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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81786482126|title=The Night Watch Janus Stone (D S Max CraigieDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Neil LancasterElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for 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 rundoorway. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body There was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Headno skull. Was it suicide, this a ritual killing or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushedmurder? On balance Inevitably, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to the deaths of others associated Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with himDCI Harry Nelson. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland It's most notorious criminal wasndifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't facing life imprisonment, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Paterson was Grigor's last client Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=000837936X0008551324|title=The Last Girl to DieDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Helen FieldsNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family moved to Tobermory, on approach the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifepolice. It was a bit of a change from Las Vegas, but Neither side likes or has any respect for the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedother. The local police demonstrated little interest But Davie Hardie is struggling in the case (could it have been because Adrianaprison and he's mother prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is obviously Latino?) buried and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagerswas responsible for her death. BrandonThis person, Adriana's twinhe promises, was upset is someone big and surlyit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sisterAnd what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. It took four daysNot much to ask, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnonis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's Cave. Sheeven prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killings happening.
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|isbn=15098896120008405026|title=The Rising Tide A Stranger in the Family (D I Vera StanhopeMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Ann CleevesJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty sixteen years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandnine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Some of them She was never found and the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for investigation ground to a reunion every five years since thenhalt. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept awayNow, but her younger sistermother, LouisaHelena, has returned with the group each year as and her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagersfather are dead in their bed. Ken now has AlzheimerInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's and he's a shadow something about the positioning of the man he used bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be. Philip Robson an open-and-shut case is now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelcomplex double murder. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of Kerrigan is convinced that the foodexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: her deli is famous in the areaothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=02419901650571379877|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Kellerby Code|author=Cara HunterJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddlyEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. There was Robert's a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from the householdertheatre director. A couple of PCs went He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while run errands for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come inhim. In the kitchen there was a body on the floor: the head had Edward has been blown off in love with a shotgun Stanza since their university days - and the corpse was holding a knife in its right hand. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs s drunkenly confided how he feels to investigateRobert. The ignorant young lout had called him Most men in Robert''Grandad'' and come at him with s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a knife. Swann relationship had shot him begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in self-defencea dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=178763566XJo Callaghan|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her newman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses case alongside her sidekick, the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits herAI detective Lock. It doesn't stops their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Two months But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, we're Kat is suddenly struggling with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, a potential serial killer and a keen defender very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the suburb of Reverecase in time, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past her or will Kat find herself taken off the case and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsakpotentially, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=18011092651035021803|title=The CompanionAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lesley ThomsonC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilburrequest for help from her beloved aunt, for their 'boys' day out'Carole. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur Freya's former mentor and, competing for the boyCarole's attentionclose friend, his motherArthur Crockleford, Annais dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedto say the least. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are Arthur was the victims of a double stabbing on reason why Freya had not been back to the beachvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The case falls Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policebe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. She's feeling After the pressure. You can always tell - split, she shoplifts Snickers Bars when worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the going gets toughrebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1398524085|title=Dark MusicHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. This does have a wonderHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onher husband, Alec, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For oneShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the main focus body of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. SheGreg's a Chilean in the Stockholm policefather, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of oldDuncan Ackerley, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumriver. Beppe, the suspect, It was drunkenly antagonistic to an easy assumption for the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses police to admit anything, 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 – make that kind) are told to go Duncan had murdered Charlie and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk then committed suicide when he says Beppe is innocent and couldn't stand the investigation is a shamblesguilt. But taken off the case, she The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't do but get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X1529900360|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Ghost Orchid|author=Martin WalkerJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')even after Alex recovered, the head of detectives Sturgis was reluctant to ask for the départment of the Dordognehis help on difficult cases. They're not just policemen His assertions that there were only open-and- theyshut cases which didn're both deeply committed to t need the well-being and prosperity help of this most beautiful part of Francea psychologist only worked for a while. The discovery of an oldFinally, stolen Peugeotit was Robin, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnDelaware't normally have worried them so much had it not been s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on involvement was something that the baseman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, which they found though. Two lovers were murdered in the carswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Oh, and there He was a golf ball too, which didn't belong the heir to the owner of the car. A golf bag would be a good place an Italian shoe empire and she is married to hide a sniperan extremely rich man and it's weaponnot the Italian. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were But which of them was the detectives being pushed in a certain directionprimary target?
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|isbn=0727850547178763681X|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=David MarkOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't even really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body had been found in the roots a way of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hull. When he gets getting both men and women to the scene, he will find do what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedwanted. A young manPaul 's corpse is entangled with 'somehow'' got the roots of impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a newlybroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -fallen tree – and the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through problems - are all his eyesown. It would seem that this The one thing he hadn't expected was done whilst the man was still alivefor someone to turn up dead. McAvoy makes a promise to Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost body and this time everyone knows that the cost might police consider that person to be to McAvoy's own familythe prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1529421284|title=Little DrummerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part It was one of those flash downpours that the Oslo Detectives seriesBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural human skeleton came to the surface and thrillerforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Beginning with the death of He'd been a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdoseknown drug user and had learning disabilities, so it unravels into could have been a far-reaching investigation simple case of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealingsmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich Geary was a townie, who end up working separately so what was he doing out on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to Africa as they follow the twists suicide of Holly Gilbert and turns of to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the investigationtime. Gunnarstranda Lockyer and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down DC Gemma Broad of the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, you and much more dangerous, is going onme) investigate.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=13985075041529425867|title=Cold ReckoningLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Russ ThomasSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heof Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's been searching for evidence to prove that hewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's rightnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. When a frozen body was found They're usually in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002lime green or acid yellow. There didn You might wonder if you't immediately seem re being introduced to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before he diedpolice procedural written for laughs. Above all there Well, you's a growing sense that the criminality re not. The two men are just different sides of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the opensame policing coin. Perhaps Tyler is going to get Sometimes the answers he needs?combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=17876349061529431735|title=No Less the DevilThe Winter Visitor|author=Stuart MacBrideJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle s February 1991 and Malcolm Essex is in troublebitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's in an abandoned house and d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) ill and Hugohasn't long to live. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat 's hard to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, apparently) but she'd put stripped to his underwear and sent to a tracking device watery grave in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.home?
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0861541774|title=Death at Friar's InnA Nye of Pheasants|author=Rob KeeleySteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Tom Barton were former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the finals of the Moots Singapore to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Innmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a great way of getting invaluable practice knife - and of getting yourself noticedhe killed a Ghurka. Tom and Nat are from 'Initially, he faced a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because charge of thismanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidenceNow he could be facing the death penalty. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't make him feel any betterhelp Danny at all.
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|isbn=15291259441521129886|title=City of the DeadThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jonathan KellermanKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, you're careful and itGreg Mason's not just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about the way that you drivehow much he charges. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itIt's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When yougood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.mboth delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the roads are quietermorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, even if you have Lucy, who's struggling to wait up when you get to where you're goingmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. And Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it was going well until the men hit something simply wasn't in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeleshis nature. The man police and the coroner have accepted that the death was stark naked and couldnsuicide, but Stuart't be identifieds prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC1B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Patient Responsibilities (A DS Cross thrillerGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Tim SullivanAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndrome. He can be rude, difficult the 1990s and awkward with people, although itGreg Mason's never intentionaltwenty-eight years old. ItHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn's just that t satisfying so he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur to him. There's now set himself up as a reason why heprivate investigator. 's in BristolShades of Cameron Strike's Major Crime Unit and it, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has the best conviction rate with casesbeen asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, everthey were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, was doing there - or welcome being attached how she could come to himself) and even attempts to instil some fall in front of those missing social niceties into Crossa train. Greg's behaviourbeen asked to investigate.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1838954481|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer, : there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. In this book we find For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact missing teenager is found on her superior, Blix. Before she can reach him, however, territory she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves drawn into a few days later with Blix wider investigation - and Ramm, who are being interviewed by back into the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenorbit of Ryan Kennedy. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=15291516001448309743|title=Give Unto OthersThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Donna LeonCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The ''pandemia'' stripped In the city village of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot Cronchie on the West coast of businesses have closedScotland, most never to reopen. There's now five members of a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedwealthy family are found murdered. The Mafias have liquidity problemsonly item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: how on earth are they going to launder all myth says that if the money which stone is coming their way? removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Whilst heThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone hean easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he was a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and shedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'd like Brunettishadow's advicehim.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529077699|title=The Blood Tide Raging Storm (DS Max CraigieTwo Rivers)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''isIt's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?' the back of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which Well yes, it is why it was . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the perfect place to land illegal deliveries middle of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a nice little earnersmall boat, only anchored in Scully Cove close to find that Maccathe village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the man he thought he was working withstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, is deadround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. His remains would never I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be foundmore than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. Where did he get the money for his first boat? As How did he finance the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.trip?
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|isbn=15294096591529427045|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Elly GriffithsKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen ''Life has more to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motheroffer than people - prime numbers for example''s belongings. She was intrigued by Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the discovery small town of a picture Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornarea have sparked a gold rush. It was before her parents were marriedThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind Salander's niece's mother is the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was latest woman in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting area to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutieshave vanished without trace. The good thing It was meeting Zoe, only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carerspart Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1787636607|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Trap|author=Liz MistryCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the third murder in early hours of the space 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 weeks and theytaxis 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've all been because , particularly in the light of machetes used on teenagers'the missing women'. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst For one young woman, the first to arrive final stop on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts bus leaves her a long way short of Bradfordher home. Only, this time, itShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's going to be differentdead. The body appears bus had driven off before she had the chance to Nikki beg the bus driver to be that of let her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownuse his. It isnThere't Haqib: there are similarities s no option but the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety start walking - unsuitably clothed and depressionin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15291355671405957174|title=One Step Too FarA Death at the Party|author=Lisa GardnerAmy Stuart|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's five years since the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshparty will not end well. The first night they had plenty of alcohol victim - too much really a man - is dying when we first meet him and in Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the night Scot managed to wander offambulance he so desperately needs. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didnWhat we don't come know is who the remaining three finally made their way back man is or why Nadine prefers to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Timhave him die. Every year, TimI's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge d better give you a little more background so that theyyou can understand what're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims happening.
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|isbn=15293465410008530025|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelMurder in the Family|author=Elizabeth GeorgeCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shawfound the body of her stepfather, Undersecretary for the school systemLuke Ryder, a representative from in the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakergarden of their West London home. It follows He had an injury on from the success back of Deborahhis 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 book now the subject of ''London VoicesInfamous'': the meeting is an exploration , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the possibility of evidence and to take the idea behind investigation further. More to the book being used point, they're going to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesdo this live on camera, episode by episode. DeborahThere's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as no dump of the problem seems to occur in Nigerian whole box set - and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust no shortage of the people she speaks to and photographscliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=13987069060241996104|title=The LostComing to Find You|author=Simon BeckettJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyNancy's young sonmother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, TheoMartin, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedhas been convicted of their murder. He'd fallen asleep in We first meet Nancy outside the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokecourt, Theo had goneafter Martin receives a life sentence. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heThe barrister tells her that she's largely come through it and hereceived a 'silent sentence' - she's out not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneywhat happened for the rest of her life. Gavin used to be his best friend but Of course, it's a long time since they've spoken. Hemade worse because Nancy's obviously in some difficulty now rich - Jonah can hear it in his voice she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaythe papers are making the most of it. ''ThereFarmhouse slaughter daughter''s no is one else I can trustfavourite epithet and ''rich bitch'', he saysmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15294181001529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=I'm not usually a fan One of the main events of short stories the Sarlat tourist season is the re- I find it all too easy to put enactment of the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan liberation of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries the town from the English in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''1370 and Bruno's Challenge'' was hard there to resist and Isee the show with some friends. It'm rather glad that I didn't even trys 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. For those new to the seriesLuckily, his doctor is there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about whohis chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and the background to why Bruno another, who lives in California, is flying in St Deniswith some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1529196388|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Trial|author=Jenny O'BrienRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas Grant Cliveden was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and this was controlled looked up to by a pump attached to his stomachjust about everyone, so her over-protectiveness there was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, public uproar when he was pestering her to get married murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was 's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden'really'' likes murder. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, Knight was told that the best barrister for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and she couldnit't get the money backs Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placewho eventually represent him. She would return home Knight's determined to find Ian dead and fiveplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-year-old Hunter missingCameron's recommendations to the contrary.
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