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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1786482126|title=Buried Lies The Janus Stone (Gaby Darin Book Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jenny ONeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'Briens 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=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Edward Jevons is a pump attached to working-class young man, obsessed with his stomach, so her overupper-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ianclass friends, was pestering her to get married Robert and she thought it would be Stanza. Robert's a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' liketheatre director. Her friendHe's also self-obsessed, Millydemanding, had arranged handsome and entitled and uses Edward to take her boyfriend, Liam, run errands for a night him. Edward has been in a posh hotel but then love with Stanza since their university days - and he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity s drunkenly confided how he feels to go in his placeRobert. She Most men in Robert's position would return home 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 find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QJo Callaghan|title=Without a Leave No Trace|author=Jane Bettany
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through When a man is found crucified on the top of a divorce and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningsidekick, the AI detective Lock. It wasn't going to be though: s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when she went into her bedroom she there is a second body found crucified a dead man on her bed few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a knife in his chestpotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She'd no idea who he was.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=Gunnar Staalesen1035021803|title=Bitter FlowersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning been back to workthe English country village where she grew up. However She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, the quiet job heCarole. Freya's supposedly taken on caretaking someoneformer mentor and Carole's house quickly turns into a murder investigationclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and a mystery around a missing womanthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Varg finds himself Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only investigating thesebeen back to the village: Arthur, but also looking into an oldshe feels, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundlet her down badly. Somehow Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, these disparate cases appear she has not felt able to be linkednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but what is she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the linklove of her life, who was murdered) and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308XFreya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=18387748231398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 2016 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the Queen's Private Secretaryher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandnot. SwimmingShortly afterwards, he decidesEtty and Greg, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered find the body of Cynthia Harris at Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the side of the poolriver. There It was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by an easy assumption for the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris police to make that Duncan had slipped murdered Charlie and cut herself so badly that she had bled outthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Paul CleaveJonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=The Quiet PeopleKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not Chef Paul Delamare took a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is teaching job at a residential cookery school in a hurryBelgravia. He has didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to hurry because do what he has children wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he should not have'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of problems - are all his car and tries own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to run and then hears sirens behind himturn up dead. Unfortunately, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlyperson to be the prime suspect.|isbn=1913193942
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|isbn=178607981X1529421284|title=Bad ApplesLaying Out the Bones|author=Will DeanKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson It was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side one of those flash downpours that the roadBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of In a gully, a human skeleton came to the car - surface and heard forensic testing proved the screams from deep inside the forestbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Determining the direction He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of a sound isnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where convinced. Geary was a woman townie, so what was holding her coat over he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the body suicide of a manHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. HeLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergs cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529425867|title=Cold As HellLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a red suitcase as the bottom trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of a fissure shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a lava fieldpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, there is a bodyyou're not. And the man who has put her there has The two men are just discovered that he is capable different sides of killingthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1913193888
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1529431735|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupswanted drug smuggler for a decade. She is also The return has come about because he's had a selfletter from his ex-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps wife, saying that she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, ill and targets for her violent behaviourhasn't long to live. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she It's unable hard to find like-minded people in feel any of the groups she decides to set up her ownsympathy when Hopkins is abducted, hoping stripped to encounter others who share similar obsessions, his underwear and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1913193756 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=17841652630861541774|title=Invite Me InA Nye of Pheasants|author=Emma CurtisSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranDCI Domenic Jejeune's wifeclose friend and former colleague, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dotDanny Maik, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior has taken a short holiday in Singapore to it being let. If she didn't get homemeet up with an old ally, there would be troubleGuy Trueman. There Maik was some excuse: Martin involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a paraplegic knife - and confined to he killed a wheelchairGhurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but don't be too quick evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to be understandingmurder the man. He was also a very unpleasant person: Now he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''could be facing the death penalty. All this was in ElizaDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, t help Danny at the flat just as Eliza was 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 availableall.
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|isbn=17847427751521129886|title=A Change of Circumstance They Had It Coming (Simon SerraillerGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Susan HillKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadnGreg Mason't really been that s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much of he charges. It's a problem in Lafferton good job too because Greg and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as Joyce will soon have a bit of a waste of timebaby and they're both delighted. They still were, to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to Joyce will be donemore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Children as young as nine were being recruited Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines was tighthave killed himself. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn Stuart't be the correct one) of the person s concerned about his sister, Lucy, who was running him but 's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he certainly wouldnsays, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't know anything about those higher up in the organisationhis nature. The police might catch a few of and the coroner have accepted that the runners death was suicide, but theyStuart'd never get anywhere near those higher ups prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=B09HTWX47XB0CK3MYJ56|title=Endless ObsessionResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Dai HenleyAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's some the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly old. He used to have a DCI high-flying job in the Met city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a well-respected private investigator. He's married to LauraShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Floodwhere's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nestlife experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, Pippa he has been asked to Australialook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, from where she has very little contact with the familyor rather, and Gemma to married lifethey were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. SheJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can's had mental problems since t understand what she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the support doing there - or how she needscould come to fall in front of a train. FloodGreg's business is going well and that was why he felt able been asked to turn down the case of Lisa Blackinvestigate.
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|isbn=15293793851838954481|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Misper|author=Louise PennyKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the Canadian village of Three Pines, we're postfifteen-year-pandemic: old holding the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normalgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The villagers are beginning to return He pulled the trigger but due to the Bistro vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the Aubergemanslaughter of the officer. They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to stayAnd so lives must go on. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the Nobel Peace Prize countryside but when a missing teenager is one such visitor and found on her territory she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around 's drawn into a wider investigation - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in and back into the village as the Asshole Saintorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=183885410X1448309743|title=The Dark RemainsDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one In the village of Cronchie on the major crime families in nineteen seventies GlasgowWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. DC Jack Laidlaw The only item missing from the home is on the CID team charged with Devil Stone: myth says that if the investigationstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. I say ''on the team'' The only suspects are known Satanists but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it. He does his own thingin many ways, goes his own way and that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'The Dark Remains'discovered' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carterbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's body was found behind one of Glasgowshadow's seedier pubshim.
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|isbn=19424102551529077699|title=Tokyo Zangyo The Raging Storm (Detective HiroshiTwo Rivers)|author=Michael PronkoAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workIt's all bloody peculiar, often unpaidisn't it, Sir?''
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|isbn=02414254251529427045|title=The Man Who Died TwiceGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Richard OsmanKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. It came from a man whose body she had helped Lisbeth Salander has headed north to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is small town of Gasskas, where the sort so-far-untapped natural resources of conundrum which retired spies the area have to deal with on sparked a regular basisgold rush. When she visits the sender of the letter (heThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's moved into mother is the latest woman in the Cooperarea to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's Chase Retirement Village) guardian but it comes as no surprise quickly becomes obvious that it's someone with whom she has Svala is a long professional history - and remarkably gifted teenager who used to be her husband. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within unaware of the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds part Salander played in diamonds and a few death threats. Heher father's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressdeath.
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1787636607|title=The Rabbit FactorTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, heIt's perfect for his job a scene replicated all too often in the insurance company – until they decide he's not early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone way to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingget home. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, Some are lucky and has left Henri everythingmanage to get one of the few taxis available. Unfortunately (or otherwise) Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'everythingtaxi problem' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. particularly in the light of 'the missing women'YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind. For one young woman, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at final stop on the bus leaves her a steady moneylong way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on chance to beg the scene bus driver to explain that missing money – itlet her use his. There's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..in high-heeled shoes.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=B0925KS87N1405957174|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)A Death at the Party|author=Neil LancasterAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find From the grave - and it took some findingfirst page, in an overgrown old cemeterywe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. It was The victim - a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things call the ambulance he wanted to doso desperately needs. Only, his family didnWhat we don't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - know is who the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began man is or why Nadine prefers to worryhave him die. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldnI't normally go to the police but they werend better give you a little more background so that you can understand what't certain where their father had been and they were worrieds happening.
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|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone0008530025|title=The Great SilenceMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those whoIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, like meLuke Ryder, haven't come across in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis back of whohis head which could have happened if he's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing d slipped down the steps but the backstory in without being heavy handed about itvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature Twenty years later, though no one has been charged with his murder and it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely 's now the surname subject of ''Infamous'', a family true-crime show. A group of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is experts has been brought together to review the matriarch – Californian by birth evidence and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run take the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in investigation further. More to the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennypoint, 46they're going to do this live on camera, is haunted episode by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisonerepisode. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first There's no dump of the whole box set -class physics degree and join the academic staff next termno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=00082690410241996104|title=Risk of HarmComing to Find You|author=Lucie WhitehouseJane 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=DCI Robin Lyons One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is back in her native Birmingham after her lessthe re-than-comfortable departure enactment of the liberation of the town from the MetEnglish in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. She might have It's all been reinstated very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouthscript. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then Luckily, his doctor is there and the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeis whisked away in a helicopter. She A local doctor (and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of her parent's home into a rented house survival but there- as he's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childstepped in. He's married to NatalieOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, now and has a young child but heis flying in with some of her father's still got it in friends for Robina pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=18469757191529196388|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)The Trial|author=Denzil MeyrickRob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves was good and honest and looked up to awkward placesby just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. But thatThere's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's Londonnot too long before Knight appears in court, isncharged with Cliveden't s murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley Taylor-Cameron and his colleaguepupil, Acting DI Brian ScottAdam Green, head off for the airport straight awaywho eventually represent him. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isnKnight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron't available s recommendations to the paying publiccontrary. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?
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