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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1786482126|title=Winterkill The Janus Stone (Dark IcelandDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ragnar JonassonElly 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 difficult 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=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police inspector . Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Siglufjordur prison and he's still living in prepared to tell the police where the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin body of a missing person is buried and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with who was responsible for herdeath. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. It's now And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the Thursday remainder of Holy Week his sentence and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonget an early parole date. Ari Thor Not much to ask, is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to get to sleep do the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=178089905X0008405026|title=SerpentineA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jonathan KellermanJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answersher bed one summer night. She had money was never found and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in investigation ground to a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flameshalt. It turned out that she wasn't actually married to the man with whom she'd left Now, her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkermother, optometristHelena, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his nameher father are dead in their bed. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but one photograph there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her mother and father boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is now a necklace made of serpentinecomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=000820831X0571379877|title=The CoffinmakerKellerby 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 Gardena 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=Stuart MacBrideJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At When a man is found crucified on the coastal village top of Clachmaraa hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the headland is slowly eroding into case alongside her sidekick, the seaAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Storm Trevor speeds up the processBut 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 draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. A ship - Will they be able to solve the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the rocks case and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking , potentially, out of the house a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to see whatMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's happeningtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Margaret runs after She's back now because of a request for help from her son beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and as she grabs him Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to pull him say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to safety the village: Arthur, she glances across at feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesman or pursue the profession she loved. Gordon Smith's home is falling into After the North Sea split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the evidence love of 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 ruinher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1398524085|title=The KhanHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and four times as good as white menher daughter, Etty. This has served are all worried but - strangely - her well in her rise through the criminal justice system husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and by Greg, find the time she is called home for her sisterbody of Greg's wedding after fifteen years father, Duncan Ackerley, in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her gameriver. Returning to It was an easy assumption for the city of her birth, police to old scars make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the future guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with her sense of honour their lives and dutywonder about what really happened.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=B08BTXSS841529900360|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jenny O'BrienJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and sheIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's looking through cold 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 for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteenHis assertions that there were only open-yearand-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intrigued. She canshut cases which didn't see any immediate failings in need the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from help of a room in psychologist only worked for a securely-locked housewhile. Finally, it was Robin, wearing her pyjamasDelaware's partner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno something that the man she loved needed. The next daycase did look simple, though. She was wearing Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeremote property in Bel Air. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told He was the whole story: he's heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Kate Brock, Angelicaan extremely rich man and it's younger sisternot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1472134710178763681X|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathKnife Skills for Beginners|author=M C BeatonOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a cottage residential cookery school in the Cotswold village of CarsleyBelgravia. SheHe didn's have preferred one of the more romantic names t really want to but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a different way of life - getting both men and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant women to peopledo what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The first move is to enter the village quicheteaching -baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummingsproblems -Browne, and are all his wife Vera out own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to dinnerturn up dead. She knows she's being ripped off at Unfortunately, he was the pub in person who discovered the next village but this is necessary body and it's a good investment as she everyone knows that she's going the police consider that person to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1529421284|title= Fallen AngelsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg VeumIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, lone wolf detectivea human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, is backwho had disappeared nine years earlier. After attending He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a former friendsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's funeralt convinced. Geary was a townie, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are opened and connections to the sins suicide of the past are exposed Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the light time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the present. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to root out the clues hidden in his own history you and to catch a killerme) investigate.|isbn=1913193063
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|isbn=15294103471529425867|title=Death Awaits in Durham Lost and Never Found (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Helen CoxSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistantIn Oxford, Grace Edwardsthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, has left her library job Balliol educated and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academyalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's vocational library studies course in Durhamnot any of those things. ItHe's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or theyacid yellow. You might wonder if you've managed, somehow, re being introduced to scrape together the moneya police procedural written for laughs. GraceWell, whoyou's 22, comes into re not. The two men are just different sides of the last categorysame policing coin. Her parents agreed to fund Sometimes the course but told her that if that was what she chose to do then they were finished with hercombination works brilliantly well. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agoSometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529431735|title= The CaptiveWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the cagemore surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, intimatelysaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It lurks 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the corner boot of her eyea stolen Ford Sierra. Soon, Is it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts himhome?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbn=18388873340861541774|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Angela MarsonsSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude short holiday in Singapore to everyonemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It Maik was involved in the shopping centre a street brawl - he would later maintain that Stone caught sight of he was facing a little girl clutching man armed with a teddy bear in the absence of her motherknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to which this case was going light that suggested that he might have planned to occupy their minds as murder the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterman. Her neck had been broken and it had all Now he could be facing the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do that nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a young mother out shopping with her child?diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=18387700461521129886|title=Body LanguageThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=A K TurnerKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's not something shea good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction re both delighted. Joyce will bemore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. SheStuart's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistconcerned about his sister, Dr Archie ChuffLucy, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket who's struggling to make ends meet and old Harrovianher son is not thriving. HeLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's very conscious of t in his position nature. The police and isnthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart't even inclined s prepared to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time pay Greg to spend find out what happened on each body. That will prove to be a mistakethe night Gil died.
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|isbn=1472255917B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Roots of Evil Responsibilities (Bob SkinnerGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Quintin JardineAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New YearIt's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner 1990s and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic JacksonGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Jackson would be betterHe used to have a high-known to flying job in the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith city but it wasn't satisfying so he's reformed and the new name reflects now set himself up as a new manprivate investigator. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new yearShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. SkinnerNice bloke, but where's tempted to let the phone ring but knows life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he cannot: ithas been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's Mario McGuire asking for his presence been written off as a tragic accident at a crime scene an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in the centre front of Edinburgha train. SkinnerGreg's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencebeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=18003211041838954481|title=The Body on the IslandMisper|author=Nick LouthKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring HillRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who He was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasn't who he was. Sixty-threefifteen-yearsyear-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between holding the ages of ten gun and seventeenpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was being ghosted out found not guilty of Wakefield both the murder and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts manslaughter of the body of one of his victimsofficer. The Bogeyman was going to be set free And so lives must go on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a reformed character quieter life in the countryside but he had when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a list wider investigation - and back into the orbit of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1448309743|title=The Long Dark RoadDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=P R BlackCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along In the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going village of Cronchie on and she'd already refused the offer West coast of Scotland, five members of help from one man in a big vehiclewealthy family are found murdered. We'll see - but no one else will know - The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that another car stops and Stephanie if the stone is bundled into the car and driven offremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. There has been no sign The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of her - or her them 'discovered' the body - in the two years since. Georgia The Senior Investigating Office is back DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is Ferngate, determined pulled in to find out what happened and she's not going to be stoppedshadow' him.
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|authorisbn=David C Mason1529077699|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= John Cranston ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, 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 gardenermonth and then turned up, although what he did before he became naked and dead, in a gardenersmall boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, he claimsin Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, is classifiedround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. That is just I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as well because we'll find out, he is about to could be caught up in more than a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only 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 can save finance the day. |isbn=0956180523trip?
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|isbn=18387731691529427045|title=Her Majesty The Girl in the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotEagle's Talons|author=S J BennettKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for the Easter Court. Sheexample's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the evening and one small town of Gasskas, where the performers brought in to play so-far-untapped natural resources of the piano area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been found dead slow in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancescoming forward. The immediate reaction Salander's niece's mother is that one of the guests is responsiblelatest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. The Queen mentally rules out It was only with reluctance that Salander became her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldnniece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who't bear to go down any s unaware of the part Salander played in her father''those'' roadss death.
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|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Roxanne BouchardCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. 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 chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=The Coral BrideA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwomanFrom the first page, making her living in a manwe know that Nadine Walsh's worldparty will not end well. When her lobster trawler The victim - a man - is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to come and head call the investigationambulance he so desperately needs. Although What we don't know is who the signs seem man is or why Nadine prefers to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudshave him die. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems I'd better give you a little more background so that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesyou can understand what's happening.|isbn=1913193322
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008530025|title= The Last Resort Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an allIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-expenses paid retreat to test a brandyear-new product from old Maura Howard came home and found the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designerbody of her stepfather, social media influencerLuke Ryder, gossip columnist and hedge fund managerin the garden of their West London home. Everyone seems to have He had an area injury on the back of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the group as they explore steps but the islandvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and each otherit's histories and it becomes clear that they all have now the subject of ''Infamous'', a dark secret they would rather keep hiddentrue-crime show. As A group of experts has been brought together to review the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, evidence and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cageto take the investigation further. In a race against time More to the point, Amelia must struggle they're going to uncover do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the reason for her attendance whole box set - and protect the rest no shortage of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themcliffhangers. It's compelling viewing. |isbn=1542020018}}
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|isbn=05713626720241996104|title=SnowComing to Find You|author=John BanvilleJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Crime 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (HistoricalA 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 English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It'Wells all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at least youthe Old Bailey. There're a Wexford s just one manin the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder.Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.}}
So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled there.
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