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|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Hazel BarkworthElly 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= HeatstrokeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5|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'Too hot s prepared to sleeptell 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. Too hot And what he wants is to think straightbe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Too hot Not much to go backask, 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)During a British heatwave 15|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-oldRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Lily DixonHelena, has left home and is reported missingher father are dead in their bed. Rachel is Initially, it looks like a teacher at Lilystraightforward murder/suicide but there's school something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh 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 mother of Miaexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, LilyRobert and Stanza. Robert's best frienda theatre director. As LilyHe's family also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and the police struggle to find any evidence that may lead to Lily, Rachel takes it upon herself uses Edward to start looking run errands for clueshim. However, as the case goes on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and finds herself crossing boundaries, breaking trust and facing some impossible choiceshe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want 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 be found? And will life for Rachel ever be stumble upon the same again?|isbn=1472265602two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1787301435Jo Callaghan|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayLeave No Trace

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down When a man is found crucified on the private road top of a hill in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of case alongside her she instinctively jerked sidekick, the steering wheel and hit a treeAI detective Lock. When she came round after the accident she couldnIt't work out where she wass their first live case together, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitalhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. She'd made her first mistake some time agoBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to her for a long timetheir AI Future Policing project. She'd made it when she chose Will they be able to have her father buy her solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a pale blue BMW M4.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=00082147001035021803|title=Cut The Antique Hunter's Guide to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)Murder|author=Roz WatkinsC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the case English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a missing teenagerrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Violet Armstrong Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is well-known as a vlogger - championing dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the cause of meat-eatingleast. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini and has attracted Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the attention of animal rights activistsvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The meat-eaters (Even though they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and were in business together as antique hunters, she has not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got felt able to be near the man or pursue the job because profession she's a woman) because she's a vegetarianloved. As if After the case wasn't enoughsplit, she worked in a cafe, Meg's father is coming to stay with met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years life, who was murdered) and Jai's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children Freya and that she wants more, but he doesn'tJames have now divorced.

|isbn=17808998581398524085|title=To Tell You the TruthHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Gilly MacmillanNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=When Lucy Bewley Charlotte Salter was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her fourchildren, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old brotherher husband, TeddyAlec, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with heris not. But in Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the early hours body of the morningGreg's father, Lucy returned home without TeddyDuncan Ackerley, hoping in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he would have got home before her. He hadncouldn't and no one has seen him sincestand the guilt. LucyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's story was crucial to the police investigation, little else they can do but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey get on with their lives and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policewonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B0859115X51529900360|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)The Ghost Orchid|author=Marion ToddJonathan Kellerman

|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again sheIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's at Daisy Cottage 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 outskirts help of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, Benjya psychologist only worked for a while. SheFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and he's in Provincetownpartner, Cape Codwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. He wishes She knew that the involvement was something that the man she was thereloved needed. The next case did look simple, but Clare's struggling to think of what he ''actually'' is to her nowthough. Is he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? She can't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't eitherTwo lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Work's about He was the heir to get very busy an Italian shoe empire and she canis married to an extremely rich man and it't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firsts not the Italian. They're off somewhere top secret.But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=1787477681178763681X|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin WalkerOrlando Murrin

|summary=It was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sonresidential cookery school in Belgravia. GastonHe didn's father had sold the family farm in order t really want to buy an insurance policy which he but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had used to secure a life way of luxury getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at an expensive retirement home near Sarlatthe school to assist Paul, owned by who had a Russian oligarchbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. Before The one thing he even got hadn't expected was for someone to go there turn up dead. Unfortunately, he died, apparently 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 Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a heart attackgully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the retirement home collected body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the proceeds suicide of the policy Holly Gilbert and Gaston and Claudette Driant to two other deaths which were left with just the contents of not considered suspicious at the farmhousetime. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away Lockyer and Claudette had fallen out DC Gemma Broad of favour when she announced the Major Crimes Review Unit (that she was gay, but they weren't expecting s cold cases to be almost completely disinheritedyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=07278892301529425867|title=The Red, Red SnowLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Caro RamsaySimon Mason

|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.

|isbn=B07S6DBCFT1529431735|title=Little Girls Tell TalesThe Winter Visitor|author=Rachel BennettJames Henry

|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?

|isbn=00082737900861541774|title=Remain SilentA Nye of Pheasants|author=Susie SteinerSteve Burrows

|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.

|isbn=B084VNRRD61521129886|title=Killing Mind They Had It Coming (D I Kim StoneGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Angela MarsonsKeith Redfern|rating=54

|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.

|isbn=1838851011B0CK3MYJ56|title=The SidemanResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Caro RamsayAnn Macarthur

|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.

|isbn=B084H8F2CF1838954481|title=The Body Under the BridgeMisper|author=Nick LouthKate London|rating=4.5

|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.

|isbn=B083Z3ZZ611448309743|title=Broken Silence The Devil Stone (DS Nikki Parekh 2DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Liz MistryCaro Ramsay

|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.

|isbn=00083901691529077699|title=Silent Cry The Raging Storm (Gaby Darin Book 1Two Rivers)|author=Jenny O'BrienAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5

|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?

|isbn=00081490891529427045|title=The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Jane CaseyKarin Smirnoff

|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.

|isbn=B0867X8NW71787636607|title=Access PointThe Trap|author=T R GabbayCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheNancy's having something of a professional success: using a device of mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her own invention she's helped a man who step-brother, Martin, has been blind for decades to see an image convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a hummingbirdlife sentence. SheThe barrister tells her that she's thirtyreceived a 'silent sentence' -six years old and her life is about to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with a buswhat happened for the rest of her life. ItOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's two years before we meet rich - she inherited five million pounds from her again mother - and in the meantime, shepapers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter''s spent 392 days in a coma is one favourite epithet and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some income''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=17864855751529413680|title=Magpie LaneA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Lucy AtkinsMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Dee sheOne 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 talking there to Nick Law, see the new college mastershow with some friends. LawIt's lately all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the BBC and main characters is seriously injured when he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a bully departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and Dee can sense something of that the man is whisked away in their first conversationa helicopter. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariahsenior government employee, the Danish wife of man who runs Frenchelon - the mastermilitary has stepped in. She's pregnant One daughter lives nearby and looking for helpanother, not with the new baby bit with the master's daughter by his first wifewho lives in California, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to flying in with some of her father, but to no one else. The eight's friends for a pre-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolarranged holiday.

|isbn=17886380261529196388|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)The Trial|author=M J LeeRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=It Grant Cliveden was easy to assume a hero: a policeman who stood for all that the death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cutgood and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was a lot of blood and the knife public uproar when he was on the floor murdered in plain sight at the side of the bed, She was due to be deported that dayOld Bailey. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girlThere's room the only just one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, man in the coronerframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's officernot too long before Knight appears in court, is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, Therecharged with Cliveden's a snag though: murder. Knight was told that the inquest is due to open in a couple best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of days' time, the girlStag Court Chambers and it's parents are coming over from China Taylor-Cameron and they want to take their daughterhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve the case. The coroner is disinclined determined to delay the inquest: for herplead not guilty, itdespite all Taylor-Cameron's about giving closure recommendations to the parentscontrary.