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|isbn=02414001201786482126|title=The Girl Who DiedJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was not thriving Builders were demolishing an old house in Reykjavik: it Norwich - the site was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then shegoing to hold seventy-five 'luxury'd given up her medical studies and retrained as apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a teacherdoorway. She There was thirty years old and money was tightno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Her friendIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Sarabut Nelson doesn't, showed her an advert for that she is pregnant with his child as a job in Skalar on result of the Langanes Peninsulaone night they spent together some three months ago. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would Her condition will be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik andobvious before long, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coverednot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=15294072490008551324|title=The Perfect LieDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jo SpainNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thathe's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married prepared to tell the police where the body of a cop but she missing person is buried and who was hopefulresponsible for her death. They'd been married for six months This person, he promises, is someone big and life was good with a decent apartment by it will be worth the sea in Newport, Long Islandpolice doing what he wants. The knock on And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the door was insistent remainder of his sentence and when to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it was opened, Danny? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked even prepared to do the open window other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and jumped to his death anyone who works with him is kept well away from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandwhat's murderhappening.
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|isbn=17885497590008405026|title=The Distant DeadA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Lesley ThomsonJane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four's sixteen years since nine-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the evening 'with investigation ground to a halt. Now, her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old sonmother, WilliamHelena, at home with and her parentsfather are dead in their bed. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - Initially, it was better for looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the family than positioning of the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her life (and William's) on a better footingboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She What looked as though it was going to meet her wellbe an open-toand-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following weekshut case is now a complex double murder. LaterKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken herUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=00084049250571379877|title=The Killing KindKellerby Code|author=Jane CaseyJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Edward Jevons is a surpriseworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. After all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victimRobert' which saved him from s a lengthy prison sentencetheatre director. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that s also self- if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and then she came uses Edward to see run errands for him as a threat . Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and was forced he's drunkenly confided how he feels to remember Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the police officer at his trial a relationship had told her that this was the best chance theybegun between them but he'd had s not like most men: Edward is left to put Webster away for a long time: he was stumble upon the two of them kissing in a very dangerous mandark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=walker14Jo Callaghan|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in When a man is found crucified on the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief top of police Bruno Courreges had a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the idea which he thought might help his bosscase alongside her sidekick, chief of detectives Jalipeauthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, known as J-J, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty yearshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The But when there is a second body of found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified potential serial killer and his killer never brought a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to justicetheir AI Future Policing project. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity Will they be used able to identify solve the young man? J-J calls case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the skull 'Oscar' case and has , potentially, out of a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=14711814051035021803|title=NighthawkingThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://wwwtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up.sbg She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you Freya'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in whats former mentor and Carole's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the body of a young woman was discoveredleast. It Arthur was the reason why Freya had obviously not been buried in one of back to the beds but who would have started to dig village: Arthur, she feels, let her up? down badly. It had been Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsprofession she loved. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left After the twosplit, very rareshe worked in a cafe, gold aurei met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer life, who was murdered) and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler Freya and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=02419851371398524085|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Cara HunterNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam FawleyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Professor Hilary ReynoldsEtty. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a studentare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the alleged perpetrator doing body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? river. The problem It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Caleb Morgan ''was'Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn' t stand the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherguilt. Just to complicate matters further, CalebThe Salter children are not convinced but there's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month little else they can do but get on clothes with their lives and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' publicwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=19131935271529900360|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Ghost Orchid|author=Vanda SymonJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin 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 shocked when it heard of reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the murder help of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so She knew that she the involvement was forced to watch something that the murder, with the scene being discovered by their sonman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outthough. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalBel Air. His company, Eros Global, manufactured He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements she is married to an extremely rich man and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'', as Hendersonit's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainednot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox178763681X|title=True Crime StoryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created who had a new genre with his latest novelbroken arm, "True Crime Story"but it didn't turn out that way. The story follows teaching - and the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceproblems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Split into four parts Unfortunately, he was the reader is taken through person who discovered the life body and disappearance everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of Zoe through those flash downpours that the eyes of her twin sisterBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, other familya human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, friends who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and professionalshad learning disabilities, such as the policeso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The various accounts help Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the reader get suicide of Holly Gilbert and to know Zoe, or two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at least the Zoe she presented to otherstime. However, the twists Lockyer and turns at DC Gemma Broad of the end of each chapter leave Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedme) investigate. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|isbn=14722761401529425867|title=What Will Burn Lost and Never Found (Inspector McLeanA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=James OswaldSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily Slater's body was foundIn Oxford, she'd already been dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghthere are two D I Wilkins. Heavy rain had washed away most Raymond Wilkins is of the evidenceNigerian descent, but DI Tony McLeanBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, demoted son of Ryan and just returned father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from suspensiona trailer park, is reluctant barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentpolice procedural written for laughs. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyWell, almost ritualistically beaten before you're not. The two men are just different sides of the firesame policing coin. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to Sometimes the extent of doing something like that? combination works brilliantly well. She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=000845552X1529431735|title=Where Ravens RoostThe Winter Visitor|author=Karin NordinJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying that heIt'd seen a murder in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything s February 1991 and go to Varsund. ActuallyEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'drop everything' rather overstates return all the situationmore surprising. Nygaard was He'd been exiled on suspension following the shooting of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquirydecade. There The return has come about because he's had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedinletter from his ex-wife, Nygaardsaying that she's best friendill and hasn't long to live. StillIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the south boot of Sweden a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimated.home?
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|isbn=18387734280861541774|title=The Art A Nye of DeathPheasants|author=David FennellSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time itDCI Domenic Jejeune's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrinclose friend and former colleague, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymousDanny Maik, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made has taken a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by name: he's been short holiday in the Lumberyard Cafe Singapore to meet up with his Moleskine notebookan old ally, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhoneGuy Trueman. Elaine Kelly is there Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with her son, Jordan, a knife - and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagehe killed a Ghurka. ActuallyInitially, it doesn't take he faced a lot charge of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the foundation she's appliedman. Chau Ho is behind Now he could be facing the counterdeath penalty. ThereDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toot help Danny at all.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1521129886|title=Dark Memories They Had It Coming (DS Nikki Parekh 3Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Liz MistryKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadnGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he't worn wellll warn someone about how much he charges. She was It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a drug addict baby and was living under they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordmorning sickness. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her a favour Greg is approached by putting her out of her miseryan old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are on the case. Nikki canStuart't quite understand why shes concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of the death. It had been impossible struggling to make any progress in the case ends meet and the note seemed to taunt the policeher son is not thriving. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected death Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in Cambridgehis nature. The third death - in police and the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communication, with a further clue under coroner have accepted that the victim - and Nikki death was sure that there was something personal in suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the casenight Gil died.
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|isbn=1787477800B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Night Hawks Responsibilities (Dr Ruth GallowayGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists It's the 1990s and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that thereGreg Mason's treasure to be foundtwenty-eight years old. Unfortunately, He used to have a high-flying job in the youngest city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of the groupCameron Strike', twenty-one-year-old Troy Evansyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, finds but where's the body of a man floating on life experience that backs up this profession? On the incoming tideother hand, he has been asked to look into something. After pulling it ashoreJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they call the policewere until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. DCI Nelson thinks that itJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can's probably the body of an asylum seeker but t understand what she was doing there's no evidence - or how she could come to fall in front of any activity to be had from the coastguarda train. The dead man turns out Greg's been asked to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisoninvestigate.
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|isbn=00083793001838954481|title=The Shadow ManMisper|author=Helen FieldsKate London
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's dyingno doubt about that. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and a brotherpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He's been on pulled the trigger but due to the lookout for vagaries of the perfect people and jury system he's made certain preparations. The flat where was found not guilty of both the family will live is prepared murder and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallsmanslaughter of the officer. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifeAnd so lives must go on. Her husband, Cal, had taken For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the children - a boy of seven capital and hoping for a girl of five, away for quieter life in the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesncountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she't go according to plan s drawn into a wider investigation - and Angela diesback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1448309743|title=Winterkill The Devil Stone (Dark IcelandDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Ragnar JonassonCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he's still living in Devil Stone: myth says that if the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degreestone is removed from Otterburn House, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herdeath will follow. They were supposed to spend Christmas together The only suspects are known Satanists but Kristin cancelled. Itin many ways, that's now an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonbody. Ari Thor The Senior Investigating Office is having trouble sleeping DCI Bob Oswald but when he finally managed disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the town'shadow' him.
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|isbn=178089905X1529077699|title=SerpentineThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Jonathan KellermanAnn 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 village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtyso-far-six years ago and the daughter untapped natural resources of the woman who died wanted some answersarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto MiloSalander's niece's toesmother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. Dorothy Swoboda It was twenty-four years old when she died only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a car which went off scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a cliff on Mulholland Drive way to get home. Some are lucky and burst into flamesmanage to get one of the few taxis available. It turned out Others squash onto the night bus that she wasnwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 't actually married to the man with whom shemissing women'd left . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and he took out adoption papers for Ellie collect her - and but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she took had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her There's no option but one photograph of her mother to start walking - unsuitably clothed and father and a necklace made of serpentinein high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=000820831X1405957174|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart MacBride
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At From the coastal village of Clachmarafirst page, the headland is slowly eroding into the seawe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Storm Trevor speeds up the process. A ship The victim - the Oceana man -Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks dying when we first meet him and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the house to see what's happeningambulance he so desperately needs. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to pull have him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesdie. Gordon SmithI's home is falling into the North Sea and the evidence of d better give you a little more background so that you can understand what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinhappening.
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008530025|title=The KhanMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan 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 alway lived by been charged with his murder and it's now the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white mensubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. This A group of experts has served her well in her rise through been brought together to review the criminal justice system 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 time whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane 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 is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in selfreceived a 'silent sentence' -imposed exile, she is at the top 's not been found guilty of her game. Returning anything but will have to live with what happened for the city rest of her birthlife. Of course, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her past mother - and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense papers are making the most of honour it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and duty''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=B08BTXSS841529413680|title=Fallen Angel A Chateau Under Siege (Gaby Darin Book 3A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Jenny O'BrienMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood re-enactment of the liberation of cases has slowed to less than a dribble the town from the English in 1370 and sheBruno's looking through cold cases for inspiration as there to which see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one she should have 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 good look athelicopter. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of eighteensurvival but -yearas he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -old Angelica Brock the military has stepped in 1995 and Gaby is intrigued. She can't see any immediate failings One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a securelypre-locked housearranged 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, wearing her pyjamas, and so there was public uproar when he was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme murdered in Llandudno plain sight at the next dayOld Bailey. She was wearing a handThere's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight -made nightdress which her mother had never seen and it's not too long beforeKnight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Bates hasn't ''quite'' Knight was told that the whole story: hebest 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 married determined to Kate Brockplead not guilty, Angelicadespite all Taylor-Cameron's younger sisterrecommendations to the contrary.
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