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|authorisbn=Alan Parks0008517061|title=To Die Death in Junea Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body 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 the woods near Bristol was together would mean a nasty shock lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- a monk strapped grid and relaxing life to a chair and dumped move in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is Father Dominic. He'd been missing the future she wants for a few days herself and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbey. her daughter? As For the team gradually unpick moment they’re enjoying life in the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour present and friendputting the future on the back burner. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170101786482126|title=Death Under a Little SkyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Stig AbellElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else site was involved going to hold seventy- certainly not on Jakefive 's side and he didnluxury't think there apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was for Faye eitherno skull. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain marriedWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The perfect solution arrived in the form of a legacy from JakeIt's Uncle Arthur. Hedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'd been left t, that she is pregnant with his child as a secluded property in the hamlet result of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to worksudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0008551324|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has lived in any respect for the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she other. But Davie Hardie is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house struggling in prison and bring Edie he's prepared to live with his family, as Edie tell the police where the body of a missing person is starting to lose buried and who was responsible for her memorydeath. HoweverThis person, he promises, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, someone big and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might it will be worth the thing that reveals the truth of police doing what happened all that time agohe wants. After 'seeing' Lucy in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets remainder of memories coming back his sentence and to herget an early parole date. And yet as she remembers the pastNot much to ask, she is forgetting more it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and more in her day she's even prepared to day life. Will she uncover do the truth about Lucyother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250happening.
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|isbn=00085512780008405026|title=Blood Runs Cold A Stranger in the Family (D S Max CraigieMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Neil LancasterJane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from the bottom of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her trainingbed one summer night. She'd been was never found and the investigation ground to a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squad. Thatlike a straightforward murder/suicide but there's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at something about the age positioning of twelvethe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She What looked as though it was rescued when she was carrying going to be an open-and-shut case is now a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familycomplex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's just one cloud on her horizondisappearance: her little sister, Melodi is in a childrenothers (such as Derwent's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)0571379877|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, bitter womanobsessed with his upper-class friends, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. Sorry He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to leave her bottles of red wine behind her run errands for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument him. Edward has been in love with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying Stanza since their university days - and he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up drunkenly confided how he feels to that accusationRobert. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month Most men in Robert's position would stay away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more Stanza or less about everything – word comes tell Edward that the landladya relationship had begun between them but he's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1398509582Jo Callaghan|title=The Favour|author=Nicci FrenchLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 amWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, not long after A levels, when DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by case alongside her determination to go to medical school. Liam was sidekick, the reverseAI detective Lock. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over and carried him along'It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. A bit of weed hereBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a few drinks there: the legal effects potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of the car crash really didn't worry him at allunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The relationship broke up soon after that - Will they be able to solve the case in time, or ratherwill Kat find herself taken off the case and, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1035021803|title=Her Deadly GameThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the lifeEnglish country village where she grew up. She's work back now because of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'The Irish Brawlers former mentor and Carole' due s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientssay the least. Along with an indisputable talent for Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the lawvillage: Arthur, she feels, Patsy also let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has a gift for drinking himself not felt able to oblivion and inevitably be near the latter was beginning to overshadow man or pursue the formerprofession she loved. Enter Keera DugganAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, former competitive chess prodigy met and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in married James (on the rebound from the hideous position love of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleaguelife, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761398524085|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was because of expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closeher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. If you're a regular reader Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of the [[Jane CaseyGreg's Maeve Kerrigan series father, Duncan Ackerley, in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sentence twice Duncan had murdered Charlie and wondered if itthen committed suicide when he couldn's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between t stand the two which seems very, very realguilt. But (The Salter children are not convinced but there's always a 'little else they can do but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes get 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 left her more than a little uncertaintheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529900360|title=Promise BoysThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the principal (headmaster) help of Urban Promise Prep school is murdereda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, three boys find themselves called who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the police station as suspectsinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. EachThe next case did look simple, seemingly, has though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and each could have been there at it's not the time of his murderItalian. But who killed him, and why, and if any which of them was the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their namesprimary target?|isbn=1035003155
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|isbn=1529125960178763681X|title=Unnatural HistoryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jonathan KellermanOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a photographerresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Well, it was Adonis, actually, He didn't really want to but Donny celebrity chef Christian Wagner had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught a way of getting both men and it falls women to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as do what he tries to establish what's happenedwanted. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called Paul ''The Wisherssomehow''. Hegot the impression that he'd taken eight homeless people off be at the streets school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and asked them what theythe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'd really like t expected was for someone to beturn up dead. They were then dressed up as their fantasyUnfortunately, photographed he was the person who discovered the body and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarseveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529421284|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It was one of those flash downpours that the start of her maternity leave when there is British weather often delivers in a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinheatwave. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for In a killer targeting pregnant womengully, with all a human skeleton came to the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Finding herself put on desk dutiesHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, which she rails against, she just canso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't let convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the case go suicide of Holly Gilbert and she starts to follow every thread to uncover whattwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's actually happening, cold cases to you and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextme) investigate.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931529425867|title=All the Dangerous ThingsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stacy WillinghamSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He't really slept for s white, originated from a year - welltrailer park, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of time shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or drifted off for a momentacid yellow. ItYou might wonder if you's now re being introduced to a year since her sonpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, Mason, was stolen from his bed in you're not. The two men are just different sides of the middle of same policing coin. Sometimes the night combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Izzy Essex is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the morning when she thought he was sleeping inCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. In The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that year she's done everything she could ill and hasn't long to raise awareness about the caselive. She does interviews and It's hard to feel any sympathy when we meet herHopkins is abducted, she's just been stripped to his underwear and sent to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. On the plane back, sheIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's approached by close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a podcastershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Waylon SpencerGuy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, who points out he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that she suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do a podcast and get nothing to so many more people than she help as any interference from another police force could by giving speeches to provoke a few hundred people diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at conferencesall.
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|isbn=057137493X1521129886|title=The Other HalfThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Charlotte VassellKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg Mason''The room was full of s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the sort of people point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Tatlers a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they'' thinks you should knowre both delighted.'' ''The Other Half'' is Joyce will be more delighted about the story of two men, both with what looks like baby when she gets past the same surnamemorning sickness. Rupert Beauchamp Greg is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredapproached by an old friend whose brother-within-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townlaw appears to have killed himself. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced Stuart'Beechams concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police s struggling to make ends meet and her son is bi-racialnot thriving. His surname Lucy, he says, is pronounced as you see convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - itsimply wasn't in his nature. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across police and the coroner have accepted that the body of Clemmie O'Haradeath was suicide, Rupert but Stuart's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=0857051741B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Ann Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going twenty-eight years old. He used to investigate the case of have a body found high-flying job in a freezer at the home of city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a deceased alcoholicprivate investigator. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute 'Shades of limitationsCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was On the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyJoyce and Helen are half-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying mansisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's wishbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The situation changes when a postJoyce -mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholicand her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was also murdereddoing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Is there a connection between the two deaths?Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=15294212411838954481|title=Stay BuriedThe Misper|author=Kate WebbLondon|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually Ryan Kennedy killed a cold case unit and police officer: there are just two of them doing the job. Lockyer's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure no doubt about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterthat. It He was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder fifteen-year- old holding the gun and pointing it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoat DI Kieran Shaw. She's keen He pulled the trigger but due to see him the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and to tell him the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the man everyone thought capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she'd murdered s drawn into a wider investigation - but and back into the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=13997022891448309743|title=A World of Curiosities The Devil Stone (Chief Inspector GamacheDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Louise PennyCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, In the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying Cronchie on the arrival West coast of Scotland, five members of springa wealthy family are found murdered. But something The only item missing from the home is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Devil Stone: myth says that if the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guystone is removed from Otterburn House, it had always been the other way arounddeath will follow. Now they're both The only suspects are known Satanists but in the village and neither can fathom whatmany ways, that's happening. Armand will soon find an easy conclusion given that theytwo of them 're not just in Three Pines discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in his home and in his lifeto 'shadow' him.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529077699|title=White RiotThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there''It's always the danger of making all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it too reactionary; too rawis. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture Jem Rosco blew into the spirit of local pub one evening in the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britainmonth and then turned up, the student riotsnaked and dead, Donald Trumpin a small boat, Brexit – so much anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of what is, and has beenGreystone, written in Devon. Rosco had the immediate aftermath status of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisiveall round ''celebrity''. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature) I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current he could be more than a little bit close with money and when time and experience has afforded his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the writer money for his first boat? How did he finance the benefit of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376trip?}}
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|isbn=18387761841529427045|title=Her Majesty The Girl in the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalEagle's Talons|author=S J BennettKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking time.Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
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|isbn=08615419951787636607|title=Wolf PackThe Trap|author=Will DeanCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on It's a scene replicated all too often in the road north early hours of Visbergthe morning. She sees blood on the road Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a creature on its side near way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the pine treesfew taxis available. It Others squash onto the night bus that will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who has been attacked by a wolfonly go as far as one of the outlying villages. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', Bengt Nyberg, to particularly in the light of 'the vetmissing women'. Bronco didn't make it but For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missingshort of her home. She'd been working at Rose Farm had intended to ring someone to come and Moodysoncollect her - but her phone's journalist's instincts are soon brought dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the forebus driver to let her use his. Rose Farm is now home There's no option but to a group of survivalists but back start walking - unsuitably clothed and in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedhigh-heeled shoes. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511841405957174|title=The Girls Who DisappearedA Death at the Party|author=Claire DouglasAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998From the first page, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. As she passed through the darklyThe victim -wooded Devil's Corridor, a figure appeared in the road. Olivia swerved to avoid man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the car smashed into a tree, leaving her trappedambulance he so desperately needs. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, What we don't know is who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. But I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationhappening.
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|isbn=15420372390008530025|title=Death Murder in Heelsthe Family|author=Kitty MurphyCara Hunter|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the backdrop body of Dublinher 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 drag scene, now the subject of ''Death in HeelsInfamous'' tells , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the story of Fi McKinnery evidence and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Btake the investigation further. What is meant More to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenthe point, Evethey're going to do this live on camera, takes to episode by episode. There's no dump of the stage whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to mock Mae BFind You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4. As if 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 night could not get any worsecourt, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in after Martin receives a gutterlife sentence. Fi is adamant The barrister tells her that Eve was murdered, yet she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the drag communityrest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the Guards, accept papers are making the most of it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperis undoubtedly spoken.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529413680|title=The Dark RoomA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed s there to see the show their murder happened in a different place and time? with some friends. This It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is what happens to Leonard in this storyseriously injured when he departs from the script. He Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is an ex-crime reporter for whisked away in a newspaper, helicopter. A local doctor (and since leaving journalism friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds olda senior government employee, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in his own dark room at home. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agodaughter lives nearby and another, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die lives in California, is flying in front with some of him one night in her father's friends for a hotelpre-arranged holiday. 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=B09SGWCXQ81529196388|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Trial|author=Neil LancasterRob Rinder
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for a run. The lawyer all that was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed good and honest and looked up to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicideby just about everyone, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or so there was public uproar when he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to murdered in plain sight at the deaths of others associated with himOld Bailey. Scott Paterson was released after a There'nots just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight -provenand it' verdict meant that Scotlands not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmentmurder. Paterson Knight was Grigor's last client.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=000837936X|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen Fields|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on told that the Isle of Mull, in search of a new life. It best barrister for him was a bit Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined Stag Court Chambers and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) Taylor-Cameron and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banffhis pupil, Adam Green, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagerseventually represent him. Brandon, AdrianaKnight's twindetermined to plead not guilty, was upset and surly. Fourdespite all Taylor-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonCameron's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingrecommendations to the contrary.
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