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|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}}{{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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=02413968401786482126|title=KeeperThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jessica MoorElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the womensite was going to hold seventy-five 's refuge and luxury' apartments - when they discovered the women who lived there liked and respected herbones of a child beneath a doorway. She treated them well and seemed to have an understanding of what they were going throughThere was no skull. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river belowWas this a ritual killing or murder? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she diedInevitably, but what other explanation could there be for her death? Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The police are convinced that itIt's suicidedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the women who knew her believed otherwiseone 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=178730101X0008551324|title=Keep Him CloseThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emily KochNeil 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.}}{{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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Benoîtobsessed with his upper-class friends, actually) Robert and LouisStanza. LouRobert's seventeen and hea theatre director. He's just got his A level results also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and he entitled and his brother are going out uses Edward to celebraterun errands for him. Someone Edward has to find something to celebrate been in the letters, D, D love with Stanza since their university days - and Ehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Alice has always had Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny had begun between them but it's a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming like most men: Edward is left to my mind were ADHDstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0571342353Jo Callaghan|title=Rules for Perfect Murders|author=Peter SwansonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was When a man is found crucified on the co-owner and manager top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Boston. The store specialises in crime novelscase alongside her sidekick, but Mal has given up reading crimethe AI detective Lock. His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wife, Claire Mallory, died and he's never really got over it. She was driving whilst inebriatedtheir first live case together, having just previously been to see the man very successful with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairseveral cold cases. His interest in crime fiction comes back But when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveythere 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. She's interested Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=17868971481035021803|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever 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 (Harry McCoyon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered)and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alan ParksNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Charlotte Salter was on his way to London with fellow band members Tomexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Scottsons Niall, Barry Paul and JamieOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd had to get his s father to sign , Duncan Ackerley, in the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enoughriver. And his father It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been reluctant - murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for t stand the regular money. By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgowguilt. The Beatkickers didn't survive and March is on his own, Salter children are not convinced but hardly thriving. Therethere's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B083NMCSZX1529900360|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)The Ghost Orchid|author=Rachel LynchJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was out running in the park when she 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 randomly attacked and stabbed reluctant to deathask for his help on difficult cases. Her husband, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie His assertions that there were devastated only open-and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decent, middle-class woman should be shut cases which didn't need the victim help of knife crimea psychologist only worked for a while. Despite being a golfing Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from , who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the case and told DI Kelly Porter involvement was something that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handledman she loved needed. He wasn't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours laterThe next case did look simple, though. Keira Bradley lived on Two lovers were murdered in the Beacon estate and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there should expect this sort swimming pool of thing to happena remote property in Bel Air. He could hardly bring himself was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to mention Keiraan extremely rich man and it's namenot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1471180921178763681X|title=FirewatchingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Russ ThomasOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he's lucky to be there, given that he decked a superior officerresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Hedidn's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a scar on his face to prove it - way of getting both men and the superior officer was forced women to take early retirementdo what he wanted. TherePaul 's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (shesomehow''s on got the force too) has looked after him and impression that his current boss is keen he'd be at the school to have assist Paul, who had a tame gay to put on broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the town hall steps come Prideproblems - are all his own. Either way, The one thing hehadn's theret expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, but without anything really interesting he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to get his teeth intobe the prime suspect.
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|isbn=17874775331529421284|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Laying Out the Bones|author=Elly GriffithsKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She's no longer providing assistance In a gully, a human skeleton came to the police surface and isn't even working at forensic testing proved the University of North Norfolkbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe's lecturing at Cambridge d been a known drug user and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, Katiehad learning disabilities, has settled into school better than she so it could ever have hoped and life is looking goodbeen a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Settled. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and there's a close relationship with his familyto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. You might ''almost'' think Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Ruth's life is settling downcold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B1529425867|title=In Plain Sight Lost and Never Found (A D I Clare MackayWilkins Mystery)|author=Marion ToddSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 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 coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolentrackies. They were there 're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the racelaughs. TheyWell, you're against not. The two men are just different sides of the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring same policing coin. Sometimes the fun runcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was Lisa Mitchell's scream February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which stopped everythingmade Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had He'd been taken from her pram whilst no one was lookingexiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's had a major incident when letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any'' child sympathy when Hopkins is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because , stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a heart stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem: without itcloser to home?}}{{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, she he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have only forty-eight hours planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to livehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=15291243951521129886|title=When You See MeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lisa GardnerKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet 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 Chuck, it was Joyce will soon have a hiking break in baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off baby when she gets past the beaten track to find a stickmorning sickness. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in, along with Sergeant D D Warren-law appears to have killed himself. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith EdgarStuart's concerned about his sister, a computer analystLucy, and Flora Dane who brought something unique 's struggling to the tablemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Flora had been kidnapped Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and held for 472 days by the notorious killercoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything but Stuart's prepared to do with pay Greg to find out what happened on the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluablenight Gil died.
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|isbn=0008297169B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Guest ListResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lucy FoleyAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip out It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to Inis Amploir, off have a high-flying job in the Irish coastcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might have been enough to put some guests offbe thinking. Nice bloke, but it was where's the wedding of life experience that backs up this profession? On the yearother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Will Slater (television personalityJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, if not yet a celebrity) or rather, they were until Helen was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, killed in the ruined chapel on the islandwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife Joyce - and her husbandparents, FreddyOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. They gave a huge discount Greg's been asked to get the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?investigate.
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|isbn=00082752461838954481|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)The Misper|author=Helen FieldsKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something He was wrongthe fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Bart might be twenty He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was considerate found not guilty of his mother both the murder and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her knowthe manslaughter of the officer. Besides, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without thatAnd so lives must go on. It's not long before Bart realises For DI Sarah Collins that hemeans leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's alone, trapped in drawn into a shipping container wider investigation - and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decidedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn= Luke Arnold1448309743|title= The Last Smile in Sunder CityDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 24|genre= FantasyCrime|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 Last Smile only suspects are known Satanists but in Sunder Citymany ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is an urban fantasy noir written by Luke Arnold. It centres on a Private DetectiveDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Fetch Philips, as he attempts DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to find a missing vampire in a world filled with magical creatures where all the magic has suddenly disappeared with catastrophic consequences'shadow' him.|isbn=0356512886
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|isbn=15294002791529077699|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Jo SpainAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where heall bloody peculiar, isn'd been but he seemed contentt it, if not happySir?'' Well yes, to be hopeit is. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen Jem Rosco blew into the ''in memoriam'' local pub one evening in the paper: this was the first he'd heard middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about what had happened. His three sisters a month and two brothers had mixed feelings about his returnthen turned up, but his father is delighted. In factnaked and dead, he's determined to have in a party. Onlysmall boat, with Frazer Latimeranchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, what happens has to be about himin Devon. He has an announcement to make - it Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. HeI ''s met Ananearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a Polish immigrant, little bit close with money and theyhis background isn're getting marriedt exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=17860756951529427045|title=When The Girl in the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)Eagle's Talons|author=Helen SedgwickKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the discovery small town of a body under Gasskas, where the swings in so-far-untapped natural resources of the children's playgroundarea have sparked a gold rush. It was Dr Alexis Crosse and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust himThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsiderthe area to have vanished without trace. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've It was only got to look at her skin to realise with reluctance that, and Salander became her husband, Fergus, well, heniece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a little strange too, not entirely ''hereremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.
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|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)1787636607|title=The Honjin MurdersTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=To many readers, It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to make get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the book night bus that will only go as far as one to read; preferably quantified by of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the words 'clevertaxi problem' or , particularly in the light of 'goodthe missing women'. For those who need moreone young woman, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in final stop on the 1930s. The oldest son bus leaves her a long way short of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hasteher home. She only has an uncle representing had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her family, for one thingphone's dead. Either way, The bus had driven off before she had the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for chance to beg the wedded couple bus driver to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriagelet her use his. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about ithigh-heeled shoes.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Will Dean 1405957174|title=Black River A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns 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 this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friendambulance he so desperately needs. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of What we don't know is who the forest, Tuva fights man is or why Nadine prefers to save her friendhave him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116
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|isbn=17857692940008530025|title=Man at Murder in the Window (Detective Cardilini)Family|author=Robert JeffreysCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's when we read was in December 2003 that a young boy is creeping reluctantly to a teacherfifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrongd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Nowadays you Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of 'might'Infamous' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 ', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of to take the childinvestigation further. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit in More to the most horrific fashionpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. When he reached Captain EdmundThere's bedroom he found no dump of the man dead on the floor, the top whole box set - and no shortage of his skull missingcliffhangers. The schoolIt's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed the Captaincompelling viewing.
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|isbn=14722557980241996104|title=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Coming to Find You|author=Quintin JardineJane 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=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of shoplifting the town from a local supermarketthe English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's always all been assumed that she couldn't live with very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the shame. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before man playing one of the court case main characters is seriously injured when she had been adamant that she would fight to clear her namehe departs from the script. She said that she'd been set up because she was hot on Luckily, his doctor is there and the trail of corruption man is whisked away in the councila helicopter. Her ex A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but -husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinnerhe's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughterlives nearby and another, and asked that she look into clearing Brownwho lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's name: it's something which he feels that he has to do in memory of his son who was murdered recentlyfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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|isbn=15294022551529196388|title=A Body in the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Trial|author=Helen CoxRob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious of the scars on her face. They were acquired Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when she he was rescued from a car murdered in plain sight at the River Ouse by Inspector HalloranOld Bailey. She’d been suspected of There's just one man in the frame for his murder of her boyfriend, Owen, - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the process best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of clearing her name she Stag Court Chambers and her best friendit's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detection. Kitt developed a taste for Inspector Halloran TooAdam Green, but they’re taking it slowlywho eventually represent him. WellKnight's determined to plead not guilty, sort of slowlydespite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.
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