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|isbn=15420174321786482126|title=The Nidderdale MurdersJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=J R EllisElly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a Friday Builders were demolishing an old house in midNorwich -September when the shoot site was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy going to his friends) was hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the owner bones of the moor and a retired judgechild beneath a doorway. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders There was a bankerno skull. He and Fraser had known each other since their school days. Was this a ritual killing or murder? The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyInevitably, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to payDCI Harry Nelson. Other people had reason to comment on FraserIt's attitude to money: difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his gamekeeperchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult not least because Ruth is prone to work forsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=00083147210008551324|title=Truth Be ToldThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Kia AbdullahNeil 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=The Hadids are an It''effortful'' familys sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Flowers are sent for She was never found and the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent investigation ground to thank and this prompts a phone call in returnhalt. There are two sons of the familyNow, her mother, Helena, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamher father are dead in their bed. Their motherInitially, Sofia, regrets that she didnit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't name them s something about the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off positioning of the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Adam'her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Sofia worries about that sort of thingWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Both boys go to Kerrigan is convinced that the prestigious Hampton schoolexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, where they board, despite the school being Una Burt) are less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedconvinced.
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|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Agnes Ravatn Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Rosie Hedger (translator)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=The Seven DoorsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for When a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre man is found crucified on the top of any kind until we're a full fifth of hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the way throughAI detective Lock. We start It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with our coupleseveral cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a literature lecturerlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, he big in medical provision or will Kat find herself taken off the case and decisions at the council, being forced to move potentially, out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life 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's twenty years since childhood and which theyFreya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'd occupied s back now because of a request for over thirty yearshelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. The building heFreya's former mentor and Carole's inheritedclose friend, meanwhileArthur Crockleford, is dead and which they let out to a single motherthe circumstances seem suspicious, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'say the least. NowArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, at this stage you may wellshe feels, if you know this is a genre readlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, think it's going she has not felt able to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in near the man or pursue the 1980s, but noprofession she loved. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyAfter the split, she worked in case that has any bearing on what happens herea cafe, met and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until married James (on the point where rebound from the evicted tenant is found to love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have completely vanishednow divorced.|isbn=1913193381
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|isbn=14711792731398524085|title=House of CorrectionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, shePaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in prison, on remandthe 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. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's sharing a cell little else they can do but get on with Michaela, whotheir lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's more caring than she first appearsfault 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. She delivers tough love His assertions that there were only open-and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a showerwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, unpleasant as who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the whole processes might beman she loved needed. And how The next case did Tabitha get here? look simple, though. Well, on 21 December Two lovers were murdered in the body swimming pool of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered a remote property in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who Bel Air. He was helping with the renovations heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Tabithaan extremely rich man and it's housenot the Italian. So far as But which of them was the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.primary target?
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|isbn=1408712415178763681X|title=Cry BabyKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Mark BillinghamOrlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to 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 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 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 convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's June 1996 and football's European Championships In Oxford, there are about to start in Londontwo D I Wilkins. DS Tom Thorne Raymond Wilkins is having a nightmare of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and itfather of Ryan, is not. He's one he has regularlynot any of those things. It relates to He's white, originated from a case from ten years earlier when he trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''knewreally'' that 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 you're being introduced to a man was guiltypolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but didnyou't take any action until re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the mancombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himselfproblematic.}}Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh. {{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's a happy combination in that the boys are devoted to each other February 1991 and - despite differences in Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the where and how they live - more surprising. He'd been exiled on the women are best friendsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The boys are sevenreturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-year-old wife, saying that she's ill and they play on the swings in the park and then dash off hasn't long to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodlive. Josh was the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully It's hard to the women: Kieron never came feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to find him his underwear and now he can't find Kieronsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=15294022710861541774|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Helen CoxSteve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleyDCI Domenic Jejeune's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a spot of bandage nowshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, although the details are (mercifully) scantGuy Trueman. After Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a night of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours of the morning. There's been man armed with a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used to live knife - and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agohe killed a Ghurka. There are sufficient details Initially, he faced a charge of the current murder manslaughter but evidence came to make Halloran suspect light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man who murdered his wife - and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prison. The DI heads off Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to speak to Jeremy Kerrhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|authorisbn=1521129886|title=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=BetrayalKeith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to cover the post for a yearpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. You might get to meet her hunky husband she canIt't believe she deserves, 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 children who are ignorant of just how baby when she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the foreign aid charity sector-law appears to have killed himself. You'll meet her ministryStuart's cleanerconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. You'll certainly s struggling to make ends meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herson is not thriving. YouLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn'll meet the ministerial bodyguard t in his nature. The police and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accept. But as for coroner have accepted that the first ministerial casedeath was suicide, of a woman demanding her daughter but Stuart's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403night Gil died.
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|isbn=1409187438B0CK3MYJ56|title=The First LieResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=A J ParkAnn Macarthur|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On It's the second of October 37-year1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm . He used to find his house have a high-flying job in darkness and the front door opencity but it wasn't 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 life experience that backs up this profession? His wife was in On the bedroom in a state of shock other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and in the bathroom there Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly killed in the neck with Paulwhat's paper-knifebeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. In that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Alice are not going Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to ring the police and tell the truthfall in front of a train. TheyGreg're going s been asked to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedinvestigate.
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|isbn=15294018011838954481|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)The Misper|author=William ShawKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gram Hickman, who worked for an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela Booth, to Ryan Kennedy killed a house which his firm was marketingpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. Guildeford Hall He was an the fifteen-year-old Kentish oast house and was on holding the market for millions of pounds. Gram was hoping that he could get Angela into bed gun and he'd brought a bottle of prosecco alongpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It was when searching for somewhere He pulled the trigger but due to chill the bottle that vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the body murder and the manslaughter of a man in the freezer in the garageofficer. And so lives must go on. DS Alexandra Cupidi For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and DC Jill Ferriter are hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the caseorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Anders de la Motte1448309743|title=End of SummerThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In the summer village of 1983Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He was chasing five members of a rabbit, through the garden, and into the maize field behindwealthy family are found murdered. He has not been seen since. In The only item missing from the present day, Veronica Lindh home is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her ownDevil Stone: anxiety, panic attacks, a scar on her arm myth says that she keeps obsessively hidden and she if the stone is barely hanging on to her jobremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode easy conclusion given that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal two of therapythem 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, a change of location and her supervisor DCI Christine Caplan is watching closely. As well, he needs pulled in to'shadow' him.|isbn=1785768239
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|isbn=17857656981529077699|title=Shed No TearsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Caz FrearAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters''It's all bloody peculiar, the man who would become known as isn't it, Sir?'the roommate killerWell yes, strangled three women in a fortnightit is. When he was arrested he admitted Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the killings. A fourth death was attributed to him - that middle of Holly Kemp - an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and on occasionsdead, Masters admitted in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the killingvillage of Greystone, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied itin Devon. He played with Rosco had the policestatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings to put him away for as we'll find out, he could be more than a long time little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp case. money for his first boat? There was no body and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing How did he finance the case further.trip?
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|authorisbn= Hazel Barkworth1529427045|title= HeatstrokeThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=''Too hot to sleep. Too hot to think straight. Too hot Life has more to go backoffer than people - prime numbers for example''.
During a British heatwave 15Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-yearfar-old, Lily Dixon, untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has left home and is reported missingnot been slow in coming forward. Rachel is a teacher at Lily Salander's school and the mother of Mia, Lilyniece's best friendmother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. As LilyIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's family and the police struggle to find any evidence guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that may lead to Lily, Rachel takes it upon herself to start looking for clues. However, as Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the case goes on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily and finds herself crossing boundaries, breaking trust and facing some impossible choicespart Salander played in her father's death. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want to be found? And will life for Rachel ever be the same again?|isbn=1472265602
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|isbn=17873014351787636607|title=Dark WatersThe Trap|author=G R HallidayCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the private road in Glen Turritmorning. It was Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a long road through some breath-taking scenery way to get home. Some are lucky and she could push the car manage to its limits without fear get one of being caught speedingthe few taxis available. When Others squash onto the blond child stepped out in front night bus that will only go as far as one of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treeoutlying villages. When she came round after The woman all regret the accident she couldn't work out where she wastaxi problem', but it obviously wasnparticularly in the light of 'the missing women't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time agoFor one young woman, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to final stop on the bus leaves her for a long timeway short of her home. Shehad intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone'd made it when s dead. The bus had driven off before she chose had the chance to have beg the bus driver to let her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=00082147001405957174|title=Cut to A Death at the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)Party|author=Roz WatkinsAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with From the case of a missing teenagerfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Violet Armstrong is wellThe victim -known as a vlogger man - championing the cause of meat-eating. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini is dying when we first meet him and has attracted Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the attention of animal rights activistsambulance he so desperately needs. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton What we don't know is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got who the job because she's a woman) because she's a vegetarianman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. As if the case wasnI't enough, Meg's father is coming to stay with her despite having had d better give you a little to do with her for fifteen years and Jaimore background so that you can understand what's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and that she wants more, but he doesn'thappening.
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|isbn=17808998580008530025|title=To Tell You Murder in the TruthFamily|author=Gilly MacmillanCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Lucy Bewley It was ninein December 2003 that fifteen-yearsyear-old she crept out Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the house garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the night back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the summer solstice to watch steps but the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Her four-year-old brotherTwenty years later, Teddy, would have woken no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the house if she hadnsubject of ''Infamous''t taken him with her, a true-crime show. But in A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the early hours of investigation further. More to the morningpoint, Lucy returned home without Teddythey're going to do this live on camera, hoping that he would have got home before herepisode by episode. He hadnThere't s no dump of the whole box set - and no one has seen him sinceshortage of cliffhangers. LucyIt's story was crucial to 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 policecompelling viewing.
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|isbn=B0859115X50241996104|title=Lies Coming to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)Find You|author=Marion ToddJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again sheNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with their Sussex farmhouse and her English Bull Terrierstep-brother, BenjyMartin, has been convicted of their murder. She's just had We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and he's in Provincetown, Cape Codlife sentence. He wishes The barrister tells her that she was there, but Clare's struggling to think of what he received a 'silent sentence'actually- she'' is s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her nowlife. Is he Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her boyfriend? Her exmother -boyfriend? and the papers are making the most of it. She can't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't either. WorkFarmhouse slaughter daughter''s about to get very busy is one favourite epithet and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. Theyrich bitch''re off somewhere top secretmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=17874776811529413680|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a couple One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of days after old Driantthe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sonthere to see the show with some friends. GastonIt's father had sold all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which main characters is seriously injured when he had used to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlatdeparts from the script. Luckily, owned by his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a Russian oligarchhelicopter. Before A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he even got to go there he died, apparently of 's a heart attacksenior government employee, and the retirement home collected man who runs Frenchelon - the proceeds of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhousemilitary has stepped in. The family hadn't exactly fallen outOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, but Gaston lived is flying in with some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gay, but they werenher father't expecting to be almost completely disinheriteds friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=07278892301529196388|title=The Red, Red SnowTrial|author=Caro RamsayRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to the ice show with his wifeby just about everyone, Geraldine and daughter, Lisa so there was public uproar when he was stabbed murdered in Planet Burgerplain sight at the Old Bailey. He died within minutes, but There's just one man in the frame for his murder seemed motiveless - Jimmy Knight - and there were no cluesit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. He Knight was told that the best barrister for him was a genuine man Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead endpupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. There were two deaths Knight's determined to investigate in the north of Scotland: it wasnplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron't thought wise s recommendations to involve the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the case. Christmas - and a lot of snow were rapidly approachingcontrary.
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