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|isbn=15420372391786482126|title=Death in HeelsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Kitty MurphyElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the backdrop site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of Dublina child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's drag scenedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friendt, Robyn, who that she is about to debut pregnant with his child as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be a night result of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae Bone night they spent together some three months ago. As if the night could Her condition will be obvious before long, not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi least because Ruth is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself prone to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deepersudden bouts of sickness.
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|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out It's unusual for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed anyone from the Hardie family to pieces below approach the cliffs at Dunnett Headpolice. Was it suicide, Neither side likes or did he - has any respect for some reason - climb over the stone wall other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and fall he's prepared to his tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death? Or was . This person, he pushed? On balancepromises, is someone big and it looked like will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an accident but then open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'accidentt think so and she' was linked s even prepared to do the deaths of others associated other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigoris kept well away from what's last clienthappening.
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|isbn=000837936X0008405026|title=The Last Girl to DieA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Helen FieldsJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=SeventeenIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifeRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It She was a bit of a change from Las Vegas, but never found and the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing investigation ground to a social life - until she disappearedhalt. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's Now, her mother is obviously Latino?) , Helena, and Rob and Isabella Clarke called her father are dead in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagerstheir bed. BrandonInitially, Adrianait looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's twin, was upset something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and surlyher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. FourWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-yearand-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sistershut case is now a complex double murder. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in MackinnonRosalie's Cave. Shedisappearance: others (such as Derwent'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killings boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15098896120571379877|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Kellerby Code|author=Ann CleevesJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's fifty years since Edward Jevons is a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyRobert've been coming back for s a reunion every five years since thentheatre director. 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 awayHe's also self-obsessed, but her younger sisterdemanding, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagershandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Ken now Edward has Alzheimer's been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's a shadow of the man drunkenly confided how he used feels to beRobert. Philip Robson now Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a priest, always gets there early as relationship had begun between them but he likes 's not like most men: Edward is left to have some quiet time alone in stumble upon the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much two of the food: her deli is famous them kissing in the areaa dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0241990165Jo Callaghan|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was When a 999 call suggesting that man is found crucified on the top of a shot had been fired hill in an isolated house but Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the call hadn't come from case alongside her sidekick, the householderAI detective Lock. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that theyIt'd better come ins their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. In the kitchen But when there was is a second body on the floor: the head had been blown off found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a shotgun potential serial killer and the corpse was holding a knife in its right hand. Richard Swann told the police very high profile case that he'd heard sounds draws a lot of an intruder and had come downstairs unwanted attention to investigatetheir AI Future Policing project. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and come at him with , potentially, out of a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defence.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=178763566X1035021803|title=Listen The Antique Hunter's Guide to MeMurder|author=Tess GerritsenC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the library English country village where she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow thatgrew up. She's back now falling. As she crosses the road, because of a car comes out of nowhere and hits request for help from herbeloved aunt, Carole. It doesn Freya't stop. Two months later, wes former mentor and Carole're with Angela Rizzolis close friend, mother of Detective Jane RizzoliArthur Crockleford, is dead and a keen defender of the suburb of Reverecircumstances seem suspicious, north of Bostonto say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, where she livesfeels, let her down badly. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is Even though they were in California, looking after his sisterbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the time to watch what's happening man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the neighbourhood. The people love of her life, who are moving in at no 2533 was murdered) and Freya and James have aroused her suspicionsnow divorced.
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|isbn=18011092651398524085|title=The CompanionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Lesley ThomsonNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''a punctual man who was inexplicably s fiftieth birthday party but never on time'' turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and he was her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - as usual strangely - late to pick up his sonher husband, WilburAlec, for their 'boys' day out'is not. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur Shortly afterwards, Etty andGreg, competing for find the boybody of Greg's attentionfather, his motherDuncan Ackerley, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedin the river. The dinner would never be served, as James It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the beachguilt. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. SheSalter children are not convinced but there's feeling the pressure. You little else they can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughdo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529900360|title=Dark MusicThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. This does have a wonderHis assertions that there were only open-and-mind at shut cases which didn't need the heart help 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 wavelengthpsychologist only worked for a while. For oneFinally, the main focus of the narrativeit was Robin, MicaelaDelaware's partner, is no John Watson MDwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She's a Chilean in knew that the involvement was something that the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as man she knows the prime suspect of oldloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in a case where a referee the swimming pool of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumremote property in Bel Air. Beppe, the suspect, He was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses heir 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 an Italian shoe empire and how she might dress – that kind) are told is married to go an extremely rich man and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and 's not the investigation is a shamblesItalian. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind which of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in them was the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192primary target?
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|isbn=152941363X178763681X|title=To Kill Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a Troubadour (A Brunoteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, Chief of Police Novel)but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Martin WalkerKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Nobody knows what It was one of those flash downpours that the truth is any moreBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave.'' Bruno Courrèges is In a gully, a human skeleton came to the police chief for St Denis surface and much of forensic testing proved the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')body to be Lee Geary, the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordognewho had disappeared nine years earlier. TheyHe're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being d been a known drug user and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an oldhad learning disabilities, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in so it could have been a ditch wouldnsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carconvinced. Oh, and there Geary was a golf ball tootownie, which didn't belong so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the owner suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the cartime. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's weaponcold cases to you and me) investigate. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbn=07278505471529425867|title=Blind Justice Lost and Never Found (DS McAvoy 10A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=David MarkSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. A body had been found in the roots Raymond Wilkins is of a fallen tree at BrantinghamNigerian descent, near HullBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. When he gets to the sceneD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginednot. A young manHe's corpse is entangled with the roots not any of those things. He's white, originated from a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyeswardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still aliveThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. McAvoy makes You might wonder if you're being introduced to a promise to police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the victim: I will find answerssame policing coin. You will know justice Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoySometimes it's own familyproblematic.
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1529431735|title=Little DrummerThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thrillermore surprising. Beginning with He'd been exiled on the death of Costa del Sol as a young woman in wanted drug smuggler for a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into decade. The return has come about because he's had a farletter from his ex-reaching investigation of murder, fraudwife, saying that she's ill and international pharmaceutical dealingshasn't long to live. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains sent to a watery grave in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns boot of the investigationa stolen Ford Sierra. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going on.|isbn=1914585127home?
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|isbn=13985075040861541774|title=Cold ReckoningA Nye of Pheasants|author=Russ ThomasSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heDCI Domenic Jejeune's been searching for evidence close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to prove that he's rightmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When a frozen body Maik was found involved in Damflask Reservoir, there a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a link back to a cold case from 2002. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection man armed with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before knife - and he diedkilled a Ghurka. Above all there's Initially, he faced a growing sense charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to man. Now he could be brought out into facing the opendeath penalty. Perhaps Tyler is going Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to get the answers he needs?help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=17876349061521129886|title=No Less the DevilThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stuart MacBrideKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeGreg Mason're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. HeIt's in an abandoned house a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and hethey's being threatened re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by two young peoplean old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. One is Allegra (weStuart'll soon learn that shes concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's Allegra Dean-Edwards) struggling to make ends meet and Hugoher son is not thriving. It seems Lucy, he says, is convinced that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but sheGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn'd put a tracking device t in it so his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that she and Hugo could find out where he the death was sleeping. suicide, It wonbut Stuart't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going s prepared to pay Greg to have find out what happened on the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsnight Gil died.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SXB0CK3MYJ56|title=Death at Friar's InnResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Rob KeeleyAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber It's the 1990s and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of FriarGreg Mason's Inntwenty-eight years old. For aspiring barristers, moots test He used to have a high-flying job in the participantscity but it wasn' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: itt satisfying so he's now set himself up as a great way private investigator. 'Shades of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Tom Joyce and Nat Helen are from half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thistragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The other contestants Joyce - Becca Deckerand her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington -Hamilton and Lucia can'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of confidencea train. TomGreg's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterbeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=15291259441838954481|title=City of the DeadThe Misper|author=Jonathan KellermanKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Ryan Kennedy killed a living, you're careful and itpolice officer: there's not just no doubt about the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and if pointing it's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepat DI Kieran Shaw. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when He pulled the roads are quieter, even if you have trigger but due to wait up when you get to where you're goingthe vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angelesso lives must go on. The man was stark naked For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and couldnhoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she't be identifieds drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11448309743|title=The Patient Devil Stone (A DS Cross thrillerDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Tim SullivanCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorderIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, quite probably Asperger's Syndromefive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. He can be rudeThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentionaldeath will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's just an easy conclusion given that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur to him. There's a reason why hetwo of them 's in Bristoldiscovered's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everbody. His partner The Senior Investigating Office is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion DCI Bob Oswald but when he would recognisedisappears, or welcome being attached DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourshadow' him.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1529077699|title=Unhinged The Raging Storm (Volume 3) (Blix and RammTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is . Jem Rosco blew into the third book local pub one evening in a series the middle of stories featuring Alexander Blixan autumn gale, stayed for about a police officermonth and then turned up, naked and Emma Rammdead, in a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleaguessmall boat, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries anchored in Scully Cove close to contact her superiorthe village of Greystone, Blixin Devon. Before she can reach him, however, she is murderedRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and Blixall round ''celebrity''s daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find ourselves out, he could be more than a few days later little bit close with Blix money and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenhis background isn't exactly an open book. What had Kovic discoveredWhere did he get the money for his first boat? And what How did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someonehe finance the trip?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=15291516001529427045|title=Give Unto OthersThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Donna LeonKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The ''pandemiaLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'' stripped . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the city small town of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of businesses the area have closed, most never to reopen. There's now sparked a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedgold rush. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all the money which is criminal underworld has not been slow in coming their way? forward. Whilst heSalander's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone heniece's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childmother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. Elisabetta Foscarini has It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a problem and sheremarkably gifted teenager who'd like Brunettis unaware of the part Salander played in her father's advicedeath.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1787636607|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Trap|author=Neil LancasterCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'It' s a scene replicated all too often in the back early hours of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to land illegal deliveries get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of drugsthe few taxis available. Jimmy McLeish thought Others squash onto the night bus that he was onto a nice little earner, will only to find that Macca, go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the man he thought he was working with'taxi problem', is deadparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. His remains would never be foundFor 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 delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callumbus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. As the story progresses weThere'll get s no option but to know them quite wellstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15294096591405957174|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)A Death at the Party|author=Elly GriffithsAmy Stuart|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 motherFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's belongingsparty will not end well. She was intrigued by the discovery of The victim - a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions man - is dying when we first meet him and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined Nadine consciously makes no effort to find out what was behind call the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdownambulance he so desperately needs. Ruth and Kate are restricted to What we don't know is who the cottage with Ruth attempting man is or why Nadine prefers to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutieshave him die. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W0008530025|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Murder in the Family|author=Liz MistryCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the third murder body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because garden of machetes used on teenagerstheir West London home. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst He had an injury on the first to arrive on back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on steps but the outskirts of Bradfordvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Only, this timeTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's going now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to be differenttake the investigation further. The body appears More to Nikki the point, they're going to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqibdo this live on camera, and she has a very public meltdownepisode by episode. It isnThere't Haqib: there are similarities but s no dump of the body is clad in designer clothes whole box set - and comes from an obviously monied backgroundno shortage of cliffhangers. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionIt's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=15291355670241996104|title=One Step Too FarComing to Find You|author=Lisa GardnerJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=ItNancy's five years since the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and his four groomsmenher step-brother, ScotMartin, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshhas been convicted of their murder. The We first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in meet Nancy outside the night Scot managed to wander offcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided barrister tells her that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign rest of Timher life. Every yearOf course, Timit's made worse because Nancy's father, Martin, rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the four friends have been back to continue papers are making the search although they do now acknowledge that theymost of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''re looking for rich bitch'remains' rather than for Timmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15293465411529413680|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Elizabeth GeorgeMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didnEnglish in 1370 and Bruno't catch but would later turn out s there to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakersee the show with some friends. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the meeting is an exploration man playing one of the possibility of main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the idea behind script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the book being used to highlight an area which man is causing concern whisked away in some communitiesa helicopter. DeborahA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the problem seems to occur military has stepped in Nigerian . One daughter lives nearby and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of the people she speaks to and photographsher father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=13987069061529196388|title=The LostTrial|author=Simon BeckettRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colley's young son, Theo, Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about finished himeveryone, particularly as so there was public uproar when he blamed himself for what had happenedwas murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. HeThere'd fallen asleep s just one man in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him frame for his marriage murder - Jimmy Knight - and his home. Ten years later heit's largely come through it and henot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneymurder. Gavin used to be his Knight was told that the best friend but barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's a long time since they've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now Taylor- Jonah can hear it in Cameron and his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him at Slaughter Quay. Knight''Theres determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's no one else I can trust'', he saysrecommendations to the contrary.
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