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|isbn=15291259441786482126|title=City The 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 difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Deadone 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=Jonathan KellermanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, you're careful and itIt's not just about unusual for anyone from the way that you driveHardie family to approach the police. You restrict your alcohol intake Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and if ithe's prepared to tell the police where the body of a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 aThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants.m. when And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the roads are quieter, even if you have remainder of his sentence and to wait up when you get to where you're goingan early parole date. And Not much to ask, is it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. ? The man was stark naked 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 couldnanyone who works with him is kept well away from what't be identifieds happening.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10008405026|title=The Patient A Stranger in the Family (A DS Cross thrillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Tim SullivanJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndromesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He can be rudeShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, difficult and awkward with peopleher father are dead in their bed. Initially, although itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's never intentionalsomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It's just that he thinks differently What looked as though it was going to be an open-and social niceties simply don't occur to him-shut case is now a complex double murder. There's a reason why he's Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in BristolRosalie's Major Crime Unit and itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recogniseboss, or welcome being attached to himselfUna Burt) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourare less convinced.
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|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jorn Lier Horst Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Thomas EngerStanza. 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=Jo Callaghan|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, 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 body found 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. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and Ramm), potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the third book in a series English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Rammrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a crime journalistCarole. In this book we find that when one of BlixFreya's former mentor and Carole's colleaguesclose friend, KovicArthur Crockleford, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, she tries to contact her superior, Blixsay the least. Before Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she can reach himfeels, howeverlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooprofession she loved. We then find ourselves After the split, she worked in a few days later with Blix cafe, met and Rammmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot was murdered) and killed someone, Freya and Ramm saw it all happenJames have now divorced. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=15291516001398524085|title=Give Unto OthersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Donna LeonNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The ''pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and a lot of businesses have closedher daughter, most never to reopenEtty. There's now a cascade of money as life begins again are all worried but even 125- strangely - her husband,000 deaths have Alec, is not put an end to greed. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the money which is coming their way? Whilst hebody of Greg's thinking about thisfather, Duncan Ackerley, Brunetti encounters someone in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childt stand the guilt. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like BrunettiThe Salter children are not convinced but there's advicelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529900360|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Ghost Orchid|author=Neil LancasterJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon It hadn''is'' the back of beyond: theret been Lt Milo Sturgis's not fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even any light pollution 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 is why it was didn't need the perfect place to land illegal deliveries help of drugsa psychologist only worked for a while. Jimmy McLeish thought that he Finally, it was onto a nice little earnerRobin, only to find that MaccaDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man he thought he was working withshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, is deadthough. His remains would never be foundTwo lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. The delivery He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is hijacked by Davie married to an extremely rich man and Callumit's not the Italian. As But which of them was the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.primary target?
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|isbn=1529409659178763681X|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Elly GriffithsOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father 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 remarried but his wife was now keen a way of getting both men and women to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingswhat he wanted. She was intrigued by Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the discovery of school to assist Paul, who had a picture of her own house: broken arm, but it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornproblems - are all his own. It The one thing he hadn't expected was before her parents were marriedfor someone to turn up dead. When she returned to Norfolk she Unfortunately, he was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and person who discovered the country was in lockdown. Ruth body and Kate are restricted to everyone knows that the cottage with Ruth attempting police consider that person to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, be the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersprime suspect.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1529421284|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Laying Out the Bones|author=Liz MistryKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's was one of those flash downpours that the third murder British weather often delivers in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersheatwave. DS Nikki Parekh In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and DC Sajid Malik are amongst forensic testing proved the first body to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Only, this timeHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's going to be differentt convinced. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewGeary was a townie, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? It isn't Haqib: there There are similarities but connections to the body is clad in designer clothes suicide of Holly Gilbert and comes from an obviously monied backgroundto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. What it does mean though is Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Nikki is going 's cold cases to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety you and depressionme) investigate.
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|isbn=15291355671529425867|title=One Step Too FarLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lisa GardnerSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since the stag weekendIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Five Raymond Wilkins is of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenNigerian descent, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil Balliol educated and Joshalways exquisitely dressed. The first night they had plenty D I Ryan Wilkins, son of alcohol - too much really - Ryan and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timfather of Ryan, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpis not. When help didnHe't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign s not any of Timthose things. Every year, TimHe's fatherwhite, Martinoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that theyhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're looking being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'remainsre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it' rather than for Tims problematic.
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|isbn=15293465411529431735|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Winter Visitor|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July February 1991 and Deborah St James Essex is at bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary wanted drug smuggler for the school system, a representative decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from the NHShis ex-wife, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name saying that she didn's ill and hasn't catch but would later turn out long to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerlive. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is an exploration of abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the possibility boot of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesa stolen Ford Sierra. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks closer to and photographs.home?
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|isbn=13987069060861541774|title=The LostA Nye of Pheasants|author=Simon BeckettSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyDCI Domenic Jejeune's young sonclose friend and former colleague, TheoDanny Maik, just about finished himhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedGuy Trueman. He'd fallen asleep Maik was involved in the park whilst Theo was playing and when a street brawl - he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years would later maintain that he's largely come through it was facing a man armed with a knife - and he's out with his team when he gets killed a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyGhurka. Gavin used Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenlight that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and Now he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaycould be facing the death penalty. ''There's no one else I Domenic Jejeune can trustdo nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'', he sayst help Danny at all.
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|isbn=15294181001521129886|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Martin WalkerKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IGreg Mason'm not usually s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a fan of short stories - I find it all good job too easy to put the book down between stories because Greg and forget to pick it up again - but I am Joyce will soon have a fan of Martin Walkerbaby and they's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation -law appears to read have killed himself. Stuart''Brunos concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's Challenge'' was hard struggling to resist make ends meet and I'm rather glad her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that I didnGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't even tryin his nature. For those new to The police and the coroner have accepted that the seriesdeath was suicide, there but Stuart's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need prepared to pay Greg to know about who's who and find out what happened on the background to why Bruno is in St Denisnight Gil died.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GFB0CK3MYJ56|title=Buried Lies Responsibilities (Gaby Darin Book 5Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jenny O'BrienAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by He used to have a pump attached to his stomach, so her overhigh-protectiveness was understandable, flying job in the city but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was wasn't satisfying so he'reallys now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike' like, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Her friendOn the other hand, Milly, had arranged he has been asked to take her boyfriendlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, Liamor rather, for a night they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a posh hotel but then he dumped tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and she couldnPam Hetherington - can't get the money back, so Hannah understand what she was offered the opportunity doing there - or how she could come to go fall in his placefront of a train. She would return home Greg's been asked to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missinginvestigate.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1838954481|title=Without a TraceThe Misper|author=Jane BettanyKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth PrendergastRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: shethere'd just come through a divorce s no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and right now pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was raining hardfound not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. All she wanted was to get back to her new home For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and settle down hoping for a quiet evening. It wasn't going to be though: quieter life in the countryside but when she went into her bedroom she a missing teenager is found a dead man on her bed with territory she's drawn into a knife in his chest. She'd no idea who he waswider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1448309743|title=Bitter FlowersThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, In the quiet job he's supposedly taken village of Cronchie on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationthe West coast of Scotland, and a mystery around five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing womanfrom the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Varg finds himself not The only investigating thesesuspects are known Satanists but in many ways, but also looking into that's an old, cold case easy conclusion given that two of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundthem 'discovered' the body. Somehow The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, these disparate cases appear DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X'shadow' him.
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|isbn=18387748231529077699|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=S J BennettAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's 2016 and the Queenall bloody peculiar, isn's Private Secretaryt it, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise ?'' Well yes, it is putting a strain on his waistband. SwimmingJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, he decidesstayed for about a month and then turned up, is the way to go naked and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to be there early one morning and discovered the body village of Cynthia Harris at Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the side status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the poolworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. There was broken glass I ''nearly'' said 'all- round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - little bit close with money and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outhis background isn't exactly an open book. Still, it was a shock Where did he get the money for Sir Simon.his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1529427045|title=The Quiet PeopleGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not a fan ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of "Gasskas, where the Prologue". Most books are so-far-untapped natural resources of the worse for themarea have sparked a gold rush. In this case I might make an exception The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. We start with Luca Pittman who Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in a hurrythe area to have vanished without trace. He has to hurry because he has children It was only with reluctance that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlyremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|isbn=1913193942
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|isbn=178607981X1787636607|title=Bad ApplesThe Trap|author=Will DeanCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up It's a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at scene replicated all too often in the side early hours of the roadmorning. Wondering if someone needed help she got Drunken revellers spilling out of the car - clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and heard manage to get one of the screams from deep inside few taxis available. Others squash onto the forestnight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Determining The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the direction light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and dampness is causing interference collect her - but Tuva made her way phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to where a woman was holding let her coat over the body of a manuse his. HeThere'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergs no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1405957174|title=Cold As HellA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In a red suitcase as From the bottom of first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a fissure in a lava field, there man - is a bodydying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. And What we don't know is who the man who has put her there has just discovered is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that he is capable of killingyou can understand what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=19131938880008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0241996104|title=Psychopaths AnonymousComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and alsoher step-brother, curiouslyMartin, addicted to attending numerous AA groupshas been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. She is also The barrister tells her that she's received a self'silent sentence' -acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to find targets...targets live with what happened for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear the rest of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviourlife. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does Of course, and when sheit's made worse because Nancy's unable to find likerich -minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up inherited five million pounds from her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and thus Psychopaths Anonymous ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is bornundoubtedly spoken.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbn=17841652631529413680|title=Invite Me InA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Emma CurtisMartin Walker|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's wife, Eliza knew that she had there to be home to make his lunch for one osee the show with some friends. It'clock on the dots all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, despite the fact that she was actually painting man playing one of their properties prior to it being letthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. If she didn't get homeLuckily, his doctor is there would be troubleand the man is whisked away in a helicopter. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic A local doctor (and confined to a wheelchair, friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: - as he once told Eliza ''you're good at being s a disappointment''senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. All this was One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in Elizawith some of her father's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, 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 availablefriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=17847427751529196388|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)The Trial|author=Susan HillRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadn't really been Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that much of a problem in Lafferton was good and honest and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were, looked up to a great extentby just about everyone, but Serrailler knew that something had to be doneso there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport There's just one man in the drugs frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the operation running the county lines best barrister for him was tight. A mule might know the name (although Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of the person s Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who was running eventually represent him but he certainly wouldn. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of s recommendations to the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upcontrary.
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