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|isbn=17808998581786482126|title=To Tell You the TruthThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gilly MacmillanElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-Builders were demolishing an old she crept out of the house on in Norwich - the night of the summer solstice site was going to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woods. Her fourhold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old brother, Teddy, would have woken when they discovered the house if she hadn't taken him with herbones of a child beneath a doorway. But in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before herThere was no skull. He hadn't and no one has seen him sinceWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. LucyIt's story was crucial to the police investigationdifficult as Ruth knows, but it keeps subtly changingNelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendHer condition will be obvious before long, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policeleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=B0859115X50008551324|title=Lies 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 Tell 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 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 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 bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Clare MackayJosh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an 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, Una Burt)are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Marion ToddJonny 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=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage a man is found crucified on the outskirts top of St Andrews with a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her English Bull Terriersidekick, Benjythe AI detective Lock. SheIt's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and he's in Provincetowntheir first live case together, Cape Codhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. He wishes that she was But when thereis a second body found crucified a few days later, but Clare's Kat is 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 think solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of what he a 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'actually'' is s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to her nowthe English country village where she grew up. Is he She's back now because of a request for help from her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? beloved aunt, Carole. She canFreya't work it out s former mentor and thinks that Geoffrey probably canCarole't eithers close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Work's about Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to get very busy and the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she'd arranged without discussing it with her firstloved. They're off somewhere top secretAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=17874776811398524085|title=A Shooting Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at Chateau Rock (A Brunoher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, Chief find the body of Police Novel)Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the 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=Martin WalkerJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a couple of days after old Drianthadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's funeral fault that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his sonhelp on difficult cases. GastonHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's father had sold t need the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure help of a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by psychologist only worked for a Russian oligarchwhile. Before he even got to go there he diedFinally, it was Robin, apparently of a heart attackDelaware's partner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the retirement home collected man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the proceeds swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the policy heir to an Italian shoe empire and Gaston she is married to an extremely rich man and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of it's not the farmhouseItalian. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out But which of favour when she announced that she them was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.the primary target?
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|isbn=Pronko178763681X|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Michael PronkoOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There were three young 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, girls really if you to do what he wanted to be pedantic about their ages. Sukayana was Thai and shePaul ''somehow''d come to Japan in got the belief impression that shehe'd be able at the school to pick 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 documentation to get police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the StatesBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4. Celeste 5|genre=Crime|summary=It was just fourteen and when we meet her she's already dead one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heart attack caused by an overdose of amphetaminesheatwave. Then there's RatanaIn a gully, who's a human skeleton came to the de facto leader of surface and forensic testing proved the groupbody to be Lee Geary, but she's who had disappeared too with the groupnine years earlier. He's passportsd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, leaving Sukayana in the midst so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a scene townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of carnage Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Jack and Jill Studiostime. The dead bodies are definitely not props thoughLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=07278892301529425867|title=The Red, Red SnowLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Caro RamsaySimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In GlasgowOxford, Eric Callaghan there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wifeNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, Geraldine son of Ryan and daughterfather of Ryan, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burgeris not. He died within minutes, but his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues's not any of those things. He was 's white, originated from a genuine man trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit 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 dead endpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. There were The two deaths to investigate in the north men are just different sides of Scotland: it wasn't thought wise to involve the local murder team as someone on same policing coin. Sometimes the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the casecombination works brilliantly well. Christmas - and a lot of snow were rapidly approachingSometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=B07S6DBCFT1529431735|title=Little Girls Tell TalesThe Winter Visitor|author=Rachel BennettJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2004 RosalieIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Beth and Dallin were walking in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and Dallinmore surprising. He's cottaged been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Beth and Dallin, both twelve-yearsThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-oldwife, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie saying that she's ill and it wasnhasn't long before she realised that she was lostto live. Trying It's hard to find her way back to the main path she found a skeletonfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but when she finally got stripped to the road she could never find her way back his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the bog when she'd seen the bodyboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Most people didn't believe her, putting the story down Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to her vivid imagination.home?
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|isbn=00082737900861541774|title=Remain SilentA Nye of Pheasants|author=Susie SteinerSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Dimitriformer colleague, Danny Maik, Matis is has taken a short holiday in a bad waySingapore to meet up with an old ally, vomiting and obviously traumatisedGuy Trueman. When Maik was involved in a street brawl - he's able to speak would later maintain that he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead''. Lukas was in his late teens facing a man armed with a knife - and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuaniakilled a Ghurka. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have a decent life ''and'' send money home planned to their familiesmurder the man. Sadly, it doesn't work out like thatNow he could be facing the death penalty. When they arrive in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a filthy house where several men have to share rooms diplomatic incident and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. It's modern slavery, which isnwouldn't uncommon amongst agricultural workershelp Danny at all.
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|isbn=B084VNRRD61521129886|title=Killing Mind They Had It Coming (D I Kim StoneGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Angela MarsonsKeith 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 looked very like 's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a suicide, baby and to begin with, that was how they're both DI Kim Stone and Keats, the pathologist called itdelighted. It was only later that Stone and her team realised that Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not she gets past the only hand holding the knifemorning sickness. It was murderGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. SammyStuart's parents. Myles and Kate were a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recently. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to accuse make ends meet and her husband of saying that Sammy was ready..son is not thriving. But what was Sammy ready ''for'Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn' t in his nature. The police and where the coroner have accepted that the death was their other daughtersuicide, Sophie? but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1838851011B0CK3MYJ56|title=The SidemanResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Caro RamsayAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=No one thought that 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 could happen and canwasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'quiteShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where' believe s the life experience that it backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlandbeen asked to look into something. ItJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's all down to her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes to be responsible for the murder of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) and Malcolm (her son)been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Haggerty has a waterJoyce -tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotlandand her parents, no less) Oliver and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided to go her own way rather than be hampered by the badge. She didnPam Hetherington - can't even bother telling her longunderstand what she was doing there -time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, that or how she was goingcould come to fall in front of a train. Since then there might have been the occasional text from her, but thatGreg's itbeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=B084H8F2CF1838954481|title=The Body Under the BridgeMisper|author=Nick LouthKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from the funeral service for Ryan Kennedy killed a serving police officer, particularly when he discovered : there's no doubt about that he was to take charge of the enquiry into a missing woman. Beatrice Ulbricht He was twentythe fifteen-year-five years old holding the gun and a student of music pointing it at the Royal College of MusicDI Kieran Shaw. She had been He pulled the trigger but due to play with the other members vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the Lysander String Quartet at murder and the Church manslaughter of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadn't turned upofficer. And so lives must go on. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained For DI Sarah Collins that Beatricemeans leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's father was Karldrawn into a wider investigation -Otto Ulbricht, Germany's Minister and back into the orbit of JusticeRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B083Z3ZZ611448309743|title=Broken Silence The Devil Stone (DS Nikki Parekh 2DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Liz MistryCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in In the village of Cronchie on the UK with his daughter Maria for West coast of Scotland, five members of a whilewealthy family are found murdered. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria was to be a nannyThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Stefan ends up doing slave labour 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 a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-year-old girl'shadow' him.
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|isbn=00083901691529077699|title=Silent Cry The Raging Storm (Gaby Darin Book 1Two Rivers)|author=Jenny O'BrienAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alys Grant was only a few days old when her father took her out for the first time. Her mother''It's all bloody peculiar, Izzyisn't it, was tired and fell asleep, but when she woke a couple of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alys. There was a hand-delivered postcard which simply said: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've got Alys. Don't try to nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find usout, Charlie'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=00081490891529427045|title=The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Jane CaseyKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Kim Weldon who found ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the first bits small town of Gasskas, where the body so-far- she was a mudlarker on the banks untapped natural resources of the Thames and when she turned over what looked like area have sparked a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in factcoming forward. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent Salander's niece's team would later find three other body partsmother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. Identification of the body It was not going to be easy, only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said quickly becomes obvious that she was working on Svala is a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadnremarkably gifted teenager who't been willing to share any s unaware of the details with Biancapart Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW71787636607|title=Access PointThe Trap|author=T R GabbayCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheIt's having something a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of a professional success: using a device the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of her own invention she's helped clubs and looking for a man who has been blind for decades way to see an image of a hummingbirdget home. She's thirty-six years old Some are lucky and her life is about manage to change radically get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go asfar as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', cycling homeparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, she's involved in an accident with the final stop on the bus leaves her a buslong way short of her home. ItShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's two years dead. The bus had driven off before we meet she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her again and in the meantime, sheuse his. There's spent 392 days in a coma no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incomehigh-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=17864855751405957174|title=Magpie LaneA Death at the Party|author=Lucy AtkinsAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When From the first page, we first meet Dee sheknow that Nadine Walsh's talking to Nick Law, the new college masterparty will not end well. Law's lately of the BBC and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's The victim - a bit of a bully man - is dying when we first meet him and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversation. She had been planning to return home Nadine consciously makes no effort to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, call the Danish wife of the masterambulance he so desperately needs. SheWhat we don's pregnant and looking for help, not with t know is who the new baby bit with the master's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity man is selectively mute: she does talk or why Nadine prefers to her father, but to no one elsehave him die. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=17886380260008530025|title=Where Murder in the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)Family|author=M J LeeCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the death body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicidegarden of their West London home. Her throat was cut, there was a lot of blood and the knife was He had an injury on the floor at back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the side of steps but the bed, She vicious beating his face had taken was due to be deported that dayobviously deliberate. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girl's room the only Twenty years later, no one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, the coroner's officer, is sent to investigate has been charged with his murder and he quickly becomes suspicious, Thereit's a snag though: now the inquest is due to open in a couple subject of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughterInfamous''s body home with them, a true-crime show. Ridpath A group of experts has just five days been brought together to solve review the caseevidence and to take the investigation further. The coroner is disinclined More to delay the inquest: for herpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, itepisode by episode. There's about giving closure to no dump of the parentswhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=14711660230241996104|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Coming to Find You|author=Kate RhodesJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoNancy's thirtymother and step-fifth birthday 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 occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationscourt, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Roganafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's body on received a bonfire. He'd obviously silent sentence' - she's not been alive when he was put on found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the fire and can only have died a terrible deathrest of her life. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenOf course, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man it's made worse because he speaks little or nothing Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and his only concern is the welfare papers are making the most of the birds he looks afterit. His instinct ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is to cover Roganone favourite epithet and ''rich bitch's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspectmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=18388806581529413680|title=Murder at Enderley Hall A Chateau Under Siege (Miss UnderhayA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helena DixonMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the summer man playing one of 1933 and Kitty Underhay the main characters is on her way to visit seriously injured when he departs from the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Hallscript. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell Luckily, his doctor is there and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel man is whisked away in Dartmoutha helicopter. Kitty gets easily bored working at A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the Dolphin man who runs Frenchelon - every day the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is much the same - but flying in with some of her real reason father's friends for going away is that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifepre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=02413968401529196388|title=KeeperThe Trial|author=Jessica MoorRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked 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 womenOld Bailey. There's refuge and just one man in the women who lived there liked frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and respected herit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. She treated them well and seemed to have an understanding of what they were going through. Why then did she jump from Knight was told that the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs that she best barrister for him was unhappy Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together it's Taylor- Cameron and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she diedhis pupil, Adam Green, but what other explanation could there be for her death? who eventually represent him. The police are convinced that itKnight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's suicide but recommendations to the women who knew her believed otherwisecontrary.
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