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|isbn=02419851371786482126|title=The Whole Truth Janus 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 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 I FawleyS 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=Cara HunterJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldssixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on She was never found and the investigation ground to a studenthalt. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishertheir bed. Just to complicate matters furtherInitially, Calebit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's mother is Petra Newson, something about the positioning of the local MP, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligenceher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She has What looked as though it was going to be an eightopen-yearand-old son, buys her wine by the shut case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 is now a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerscomplex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'very'' publics boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=19131935270571379877|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Kellerby Code|author=Vanda SymonJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of Edward Jevons is a wealthy working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and apparently respectable businessman out at SeacliffStanza. Robert's a theatre director. His wife had been bound He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and gagged entitled and placed so that she was forced uses Edward to watch the murder, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outrun errands for him. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had Edward has been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady love with Stanza since their university days - and certainly questionable if not illegalhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed Most men in Robert''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that kind of thing'', as Hendersona relationship had begun between them but he's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainednot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Joseph KnoxJo Callaghan|title=True Crime StoryLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxWhen 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, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, has created having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a new genre few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The story follows Will they be able to solve the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four partscase in time, the reader is or will Kat find herself taken through off the life case and disappearance , potentially, out of Zoe through a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the eyes English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her twin sisterbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, other familyArthur Crockleford, friends is dead and professionalsthe circumstances seem suspicious, such as to say the policeleast. The various accounts help Arthur was the reader get reason why Freya had not been back to know Zoethe 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 at least pursue the Zoe profession she presented to othersloved. However After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the twists and turns at rebound from the end love of each chapter leave you shockedher life, confused who was murdered) and Freya and unsure of what is true or fabricatedJames have now divorced. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|isbn=14722761401398524085|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=James OswaldNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's body was found, she'd already been dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but DI Tony McLean- strangely - her husband, demoted and just returned from suspensionAlec, is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentnot. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, almost ritualistically beaten before in the fireriver. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the extent of doing something like that? guilt. She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?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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|isbn=000845552X1529900360|title=Where Ravens RoostThe Ghost Orchid|author=Karin NordinJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been estranged from his father, Stenarbadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying his help on difficult cases. His assertions that he'd seen a murder in the barn on his land he there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsundneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. ActuallyFinally, it was Robin, Delaware'drop everything' rather overstates s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the situationman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Nygaard was on suspension following Two lovers were murdered in the shooting swimming pool of a suspect remote property in the Aubuchon murder enquiryBel Air. There had been a complication: He was the Kattegat Killer turned out heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to be Nils Hedin, Nygaardan extremely rich man and it's best friendnot the Italian. Still, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south But which of Sweden to Varsund in them was the far north shouldn't be underestimated.primary target?
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|isbn=1838773428178763681X|title=The Art of DeathKnife Skills for Beginners|author=David FennellOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a depiction of three homeless men residential cookery school in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidBelgravia. Only this time itHe didn's not t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a depiction: these are the bodies way of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton getting both men and 34-year-old Noel Tippingwomen to do what he wanted. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. HePaul ''somehow's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, we've already met got the artist although not by name: impression that he's been in d be at the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining school to her best friendassist Paul, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actuallywho had a broken arm, but it doesndidn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's appliedturn out that way. Chau Ho is behind The teaching - and the counterproblems - are all his own. ThereThe one thing he hadn's t expected was for someone online, CassandraHto turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the artist has his eye on, tooprime suspect.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1529421284|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)Laying Out the Bones|author=Liz MistryKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in her sixties and hadn't worn wella heatwave. She was In a gully, a drug addict human skeleton came to the surface and was living under forensic testing proved the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her He'd been a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh known drug user and DC Sajid Malik are on the had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple caseof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Nikki can't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with Geary was a press report of the death. townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? It had been impossible There are connections to make any progress in the case suicide of Holly Gilbert and the note seemed to taunt two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the policetime. Then another note arrived with a report Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad 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 - Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the caseme) investigate.
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|isbn=17874778001529425867|title=The Night Hawks Lost and Never Found (Dr Ruth GallowayA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Elly GriffithsSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks In Oxford, there are metal detectorists two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be foundalways exquisitely dressed. UnfortunatelyD I Ryan Wilkins, the youngest son of Ryan and father of the groupRyan, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the body of a man floating on the incoming tideis not. After pulling it ashore, they call the policeHe's not any of those things. DCI Nelson thinks that itHe's probably the body of an asylum seeker but therewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's no evidence not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of any activity shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to be had from a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the coastguardcombination works brilliantly well. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonSometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=00083793001529431735|title=The Shadow ManWinter Visitor|author=Helen FieldsJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heIt's dying. His body February 1991 and Essex is giving up on himbitingly cold, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brotherwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's d been exiled on the lookout Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for the perfect people and a decade. The return has come about because he's made certain preparationshad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. The flat where the family will live It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is prepared and even windows with curtainsabducted, stripped to his underwear and pictures sent to a watery grave in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - a boy boot of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekendstolen Ford Sierra. Unfortunately, Is it doesn't go according a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to plan and Angela dies.home?
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S0861541774|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Ragnar JonassonSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and heDCI Domenic Jejeune's still living close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the house on Eyrargata which Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he shared was facing a man armed with his wife Kristin a knife - and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do he killed a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herGhurka. They were supposed Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledmurder the man. It's now Now he could be facing the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoondeath penalty. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of help as any interference from another police force could provoke a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the towndiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=178089905X1521129886|title=SerpentineThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jonathan KellermanKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasnGreg Mason't exactly s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming point where he'll warn someone about: a death from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answershow much he charges. She had money It's a good job too because Greg and money translated into clout Joyce will soon have a baby and so the problem was dropped onto Milothey's toesre both delighted. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she died gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames-law appears to have killed himself. It turned out that she wasnStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who't actually married s struggling to the man with whom she'd left make ends meet and her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkerson is not thriving. Lucy, optometristhe says, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - and she took it simply wasn't in his namenature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentineStuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=000820831XB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stuart MacBrideAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the coastal village city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of ClachmaraCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the headland is slowly eroding into the sea. life experience that backs up this profession? Storm Trevor speeds up On the processother hand, he has been asked to look into something. A ship Joyce and Helen are half- the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's happeningbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Margaret runs after Joyce - and her son parents, Oliver and as Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she grabs him to pull him back could come to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff fall in front and sees human bonesof a train. Gordon Smith's home is falling into the North Sea and the evidence of what heGreg's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinasked to investigate.
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1838954481|title=The KhanMisper|author=Kate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. This has served her well in her rise through He was the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the top trigger but due to the vagaries of her game. Returning to the city jury system he was found not guilty of her birth, to old scars both the murder and fresh wounds, Jia the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must confront her past go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and reconcile her visions hoping for a quieter life in the future with countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her sense territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of honour and dutyRyan Kennedy.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=B08BTXSS841448309743|title=Fallen Angel The Devil Stone (Gaby Darin Book 3DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Jenny O'BrienCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: In the village of Cronchie on the usual flood West coast of Scotland, five members of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and she's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look atwealthy family are found murdered. DS Owen Bates suggests The only item missing from the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby home is intrigued. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigationDevil Stone: Angelica disappeared myth says that if the stone is removed from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamasOtterburn House, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next daydeath will follow. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates hasnThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that't ''quites an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' told the whole story: body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when hedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's married to Kate Brock, Angelicashadow's younger sisterhim.
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|isbn=14721347101529077699|title=Agatha Raisin The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''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 month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the Quiche village of DeathGreystone, 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?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=M C BeatonKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Agatha Raisin ''Life has taken early retirement and shemore to offer than people - prime numbers for example's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in '. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the Cotswold village small town of Carsley. She's have preferred one Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that bringsarea have sparked a gold rush. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha The criminal underworld has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peoplenot been slow in coming forward. The first move Salander's niece's mother is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of latest woman in the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, and his wife Vera out area to dinnerhave vanished without trace. She knows sheIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's being ripped off at the pub in the next village guardian but this it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is necessary and it's a good investment as she knows that sheremarkably gifted teenager who's going to win. How? Well, ''unaware of the part Salander played in herfather'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..s death.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1787636607|title= Fallen AngelsThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a former friendIt's funeral, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and wounds looking for a way to get home. Some are opened lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the sins night bus that will only go as far as one of the past are exposed to outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the presentmissing women'. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds 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 Veum is thrust into an investigation collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to root out beg the clues hidden in bus driver to let her use his own history . There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and to catch a killerin high-heeled shoes.|isbn=1913193063
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|isbn=15294103471405957174|title=A Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)at the Party|author=Helen CoxAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistantFrom the first page, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academywe know that Nadine Walsh's vocational library studies course in Durhamparty will not end well. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students The victim - a man - or they've managed, somehow, is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to scrape together call the moneyambulance he so desperately needs. Grace, What we don't know is who's 22, comes into the last categoryman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her I'd better give you a little more background so that if that was you can understand what she chose to do then they were finished with her. 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 ago's happening.
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|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author= Deborah OCara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It'Connors compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title= The CaptiveComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows 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 cagecourt, intimatelyafter Martin receives a life sentence. It lurks in 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 corner rest of her eyelife. Soon Of course, it will '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 occupiedprinted but is undoubtedly spoken. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbn=18388873341529413680|title=Deadly Cry A Chateau Under Siege (D I Kim StoneA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Angela MarsonsMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re- enactment of the course had been a complete waste liberation of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to everyonesee the show with some friends. It was in 's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the shopping centre that Stone caught sight man playing one of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her mothermain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Stone Luckily, his doctor is there and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock man is discovered some hours laterwhisked away in a helicopter. Her neck had been broken A local doctor (and it had all the hallmarks friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a quicksenior government employee, functional killthe man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping lives in California, is flying in with some of her child?father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=18387700461529196388|title=Body LanguageThe Trial|author=A K TurnerRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and not only does she talk looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herOld Bailey. ItThere's not something shejust one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's inclined to share not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with people as sheCliveden's pretty certain about what their reaction will bemurder. SheKnight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, Dr Archie ChuffAdam Green, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianwho eventually represent him. HeKnight's very conscious of his position and isndetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron't even inclined s recommendations 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 to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakecontrary.
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