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|isbnauthor=178607981XStuart Douglas|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at woman on the side edge of the roada reservoir. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the car - whole thing bothers Lowe, and heard he enlists the screams from deep inside the foresthelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Determining They travel across the direction of country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way link to where a woman was holding her coat over death during the body of a manSecond World War. He'd been decapitated. But is there really a link between the deaths? He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visberg.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0008517061|title=Cold As HellDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a red suitcase as little uncertainty about the bottom future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a fissure lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in a lava field, there with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a body. And the man who has put future she wants for herself and her there has just discovered that he is capable of killingdaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1913193888
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1786482126|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a selfhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing when they discovered the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetsbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson.targets for sexual encounters It's difficult as Ruth knows, targets to feed her desire to hear of peoplebut Nelson doesn's miseryt, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet that she also seems to be searching for others who think is pregnant with his child as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any a result of the groups she decides to set up her ownone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, hoping not least because Ruth is prone to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbn=17841652630008551324|title=Invite Me InThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emma CurtisNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be home to make his lunch approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for one othe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'clock on s prepared to tell the dot, despite police where the fact that she body of a missing person is buried and who was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letresponsible for her death. If she didn't get homeThis person, he promises, there would is someone big and it will be troubleworth the police doing what he wants. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined And what he wants is to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick transferred to be understandingan open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizat think so and she's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about even prepared to leave: he wanted do the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=17847427750008405026|title=A Change of Circumstance Stranger in the Family (Simon SerraillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Susan HillJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadnIt't really been that much of 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 problem halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timetheir bed. They still were Initially, to it looks like a great extent, straightforward murder/suicide but Serrailler knew there's something about the positioning of the bodies that something had to be donemakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Children What looked as young as nine were being recruited though it was going to transport the drugs be an open-and the operation running the county lines was tight-shut case is now a complex double murder. A mule might know Kerrigan is convinced that the name explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (although it probably wouldnsuch as Derwent't be the correct ones boss, Una Burt) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upare less convinced.
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X0571379877|title=Endless ObsessionThe Kellerby Code|author=Dai HenleyJonny 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=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly When a DCI in man is found crucified on the Met but now top of a well-respected private investigator. He's married hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Laurathe case alongside her sidekick, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryAI detective Lock. FloodIt's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australiatheir first live case together, from where she has having previously been very little contact successful with the family, and Gemma to married lifeseveral cold cases. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Laura hope a very high profile case that married life will provide the support she needsdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Flood's business is going well and that was why he felt Will they be able to turn down solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of Lisa Black.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15293793851035021803|title=The Madness Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Crowds a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (Chief Inspector Gamacheon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered)and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Louise PennyNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis're post-pandemic: the scars are still there s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but life is starting he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get back to normalask for his help on difficult cases. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the Aubergehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. They're visiting each otherFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's homes and having friends and relatives to staypartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for She knew that the involvement was something that the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and man she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known remote property in Bel Air. He was the village as heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Asshole SaintItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=183885410X178763681X|title=The Dark RemainsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families residential cookery school in nineteen seventies GlasgowBelgravia. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigationHe didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. I say Paul ''on somehow'' got the teamimpression that he'' but Laidlaw never really seems d be at the school to be assist Paul, who had a part of broken arm, but itdidn't turn out that way. He does The teaching - and the problems - are all his own . The one thinghe hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, goes his own way he was the person who discovered the body and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsprime suspect.
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|isbn=19424102551529421284|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)Laying Out the Bones|author=Michael PronkoKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's was one of those flash downpours that the cultureBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required human skeleton came to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done surface and done forensic testing proved the body to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukabe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. When he was found dead in front He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of Senden Centralmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's headquarters in Tokyo there t convinced. Geary was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his familya townie, but there so what was a mild curiosity as he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to whether he'd jumped from the roof suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the building or been assisted in his descenttime. Gossip revolves around Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the fact Major Crimes Review Unit (that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her s cold cases to you and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimeme) investigate.
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|isbn=02414254251529425867|title=The Man Who Died TwiceLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Richard OsmanSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letterIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this Raymond Wilkins is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. When she visits the sender D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of the letter (heRyan, is not. He's moved into the Coopernot any of those things. He's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that itwhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's someone with whom she has a long professional history - not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and who used to be her husbandtrackies. HeThey's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds re usually in diamonds and a few death threatslime green or acid yellow. HeYou might wonder if you's now in hiding with re being introduced to a young woman called Pollypolice procedural written for laughs. Well, whoyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressproblematic.
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|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Antti Tuomainen Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and David Hackston wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Rabbit FactorResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths It's the 1990s and calculations than it is other human beings, heGreg Mason's perfect for his twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the insurance company – until they decide city but it wasn't satisfying so he's not now set himself up as a team-memberprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', that they'd prefer everyone to you might be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingthinking. This is when he finds his brother has diedNice bloke, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvobut where's radio channelthe life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, and he has left Henri everythingbeen asked to look into something. Unfortunately ( Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or otherwise) that rather, they were until Helen was killed in what'everything' is just s been written off as a tragic accident at an adventure parkunmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'Pam Hetherington - can' is so not t understand what Henri wants she was doing there - or how she could come to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes fall in the finances – it runs at front of a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedtrain. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it Greg's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive asked to getting a cheap life insurance plan..investigate.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=B0925KS87N1838954481|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)The Misper|author=Neil LancasterKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the grave fifteen-year- old holding the gun and pointing it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemeteryat DI Kieran Shaw. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, He pulled the trigger but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted due to do. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after the vagaries of the jury system he'd said that he'd was found not guilty of both the murder and the grave - manslaughter of the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryofficer. And so lives must go on. Tam Junior, Frankie For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and Dave wouldn't normally go to hoping for a quieter life in the police countryside but they werenwhen a missing teenager is found on her territory she't certain where their father had been s drawn into a wider investigation - and they were worriedback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1448309743|title=The Great SilenceDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across In the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis village of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job Cronchie on the West coast of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to beScotland, it is merely the surname five members of a wealthy family of undertakersare found murdered. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy The only item missing from the home is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctDevil 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, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the family for generationsbody. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46 The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about pulled in to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term'shadow' him.|isbn=1913193837
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00082690411529077699|title=Risk of HarmThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Lucie WhitehouseAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Robin Lyons ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might have been reinstated but Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the whole episode left middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a nasty taste small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in her mouthDevon. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. She and her fifteen-yearI ''nearly'' said 'all-old daughter have moved out of her parentround good egg's home into a rented house but thereas we's still ll find out, he could be more than a difficult situation little bit close with her brother Luke who has gone out of money and his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childbackground isn't exactly an open book. He's married to Natalie, now and has a young child but Where did he's still got it in get the money for Robin.his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=18469757191529427045|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Denzil MeyrickKarin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves ''Life has more to awkward places. But thatoffer than people - prime numbers for example's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch?.
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|isbn=14091816691787636607|title=The MaidensTrap|author=Alex MichaelidesCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looked likely looking for a way to get away with them bothhome. She needed Some are lucky and manage to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceedget one of the few taxis available. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Others squash onto the death night bus that will only go as far as one of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeoutlying villages. SheThe woman all regret the 'd been brutally stabbed and Marianataxi problem's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her particularly in distressthe light of 'the missing women'. Tara had been For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her best friend and she was struggling to copehome. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having She had intended to go ring someone to Cambridge, come and collect her - but she caught the first fast train from Kingher phone's Crossdead. Mariana and Zoe were close and The bus had driven off before she had been made all the more so by chance to beg the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierbus driver to let her use his. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of ZoeThere's mother no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and Mariana's sister, Elizain high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=02414001201405957174|title=The Girl Who DiedA Death at the Party|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacherend well. She was thirty years old The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and money was tightNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on What we don't know is who the Langanes Peninsulaman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: I'd better give you a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant little more background so that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredyou can understand what's happening.
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|isbn=15294072490008530025|title=The Perfect LieMurder in the Family|author=Jo SpainCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Erin was happyfound the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop d slipped down the steps but she the vicious beating his face had taken was hopefulobviously deliberate. They'd Twenty years later, no one has been married for six months and life was good charged with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent his murder and when it was opened, Danny's partnernow the subject of ''Infamous'', Ben Mitchell was there with a couple true-crime show. A group of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked experts has been brought together to review the open window evidence and jumped to his death from take the fourth floorinvestigation further. Eighteen months laterMore to the point, Erin would be they're going to do this live on trial for her husbandcamera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's murdercompelling viewing.
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|isbn=17885497590241996104|title=The Distant DeadComing to Find You|author=Lesley ThomsonJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 and twentyOne of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for enactment of the liberation of the town from the evening English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with her friend Idasome friends. It' leaving her three-year-old sons all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, WilliamKerquelin, at home with her parentsthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The boy thought that Maple was Luckily, his sister - it was better for doctor is there and the family than the shame man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of illegitimacy, survival but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William- as he's) on a better footing. She was going to meet her wellsenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following weekmilitary has stepped in. LaterOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her body would be found in the bombedfather's friends for a pre-out home where he had taken herarranged holiday.
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|isbn=00084049251529196388|title=The Killing KindTrial|author=Jane CaseyRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Grant Cliveden was a hero: a surprise. After policeman who stood for allthat was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, it so there was public uproar when he was her cross-examination of murdered in plain sight at the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceOld Bailey. HeThere'd been accused of stalking s just one man in the woman but frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it didn't take s not too long to establish before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor- if anything Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- it was the other way aroundCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Soon Ingrid never seemed Knight's determined to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mancontrary.
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