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|isbn=18387761841786482126|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=S J BennettElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'The Queen, like apartments - when they discovered the sunrise and the tides, was generally bones of a child beneath a reliable way of marking timedoorway.'' It seemed to begin as a cold There was no skull. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for Was this a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. ritual killing or murder? HopefullyInevitably, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same wayDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. SheIt'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildren. Unfortunatelys difficult as Ruth knows, it didnbut Nelson doesn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train , that day but the doctor put she is pregnant with his foot down. He'd have preferred that the queen have child as a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with result of the thought that one night they'd go by helicopter the following dayspent together some three months ago. It was annoying: people would Her condition will be ready for her today and Her Majesty did obvious before long, not like least because Ruth is prone to disappointsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=08615419950008551324|title=Wolf PackThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Will DeanNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the road north of Visbergpolice. She sees blood on the road and a creature on its Neither side near likes or has any respect for the pine treesother. It will turn out But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to be Bronco, tell the police where the body of a Swedish Elkhound, missing person is buried and who has been attacked by a wolfwas responsible for her death. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerThis person, Bengt Nyberghe promises, to the vet. Bronco didn't make is someone big and it but on will be worth the way, Nyberg told Tuva that police doing what he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missingwants. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group remainder of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, sentence and his two eldest children and then killed himselfto get an early parole date. His newborn childNot much to ask, just four weeks old survived. is it? Does this have any connection The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=14059511840008405026|title=The Girls Who DisappearedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Claire DouglasJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her three friends home after a bed one summer night out. As she passed through She was never found and the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, investigation ground to a figure appeared in the roadhalt. Olivia swerved to avoid him and the car smashed into a treeNow, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness mother, Helena, and her three friends had disappearedfather are dead in their bed. Ralph MiddletonInitially, who lived in it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the woods helped her before positioning of the police bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and ambulance arrivedher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But what had happened What looked as though it was going to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole be an open-and Hetty Riding? -shut case is now a complex double murder. Their Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of : others (such as AveburyDerwent's poor relationboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15420372390571379877|title=Death in HeelsThe Kellerby Code|author=Kitty MurphyJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's drag scene, a theatre director. He''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friends also self-obsessed, Robyndemanding, who is about handsome and entitled and uses Edward to debut as drag queen Mae Brun errands for him. What is meant Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae BRobert. As if the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a gutter. Fi relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it left to stumble upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deepertwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Lisa GrayJo Callaghan|title=The Dark RoomLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across When a man is found crucified on the top of a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened hill in a different place and time? This is what happens Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Leonard in this storythe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaper, and since leaving journalism heIt's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldtheir first live case together, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of But when there is a second body found crucified a young woman he met some years agofew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front a very high profile case that draws a lot of him one night in a hotelunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and lost everything because , potentially, out of it - his fiancee and his a career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535X139851120X
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81035021803|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out 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 request for a runhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The lawyer Arthur was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed the reason why Freya had not been back to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Headvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Was it suicide Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or did he - for some reason - climb over pursue the profession she loved. After the stone wall split, she worked in a cafe, met and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to married James (on the rebound from the deaths love of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing her life imprisonment. Paterson , who was Grigor's last clientmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=000837936X1398524085|title=The Last Girl to DieHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Helen FieldsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's family moved to Tobermoryfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, on the Isle of MullPaul and Ollie and her daughter, in search of a new lifeEtty. It was a bit of a change from Las Vegas, are all worried but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. The local police demonstrated little interest in Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the case (could it have been because Adrianabody of Greg's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called father, Duncan Ackerley, in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersthe river. Brandon, Adriana's twin, It was upset an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and surlythen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four days, The Salter children are not convinced but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnonthere's Cave. She'd been murdered little else they can do but get on with their lives and it looked like a ritual killingwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=15098896121529900360|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Ghost Orchid|author=Ann CleevesJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fifty years since a group of teenagers went 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 a weekend retreat to Holy Islanddifficult cases. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative His assertions that there were only open-and they-shut cases which didn've been coming back t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a reunion every five years since thenwhile. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car Finally, it was swept awayRobin, but her younger sisterDelaware's partner, Louisa, has returned with who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the group each year as her husband, Ken, involvement was one of something that the original teenagersman she loved needed. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone remote property in the chapelBel Air. Annie Laidler lives locally He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in married to an extremely rich man and it's not the areaItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=0241990165178763681X|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Cara HunterOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was Chef Paul Delamare took a 999 call suggesting that teaching job at a shot had been fired residential cookery school in an isolated house but the call hadnBelgravia. He didn't come from the householder. A couple really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright getting both men and it took quite a while for the elderly householder women to answer do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them impression that theyhe'd better come in. In be at the kitchen there was a body on the floor: the head school to assist Paul, who had been blown off with a shotgun broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handproblems - are all his own. Richard Swann told the police that The one thing hehadn'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs t expected was for someone to investigateturn up dead. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defenceeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=178763566X1529421284|title=Listen to MeLaying Out the Bones|author=Tess GerritsenKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Boston with Amya heatwave. When she set out for university this morning it was In a gully, a spring day human skeleton came to the surface and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of forensic testing proved the library she knows that they're going body to be ruined - Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and unsafe - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the roadhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a car comes out simple case of nowhere and hits her. It doesnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't stopconvinced. Two months later Geary was a townie, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Detective Jane Rizzoli, Holly Gilbert and a keen defender of to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livestime. Nothing gets past her Lockyer and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has DC Gemma Broad of the time to watch whatMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionscold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=18011092651529425867|title=The CompanionLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lesley ThomsonSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of himself as Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a punctual man who was inexplicably never on timetrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and he was - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They'boys' day outre usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur andWell, competing for the boyyou's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedre not. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur two men are the victims just different sides of a double stabbing on the beachsame policing coin. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. SheSometimes it's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughproblematic.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529431735|title=Dark MusicThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating It's February 1991 and Essex is going onbitingly cold, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDmore surprising. SheHe's a Chilean in d been exiled on the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad Costa del Sol as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of wanted drug smuggler for a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumdecade. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses 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 – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when The return has come about because he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is 's had a shambles. But taken off the caseletter from his ex-wife, saying that she can no longer help solve the crime, 's ill and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she canhasn't get his full verdict on it alllong to live. UntilIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, that may be, she manages stripped to his underwear and sent to stop him a watery grave in the middle boot of an apparent suicide attempta stolen Ford Sierra...|isbn=1529413192 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=152941363X0861541774|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief Nye of Police Novel)Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis s close friend and much of the Vézère valley and works closely former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')an old ally, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneGuy Trueman. They're not just policemen Maik was involved in a street brawl - they're both deeply committed to the wellhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francehe killed a Ghurka. The discovery of an oldInitially, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in he faced a ditch wouldn't normally charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have worried them so much had it not been for planned to murder the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carman. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of Now he could be facing the cardeath penalty. A golf bag would be a good place Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to hide help as any interference from another police force could provoke a sniperdiplomatic incident and wouldn's weapont help Danny at all. 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=07278505471521129886|title=Blind Justice They Had It Coming (DS McAvoy 10Greg Mason mysteries)|author=David MarkKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnGreg Mason't even had time for breakfast when s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the call came throughpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. A body had been found in the roots of It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullbaby and they're both delighted. When he Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets to past the scene, he will find what greets him morning sickness. Greg is even worse than he could approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have imaginedkilled himself. A young manStuart's corpse concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is entangled with the roots of a newlyconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself -fallen tree – it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the roots coroner have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem accepted that this was done whilst the man death was still alive. suicide, McAvoy makes a promise but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time out what happened on the cost might be to McAvoy's own familynight Gil died.
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|authorisbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett Responsibilities (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=Little DrummerAnn Macarthur|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of It's the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural 1990s and thrillerGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Beginning with the death of He used to have a young woman high-flying job in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, the city but it unravels into wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a far-reaching investigation private investigator. 'Shades of murder, fraudCameron Strike', and international pharmaceutical dealingsyou might be thinking. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and FrolichNice bloke, who end but where's the life experience that backs up working separately on this profession? On the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led other hand, he has been asked to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of the investigationlook into something. Gunnarstranda Joyce and Frolich Helen are tenacioushalf-sisters, or rather, chasing down the truth they were until Helen was killed in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth what's been written off as they are sure that something much biggera tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and much more dangerous, is going onPam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=13985075041838954481|title=Cold ReckoningThe Misper|author=Russ ThomasKate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that his father committed suicide . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and for pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence trigger but due to prove that the vagaries of the jury system he's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with For DI Richard Tyler's death Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but Adam Tyler senses when a link to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all theremissing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a growing sense that wider investigation - and back into the criminality orbit of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openRyan Kennedy. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbn=17876349061448309743|title=No Less the The Devil|author=Stuart MacBride|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in trouble. He's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm Stone (she often does this for homeless people, apparentlyDCI Christine Caplan) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in In the finals village of Cronchie on the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society West coast of Friar's Inn. For aspiring barristersScotland, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas five members of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedwealthy family are found murdered. Tom and Nat are The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from 'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thisOtterburn House, death will follow. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has s an abundance easy conclusion given that two of confidencethem 'discovered' the body. Tom The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's £30 supermarket suit doesnshadow't make him feel any better.
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|isbn=15291259441529077699|title=City of the DeadThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Jonathan KellermanAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living''It's all bloody peculiar, youisn're careful and t it, Sir?'s not just about the way that you drive' Well yes, it is. You restrict your alcohol intake Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and if it's then turned up, naked and dead, in a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepsmall boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. When you're taking Rosco had the status of a removals truck through national treasure: a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when renowned adventurer, round the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get to where youworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''re going. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood VillageI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked he could be more than a little bit close with money and couldnhis background isn't be identifiedexactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11529427045|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Tim SullivanKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross ''Life has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Aspergermore to offer than people - prime numbers for example''s Syndrome. He can be rude Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalwhere the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur to himThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. ThereSalander's a reason why heniece's mother is the latest woman in Bristolthe area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's Major Crime Unit and guardian but itquickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's that he has unaware of the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crosspart Salander played in her father's behaviourdeath.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1787636607|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the third book in a series morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of stories featuring Alexander Blix, clubs and looking for a police officer, way to get home. Some are lucky and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistmanage to get one of the few taxis available. In this book we find Others squash onto the night bus that when will only go as far as one of Blixthe outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem's colleagues, Kovicparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, uncovers the final stop on the bus leaves her a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact long way short of her superior, Blixhome. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, She had intended to ring someone to come and Blixcollect her - but her phone's daughter Iselin who shares dead. The bus had driven off before she had the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toochance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenin high-heeled shoes. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=15291516001405957174|title=Give Unto OthersA Death at the Party|author=Donna LeonAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The ''pandemia'' stripped From the city of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closedfirst page, most never to reopen. Therewe know that Nadine Walsh's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have party will not put an end to greedwell. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to launder all call the money which is coming their way? ambulance he so desperately needs. Whilst heWhat we don's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childt know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and sheI'd like Brunettibetter give you a little more background so that you can understand what's advicehappening.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0008530025|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Murder in the Family|author=Neil LancasterCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the back body of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the perfect place to land illegal deliveries garden of drugstheir West London home. Jimmy McLeish thought that He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he 'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was onto a nice little earnerobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, only to find that Maccano one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the man he thought he was working with, is deadevidence and to take the investigation further. His remains would never be foundMore to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. The delivery is hijacked by Davie There's no dump of the whole box set - and Callumno shortage of cliffhangers. As the story progresses weIt'll get to know them quite wells compelling viewing.
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|isbn=15294096590241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's 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 court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The Locked Room barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (Dr Ruth GallowayA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Elly GriffithsMartin Walker|rating=54
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|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 mother's belongings. She was intrigued by One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the discovery re-enactment of a picture the liberation of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken the town from the English in misty conditions 1370 and on Bruno's there to see the back it said 'dawn 1963', show with some years before Ruth was bornfriends. It was before her parents were married's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened Luckily, his doctor is there and the country was man is whisked away in lockdowna helicopter. Ruth A local doctor (and Kate are restricted to friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and continue another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping father's friends for carersa pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1529196388|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Trial|author=Liz MistryRob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's the third murder in the space of Grant Cliveden was a hero: a few weeks policeman who stood for all that was good and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh honest and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first looked up to arrive on the scene by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of BradfordOld Bailey. OnlyThere's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, this time, itcharged with Cliveden's going to be differentmurder. The body appears to Nikki to be Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of her beloved nephewStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, HaqibAdam Green, and she has a very public meltdownwho eventually represent him. It isnKnight't Haqib: there are similarities but s determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to 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 and depressioncontrary.
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