had been no signs that she was unhappy intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she and her boyfriend seemed had the chance to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for beg the time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for bus driver to let her death? use his. The police are convinced that itThere's suicide no option but the women who knew her believed otherwiseto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=178730101X1405957174|title=Keep Him CloseA Death at the Party|author=Emily KochAmy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. Lou's seventeen The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrateso desperately needs. Someone has to find something What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to celebrate in the letters, D, D and Ehave him die. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but itI's d better give you a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, helittle more background so that you can understand what's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHDhappening.
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|isbn=05713423530008530025|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersMurder in the Family|author=Peter SwansonCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw It was the coin December 2003 that fifteen-year-owner old Maura Howard came home and manager found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the Old Devils Bookstore garden of their West London home. He had an injury on Beacon Hill in Bostonthe 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. The store specialises in crime novelsTwenty years later, but Mal no one has given up reading crime. His lifebeen charged with his murder and it's been pretty chaotic now the subject of late: It's five years since his wife'Infamous'', Claire Mallory, died and he's never really got over ita true-crime show. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just A group of experts has been brought together to see review the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairevidence and to take the investigation further. His interest in crime fiction comes back when heMore to the point, they's approached re going to do this live on camera, episode by Special Agent Gwen Mulveyepisode. SheThere's interested in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders'no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=17868971480241996104|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)Coming to Find You|author=Alan ParksJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to London see the show with fellow band members Tomsome friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, ScottKerquelin, Barry and Jamiethe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. He'd had to get Luckily, his father to sign doctor is there and the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enoughman is whisked away in a helicopter. And A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his father had been reluctant chances of survival but - as he'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeships a senior government employee, for the regular money. By July 1973 Bobby is back man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in Glasgow. The Beatkickers didn't survive One daughter lives nearby and March another, who lives in California, is on his own, but hardly thriving. Thereflying in with some of her father's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search friends for a missing girl, Alice Kellypre-arranged holiday.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B083NMCSZX1529196388|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)The Trial|author=Rachel LynchRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson 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 the wrong place plain sight at the wrong timeOld Bailey. She was out running There's just one man in the park when she was randomly attacked frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and stabbed to deathit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Her husband, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond Knight was outraged told that a decent, middlethe best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-class woman should be the victim Cameron of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from the case Stag Court Chambers and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handled. He wasnit't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours laters Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate and OrmondKnight's view seemed determined to be that anyone living there should expect this sort of thing to happen. He could hardly bring himself to mention Keiraplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's namerecommendations to the contrary.
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