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{{Frontpage
|author=Stuart Douglas
|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?
|isbn=1803368209
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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=0008551324
|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)
|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. 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 a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008405026
|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)
|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0571379877
|title=The Kellerby Code
|author=Jonny 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.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jo Callaghan
|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When 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 their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat 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. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?
|isbn=139851120X
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{{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. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near 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.
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{{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 fiftieth 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. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529900360
|title=The Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'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 Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178763681X
|title=Knife Skills for Beginners
|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529421284
|title=Laying Out the Bones
|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529425867
|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)
|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 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's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529431735
|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more 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 had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0861541774
|title=A Nye of Pheasants
|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI 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. 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, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1521129886
|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)
|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56
|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)
|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has 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 - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838954481
|title=The Misper
|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1448309743
|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)
|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529077699
|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)
|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=You never know what goes on It's a scene replicated all too often in a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal lifeearly hours of the morning. He had Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a beautiful wife way to get home. Some are lucky and a house manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that had a mortgage which was smaller than most people's credit card billwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. On The woman all regret the other hand'taxi problem', there werenparticularly in the light of 'the missing women't that many people who . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had a good word intended to ring someone to say about him come and when he was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg and with only a few hours collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to live, people were more worried about beg the extra work than saddenedbus driver to let her use his. When his wifeThere's battered body was found no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in their kitchen, the idea that it was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answerhigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1405957174|title=Murder in A Death at the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryParty|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Adela Bradley decided From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan and his wife Deborah at their new home in call the Cotswoldsambulance he so desperately needs. Mrs Bradley What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a well-known psychiatrist but shelittle more background so that you can understand what's also a respected detective renowned for happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara 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 sharp powers stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of observationtheir West London home. She soon comes to hear He had an injury on the story back of a local ghosthis 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, that no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the gate leading investigation further. More to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play a part in what is about point, they're going to happendo this live on camera, episode by episode. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become There's no dump of the local squire with the acquisition of his property whole box set - and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some no shortage of the locals as they visit to give festive wishescliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Marjorie OrrJane 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=By the Light A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of a LiePolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tire Thane was devastated 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 Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when her best friend, EricaKerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, was killed his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a hit-helicopter. A local doctor (and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accidentfriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but she really couldn- as he't understand why she should have been in Hammersmith. She'd left her getting into s a taxi at 11 o'clock senior government employee, the night before outside man who runs Frenchelon - the theatre military has stepped in St Martin's Lane and she was on her way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours later One daughter lives nearby and miles out another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her way. The police didnfather't seem likely to pursue the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going to leave her friend unavengeds friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed1529196388|title=Marty's MasterThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Margaret Grant Cliveden was nervous about going a hero: a policeman who stood for the walk around the lake on her own, convinced until the very last moment all that her husband would relent was good and go with her. She made it honest and looked up to the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the barby just about everyone, relieved that she'd managed to leave so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the drunken man who was MartyOld Bailey. There's master just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and some other suspicious-looking men behind her. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sisterit's widower, Avel, had remarried and his new wifenot too long before Knight appears in court, Elena, was in the clubhouse charged with AvelCliveden's children - three teenage girls and a boy who murder. Knight was little more than a toddler. Elena didn't look in told that the least pleased to be there best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and despite Avelit's promises to pick them up, he was nowhere to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= Wychwood|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=ThirtyTaylor-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job Cameron and left her partner. Much as she prefers Londonhis pupil, she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for a short time to lick her woundsAdam Green, but she arrives to find the neighbouring part of the Wychwood is a crime scenewho eventually represent him. Even broken-hearted journalists can Knight't afford to pass up the chance of a story, particularly if they know they need s determined to drum up some freelance work soonplead not guilty, so Elspeth can't resist sticking her nose in. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case theredespite all Taylor-Cameron's an extra interest in it for Elspeth, and once she's spotted the connection between recommendations to the ritualised murder and the local myth about the Carrion King, Peter and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killercontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>
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