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|isbn=14091874381786482126|title=The First LieJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=A J ParkElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On the second of October 37-year-Builders were demolishing an old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and Norwich - the front door open. His wife site was in going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bedroom in bones of a child beneath a state of shock and in the bathroom there doorway. There was no skull. Was this a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with PaulDCI Harry Nelson. It's paper-knifedifficult 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. In that moment Paul takes a decision that Her condition will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are obvious before long, not going least because Ruth is prone to ring the police and tell the truth. They're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15294018010008551324|title=Grave's End The Devil You Know (DS Alexandra CupidiD S Max Craigie)|author=William ShawNeil Lancaster

|summary=Gram Hickman, who worked It's unusual for an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela Booth, anyone from the Hardie family to a house which his firm was marketingapproach the police. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house 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 on the market responsible for millions of poundsher death. Gram was hoping that This person, he could get Angela into bed promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he'd brought a bottle of prosecco alongwants. It was when searching for somewhere And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to chill serve the bottle that he found the body remainder of a man in the freezer in the garagehis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Alexandra Cupidi Max Craigie and DC Jill Ferriter are on the caseanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Anders de la MotteJane 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 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 explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=End 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, 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 Summerthem kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|summary= In When a man is found crucified on the summer top of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He was chasing a rabbithill in Nuneaton, through DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the gardencase alongside her sidekick, and into the maize field behindAI detective Lock. He has not It's their first live case together, having previously been seen sincevery successful with several cold cases. In the present dayBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Veronica Lindh Kat is suddenly struggling with a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, potential serial killer and a scar on her arm very high profile case that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on draws a lot of unwanted attention to her jobtheir AI Future Policing project. It's clear that she has just returned Will they be able to work after an episode that seems to have resulted solve the case in restraining orders against hertime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, a deal out of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs to.career?|isbn=1785768239139851120X

|isbn=17857656981035021803|title=Shed No TearsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Caz FrearC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, the man who would become known as It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the roommate killerEnglish country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, strangled three women in a fortnightCarole. When he was arrested he admitted Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the killingsleast. A fourth death Arthur was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - and on occasions, Masters admitted the reason why Freya had not been back to the killingvillage: Arthur, then he denied it - then admitted itshe feels, then denied itlet her down badly. He played with the policeEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings she has not felt able to put him away for a long time and be near the CPS were not convinced about man or pursue the Holly Kemp caseprofession she loved. There was no body After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and once Masters married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing the case further) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Hazel Barkworth1398524085|title= HeatstrokeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Too hot to sleeps fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Too hot to think straight Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Too hot to go back'' During a British heatwave 15are all worried but -yearstrangely -oldher husband, Lily DixonAlec, has left home and is reported missingnot. Rachel is a teacher at Lily's school Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the mother body of Mia, LilyGreg's best friendfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. As Lily's family and It was an easy assumption for the police struggle to find any evidence make that may lead to Lily, Rachel takes it upon herself to start looking for cluesDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. However, as the case goes The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily with their lives and finds herself crossing boundaries, breaking trust and facing some impossible choiceswonder about what really happened. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want to be found? And will life for Rachel ever be the same again?|isbn=1472265602

|isbn=17873014351529900360|title=Dark WatersThe Ghost Orchid|author=G R HallidayJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted 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 drive down the private road in Glen Turritask for his help on difficult cases. It was a long road through some breathHis assertions that there were only open-taking scenery and she could push -shut cases which didn't need the car to its limits without fear help of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treepsychologist only worked for a while. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she Finally, it wasRobin, but it obviously wasnDelaware't a conventional hospitals partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She'd made her first mistake some time agoknew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, although though. Two lovers were murdered in the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for swimming pool of a long timeremote property in Bel Air. She'd made it when He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she chose is married to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=0008214700178763681X|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Roz WatkinsOrlando Murrin

|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with the case of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a missing teenagerresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Violet Armstrong is well-known as He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a vlogger - championing the cause way of meat-eating. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini getting both men and has attracted the attention of animal rights activistswomen to do what he wanted. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (Paul ''obviouslysomehow'' she only got the job because sheimpression that he's d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a woman) because shebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's 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 Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a vegetarianheatwave. As if In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the 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 enoughconvinced. Geary was a townie, Meg's father is coming so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to stay with her despite having had little the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to do with her for fifteen years two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and JaiDC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children cold cases to you and that she wants more, but he doesn'tme) investigate.

|isbn=17808998581529425867|title=To Tell You the TruthLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Gilly MacmillanSimon Mason

|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out 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 the house on the night Ryan, is not. He's not any of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsthose things. Her four-year-old brotherHe's white, Teddyoriginated from a trailer park, would have woken the house 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 she hadnyou're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you't taken him with herre not. But in The two men are just different sides of the early hours of same policing coin. Sometimes the morningcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before herwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He hadn't and no one has seen him sinced been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. LucyThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's story was crucial ill and hasn't long to the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changinglive. Lucy It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is being advised by her imaginary friendabducted, Eliza Grey stripped to his underwear and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell sent to a watery grave in the policeboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbn=B0859115X50861541774|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Marion ToddSteve Burrows

|summary=When we DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrieran old ally, BenjyGuy Trueman. She's just had Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a postcard from Geoffrey Dark knife - and he's in Provincetown, Cape Codkilled a Ghurka. He wishes that she was thereInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but Clare's struggling evidence came to think of what light that suggested that he ''actually'' is might have planned to her nowmurder the man. Is Now he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? could be facing the death penalty. She can't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably Domenic Jejeune can't either. Work's about do nothing to get very busy help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she canwouldn't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. They're off somewhere top secrethelp Danny at all.

|isbn=17874776811521129886|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock They Had It Coming (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Martin WalkerKeith Redfern

|summary=It was a couple of days after old DriantGreg Mason's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got just beginning to get his confidence as an angry phone call from his soninvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. GastonIt's father had sold a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the family farm baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used -law appears to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchhave killed himself. Before he even got to go there he diedStuart's concerned about his sister, apparently of a heart attackLucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhouseher son is not thriving. The family hadnLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away in his nature. The police and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced the coroner have accepted that she the death was gaysuicide, but they werenStuart't expecting s prepared to pay Greg to be almost completely disinheritedfind out what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=0727889230B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Red, Red SnowResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Caro RamsayAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to It's the ice show with his wife, Geraldine 1990s and daughter, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet BurgerGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He died within minutes, but his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues. He was used to have a genuine man and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead end. There were two deaths to investigate high-flying job in the north of Scotland: city but it wasn't thought wise to involve satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the local murder team as someone on life experience that backs up this profession? On the Glen Riske police force other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was indirectly involved killed in the casewhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Christmas Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a lot of snow were rapidly approachingtrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.

|isbn=B07S6DBCFT1838954481|title=Little Girls Tell TalesThe Misper|author=Rachel BennettKate London

|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and DallinRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's cottageno doubt about that. Beth and Dallin, both twelve-years-old, got ahead of tenHe was the fifteen-year-old Rosalie holding the gun and pointing it wasn't long before she realised that she was lostat DI Kieran Shaw. Trying to find her way back He pulled the trigger but due to the main path she vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a skeleton, quieter life in the countryside but when she finally got to the road she could never find a missing teenager is found on her way back to the bog when territory she'd seen s drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the body. Most people didn't believe her, putting the story down to her vivid imaginationorbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=00082737901448309743|title=Remain SilentThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Susie SteinerCaro Ramsay

|summary=When we first meet Matis and DimitriIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Matis is in five members of a bad way, vomiting and obviously traumatisedwealthy family are found murdered. When he's able to speak he tells Dimitri The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that ''Lukas if the stone is dead''removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Lukas was The only suspects are known Satanists but in his late teens and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. Theymany ways, that'd answered s an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have a decent life easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'and'' send money home to their familiesthe body. Sadly The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. It's modern slavery, which isnshadow't uncommon amongst agricultural workershim.

|isbn=B084VNRRD61529077699|title=Killing Mind The Raging Storm (D Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I Kim Stone)''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Angela MarsonsKarin Smirnoff

|summary=It looked very like a suicide, and ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to begin with, that was how both DI Kim Stone and Keats, the pathologist called it. It was only later that Stone and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throatsmall town of Gasskas, hers was not where the only hand holding so-far-untapped natural resources of the knifearea have sparked a gold rush. It was murderThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. SammySalander's parents. Myles and Kate were a little bit reluctant niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to say what their daughter had been doing recentlyhave vanished without trace. The property where she It was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: only with reluctance that Salander became her mother was about to accuse her husband of saying niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Sammy was ready... But what was Sammy ready Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father'for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?s death.

|isbn=18388510111787636607|title=The SidemanTrap|author=Caro RamsayCatherine 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=No one thought that it could happen and can't ''quite'' believe From the first page, we know that it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotland. ItNadine Walsh'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)party will not end well. Haggerty has The victim - a waterman -tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotland, is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no less) and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided effort to go her own way rather than be hampered by call the badgeambulance he so desperately needs. She didnWhat we don't even bother telling her long-time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, that she was goingknow is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Since then there might have been the occasional text from her, but I'd better give you a little more background so thatyou can understand what's ithappening.

|isbn=B084H8F2CF0008530025|title=The Body Under Murder in the BridgeFamily|author=Nick LouthCara Hunter

|summary=DCI Craig Gillard It was annoyed to be pulled away from in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the funeral service for a serving police officerbody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, particularly when he discovered that in the garden 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 to take charge of the enquiry into a missing womanobviously deliberate. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five Twenty years old later, no one has been charged with his murder and a student of music at it's now the Royal College subject of Music''Infamous'', a true-crime show. She had A group of experts has been due brought together to play with review the other members of evidence and to take the Lysander String Quartet at investigation further. More to the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadnpoint, they't turned upre going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that BeatriceThere's father was Karlno dump of the whole box set -Otto Ulbricht, Germanyand no shortage of cliffhangers. It's Minister of Justicecompelling viewing.

|isbn=B083Z3ZZ610241996104|title=Broken Silence Coming to Find You|author=Jane 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (DS Nikki Parekh 2A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Liz MistryMartin Walker

|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been 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 UK show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his daughter Maria for doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a whilehelicopter. He came expecting to work A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a gardener and Maria was to be a nannysenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Stefan ends up doing slave labour One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-yearpre-old girlarranged holiday.

|isbn=00083901691529196388|title=Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1)The Trial|author=Jenny O'BrienRob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=Alys Grant Cliveden was only a few days old 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 her father took her out for he was murdered in plain sight at the first timeOld Bailey. Her mother, IzzyThere's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was tired Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and fell asleephis pupil, but when she woke a couple of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or AlysAdam Green, who eventually represent him. There was a handKnight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-delivered postcard which simply said:Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.}}

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