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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1786482126|title=Dark MusicThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wondersite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -mind at when they discovered the heart bones of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthchild beneath a doorway. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is There was no John Watson MDskull. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on Was this a ritual killing or murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old? Inevitably, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutesIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but refuses to admit anythingNelson doesn't, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is pregnant with his child as a shambles. But taken off result of the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allone night they spent together some three months ago. Until, that may Her condition will beobvious before long, she manages not least because Ruth is prone to stop him in the middle sudden bouts of an apparent suicide attempt..sickness.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X0008551324|title=To Kill a Troubadour The Devil You Know (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelD S Max Craigie)|author=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''Nobody knows what s unusual for anyone from the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is Hardie family to approach the police chief . Neither side likes or has any respect for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as he'JJ'), s prepared to tell the head of detectives for police where the départment body of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being a missing person is buried and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francewho was responsible for her death. The discovery of an oldThis person, stolen Peugeothe promises, crashed is someone big and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for will be worth the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carpolice doing what he wants. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the owner remainder of the carhis sentence and to get an early parole date. A golf bag would be a good place Not much to hide a sniperask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's weapon. Was there going even prepared to be an attempt to kill someone, or were do the detectives being pushed in a other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain direction?that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=07278505470008405026|title=Blind Justice A Stranger in the Family (DS McAvoy 10Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=David MarkJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. A body had been She was never found in and the roots of investigation ground to a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullhalt. When he gets to the sceneNow, her mother, Helena, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedand her father are dead in their bed. A young manInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's corpse is entangled with something about the roots positioning of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It would seem that this What looked as though it was done whilst the man was still alivegoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. McAvoy makes a promise to Kerrigan is convinced that the victimexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoyothers (such as Derwent's own familyboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)0571379877|title=Little DrummerThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story Edward Jevons is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with the death of a working-class young woman in a carparkman, that looks very much like an overdoseobsessed with his upper-class friends, it unravels into Robert and Stanza. Robert's a fartheatre director. He's also self-reaching investigation of murderobsessed, frauddemanding, handsome and international pharmaceutical dealingsentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Norway whilst Frolich 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 led left to Africa as they follow stumble upon the twists and turns two of the investigation. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth them kissing in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going ona dark passageway.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbnauthor=1398507504Jo Callaghan|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that he's right. When a frozen body was man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Damflask ReservoirNuneaton, there was a link back DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to a cold the case from 2002alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler It's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the their first live case his father was investigating before he diedtogether, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Above all But when there's is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a growing sense very high profile case that the criminality draws a lot of Det Supt Stevens is going unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be brought out into able to solve the open. Perhaps Tyler is going to get case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the answers he needscase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=17876349061035021803|title=No Less the DevilThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Stuart MacBrideC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. One is Allegra (weFreya'll soon learn that shes former mentor and Carole's Allegra Dean-Edwards) close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Hugothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to keep him warm (the village: Arthur, she often does this for homeless peoplefeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingloved. It won't be long before After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the police realise that Malcolm love of her life, who was one of their own: not many other people are going to murdered) and Freya and James have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsnow divorced.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1398524085|title=Death at Friar's InnHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Rob KeeleyNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place Charlotte Salter was expected at The Honourable Society of Friarher husband's Innfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. For aspiring barristersShortly afterwards, moots test Etty and Greg, find the participants' knowledge of several areas body of law as well as their advocacy skills: itGreg's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Tom It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Nat are from then committed suicide when he couldn'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thist stand the guilt. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia Salter children are not convinced but there'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage s little else they can do but get on with their lives and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=15291259441529900360|title=City of the DeadThe Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, youIt hadn're careful and itt been Lt Milo Sturgis's not just about the way fault that you driveAlex 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. You restrict your alcohol intake His assertions that there were only open-and if it-shut cases which didn's t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepwhile. When youFinally, it was Robin, Delaware're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 as partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again.m She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. when the roads are quieter The next case did look simple, even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're goingthough. And it was going well until Two lovers were murdered in the men hit something swimming pool of a remote property in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los AngelesBel Air. The He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man was stark naked and couldnit't be identifieds not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC1178763681X|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Tim SullivanOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's SyndromeChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He can be rude, difficult didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalwomen to do what he wanted. ItPaul 's just 'somehow'' got the impression that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur d be at the school to him. There's assist Paul, who had a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and broken arm, but itdidn's t turn out that he has way. The teaching - and the best conviction rate with cases, everproblems - are all his own. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion The one thing he would recognisehadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, or welcome being attached to himself) he was the person who discovered the body and even attempts everyone knows that the police consider that person to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourbe the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1529421284|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It was one of those flash downpours that the third book British weather often delivers in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistheatwave. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovica gully, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to contact her superiorbe Lee Geary, Blixwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Before she can reach himHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, however, she is murdered, and Blixso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toot convinced. We then find ourselves Geary was a few days later with Blix and Rammtownie, who so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are being interviewed by connections to the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot suicide of Holly Gilbert and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happento two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix Lockyer and Ramm uncover DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that led 's cold cases to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=15291516001529425867|title=Give Unto OthersLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Donna LeonSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedIn 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. The He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''pandemiareally'' stripped the city his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of its tourists for nearly two years shell suits and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopentrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. ThereYou might wonder if you's now re being introduced to a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125police procedural written for laughs. Well,000 deaths have you're not put an end to greed. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth two men are they going to launder all just different sides of the money which is coming their way? same policing coin. Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like BrunettiSometimes it's adviceproblematic.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529431735|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Winter Visitor|author=Neil LancasterJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon 'It's February 1991 and Essex isbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'' return all the back of beyond: theremore surprising. He's not even any light pollution which is why it was d been exiled on the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Jimmy McLeish thought that The return has come about because he was onto 's had a nice little earnerletter from his ex-wife, only saying that she's ill and hasn't long to find that Macca, the man he thought he was working with, is deadlive. His remains would never be found. The delivery It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is hijacked by Davie abducted, stripped to his underwear and Callumsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. As the story progresses we'll get Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to know them quite well.home?
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|isbn=15294096590861541774|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Elly GriffithsSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherDCI Domenic Jejeune's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery of close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a picture of her own house: it was short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'ally, some years before Ruth was bornGuy Trueman. It Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was before her parents were marriedfacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. When she returned Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Norfolk she was determined light that suggested that he might have planned to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and murder the country was in lockdownman. Ruth and Kate are restricted to Now he could be facing the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesdeath penalty. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersanother police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1521129886|title=Blood Games They Had It Coming (DS Nikki Parekh 4Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Liz MistryKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg Mason'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 the third murder in the space of a few weeks good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersre both delighted. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the first morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordhave killed himself. OnlyStuart's concerned about his sister, this timeLucy, itwho's going struggling to be differentmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewLucy, Haqibhe says, and she has a very public meltdown. It isnis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes his nature. The police and comes from an obviously monied background. the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, What it does mean though is that Nikki is going but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to be find out what happened on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionthe night Gil died.
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|isbn=1529135567B0CK3MYJ56|title=One Step Too FarResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lisa GardnerAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years since old. He used to have a high-flying job in the stag weekendcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Five 'Shades of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenCameron Strike', Scotyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in On the night Scot managed other hand, he has been asked to wander offlook into something. The remaining four searched for him in vain Joyce and it was decided that TimHelen are half-sisters, or rather, who they were until Helen was experienced killed in survival techniques, would go for helpwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. When help didnJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign fall in front of Tima train. Every year, TimGreg's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back asked to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timinvestigate.
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|isbn=15293465411838954481|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Misper|author=Elizabeth GeorgeKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's late July no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Deborah St James is pointing it at a meeting with Dominique DI Kieran Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from . He pulled the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch trigger but would later turn out due to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmaker. It follows on from the success vagaries of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration jury system he was found not guilty of both the possibility murder and the manslaughter of the idea behind officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the book being used to highlight an area which countryside but when a missing teenager is causing concern in some communities. Deborahfound on her territory she's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian drawn into a wider investigation - and Somali communities as she relies on getting back into the trust orbit of the people she speaks to and photographsRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=13987069061448309743|title=The LostDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Simon BeckettCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Metropolitan police firearms officerScotland, Jonah Colley's young sonfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happeneddeath will follow. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he wokedisappears, Theo had goneDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=''It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it and heall bloody peculiar, isn's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but t it, Sir?'s a long time since they've spoken Well yes, it is. He's obviously Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it a small boat, anchored in his voice - and he asks Jonah Scully Cove close to meet him at Slaughter Quaythe village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity'There's no one else . I can trust''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he sayscould be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=15294181001529427045|title=BrunoThe Girl in the Eagle's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesTalons|author=Martin WalkerKarin Smirnoff|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=I'm not usually a fan of short stories 'Life has more to offer than people - I find it all too easy prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again small town of Gasskas, where the so-far- but I am untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a fan of Martin Walkergold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's [[Martin Walkerniece's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries mother is the latest woman in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation area to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' have vanished without trace. It was hard to resist and I'm rather glad only with reluctance that I didn't even try. For those new to the series, thereSalander became her niece's an excellent introduction guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that will tell you all you need to know about Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's who and unaware of the background to why Bruno is part Salander played in St Denisher father's death.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1787636607|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Trap|author=Jenny O'BrienCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonIt's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Hunter had diabetes Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and this was controlled by looking for a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her way to get married home. Some are lucky and she thought it would be a good idea for him manage to find out what parenting was 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'really, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' like. Her friend, MillyFor one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had arranged intended to ring someone to take come and collect her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel - but then he dumped her and phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she couldn't get had the money back, so Hannah was offered chance to beg the opportunity bus driver to go in let her use his place. She would return home There's no option but to find Ian dead start walking - unsuitably clothed and fivein high-year-old Hunter missingheeled shoes.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1405957174|title=Without a TraceA Death at the Party|author=Jane BettanyAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadnFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through s party will not end well. The victim - a divorce man - is dying when we first meet him and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was Nadine consciously makes no effort to get back to her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningcall the ambulance he so desperately needs. It wasnWhat we don't going know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chesthave him die. SheI'd no idea who he wasbetter give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0008530025|title=Bitter FlowersMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint It was in rehab December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and is now returning to workfound the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. However, He had an injury on the quiet job back of his head which could have happened if he's supposedly d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken on caretaking someonewas obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's house quickly turns into a murder investigationnow the subject of ''Infamous'', and a mystery around a missing womantrue-crime show. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case A group of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night experts has been brought together to review the evidence and was never foundto take the investigation further. Somehow More to the point, these disparate cases appear they're going to be linkeddo this live on camera, but what is episode by episode. There's no dump of the link, whole box set - and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xno shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=18387748230241996104|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemComing to Find You|author=S J BennettJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=ItNancy's 2016 mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the Queen's Private Secretarycourt, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting after Martin receives a strain on his waistbandlife sentence. Swimming, he decides, is the way The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at live with what happened for the side rest of the poolher life. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerOf course, by the look at it 's made worse because Nancy's rich - probably one of the young royals being careless she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simon''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1529413680|title=The Quiet PeopleA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not a fan One of "the Prologue". Most books are main events of the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in a hurry1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, and when he hurriesKerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he bundles things into departs from the back of script. Luckily, his car doctor is there and tries to run the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and then hears sirens behind himfriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and that another, who lives in California, is not how they do things there, he takes flying in with some of her father's friends for a risk. It ends badlypre-arranged holiday.|isbn=1913193942
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|isbn=178607981X1529196388|title=Bad ApplesThe Trial|author=Will DeanRob Rinder
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson Grant Cliveden was driving a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up a foggy hillside towards Visberg to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked he was murdered in plain sight at the side of the roadOld Bailey. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of There's just one man in the car frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Determining Knight was told that the direction best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a sound isnStag Court Chambers and it't easy when you need hearing aids s Taylor-Cameron and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. HeKnight'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssons determined to plead not guilty, a resident of Visbergdespite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.
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