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|author=Agnes Ravatn Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Rosie Hedger (translator)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=The Seven DoorsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way throughFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. We start with our couple, she There’s perhaps a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at little uncertainty about the council, being forced to move out future of their home, a building that had existed throughout her his life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhilewith his vet girlfriend, Livia and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult her daughterDiana, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. future she wants for herself and her daughter? We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, For the moment they’re enjoying life in case that has any bearing on what happens here, the present and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until putting the point where future on the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedback burner.|isbn=1913193381
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|isbn=14711792731786482126|title=House of CorrectionThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Nicci FrenchElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's in prison, on remand. Sheluxury's sharing apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearsdoorway. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might beThere was no skull. And how did Tabitha get hereWas this a ritual killing or murder? WellInevitably, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the renovations to TabithaDCI Harry Nelson. It's house. So far difficult as the police are concernedRuth knows, but Nelson doesn't, Tabitha that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the only person who could have killed Rees - and when one night they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodspent 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=14087124150008551324|title=Cry BabyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Mark BillinghamNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's June 1996 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 footballhe's European Championships are about prepared to start in Londontell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. DS Tom Thorne This person, he promises, is having a nightmare someone big and it's one will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he has regularlywants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. It relates Not much to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knewask, 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 a man was guilty, but didnDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't take any action until s happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the manFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's wife and three children had been murdered sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the man had killed himselfinvestigation ground to a halt. Cat Coyne Now, her mother, Helena, and Maria Ashton her father are with dead in their sons Kieron and Joshbed. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a happy combination in that something about the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences in positioning of the where bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and how they live - the women are best friendsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The boys are sevenWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-yearand-old and they play on the swings in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodshut case is now a complex double murder. Josh was Kerrigan is convinced that the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the womenexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: Kieron never came to find him and now he canothers (such as Derwent't find Kierons boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15294022710571379877|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Kellerby Code|author=Helen CoxJonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt Hartley's relationship Edward Jevons is developing nicely: they're even into a spot of bandage nowworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, although the details are (mercifully) scantRobert and Stanza. After Robert's a night of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours of the morningtheatre director. ThereHe's been a murder in Irendalealso self-obsessed, demanding, where Halloran used handsome and entitled and uses Edward to live and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agorun errands for him. There are sufficient details of the current murder to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered his wife Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prisonhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The DI heads off 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 speak to Jeremy Kerrstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=BetrayalLeave No Trace|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Ursula, When a man is found crucified on the stand-top of a hill in ministerNuneaton, drafted in from outside the leading party DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet case alongside her hunky husband she can't believe she deservessidekick, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectorAI detective Lock. You'll meet her ministryIt's cleanertheir first live case together, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader having previously been very successful with her Tinder profileseveral cold cases. You'll certainly meet But when there is a second body found crucified a homeless trampfew days later, who has taken one look at Kat is suddenly struggling with a newspaper image of Ursula, potential serial killer and, knowing her a very high profile case that draws a lot of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula Will they be able to accept. But as for solve the first ministerial casein time, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at or will Kat find herself taken off the case and pronto, nobody can saypotentially, for all records out of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…a career?|isbn=1913193403139851120X
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|isbn=14091874381035021803|title=The First LieAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=A J ParkC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the second English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of October 37-year-old barristera request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, Paul Reeveis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and say the front door openleast. His wife 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 bedroom man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a state cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of shock her life, who was murdered) and in the bathroom there Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paulexpected at her husband's paper-knifefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. In that moment Her children, sons Niall, Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not going to ring . 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 tell then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the truthguilt. TheyThe Salter children are not convinced but there're going to bury the body in woodland s little else they can do but get on with their lives and go on as though nothing has wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=15294018011529900360|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)The Ghost Orchid|author=William ShawJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gram HickmanIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, who worked Sturgis was reluctant to ask for an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela Booth, to a house which his firm was marketinghelp on difficult cases. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house His assertions that there were only open-and was on -shut cases which didn't need the market help of a psychologist only worked for millions of poundsa while. Gram Finally, it was hoping that he could get Angela Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into bed and he'd brought a bottle of prosecco alongasking for help again. It She knew that the involvement was when searching for somewhere to chill the bottle something that he found the body of a man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the freezer swimming pool of a remote property in the garageBel Air. DS Alexandra Cupidi He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and DC Jill Ferriter are on she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the caseItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Anders de la Motte178763681X|title=End of SummerKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In the summer of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missingChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He was chasing didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a rabbit, through the garden, way of getting both men and into the maize field behindwomen to do what he wanted. He has not been seen since. In Paul ''somehow'' got the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for impression that he'd be at the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacksschool to assist Paul, who had a scar on her broken arm , but it didn't turn out that she keeps obsessively hidden way. The teaching - and she is barely hanging on to her jobthe problems - are all his own. ItThe one thing he hadn's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems t expected was for someone to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closelyturn up dead. As wellUnfortunately, he needs was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person tobe the prime suspect.|isbn=1785768239
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|isbn=17857656981529421284|title=Shed No TearsLaying Out the Bones|author=Caz FrearKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, It was one of those flash downpours that the man who would become known as 'the roommate killer', strangled three women British weather often delivers in a fortnightheatwave. When he was arrested he admitted In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the killingsbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. A fourth death was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - He'd been a known drug user and on occasionshad learning disabilities, Masters admitted to the killing, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. He played with the policeGeary was a townie, but there so what was sufficient evidence he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the first three killings suicide of Holly Gilbert and to put him away for a long time and the CPS two other deaths which were not convinced about considered suspicious at the Holly Kemp casetime. There was no body Lockyer and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope DC Gemma Broad of progressing the case furtherMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn= Hazel Barkworth1529425867|title= HeatstrokeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=''Too hot to sleepIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Too hot to think straight Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Too hot to go back'' During a British heatwave 15-year-old D I Ryan Wilkins, Lily Dixonson of Ryan and father of Ryan, has left home and is reported missingnot. Rachel is He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a teacher at Lilytrailer park, barely educated (reading's school not ''really'' his thing) and the mother his wardrobe consists mainly of Mia, Lilyshell suits and trackies. They's best friendre usually in lime green or acid yellow. As LilyYou might wonder if you's family and the re being introduced to a police struggle to find any evidence that may lead to Lily, Rachel takes it upon herself to start looking procedural written for clueslaughs. However Well, as you're not. The two men are just different sides of the case goes on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily and finds herself crossing boundaries, breaking trust and facing some impossible choicessame policing coin. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want to be found? And will life for Rachel ever be Sometimes the same again?|isbn=1472265602combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|isbn=17873014351529431735|title=Dark WatersThe Winter Visitor|author=G R HallidayJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery 's February 1991 and she could push Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedingmore surprising. When He'd been exiled on the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a treedecade. When she came round after the accident The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasns ill and hasn't a conventional hospitallong to live. SheIt'd made her first mistake some time agos hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, although stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for boot of a long timestolen Ford Sierra. She'd made Is it when she chose a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.home?
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|isbn=00082147000861541774|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Roz WatkinsSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Meg Dalton DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with the case of a missing teenageran old ally, Guy Trueman. Violet Armstrong is wellMaik was involved in a street brawl -known as he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a vlogger knife - championing the cause of meat-eatingand he killed a Ghurka. She barbeques meat wearing only Initially, he faced a bikini and has attracted charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the attention of animal rights activistsman. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got Now he could be facing the job because she's a woman) because she's a vegetariandeath penalty. As if the case wasn't enough, Meg's father is coming Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Jai's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and that she wants more, but he doesnwouldn'thelp Danny at all.
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|isbn=17808998581521129886|title=To Tell You the TruthThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Gilly MacmillanKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the house on 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 night of baby when she gets past the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsmorning sickness. Her fourGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-yearin-old brotherlaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, TeddyLucy, would have woken the house if she hadnwho't taken him with s struggling to make ends meet and herson is not thriving. But in the early hours of the morningLucy, Lucy returned home without Teddyhe says, hoping is convinced that he Gil would never have got home before her. He hadnkilled himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and no one has seen him since. the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Lucybut Stuart's story was crucial prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policenight Gil died.
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|isbn=B0859115X5B0CK3MYJ56|title=Lies to Tell Responsibilities (DI Clare MackayGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Marion ToddAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again sheIt's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, Benjy1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. SheHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's just had now set himself up as a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and heprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike's in Provincetown, Cape Codyou might be thinking. He wishes that she was thereNice bloke, but Clarewhere's struggling to think of what the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he ''actually'' is has been asked to her nowlook into something. Is he her boyfriend? Her exJoyce and Helen are half-boyfriend? She cansisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't eithers been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Work's about to get very busy Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and she Pam Hetherington - can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firsttrain. TheyGreg're off somewhere top secrets been asked to investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=17874776811838954481|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Misper|author=Martin WalkerKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Ryan Kennedy killed a couple of days after old Driantpolice officer: there's funeral no doubt about that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his son. Gaston's father had sold He was the fifteen-year-old holding the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life of luxury gun and pointing it at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchDI Kieran Shaw. Before he even got He pulled the trigger but due to go there he died, apparently the vagaries of a heart attack, and the retirement home collected the proceeds jury system he was found not guilty of both the policy and Gaston murder and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents manslaughter of the farmhouseofficer. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, 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 Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when a missing teenager is found on her territory she announced that she was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinheriteds drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=07278892301448309743|title=The Red, Red SnowDevil 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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|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. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the 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 little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529427045
|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.
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|isbn=1787636607
|title=The Trap
|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wife, Geraldine morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and daughter, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burgerlooking for a way to get home. He died within minutes, but his murder seemed motiveless Some are lucky and there were no cluesmanage to get one of the few taxis available. He was a genuine man and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead endOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. There were two deaths to investigate The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the north light of Scotland: it wasn't thought wise the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to involve the local murder team as ring someone on to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in chance to beg the casebus driver to let her use his. Christmas There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and a lot of snow were rapidly approachingin high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B07S6DBCFT1405957174|title=Little Girls Tell TalesA Death at the Party|author=Rachel BennettAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2004 RosalieFrom the first page, Beth 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 call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's 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 Dallin were walking found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and Dallinit's cottagenow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Beth A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and Dallinto take the investigation further. More to the point, both twelve-years-oldthey're going to do this live on camera, got ahead episode by episode. There's no dump of ten-yearthe whole box set -old Rosalie and it wasnno shortage of cliffhangers. It't long before she realised that she was losts compelling viewing. Trying }} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to find Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her way back to step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the main path court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she 's not been found a skeleton, guilty of anything but when she finally got will have to live with what happened for the road rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she could never find inherited five million pounds from her way back to mother - and the bog when she'd seen papers are making the bodymost of it. Most people didn't believe her, putting the story down to her vivid imagination'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00082737901529413680|title=Remain SilentA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Susie SteinerMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in a bad way, vomiting 1370 and obviously traumatisedBruno's there to see the show with some friends. When heIt's able to speak all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead''departs from the script. Lukas was in Luckily, his late teens doctor is there and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda the man is whisked away in Lithuaniaa helicopter. TheyA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have s a decent life ''and'' send money home to their families. Sadlysenior government employee, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive in the UK man who runs Frenchelon - on an old, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floormilitary has stepped in. ItOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workersfriends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529196388
|title=The Trial
|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.
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