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|isbn=13985075041035043092|title=Cold ReckoningThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he 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=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the last sixteen years hecountry's been searching most famous living artist, was not going to show up for evidence the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to prove do things like that he's right. When a frozen body , but it was found in Damflask Reservoir, fortunate that there was a link back to record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a cold case spray can of blue paint from 2002under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. There didn't immediately seem It seemed to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerpart of an ongoing series of 'blue-face's death attacks, but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father this was investigating before he dieddifferent. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the open The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbn=17876349060008551375|title=No Less the DevilWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stuart MacBrideNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in trouble. HeLeanne Wilson's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peoplebody was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. One is Allegra (weShe'll soon learn that d looked so happy, too, when she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugoposted her intentions on Facebook. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (Her friends were relieved as she often does this for homeless peoplewas just out of an unpleasant relationship, apparently) but it looked like she'd put a tracking device in was living her best life now. Then it so emerged that she five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingsensible people. It wonNone of the 'what a stupid thing to do't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their ownexplanations applied. They were all alone when they died: not many other people are going to have DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsloose.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0008643660|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Burial Place|author=Rob KeeleyStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and Tom Barton were in some of the finals excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the Moots group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to take place lead a simpler life at The Honourable Society of FriarLittle Sky but he's Inninevitably drawn in to investigate. For aspiring barristersReading the letters, moots test it's difficult to avoid the participantsconclusion that there will be violence and even the local police are keen that Jake should be involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|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' knowledge of several areas of law s young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, but as well far as their advocacy skills: itshe's a great way concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of getting invaluable practice 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 getting yourself noticedhimself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Tom and Nat are Ryan Wilkins comes from 'a provincial universitytrailer park - in fact, it could be said that he' s never really left it. He lives in shell suits and theytracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should 're 'never'almost'' looked down on because be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of thisa man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The other contestants dead man was Josh - Becca Deckerone of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder -Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance but her only clue is the disappearance of one of confidencethe residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. TomSome people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=15291259441529428289|title=City A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of the DeadPolice Novel)|author=Jonathan KellermanMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles Because of various property transactions, people were searching for a livingthe grave but when they found it, you're careful and it's not just about the way that you drivecame with three sets of bones. You restrict your alcohol intake They dated back to World War II and if it's fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepcrime had been committed. When youAs if this isn're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off t enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at 5 arecord levels.m. when It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the roads are quieter, even if you problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to wait up when you get to where you're going. And it was going well until release water and St Denis faces the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood possibility of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identifieda devastating flood.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC1152919640X|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Suspect|author=Tim SullivanRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerThe nation's Syndrome. He can be rudefavourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, difficult was murdered live on television and awkward with people, although itseems that there's never intentionalonly one suspect. ItHe's just celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur must not serve anything containing miso to himJessica Holby. ThereShe's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit busy, live television studio - and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everBrooks served a ragout to Holby. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached Her EpiPen was nowhere to himself) be found and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerB0CYV674G2|title=Unhinged Swanton Morley (Volume 3) (Blix and RammJohn Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is the third book It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a series of stories featuring Alexander Blixknife, a comes into the police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journaliststation shouting that he hasn't killed the man. In this book we find that when one A body at the bottom of Blixa freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries been stabbed to contact her superior, Blixdeath. Before she can reach him, however, she DCI John Tanner is murderedjust 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 Blix'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's daughter Iselin who shares sleep-deprived to the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenhe can't get any sleep at home. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbnauthor=1529151600Stuart Douglas|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'pandemiaFloggit and Leggit'' stripped , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the city dead body of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot woman on the edge of businesses have closed, most never to reopena reservoir. There's now a cascade of money The police seem happy to assign it as life begins again an accidental death, but even 125something about the whole thing bothers Lowe,000 deaths have not put an end and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to greedhelp him investigate matters further. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all They travel across the money which is coming country during their way? Whilst he's thinking about thisdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childlink to death during the Second World War. Elisabetta Foscarini has But is there really a problem and she'd like Brunetti's advice.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0008517061|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Neil LancasterStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto There’s perhaps a nice little earner, only to find that Macca, uncertainty about the man he thought he was working future of his life withhis vet girlfriend, is dead. His remains Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would never be found. The delivery 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 this is hijacked by Davie the future she wants for herself and Callum. her daughter? As For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the story progresses we'll get to know them quite wellfuture on the back burner.
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|isbn=15294096591786482126|title=The Locked Room 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.
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|isbn=0008551324
|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)
|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It'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 missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even 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 happening.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008405026
|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)
|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her father had remarried but his wife bed one summer night. She was now keen to do some decorating never found and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered the investigation ground to clear out a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's belongings. She was intrigued by something about the discovery of a picture positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her own house: boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an old photograph, taken in misty conditions open-and on -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the back it said explanation lies in Rosalie'dawn 1963s disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, some years before Ruth was bornUna Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. It was before her parents were marriedRobert's a theatre director. When she returned He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdownrun errands for him. Ruth Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Kate are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting he's drunkenly confided how he feels to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesRobert. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant Most men in Robert's position would stay away from next door whom they got Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to know whilst clapping for carersstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WJo Callaghan|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's When a man is found crucified on the third murder in the space top of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on case alongside her sidekick, the outskirts of BradfordAI detective Lock. Only, this time, itIt's going to be differenttheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The But when there is a second body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqibfound crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and she has a very public meltdownhigh profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Will they be able to solve the body is clad case in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety , or will Kat find herself taken off the case and depression., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15291355671035021803|title=One Step Too FarThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lisa GardnerC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the stag weekendEnglish country village where she grew up. Five She's back now because of them had set out: Tim (the groom) a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and his four groomsmen, ScotCarole's close friend, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)Arthur Crockleford, Neil is dead and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed circumstances seem suspicious, to wander offsay the least. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it Arthur was decided that Timthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, who was experienced in survival techniquesshe feels, would go for helplet her down badly. When help didn't come Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the remaining three finally made their way back to townprofession she loved. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every yearAfter the split, Tim's fathershe worked in a cafe, Martinmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and the four friends Freya and James have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timdivorced.
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|isbn=15293465411398524085|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elizabeth GeorgeNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's late July fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Deborah St James Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is at a meeting with Dominique Shawnot. Shortly afterwards, Undersecretary for the school systemEtty and Greg, a representative from find the NHSbody of Greg's father, Mr Oh from BarnardosDuncan Ackerley, someone from in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid House whose name she didn|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't catch been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but would later turn out to be Zawadi he felt responsible and Narissa Cameroneven after Alex recovered, a filmmakerSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. It follows on from His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the success help of Deboraha psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's book ''London Voices'': partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the meeting is an exploration of man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the possibility swimming pool of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern a remote property in some communitiesBel Air. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as He was the problem seems heir to occur in Nigerian an Italian shoe empire and Somali communities as she relies on getting is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the trust Italian. But which of them was the people she speaks to and photographs.primary target?
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|isbn=1398706906178763681X|title=The LostKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Simon BeckettOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance 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 Metropolitan police firearms officergetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, Jonah Colleybut it didn's young sont 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, Theohe was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, just about finished hima human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, particularly as he blamed himself for what who had happeneddisappeared nine years earlier. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing been a known drug user and when he wokehad learning disabilities, Theo had goneso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. It cost him his marriage Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and his hometo two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Ten years later heLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's largely come through it cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and hefather of Ryan, is not. He's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneynot any of those things. Gavin used to be his best friend but itHe's white, originated from a long time since theytrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really''ve spokenhis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. HeThey's obviously re usually in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to meet him at Slaughter Quaya police procedural written for laughs. Well, you''Therere not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's no one else I can trust'', he saysproblematic.
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|isbn=15294181001529431735|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Winter Visitor|author=Martin WalkerJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a fan of Martin Walkerdecade. The return has come about because he's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Brunohad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's Challenge'' was hard to resist ill and I'm rather glad that I didnhasn't even trylong to live. For those new It's hard to the seriesfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need stripped to know about who's who his underwear and the background sent to why Bruno is a watery grave in St Denisthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF0861541774|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Jenny O'BrienSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hunter had diabetes and this Maik was controlled by involved in a pump attached to his stomach, so her overstreet brawl -protectiveness he would later maintain that he was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married facing a man armed with a knife - and she thought it would be he killed a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeGhurka. Her friendInitially, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in he faced a posh hotel charge of manslaughter but then evidence came to light that suggested that he dumped her and she couldn't get might have planned to murder the money back, so Hannah was offered man. Now he could be facing the opportunity to go in his placedeath penalty. She would return home Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to find Ian dead help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and five-year-old Hunter missingwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1521129886|title=Without a TraceThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jane BettanyKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadnGreg Mason't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: shes just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'd just come through s a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a divorce baby and right now it was raining hardthey're both delighted. All Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she wanted was gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to get back have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningson is not thriving. It Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chestnature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Shebut Stuart'd no idea who he wass prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenB0CK3MYJ56|title=Bitter FlowersResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint high-flying job in rehab and is now returning to work. However, the quiet job city but it wasn't satisfying so he's supposedly taken on caretaking someonenow set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing womanyou might be thinking. Varg finds himself not only investigating theseNice bloke, but also looking where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night something. Joyce and was never found. SomehowHelen are half-sisters, these disparate cases appear to be linkedor rather, but they were until Helen was killed in what is the link's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xshe could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|isbn=18387748231838954481|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Misper|author=S J BennettKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided no doubt about that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is He was the fifteen-year-old holding the way to go gun and he can use pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came trigger but due to be there early one morning and discovered the body vagaries of Cynthia Harris at the side jury system he was found not guilty of both the pool. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by murder and the look at it - probably one manslaughter of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself officer. And so badly lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she had bled out. Still, it was 's drawn into a shock for Sir Simonwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1448309743|title=The Quiet PeopleDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not a fan In the village of "Cronchie on the Prologue"West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Most books are The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the worse for themstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. In this case I might make The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an exceptioneasy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. We start with Luca Pittman who The Senior Investigating Office is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have, and DCI Bob Oswald but when he hurriesdisappears, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to run and then hears sirens behind 'shadow' him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942
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|isbn=178607981X1529077699|title=Bad ApplesThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Will DeanAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up , naked and dead, in a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the side village of the roadGreystone, in Devon. Wondering if someone needed help she got out Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the car - world sailor and heard the screams from deep inside the forestall round ''celebrity''. Determining the direction of I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a sound little bit close with money and his background isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manexactly an open book. He'd been decapitated. Where did he get the money for his first boat? He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visberg.How did he finance the trip?
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529427045|title=Cold As HellThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary= In a red suitcase as ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the bottom so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a fissure gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in a lava field, there coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is a bodythe latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. And the man who has put It was only with reluctance that Salander became her there has just discovered niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that he Svala is capable a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of killingthe part Salander played in her father's death.|isbn=1913193888
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