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|isbn=00085512781786482126|title=Blood Runs Cold The Janus Stone (D S Max CraigieDr Ruth Galloway) by Neil Lancaster|author=Neil LancasterElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was snatched from going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bottom bones of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her traininga child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She'd been Was this a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. ThatIt's quite an achievement for someone difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania his child as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelve. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo result of drugs and the one night they spent together some three years later she's happy with her foster familymonths ago. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterHer condition will be obvious before long, Melodi not least because Ruth is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get prone to hersudden bouts of sickness.
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when 's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the car crash happenedpolice. It would cause problems Neither side likes or has any respect for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Jude Winter were together. She who was utterly driven by responsible for her determination to go to medical schooldeath. Liam was This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the reversepolice doing what he wants. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and carried him along''to get an early parole date. A bit of weed hereNot much to ask, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didnis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - or rather, Liam simply didnmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't see Jude any mores happening.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni0008405026|title=Her Deadly GameA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeIt's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientssixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion She was never found and inevitably the latter was beginning investigation ground to overshadow the formera halt. Enter Keera DugganNow, her mother, Helena, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the hideous position positioning of asking the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her father for boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a job at complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularlyexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, southUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049760571379877|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Kellerby Code|author=Jane CaseyJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe CloseStanza. If you Robert're s a regular reader of the [[Jane Caseytheatre director. He's Maeve Kerrigan series also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice love with Stanza since their university days - and wondered if ithe's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems very, very realdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But (thereMost men in Robert's always position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a 'relationship had begun between them but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has not like most men: Edward is left her more than a little uncertain.}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Brooks|title=Promise Boys|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When to stumble upon the principal (headmaster) two of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has them kissing in a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murderdark passageway. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155
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|isbnauthor=1529125960Jo Callaghan|title=Unnatural History|author=Jonathan KellermanLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was When a photographer. Wellman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, it was AdonisDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itthe AI detective Lock. It's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel GornickBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is distraught suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series very high profile case that draws a lot of photographs called ''The Wishers''unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He'd Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken eight homeless people off the streets case and asked them what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with potentially, out of a generous gift in dollars.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1035021803|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the start English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her maternity leave when there is a brutalbeloved aunt, shocking murder of an expectant woman in DunedinCarole. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womencircumstances seem suspicious, with all to say the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfleast. Finding herself put on desk dutiesArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, which she rails againstfeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she just can't let has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the case go and split, she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happeningworked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the increasingly disturbing worry love of just what might happen nexther life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931398524085|title=All the Dangerous ThingsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Stacy WillinghamNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't really slept for a year s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - wellher husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, apart from find the odd occasion when she lost track body of time or drifted off for a moment. ItGreg's now a year since her sonfather, MasonDuncan Ackerley, was stolen from his bed in the middle of river. It was an easy assumption for the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt police to make that she heard nothing Duncan had murdered Charlie and particularly about her relief in the morning then committed suicide when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year shecouldn's done everything she could to raise awareness about t stand the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationguilt. On the plane back, sheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could little else they can do a podcast but get on with their lives and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferenceswonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=057137493X1529900360|title=The Other HalfGhost Orchid|author=Charlotte VassellJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'The room s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' ''The Other Half'' is t need the story help of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is psychologist only worked for a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townwhile. Think Bollinger and cocaineFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with She knew that the involvement was something that the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialman she loved needed. His surname is pronounced as you see itThe next case did look simple, though. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across Two lovers were murdered in the body swimming pool of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfrienda remote property in Bel Air. Rupert thought that He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she was being deliberately late for his partyis married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. She But which of them was dead under a bush.the primary target?
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|isbn=0857051741178763681X|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationKnife Skills for Beginners|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only Chef Paul Delamare took a few weeks teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to live but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what hewanted. Paul 's determined 'somehow'' got the impression that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer he'd be at the home of school to assist Paul, who had a deceased alcoholicbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The problem is that teaching - and the case has long passed the statute of limitationsproblems - are all his own. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. He Unfortunately, he was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: person who discovered the problem is body and everyone knows that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes the police consider that Henry Pekkari, person to be the dead alcoholic, was also murderedprime suspect. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212411529421284|title=Stay BuriedLaying Out the Bones
|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise It was one of those flash downpours that it's actually the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a cold case unit human skeleton came to the surface and there are just two of them doing forensic testing proved the jobbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. LockyerHe's not unduly worriedd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: sheit could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's probably capable of something bettert convinced. It Geary was a bit of a shock when townie, so what was he got doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - suicide of Holly Gilbert and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. SheLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's keen cold cases to see him you and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesme) investigate.
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|isbn=13997022891529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector GamacheD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Louise PennySimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winterIn Oxford, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is enjoying the arrival of springNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir father of the Sûreté du QuébecRyan, is not. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after the murder He's not any of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherthose things. For Jean-GuyHe's white, originated from a trailer park, it had always been the other way aroundbarely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Now theyThey're both usually in the village and neither can fathom whatlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's happeningre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Armand will soon find that theyWell, you're not . The two men are just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifedifferent sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529431735|title=White RiotThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Knee The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-jerk observations wife, saying that she's ill and hot takes that donhasn't age well or properly capture the spirit of the momentlong to live. It takes a truly talented writer 's hard to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what feel any sympathy when Hopkins isabducted, stripped to his underwear and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time sent to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events a watery grave in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit boot of a more objective viewstolen Ford Sierra.|isbn= 1529423376 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}
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|isbn=18387761840861541774|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalA Nye of Pheasants|author=S J BennettSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The Queens close friend and former colleague, like the sunrise and the tidesDanny Maik, was generally has taken a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed short holiday in Singapore to begin as a coldmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for Maik was involved in a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold street brawl - he would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one of the greatlater maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -grandchildrenand he killed a Ghurka. UnfortunatelyInitially, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go light that suggested that he might have planned to Sandringham by train that day but murder the doctor put his foot downman. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to Now he could be satisfied with facing the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following daydeath penalty. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Her Majesty did not like to disappointwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=08615419951521129886|title=Wolf PackThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Will DeanKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the road north of Visbergpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She sees blood on the road It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a creature on its side near the pine treesbaby and they're both delighted. It Joyce will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who has been attacked by a wolfmore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to the vethave killed himself. Bronco didnStuart't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for s concerned about his niecesister, twenty-year-old Elsa NybergLucy, who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought struggling to the foremake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then ownerLucy, Johan Svenson murdered his wifehe says, and his two eldest children and then is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself- it simply wasn't in his nature. His newborn childThe police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?night Gil died.
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|isbn=1405951184B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Girls Who DisappearedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Claire DouglasAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out. As she passed through It's the darkly-wooded Devil1990s and Greg Mason's Corridor, a figure appeared in the roadtwenty-eight years old. Olivia swerved He used to avoid him and have a high-flying job in the car smashed into city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a treeprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', leaving her trappedyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedOn the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Ralph MiddletonJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, who lived or rather, they were until Helen was killed in the woods helped what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her before the police parents, Oliver and ambulance arrived. But Pam Hetherington - can't understand what had happened she was doing there - or how she could come to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening fall in the Stafferbury area front of Wiltshirea train. It was thought of as AveburyGreg's poor relationbeen asked to investigate.
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|isbn=15420372391838954481|title=Death in HeelsThe Misper|author=Kitty MurphyKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the story of Fi McKinnery gun and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. What is meant He pulled the trigger but due to be a night the vagaries of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. As if the night could jury system he was found not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet guilty of both the drag community, murder and the Guards, accept it as an accidentmanslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Fi takes it upon herself to solve For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the mystery as she fears capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her friends, but instead ruins relationships as territory she delves deeper's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1448309743|title=The Dark RoomDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across five members of a photograph wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This if the stone is what happens to Leonard in this storyremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and since leaving journalism hethat's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls easy conclusion given that two of film and develops them in his own dark room at home'discovered' the body. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he met some years agodisappears, and who he DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535X
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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529077699|title=The Night Watch Raging Storm (D S Max CraigieTwo Rivers)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it suicide, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his deathSir? Or was he pushed? On balance'' Well yes, it looked like is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an accident but autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then his 'accident' was linked turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the deaths village of others associated with himGreystone, in Devon. Scott Paterson was released after Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I 'not'nearly'' said 'all-provenround good egg' verdict meant that Scotlandbut as we's most notorious criminal wasnll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientexactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=000837936X1529427045|title=The Last Girl to Diein the Eagle's Talons|author=Helen FieldsKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen''Life has more to offer than people -year-old Adriana Clarkeprime numbers for example''s family moved . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Tobermory, on the Isle small town of MullGasskas, in search where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a new lifegold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a bit remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a change from Las Vegas, but scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the family seemed determined morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and Adriana had shown signs manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of developing a social life - until she disappearedthe outlying villages. The local police demonstrated little interest woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the case (could it have been because Adrianalight of 's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down the missing teenagerswomen'. BrandonFor one young woman, Adrianathe 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 twin, was upset and surlydead. Four-year-old Luna just knew that The bus had driven off before she missed had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her big sisteruse his. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonThere's Cave. She'd been murdered no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and it looked like a ritual killingin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15098896121405957174|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)A Death at the Party|author=Ann CleevesAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandparty will not end well. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for The victim - a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the man - is dying when we first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with call the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagersambulance he so desperately needs. Ken now has AlzheimerWhat we don's and he's a shadow of t know is who the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes is or why Nadine prefers to have some quiet time alone in the chapelhim die. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areaI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=02419901650008530025|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)Murder in the Family
|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from the householder. A couple of PCs went to make certain December 2003 that everything was alright fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and it took quite a while for found the elderly householder to answer body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the doorgarden of their West London home. He somewhat reluctantly told them that theyhad an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd better come in. In slipped down the kitchen there was a body on steps but the floor: the head vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been blown off charged with a shotgun his murder and it's now the corpse was holding subject of ''Infamous'', a knife in its right handtrue-crime show. Richard Swann told A group of experts has been brought together to review the police that he'd heard sounds of an intruder evidence and had come downstairs to investigatetake the investigation further. The ignorant young lout had called him ''GrandadMore to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There' s no dump of the whole box set - and come at him with a knifeno shortage of cliffhangers. Swann had shot him in self-defenceIt's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=178763566X0241996104|title=Listen Coming to MeFind You|author=Tess GerritsenJane 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 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.
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|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We'One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the 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 enactment of the liberation of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - town from the English in 1370 and unsafe - in the snow thatBruno's now falling. As she crosses there to see the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits hershow with some friends. It doesn't stop. Two months laters all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, we're with Angela RizzoliKerquelin, mother the man playing one of Detective Jane Rizzolithe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a keen defender helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of the suburb Bruno) wonders about his chances of Reveresurvival but - as he's a senior government employee, north of Boston, where she the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives. Nothing gets past her nearby and whilst her boyfriendanother, Vince Korsakwho lives in California, is flying in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch whatwith some of her father's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=18011092651529196388|title=The CompanionTrial|author=Lesley ThomsonRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Grant Cliveden was a hero: a punctual man policeman who stood for all that was inexplicably never on time'' good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - as usual Jimmy Knight - late to pick up his sonand it's not too long before Knight appears in court, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day outcharged with Cliveden's murder. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and, competing for the boyit's attention, Taylor-Cameron and his motherpupil, AnnaAdam Green, promised who eventually represent him a roast dinner when he returned. The dinner would never be servedKnight's determined to plead not guilty, as James and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. Shedespite all Taylor-Cameron's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when recommendations to the going gets toughcontrary.
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