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|isbn=19424102551786482126|title=Tokyo Zangyo The Janus Stone (Detective HiroshiDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Michael PronkoElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the culture, isnsite was going to hold seventy-five 't it? The hours for which youluxury're paid are really just a statement of apartments - when they discovered the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction bones of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaa child beneath a doorway. When he There was found dead in front of Senden Centralno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, even from that she is pregnant with his family, but there was child as a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof result of the building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide one night they spent together some three years earliermonths ago. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to work an unreasonable amount sudden bouts of overtimesickness.
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|isbn=02414254250008551324|title=The Man Who Died TwiceDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Richard OsmanNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the letterpolice. It came from a man whose body she had helped Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to pull from tell the police where the Thames body of a missing person is buried and who had never existed but then this 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 sort remainder of conundrum which retired spies have his sentence and to deal with on a regular basisget an early parole date. When Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she visits 's even prepared to do the sender of 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 letter Family (heMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's moved into sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Cooperinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's Chase Retirement Village) something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it comes was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as no surprise that itDerwent's someone 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 whom she has a long professional history his upper- class friends, Robert and who used to be her husbandStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's made a bad mistake also self- something obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to do run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a mask being removed within relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the range two of them kissing in a CCTV camera dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a raidhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatsthe AI detective Lock. HeIt's now in hiding their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a young woman called Pollysecond body found crucified a few days later, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressKat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1035021803|title=The Rabbit FactorAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet HenriIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. With She's back now because of a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsrequest for help from her beloved aunt, heCarole. Freya's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide heformer mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not a team-memberbeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, that let her down badly. Even though they'd prefer everyone were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. This is when he finds his brother has died After the split, having she worked in a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channelcafe, met and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately married James (or otherwiseon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) that 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'everything' is just an adventure parks fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and nothing elseOllie and her daughter, Etty. ''YouMeFun'' are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in find the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacebody of Greg's father, despite some desultory staff ideasDuncan Ackerley, but loans have been made out and in the amount vanishedriver. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on It was an easy assumption for the scene police to explain make that missing money – itDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and t stand the activities of these guys guilt. The Salter children are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance planconvinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened...|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=B0925KS87N1529900360|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)The Ghost Orchid|author=Neil LancasterJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been determined badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to find the grave ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. It Finally, it was a strange thing for ScotlandRobin, Delaware's premier criminal to dopartner, but Tam who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was getting old and there were things he wanted to dosomething that the man she loved needed. OnlyThe next case did look simple, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found though. Two lovers were murdered in the grave - swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - heir to an Italian shoe empire and his three sons began she is married to worry. Tam Junior, Frankie an extremely rich man and Dave wouldnit't normally go to s not the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone178763681X|title=The Great SilenceKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk Chef Paul Delamare took a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does teaching job at a good job of bringing the backstory residential cookery school in without being heavy handed about itBelgravia. Skelf isn He didn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought really want to be, it is merely the surname of but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a family way of undertakers. Undertakers getting both men and private investigatorswomen to do what he wanted. Dorothy is Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctschool to assist Paul, she married who had a scot broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and ended the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up helping to run dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the Edinburgh undertaking firm body and everyone knows that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about consider that person to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join be the academic staff next termprime suspect.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=00082690411529421284|title=Risk of HarmLaying Out the Bones|author=Lucie WhitehouseKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Meta heatwave. She might have been reinstated but In a gully, a human skeleton came to the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then surface and forensic testing proved the man body to be Lee Geary, who had broken her heart nearly twenty disappeared nine years beforeearlier. She He'd been a known drug user and her fifteen-year-old daughter had learning disabilities, so it could have moved out been a simple case of her parent's home into a rented house misadventure but thereDI Matt Lockyer wasn's still t convinced. Geary was a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of his way Holly Gilbert and to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childtwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. HeLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's married cold cases to Natalie, now you and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinme) investigate.
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|isbn=18469757191529425867|title=For Any Other Truth Lost and Never Found (DCI Jim DaleyA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Denzil MeyrickSimon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn that MI5 In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. But thatHe's London, isn't it? not any of those things. WhatHe's happening in Kinloch? When white, originated from a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airporttrailer park, DCI Jim Daley barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off 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 a police procedural written for the airport straight awaylaughs. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take offWell, you're not. How could that be? The sort two men are just different sides of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying publicsame policing coin. And why have Sometimes the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14091816691529431735|title=The MaidensWinter Visitor|author=Alex MichaelidesJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders It's February 1991 and looked likely to get away with them bothEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton He'd been exiled on the Paradise nature reserve in CambridgeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. SheThe return has come about because he'd been brutally stabbed and Marianas had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend ill and she was struggling hasn't long to copelive. Mariana wasnIt't ''entirely'' happy about having s hard to go feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana his underwear and Zoe were close and had been made all sent to a watery grave in the more so by the death boot of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierstolen Ford Sierra. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=02414001200861541774|title=The Girl Who DiedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheDCI Domenic Jejeune'd given up her medical studies s close friend and retrained as former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a teachershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She Maik was thirty years old involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and money was tighthe killed a Ghurka. Her friendInitially, Sara, showed her an advert for he faced a job in Skalar on charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Langanes Peninsulaman. There were only ten people in Now he could be facing the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provideddeath penalty. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could let her flat in Reykjavik provoke a diplomatic incident and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=15294072491521129886|title=The Perfect LieThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jo SpainKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happyGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatIt's always a dangerous thing to do when yougood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're married to a cop but both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she was hopefulgets past the morning sickness. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment Greg is approached by the sea an old friend whose brother-in Newport, Long Island-law appears to have killed himself. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, DannyStuart's partnerconcerned about his sister, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one lookLucy, turned, walked who's struggling to the open window make ends meet and jumped to his death from the fourth floorher son is not thriving. Eighteen months laterLucy, Erin he says, is convinced that Gil would be on trial for her husbandnever have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's murderprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1788549759B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Distant DeadResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lesley ThomsonAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-foureight years old. He used to have a high-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for flying job in the evening city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'with her friend IdaShades of Cameron Strike' leaving her three-year-old son, Williamyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, at home with her parentshe has been asked to look into something. The boy thought that Maple was his sister Joyce and Helen are half- it sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and Williamkilled in what's) on been written off as a better footingtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. She was going to meet Joyce - and her wellparents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington -tocan't understand what she was doing there -do fiancé, hoping or how she could come to persuade him to come and meet her family the following weekfall in front of a train. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken herGreg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=00084049251838954481|title=The Killing KindMisper|author=Jane CaseyKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Ryan Kennedy killed a surprisepolice officer: there's no doubt about that. After all, it He was her crossthe fifteen-year-examination of old holding the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencegun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He'd been accused of stalking pulled the woman trigger but it didn't take long due to establish that - if anything - it the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the other way aroundofficer. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and then she came to see him as hoping for a threat and was forced to remember that quieter life in the police officer at his trial had told countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her that this was the best chance theyterritory she'd had to put Webster away for s drawn into a long time: he was a very dangerous manwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=walker141448309743|title=The Coldest Case Devil Stone (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Martin WalkerCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in In the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief village of police Bruno Courreges had Cronchie on the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief West coast of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-JScotland, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. The body five members of a young male was wealthy family are found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justicemurdered. What if an artist could recreate the face The only item missing from the skull and home is the resulting publicity be used to identify Devil Stone: myth says that if the young man? stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. J-J calls the skull The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Oscardiscovered' and has a picture on his door: the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesndisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justicehim.
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|isbn=14711814051529077699|title=NighthawkingThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sheffield''It's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Roadall bloody peculiar, isn't it, if youSir?'d like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discovered Well yes, it is. It had obviously been buried in Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been evening in the earth middle of an autumn gale, stayed for months about a month and then turned up, naked and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to establish who stabbed her - and who left the twovillage of Greystone, very rare, gold aurei on her eyesin Devon. DCI Diane Jordan is Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the Investigating Officer world sailor and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbaniall round ''celebrity''. TheyI 're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks henearly'' said 'all-round good egg's but as obnoxious as ever but suspects that we'll find out, hecould be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn's not fully recovered from t exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his injuries.first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=02419851371529427045|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Cara HunterKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got 'Life has more to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to see the Principalsmall town of Gasskas, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation where the so-far-untapped natural resources of sexual assault by the area have sparked a professor on a studentgold rush. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing The criminal underworld has not been slow in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? coming forward. The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''wasSalander's niece' s mother is the 'victim' and latest woman in the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherarea to have vanished without trace. Just to complicate matters further, CalebIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's mother guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is Petra Newson, a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys part Salander played in her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be father''very'' publics death.
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|isbn=19131935271787636607|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Trap|author=Vanda SymonCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the murder morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffway to get home. His wife had been bound and gagged Some are lucky and placed so that she was forced manage to watch get one of the murder, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outfew taxis available. The subsequent investigation would prove Others squash onto the night bus that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind particularly in the light of thing'the missing women'. For one young woman, as Hendersonthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's employee, Blair Harveyno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-Boyd explainedheeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1405957174|title=True Crime StoryA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxFrom the first page, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader victim - a man - is taken through the life dying when we first meet him and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the policeambulance he so desperately needs. The various accounts help What we don't know is who the reader get to know Zoe, man is or at least the Zoe she presented why Nadine prefers to othershave him die. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave I'd better give you a little more background so that you shocked, confused and unsure of can understand what is true or fabricated's happening. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|isbn=14722761400008530025|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)Murder in the Family|author=James OswaldCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily Slater's body It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and foundthe body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, shein the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd already slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been dead for charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a week true- in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghcrime show. Heavy rain had washed away most A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence, but DI Tony McLean, demoted and just returned from suspensionto take the investigation further. More to the point, is reluctant they're going to accept that do this is nothing more than a careless accidentlive on camera, episode by episode. There were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before 's no dump of the fire. But who would hate a ninetywhole box set -year-old woman to the extent and no shortage of doing something like that? cliffhangers. She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=000845552X0241996104|title=Where Ravens RoostComing to Find You|author=Karin NordinJane 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been estranged from his fathervery carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, StenarKerquelin, for more than a decade but the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he got the rather muddled phone call departs from him saying that he'd seen a murder in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsundscript. ActuallyLuckily, 'drop everything' rather overstates his doctor is there and the situationman is whisked away in a helicopter. Nygaard was on suspension following the shooting A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a suspect senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in the Aubuchon murder enquiry. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils HedinOne daughter lives nearby and another, Nygaard's best friend. Stillwho lives in California, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg is flying in the south with some of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldnher father't be underestimateds friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=18387734281529196388|title=The Art of DeathTrial|author=David FennellRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Grant Cliveden was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Squarea hero: a depiction of three homeless men policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidplain sight at the Old Bailey. Only this time itThere's not a depiction: these are just one man in the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34frame for his murder -yearJimmy Knight -old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. Heit's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In factnot too long before Knight appears in court, wecharged with Cliveden've already met s murder. Knight was told that the artist although not by name: hebest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with Taylor-Cameron and his Moleskine notebookpupil, Maki-e fountain penAdam Green, MacBook Air and iPhonewho eventually represent him. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and sheKnight's explaining determined to her best friendplead not guilty, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation sheall Taylor-Cameron's applied. Chau Ho is behind recommendations to the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toocontrary.
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