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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1786482126|title=The Long Dark RoadJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=P R BlackElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's Healeyluxury's nineteenapartments -year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along when they discovered the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicleritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. WeIt'll see - s difficult as Ruth knows, but no one else will know - Nelson doesn't, that another car stops and Stephanie she is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign pregnant with his child as a result of her - or her body - in the two years sinceone night they spent together some three months ago. Georgia is back is FerngateHer condition will be obvious before long, determined to find out what happened and she's not going least because Ruth is prone to be stoppedsudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=David C Mason0008551324|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is a gardener, although what struggling in prison and he did before he became 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a gardenermissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he claimspromises, is classifiedsomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. That is just as well because And what he wants is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plottransferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, where only he can save is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the dayother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |isbn=0956180523
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|isbn=18387731690008405026|title=Her Majesty A Stranger in the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotFamily (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 Charles, who's attempting investigation ground to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsa halt. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening Now, her mother, Helena, and one of the performers brought in to play the piano has been found her father are dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancestheir bed. The immediate reaction is that one Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the guests is responsiblebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, What looked as though it was going to be an exopen-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough-shut case is now a complex double murder. One couldnKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't bear to go down any of s disappearance: others (such as Derwent''those'' roadss boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby 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: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|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=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a 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's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'the body. The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogsSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is silentpulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
The title of this enjoyable crime proceduralWell yes, it is from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are Jem Rosco blew into the worst dogs local pub one evening in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and for whom is dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the hatred? This mystery will last all village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the way to status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the very last world sailor and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way throughround ''celebrity''. It sounds uncomfortable I ''nearly'' said 'all- round good egg' but it as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't: it's honestexactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=15420174321529427045|title=The Nidderdale MurdersGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=J R EllisKarin Smirnoff|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a Friday in mid''Life has more to offer than people -September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillprime numbers for example''. The shooters at  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was small town of Gasskas, where the owner so-far-untapped natural resources of the moor and a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was area have sparked a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysgold rush. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt criminal underworld has not been slow in exclusive cars in nearby Riponcoming forward. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: heSalander's niece'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow s mother is the latest woman in the area to payhave vanished without trace. Other people had reason to comment on FraserIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work fordeath.
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|isbn=00083147211787636607|title=Truth Be ToldThe Trap|author=Kia AbdullahCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an It''effortful'' familys a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Flowers are sent Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent a way to thank and this prompts a phone call in returnget home. There Some are two sons lucky and manage to get one of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamfew taxis available. Their mother, Sofia, regrets Others squash onto the night bus that she didn't name them will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the other way round: 'Adam and Kamrantaxi problem' trips off , particularly in the tongue so much more easily than light of 'Kamran and Adamthe missing women'. Sofia worries about that sort For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of thingher home. Both boys go She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite chance to beg the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park homebus driver to let her use his. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedin high-heeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1405957174|title=The Seven DoorsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of From the way through. We start with our couplefirst page, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building we know that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theyNadine Walsh'd occupied for over thirty yearss party will not end well. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to victim - a single mother, man - is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Now, at this stage you may well, if you What we don't know this is a genre read, think it's going who the man is or why Nadine prefers to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but nohave him die. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case 'd better give you a little more background so that has any bearing on you can understand what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished's happening.|isbn=1913193381
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|isbn=14711792730008530025|title=House of CorrectionMurder in the Family|author=Nicci FrenchCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, she's in prison, the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on remandthe 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. SheTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's sharing now the subject of ''Infamous'', a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearstrue-crime show. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as take the whole processes might beinvestigation further. And how did Tabitha get here? WellMore to the point, they're going to do this live on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed camera, episode by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithaepisode. There's house. So far as no dump of the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees whole box set - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=14087124150241996104|title=Cry BabyComing to Find You|author=Mark BillinghamJane 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 been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's June 1996 One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and footballBruno's European Championships are about there to start in Londonsee the show with some friends. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and itIt'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 has regularlydeparts from the script. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guiltyLuckily, but didn't take any action until the man's wife and three children had been murdered his doctor is there and the man had killed himselfis whisked away in a helicopterCat Coyne A local doctor (and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh. Itfriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a happy combination in that senior government employee, the boys are devoted to each other and man who runs Frenchelon - despite differences the military has stepped in the where and how they live - the women are best friends. The boys are seven-year-old One daughter lives nearby and they play on the swings another, who lives in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek California, is flying in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing the hiding with some of her father's friends for a pre- but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieronarranged holiday.
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|isbn=15294022711529196388|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Trial|author=Helen CoxRob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt Hartley's relationship is developing nicelyGrant Cliveden was a hero: they're even into a spot of bandage nowpoliceman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, although the details are (mercifully) scant. After a night of passion Halloran is called away so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the early hours of the morningOld Bailey. There's been a just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in Irendale, where Halloran used to live and where his wife, Kamalacourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was strangled five years ago. There are sufficient details of the current murder to make Halloran suspect told that the man who murdered his wife best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor- Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and others it's Taylor- is in some way involvedCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, despite being in prisonwho eventually represent him. The DI heads off Knight's determined to speak plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to Jeremy Kerrthe contrary.
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