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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008517061
|title=Death in a Lonely Place
|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1786482126
|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)
|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a 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 difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15291355670008551324|title=One Step Too FarThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lisa GardnerNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since unusual for anyone from the stag weekendHardie family to approach the police. Five Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of them had set out: Tim (the groom) a missing person is buried and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)responsible for her death. This person, Neil he promises, is someone big and Joshit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The first night they had plenty And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of alcohol - too much really - his sentence and in the night Scot managed to wander offget an early parole date. The remaining four searched for him in vain and Not much to ask, is it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. ? When help didnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Timthink so and she's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back even prepared to continue do the search although they do now acknowledge other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that theyDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims happening.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15293465410008405026|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Deborah St James is at the investigation ground to a meeting with Dominique Shawhalt. Now, Undersecretary for the school systemher mother, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from BarnardosHelena, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameronher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a filmmaker. It follows on from the success of Deborahstraightforward murder/suicide but there's book ''London Voices'': something about the meeting is an exploration positioning of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to highlight be an area which open-and-shut case is causing concern in some communitiesnow a complex double murder. DeborahKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's uncertain about quite how successful she could be disappearance: others (such as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=13987069060571379877|title=The LostKellerby Code|author=Simon BeckettJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance When a man is found crucified on the top of Metropolitan police firearms officera hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, Jonah Colleythe AI detective Lock. It's young sontheir first live case together, Theohaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedKat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He'd fallen asleep Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the park whilst Theo was playing case and when he woke, Theo had gonepotentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. It cost him his marriage and his homeShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Ten years later heFreya's largely come through it former mentor and heCarole's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Gavin used Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be his best friend but itnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's a long time since they've spokenfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's obviously father, Duncan Ackerley, in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaycouldn't stand the guilt. ''ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's no one little else I they can trust'', he saysdo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15294181001529900360|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Martin WalkerJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt hadn'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkert been Lt Milo Sturgis's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was hard reluctant to resist ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and I'm rather glad that I -shut cases which didn't even tryneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. For those new to the seriesFinally, it was Robin, thereDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need Italian shoe empire and she is married to know about whoan extremely rich man and it's who and not the background to why Bruno is in St DenisItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09GJW49GF178763681X|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Jenny O'BrienOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Hunter He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had diabetes and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married way of getting both men and she thought it would be a good idea for him women to find out do what parenting was he wanted. Paul ''somehow'really'got the impression that he' like. Her friend, Millyd be at the school to assist Paul, who had arranged to take her boyfrienda broken arm, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldnit didn't get turn out that way. The teaching - and the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in problems - are all his placeown. She would return home The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to find Ian turn up dead . Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and five-year-old Hunter missingeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1529421284|title=Without a TraceLaying Out the Bones|author=Jane BettanyKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a divorce and right now it was raining hardheatwave. All she wanted was In a gully, a human skeleton came to get back the surface and forensic testing proved the body to her new home be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and settle down for had learning disabilities, so it could have been a quiet evening. It simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found convinced. Geary was a dead man townie, so what was he doing out on her bed with a knife in his chestSalisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. SheLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that'd no idea who he wass cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529425867|title=Bitter FlowersLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is now returning to worknot. However, the quiet job he He's supposedly taken on caretaking someonenot any of those things. He's house quickly turns into white, originated from a murder investigationtrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case his wardrobe consists mainly of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night shell suits and was never foundtrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Somehow, these disparate cases appear You might wonder if you're being introduced to be linkeda police procedural written for laughs. Well, but what is you're not. The two men are just different sides of the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel same policing coin. Sometimes the truth?|isbn=191319308Xcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=18387748231529431735|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Winter Visitor|author=S J BennettJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 2016 February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Queenmore surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's Private Secretaryhad a letter from his ex-wife, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided saying that too much good claret she's ill and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandhasn't long to live. Swimming, he decidesIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, is the way stripped to go his underwear and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came sent to be there early one morning and discovered a watery grave in the body boot of Cynthia Harris at the side of the pool. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outstolen Ford Sierra. Still, Is it was a shock for Sir Simon.warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Paul Cleave0861541774|title=The Quiet PeopleA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an exceptionold ally, Guy Trueman. We start with Luca Pittman who is Maik was involved in a hurry. He has to hurry because street brawl - he has children would later maintain that he should not have, was facing a man armed with a knife - and when he hurrieskilled a Ghurka. Initially, when he bundles things into the back faced a charge of his car and tries manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to run and then hears sirens behind him, which murder the man. Now he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do things there, he takes nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a risk. It ends badlydiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1913193942
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178607981X1521129886|title=Bad ApplesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Will DeanKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a foggy hillside towards Visberg baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at gets past the side of the roadmorning sickness. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in- and heard the screams from deep inside the forestlaw appears to have killed himself. Determining the direction of a sound isnStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who't easy when you need hearing aids s struggling to make ends meet and dampness her son is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a mannot thriving. HeLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn'd been decapitatedt in his nature. He The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was Arne Gustav Perssonsuicide, a resident of Visberg but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Lilja SigurdadottirB0CK3MYJ56|title=Cold As HellResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In a red suitcase as It's the bottom of 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a fissure high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a lava fieldprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', there is a bodyyou might be thinking. And Nice bloke, but where's the man who life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has put been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there has just discovered that he is capable - or how she could come to fall in front of killinga train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|isbn=1913193888
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Will Carver1838954481|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is Ryan Kennedy killed a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupspolice officer: there's no doubt about that. She is also a self He was the fifteen-year-acknowledged psychopathold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Whilst analysing He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using manslaughter of the groups to find targetsofficer. And so lives must go on..targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and targets hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when territory she's unable to find likedrawn into a wider investigation -minded people in any and back into the orbit of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornRyan Kennedy.|isbn=1913193756
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17841652631448309743|title=Invite Me InThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Emma CurtisCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock In the village of Cronchie on the dotWest coast of Scotland, despite the fact that she was actually painting one five members of their properties prior to it being leta wealthy family are found murdered. If she didn't get The only item missing from the homeis the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, there would be troubledeath will follow. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchairThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, but donthat't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointments an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'the body. All this was in Eliza's mind The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2disappears, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to get in before it was advertised as being available'shadow' him.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17847427751529077699|title=A Change of Circumstance The Raging Storm (Simon SerraillerTwo Rivers)|author=Susan HillAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadn''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't really been that much it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a problem month and then turned up, naked and dead, in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had thought of drugs ops as a bit the status of a waste of time. They still were, to national treasure: a great extentrenowned adventurer, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport round the drugs world sailor and the operation running the county lines was tightall round ''celebrity''. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but as we'll find out, he certainly wouldncould be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't know anything about those higher up in exactly an open book. Where did he get the organisation. The police might catch a few of money for his first boat? How did he finance the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.trip?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529427045|title=Endless ObsessionThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Dai HenleyKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, formerly a DCI in where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the Met but now area have sparked a well-respected private investigatorgold rush. He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working The criminal underworld has not been slow in a forensics laboratorycoming forward. FloodSalander's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown niece's mother is the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with latest woman in the family, and Gemma area to married lifehave vanished without trace. SheIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago guardian but Andy and Laura hope it quickly becomes obvious that married life will provide Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the support she needs. Floodpart Salander played in her father's business is going well and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackdeath.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15293793851787636607|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Trap|author=Louise PennyCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In It's a scene replicated all too often in the Canadian village early hours of Three Pines, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get back to normalhome. The villagers Some are beginning to return lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the Bistro and night bus that will only go as far as one of the Aubergeoutlying villages. TheyThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem're visiting each other, particularly in the light of 'the missing women's homes and having friends and relatives to stay. A For one young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for , the final stop on the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor 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 bus had driven off before she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to be around start walking - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known unsuitably clothed and in the village as the Asshole Sainthigh-heeled shoes.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=183885410X1405957174|title=The Dark RemainsA Death at the Party|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinAmy Stuart|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a lawyer man - is dying when we first meet him and consigliere Nadine consciously makes no effort to one of call the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowambulance he so desperately needs. DC Jack Laidlaw What we don't know is on who the CID team charged with the investigationman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be d better give you a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgowlittle more background so that you can understand what's seedier pubshappening.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=19424102550008530025|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)Murder in the Family|author=Michael PronkoCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. 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 obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no 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 evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they'Zangyo: overtime workre going to do this live on camera, often unpaidepisode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}}
It{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|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 culturecourt, isn't it? after Martin receives a life sentence. The hours for which youbarrister tells her that she're paid are really just s received a statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: yousilent sentence' - she'll work more hours to get the job done and done s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the satisfaction rest of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaher life. When he was found dead in front of Senden CentralOf course, it's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether hemade worse because Nancy'd jumped s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the roof papers are making the most of the building or been assisted in his descentit. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=02414254251529413680|title=The Man Who Died TwiceA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Richard OsmanMartin Walker|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received One of the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from main events of the Thames and who had never existed but then this Sarlat tourist season is the sort re-enactment of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. When she visits the sender liberation of the letter (hetown from the English in 1370 and Bruno's moved into there to see the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone show with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husbandsome friends. HeIt's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the range man playing one of a CCTV camera on a raidthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, a missing twenty-million pounds his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in diamonds and a few death threatshelicopter. HeA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's now a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in hiding with a young woman called Polly. One daughter lives nearby and another, wholives in California, is flying in with some of her father's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1529196388|title=The Rabbit FactorTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With Grant Cliveden was a hero: a mind so much more focused on maths policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and calculations than it is other human beingslooked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when hewas murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's perfect just one man in the frame for his job in the insurance company – until they decide hemurder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not a team-membertoo long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that theythe best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it'd prefer everyone to be all opens Taylor-plan, holistic Cameron and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channelpupil, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure parkAdam Green, and nothing elsewho eventually represent him. Knight''YouMeFun'' is so s determined to plead not what Henri wants to occupy his mindguilty, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady moneydespite all Taylor-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – itCameron's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and recommendations to the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..contrary.|isbn=191319387X
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