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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11035043092|title=The Patient Killing Stones (A DS Cross thrillerJimmy Perez)|author=Tim SullivanAnn Cleeves

|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerI can's Syndrome. He can be rudet have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalBook 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's just that been seven years since we heard from him, but he thinks differently 's now living with Willow Reeves and social niceties simply don't occur to himtheir young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. ThereWillow's a reason why healso his boss, and she ''s in Bristolshould's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has be on maternity leave, but when the best conviction rate with casesbody of a popular islander, Archie Stout, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: found, in the aftermath of a storm, she regards Cross can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some a Neolithic stone - one of those missing social niceties into Cross's behavioura pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Jorn Lier Horst Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and Thomas Engerhe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Protest|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=This is For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the third book Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in a series the nick of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officertime, complete with his two wives and Emma Rammsix children, a crime journalistone of whom filmed what happened. In this book we find Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that when one there was a record of Blix's colleaguesthe protest. Lexi Williams, Kovican intern at the RA, uncovers grabbed a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to contact her superiorspray Bruce in the face, Blixwhilst shouting ''Stop the War''. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and BlixIt seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartmentattacks, narrowly escapes being murdered toobut this was different. We then find ourselves a few days later The can had been laced with Blix and Rammcyanide, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenSir Max Bruce was dead. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003

|isbn=15291516000008551375|title=Give Unto OthersWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Donna LeonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The Leanne Wilson''pandemia'' stripped s body was found at the city bottom of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of businesses have closeda tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, most never to reopentoo, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. There's now a cascade Her friends were relieved as she was just out of money as an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greednow. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the money which is coming their way? last year. Whilst he's thinking about thisAll were experienced climbers, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since properly equipped for what they were neighbours when he was a childdoing and sensible people. Elisabetta Foscarini has None of the 'what a problem and shestupid thing to do'd like Brunettiexplanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's advicea killer on the loose.

|isbn=B097XNMCRK0008643660|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Burial Place|author=Neil LancasterStig Abell

|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it' s idyllic and some of the back of beyond: thereexcavations are being televised. There's not even any light pollution a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which is why it was will be split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsuntil the group begin receiving threatening letters. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto Jake Jackson, a nice little earnerformer police detective, only is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to find that Macca, investigate. Reading the man he thought he was working withletters, is dead. His remains would never it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie violence and Callum. As even the story progresses we'll get to know them quite welllocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.

|isbn=15294096591529425905|title=A Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He's married to Diane and has twin sons. Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Locked Room Dark Wives (Dr Ruth GallowayD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but A man walking his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by dog in the early morning discovered the discovery body of a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken man in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'park near Rosebank, some years before Ruth was borna care home for troubled teens. It The dead man was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she Josh - one of the care workers who was determined due to find out what was behind work a shift the photograph night before but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdownwho had never turned up. Ruth and Kate are restricted D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with murder - but her university teaching dutiesonly clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. The good thing Some people believe that Chloe was meeting Zoe, responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the new tenant from next door whom they got girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to know whilst clapping for carersfind Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|isbn=B09MN1526W1529428289|title=Blood Games A Grave in the Woods (DS Nikki Parekh 4A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Liz MistryMartin Walker

|summary=It's Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the third murder in the space of a few weeks and grave but when they've all been because found it, it came with three sets of machetes used on teenagersbones. DS Nikki Parekh They dated back to World War II and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first it fell to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on Bruno, the outskirts Chief of Bradford. Only, this timePolice for St Denis, it's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that discover the identities of her beloved nephew, Haqib, the bodies and she has establish whether or not a very public meltdowncrime had been committed. It As if this isn't Haqib: there are similarities but enough to worry about, the body Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundflowing at record levels. What it does mean though is It's not just the local autumn rains that Nikki is going have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety release water and depressionSt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.

|isbn=1529135567152919640X|title=One Step Too FarThe Suspect|author=Lisa GardnerRob Rinder

|summary=ItThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's five years since the stag weekendonly one suspect. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and Joshcarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. The first night Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they had plenty of alcohol - too much really can be in a busy, live television studio - and in the night Scot managed Brooks served a ragout to wander offHolby. The remaining four searched for him in vain Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and it she was dead within minutes. It was decided soon clear that Timthis was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, who was experienced covered in survival techniquesmud and blood - and carrying a knife, would go for help. When help didncomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't come killed the remaining three finally made their way back to townman. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign A body at the bottom of Tim. Every year, Tima freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's father, Martin, and the four friends have been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back to continue from his honeymoon, which coincided with the search although they do now acknowledge that theybirth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he're looking d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'remainsJohn Tanner' rather than were made for Timeach other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbnauthor=1529346541Stuart Douglas|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's late July sitcom 'Floggit and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique ShawLeggit', Undersecretary for leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the school system, dead body of a representative from woman on the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, edge of a filmmakerreservoir. It follows on from The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the meeting is an exploration help of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used a fellow actor, John Le Breton to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitieshelp him investigate matters further. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as They travel across the problem seems country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting death during the trust of Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people she speaks to and photographs.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=13987069060008517061|title=The LostDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Simon BeckettStig Abell

|summary=The disappearance of Former Metropolitan police firearms officerPolice detective, Jonah Colley's young sonJake Johnson, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He'd fallen asleep in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the park whilst Theo was playing future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and when he wokeher daughter Diana, Theo had gone. It cost him as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his marriage off-grid and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out relaxing life to move in with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used Livia or does Livia move to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spoken. Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? He's obviously For the moment they’re enjoying life in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - the present and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he saysputting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=15294181001786482126|title=BrunoThe 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 Challenge and Other Dordogne Talesdifficult 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 Max Craigie)|author=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'm not usually s 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 he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a fan of short stories - I find missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it all too easy will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to put serve the book down between stories remainder of his sentence and forget to pick get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's [[Martin Walkereven prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in Chronological Orderthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Brunosummary=It's Challenge'' sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was hard never found and the investigation ground to resist a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryher father are dead in their bed. For those new to the seriesInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's an excellent introduction something about the positioning of the bodies that will tell you all you need makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to know about who's who be an open-and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the background to why Bruno is explanation lies in St DenisRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B09GJW49GF0571379877|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Kellerby Code|author=Jenny O'BrienJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Edward Jevons is a pump attached to working-class young man, obsessed with his stomach, so her overupper-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ianclass friends, was pestering her to get married Robert and she thought it would be Stanza. Robert's a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' liketheatre director. Her friendHe's also self-obsessed, Millydemanding, had arranged handsome and entitled and uses Edward to take her boyfriend, Liam, run errands for a night him. Edward has been in a posh hotel but then love with Stanza since their university days - and he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity s drunkenly confided how he feels to go in his placeRobert. She Most men in Robert's position would return home 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 find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QJo Callaghan|title=Without a Leave No Trace|author=Jane Bettany

|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through When a man is found crucified on the top of a divorce and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningsidekick, the AI detective Lock. It wasn't going to be though: s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when she went into her bedroom she there is a second body found crucified a dead man on her bed few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a knife in his chestpotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She'd no idea who he was.Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1035021803|title=Bitter FlowersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning been back to workthe English country village where she grew up. However She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, the quiet job heCarole. Freya's supposedly taken on caretaking someoneformer mentor and Carole's house quickly turns into a murder investigationclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and a mystery around a missing womanthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Varg finds himself Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only investigating thesebeen back to the village: Arthur, but also looking into an oldshe feels, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundlet her down badly. Somehow Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, these disparate cases appear she has not felt able to be linkednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but what is she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the linklove of her life, who was murdered) and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308XFreya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=18387748231398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 2016 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the Queen's Private Secretaryher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandnot. SwimmingShortly afterwards, he decidesEtty and Greg, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered find the body of Cynthia Harris at Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the side of the poolriver. There It was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by an easy assumption for the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris police to make that Duncan had slipped murdered Charlie and cut herself so badly that she had bled outthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonThe 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.

|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't 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 there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul Cleave, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=The Quiet PeopleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary= I am not a fan It was one of "those flash downpours that the Prologue"British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Most books are In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the worse for thembody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. In this He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case I might make an exceptionof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. We start with Luca Pittman who is in Geary was a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not havetownie, and when so what was he hurries, when he bundles things into doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the back suicide of his car Holly Gilbert and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, two other deaths which he should were not hear because this is New Zealand considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=1913193942

|isbn=178607981X1529425867|title=Bad ApplesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Will DeanSimon Mason

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the roadNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Wondering if someone needed help she got out D I Ryan Wilkins, son of the car - Ryan and heard the screams from deep inside the forestfather of Ryan, is not. Determining the direction He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a sound isntrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They't easy when re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way 're being introduced to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manpolice procedural written for laughs. HeWell, you'd been decapitatedre not. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident The two men are just different sides of Visbergthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529431735|title=Cold As HellThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary= In 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 red suitcase as the bottom of wanted drug smuggler for a fissure in decade. The return has come about because he's had a lava fieldletter from his ex-wife, there 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 body. And watery grave in the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable boot of killinga stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1913193888 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|authorisbn=Will Carver0861541774|title=Psychopaths AnonymousA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a high functioning alcoholicshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, drinking continuously Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and alsohe killed a Ghurka. Initially, curiously, addicted he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to attending numerous AA groupsmurder the man. She is also 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 self-acknowledged psychopathdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Whilst analysing It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and critiquing they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the AA steps baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is mainly using the groups approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to find targetshave 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.targets for sexual encountersThe police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, targets but Stuart's prepared to feed her desire pay Greg to hear of peoplefind out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's misery, the 1990s and targets for her violent behaviourGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Yet she also seems He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be searching for others who think thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as she doesa tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and when Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how shecould come to fall in front of a train. Greg's unable been asked to find likeinvestigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-minded people old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in any of the groups countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, 's drawn into a wider investigation - and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=19131937561448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.

|isbn=17841652631529077699|title=Invite Me InThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Emma CurtisAnn Cleeves

|summary=Martin Curran''It's wifeall bloody peculiar, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one oisn't it, Sir?''clock on the dot Well yes, despite it is. Jem Rosco blew into the fact that she was actually painting local pub one evening in the middle of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get homean autumn gale, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was stayed for about a paraplegic month and then turned up, naked and confined to dead, in a wheelchairsmall boat, but don't be too quick anchored in Scully Cove close to be understandingthe village of Greystone, in Devon. He was also Rosco had the status of a very unpleasant personnational treasure: he once told Eliza a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''you're good at being a disappointmentcelebrity''. All this was in ElizaI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannouncedll find out, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=17847427751529427045|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Susan HillKarin Smirnoff

|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were, 'Life has more to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be doneoffer than people - prime numbers for example''. Children as young as nine were being recruited  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to transport the drugs and small town of Gasskas, where the operation running so-far-untapped natural resources of the county lines was tightarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn Salander's niece't be s mother is the correct one) of latest woman in the person who area to have vanished without trace. It was running him only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but he certainly wouldnit quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few s unaware of the runners but theypart Salander played in her father'd never get anywhere near those higher ups death.