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|isbn=178607981X1786482126|title=Bad ApplesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Will DeanElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when she they discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side bones of the roada child beneath a doorway. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestThere was no skull. Determining the direction of Was this a sound isnritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness , that she is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where pregnant with his child as a woman was holding her coat over result of the body of a manone night they spent together some three months ago. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav PerssonHer condition will be obvious before long, a resident not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Visbergsickness.
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|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation 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 something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it 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 Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lilja SigurdadottirJo Callaghan|title=Cold As HellLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In When a red suitcase as man is found crucified on the bottom top of a fissure hill in a lava fieldNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second bodyfound crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable case and, potentially, out of killing.a career?|isbn=1913193888139851120X
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1035021803|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a high functioning alcoholicrequest for help from her beloved aunt, drinking continuously Carole. Freya's former mentor and alsoCarole's close friend, curiouslyArthur Crockleford, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing dead and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the groups reason why Freya had not been back to find targets...targets for sexual encountersthe village: Arthur, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's miseryshe feels, and targets for let her violent behaviourdown badly. Yet Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she also seems has not felt able to be searching for others who think as near the man or pursue the profession she doesloved. After the split, and when she's unable to find like-minded people worked in any a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of the groups she decides to set up her ownlife, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, was murdered) and Freya and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornJames have now divorced.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbn=17841652631398524085|title=Invite Me InHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Emma CurtisNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's wifefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dotsons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letEtty. If she didn't get homeare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, there would be troubleis not. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic Shortly afterwards, Etty and confined to a wheelchairGreg, but donfind the body of Greg't be too quick to be understandings father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. He It was also a very unpleasant person: an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment'couldn't stand the guilt. All this was in ElizaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablewhat really happened.
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|isbn=17847427751529900360|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)The Ghost Orchid|author=Susan HillJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs It hadn't really been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that much of a problem in Lafferton there were only open-and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought -shut cases which didn't need the help of drugs ops as a bit of psychologist only worked for a waste of timewhile. They still were Finally, it was Robin, to a great extentDelaware's partner, but Serrailler who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something had to be donethat the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Children as young as nine Two lovers were being recruited to transport murdered in the drugs and the operation running the county lines swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was tight. A mule might know the name (although heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it probably wouldn't be s not the correct one) Italian. But which of the person who them was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09HTWX47X178763681X|title=Endless ObsessionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Dai HenleyOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a DCI residential cookery school in the Met Belgravia. He didn't really want to but now celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a well-respected private investigatorway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he's married d be at the school to Lauraassist Paul, who had a broken arm, formerly but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryown. FloodThe one thing he hadn's daughterst expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, Gemma he was the person who discovered the body and Pippa, have flown 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 those flash downpours that the nestBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, Pippa a human skeleton came to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the family, surface and Gemma forensic testing proved the body to married lifebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe's d been a known drug user and had mental problems since she learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was abducted many years ago but Andy he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and Laura hope that married life will provide to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the support she needstime. FloodLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's business is going well cold cases to you and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackme) investigate.
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|isbn=15293793851529425867|title=The Madness of Crowds Lost and Never Found (Chief Inspector GamacheA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Louise PennySimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesOxford, we're post-pandemic: the scars there are still there but life two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is starting to get back to normalof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and the Aubergefather of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. TheyHe're visiting each others white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's homes not ''really'' his thing) and having friends his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and relatives trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to staya police procedural written for laughs. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that Well, you're not all saints . The two men are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in just different sides of the village as same policing coin. Sometimes the Asshole Saintcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=183885410X1529431735|title=The Dark RemainsWinter Visitor|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinJames Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer It's February 1991 and consigliere to one of Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowmore surprising. DC Jack Laidlaw is He'd been exiled on the CID team charged with the investigationCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. I say The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'on the teams ill and hasn'' but Laidlaw never really seems t long to be a part of itlive. He does his own thingIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, goes stripped to his own way underwear and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers sent to a watery grave in the truth boot of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsa stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=19424102550861541774|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael PronkoSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Zangyo: overtime works close friend and former colleague, often unpaid'' It's the cultureDanny Maik, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just has taken a statement of the minimum you'll be required short holiday in Singapore to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukameet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When he Maik was found dead involved in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was nothing in the way facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of regret or grief, even from his family, manslaughter but there was a mild curiosity as evidence came to whether light that suggested that he'd jumped from might have planned to murder the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentman. Gossip revolves around the fact that Now he left the roof at could be facing the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierdeath penalty. SheDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimet help Danny at all.
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|isbn=02414254251521129886|title=The Man Who Died TwiceThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Richard OsmanKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the letterpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It came from 's a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames good job too because Greg and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies Joyce will soon have to deal with on a regular basisbaby and they're both delighted. When Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she visits gets past the sender of the letter (hemorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's moved into the Cooperconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - struggling to make ends meet and who used to be her husbandson is not thriving. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidLucy, he says, a missing twentyis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -million pounds it simply wasn't in diamonds his nature. The police and a few the coroner have accepted that the death threats. was suicide, Hebut Stuart's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston Responsibilities (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorAnn Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths It's the 1990s and calculations than it is other human beings, heGreg Mason's perfect for his twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the insurance company – until they decide city but it wasn't satisfying so he's not now set himself up as a team-memberprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', that they'd prefer everyone to you might be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingthinking. This is when he finds his brother has diedNice bloke, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvobut where's radio channelthe life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, and he has left Henri everythingbeen asked to look into something. Unfortunately ( Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or otherwise) that rather, they were until Helen was killed in what'everything' is just s been written off as a tragic accident at an adventure parkunmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'Pam Hetherington - can' is so not t understand what Henri wants she was doing there - or how she could come to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes fall in the finances – it runs at front of a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedtrain. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it Greg's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive asked to getting a cheap life insurance plan..investigate.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=B0925KS87N1838954481|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)The Misper|author=Neil LancasterKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the grave fifteen-year- old holding the gun and pointing it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemeteryat DI Kieran Shaw. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, He pulled the trigger but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted due to do. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after the vagaries of the jury system he'd said that he'd was found not guilty of both the murder and the grave - manslaughter of the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryofficer. And so lives must go on. Tam Junior, Frankie For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and Dave wouldn't normally go to hoping for a quieter life in the police countryside but they werenwhen a missing teenager is found on her territory she't certain where their father had been s drawn into a wider investigation - and they were worriedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1448309743|title=The Great SilenceDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across In the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis village of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job Cronchie on the West coast of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to beScotland, it is merely the surname five members of a wealthy family of undertakersare found murdered. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy The only item missing from the home is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the family for generationsbody. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46 The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about pulled in to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term'shadow' him.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=00082690411529077699|title=Risk of HarmThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Lucie WhitehouseAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Robin Lyons ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might have been reinstated but Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the whole episode left middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a nasty taste small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in her mouthDevon. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. She and her fifteen-yearI ''nearly'' said 'all-old daughter have moved out of her parentround good egg's home into a rented house but thereas we's still ll find out, he could be more than a difficult situation little bit close with her brother Luke who has gone out of money and his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childbackground isn't exactly an open book. He's married to Natalie, now and has a young child but Where did he's still got it in get the money for Robin.his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=18469757191529427045|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Denzil MeyrickKarin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves ''Life has more to awkward places. But thatoffer than people - prime numbers for example's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch?.
When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian ScottLisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, head off for where the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants so-far-untapped natural resources of the plane were dead before take offarea have sparked a gold rush. How could that be? The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. The sort of tech which would make that possible isnSalander's niece't available s mother is the latest woman in the area to the paying publichave vanished without trace. And why have It was 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 man no identification on them - or even labels part Salander played in their clothes?her father's death.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14091816691787636607|title=The MaidensTrap|author=Alex MichaelidesCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looked likely looking for a way to get away with them bothhome. She needed Some are lucky and manage to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceedget one of the few taxis available. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Others squash onto the death night bus that will only go as far as one of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeoutlying villages. SheThe woman all regret the 'd been brutally stabbed and Marianataxi problem's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her particularly in distressthe light of 'the missing women'. Tara had been For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her best friend and she was struggling to copehome. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having She had intended to go ring someone to Cambridge, come and collect her - but she caught the first fast train from Kingher phone's Crossdead. Mariana and Zoe were close and The bus had driven off before she had been made all the more so by chance to beg the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierbus driver to let her use his. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of ZoeThere's mother no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and Mariana's sister, Elizain high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=02414001201405957174|title=The Girl Who DiedA Death at the Party|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacherend well. She was thirty years old The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and money was tightNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on What we don't know is who the Langanes Peninsulaman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: I'd better give you a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant little more background so that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredyou can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=15294072490008530025|title=The Perfect LieMurder in the Family|author=Jo SpainCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Erin was happyfound the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop d slipped down the steps but she the vicious beating his face had taken was hopefulobviously deliberate. They'd Twenty years later, no one has been married for six months and life was good charged with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent his murder and when it was opened, Danny's partnernow the subject of ''Infamous'', Ben Mitchell was there with a couple true-crime show. A group of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked experts has been brought together to review the open window evidence and jumped to his death from take the fourth floorinvestigation further. Eighteen months laterMore to the point, Erin would be they're going to do this live on trial for her husbandcamera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's murdercompelling viewing.
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|isbn=17885497590241996104|title=The Distant DeadComing to Find You|author=Lesley ThomsonJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 and twentyOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for enactment of the liberation of the town from the evening English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with her friend Idasome friends. It' leaving her three-year-old sons all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, WilliamKerquelin, at home with her parentsthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The boy thought that Maple was Luckily, his sister - it was better for doctor is there and the family than the shame man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of illegitimacy, survival but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William- as he's) on a better footing. She was going to meet her wellsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following weekmilitary has stepped in. LaterOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her body would be found in the bombedfather's friends for a pre-out home where he had taken herarranged holiday.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00084049251529196388|title=The Killing KindTrial|author=Jane CaseyRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Grant Cliveden was a hero: a surprise. After policeman who stood for allthat was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, it so there was public uproar when he was her cross-examination of murdered in plain sight at the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceOld Bailey. HeThere'd been accused of stalking s just one man in the woman but frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it didn't take s not too long to establish before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor- if anything Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- it was the other way aroundCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Soon Ingrid never seemed Knight's determined to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mancontrary.
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