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|authorisbn=David C Mason1786482126|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a gardenerritual killing or murder? Inevitably, although what he did before he became a gardenerDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, he claimsbut Nelson doesn't, that she is classifiedpregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. That is just as well Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because he Ruth is about prone to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the daysudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=0956180523
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|isbn=18387731690008551324|title=Her Majesty The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Queen Investigates: 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 Windsor Knotnew 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=S J BennettJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Courtsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's having a dine was never found and sleep at the request of Prince Charlesinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsand her father are dead in their bed. ThereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to s something about the evening and one positioning of the performers brought in bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesan open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. The immediate reaction Kerrigan is convinced that one of the guests is responsibleexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, an exobsessed with his upper-ambassador to Moscowclass friends, the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert and Sir David AttenboroughStanza. Robert's a theatre director. One couldnHe't bear s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to go down any of 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'thoses position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'' roadss not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Roxanne BouchardJo Callaghan|title=The Coral BrideLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living in When a man's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off crucified on the coast top of Quebeca hill in Nuneaton, Detective Morales is called in DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to come and head the investigationcase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionIt's their first live case together, Morales feels something more sinister having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is going ona second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. At Will they be able to solve the same case in time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up sonor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, Sebastien arriving at his doorpotentially, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.out of a career?|isbn=1913193322139851120X
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1035021803|title= The Last Resort Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been invited back to an all-expenses paid retreat to test the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a brand-new product request for help from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyher beloved aunt, Carole. The group includes a games designer Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, social media influencerArthur Crockleford, gossip columnist is dead and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems the circumstances seem suspicious, to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessarysay the least. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow Arthur was the group as they explore reason why Freya had not been back to the islandvillage: Arthur, she feels, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that let her down badly. Even though they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenwere in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. As After the clock ticks downsplit, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In she worked in a race against timecafe, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance met and protect the rest of married James (on the guests rebound from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn=1542020018}}  
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|isbn=05713626721398524085|title=SnowHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=John BanvilleNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Wells fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, at least you're a Wexford manis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Osborne It was master of an easy assumption for the Keelmore Hounds police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and had done something memorable with then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkguilt. The niceties Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their 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 fault that Alex Delaware had to be established been badly injured but he felt responsible and even when there after Alex recovered, Sturgis was a Catholic priest dead reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the library floor with some precious bits help of his anatomy missinga psychologist only worked for a while. Strafford Finally, it was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisRobin, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of OsborneDelaware's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstownpartner, who - despite nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the different religions - involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the habit swimming pool of spending time at Ballyglass Housea remote property in Bel Air. His horse He was stabled therethe heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1787477630178763681X|title=The Postscript MurdersKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Elly GriffithsOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Chef Paul Delamare took a 90-year-old-woman with teaching job at a heart condition dies peacefully residential cookery school in her armchair, it really shouldnBelgravia. He didn't be suspicious really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke women to Peggy Smith's carerdo what he wanted. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that there was more he'd be at the school to Peggyassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's death than met t turn out that way. The teaching - and the eye problems - particularly as she knew that there are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedfor someone to turn up dead. Then there Unfortunately, he was the fact person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need person to knowbe the prime suspect.
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|isbn=14721270131529421284|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotLaying Out the Bones|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a bit of work on handheatwave. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directorIn a gully, Harold Cheesemana human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it therecould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. This Geary was unusuala townie, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to Australiatwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Then 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=In Oxford, there was the Chadwick divorce: are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Chadwick was convinced that his wifeD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, Sheratonis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, was seeing another manoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations You might wonder if you're being introduced to instal listening devices in a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the staff canteen: he wanted to know what same policing coin. Sometimes the staff were saying about him combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and his secretaryEssex is bitingly cold, who was from Genevawhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Apparently, He'd been exiled on the staff called her Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The Swiss Rollreturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to liveThen there was It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the murderboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=14087122880861541774|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Val McDermidSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It DCI Domenic Jejeune's 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 the middle of February and bitterly cold when facing a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled man armed with a body out the Firth of Forth instead of knife - and he killed a lobster potGhurka. It fell Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer light that suggested that he might have planned to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish that murder the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. A decade earlier he's gone missing when Now he was could be facing the prime suspect in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Aulddeath penalty. DCI Karen Pirie, Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person to review the case, any interference from another police force could provoke a couple of years earlier diplomatic incident and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case wouldn't help Danny at an early stageall.
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1521129886|title=A Song of IsolationThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that is only Greg Mason's just beginning to hit get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the heights to retire to baby when she gets past the highlands with morning sickness. Greg is approached by an ordinary guy…an accountant of all thingsold friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, though who's struggling to his credit make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would rather be working never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in forestryhis nature. They The police and the coroner have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateaccepted that the death was suicide, but things are starting Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to feel wrong between themfind out what happened on the night Gil died. |isbn=1913193365
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|isbn=0241425441B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Thursday Murder ClubResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Richard OsmanAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. She He used to be have a nurse and is thus high-flying job in the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long city but it would take wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a person who private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been stabbed asked to bleed outlook into something. Details of where Joyce and how Helen are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about fortyhalf-five minutes and that the victim could have sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpwritten off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. It didn't put Joyce off - and her shepherdparents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can's pie (which tells us that it t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubtrain. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement VillageGreg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=15098895151838954481|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Misper|author=Ann CleevesKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Ryan Kennedy killed a mercy police officer: there's no doubt about that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard. If she hadn't He was the car might not have been found until fifteen-year-old holding the morning gun and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left openpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Vera took He pulled the boy and drove trigger but due to the nearest habitation. She ''thought'' it would be vagaries of the village but it jury system he was Brockburn, the ancestral home found not guilty of both the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - murder and Hector was the black sheep manslaughter of the familyofficer. And so lives must go on. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but there was little else that when a missing teenager is found on her territory she could do in 's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the circumstancesorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=15069094421448309743|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The greatest hatred, like In the greatest virtue and village of Cronchie on the worst dogsWest coast of Scotland, is silentfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered.''  The title of this enjoyable crime procedural, only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from German romantic writer Jean PaulOtterburn House, death will follow. But who The only suspects are the worst dogs known Satanists but in de Lacey Davidsonmany ways, that's latest novel and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way to the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the way throughbody. It sounds uncomfortable - The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but it isnwhen he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 't: itshadow's honesthim.
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|isbn=15420174321529077699|title=The Nidderdale MurdersRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=J R EllisAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. The shooters at Jem Rosco blew into the butts were local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to his friends) was the owner village of the moor and a retired judgeGreystone, in Devon. James Symonds was Rosco had the status of a local landowner and Henry Saunders was national treasure: a banker. He renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and Fraser had known each other since their school daysall round ''celebrity''. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had he could be more than a gripe little bit close with Fraser: hemoney and his background isn'd sold him t exactly an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to payopen book. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to Where did he get the money: for his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought first boat? How did he was stingy and very difficult to work for.finance the trip?
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|isbn=00083147211529427045|title=Truth Be ToldThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Kia AbdullahKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortfulLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'' family. Flowers are sent for  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons small town of Gasskas, where the family, seventeenso-yearfar-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamuntapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Their Salander's niece's mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them is the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off latest woman in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'area to have vanished without trace. Sofia worries about It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that sort Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being 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 rapedpart Salander played in her father's death.
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1787636607|title=The Seven DoorsTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt't even try to suggest s a genre scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of any kind until we're clubs and looking for a full fifth of the way throughto get home. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision Some are lucky and decisions at the council, being forced manage to move out get one of their home, a building the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearswill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The building hewoman all regret the 's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant taxi problem'take a hike, I'm moving particularly in and youthe light of 're moving outthe missing women'. NowFor one young woman, at this stage you may well, if you know this is the final stop on the bus leaves her a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'long way short of her home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, She had intended to ring someone to come and seeing how an oldercollect her -middle aged couple live their livesbut her phone's dead. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until The bus had driven off before she had the point where chance to beg the evicted tenant is found bus driver to have completely vanishedlet her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|isbn=1913193381
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|isbn=14711792731405957174|title=House of CorrectionA Death at the Party|author=Nicci FrenchAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we From the first meet Tabitha Hardypage, shewe know that Nadine Walsh's in prison, on remandparty will not end well. She's sharing The victim - a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she man - is dying when we first appears. She delivers tough love meet him and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Nadine consciously makes no effort to have a shower, unpleasant as call the whole processes might beambulance he so desperately needs. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, What we don't know is who was helping with the renovations man is or why Nadine prefers to Tabithahave him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's house. So far as 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 bloodhappening.
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|isbn=14087124150008530025|title=Cry BabyMurder in the Family|author=Mark BillinghamCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's June 1996 was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and football's European Championships are about to start found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West Londonhome. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's one he now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has regularlybeen brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. It relates More to a case from ten years earlier when he the point, they''knew'' that a man was guiltyre going to do this live on camera, but didnepisode by episode. There't take any action until s no dump of the manwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himselfcompelling viewing.}}
Cat Coyne {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and Maria Ashton are with step-father were brutally stabbed at their sons Kieron Sussex farmhouse and Joshher step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. ItWe first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a happy combination in that the boys are devoted 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to each other and - despite differences in the where and how they live - with what happened for the women are best friendsrest of her life. The boys are sevenOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich -yearshe inherited five million pounds from her mother -old and they play on the swings in papers are making the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodmost of it. Josh was the ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him favourite epithet and now he can't find Kieron'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15294022711529413680|title=Murder on the Moorland A Chateau Under Siege (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helen CoxMartin Walker|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt Hartley's relationship One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is developing nicely: they'the re even into a spot -enactment of bandage now, although the details are (mercifully) scant. After a night liberation of passion Halloran is called away the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the early hours of the morningshow with some friends. ThereIt's all been a murder in Irendalevery carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, where Halloran used to live and where his wifeKerquelin, Kamalathe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, was strangled five years agohis doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. There are sufficient details A local doctor (and friend of the current murder to make Halloran suspect that Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who murdered his wife runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and others - another, who lives in California, is flying in with some way involved, despite being in prison. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy Kerrof her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1529196388|title=BetrayalThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in ministerGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, drafted so there was public uproar when he was murdered in from outside plain sight at the leading party to cover the post for a yearOld Bailey. You might get to meet her hunky husband she canThere't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of s just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs one man in the foreign aid charity sector. Youframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it'll meet her ministrys not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into murder. Knight was told that the task best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. YouStag Court Chambers and it'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, s Taylor-Cameron andhis pupil, knowing her of oldAdam Green, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herwho eventually represent him. YouKnight'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula s determined to accept. But as for the first ministerial caseplead not guilty, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for despite all records of UrsulaTaylor-Cameron's meeting with recommendations to the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403contrary.
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