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|isbn=02414254411786482126|title=The Thursday Murder ClubJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Richard OsmanElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first member Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcrofta child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She used to be a nurse and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take Was this a person who has been stabbed to bleed out. ritual killing or murder? Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It didn's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us , that it was she is pregnant with his child as a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement VillageHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=15098895150008551324|title=The Darkest Evening Devil You Know (D I Vera StanhopeS Max Craigie)|author=Ann CleevesNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took 's unusual for anyone from the wrong turning as she drove home in Hardie family to approach the blizzardpolice. If she hadnNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't s prepared to tell the car might not have been found until police where the morning body of a missing person is buried and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left openwas responsible for her death. Vera took the boy This person, he promises, is someone big and drove to it will be worth the nearest habitationpolice doing what he wants. She ''thought'' it would And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother remainder of the man who inherited - his sentence and Hector was the black sheep of the familyto get an early parole date. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going Not much to be embarrassingask, but there was little else that is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she could 's even prepared to do in the circumstancesother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=15069094420008405026|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 Worst DogsKellerby 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: A Progressive Murder-MysteryEdward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The greatest hatredWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, like DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the greatest virtue and case alongside her sidekick, the worst dogsAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is silent.'' The title of this enjoyable crime procedurala second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is from German romantic writer Jean Paulsuddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. But who are Will they be able to solve the worst dogs case in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel and for whom is the hatred? This mystery time, or will last all the way to Kat find herself taken off the very last case and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it's honest., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15420174321035021803|title=The Nidderdale MurdersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=J R EllisC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the grouse moor near NiddersgillEnglish country village where she grew up. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner She's back now because of the moor and a retired judgerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. James Symonds was a local landowner Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Henry Saunders was a bankerthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. He and Fraser Arthur was the reason why Freya had known each other since their school daysnot been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Rawnsley had After the split, she worked in a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car cafe, met and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment married James (on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeperthe rebound from the love of her life, Ian Davis thought he who was stingy murdered) and very difficult to work forFreya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=00083147211398524085|title=Truth Be ToldHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kia AbdullahNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an 'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'effortful'' familys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and this prompts a phone call in returnher daughter, Etty. There are two sons of the family, seventeenall worried but -yearstrangely -old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamher husband, Alec, is not. Their motherShortly afterwards, SofiaEtty and Greg, regrets that she didn't name them find the other way round: body of Greg'Adam and Kamran' trips off s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'river. Sofia worries about It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sort of thingDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from can do but get on with their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year lives and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1529900360|title=The Seven DoorsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt hadn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until webeen Lt Milo Sturgis're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he big in medical provision felt responsible and decisions at the councileven after Alex recovered, being forced Sturgis was reluctant to move out of their home, a building ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that had existed throughout her life since childhood there were only open-and -shut cases which theydidn'd occupied t need the help of a psychologist only worked for over thirty yearsa while. The building heFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughterpartner, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'nudged Milo into asking for help again. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in She knew that the involvement was something that the 1980s, but noman she loved needed. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in The next case that has any bearing on what happens heredid look simple, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesthough. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until Two lovers were murdered in the point where swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the evicted tenant heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is found married to have completely vanishedan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=1913193381 But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1471179273178763681X|title=House Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando 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 Correctiongetting 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=Nicci FrenchKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in prison, on remanda heatwave. She's sharing In a gully, a cell with Michaelahuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who's more caring than she first appearshad disappeared nine years earlier. She delivers tough love He'd been a known drug user and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to had learning disabilities, so it could have been a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might besimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. And how did Tabitha get hereGeary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Well, on 21 December There are connections to the body suicide of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the renovations to Tabitha's housetime. So far as Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodme) investigate.
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|isbn=14087124151529425867|title=Cry BabyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Mark BillinghamSimon 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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{{Frontpage
|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 shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=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 seen him sincebeen convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. LucyThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's story was crucial not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the police investigationrest of her life. Of course, but it keeps subtly changing's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. Lucy ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey one favourite epithet and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must ''rich bitch'' might not tell the policebe printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=B0859115X51529413680|title=Lies to Tell A Chateau Under Siege (DI Clare MackayA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Marion ToddMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again 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 at Daisy Cottage on there to see the outskirts of St Andrews show with her English Bull Terrier, Benjysome friends. SheIt's just had 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 doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a postcard from Geoffrey Dark helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in Provincetown, Cape Cod. He wishes that she was thereOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, but Clareis flying in with some of her father's struggling friends for a pre-arranged holiday.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to think of what by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it'actuallys not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden'' is to her nows murder. Is he her boyfriend? Her exKnight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-boyfriend? She canCameron of Stag Court Chambers and it't work it out s Taylor-Cameron and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't eitherhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. WorkKnight's about determined to get very busy and she canplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'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 secrets recommendations to the contrary.
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