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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=Pronko0008517061|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Michael PronkoStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There were three young womenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their ageshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Sukayana was Thai 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 she'd come relaxing life to Japan move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the belief that future she'd be able to pick up 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=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 documentation to get site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the Statesbones of a child beneath a doorway. Celeste There was just fourteen and when we meet her she's already dead of no skull. Was this a heart attack caused by an overdose of amphetaminesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Then thereIt's Ratanadifficult as Ruth knows, whobut Nelson doesn's the de facto leader of the groupt, but that she's disappeared too is pregnant with the group's passports, leaving Sukayana in the midst of his child as a scene result of carnage at the Jack and Jill Studiosone night they spent together some three months ago. The dead bodies are definitely Her condition will be obvious before long, not props thoughleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=07278892300008551324|title=The Red, Red SnowDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Caro RamsayNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the ice show with his wife, Geraldine police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and daughter, Lisa when he 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was stabbed in Planet Burgerresponsible for her death. He died within minutesThis person, he promises, but his murder seemed motiveless is someone big and there were no cluesit will be worth the police doing what he wants. He was a genuine man And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead endto get an early parole date. There were two deaths Not much to investigate in the north of Scotland: ask, is it wasn? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't thought wise think so and she's even prepared to involve the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in do the case. Christmas other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and a lot of snow were rapidly approachinganyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B07S6DBCFT0008405026|title=Little Girls Tell TalesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Rachel BennettJane 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=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2004 RosalieWhen 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, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and DallinAI detective Lock. It's cottagetheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Beth and DallinBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, both twelve-years-old, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and it wasn't long before she realised a very high profile case that she was lostdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Trying to find her way back Will they be able to solve the main path she found a skeletoncase in time, but when she finally got to the road she could never or will Kat find her way back to herself taken off the bog when she'd seen the body. Most people didn't believe hercase and, potentially, putting the story down to her vivid imagination.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00082737901035021803|title=Remain SilentThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Susie SteinerC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis is in 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 bad wayrequest for help from her beloved aunt, vomiting and obviously traumatisedCarole. When heFreya's able to speak he tells Dimitri that former mentor and Carole''Lukas s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead''and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Lukas Arthur was in his late teens and he and Matis the reason why Freya had come not been back to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuaniathe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation Even though they were in return for their labour: they could have a decent life ''and'' send money home business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to their familiesbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. SadlyAfter the split, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive she worked in the UK - on an olda cafe, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms met and sleep on dirty mattresses married James (on the floor. It's modern slaveryrebound from the love of her life, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workerswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=B084VNRRD61398524085|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Angela MarsonsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It looked very like a suicideCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and to begin withOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, that was how both DI Kim Stone Etty and KeatsGreg, find the pathologist called itbody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was only later an easy assumption for the police to make that Stone Duncan had murdered Charlie and her team realised that then committed suicide when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not he couldn't stand the only hand holding the knifeguilt. 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.}}{{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 murderreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. SammyHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's parents. Myles and Kate were t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recentlywhile. The property where she Finally, it was found Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about to accuse her husband of saying something that Sammy was readythe 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. But what He was Sammy ready the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it''for'' and where s not the Italian. But which of them was their other daughter, Sophiethe primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838851011178763681X|title=The SidemanKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Caro RamsayOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=No one thought that it could happen and canChef 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 ''quitesomehow'' believe got the impression that it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotland. Ithe's all down to her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes to d be responsible for at the murder of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) and Malcolm (her son)school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Haggerty has a waterThe teaching -tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotland, no less) and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: she's decided to go her problems - are all his own way rather than be hampered by the badge. She didnThe one thing he hadn't even bother telling her long-time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, that she expected was goingfor someone to turn up dead. Since then there might have been Unfortunately, he was the occasional text from her, but person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that's itperson to be the prime suspect.
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|isbn=B084H8F2CF1529421284|title=The Body Under Laying Out the BridgeBones|author=Nick LouthKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Craig Gillard It was annoyed to be pulled away from one of those flash downpours that the funeral service for British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a serving police officergully, particularly when he discovered that he was a human skeleton came to take charge of the enquiry into a missing womansurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a student simple case of music at the Royal College of Musicmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. She had been due Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to play with the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other members of the Lysander String Quartet deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Church time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadnMajor Crimes Review Unit (that't turned ups cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{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. Gillard didnHe't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatrices not any of those things. He's father was Karl-Otto Ulbrichtwhite, originated from a trailer park, Germanybarely educated (reading's Minister not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Justiceshell 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=B083Z3ZZ611529431735|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)The Winter Visitor|author=Liz MistryJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been in exiled on the UK with his daughter Maria Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a whiledecade. 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. He came expecting It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to work as a gardener his underwear and Maria was sent to be a nannywatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens problem closer to an eighteen-year-old girl.home?
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|isbn=00083901690861541774|title=Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Jenny O'BrienSteve Burrows|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alys Grant was only DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a few days short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old when her father took her out for the first timeally, Guy Trueman. Her mother, Izzy, Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was tired facing a man armed with a knife - and fell asleephe killed a Ghurka. Initially, but when she woke he faced a couple charge of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alysmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. There was Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a hand-delivered postcard which simply said: diplomatic incident and wouldn''I've got Alyst help Danny at all. Don't try to find us, Charlie''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00081490891521129886|title=The Cutting Place They Had It Coming (DS Maeve KerriganGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Jane CaseyKeith Redfern|rating=54
|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 was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was 's a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames good job too because Greg and when she turned over what looked like Joyce will soon have a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan baby and DI Josh Derwentthey's team would later find three other body partsre both delighted. Identification of Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the body was not going morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be easyhave killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, but eventuallyLucy, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalistwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Her friendLucy, Bianca Drummondhe says, another journalist, said is convinced that she was working on a story which she reckoned Gil would be explosive never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and she hadnthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart't been willing s prepared to pay Greg to share any of find out what happened on the details with Biancanight Gil died.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW7B0CK3MYJ56|title=Access PointResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=T R GabbayAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's having something of twenty-eight years old. He used to have a professional success: using high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a device private investigator. 'Shades of her own invention sheCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's helped a man who the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been blind for decades asked to see an image of a hummingbirdlook into something. She's thirtyJoyce and Helen are half-six years old and her life is about to change radically assisters, cycling homeor rather, shethey were until Helen was killed in what's involved in been written off as a tragic accident at an accident with a busunmanned level crossing. It's two years before we meet Joyce - and her again parents, Oliver and in the meantime, Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she's spent 392 days could come to fall in front of a coma and now walks with a sticktrain. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom Greg's been asked to bring in some incomeinvestigate.
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|isbn=17864855751838954481|title=Magpie LaneThe Misper|author=Lucy AtkinsKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Dee sheRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's talking to Nick Law, no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the new college mastergun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Law's lately He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the BBC and jury system he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit was found not guilty of a bully both the murder and Dee can sense something the manslaughter of that in their first conversationthe officer. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking And so lives must go on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the master. She's pregnant For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and looking hoping for help, not with a quieter life in the new baby bit with the mastercountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, but to no one else. The eightdrawn into a wider investigation -year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at schoolback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=17886380261448309743|title=Where the Innocent Die The Devil Stone (D I RidpathDCI Christine Caplan)|author=M J LeeCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was easy to assume that In the death village of Cronchie on the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicideWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Her throat was cut, there was a lot of blood and The only item missing from the knife was on home is the floor at Devil Stone: myth says that if the side 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 bedbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, She was due DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be deported that day'shadow' him. But}}{{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?'' Well yes, it is.. how did Jem Rosco blew into the knife get into local pub one evening in the secure centre middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and why was dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the girl's room village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpathstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the coronerworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg's officerbut as we'll find out, is sent to investigate he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he quickly becomes suspicious, get the money for his first boat? There's a snag though: How did he finance the inquest is due to open trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in a couple of days' time, the girlEagle's parents are coming over from China and they want Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to take their daughteroffer than people - prime numbers for example''s body home with them. Ridpath  Lisbeth Salander has just five days headed north to solve the casesmall town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The coroner criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is disinclined the latest woman in the area to delay the inquest: for have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her, niece's guardian but itquickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's about giving closure to unaware of the parentspart Salander played in her father's death.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=14711660231787636607|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)The Trap|author=Kate RhodesCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoIt's thirty-fifth birthday a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and the occasion looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by few taxis available. Others squash onto the discovery night bus that will only go as far as one of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfirethe outlying villages. HeThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and can only have died a terrible deathmissing women'. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenFor one young woman, better known the final stop on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the welfare bus leaves her a long way short of the birds he looks afterher home. His instinct is She had intended to ring someone to cover Rogancome and collect her - but her phone's body and he uses his sheepskin coat dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to do this, with beg the result that hebus driver to let her use his. There's the prime suspectno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=18388806581405957174|title=Murder A Death at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)the Party|author=Helena DixonAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's the summer of 1933 party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Kitty Underhay is on her way Nadine consciously makes no effort to visit call the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Hallambulance he so desperately needs. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day What we don't know is much who the same - but her real reason for going away man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifeyou can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=02413968400008530025|title=KeeperMurder in the Family|author=Jessica MoorCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Katie Straw worked It was in the women's refuge December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the women who lived there liked and respected body of herstepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. She treated them well and seemed to have He had an understanding injury on the back of what they were going through. Why then did she jump from his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the local suicide spot into steps but the river below? vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. There had Twenty years later, no one has been no signs that she was unhappy charged with his murder and she and her boyfriend seemed to have it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been content brought together - to review the evidence and Noah has a decent alibi for to take the investigation further. More to the time when she diedpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, but what other explanation could there be for her death? episode by episode. The police are convinced that itThere's suicide but no dump of the women who knew her believed otherwisewhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|isbn=178730101X0241996104|title=Keep Him CloseComing to Find You|author=Emily KochJane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. LouNancy's seventeen mother and he's just got his A level results step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and he and his her step-brother are going out to celebrate, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Someone has to find something to celebrate in We first meet Nancy outside the letterscourt, D, D and Eafter Martin receives a life sentence. Alice has always had The barrister tells her that she's received a good relationship with nineteen'silent sentence' -year-old Benny 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 a made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. touch problematic with Lou ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and being honest, he's 'rich bitch'' might not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHDbe printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=05713423531529413680|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Peter SwansonMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was One of the comain events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-owner and manager enactment of the liberation of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill town from the English in Boston1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. The store specialises in crime novels, but Mal has given up reading crime. His lifeIt's all been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wifevery carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Claire MalloryKerquelin, died and the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he's never really got over itdeparts from the script. She was driving whilst inebriatedLuckily, having just been to see his doctor is there and the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairis whisked away in a helicopter. His interest in crime fiction comes back when A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveya senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. SheOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's interested in friends for a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''pre-arranged holiday.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17868971481529196388|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)The Trial|author=Alan ParksRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Grant Cliveden was on his way a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to London with fellow band members Tomby just about everyone, Scott, Barry and Jamieso there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. HeThere'd had to get his father to sign s just one man in the contract frame for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enough. And his father had been reluctant murder - Jimmy Knight - heand it'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeships not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for the regular money. By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgow. The Beatkickers didnhim was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it't survive s Taylor-Cameron and March is on his ownpupil, Adam Green, but hardly thrivingwho eventually represent him. ThereKnight's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhiledetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellycontrary.
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