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|author=Gunnar StaalesenStuart Douglas|title=Bitter FlowersLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, the quiet job heDuring location filming for his 1970's supposedly taken on caretaking someonesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a mystery around woman on the edge of a missing womanreservoir. Varg finds himself not only investigating these The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but also looking into an oldsomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, cold case and he enlists the help of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night 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 was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear seemingly, a link to be linked, but what death during the Second World War. But is the there really a link, and how can Varg possibly unravel between the truthdeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=191319308X1803368209
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|isbn=18387748230008517061|title=Her Majesty Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Queen Investigatesfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: A Three Dog Problemdoes Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones 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. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S J BennettMax Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 2016 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 the Queenhe's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandwho was responsible for her death. SwimmingThis person, he decidespromises, is someone big and it will be worth the way to go and police doing what he wants. And what he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which wants is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered transferred to an open prison to serve the body remainder of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolhis sentence and to get an early parole date. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerNot much to ask, by the look at is it - probably one of ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the young royals being careless other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simonanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave0008405026|title=The Quiet PeopleA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue"It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Most books are She was never found and the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in investigation ground to a hurryhalt. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Now, her mother, Helena, and when he hurriesher father are dead in their bed. Initially, when he bundles things into it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the back positioning of his car the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and tries her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to run be an open-and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is New Zealand and convinced that is not how they do things therethe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, he takes a risk. It ends badlyUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1913193942
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|isbn=178607981X0571379877|title=Bad ApplesThe Kellerby Code|author=Will DeanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Edward Jevons is a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- class friends, Robert and heard the screams from deep inside the forestStanza. Determining the direction of Robert's a sound isntheatre director. He't easy when you need hearing aids s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way uses Edward to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manrun errands for him. HeEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'd been decapitateds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. He was Arne Gustav Persson, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a resident relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of Visbergthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirJo Callaghan|title=Cold As HellLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In When a red suitcase as man is found crucified on the bottom top of a fissure hill in a lava fieldNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second bodyfound crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable case and, potentially, out of killing.a career?|isbn=1913193888139851120X
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1035021803|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a high functioning alcoholicrequest for help from her beloved aunt, drinking continuously Carole. Freya's former mentor and alsoCarole's close friend, curiouslyArthur Crockleford, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing dead and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the groups reason why Freya had not been back to find targets...targets for sexual encountersthe village: Arthur, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's miseryshe feels, and targets for let her violent behaviourdown badly. Yet Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she also seems has not felt able to be searching for others who think as near the man or pursue the profession she doesloved. After the split, and when she's unable to find like-minded people worked in any a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of the groups she decides to set up her ownlife, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, was murdered) and Freya and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornJames have now divorced.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbn=17841652631398524085|title=Invite Me InHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Emma CurtisNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's wifefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dotsons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letEtty. If she didn't get homeare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, there would be troubleis not. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic Shortly afterwards, Etty and confined to a wheelchairGreg, but donfind the body of Greg't be too quick to be understandings father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. He It was also a very unpleasant person: an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment'couldn't stand the guilt. All this was in ElizaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablewhat really happened.
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|isbn=17847427751529900360|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)The Ghost Orchid|author=Susan HillJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs It hadn't really been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that much of a problem in Lafferton there were only open-and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought -shut cases which didn't need the help of drugs ops as a bit of psychologist only worked for a waste of timewhile. They still were Finally, it was Robin, to a great extentDelaware's partner, but Serrailler who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something had to be donethat the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Children as young as nine Two lovers were being recruited to transport murdered in the drugs and the operation running the county lines swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was tight. A mule might know the name (although heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it probably wouldn't be s not the correct one) Italian. But which of the person who them 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 up.primary target?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09HTWX47X178763681X|title=Endless ObsessionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Dai HenleyOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a DCI residential cookery school in the Met Belgravia. He didn't really want to but now celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a well-respected private investigatorway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he's married d be at the school to Lauraassist Paul, who had a broken arm, formerly but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryown. FloodThe one thing he hadn's daughterst expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, Gemma he was the person who discovered the body and Pippa, have flown everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the nestBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, Pippa a human skeleton came to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the family, surface and Gemma forensic testing proved the body to married lifebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe's d been a known drug user and had mental problems since she learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was abducted many years ago but Andy he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and Laura hope that married life will provide to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the support she needstime. FloodLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's business is going well cold cases to you and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackme) investigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15293793851529425867|title=The Madness of Crowds Lost and Never Found (Chief Inspector GamacheA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Louise PennySimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesOxford, we're post-pandemic: the scars there are still there but life two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is starting to get back to normalof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and the Aubergefather of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. TheyHe're visiting each others white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's homes not ''really'' his thing) and having friends his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and relatives trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to staya police procedural written for laughs. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that Well, you're not all saints . The two men are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in just different sides of the village as same policing coin. Sometimes the Asshole Saintcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=183885410X1529431735|title=The Dark RemainsWinter Visitor|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinJames Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer It's February 1991 and consigliere to one of Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowmore surprising. DC Jack Laidlaw is He'd been exiled on the CID team charged with the investigationCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. I say The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'on the teams ill and hasn'' but Laidlaw never really seems t long to be a part of itlive. He does his own thingIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, goes stripped to his own way underwear and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers sent to a watery grave in the truth boot of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsa stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=19424102550861541774|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael PronkoSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Zangyo: overtime works close friend and former colleague, often unpaid'' It's the cultureDanny Maik, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just has taken a statement of the minimum you'll be required short holiday in Singapore to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukameet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When he Maik was found dead involved in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was nothing in the way facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of regret or grief, even from his family, manslaughter but there was a mild curiosity as evidence came to whether light that suggested that he'd jumped from might have planned to murder the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentman. Gossip revolves around the fact that Now he left the roof at could be facing the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierdeath penalty. SheDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimet help Danny at all.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=02414254251521129886|title=The Man Who Died TwiceThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Richard OsmanKeith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the letterpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It came from 's a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames good job too because Greg and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies Joyce will soon have to deal with on a regular basisbaby and they're both delighted. When Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she visits gets past the sender of the letter (hemorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's moved into the Cooperconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - struggling to make ends meet and who used to be her husbandson is not thriving. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidLucy, he says, a missing twentyis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself -million pounds it simply wasn't in diamonds his nature. The police and a few the coroner have accepted that the death threats. was suicide, Hebut Stuart's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston Responsibilities (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorAnn 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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|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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{{Frontpage
|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=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of '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 ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and 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=Mariana It was convinced in December 2003 that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything fifteen- or so she thought year- had begun with old Maura Howard came home and found the death body of Tara Hampton on her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgegarden of their West London home. SheHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had telephoned her in distresstaken was obviously deliberate. Tara had Twenty years later, no one has been her best friend charged with his murder and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasnit't s now the subject of ''entirelyInfamous'' happy about having , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to go review the evidence and to Cambridge, but she caught take the first fast train from King's Crossinvestigation further. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all More to the more so by the death of Marianapoint, they's husbandre going to do this live on camera, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierepisode by episode. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of ZoeThere's mother no dump of the whole box set - and Marianano shortage of cliffhangers. It's sister, Elizacompelling viewing.
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|isbn=02414001200241996104|title=Coming to 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 step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The Girl Who Diedbarrister 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was not thriving One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in Reykjavik: it was 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then shefriends. It'd given up her medical studies s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and retrained as the man is whisked away in a teacherhelicopter. She was thirty years old A local doctor (and money was tightfriend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Her friendOne daughter lives nearby and another, Sarawho lives in California, showed is flying in with some of her an advert father's friends for a job 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, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in Skalar on plain sight at the Langanes PeninsulaOld Bailey. There were only ten people 's just one man in the village but a teacher was required frame for two children: a salary would be paid his murder - Jimmy Knight - and accommodation providedit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Una Knight was told that the only applicant best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik it's Taylor-Cameron andhis pupil, hopefullyAdam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, save some money over despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the winter which her contract coveredcontrary.
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