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|authorisbn=Andrew CartmelB0CYV674G2|title=Death in Fine ConditionSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and in particular carrying a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies knife, comes into the police station shouting that she can sell on for profit, sometimes he hasn'tweaking' them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayst killed the man. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in A body at the background bottom of a photograph on her drug dealerfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner isjust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and how she can steal it! It'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's a nextsleep-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when deprived to the owner point of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbnauthor=1448309379Stuart Douglas|title=Flesh Lowe and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's something sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a surprise reservoir. The police seem happy to find that you're deadassign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on and he enlists the help of a break with your wife and childrenfellow actor, but that's what happened John Le Breton to DS Aector McAvoyhelp him investigate matters further. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillThey travel across the country during their days off filming, officiallyuncovering more possible murders and, aliveseemingly, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoaha link to death during the Second World War. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but But is there really a link between the partially clad man deaths? And will they manage to uncover who'd dashed from her flat is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=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 early hours future of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her cardaughter Diana, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does 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 everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on Aectorthe back burner.
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|isbn=15291353891786482126|title=The FallJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gilly MacmillanElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the morning at site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the county fair before she returned homebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnskull. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Some of them fought with each other and didnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't work as reliably , that she is pregnant with his child as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and result of the one night they were still getting used to having that sort of money, toospent together some three months ago. EventuallyHer condition will be obvious before long, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound not least because Ruth is prone to his headsudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks0008551324|title=To Die in JuneThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the streets, suddenly starts other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to feel like something more sinister as another tell the police where the body of a missing person is discovered, buried and then anotherwho was responsible for her death. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyperson, he promises, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he has been for yearswants. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry And what he wants is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and be transferred to an open prison to serve the arrival there remainder of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missinghis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, only no record of is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong other thing that Hardie demanded - not just make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just him is kept well away from what is going on?|isbn=1805300784's happening.
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|isbn=18045456000008405026|title=The MonkA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Tim SullivanJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped investigation ground to a chair halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and dumped her father are dead in a ditchtheir bed. He'd been savagely beaten. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a while before D S George Cross and something about the positioning of the Major Crime Unit establish bodies that this is Father Dominicmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He'd been missing for What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeycomplex double murder. As Kerrigan is convinced that the team gradually unpick the monkexplanation lies in Rosalie's past it becomes clear that hedisappearance: others (such as Derwent'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brothers boss, neighbour and friend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faithUna Burt) are less convinced. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170100571379877|title=Death Under a Little SkyThe Kellerby Code|author=Stig AbellJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadnRobert't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jakes a theatre director. He's side also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and he didn't think there was entitled and uses Edward to run errands for Faye eitherhim. They were still polite to each other Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and wished each other well - but didnhe't wish s drunkenly confided how he feels to remain marriedRobert. The perfect solution arrived Most men in the form of Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a legacy from Jakerelationship had begun between them but he's Uncle Arthur. He'd been not like most men: Edward is left a secluded property in to stumble upon the hamlet two of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to workthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Emily CritchleyJo Callaghan|title=One Puzzling AfternoonLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in When a man is found crucified on the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing top of a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyhill in Nuneaton, as Edie is starting DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of case alongside her childhood friendsidekick, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agoAI detective Lock. After It'seeing' Lucy in the high streets their first live case together, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to herhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. And yet as she remembers the pastBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she Kat is forgetting more suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and more in her day a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to day lifetheir AI Future Policing project. Will she uncover they be able to solve the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her movecase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and before her memories are gone forever, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1804181250139851120X
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|isbn=00085512781035021803|title=Blood Runs Cold The 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 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 (D S Max Craigieon 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=Neil LancasterNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith Charlotte Salter was snatched from the bottom of Fyrishexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, where she'd been doing Paul and Ollie and her trainingdaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - Shortly afterwards, Etty and it now looks as though she could be heading for Greg, find the national squad. Thatbody of Greg's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seefather, Duncan Ackerley, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at in the age of twelveriver. She It was rescued an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later shehe couldn's happy with her foster familyt stand the guilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's just one cloud little else they can do but get on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - with their lives and anyone could get to herwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1529900360|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Sorry to leave her bottles His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of red wine behind her a psychologist only worked for an afternoon at a book fairwhile. Finally, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictionit was Robin, saying heDelaware's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Cue She knew that the bet involvement was something that the man she cannot live up to that accusationloved needed. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandThe next case did look simple, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allthough. Just on Two lovers were murdered in the point swimming pool of despairing – about her writing, about a remote property in Bel Air. He was the people heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the lack Italian. But which of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that them was the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615primary target?
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|isbn=1398509582178763681X|title=The FavourKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Nicci FrenchOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when the car crash happenedChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. It would cause problems for Liam Birch He didn't really want to but then no one could really understand why he celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination women to go to medical schooldo what he wanted. Liam was the reverse. He just acted Paul ''somehow'as if life just rolled him over and carried him along'got the impression that he'. A bit of weed hered be at the school to assist Paul, who had a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really broken arm, but it didn't worry him at turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are allhis own. The relationship broke one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up soon after dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any morethe police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1529421284|title=Her Deadly GameLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been It was one of those flash downpours that the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances British weather often delivers in defence of his clientsa heatwave. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawIn a gully, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself human skeleton came to oblivion the surface and inevitably forensic testing proved the latter body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had 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 beginning he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to overshadow the formersuicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy Lockyer and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position DC Gemma Broad of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761529425867|title=The Close Lost and Never Found (DS Maeve KerriganA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jane CaseySimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closefather of Ryan, is not. If you He're a regular reader s not any of the [[Jane Caseythose things. He's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is white, originated from a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems verytrailer park, very real. But barely educated (therereading's always a not ''butreally', isn't there?his thing) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if the relationship with Melissa can be you're being introduced to a little rockypolice procedural written for laughs. As for MaeveWell, sheyou's re not. The two men are just come out different sides of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529431735|title=Promise BoysThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school It's February 1991 and Essex is murderedbitingly cold, three boys find themselves called into which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the police station Costa del Sol as suspectsa wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Each, seemingly, The return has come about because he's had a grudge of some description against Principal Mooreletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and each could have been there at the time of his murderhasn't long to live. But who killed himIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and why, and if any sent to a watery grave in the boot of the boys are innocent, will they be able a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to clear their nameshome?|isbn=1035003155
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|isbn=15291259600861541774|title=Unnatural HistoryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jonathan KellermanSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a photographershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Well, it Maik was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he got Danny but whichever was facing a man armed with a knife - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartand he killed a Ghurka. The PAInitially, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as light that suggested that he tries might have planned to establish what's happenedmurder the man. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''Now he could be facing the death penalty. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be. They were then dressed up help as their fantasy, photographed any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarswouldn't help Danny at all.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1521129886|title=Expectant They Had It Coming (Detective Sam ShephardGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching 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 start of her maternity leave baby when there she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is a brutal, shocking murder of approached by an expectant woman old friend whose brother-in Dunedin-law appears to have killed himself. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womenStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfwho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Finding herself put on desk dutiesLucy, which she rails againsthe says, she just canis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't let in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the case go and she starts death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to follow every thread pay Greg to uncover find out what's actually happening, and happened on the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextnight Gil died.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=0008454493B0CK3MYJ56|title=All the Dangerous ThingsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stacy WillinghamAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for s the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a year high- well, apart from flying job in the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. Itcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a year since her sonprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', Masonyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, was stolen from his bed in the middle of but where's the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt life experience that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in backs up this profession? On the morning when she thought other hand, he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could has been asked to raise awareness about the caselook into something. She does interviews Joyce and when we meet herHelen are half-sisters, or rather, shethey were until Helen was killed in what's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave written off as a keynote presentationtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. On the plane backJoyce - and her parents, sheOliver and Pam Hetherington - can's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that t understand what she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than was doing there - or how she could by giving speeches come to fall in front of a few hundred people at conferencestrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=057137493X1838954481|title=The Other HalfMisper|author=Charlotte VassellKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''The room s no doubt about that. He was full of the sort fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story jury system he was found not guilty of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is murder and the manslaughter of the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townofficer. Think Bollinger and cocaineAnd so lives must go on. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the Metropolitan police capital and is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out hoping for a run, stumbles across quieter life in the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupertcountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under drawn into a bushwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=08570517411448309743|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Caro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate In the case village of a body found in a freezer at Cronchie on the home West coast of Scotland, five members of a deceased alcoholicwealthy family are found murdered. The problem only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the case has long passed the statute of limitationsstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace The only suspects are known Satanists but in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is many ways, that this is a dying man's wishan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The situation changes Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkarihe disappears, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|isbn=15294212411529077699|title=Stay BuriedThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Kate WebbAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''s actually a cold case unit and there are just two of them doing the job Well yes, it is. Lockyer's not unduly worriedJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, though although he's not quite so sure stayed for about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of something betterGreystone, in Devon. It was Rosco had the status of a bit of national treasure: a shock when he got renowned adventurer, round the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''s in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. SheI 's keen to see him and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered nearly'' said 'all- round good egg' but the body turned as we'll find out to , he could be someone else - has returned home after being away more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for decades.his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=13997022891529427045|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Louise PennyKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the tiny Canadian village small town of Three Pines is enjoying Gasskas, where the arrival of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jeanso-far-Guy Beauvoir untapped natural resources of the Sûreté du Québec. Gamache had offered help to area have sparked a young woman after the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brothergold rush. For Jean-Guy, it had always The criminal underworld has not been the other way aroundslow in coming forward. Now theySalander's niece're both s mother is the latest woman in the village and neither can fathom what's happeningarea to have vanished without trace. Armand will soon find It was only with reluctance that theySalander became her niece're not just in Three Pines s guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in his home and in his lifeher father's death.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1787636607|title=White RiotThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always the danger of making it a scene replicated all too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture often in the spirit early hours of the momentmorning. It takes Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a truly talented writer way to be able get home. Some are lucky and manage to capture get one of the zeitgeist few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of a particular event or era of political historythe outlying villages. Austerity Britain The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much light of what is'the missing women'. For one young woman, and has been, written in the immediate aftermath final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of these phenomena has been proven by time her home. She had intended to ring someone to be frothy come and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivecollect her - but her phone's dead. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), The bus had driven off before she had the best writing about current political events is that which is written when chance to beg the events in question are bus driver to let her use his. There's no longer current option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewin high-heeled shoes.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbn=18387761841405957174|title=Her Majesty A Death at the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalParty|author=S J BennettAmy Stuart|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and From the tidesfirst page, was generally a reliable way of marking time.we know that Nadine Walsh'' It seemed to begin as a colds party will not end well. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for The victim - a couple of days but seemed man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to be getting better. Hopefully, call the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildrenambulance he so desperately needs. Unfortunately, it didnWhat we don't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and know is who the Duke were due man is or why Nadine prefers to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downhave him die. HeI'd have preferred that the queen have better give you a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with the thought little more background so that theyyou can understand what'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappoints happening.
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|isbn=08615419950008530025|title=Wolf PackMurder in the Family|author=Will DeanCara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her Hilux pickup truck on stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the road north garden of Visbergtheir West London home. She sees blood He had an injury on the road and a creature on its side near back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the pine treesvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. It will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish ElkhoundTwenty years later, who no one has been attacked by charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a wolftrue-crime show. Tuva takes Bronco A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, to take the vetinvestigation further. Bronco didnMore to the point, they't make it but re going to do this live on the waycamera, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missingepisode by episode. She'd been working at Rose Farm and MoodysonThere's journalist's instincts are soon brought to the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group no dump of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, whole box set - and his two eldest children and then killed himselfno shortage of cliffhangers. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedIt's compelling viewing. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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|isbn=14059511840241996104|title=The Girls Who DisappearedComing to Find You|author=Claire DouglasJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Back in November 1998Nancy'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, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after Martin receives a night outlife sentence. As The barrister tells her that she passed through the darkly's received a 'silent sentence' -wooded Devilshe's Corridor, a figure appeared in the road. Olivia swerved not been found guilty of anything but will have to avoid him and live with what happened for the car smashed into a tree, leaving rest of her trappedlife. When Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she regained consciousness inherited five million pounds from her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, who lived in mother - and the woods helped her before papers are making the police and ambulance arrivedmost of it. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would ''rich bitch'' might not be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15420372391529413680|title=Death in HeelsA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Kitty MurphyMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the backdrop re-enactment of Dublinthe liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's drag sceneall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story man playing one of Fi McKinnery and her best friendthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, Robyn, who his doctor is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What there and the man is meant to be whisked away in a night helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of excitement soon takes survival but - as he's a downward turn when fellow drag queensenior government employee, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. As if man who runs Frenchelon - the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead military has stepped in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered One daughter lives nearby and another, yet the drag communitywho lives in California, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for is flying in with some of her father's friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperfor a pre-arranged holiday.
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