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|isbn=14722761401786482126|title=What Will Burn The Janus Stone (Inspector McLeanDr Ruth Galloway)|author=James OswaldElly 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=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 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 new 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=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterIt's body sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never foundand the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, she'd already been Helena, and her father are dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghtheir bed. Heavy rain had washed away most Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the evidence, but bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Tony McLean, demoted Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and just returned from suspension, is reluctant to accept that this -shut case is nothing more than now a careless accidentcomplex double murder. There were indications Kerrigan is convinced that Slater had been savagelythe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, almost ritualistically beaten before the fireRobert and Stanza. But who would hate Robert's a ninetytheatre director. He's also self-yearobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -old woman and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the extent of doing something like Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that? She was a virtual recluserelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: who could she have upset Edward is left to that extent?stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=000845552XJo Callaghan|title=Where Ravens Roost|author=Karin NordinLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been estranged from his fathervery successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Stenar, for more than Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying very high profile case that he'd seen draws a murder lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the barn on his land he didncase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter't hesitate s Guide to drop everything and go Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Varsundthe English country village where she grew up. ActuallyShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'drop everythings former mentor and Carole' rather overstates s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the situationleast. Nygaard Arthur was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect reason why Freya had not been back to the 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 Aubuchon murder enquiryman or pursue the profession she loved. There had been After the split, she worked in a complication: cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedinlove of her life, Nygaardwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's best friendfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. StillHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, the tenEtty. are all worried but - strangely -hour drive from Gothenburg in her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the south body of Sweden to Varsund Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the far north shouldnriver. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't be underestimatedstand the guilt. The 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=18387734281529900360|title=The Art of DeathGhost Orchid|author=David FennellJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was an art installation reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidpsychologist only worked for a while. Only this time Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's not a depiction: these are partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tippingman she loved needed. The installation is the work of @nonymousnext case did look simple, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followthough. In fact, we've already met Two lovers were murdered in the artist although not by name: he's been swimming pool of a remote property in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Bel Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she's explaining is married to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actually, an extremely rich man and it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite not the foundation she's appliedItalian. Chau Ho is behind But which of them was the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, too.primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R178763681X|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Liz MistryOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in her sixties and hadnBelgravia. He didn't worn well. She was really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a drug addict way of getting both men and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordwomen to do what he wanted. Her killer thought Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he was probably doing her 'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a favour by putting her broken arm, but it didn't turn out of her miserythat way. DS Nikki Parekh The teaching - and DC Sajid Malik the problems - are on the caseall his own. Nikki canThe one thing he hadn't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of the deathexpected was for someone to turn up dead. It had been impossible to make any progress in Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the case body and the note seemed to taunt everyone knows that the police. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridge. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communication, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure consider that there was something personal in person to be the caseprime suspect.
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|isbn=17874778001529421284|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)Laying Out the Bones|author=Elly GriffithsKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect It was one of those flash downpours that there's treasure to be foundthe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. UnfortunatelyIn a gully, a human skeleton came to the youngest of surface and forensic testing proved the groupbody to be Lee Geary, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evanswho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, finds the body so it could have been a simple case of a man floating on the incoming tidemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. After pulling it ashoreGeary was a townie, they call the police. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably There are connections to the body suicide of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity Holly Gilbert and to be had from two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the coastguardtime. The dead man turns out Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonyou and me) investigate.
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|isbn=00083793001529425867|title=The Shadow ManLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Helen FieldsSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is in his late thirties of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and he knows that he's dyingalways exquisitely dressed. His body is giving up on himD I Ryan Wilkins, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifeson of Ryan and father of Ryan, a child and a brotheris not. He's not any of those things. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people and hewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's made certain preparationsnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures They're usually in frames have been painted onto the wallslime green or acid yellow. Angela Fernycroft was You might wonder if you're being introduced to be his wifea police procedural written for laughs. Her husbandWell, Cal, had taken you're not. The two men are just different sides of the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for same policing coin. Sometimes the weekendcombination works brilliantly well. Unfortunately, Sometimes it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diess problematic.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1529431735|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)The Winter Visitor|author=Ragnar JonassonJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the police inspector in Siglufjordur and Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with had a letter from his ex-wife Kristin , saying that she's ill and son Stefnir before Kristin left hasn't long to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with her. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledlive. It's now the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due hard to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor feel any sympathy when Hopkins is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed abducted, stripped to get his underwear and sent to sleep a watery grave in the phone rings: the body boot of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townstolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178089905X0861541774|title=SerpentineA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jonathan KellermanSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasnDCI Domenic Jejeune't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a death from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toesshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Dorothy Swoboda Maik was twentyinvolved in a street brawl -four years old when she died in he would later maintain that he was facing a car which went off man armed with a cliff on Mulholland Drive knife - and burst into flameshe killed a Ghurka. It turned out Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that she wasn't actually married suggested that he might have planned to murder the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and . Now he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his namecould be facing the death penalty. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has Domenic Jejeune can do nothing of her but one photograph of her mother to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and father and a necklace made of serpentinewouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=000820831X1521129886|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stuart MacBrideKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is slowly eroding into the seapoint 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. Storm Trevor speeds up Joyce will be more delighted about the processbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. A ship Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother- the Oceanin-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house law appears to see whathave killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's happening. Margaret runs after struggling to make ends meet and her son and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesis not thriving. Gordon SmithLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's home is falling into t in his nature. The police and the North Sea and coroner have accepted that the evidence of what hedeath was suicide, but Stuart's been doing for decades is going with it - except for prepared to pay Greg to find out what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes happened on the tumbling ruinnight Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Saima MirB0CK3MYJ56|title=The KhanResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by It's the motto be twice as good as men 1990s and four times as good as white menGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. This has served her well He used to have a high-flying job in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sistercity but it wasn't satisfying so he's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilenow set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, she is at but where's the top of her game. Returning to life experience that backs up this profession? On the city of her birthother hand, he has been asked to old scars look into something. Joyce and fresh woundsHelen are half-sisters, Jia must confront or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her past parents, Oliver and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of honour and dutya train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|isbn=1786079097
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B08BTXSS841838954481|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Misper|author=Jenny O'BrienKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbsRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and shethere's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look atno doubt about that. DS Owen Bates suggests He was the murder of eighteenfifteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 holding the gun and Gaby is intriguedpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. She can't see any immediate failings in He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and jury system he was found dead by a dog walker on not guilty of both the murder and the Gt Orme in Llandudno manslaughter of the next dayofficer. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeAnd so lives must go on. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the whole story: hecountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterdrawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=14721347101448309743|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=M C BeatonCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in In the Cotswold village of Carsley. She's have preferred one Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peoplewealthy family are found murdered. The first move only item missing from the home is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of Devil Stone: myth says that if the campaign stone is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browneremoved from Otterburn House, and his wife Vera out to dinnerdeath will follow. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub The only suspects are known Satanists but in the next village but this is necessary and itmany ways, that's a good investment as she knows an easy conclusion given that shetwo of them 'discovered's going to winthe body. How? Well The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..him.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1529077699|title= Fallen AngelsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum''It's all bloody peculiar, lone wolf detectiveisn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is back. After attending Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a former friend's funeralmonth and then turned up, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the sins village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the past are exposed to the light status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the presentworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds 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 Veum is thrust into his background isn't exactly an investigation to root out open book. Where did he get the clues hidden in money for his own history and to catch a killer.|isbn=1913193063first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=15294103471529427045|title=Death Awaits The Girl in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)the Eagle's Talons|author=Helen CoxKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace Edwards, 'Life has left her library job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academymore to offer than people - prime numbers for example''s vocational library studies course in Durham. It's an unusual place Lisbeth Salander has headed north to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most of the people attending are scions small town of Gasskas, where the seriously rich, scholarship students so-far- or they've managed, somehow, to scrape together untapped natural resources of the moneyarea have sparked a gold rush. Grace, whoThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's 22, comes into mother is the latest woman in the last categoryarea to have vanished without trace. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her that if that It was what she chose to do then they were finished only with reluctance that Salander became her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of a student from a year agothe part Salander played in her father's death.
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1787636607|title= The CaptiveTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows 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 cagenight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', intimately. It lurks particularly in the corner light of her eye'the missing women'. Soon For one young woman, it will be occupiedthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Then what? What if he speaks She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts - but her? What if phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650had 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.
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|isbn=18388873341405957174|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)A Death at the Party|author=Angela MarsonsAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The need for coffee overtook Stone victim - the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to everyone. It was in call the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her motherambulance he so desperately needs. Stone and Bryant didnWhat we don't realise know is who the extent man is or why Nadine prefers to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterhave him die. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of I'd better give you a quick, functional kill, but who would do little more background so that to a young mother out shopping with her child?you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=18387700460008530025|title=Body LanguageMurder in the Family|author=A K TurnerCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-fiveIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician Maura Howard came home and not only does she talk to found the deadbody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, she also hears what they in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have to say to herhappened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. ItTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's not something shenow the subject of ''Infamous''s inclined , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will betake the investigation further. SheMore to the point, they's certainly not re going to share it with the new pathologistdo this live on camera, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianepisode by episode. HeThere's very conscious no dump of his position and isn't even inclined to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him whole box set - and he has only a limited amount no shortage of time to spend on each bodycliffhangers. That will prove to be a mistakeIt's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=14722559170241996104|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Coming to Find You|author=Quintin JardineJane 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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New YearOne 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 Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at there to see the golf club show with his wifesome friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Professor Sarah GraceKerquelin, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be better-known to playing one of the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but main characters is seriously injured when he's reformed and departs from the new name reflects a new manscript. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse Luckily, his doctor is there and are dropped home not long into the new yearman is whisked away in a helicopter. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but knows that - as he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with the police now - hesome of her father's chairman of InterMedia UK friends for a pre- but the police value his knowledge and experiencearranged holiday.
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|isbn=18003211041529196388|title=The Body on the IslandTrial|author=Nick LouthRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who was 67 years old and had served six years stood for the manslaughter of his wife. Only all that wasn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten good and seventeen. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield honest and into a new identity set looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of plain sight at the body of one of his victimsOld Bailey. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revenge.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R Black|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaThere's Healey's nineteen-yearjust one man in the frame for his murder -old universityJimmy Knight -student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and sheit'd already refused the offer of help from one man s not too long before Knight appears in a big vehiclecourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. We'll see - but no one else will know - Knight was told that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and driven off. There has been no sign of her it's Taylor- or her body - in the two years sinceCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Georgia is back is Ferngate, Knight's determined to find out what happened and sheplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's not going recommendations to be stoppedthe contrary.
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