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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1035043092|title=Dark MusicThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=35|genre=Thriller, Crime|summary=How far from the original I can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does 't have a wonder-mind at been the heart of what little investigating is going ononly person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, but there is not Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as new life on their exact wavelengthOrkney. For oneIt'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 main focus daughter of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDhis former partner. SheWillow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a Chilean popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the Stockholm policeaftermath of a storm, put on a murder squad as she knows can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the prime suspect head with a Neolithic stone - one of old, in a case where pair - which had been stolen from a referee of museum.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchPrivate Investigator for some time now, and just outside the stadiumhe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. BeppeHis wife, the suspectLaura, was drunkenly antagonistic has been trying to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses persuade him to admit anythingretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do', through days and weeks of interrogation. '' When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes He's not been entirely up with, front about the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks state of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblestheir savings. But taken off the When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, she can no longer help solve it's the crime, and with Rekke thought of the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, money he could make that may be, she manages to stop convinces him in the middle that this is a miscarriage of an apparent suicide attempt..justice that he really should put right.|isbn=1529413192

|isbn=152941363X1529934753|title=To Kill The Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=For a Troubadour (A Brunolittle 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 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 do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, Chief whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of Police Novelan ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster

|summary=Leanne Wilson''Nobody knows what s body was found at the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much bottom of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')a Scottish mountain, seemingly the head result of detectives for the départment of the Dordognea tragic accident. TheyShe're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franced looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. The discovery Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an oldunpleasant relationship, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found similar circumstances in the carlast year. OhAll were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner sensible people. None of the car. A golf bag would be 'what a good place stupid thing to hide a sniperdo's weaponexplanations applied. Was They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were 's a killer on the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?loose.

|isbn=07278505470008643660|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Burial Place|author=David MarkStig Abell

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body had been found in the roots group of archaeologists are uncovering a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hull. When he gets Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedexcavations are being televised. A young manThere's corpse is entangled with the roots even a hoard of a newly-fallen tree – Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the roots have grown through him – finders and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesthe landowner. It would seem that this was done whilst 's perfect until the man was still alivegroup begin receiving threatening letters. McAvoy makes Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a promise simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to investigate. Reading the victim: I letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost be violence and this time even the cost might local police are keen that Jake should be to McAvoy's own familyinvolved.

|authorisbn=1529425905|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett A Voice in the Night (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Little DrummerSimon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesThere's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thrillerruthless. Beginning with the death of She talks a young woman in a carparkgood talk about work/life balance and family values, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a but as far-reaching investigation of murderas she's concerned, fraudshe has two main problems, and international pharmaceutical dealingsthey're both called DI Wilkins. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led always immaculately dressed. He's married to Africa as they follow the twists Diane and turns 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 investigationwet end'. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in increasingly difficultfact, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure it could be said that something much bigger, he's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and much more dangeroustracksuits, is going onalways 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.|isbn=1914585127

|isbn=13985075041529077745|title=Cold ReckoningThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves

|summary=DS Adam Tyler A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never believed turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that his father committed suicide and Chloe was responsible for the last sixteen years hedeath but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's been diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for evidence to prove that he's right. When a frozen body was the grave but when they found in Damflask Reservoirit, there was a link it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a cold case from 2002crime had been committed. There didn As if this isn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link enough to worry about, the case his father was investigating before he diedDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Above all there It's a growing sense not just the local autumn rains that have caused the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to be brought out into release water and St Denis faces the openpossibility of a devastating flood. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|isbn=1787634906152919640X|title=No Less the DevilThe Suspect|author=Stuart MacBrideRob Rinder

|summary=WeThe nation're in Oldcastle s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and Malcolm is in troubleit seems that there's only one suspect. He's in an abandoned house celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that hemust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's being threatened by two young peopleseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra DeanEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio -Edwards) and HugoBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It seems was soon clear that Allegra bought Malcolm this 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, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopleknife, apparently) but shecomes into the police station shouting that he hasn'd put t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he was sleeping's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. It wonYou would think he't d be long before grateful for an easy answer but the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other people are going . He's sleep-deprived to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backspoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob Keeleythe Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=Nat Webber During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Tom Barton were in Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the finals dead body of a woman on the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society edge of Friar's Inna reservoir. For aspiring barristersThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, moots test but something about the participants' knowledge whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Tom They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Nat are from ', seemingly, a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thislink to death during the Second World War. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidence. But is there really a link between the deaths? Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=15291259440008517061|title=City of the DeadDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jonathan KellermanStig Abell

|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a living, you're careful and it's not just little uncertainty about the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and if it's her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieter, even if you have -grid and relaxing life to wait up when you get move in with Livia or does Livia move to where you're going. Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? And it was going well until For the men hit something moment they’re enjoying life in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked the present and couldn't be identifiedputting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=B0949Q1DC11786482126|title=The Patient Janus Stone (A DS Cross thrillerDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Tim SullivanElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=DS George Cross has Builders were demolishing an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Aspergerold house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's Syndromeapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He can be rudeWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, difficult and awkward Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with people, although it's never intentionalDCI Harry Nelson. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply dondifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't occur to him. There's , that she is pregnant with his child as a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has result of the best conviction rate with cases, everone night they spent together some three months ago. His partner Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached prone to himself) and even attempts to instil some sudden bouts of those missing social niceties into Cross's behavioursickness.

|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0008551324|title=Unhinged The Devil You Know (Volume 3) (Blix and RammD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=This is It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one of BlixNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers prepared to tell the police where the body of a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact missing person is buried and who was responsible for her superior, Blixdeath. Before she can reach himThis person, howeverhe promises, she is murdered, someone big and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares it will be worth the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toopolice doing what he wants. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot remainder of his sentence and killed someoneto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, and Ramm saw is it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Ramm uncover she's even prepared to do the other thing that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=15291516000008405026|title=Give Unto OthersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Donna LeonJane Casey

|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The ''pandemia'' stripped She was never found and the city of its tourists for nearly two years and investigation ground to a lot of businesses have closedhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, most never to reopenand her father are dead in their bed. ThereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's now a cascade something about the positioning of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they What looked as though it was going to launder all the money which be an open-and-shut case is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was now a childcomplex double murder. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and sheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd like Brunettis disappearance: others (such as Derwent's adviceboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B097XNMCRK0571379877|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Kellerby Code|author=Neil LancasterJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|summary=Loch Torridon ''When a man is'' found crucified on the back top of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerhill in Nuneaton, only DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to find that Maccathe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. the man he thought he was working It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with, is deadseveral cold cases. His remains would never be But when there is a second body found. The delivery crucified a few days later, Kat is hijacked by Davie suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Calluma very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. As Will they be able to solve the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=15294096591035021803|title=The Locked Room 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 (Dr Ruth Gallowayon 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=Elly GriffithsNicci French

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was some time since expected at her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhusband's belongingsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographHer children, sons Niall, taken in misty conditions Paul and Ollie and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'her daughter, some years before Ruth was bornEtty. It was before are all worried but - strangely - her parents were marriedhusband, Alec, is not. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the country was in lockdownriver. Ruth and Kate are restricted to It was an easy assumption for the cottage with Ruth attempting police to home school Kate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and continue with her university teaching dutiesthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they got to know whilst clapping for carerscan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B09MN1526W1529900360|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Ghost Orchid|author=Liz MistryJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's the third murder in the space of a few weeks fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and they've all been because of machetes used even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on teenagersdifficult cases. DS Nikki Parekh His assertions that there were only open-and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on -shut cases which didn't need the outskirts help of Bradforda psychologist only worked for a while. OnlyFinally, this timeit was Robin, itDelaware's going to be differentpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewnext case did look simple, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownthough. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Two lovers were murdered in the body is clad swimming pool of a remote property in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundBel Air. What it does mean though He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is that Nikki is going married to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety an extremely rich man and depressionit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=1529135567178763681X|title=One Step Too FarKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Lisa GardnerOrlando 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, 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=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=It's five years since was one of those flash downpours that the stag weekendBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Five of them had set out: Tim (In a gully, a human skeleton came to the groom) surface and his four groomsmen, Scotforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshhad disappeared nine years earlier. The first night they He'd been a known drug user and had plenty learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it Geary was decided that Tima townie, who so what was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? When help didn't come There are connections to the remaining three finally made their way back suicide of Holly Gilbert and to towntwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of Tim. Every year, Timthe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's father, Martin, cold cases to you and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timme) investigate.

|isbn=15293465411529425867|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Elizabeth GeorgeSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is at a meeting with Dominique Shawof Nigerian descent, Undersecretary for the school systemBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, a representative from the NHSson of Ryan and father of Ryan, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didnis not. He't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakers not any of those things. It follows on He's white, originated from the success of Deboraha trailer park, barely educated (reading's book not ''London Voicesreally'': the meeting is an exploration his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the possibility shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the idea behind same policing coin. Sometimes the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiescombination works brilliantly well. DeborahSometimes it's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsproblematic.

|isbn=13987069061529431735|title=The LostWinter Visitor|author=Simon BeckettJames Henry

|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young sonFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd fallen asleep in been exiled on the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had goneCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely The return has come through it and about because he's out with his team when he gets had a phone call letter from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but itex-wife, saying that she's a ill and hasn't long time since they've spokento live. HeIt's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his voice - underwear and he asks Jonah sent to meet him at Slaughter Quaya watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbn=15294181000861541774|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IDCI Domenic Jejeune'm not usually s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget holiday in Singapore to pick it meet up again with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - but I am he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a fan charge of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation manslaughter but evidence came to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard light that suggested that he might have planned to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even trymurder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. For those new Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to the series, therehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's an excellent introduction that will tell you t help Danny at all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.

|isbn=B09GJW49GF1521129886|title=Buried Lies They Had It Coming (Gaby Darin Book 5Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jenny O'BrienKeith Redfern

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Hunter had diabetes It's a good job too because Greg and this was controlled by Joyce will soon have a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she thought it would be a good idea for him gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to find out what parenting was ''really'' likehave killed himself. Her friendStuart's concerned about his sister, MillyLucy, had arranged who's struggling to take make ends meet and her boyfriendson is not thriving. Lucy, Liamhe says, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldnis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placenature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, She would return home but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingout what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=B09GV3WS1QB0CK3MYJ56|title=Without a TraceResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jane BettanyAnn Macarthur

|summary=Life hadnIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: shesatisfying so he'd just come through s now set himself up as a divorce and right now it was raining hardprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? All she wanted was On the other hand, he has been asked to get back to her new home look into something. Joyce and settle down for Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a quiet eveningtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. It wasnJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't going to be though: when understand what she went into her bedroom was doing there - or how she found a dead man on her bed with could come to fall in front of a knife in his chesttrain. SheGreg'd no idea who he wass been asked to investigate.

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1838954481|title=Bitter FlowersThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54

|summary=Varg Veum is Ryan Kennedy killed a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and is now returning pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to workthe 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. However, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the quiet job he's supposedly taken capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on caretaking someoneher territory she's house quickly turns drawn into a murder wider investigation, - and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking back into an old, cold case the orbit of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundRyan Kennedy. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X

|isbn=18387748231448309743|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=S J BennettCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=It's 2016 and In the village of Cronchie on the Queen's Private SecretaryWest coast of Scotland, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting five members of a strain on his waistbandwealthy family are found murdered. Swimming, he decides, The only item missing from the home is the way to go and he can use Devil Stone: myth says that if the Buckingham Palace pool which stone is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, by the look at it - probably one that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outbody. Still The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, it was a shock for Sir SimonDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.

|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1529077699|title=The Quiet PeopleRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary= I am not a fan of "''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the Prologue". Most books are local pub one evening in the worse middle of an autumn gale, stayed for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a hurry. He has small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to hurry because he has children that he should not havethe village of Greystone, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into in Devon. Rosco had the back status of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind hima national treasure: a renowned adventurer, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand round the world sailor and that is not how they do things thereall round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he takes could be more than a risklittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942 Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=178607981X1529427045|title=Bad ApplesThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Will DeanKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the side so-far-untapped natural resources of the roadarea have sparked a gold rush. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Determining the direction of a sound isnSalander's niece't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness s mother is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a the latest woman was holding her coat over in the body of a manarea to have vanished without trace. HeIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, s guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a resident remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of Visbergthe part Salander played in her father's death.