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|isbn=13985075041786482126|title=Cold ReckoningThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Russ ThomasElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the last sixteen years hesite was going to hold seventy-five 's been searching for evidence to prove that heluxury's right. When apartments - when they discovered the bones of a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to child beneath a cold case from 2002doorway. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DI Richard TylerDCI Harry Nelson. It's death difficult as Ruth knows, but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's child as a growing sense that the criminality result of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openone night they spent together some three months ago. Perhaps Tyler Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to get the answers he needs?sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=17876349060008551324|title=No Less the The DevilYou Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stuart MacBrideNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're 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 Oldcastle prison and Malcolm he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is in troubleburied and who was responsible for her death. He's in an abandoned house This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he's being threatened by two young peoplewants. One And what he wants is Alegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Hugoto get an early parole date. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Not much to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopleask, apparently) but sheis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'd put a tracking device in it t think so that and she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before s even prepared to do the police realise other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0008405026|title=Death at Friar's InnA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Rob KeeleyJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots investigation ground to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Inna halt. For aspiring barristersNow, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their advocacy skills: bed. Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a great way something about the positioning of getting invaluable practice the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and of getting yourself noticedher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Tom What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Nat are from '-shut case is now a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thiscomplex double murder. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'Mouse' Dawes have no s disappearance: others (such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tomas Derwent's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15291259440571379877|title=City of the DeadThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonathan KellermanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Edward Jevons is a livingworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, you're careful Robert and it's not just about the way that you driveStanza. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itRobert's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleeptheatre director. When youHe're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieters also self-obsessed, demanding, even if you have handsome and entitled and uses Edward to wait up when you get run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to where you're goingRobert. And it was going well until the Most men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood 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 Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identifiedthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Jo Callaghan|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorderWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, quite probably Asperger's Syndrome. He can be rudeDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalthe AI detective Lock. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur to himtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. There's But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit potential serial killer and it's a very high profile case that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recogniseWill they be able to solve the case in time, or welcome being attached to himself) will Kat find herself taken off the case and even attempts to instil some , potentially, out of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1035021803|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)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=ItIn 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 five years since the stag weekendnot any of those things. Five of them had set out: Tim He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (the groomreading's not ''really'' his thing) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually called Miggy)in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, Neil and Joshyou're not. The first night they had plenty two men are just different sides of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offsame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The remaining four searched for him in vain Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and it was decided that TimEssex is bitingly cold, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for helpa decade. When help didnThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't come the remaining three finally made their way back long to townlive. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, TimIt's father, Martinhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and the four friends have been back sent to continue a watery grave in the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=15293465410861541774|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelA Nye of Pheasants|author=Elizabeth GeorgeSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's late July close friend and Deborah St James is at former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a meeting short holiday in Singapore to meet up with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systeman old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but street brawl - he would later turn out to be Zawadi maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Narissa Cameron, he killed a filmmakerGhurka. It follows on from the success Initially, he faced a charge of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesman. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she Now he could be as facing the problem seems death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities help as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and photographswouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=13987069061521129886|title=The LostThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Simon BeckettKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyGreg Mason's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when ll warn someone about how much he woke, Theo had gonecharges. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and hethey's out with his team re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when he she gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneypast the morning sickness. Gavin used Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his best friend but itsister, Lucy, who's a long time since they've spokenstruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. He's obviously in some difficulty now Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - Jonah can hear it simply wasn't in his voice - nature. The police and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, ''Therebut Stuart's no one else I can trust'', he saysprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1529418100B0CK3MYJ56|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Martin WalkerAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put s the book down between stories 1990s and forget Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to pick it up again have a high- flying job in the city but I am a fan of Martin Walkerit wasn's [[Martin Walkert satisfying so he's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike'Bruno, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's Challenge'' was hard the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to resist look into something. Joyce and I'm Helen are half-sisters, or rather glad that I didn, they were until Helen was killed in what't even trys been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. For those new to the seriesJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need - or how she could come to know about whofall in front of a train. Greg's who and the background been asked to why Bruno is in St Denisinvestigate.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1838954481|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Misper|author=Jenny O'BrienKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. Hunter had diabetes and this He was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her overthe fifteen-year-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married old holding the gun and she thought pointing it would be a good idea for him at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to find out what parenting the vagaries of the jury system he was ''really'' likefound not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a night quieter life in the countryside but when a posh hotel but then he dumped missing teenager is found on her and territory she couldn't get the money s drawn into a wider investigation - and back, so Hannah was offered into the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1448309743|title=Without a TraceThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Jane BettanyCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a divorce and right now it was raining hardwealthy family are found murdered. All she wanted was to get back to her new The only item missing from the home and settle down for a quiet eveningis the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. It wasnThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that't going to be though: s an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in his chest. Sheto 'shadow'd no idea who he washim.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529077699|title=Bitter FlowersThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum ''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 Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a stint small boat, anchored in rehab and is now returning Scully Cove close to workthe village of Greystone, in Devon. However Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the quiet job heworld sailor and all round ''celebrity's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but also looking into an oldas we'll find out, cold case of he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundopen book. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is Where did he get the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel money for his first boat? How did he finance the truthtrip?|isbn=191319308X
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|isbn=18387748231529427045|title=Her Majesty The Girl in the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemEagle's Talons|author=S J BennettKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft Life has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandmore to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came Lisbeth Salander has headed north to be there early one morning and discovered the body small town of Cynthia Harris at Gasskas, where the side so-far-untapped natural resources of the poolarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by Salander's niece's mother is the look at it - probably one of latest woman in the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outarea to have vanished without trace. Still, It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it was quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a shock for Sir Simonremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1787636607|title=The Quiet PeopleTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a fan of "man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Prologue"ambulance he so desperately needs. Most books are What we don't know is who the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who man is in a hurry. He has or why Nadine prefers to hurry because he has children 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 die. I'd better give you a little more background so that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlyyou can understand what's happening.|isbn=1913193942
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|isbn=178607981X0008530025|title=Bad ApplesMurder in the Family|author=Will DeanCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson It was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered 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 Audi 4x4 parked at injury on the side 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 roadsubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Wondering if someone needed help she got out A group of experts has been brought together to review the car - evidence and heard to take the screams from deep inside investigation further. More to the forestpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Determining There's no dump of the direction whole box set - and no shortage of a sound isncliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy't easy when you need hearing aids s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the body of court, after Martin receives a manlife sentence. HeThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she'd s not been decapitatedfound guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. He was Arne Gustav PerssonOf course, a resident it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of Visbergit. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529413680|title=Cold As HellA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In a red suitcase as One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the bottom liberation of a fissure the town from the English in a lava field1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been 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 script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a bodyhelicopter. And A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has put her there has just discovered that he stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is capable flying in with some of killingher father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=19131938881529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the 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 best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.
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