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|isbn=15290776990008517061|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Ann CleevesStig Abell|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiarFormer Metropolitan Police detective, isn't itJake Johnson, Sir?'' Well yes, it ishas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the middle future of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned uphis life with his vet girlfriend, naked Livia and deadher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a small boat, anchored lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in Scully Cove close with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the village of Greystone, in Devon. future she wants for herself and her daughter? Rosco had For the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round moment they’re enjoying life in the world sailor present and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get putting the money for his first boat? How did he finance future on the trip?back burner.
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|isbn=15294270451786482126|title=The Girl in the Eagle's TalonsJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Karin SmirnoffElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to offer than people hold seventy- prime numbers for examplefive 'luxury'. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to apartments - when they discovered the small town bones of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rushchild beneath a doorway. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forwardThere was no skull. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without traceWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian difficult as Ruth knows, but it quickly becomes obvious Nelson doesn't, that Svala she is pregnant with his child as a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware result of the part Salander played in her father's deathone 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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|isbn=17876366070008551324|title=The TrapDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Catherine Ryan HowardNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in unusual for anyone from the early hours of Hardie family to approach the morningpolice. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking Neither side likes or has any respect for a way to get homethe other. Some are lucky But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and manage he's prepared to get one of tell the few taxis available. Others squash onto police where the night bus that will only go as far as one body of the outlying villagesa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'This person, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young womanhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her homepolice doing what he wants. She had intended And what he wants is to ring someone be transferred to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance an open prison to beg serve the bus driver remainder of his sentence and to let her use hisget an early parole date. ThereNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's no option but even prepared to start walking do the other thing that Hardie demanded - unsuitably clothed make certain that DS Max Craigie and in high-heeled shoesanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=14059571740008405026|title=A Death at Stranger in the PartyFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Amy StuartJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=From It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the first pageinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, we know that Nadine Walshit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's party will not end wellsomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The victim What looked as though it was going to be an open- a man and- shut case is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needsnow a complex double murder. What we don't know Kerrigan is who convinced that the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Iexplanation lies in Rosalie'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand whats disappearance: others (such as Derwent's happeningboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=00085300250571379877|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Kellerby Code|author=Cara HunterJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteenEdward Jevons is a working-yearclass young man, obsessed with his upper-old Maura Howard came home class friends, Robert and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London homeStanza. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if heRobert'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberates a theatre director. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and itHe's now the subject of ''Infamous''also self-obsessed, demanding, a true-crime showhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. A group of experts Edward has been brought together to review the evidence in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to take the investigation furtherRobert. More to the point, theyMost men in Robert're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Theres position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's no dump of not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the whole box set - and no shortage two of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0241996104Jo Callaghan|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane CorryLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=NancyWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martinfirst live case together, has having previously been convicted of their murdervery successful with several cold cases. We first meet Nancy outside the courtBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, after Martin receives Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a life sentence. The barrister tells her very high profile case that she's received draws a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty lot of anything but will have unwanted attention to live with what happened for the rest of her lifetheir AI Future Policing project. Of courseWill they be able to solve the case in time, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - or will Kat find herself taken off the case and the papers are making the most , potentially, out of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15294136801035021803|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Martin WalkerC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=One 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 BrunoIt's there twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to see the show with some friendsEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one back now because of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs a request for help from the scripther beloved aunt, Carole. LuckilyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, his doctor is there dead and the man is whisked away in a helicoptercircumstances 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. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - Even though they were in business together as he's a senior government employeeantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man who runs Frenchelon - or pursue the military has stepped inprofession she loved. One daughter lives nearby and anotherAfter the split, who lives she worked in Californiaa cafe, is flying in with some met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaylife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=15291963881398524085|title=The TrialHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Rob RinderNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden Charlotte Salter was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and honest Ollie and looked up to by just about everyoneher daughter, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old BaileyEtty. There's just one man in the frame for his murder are all worried but - Jimmy Knight strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and itGreg, find the body of Greg's not too long before Knight appears father, Duncan Ackerley, in court, charged with Cliveden's murderthe river. Knight It was told an easy assumption for the police to make that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers Duncan had murdered Charlie and itthen committed suicide when he couldn's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himt stand the guilt. Knight's determined to plead The Salter children are not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameronconvinced but there's recommendations to the contrarylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529900360|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIt 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 in particular -shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a series called Sleuth Houndwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She spends her time hunting out copies knew that the involvement was something that the man she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add valueloved needed. The next case did look simple, in somewhat fraudulent waysthough. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them Two lovers were murdered in the background swimming pool of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, married to an extremely rich man and how she can steal it! It's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when not the owner Italian. But which of them was the collection comes looking for their booksprimary target?|isbn=1789098947
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|isbn=1448309379178763681X|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=David MarkOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's something t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a surprise getting both men and women to find that youdo what he wanted. Paul ''somehow're dead, particularly when you're thinking got the impression that youhe're actually on d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a break with your wife and childrenbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoyway. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. Whilst The one thing he hadn't expected was relieved for someone to find that he was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahturn up dead. Her protegee - McAvoy - Unfortunately, he was still alive but the partially clad man person who'd dashed from her flat in discovered the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - body and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected knows that the police consider that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorperson to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=15291353891529421284|title=The FallLaying Out the Bones|author=Gilly MacmillanKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent It was one of those flash downpours that the morning at the county fair before she returned homeBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on In a gully, a human skeleton came to the state-of-surface and forensic testing proved the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. TheyHe'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long a known drug user and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of them fought with each other and didnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't work as reliably as they shouldconvinced. It had all come about through Geary was a ten-million-pound lottery win townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and they to two other deaths which were still getting used to having that sort of money, toonot considered suspicious at the time. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the swimming pool with a wound Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to his headyou and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529425867|title=To Die in JuneLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like the unfortunateIn Oxford, accidental death there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredNigerian descent, Balliol educated and then anotheralways exquisitely dressed. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyD I Ryan Wilkins, but all the more so because his own son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a down trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and he has been for yearstrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move You might wonder if you're being introduced to a different police stationprocedural written for laughs. Well, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record you're not. The two men are just different sides of the boy having existed can be foundsame policing coin. Something feels wrong - not just with Sometimes the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=18045456001529431735|title=The MonkWinter Visitor|author=Tim SullivanJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchmore surprising. He'd been savagely beatenexiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It The return has come about because he's had a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish letter from his ex-wife, saying that this is Father Dominic. Heshe'd been missing for a few days s ill and certainly hadnhasn't asked permission long to leave his abbeylive. As the team gradually unpick the monkIt's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankerhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, brother, neighbour stripped to his underwear and friendsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. He'd also been very wealthy but had given Is it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder hima warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=00085170100861541774|title=Death Under a Little SkyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Stig AbellSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended Maik was involved in miscarriages but no one else a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was involved facing a man armed with a knife - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was for Faye eitherkilled a Ghurka. They were still polite Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish light that suggested that he might have planned to remain marriedmurder the man. The perfect solution arrived in Now he could be facing the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurdeath penalty. He'd been left Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - diplomatic incident and enough money to live there without the need to workwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1521129886|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie Greg Mason's just beginning to live with get his family, confidence as Edie is starting an investigator to lose her memorythe point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, It's a good job too because Greg and the worry that there was Joyce will soon have a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the thing that reveals baby when she gets past the truth of what happened all that time agomorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. After 'seeingStuart' s concerned about his sister, Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back who's struggling to make ends meet and herson is not thriving. And yet as she remembers the pastLucy, he says, she is forgetting more and more convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in her day to day lifehis nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Will she uncover the truth about Lucybut Stuart's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=0008551278B0CK3MYJ56|title=Blood Runs Cold Responsibilities (D S Max CraigieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from It's the bottom of Fyrish, where she1990s and Greg Mason'd been doing her trainings twenty-eight years old. She'd been a bit of He used to have a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics high- and flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now looks set himself up as though she could a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be heading for the national squadthinking. ThatNice bloke, but where's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seethe life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, Affo came he has been asked to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelvelook into something. She Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later shekilled in what's happy with her foster familybeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. There's just one cloud on her horizon: Joyce - and her little sisterparents, Melodi is Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a childrentrain. Greg's home in Tirana - and anyone could get been asked to herinvestigate.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1838954481|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if wellRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-regarded literary short novelsold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Sorry He pulled the trigger but due to leave her bottles the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with both the latest hot shot in murder and the world manslaughter of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writethe officer. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationAnd so lives must go on. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a wintry month away from it all. Just quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the lack orbit of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=13985095821448309743|title=The FavourDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Nicci FrenchCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 amIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, not long after A levels, when the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. Liam was The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the reversestone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. He just acted The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'as if life just rolled him over and carried him alongdiscovered''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didn't worry him at allbody. The relationship broke up soon after that - or ratherSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Liam simply didnDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 't see Jude any moreshadow' him.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1529077699|title=Her Deadly GameThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life''It's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances  Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in defence the middle of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent autumn gale, stayed for the lawabout a month and then turned up, naked and dead, Patsy also has in a gift for drinking himself small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the formervillage of Greystone, in Devon. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in Rosco had the hideous position status of asking her father for a job at national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the family firm because world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a romantic entanglement little bit close with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southmoney and his background isn't exactly an open book.|isbn=1662500181 Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=00084049761529427045|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Jane CaseyKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
If you're a regular reader Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the [[Jane Caseyarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itniece's a massive spoiler because there mother is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems very, very reallatest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. But (thereIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's always a 'guardian but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a little rocky. As for Maeve, sheremarkably gifted teenager who's just come out unaware of an abusive relationship which has left the part Salander played in her more than a little uncertainfather's death.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1787636607|title=Promise BoysThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the principal (headmaster) morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the police station night bus that will only go as far as suspectsone of the outlying villages. EachThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', seeminglyparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, has the final stop on the bus leaves her a grudge long way short of some description against Principal Moore, her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and each could have been there at collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the time of bus driver to let her use his murder. But who killed him, There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=15291259601405957174|title=Unnatural HistoryA Death at the Party|author=Jonathan KellermanAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. Well, it was AdonisFrom the first page, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itwe know that Nadine Walsh's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartparty will not end well. The PA, Mel Gornick, victim - a man - is distraught dying when we first meet him and it falls Nadine consciously makes no effort to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as call the ambulance he tries to establish what's happenedso desperately needs. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers'What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. HeI'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them better give you a little more background so that you can understand what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarss happening.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0008530025|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the start body of her maternity leave when there is a brutalstepfather, Luke Ryder, shocking murder in the garden of their West London home. He had an expectant woman in Dunedininjury 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. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womenTwenty years later, no one has been charged with all his murder and it's now the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfsubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let A group of experts has been brought together to review the case go evidence and she starts to follow every thread take the investigation further. More to uncover whatthe point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's actually happening, no dump of the whole box set - and the increasingly disturbing worry no shortage of just what might happen nextcliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544930241996104|title=All the Dangerous ThingsComing to Find You|author=Stacy WillinghamJane 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=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re- well, apart enactment of the liberation of the town from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentEnglish in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's now a year since her sonall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, MasonKerquelin, was stolen from his bed in the middle man playing one of the night and Izzy main characters is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning seriously injured when she thought he was sleeping indeparts from the script. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about Luckily, his doctor is there and the caseman is whisked away in a helicopter. She does interviews A local doctor (and when we meet her, shefriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. On the plane backOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, sheis flying in with some of her father's approached by friends for a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencespre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=057137493X1529196388|title=The Other HalfTrial|author=Charlotte VassellRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The room Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two mengood and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, both with what looks like so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the same surnameOld Bailey. Rupert Beauchamp is There's just one man in the heir to a baronetcy and frame for his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredmurder -withJimmy Knight -butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced it'Beechams not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with Knight was told that the Metropolitan police best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and is biit's Taylor-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see itCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie OKnight'Haras determined to plead not guilty, Rupertdespite all Taylor-Cameron's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushrecommendations to the contrary.
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