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|isbn=15294022711786482126|title=Murder on The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Moorland 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=The Devil You Know (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesD S Max Craigie)|author=Helen CoxNeil 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 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 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=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt Hartley's relationship Edward Jevons is developing nicely: they're even into a spot of bandage nowworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, although the details are (mercifully) scantRobert and Stanza. After Robert's a night of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours of the morningtheatre director. ThereHe's been a murder in Irendalealso self-obsessed, demanding, where Halloran used handsome and entitled and uses Edward to live and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agorun errands for him. There are sufficient details of the current murder to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered his wife Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prisonhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The DI heads off 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 speak to Jeremy Kerrstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=BetrayalLeave No Trace|rating=34

|summary=Meet Ursula, When a man is found crucified on the stand-top of a hill in ministerNuneaton, drafted in from outside the leading party DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet case alongside her hunky husband she can't believe she deservessidekick, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectorAI detective Lock. You'll meet her ministryIt's cleanertheir first live case together, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader having previously been very successful with her Tinder profileseveral cold cases. You'll certainly meet But when there is a second body found crucified a homeless trampfew days later, who has taken one look at Kat is suddenly struggling with a newspaper image of Ursula, potential serial killer and, knowing her a very high profile case that draws a lot of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula Will they be able to accept. But as for solve the first ministerial casein time, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at or will Kat find herself taken off the case and pronto, nobody can saypotentially, for all records out of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…a career?|isbn=1913193403139851120X

|isbn=14091874381035021803|title=The First LieAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=A J ParkC L Miller

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the second English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of October 37-year-old barristera request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, Paul Reeveis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and say the front door openleast. His wife Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the bedroom man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a state cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of shock her life, who was murdered) and in the bathroom there Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paulexpected at her husband's paper-knifefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. In that moment Her children, sons Niall, Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not going to ring . Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and tell then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the truthguilt. TheyThe Salter children are not convinced but there're going to bury the body in woodland s little else they can do but get on with their lives and go on as though nothing has wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15294018011529900360|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)The Ghost Orchid|author=William ShawJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Gram HickmanIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, who worked Sturgis was reluctant to ask for an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela Booth, to a house which his firm was marketinghelp on difficult cases. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house His assertions that there were only open-and was on -shut cases which didn't need the market help of a psychologist only worked for millions of poundsa while. Gram Finally, it was hoping that he could get Angela Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into bed and he'd brought a bottle of prosecco alongasking for help again. It She knew that the involvement was when searching for somewhere to chill the bottle something that he found the body of a man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the freezer swimming pool of a remote property in the garageBel Air. DS Alexandra Cupidi He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and DC Jill Ferriter are on she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the caseItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Anders de la Motte178763681X|title=End of SummerKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary= In the summer of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missingChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He was chasing didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a rabbit, through the garden, way of getting both men and into the maize field behindwomen to do what he wanted. He has not been seen since. In Paul ''somehow'' got the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for impression that he'd be at the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacksschool to assist Paul, who had a scar on her broken arm , but it didn't turn out that she keeps obsessively hidden way. The teaching - and she is barely hanging on to her jobthe problems - are all his own. ItThe one thing he hadn's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems t expected was for someone to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closelyturn up dead. As wellUnfortunately, he needs was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person tobe the prime suspect.|isbn=1785768239

|isbn=17857656981529421284|title=Shed No TearsLaying Out the Bones|author=Caz FrearKate Webb

|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, It was one of those flash downpours that the man who would become known as 'the roommate killer', strangled three women British weather often delivers in a fortnightheatwave. When he was arrested he admitted In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the killingsbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. A fourth death was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - He'd been a known drug user and on occasionshad learning disabilities, Masters admitted to the killing, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. He played with the policeGeary was a townie, but there so what was sufficient evidence he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the first three killings suicide of Holly Gilbert and to put him away for a long time and the CPS two other deaths which were not convinced about considered suspicious at the Holly Kemp casetime. There was no body Lockyer and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope DC Gemma Broad of progressing the case furtherMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn= Hazel Barkworth1529425867|title= HeatstrokeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=''Too hot to sleepIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Too hot to think straight Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Too hot to go back'' During a British heatwave 15-year-old D I Ryan Wilkins, Lily Dixonson of Ryan and father of Ryan, has left home and is reported missingnot. Rachel is He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a teacher at Lilytrailer park, barely educated (reading's school not ''really'' his thing) and the mother his wardrobe consists mainly of Mia, Lilyshell suits and trackies. They's best friendre usually in lime green or acid yellow. As LilyYou might wonder if you's family and the re being introduced to a police struggle to find any evidence that may lead to Lily, Rachel takes it upon herself to start looking procedural written for clueslaughs. However Well, as you're not. The two men are just different sides of the case goes on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily and finds herself crossing boundaries, breaking trust and facing some impossible choicessame policing coin. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want to be found? And will life for Rachel ever be Sometimes the same again?|isbn=1472265602combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbn=17873014351529431735|title=Dark WatersThe Winter Visitor|author=G R HallidayJames Henry

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery 's February 1991 and she could push Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedingmore surprising. When He'd been exiled on the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a treedecade. When she came round after the accident The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasns ill and hasn't a conventional hospitallong to live. SheIt'd made her first mistake some time agos hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, although stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for boot of a long timestolen Ford Sierra. She'd made Is it when she chose a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.home?

|isbn=00082147000861541774|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Roz WatkinsSteve Burrows

|summary=DI Meg Dalton DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with the case of a missing teenageran old ally, Guy Trueman. Violet Armstrong is wellMaik was involved in a street brawl -known as he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a vlogger knife - championing the cause of meat-eatingand he killed a Ghurka. She barbeques meat wearing only Initially, he faced a bikini and has attracted charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the attention of animal rights activistsman. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got Now he could be facing the job because she's a woman) because she's a vegetariandeath penalty. As if the case wasn't enough, Meg's father is coming Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Jai's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and that she wants more, but he doesnwouldn'thelp Danny at all.

|isbn=17808998581521129886|title=To Tell You the TruthThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Gilly MacmillanKeith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the house on point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's 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 night of baby when she gets past the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsmorning sickness. Her fourGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-yearin-old brotherlaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, TeddyLucy, would have woken the house if she hadnwho't taken him with s struggling to make ends meet and herson is not thriving. But in the early hours of the morningLucy, Lucy returned home without Teddyhe says, hoping is convinced that he Gil would never have got home before her. He hadnkilled himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and no one has seen him since. the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Lucybut Stuart's story was crucial prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policenight Gil died.

|isbn=B0859115X5B0CK3MYJ56|title=Lies to Tell Responsibilities (DI Clare MackayGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Marion ToddAnn Macarthur

|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again sheIt's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, Benjy1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. SheHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's just had now set himself up as a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and heprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike's in Provincetown, Cape Codyou might be thinking. He wishes that she was thereNice bloke, but Clarewhere's struggling to think of what the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he ''actually'' is has been asked to her nowlook into something. Is he her boyfriend? Her exJoyce and Helen are half-boyfriend? She cansisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't eithers been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Work's about to get very busy Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and she Pam Hetherington - can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firsttrain. TheyGreg're off somewhere top secrets been asked to investigate.

|isbn=17874776811838954481|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Misper|author=Martin WalkerKate London

|summary=It was Ryan Kennedy killed a couple of days after old Driantpolice officer: there's funeral no doubt about that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his son. Gaston's father had sold He was the fifteen-year-old holding the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life of luxury gun and pointing it at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchDI Kieran Shaw. Before he even got He pulled the trigger but due to go there he died, apparently the vagaries of a heart attack, and the retirement home collected the proceeds jury system he was found not guilty of both the policy and Gaston murder and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents manslaughter of the farmhouseofficer. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when a missing teenager is found on her territory she announced that she was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinheriteds drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=07278892301448309743|title=The Red, Red SnowDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)

|summary=In Glasgow''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, Eric Callaghan it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been 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 ice show with his wife, Geraldine and daughtervillage of Greystone, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet BurgerDevon. He died within minutesRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, but his murder seemed motiveless round the world sailor and there were no cluesall round ''celebrity''. He was I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a genuine man little bit close with money and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead endbackground isn't exactly an open book. There were two deaths to investigate 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=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of Scotland: it wasnthe area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece't thought wise to involve s mother is the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved latest woman in the casearea to have vanished without trace. Christmas - and It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a lot remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of snow were rapidly approachingthe part Salander played in her father's death.

|isbn=B07S6DBCFT1787636607|title=Little Girls Tell TalesThe Trap|author=Rachel BennettCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking It's a scene replicated all too often in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Dallin's cottagelooking for a way to get home. Beth Some are lucky and Dallinmanage 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', both twelve-years-old, got ahead particularly in the light of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasn't the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long before she realised that she was lostway short of her home. Trying She had intended to ring someone to find come and collect her way back to the main path she found a skeleton, - but when her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she finally got had the chance to beg the road she could never find bus driver to let her way back to the bog when she'd seen the bodyuse his. Most people didnThere't believe her, putting the story down s no option but to her vivid imaginationstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

|isbn=00082737901405957174|title=Remain SilentA Death at the Party|author=Susie SteinerAmy Stuart

|summary=When we From the first meet Matis and Dimitripage, Matis is in a bad way, vomiting and obviously traumatised. When hewe know that Nadine Walsh's able to speak he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead''party will not end well. Lukas was in his late teens and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have The victim - a decent life ''man - is dying when we first meet him and'' send money home Nadine consciously makes no effort to their familiescall the ambulance he so desperately needs. Sadly, it doesnWhat we don't work out like thatknow is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. When they arrive in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable bus, - theyI're dropped at d better give you a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. Itlittle more background so that you can understand what's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workershappening.

|isbn=B084VNRRD60008530025|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)Murder in the Family|author=Angela MarsonsCara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=It looked very like a suicide, was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and to begin withfound the body of her stepfather, that was how both DI Kim Stone and KeatsLuke Ryder, in the pathologist called itgarden of their West London home. It 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 only obviously deliberate. Twenty years later that Stone , no one has been charged with his murder and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throatit's now the subject of ''Infamous'', hers was not a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the only hand holding investigation further. More to the knifepoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. It was murderThere's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. SammyIt's parentscompelling viewing. Myles }} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and Kate step-father were a little bit reluctant to say what brutally stabbed at their daughter had Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been doing recentlyconvicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The property where barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she was 's not been found was less homely than most hotel rooms: 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 was about to accuse her husband - and the papers are making the most of saying that Sammy was ready..it. But what was Sammy ready ''forFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and where was their other daughter, Sophie?''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=18388510111529413680|title=The SidemanA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Caro RamsayMartin Walker

|summary=No one thought that it could happen 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 canBruno't ''quite'' believe that it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlands there to see the show with some friends. It's all down to her pursuit been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of George Haggerty whom she believes to be responsible for the murder of Abigail Haggerty (main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his wife) doctor is there and Malcolm (her son)the man is whisked away in a helicopter. Haggerty has a water-tight alibi A local doctor (caught speeding by Police Scotland, no lessand friend of Bruno) and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: shewonders about his chances of survival but - as he's decided to go her own way rather than be hampered by a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the badgemilitary has stepped in. She didn't even bother telling her long-time partnerOne daughter lives nearby and another, DCI Colin Andersonwho lives in California, that she was going. Since then there might have been the occasional text from is flying in with some of her, but thatfather's itfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.

|isbn=B084H8F2CF1529196388|title=The Body Under the BridgeTrial|author=Nick LouthRob Rinder

|summary=DCI Craig Gillard Grant Cliveden was annoyed a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to be pulled away from the funeral service for a serving police officerby just about everyone, particularly so there was public uproar when he discovered that he was to take charge of the enquiry into a missing woman. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old and a student of music murdered in plain sight at the Royal College of MusicOld Bailey. She had been due to play with There's just one man in the other members of the Lysander String Quartet at the Church of St Martinframe 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 thebest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Fields but hadnCameron of Stag Court Chambers and it't turned ups Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that BeatriceKnight's father was Karldetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Otto Ulbricht, GermanyCameron's Minister of Justicerecommendations to the contrary.