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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1786482126|title=The Coral BrideJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is Builders were demolishing an oddity old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy- five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a female fisherwoman, making her living in child beneath a man's worlddoorway. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigationThere was no skull. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and Dr Ruth Galloway finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsherself working with DCI Harry Nelson. At the same time It's difficult as trying to run his investigationRuth knows, he also has his grown up sonbut Nelson doesn't, Sebastien arriving at that she is pregnant with his doorchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, weighed down with personal problems that he not least because Ruth is unable prone to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiessudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1913193322
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008551324|title= The Last Resort Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private islandIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. They have been invited But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to an all-expenses paid retreat to test tell the police where the body of a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The group includes a games designer This person, social media influencerhe promises, gossip columnist is someone big and hedge fund managerit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Everyone seems And what he wants is to be transferred to have an area open prison to serve the remainder of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryhis sentence and to get an early parole date. All except Amelia whose presence Not much to ask, is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and each othershe's histories and it becomes clear even prepared to do the other thing that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these wellHardie demanded -kept secrets are revealed, make certain that DS Max Craigie and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat anyone who works with him is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests kept well away from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themwhat's happening. |isbn=1542020018}}  
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|isbn=05713626720008405026|title=SnowA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=John BanvilleJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It''Well, at least you're 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 Wexford manhalt.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957 Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Osborne was master Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the Keelmore Hounds bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The niceties had What looked as though it was going to be established even when there was an open-and-shut case is now a Catholic priest dead on complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, along obsessed with his goodupper-butclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-shabby suitobsessed, marked demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him out as of Osborne. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's class and obviously Protestantdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Scallanstown, who - despite 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 different religions - was two of them kissing in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therea dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1787477630Jo Callaghan|title=The Postscript Murders|author=Elly GriffithsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with man is found crucified on the top of a heart condition dies peacefully hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her armchairsidekick, it really shouldnthe AI detective Lock. It't be suspicious s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that was draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the view case in time, or will Kat find herself taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until off the case and, potentially, out of a 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 Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she spoke to Peggy Smithgrew up. She's carerback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Natalka Kolisnyk Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was adamant that there was more the reason why Freya had not been back to Peggy's death than met the eye - particularly village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she was being followedloved. Then there was After the fact that Peggy was split, she worked in a 'murder consultant' cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=14721270131398524085|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit of work on handCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directorHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Harold CheesemanAlec, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did is not like it there. This was unusualShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there was find the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifebody of Greg's father, SheratonDuncan Ackerley, was seeing another manin the river. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations It was an easy assumption for the police to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he wanted to know what couldn't stand the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Genevaguilt. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then Salter children are not convinced but there was the murder's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened
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|isbn=14087122881529900360|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Ghost Orchid|author=Val McDermidJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out help of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of psychologist only worked for a lobster potwhile. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and Finally, it didnwas Robin, Delaware't take too long to establish s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchmanshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghthough. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was the prime suspect Two lovers were murdered in the disappearance and possible murder swimming pool of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Aulda remote property in Bel Air. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been He was the last person heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to review the case, a couple of years earlier an extremely rich man and it seemed sensible to bring her into 's not the case at an early stageItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone178763681X|title=A Song of IsolationKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up 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 career way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that is only beginning to hit he'd be at the heights to retire school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of problems - are all things, though to his credit own. The one thing he would rather be working in forestryhadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateUnfortunately, but things are starting he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to feel wrong between thembe the prime suspect. |isbn=1913193365
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|isbn=02414254411529421284|title=The Thursday Murder ClubLaying Out the Bones|author=Richard OsmanKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first member It was one of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroftthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She used In a gully, a human skeleton came to be a nurse the surface and is thus forensic testing proved the perfect person for Elizabeth body to consult about how long it would take a person be Lee Geary, who has been stabbed to bleed outhad disappeared nine years earlier. Details of where He'd been a known drug user and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that had learning disabilities, so it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if shea simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'd received prompt medical helpt convinced. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it Geary was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubtownie, 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. They meet each Thursday Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (as that's cold cases to you might have guessedand me) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageinvestigate.
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|isbn=15098895151529425867|title=The Darkest Evening Lost and Never Found (A D I Vera StanhopeWilkins Mystery)|author=Ann CleevesSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in the blizzardlime green or acid yellow. If she hadnYou might wonder if you't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened re being introduced to the toddler strapped into the car seata police procedural written for laughs. Well, particularly as you're not. The two men are just different sides of the car door had been left opensame policing coin. Vera took the boy and drove to Sometimes the nearest habitationcombination works brilliantly well. She Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It'thoughts February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He' it would be d been exiled on the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had been the younger brother of the man who inherited a letter from his ex- wife, saying that she's ill and Hector was the black sheep of the familyhasn't long to live. Calling there unannouncedIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, particularly as they seemed stripped to have guests was going his underwear and sent to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do a watery grave in the circumstancesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=15069094420861541774|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryNye of Pheasants|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The greatest hatreds close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, like he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the greatest virtue and man. Now he could be facing the worst dogs, is silentdeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn''t help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886The |title of this enjoyable crime procedural, is from German romantic writer Jean Paul=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson It's latest novel a good job too because Greg and for whom is the hatred? This mystery Joyce will last all the way to the very last soon have a baby and carefully plotted pages but you they're both delighted. Joyce will be thinking more delighted about unwarranted hatred all the way throughbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. It sounds uncomfortable Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - but it isnsimply wasn't: itin his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's honestprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1542017432B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Nidderdale MurdersResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=J R EllisAnn Macarthur|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a Friday high-flying job in mid-September when the shoot was held on city 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 grouse moor near Niddersgill. life experience that backs up this profession? The shooters at On the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy other hand, he has been asked to his friends) was the owner of the moor and a retired judgelook into something. James Symonds was a local landowner Joyce and Henry Saunders Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a bankertragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. He Joyce - and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsleyher parents, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: heOliver and Pam Hetherington - can'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser t understand what she was being slow doing there - or how she could come to payfall in front of a train. Other people had reason to comment on FraserGreg's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult been asked to work forinvestigate.
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|isbn=00083147211838954481|title=Truth Be ToldThe Misper|author=Kia AbdullahKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''effortful'' familys no doubt about that. Flowers are sent for He was the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeenfifteen-year-old Kamran holding the gun and sixteen-year-old Adampointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the other way round: 'Adam murder and Kamran' trips off the tongue manslaughter of the officer. And so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'lives must go on. Sofia worries about For DI Sarah Collins that sort of thing. Both boys go to means leaving the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite capital and hoping for a quieter life in the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a place at Oxford next year wider investigation - and all seemed to be going well until back into the night when he was rapedorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=The Seven DoorsCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a thriller wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre s an easy conclusion given that two of any kind until wethem 'discovered're a full fifth of the way throughbody. We start with our couple The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, she a literature lecturer, he big DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearsshadow' him. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The building heRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's inheritedall bloody peculiar, meanwhileisn't it, and which they let out to a single motherSir?'' Well yes, it is needed by their adult daughter. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take stayed for about a hikemonth and then turned up, I'm moving in naked and you're moving out'. Nowdead, at this stage you may well, if you know this is in a genre readsmall boat, think it's going anchored in Scully Cove close to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980svillage of Greystone, but noin Devon. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens hereRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesall round ''celebrity''. Until at that twenty per cent stage I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we 'll find something that raises out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an eyebrow as any crime open book should – until . Where did he get the point where money for his first boat? How did he finance the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381trip?
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|isbn=14711792731529427045|title=House of CorrectionThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Nicci FrenchKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's Life has more caring to offer than she first appearspeople - prime numbers for example''. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far- and encourages her to untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might begold rush. And how did Tabitha get here? The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Well, on 21 December Salander's niece's mother is the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered latest woman in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who the area to have vanished without trace. It was helping only with the renovations to Tabithareluctance that Salander became her niece's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at part Salander played in her house she was covered in his bloodfather's death.
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|isbn=14087124151787636607|title=Cry BabyThe Trap|author=Mark BillinghamCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's June 1996 a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and football's European Championships looking for a way to get home. Some are about lucky and manage to start in Londonget one of the few taxis available. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and it's Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one he has regularlyof the outlying villages. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'knew, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' that a man was guilty. For one young woman, but didn't take any action until the man's wife and three children had been murdered and final stop on the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Joshbus leaves her a long way short of her home. It's a happy combination in that the boys are devoted She had intended to ring someone to each other come and collect her - despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friendsbut her phone's dead. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on bus had driven off before she had the swings in chance to beg the park and then dash off bus driver to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodlet her use his. Josh was the one doing the hiding - There's no option but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him start walking - unsuitably clothed and now he can't find Kieronin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15294022711405957174|title=Murder on A Death at the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Party|author=Helen CoxAmy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleyFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into a spot of bandage now, although the details are (mercifully) scantparty will not end well. After The victim - a night of passion Halloran man - is called away in dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the early hours of the morningambulance he so desperately needs. ThereWhat we don's been a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used to live and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years ago. There are sufficient details of the current murder to make Halloran suspect that t know is who the man who murdered his wife - and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prisonor why Nadine prefers to have him die. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy KerrI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0008530025|title=BetrayalMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Ursula, the standIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, -old Maura Howard came home and found the children who are ignorant body of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the foreign aid charity sectorgarden of their West London home. YouHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into d slipped down the steps but the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profilevicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. You'll certainly meet a homeless trampTwenty years later, who no one has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, been charged with his murder and, knowing her it's now the subject of old''Infamous'', decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside hera true-crime show. You'll meet A group of experts has been brought together to review the ministerial bodyguard evidence and driver to take the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptinvestigation further. But as for More to the first ministerial casepoint, they're going to do this live on camera, of a woman demanding her daughterepisode by episode. There's rape get looked at no dump of the whole box set - and pronto, nobody can say, for all records no shortage of Ursulacliffhangers. It's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403compelling viewing.
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|isbn=14091874380241996104|title=The First LieComing to Find You|author=A J ParkJane Corry|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=On the second of October 37Nancy's mother and step-yearfather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-old barristerbrother, Paul ReeveMartin, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door openhas been convicted of their murder. His wife was in We first meet Nancy outside the bedroom in court, after Martin receives a state of shock and in the bathroom there was life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a dead man who had 'silent sentence' - she's not been stabbed repeatedly in found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the neck with Paulrest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's paperrich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -knifeand the papers are making the most of it. In that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Alice are ''rich bitch'' might not going to ring be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the police English in 1370 and tell Bruno's there to see the truthshow with some friends. TheyIt're going to bury s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the body man is whisked away in woodland a helicopter. A local doctor (and go on friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as though nothing he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has happenedstepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=15294018011529196388|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)The Trial|author=William ShawRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gram Hickman, Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who worked stood for an estate agentall that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, took his girlfriend, Angela Booth, to a house which his firm so there was public uproar when he was marketingmurdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house and was on There's just one man in the market frame for millions of pounds. Gram was hoping that he could get Angela into bed his murder - Jimmy Knight - and heit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden'd brought a bottle of prosecco alongs murder. It Knight was when searching for somewhere to chill the bottle told that he found the body best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a man in the freezer in the garageStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. DS Alexandra Cupidi and DC Jill Ferriter are on Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the casecontrary.
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