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|isbn=15294181001786482126|title=BrunoThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's Challenge and Other Dordogne Talesdifficult 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=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'm not usually 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 fan of short stories - I find missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it all too easy will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to put serve the book down between stories remainder of his sentence and forget to pick get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's [[Martin Walkereven 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 Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in Chronological Orderthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Brunosummary=It's Challenge'' sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was hard never found and the investigation ground to resist a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryher father are dead in their bed. For those new to the seriesInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's an excellent introduction something about the positioning of the bodies that will tell you all you need makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to know about who's who be an open-and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the background to why Bruno is explanation lies in St DenisRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B09GJW49GF0571379877|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Kellerby Code|author=Jenny O'BrienJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|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.

|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QJo Callaghan|title=Without a Leave No Trace|author=Jane Bettany

|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

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1035021803|title=Bitter FlowersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|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.

|isbn=18387748231398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French

|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.

|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan 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=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul Cleave, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=The Quiet PeopleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary= I am not a fan It was one of "those flash downpours that the Prologue"British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Most books are In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the worse for thembody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. In this He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case I might make an exceptionof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. We start with Luca Pittman who is in Geary was a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not havetownie, and when so what was he hurries, when he bundles things into doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the back suicide of his car Holly Gilbert and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, two other deaths which he should were not hear because this is New Zealand considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=1913193942

|isbn=178607981X1529425867|title=Bad ApplesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Will DeanSimon Mason

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the roadNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Wondering if someone needed help she got out D I Ryan Wilkins, son of the car - Ryan and heard the screams from deep inside the forestfather of Ryan, is not. Determining the direction He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a sound isntrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They't easy when re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way 're being introduced to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manpolice procedural written for laughs. HeWell, you'd been decapitatedre not. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident The two men are just different sides of Visbergthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529431735|title=Cold As HellThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary= In 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 red suitcase as the bottom of wanted drug smuggler for a fissure in decade. The return has come about because he's had a lava fieldletter from his ex-wife, there saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a body. And watery grave in the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable boot of killinga stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1913193888 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|authorisbn=Will Carver0861541774|title=Psychopaths AnonymousA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and alsoformer colleague, curiouslyDanny Maik, addicted has taken a short holiday in Singapore to attending numerous AA groupsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She is also Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a selfknife -acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets.he killed a Ghurka..targets for sexual encounters Initially, targets he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to feed her desire light that suggested that he might have planned to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviourmurder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Yet she also seems Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be searching for others who think help as she does, any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and when shewouldn's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornt help Danny at all.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=17841652631521129886|title=Invite Me InThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Emma CurtisKeith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary=Martin CurranGreg Mason's wife, Eliza knew that she had just beginning to be home get his confidence as an investigator to make his lunch for one othe point where he'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letll warn someone about how much he charges. If she didnIt't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was s a paraplegic good job too because Greg and confined to Joyce will soon have a wheelchair, but donbaby and they't re both delighted. Joyce will be too quick to be understandingmore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. All this was in ElizaStuart's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrivedconcerned about his sister, unannouncedLucy, at the flat just as Eliza was about who's struggling to leave: make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he wanted the lease of flat 2says, 42 Linden Road is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and he the coroner have accepted that the death was desperate suicide, but Stuart's prepared to get in before it was advertised as being availablepay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=1784742775B0CK3MYJ56|title=A Change of Circumstance Responsibilities (Simon SerraillerGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Susan HillAnn Macarthur|rating=54

|summary=Drugs hadnIt't really been that much of s the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a problem high-flying job in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a bit private investigator. 'Shades of a waste of timeCameron Strike', you might be thinking. They still were, to a great extentNice bloke, but Serrailler knew where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something had to be done. Children as young as nine Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines until Helen was tightkilled in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't be the correct one) of the person who understand what she was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up doing there - or how she could come to fall in the organisationfront of a train. The police might catch a few of the runners but they Greg'd never get anywhere near those higher ups been asked to investigate.

|isbn=B09HTWX47X1838954481|title=Endless ObsessionThe Misper|author=Dai HenleyKate London

|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in no doubt about that. He was the Met but now a wellfifteen-year-respected private investigatorold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He's married pulled the trigger but due to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, Gemma vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with manslaughter of the family, and Gemma to married lifeofficer. And so lives must go on. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and Laura hope that married hoping for a quieter life will provide in the support countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she needs. Flood's business is going well drawn into a wider investigation - and that was why he felt able to turn down back into the case orbit of Lisa BlackRyan Kennedy.

|isbn=15293793851448309743|title=The Madness of Crowds Devil Stone (Chief Inspector GamacheDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Louise PennyCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesCronchie on the West coast of Scotland, we're post-pandemic: the scars five members of a wealthy family are still there but life is starting to get back to normalfound murdered. The villagers are beginning to return to only item missing from the home is the Bistro and Devil Stone: myth says that if the Aubergestone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. TheyThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that're visiting each others an easy conclusion given that two of them 's homes and having friends and relatives to staydiscovered' the body. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize The Senior Investigating Office is one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent GilbertDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, known DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the village as the Asshole Saintto 'shadow' him.

|isbn=183885410X1529077699|title=The Dark RemainsRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5

|summary=Bobby Carter was ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a lawyer month and consigliere then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to one the village of the major crime families Greystone, in nineteen seventies GlasgowDevon. DC Jack Laidlaw is on Rosco had the CID team charged with status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the investigationworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I say ''on the teamnearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but Laidlaw never really seems to as we'll find out, he could be more than a part of itlittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. He does Where did he get the money for his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers first boat? How did he finance the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.trip?

|isbn=19424102551529427045|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Michael PronkoKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaidLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.

It's Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the culturesmall town of Gasskas, isn't it? where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The hours for which youcriminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander're paid are really just a statement of s niece's mother is the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get latest woman in the job done and done area to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukahave vanished without trace. When he It was found dead in front of Senden Centralonly with reluctance that Salander became her niece's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his family, guardian but there was it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a mild curiosity as to whether heremarkably gifted teenager who'd jumped from the roof s unaware of the building or been assisted part Salander played 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 some three years earlier. Sheher father'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimes death.

|isbn=02414254251787636607|title=The Man Who Died TwiceTrap|author=Richard OsmanCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Elizabeth Best was It's a little surprised when she received scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the lettermorning. It came from Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a man whose body she had helped way to pull from the Thames get home. Some are lucky and who had never existed but then this is manage to get one of the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisfew taxis available. When she visits Others squash onto the sender night bus that will only go as far as one of the letter (heoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 's moved into taxi problem', particularly in the Cooperlight of 's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that itthe missing women's someone with whom she has . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long professional history - and who used to be way short of her husbandhome. HeShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's made a bad mistake - something dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to do with a mask being removed within beg the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatsbus driver to let her use his. HeThere's now no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitresshigh-heeled shoes.

|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1405957174|title=The Rabbit FactorA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsFrom the first page, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide hewe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupidman -as workshopping. This is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everythingso desperately needs. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything What we don' t know is who the man is just an adventure park, and nothing elseor why Nadine prefers to have him die. I''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up d better give you a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain more background so that missing money – ityou can understand what's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..happening.|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=B0925KS87N0008530025|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Murder in the Family|author=Neil LancasterCara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Tam Hardie It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been determined brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to find do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the grave whole box set - and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemeteryno shortage of cliffhangers. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to do, but Tam was getting old Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and there step-father were things he wanted to dobrutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. OnlyWe first meet Nancy outside the court, his family didnafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 't hear from him again after hesilent sentence'd said that he- she'd s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the grave - the one which said that rest of her life. Of course, it shouldn't be opened s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and his three sons began to worrythe papers are making the most of it. Tam Junior, Frankie ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Dave wouldn't normally go to the police 'rich bitch'' might not be printed but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedis undoubtedly spoken.

|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1529413680|title=The Great SilenceA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis liberation of whothe town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing there to see the backstory in without being heavy handed about itshow with some friends. Skelf isn It't some fantastic creatures all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, though it sounds as though it ought to beKerquelin, it is merely the surname man playing one of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctscript. Luckily, she married a scot his doctor is there and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been man is whisked away in the family for generationsa helicopter. Recently widowed A local doctor (and now involved with friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennysenior government employee, 46, is haunted by her stillthe man who runs Frenchelon -living husband – a violent escaped prisonerthe military has stepped in. And grand- One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is about to graduate flying in with some of her father's friends for a firstpre-class physics degree and join the academic staff next termarranged holiday.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=00082690411529196388|title=Risk of HarmThe Trial|author=Lucie WhitehouseRob Rinder

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back Grant Cliveden was a hero: a 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 her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from plain sight at the MetOld Bailey. She might have been reinstated but There's just one man in the whole episode left a nasty taste frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in her mouthcourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. She Knight was now working told that the best barrister for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey him was Jonathan Taylor- then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentit's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childeventually represent him. HeKnight's married determined to Natalieplead not guilty, now and has a young child but hedespite all Taylor-Cameron's still got it in for Robinrecommendations to the contrary.