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|isbnauthor=1472127013Stuart Douglas|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton Lowe and R W GreenLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a bit woman on the edge of work on handa reservoir. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about his managing directorthe whole thing bothers Lowe, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it there. This was unusualand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went John Le Breton to Australiahelp him investigate matters further. Then there was They travel across the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifecountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, Sheratonseemingly, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted a link to know what death during the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from GenevaSecond World War. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then But is there was really a link between the murder.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=14087122880008517061|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Val McDermidStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the middle future of February his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and bitterly cold when her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a fishing boat out lot of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster pot. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and DS Daisy Mortimer relaxing life to investigate and it didn't take too long move in with Livia or does Livia move to establish that Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. future she wants for herself and her daughter? A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was For the prime suspect moment they’re enjoying life in the disappearance present and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auld. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been putting the last person to review the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into future on the case at an early stageback burner.
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1786482126|title=A Song of IsolationThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that is only beginning to hit Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the heights to retire site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant bones of all thingsa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, though to his credit he would rather be Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working in forestrywith DCI Harry Nelson. They have found It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a hideaway on a small Scottish estateresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, but things are starting not least because Ruth is prone to feel wrong between themsudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=1913193365
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|isbn=02414254410008551324|title=The Thursday Murder ClubDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Richard OsmanNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She used Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to be tell the police where the body of a nurse missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is thus someone big and it will be worth the perfect person for Elizabeth police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed serve the remainder of his sentence and to bleed outget an early parole date. Details of where Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms she's even prepared to do the other thing that it would have taken about fortyHardie demanded -five minutes make certain that DS Max Craigie and that anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the victim could have been saved if sheFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It'd received prompt medical helps sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It didn't put Joyce off She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her shepherdfather are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's pie (which tells us 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 Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubcomplex double murder. They meet each Thursday Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as you might have guessedDerwent's boss, Una Burt) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageare less convinced.
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|isbn=15098895150571379877|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Kellerby Code|author=Ann CleevesJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Edward Jevons is a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. If she hadnHe't the car might not have been found until the morning s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and who knows what would have happened uses Edward to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left openrun errands for him. Vera took the boy Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and drove he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the nearest habitationRobert. She Most men in Robert''thought'' it s position would be the village stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopeshe's not like most men: her father had been Edward is left to stumble upon the younger brother two of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do them kissing in the circumstancesa dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1506909442Jo Callaghan|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-Mystery|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The greatest hatredWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, like DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the greatest virtue and case alongside her sidekick, the worst dogsAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is silent.'' The title of this enjoyable crime procedurala second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is from German romantic writer Jean Paulsuddenly 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. But who are Will they be able to solve the worst dogs case in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel and for whom is the hatred? This mystery time, or will last all the way to Kat find herself taken off the very last case and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it's honest., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15420174321035021803|title=The Nidderdale MurdersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=J R EllisC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the grouse moor near NiddersgillEnglish country village where she grew up. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner She's back now because of the moor and a retired judgerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. James Symonds was a local landowner Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Henry Saunders was a bankerthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. He and Fraser Arthur was the reason why Freya had known each other since their school daysnot been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Rawnsley had After the split, she worked in a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car cafe, met and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment married James (on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeperthe rebound from the love of her life, Ian Davis thought he who was stingy murdered) and very difficult to work forFreya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=00083147211398524085|title=Truth Be ToldHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kia AbdullahNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an 'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'effortful'' familys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and this prompts a phone call in returnher daughter, Etty. There are two sons of the family, seventeenall worried but -yearstrangely -old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamher husband, Alec, is not. Their motherShortly afterwards, SofiaEtty and Greg, regrets that she didn't name them find the other way round: body of Greg'Adam and Kamran' trips off s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'river. Sofia worries about It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sort of thingDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from can do but get on with their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year lives and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1529900360|title=The Seven DoorsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt hadn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until webeen Lt Milo Sturgis're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he big in medical provision felt responsible and decisions at the councileven after Alex recovered, being forced Sturgis was reluctant to move out of their home, a building ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that had existed throughout her life since childhood there were only open-and -shut cases which theydidn'd occupied t need the help of a psychologist only worked for over thirty yearsa while. The building heFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughterpartner, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'nudged Milo into asking for help again. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in She knew that the involvement was something that the 1980s, but noman she loved needed. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in The next case that has any bearing on what happens heredid look simple, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesthough. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until Two lovers were murdered in the point where swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the evicted tenant heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is found married to have completely vanishedan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=1913193381 But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1471179273178763681X|title=House Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Correctiongetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Nicci FrenchKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in prison, on remanda heatwave. She's sharing In a gully, a cell with Michaelahuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who's more caring than she first appearshad disappeared nine years earlier. She delivers tough love He'd been a known drug user and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to had learning disabilities, so it could have been a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might besimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. And how did Tabitha get hereGeary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Well, on 21 December There are connections to the body suicide of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the renovations to Tabitha's housetime. So far as Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodme) investigate.
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|isbn=14087124151529425867|title=Cry BabyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Mark BillinghamSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's June 1996 February 1991 and footballEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's European Championships are about ill and hasn't long to start in Londonlive. DS Tom Thorne It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is having abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a nightmare and stolen Ford Sierra. Is ita warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's one he close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has regularlytaken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It relates to Maik was involved in a case from ten years earlier when street brawl - he ''knew'' would later maintain that he was facing a man was guiltyarmed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but didnevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't take any action until help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the manpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's wife a good job too because Greg and three children had been murdered Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the man had morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself- it simply wasn't in his nature.The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=CrimeCat Coyne |summary=It's the 1990s and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and JoshGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. ItHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a happy combination in private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the boys are devoted other hand, he has been asked to each other look into something. Joyce and Helen are half- despite differences sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in the where what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how they live - the women are best friendsshe could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The boys are sevenMisper|author=Kate London|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and they play on pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the swings in jury system he was found not guilty of both the park murder and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Josh was For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the one doing capital and hoping for a quieter life in the hiding countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - but he returned tearfully to and back into the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieronorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=15294022711448309743|title=Murder on the Moorland The Devil Stone (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Helen CoxCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt Hartley's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into a spot In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of bandage nowScotland, although the details five members of a wealthy family are (mercifully) scantfound murdered. After a night of passion Halloran The only item missing from the home is called away in the early hours of Devil Stone: myth says that if the morningstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. ThereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's been a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used to live and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years ago. There are sufficient details an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the current murder to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered his wife - and others - body. The Senior Investigating Office is in some way involvedDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, despite being DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in prison. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy Kerr'shadow' him.
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|authorisbn=1529077699|title=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=BetrayalAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Ursula''It's all bloody peculiar, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she canisn't believe she deservesit, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. YouSir?'ll meet her ministry's cleaner Well yes, who bizarrely has fallen it is. Jem Rosco blew into the task local pub one evening in the middle of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. You'll certainly meet a homeless trampan autumn gale, who has taken one look at stayed for about a newspaper image of Ursulamonth and then turned up, naked anddead, in a small boat, knowing her anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of oldGreystone, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herin Devon. You'll meet Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the ministerial bodyguard world sailor and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptall round ''celebrity''. But I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as for the first ministerial casewe'll find out, of he could be more than a woman demanding her daughterlittle bit close with money and his background isn's rape t exactly an open book. Where did he get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, the money for all records of Ursula's meeting with his first boat? How did he finance the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403trip?
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|isbn=14091874381529427045|title=The First LieGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=A J ParkKarin Smirnoff|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the second small town of October 37Gasskas, where the so-yearfar-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and untapped natural resources of the front door openarea have sparked a gold rush. His wife was The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the bedroom in a state of shock and latest woman in the bathroom there area to have vanished without trace. It was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck only with Paulreluctance that Salander became her niece's paper-knife. In guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that moment Paul takes Svala is a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. Theyremarkably gifted teenager who're going to bury s unaware of the body part Salander played in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedher father's death.
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|isbn=15294018011787636607|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)The Trap|author=William ShawCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Gram Hickman, who worked It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela Booth, a way to a house which his firm was marketingget home. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house Some are lucky and was on manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the market for millions night bus that will only go as far as one of poundsthe outlying villages. Gram was hoping that he could get Angela into bed and heThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem'd brought a bottle , particularly in the light of prosecco along'the missing women'. It was when searching for somewhere to chill For one young woman, the bottle that he found final stop on the body bus leaves her a long way short of a man in her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the freezer in chance to beg the garagebus driver to let her use his. DS Alexandra Cupidi There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and DC Jill Ferriter are on the casein high-heeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Anders de la Motte1405957174|title=End of SummerA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In From the summer of 1983first page, little Billy Nilsson goes missingwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. He was chasing The victim - a rabbit, through the garden, man - is dying when we first meet him and into Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the maize field behindambulance he so desperately needs. He has not been seen since. In the present day, Veronica Lindh What we don't know is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for who the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she man is barely hanging on or why Nadine prefers to her jobhave him die. ItI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs tohappening.|isbn=1785768239
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|isbn=17857656980008530025|title=Shed No TearsMurder in the Family|author=Caz FrearCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, the man who would become known as 'the roommate killer'Luke Ryder, strangled three women in a fortnightthe garden of their West London home. When 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 arrested he admitted obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the killingssubject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A fourth death was attributed group of experts has been brought together to him - that of Holly Kemp - review the evidence and on occasions, Masters admitted to take the killing, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied itinvestigation further. He played with More to the policepoint, but there was sufficient evidence they're going to do this live on the first three killings to put him away for a long time and the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp casecamera, episode by episode. There was 's no body dump of the whole box set - and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope shortage of progressing the case furthercliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.
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|authorisbn= Hazel Barkworth0241996104|title= HeatstrokeComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=Nancy''Too hot to sleep. Too hot to think straight. Too hot to go back'' During a British heatwave 15s mother and step-yearfather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-oldbrother, Lily DixonMartin, has left home and is reported missingbeen convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. Rachel is The barrister tells her that she's received a teacher at Lily'silent sentence' - she's school and not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the mother rest of Miaher life. Of course, Lilyit's best friend. As Lilymade worse because Nancy's family rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the police struggle to find any evidence that may lead to Lily, Rachel takes papers are making the most of it upon herself to start looking for clues. However, as the case goes on Rachel becomes fixated on finding Lily ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and finds herself crossing boundaries, breaking trust and facing some impossible choices''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. Will they find Lily? Does Lily want to be found? And will life for Rachel ever be the same again?|isbn=1472265602
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|isbn=17873014351529413680|title=Dark WatersA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=G R HallidayMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=TwentyOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to drive down see the private road in Glen Turritshow with some friends. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push 's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the car to its limits without fear man playing one of being caught speedingthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. When Luckily, his doctor is there and the blond child stepped out man is whisked away in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treehelicopter. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but it obviously wasn- as he't s a conventional hospitalsenior 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'd made her first mistake some time agos friends for a pre-arranged holiday.}}{{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, although so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the realisation wouldnOld Bailey. There't be obvious to her s just one man in the frame for a his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long timebefore 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. SheKnight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'd made it when she chose s recommendations to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4the contrary.
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