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|isbn=14059511841035043092|title=The Girls Who DisappearedKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Claire DouglasAnn Cleeves|rating=45

|summary=Back in November 1998I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a night outnew life on Orkney. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilIt's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's Corridornow living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, a figure appeared in the roaddaughter of his former partner. Olivia swerved to avoid him Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the car smashed into body of a treepopular islander, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph MiddletonArchie Stout, who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrived. But what had happened to Sally Thorneis found, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area aftermath of Wiltshirea storm, she can't resist getting involved. It was thought He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of as Avebury's poor relationa pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbn=1542037239henleyA|title=Death in HeelsUltimate Obsession|author=Kitty MurphyDai Henley

|summary=Set 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 the backdrop of Dublina 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 drag scenewhat 'ordinary people do', ''Death in Heels He'' tells s not been entirely up front about the story state of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about their savings. When Jack Durban tries to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant persuade him to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queentake his case, Eve, takes to it's the stage to mock Mae B. As if thought of the night money he could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in make that convinces him that this is a gutter. Fi is adamant miscarriage of justice that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperhe really should put right.

|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529934753|title=The Dark RoomProtest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=What if you knew someone was deadFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, because youthe country'd watched them die several years agos most famous living artist, but then you come across a photograph that seemed was not going to show their murder happened up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in a different place the nick of time, complete with his two wives and time? This is six children, one of whom filmed what happens to Leonard in this storyhappened. He is Being an ex-crime reporter for influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a newspaperrecord of the protest. Lexi Williams, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldintern at the RA, undeveloped rolls grabbed a spray can of film blue paint from under a chair and develops them proceeded to spray Bruce in his own dark room at home. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agoface, and who he whilst shouting ''thoughtStop the War'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. HeIt seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face'd felt guilty ever since that nightattacks, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she this was different. The can had been laced with himcyanide, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xand Sir Max Bruce was dead.

|isbn=B09SGWCXQ80008551375|title=The Night Watch When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)

|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his Leanne Wilson's body was found dashed to pieces below at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the cliffs at Dunnett Headresult of a tragic accident. Was it suicide She'd looked so happy, too, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was he pushed? On balancejust out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' she was linked to living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the deaths last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after the 'what a stupid thing to do'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmentexplanations applied. Paterson was Grigor They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's last clienta killer on the loose.

|isbn=000837936X0008643660|title=The Last Girl Burial Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the 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 group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to Dieinvestigate. Reading the letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion 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=Helen FieldsSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeThere's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's family moved to Tobermoryyoung, on the Isle of Mullambitious, in search of and ruthless. She talks a new good talk about work/lifebalance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. It was a bit Ray Wilkins is of a change from Las VegasNigerian descent, but the family seemed determined Baliol educated and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedalways immaculately dressed. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because AdrianaHe's mother is obviously Latino?) married to Diane and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagershas twin sons. Brandon, AdrianaManagement's twin, was upset opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and surlyhis last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. FourRyan Wilkins comes from a trailer park -year-old Luna just knew in fact, it could be said that she missed her big sisterhe's never really left it. It took four daysHe lives in shell suits and tracksuits, but Sadie found Adriana always in Mackinnonvivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should 's Cave'never'' be given responsibility. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingWainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.

|isbn=15098896121529077745|title=The Rising Tide Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)

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|summary=It's fifty years since A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a group of teenagers went on man in the park near Rosebank, a weekend retreat to Holy Islandcare home for troubled teens. Some The dead man was Josh - one of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for care workers who was due to work a reunion every five years since thenshift the night before but who had never turned up. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, murder - but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with only clue is the group each year as her husband, Ken, was disappearance of one of the original teenagersresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelgirl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Annie Laidler lives locally and She knows that she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areahas to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|isbn=02419901651529428289|title=Hope to Die A Grave in the Woods (D I FawleyA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Cara HunterMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but the call hadn't come from the householderwhen they found it, it came with three sets of bones. A couple of PCs went They dated back to make certain that everything was alright World War II and it took quite a while fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for the elderly householder St Denis, to answer discover the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In identities of the kitchen there was bodies and establish whether or not a body on the floor: the head crime had been blown off with a shotgun and committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the corpse was holding a knife in its right handDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Richard Swann told It's not just the police local autumn rains that he'd heard sounds of an intruder and have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' release water and come at him with St Denis faces the possibility of a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defencedevastating flood.

|isbn=178763566X152919640X|title=Listen to MeThe Suspect|author=Tess GerritsenRob Rinder

|summary=WeThe nation're s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in Boston with Amya busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. When Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she set out for university was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this morning it was a spring day 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 she wore her new-shut case. A man, butterycovered in mud and blood -leather pumps but as she and carrying a knife, comes out of into the library she knows police station shouting that theyhe hasn're going to be ruined - and unsafe t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - in the snow thathe's now fallingbeen stabbed to death. As she crosses DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the road, a car comes out birth of nowhere his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and hits her'John Tanner' were made for each other. It doesnHe's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't stopget any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTwo months later, we|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit're with Angela Rizzoli, mother leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the suburb of Reverewhole thing bothers Lowe, north and he enlists the help of Bostona fellow actor, where she livesJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Nothing gets past her They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsakseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is in California, looking after his sister, she has there really a link between the time deaths? And will they manage to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The uncover who is responsible before more people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=18011092650008517061|title=The CompanionDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Lesley ThomsonStig Abell|rating=54

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his sonFormer Metropolitan Police detective, WilburJake Johnson, for their 'boys' day out'has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the boy's attention, future of his life with his mothervet girlfriend, AnnaLivia and her daughter Diana, promised him as moving in together would mean a roast dinner when he returned. 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 the future she wants for herself and her daughter? The dinner would never be served, as James For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Wilbur are putting the victims of a double stabbing future on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughback burner.

|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1786482126|title=Dark MusicThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=How far from Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wondersite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -mind at when they discovered the heart bones of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthchild beneath a doorway. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is There was no John Watson MDskull. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on Was this a ritual killing or murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old? Inevitably, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutesIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but refuses to admit anythingNelson doesn't, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, 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 of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is pregnant with his child as a shambles. But taken off result of the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allone night they spent together some three months ago. Until, that may Her condition will beobvious before long, she manages not least because Ruth is prone to stop him in the middle sudden bouts of an apparent suicide attempt..sickness.|isbn=1529413192

|isbn=152941363X0008551324|title=To Kill a Troubadour The Devil You Know (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelD S Max Craigie)|author=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster

|summary=It''Nobody knows what s unusual for anyone from the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is Hardie family to approach the police chief . Neither side likes or has any respect for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as he'JJ'), s prepared to tell the police where the head body of detectives 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 départment of the Dordognepolice doing what he wants. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the well-being remainder of his sentence and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't normally have worried them think so much had it not been for and she's even prepared to do the strange bullet, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with Russian letters stamped on him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the base, which they Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found in and the carinvestigation ground to a halt. OhNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to s something about the owner positioning of the carbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. A golf bag would What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a good place to hide a sniper's weaponcomplex double murder. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were Kerrigan is convinced that the detectives being pushed explanation lies in a certain direction?Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=07278505470571379877|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Kellerby Code|author=David MarkJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. A body had been found in the roots of Robert's a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hulltheatre director. When he gets He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to the scene, he will find what greets run errands for him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled Edward has been in love with the roots of a newlyStanza since their university days -fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyeshe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's position would seem stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at two of them kissing in a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familydark passageway.

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=Little DrummerLeave No Trace|rating=34

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story When a man is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with found crucified on the death top of a young woman hill in a carparkNuneaton, that looks very much like an overdoseDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murderthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealingshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich Kat is led to Africa as they follow the twists suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and turns a very high profile case that draws a lot of the investigationunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down Will they be able to solve the truth case in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstancestime, trying hard to uncover or will Kat find herself taken off the truth as they are sure that something much biggercase and, and much more dangerouspotentially, is going on.out of a career?|isbn=1914585127139851120X

|isbn=13985075041035021803|title=Cold ReckoningThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been searching for evidence back to prove that hethe English country village where she grew up. She's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to now because of a cold case request for help from 2002her beloved aunt, Carole. There didn Freya't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tylers former mentor and Carole's death but Adam Tyler senses a link close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the case his father least. Arthur was investigating before he diedthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be brought out into near the openman or pursue the profession she loved. Perhaps Tyler is going to get After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the answers he needs?love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=17876349061398524085|title=No Less the DevilHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Stuart MacBrideNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=WeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband're in Oldcastle s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Malcolm her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is in troublenot. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugothe river. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat was an easy assumption for the police to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so make that she Duncan had murdered Charlie and Hugo could find out where then committed suicide when he was sleeping. It woncouldn't be long before stand the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: guilt. The Salter children are not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their backslives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1529900360|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Ghost Orchid|author=Rob KeeleyJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Nat Webber It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Tom Barton even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were in only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the finals help of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Inna psychologist only worked for a while. For aspiring barristersFinally, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: itwas Robin, Delaware's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thisShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of confidencea remote property in Bel Air. TomHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betternot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=1529125944178763681X|title=City of the DeadKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jonathan KellermanOrlando Murrin

|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a living, youresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn're careful t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and it's not just about the way that you drivewomen to do what he wanted. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itPaul ''somehow''s a trip got the impression that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When youhe're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off d be at 5 the school to assist Paul, who had abroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way.m. when The teaching - and the roads problems - are quieter, even if you have all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to wait turn up when you get to where you're goingdead. And it Unfortunately, he was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked person who discovered the body and couldn't everyone knows that the police consider that person to be identifiedthe prime suspect.

|isbn=B0949Q1DC11529421284|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Laying Out the Bones|author=Tim SullivanKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's SyndromeIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. He can be rudeIn a gully, difficult a human skeleton came to the surface and awkward with peopleforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, although it's never intentionalwho had disappeared nine years earlier. ItHe's just that he thinks differently d been a known drug user and social niceties simply donhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't occur to himconvinced. There's Geary was a reason why townie, so what was he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and it's that he has to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the best conviction rate with cases, evertime. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) Lockyer and even attempts to instil some DC Gemma Broad of those missing social niceties into Crossthe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's behaviourcold cases to you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1529425867|title=Unhinged Lost and Never Found (Volume 3) (Blix and RammA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=This In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixNigerian descent, a police officerBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Emma Rammfather of Ryan, a crime journalistis not. In this book we find that when one He's not any of Blixthose things. He's colleagueswhite, Kovic, uncovers originated from a connection between several Oslo casestrailer park, she tries barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to contact her superiora police procedural written for laughs. Well, Blixyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Before she can reach himSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, howeverwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she 's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is murderedabducted, stripped to his underwear and Blixsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartmentclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, narrowly escapes being murdered tooGuy Trueman. We then find ourselves Maik was involved in a few days street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with Blix a knife - and Rammhe killed a Ghurka. Initially, who are being interviewed by he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenman. What had Kovic discovered? Now he could be facing the death penalty. And what did Blix Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbn=15291516001521129886|title=Give Unto OthersThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Donna LeonKeith Redfern|rating=54

|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopenll warn someone about how much he charges. ThereIt's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have not put an end to greeda baby and they're both delighted. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the money which morning sickness. Greg is coming their way? approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Whilst heStuart's thinking concerned about thishis sister, Brunetti encounters someone heLucy, who's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when 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. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was a child. suicide, Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunettibut Stuart's adviceprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=B097XNMCRKB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Blood Tide Responsibilities (DS Max CraigieGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Macarthur

|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'It' s the back of beyond: there1990s and Greg Mason's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugstwenty-eight years old. Jimmy McLeish thought that He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he was onto 's now set himself up as a nice little earnerprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, only to find but where's the life experience that Macca, backs up this profession? On the man other hand, he thought he was working with, is deadhas been asked to look into something. His remains would never be foundJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The delivery is hijacked by Davie Joyce - and Callumher parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. As the story progresses weGreg'll get s been asked to know them quite wellinvestigate.

|isbn=15294096591838954481|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Misper|author=Elly GriffithsKate London|rating=54

|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's belongingsno doubt about that. She He was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an fifteen-year-old photograph, taken in misty conditions holding the gun and on the back pointing it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornat DI Kieran Shaw. It was before her parents were married. When she returned He pulled the trigger but due to Norfolk she the vagaries of the jury system he was determined to find out what was behind found not guilty of both the photograph but Covid intervened murder and the country was in lockdownmanslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Ruth For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and Kate are restricted to hoping for a quieter life in the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, back into the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersorbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=B09MN1526W1448309743|title=Blood Games The Devil Stone (DS Nikki Parekh 4DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Liz MistryCaro Ramsay

|summary=It's In the third murder in village of Cronchie on the space West coast of Scotland, five members of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagerswealthy family are found murdered. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst The only item missing from the first to arrive on home is the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on Devil Stone: myth says that if the outskirts of Bradfordstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. OnlyThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, this time, itthat's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be an easy conclusion given that two of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. It isnthem 'discovered't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though The Senior Investigating Office is that Nikki DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is going pulled in to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression'shadow' him.

|isbn=15291355671529077699|title=One Step Too FarThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Lisa GardnerAnn Cleeves

|summary=''It's five years since the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenall bloody peculiar, Scotisn't it, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)Sir?'' Well yes, Neil and Joshit is. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched middle of an autumn gale, stayed for him about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in vain and it was decided that Tima small boat, who was experienced anchored in survival techniquesScully Cove close to the village of Greystone, would go for helpin Devon. When help didn't come Rosco had the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign status of Tima national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Every year, TimI ''nearly''s father, Martin, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that theysaid 're looking for all-round good egg'remainsbut as we' rather ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for Tim.his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=15293465411529427045|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Elizabeth GeorgeKarin Smirnoff

|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the school systemsmall town of Gasskas, a representative from where the so-far-untapped natural resources of 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, area have sparked a filmmakergold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. It follows on from the success of DeborahSalander's book niece''London Voices'': the meeting s mother is an exploration of the possibility of latest woman in the idea behind the book being used area to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitieshave vanished without trace. DeborahIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the problem seems to occur part Salander played in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsher father's death.