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|isbn=000820831X1786482126|title=The CoffinmakerJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's Gardendifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stuart MacBrideNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=At It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the coastal village of Clachmara, police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the headland other. But Davie Hardie is slowly eroding into struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up police where the processbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester This person, he promises, is stuck on the rocks someone big and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of it will be worth the house to see police doing what's happeninghe wants. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him And what he wants is to be transferred to pull him back an open prison to safety she glances across at serve the newly-exposed cliff front remainder of his sentence and sees human bonesto get an early parole date. Gordon SmithNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's home is falling into even prepared to do the North Sea other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and the evidence of anyone who works with him is kept well away from what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinhappening.
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008405026|title=The KhanA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterIt's wedding after fifteen sixteen years in selfsince nine-year-imposed exile, she is at the top of old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her gamebed one summer night. Returning She was never found and the investigation ground to the city of a halt. Now, her birthmother, to old scars and fresh woundsHelena, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the future with positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her sense of honour boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and duty-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=B08BTXSS840571379877|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Kellerby Code|author=Jenny O'BrienJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin Edward Jevons is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and sheStanza. Robert's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look attheatre director. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteenHe's also self-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and Gaby is intrigueduses Edward to run errands for him. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room Edward has been in a securelylove with Stanza since their university days -locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. She was wearing Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a hand-made nightdress which her mother relationship had never seen before. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told the whole story: begun between them but he's married not like most men: Edward is left to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1472134710Jo Callaghan|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for When a man is found crucified on the top of a cottage hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Cotswold village of Carsleycase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt's have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail their first live case together, having previously been very successful with all the problems that bringsseveral cold cases. Now the problem But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is settling into suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a different way lot of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant unwanted attention to peopletheir AI Future Policing project. The first move is Will they be able to enter solve the village quiche-baking competition case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Brownepotentially, and his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's of a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. Howcareer? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery...|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1035021803|title= Fallen AngelsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 23.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been backto the English country village where she grew up. After attending She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former friendmentor and Carole's funeralclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened is dead and the sins of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the past are exposed reason why Freya had not been back to the light of village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the presentprofession she loved. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out married James (on the rebound from the clues hidden in his own history love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and to catch a killerJames have now divorced.|isbn=1913193063
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|isbn=15294103471398524085|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Helen CoxNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt HartleyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's assistantfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Grace Edwardssons Niall, has left Paul and Ollie and her library job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamdaughter, Etty. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not accepted. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, so most of find the people attending are scions body of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or theyGreg've manageds father, somehowDuncan Ackerley, to scrape together in the moneyriver. Grace, whoIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's 22, comes into t stand the last categoryguilt. Her parents agreed to fund the course The Salter children are not convinced but told her that if that was what she chose to there's little else they can do then they were finished but get on with her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - their lives and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agowonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529900360|title= The CaptiveGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows the cageIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, intimatelySturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. It lurks in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the corner help of her eyea psychologist only worked for a while. Soon Finally, it will be occupiedwas Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Then what? What if he speaks Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if an Italian shoe empire and she hurts himis married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbn=1838887334178763681X|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Angela MarsonsOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been a complete waste way of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude getting both men and women to everyonedo what he wanted. It was in Paul ''somehow'' got the shopping centre impression that Stone caught sight of he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a little girl clutching a teddy bear in broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the absence of her motherproblems - are all his own. Stone and Bryant didnThe one thing he hadn't realise the extent expected was for someone to which this case turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was going to occupy their minds as the person who discovered the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken and it had all everyone knows that the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do police consider that person to a young mother out shopping with her child?be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=18387700461529421284|title=Body LanguageLaying Out the Bones|author=A K TurnerKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is It was one of those flash downpours that the senior mortuary technician British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and not only does she talk forensic testing proved the body to the deadbe Lee Geary, she also hears what they have to say to herwho had disappeared nine years earlier. ItHe's not something shed been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what their reaction will be. was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She's certainly not going There are connections to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer suicide of a genuine Barbour jacket Holly Gilbert and old Harrovianto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. He's very conscious of his position Lockyer and isn't even inclined to ask for the view DC Gemma Broad of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact Major Crimes Review Unit (that they have a lot more experience than him 's cold cases to you and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakeme) investigate.
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|isbn=14722559171529425867|title=The Roots of Evil Lost and Never Found (Bob SkinnerA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Quintin JardineSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New Year's EveIn Oxford, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wifethere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Professor Sarah GraceBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, daughter Alex Skinner son of Ryan and the man with whom she shares a housefather of Ryan, Dominic Jacksonis not. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity He's not any of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but hethose things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's reformed not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and the new name reflects trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a new manpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at two men are just different sides of the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into same policing coin. Sometimes the new yearcombination works brilliantly well. SkinnerSometimes it's tempted to let problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the phone ring but knows that he cannot: itmore surprising. He's Mario McGuire asking d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghdecade. SkinnerThe return has come about because he's not technically with the police now had a letter from his ex- hewife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his knowledge underwear and experiencesent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=18003211040861541774|title=The Body on the IslandA Nye of Pheasants|author=Nick LouthSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, heading for HMP Spring HillGuy Trueman. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who Maik was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that wasn't who he was. Sixty-threefacing a man armed with a knife -years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenhe killed a Ghurka. He was being ghosted out Initially, he faced a charge of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he divulged might have planned to murder the whereabouts of the body of one of his victimsman. The Bogeyman was going to Now he could be set free on 2 July 2019facing the death penalty. He appeared Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be help as any interference from another police force could provoke a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengediplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1521129886|title=The Long Dark RoadThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=P R BlackKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaGreg Mason's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing just beginning to get his confidence as she walked along an investigator to the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgepoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. There was It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a furious storm going on baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she'd already refused gets past the offer of help from one man morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in a big vehicle-law appears to have killed himself. WeStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops s struggling to make ends meet and Stephanie her son is bundled into the car and driven offnot thriving. There has been no sign of her - or her body Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the two years since. death was suicide, Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened and she's not going to be stoppedon the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=David C Responsibilities (Greg Masonmysteries)|titleauthor=Pandora's GardenerAnn Macarthur|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston is It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a gardener, although what high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he did before he became 's now set himself up as a gardenerprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', he claimsyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, is classified. but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? That is just as well because On the other hand, he is about has been asked to be caught up look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a criminal / spy / terrorist plottragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, where only he Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can save the day't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate. |isbn=0956180523
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|isbn=18387731691838954481|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotMisper|author=S J BennettKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's early 2016 no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is pointing it at Windsor for the Easter CourtDI Kieran Shaw. She's having a dine and sleep at He pulled the trigger but due to the request vagaries of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one the jury system he was found not guilty of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to both the evening murder and one the manslaughter of the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesofficer. And so lives must go on. The immediate reaction is For DI Sarah Collins that one of means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the guests countryside but when a missing teenager is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out found on her racing manager, an exterritory she's drawn into a wider investigation -ambassador to Moscow, and back into the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any orbit of ''those'' roadsRyan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1448309743|title=The Coral BrideDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwomanIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, making her living in five members of a man's worldwealthy family are found murdered. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off The only item missing from the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales home is called in to come and head the investigation. Although Devil Stone: myth says that if the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister stone is going onremoved from Otterburn House, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsdeath will follow. At The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the same time as trying to run his investigation, body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his doordisappears, weighed down with personal problems that he DCI Christine Caplan is unable pulled in to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties'shadow' him.|isbn=1913193322
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1529077699|title= The Last Resort Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other''It's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downbloody peculiar, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and isn't it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat 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 from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} Sir?''
Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=05713626721529427045|title=SnowThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=John BanvilleKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Well, at least youLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''re a Wexford man.''
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|isbn=17874776301405957174|title=The Postscript MurdersA Death at the Party|author=Elly GriffithsAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairFrom the first page, it really shouldn't be suspicious and we know that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy SmithNadine Walsh's carerparty will not end well. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that there was more The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to Peggycall the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don's death than met t know is who the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Then there was the fact I'd better give you a little more background so that Peggy was a you can understand what'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knows happening.
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|isbn=14721270130008530025|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotMurder in the Family|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of work on handtheir West London home. The chairman He had an injury on the back of Philpott Electronics his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was concerned about his managing director, Harold Cheesemanobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, who had apparently returned from Australia because no one has been charged with his wife did not like murder and it there's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to Australiatake the investigation further. Then there was More to the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifepoint, Sheratonthey're going to do this live on camera, was seeing another manepisode by episode. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted to know what There's no dump of the staff were saying about him whole box set - and his secretary, who was from Genevano shortage of cliffhangers. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss RollIt's compelling viewing.}}
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