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|isbn=15291963881035043092|title=The TrialKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann 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=Grant Cliveden was For a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and little while, it looked up to by just about everyoneas though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Old BaileyRoyal Academy. There's just one man Still, he arrived in the frame for nick of time, complete with his murder - Jimmy Knight - two wives and it's not too long before Knight appears in courtsix children, charged with Cliveden's murderone of whom filmed what happened. Knight Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was told fortunate that there was a record of the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of Stag Court Chambers blue paint from under a chair and itproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 's Taylorblue-Cameron and his pupilface' attacks, Adam Green, who eventually represent himbut this was different. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyThe can had been laced with cyanide, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contraryand Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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|isbn=0008551375|title=When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Andrew CartmelNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008643660|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Burial Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and in particular some of the excavations are being televised. There's even a series called Sleuth Houndhoard 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. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitJake Jackson, sometimes 'tweaking' thema former police detective, is trying to add value, lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in somewhat fraudulent waysto investigate. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Reading the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isletters, and how she can steal it! It's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and what will happen when even the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947local police are keen that Jake should be involved.
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|isbn=14483093791529425905|title=Flesh and Blood A Voice in the Night (DS McAvoy 11A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=David MarkSimon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItThere's something of a surprise to find that younew Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she're deads young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, particularly when youbut as far as she're thinking that yous concerned, she has two main problems, and they're actually on a break with your wife both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and children, but thatalways immaculately dressed. He's what happened married to DS Aector McAvoyDiane and has twin sons. Whilst Management's opinion of him is that he was relieved to find thinks too highly of himself and his last boss felt that he was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahneeded more experience at what he called 'the wet end'. Her protegee - McAvoy Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when fact, it was obvious could be said that someone was tampering with her carhe's never really left it. He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, was notalways in vivid colours. Thor Ingolfsson Previous management was Aector McAvoyadamant that he should ''never''s doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindlybe given responsibility. It had always been suspected Wainwright feels that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorshe would be best shut of both of them.
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|isbn=15291353891529077745|title=The FallDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Gilly MacmillanAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent A man walking his dog in the early morning at discovered the body of a man in the county fair before she returned park near Rosebank, a care homefor troubled teens. There The dead man was no sign Josh - one of her husband but opera the care workers who was playing on due to work a shift the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnnight before but who had never turned up. They'd not been D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the architectmurder -designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the highresidents, fourteen-tech systems Tom had insisted uponyear-old Chloe Spencer. Some of them fought with each other and didnpeople believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl't work as reliably as they shoulds diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used She knows that she has to find Chloe to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound discover what happened to his headJosh.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529428289|title=To Die A Grave in Junethe Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the unfortunategrave but when they found it, accidental death it came with three sets of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredBruno, and then another. This is worrying enough the Chief of Police for detective Harry McCoySt Denis, but all to discover the identities of the more so because his own father is bodies and establish whether or not a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has crime had been for yearscommitted. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move As if this isn't enough to a different police stationworry about, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record of the boy having existed can be foundlevels. Something feels wrong - It's not just with the woman’s story but also with local autumn rains that have caused the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going problem: various dams upstream on?|isbn=1805300784another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1804545600152919640X|title=The MonkSuspect|author=Tim SullivanRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation'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 a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that 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 knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just 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 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body in of a woman on the woods near Bristol was edge of a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchreservoir. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. He'd been missing for help of a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission fellow actor, John Le Breton to leave his abbeyhelp him investigate matters further. As They travel across the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankercountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, brotherseemingly, neighbour and frienda link to death during the Second World War. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. But is there really a link between the deaths? Why would someone savagely murder himAnd will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00085170100008517061|title=Death Under in a Little SkyLonely Place
|author=Stig Abell
|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It might have been different if There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the pregnancies hadn't ended future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in miscarriages but no one else was involved together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- certainly grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was this is the future she wants for Faye either. They were still polite to each other herself and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain married. her daughter? The perfect solution arrived in For the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property moment they’re enjoying life in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - present and enough money to live there without putting the future on the need to workback burner.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1786482126|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year Builders were demolishing an old Edie has lived house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing bones of a child beneath a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memorydoorway. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there There was no skull. Was this a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agoritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. After It'seeings difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' Lucy in the high streett, just that she is pregnant with his child as she was a result of the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to herone night they spent together some three months ago. And yet as she remembers the pastHer condition will be obvious before long, she not least because Ruth is forgetting more and more in her day prone to day lifesudden bouts of sickness. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=00085512780008551324|title=Blood Runs Cold The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)
|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched It's unusual for anyone from the bottom of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her trainingHardie family to approach the police. SheNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd been a bit s prepared to tell the police where the body of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it now looks as though she could will be heading for worth the national squadpolice doing what he wants. That's quite And what he wants is to be transferred to an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came open prison to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at serve the age remainder of twelvehis sentence and to get an early parole date. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and three years later she's happy even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with her foster familyhim is kept well away from what's happening. There}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's just sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one cloud on summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her horizon: mother, Helena, and her little sisterfather are dead in their bed. Initially, Melodi is in it looks like a childrenstraightforward murder/suicide but there's home in Tirana something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- and anyone could get to her-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)0571379877|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, bitter womanobsessed with his upper-class friends, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. Sorry He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to leave her bottles of red wine behind her run errands for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument him. Edward has been in love with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying Stanza since their university days - and he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up drunkenly confided how he feels to that accusationRobert. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month Most men in Robert's position would stay away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more Stanza or less about everything – word comes tell Edward that the landladya relationship had begun between them but he's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1398509582Jo Callaghan|title=The Favour|author=Nicci FrenchLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 amWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, not long after A levels, when DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by case alongside her determination to go to medical school. Liam was sidekick, the reverseAI detective Lock. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over and carried him along'It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. A bit of weed hereBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a few drinks there: the legal effects potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of the car crash really didn't worry him at allunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The relationship broke up soon after that - Will they be able to solve the case in time, or ratherwill Kat find herself taken off the case and, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1035021803|title=Her Deadly GameThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the lifeEnglish country village where she grew up. She's work back now because of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'The Irish Brawlers former mentor and Carole' due s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientssay the least. Along with an indisputable talent for Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the lawvillage: Arthur, she feels, Patsy also let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has a gift for drinking himself not felt able to oblivion and inevitably be near the latter was beginning to overshadow man or pursue the formerprofession she loved. Enter Keera DugganAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, former competitive chess prodigy met and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in married James (on the rebound from the hideous position love of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleaguelife, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761398524085|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was because of expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closeher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. If you're a regular reader Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of the [[Jane CaseyGreg's Maeve Kerrigan series father, Duncan Ackerley, in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sentence twice Duncan had murdered Charlie and wondered if itthen committed suicide when he couldn's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between t stand the two which seems very, very realguilt. But (The Salter children are not convinced but there's always a 'little else they can do but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes get on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertaintheir lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529900360|title=Promise BoysThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the principal (headmaster) help of Urban Promise Prep school is murdereda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, three boys find themselves called who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the police station as suspectsinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. EachThe next case did look simple, seemingly, has though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and each could have been there at it's not the time of his murderItalian. But who killed him, and why, and if any which of them was the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their namesprimary target?|isbn=1035003155
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|isbn=1529125960178763681X|title=Unnatural HistoryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jonathan KellermanOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a photographerresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Well, it was Adonis, actually, He didn't really want to but Donny celebrity chef Christian Wagner had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught a way of getting both men and it falls women to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as do what he tries to establish what's happenedwanted. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called Paul ''The Wisherssomehow''. Hegot the impression that he'd taken eight homeless people off be at the streets school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and asked them what theythe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'd really like t expected was for someone to beturn up dead. They were then dressed up as their fantasyUnfortunately, photographed he was the person who discovered the body and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarseveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529421284|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It was one of those flash downpours that the start of her maternity leave when there is British weather often delivers in a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinheatwave. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for In a killer targeting pregnant womengully, with all a human skeleton came to the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Finding herself put on desk dutiesHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, which she rails against, she just canso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't let convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the case go suicide of Holly Gilbert and she starts to follow every thread to uncover whattwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's actually happening, cold cases to you and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextme) investigate.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544931529425867|title=All the Dangerous ThingsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stacy WillinghamSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIn 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 father of Ryan, is not. He't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track s not any of time or drifted off for a momentthose things. ItHe's now white, originated from a year since her sontrailer park, Mason, was stolen from barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his bed in the middle wardrobe consists mainly of the night shell suits and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping trackies. They're usually inlime green or acid yellow. In that year sheYou might wonder if you's done everything she could re being introduced to raise awareness about the casea police procedural written for laughs. She does interviews and when we meet herWell, sheyou's re not. The two men are just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote different sides of the same policing coin. presentationSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. On the plane back, sheSometimes it's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesproblematic.
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|isbn=057137493X1529431735|title=The Other HalfWinter Visitor|author=Charlotte VassellJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''The room was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' s February 1991 and Essex is the story of two menbitingly cold, both with what looks like which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the same surnamemore surprising. Rupert Beauchamp is He'd been exiled on the heir to Costa del Sol as a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is wanted drug smuggler for a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Towndecade. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced The return has come about because he'Beechams had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police s ill and is bi-racialhasn't long to live. His surname It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caiusabducted, out for stripped to his underwear and sent to a run, stumbles across watery grave in the body boot of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfrienda stolen Ford Sierra. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a bush.problem closer to home?
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|isbn=08570517410861541774|title=The Sins A Nye of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationPheasants|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has only taken a few weeks short holiday in Singapore to live but meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he's determined would later maintain that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of he was facing a body found in man armed with a freezer at the home of knife - and he killed a deceased alcoholicGhurka. The problem is Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the case has long passed the statute of limitationsman. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was Now he could be facing the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromdeath penalty. Rebecka wants Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is help as any interference from another police force could provoke a dying mandiplomatic incident and wouldn's wisht help Danny at all. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15294212411521129886|title=Stay BuriedThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Kate WebbKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's actually a cold case unit good job too because Greg and there are just two of them doing Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the jobmorning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. LockyerStuart's not unduly worriedconcerned about his sister, Lucy, though although hewho's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterthriving. It was a bit of a shock when Lucy, he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: shesays, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's t in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - his nature. The police and it the coroner have accepted that the death was Lockyer who put her theresuicide, fourteen years ago. Shebut Stuart's keen prepared to see him and pay Greg to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but find out what happened on the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesnight Gil died.
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|isbn=1399702289B0CK3MYJ56|title=A World of Curiosities Responsibilities (Chief Inspector GamacheGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Louise PennyAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a harsh winter, It's the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache 1990s and Inspector JeanGreg Mason's twenty-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québeceight years old. Gamache had offered help He used to have a young woman after high-flying job in the murder city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of her mother: heCameron Strike'd been less certain about her charismatic brother, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? For Jean-GuyOn the other hand, it had always he has been the other way aroundasked to look into something. Now Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they're both were until Helen was killed in the village and neither can fathom what's happeningbeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Armand will soon find that theyJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can're not just t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifefront of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1838954481|title=White RiotThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's always no doubt about that. He was the danger of making fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it too reactionary; too rawat DI Kieran Shaw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture He pulled the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer trigger but due to be able to capture the zeitgeist vagaries of a particular event or era the jury system he was found not guilty of political history. Austerity Britain, both the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, murder and has been, written in the immediate aftermath manslaughter of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivethe officer. And so lives must go on. Inevitably ( For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and perhaps disappointingly hoping for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), a quieter life in the best writing about current political events countryside but when a missing teenager is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and when time and experience has afforded back into the writer the benefit orbit of a more objective viewRyan Kennedy.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbn=18387761841448309743|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=S J BennettCaro Ramsay|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The Queen, like In the sunrise and village of Cronchie on the tidesWest coast of Scotland, was generally a reliable way five members of marking time.'' It seemed to begin as a coldwealthy family are found murdered. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefully, The only item missing from the home is the Queen thought, her cold would go Devil Stone: myth says that if the same way. She'd probably caught it stone is removed from one of the great-grandchildrenOtterburn House, death will follow. UnfortunatelyThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot down. He'd have preferred s an easy conclusion given that the queen have a few daystwo of them ' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with the thought that theydiscovered'd go by helicopter the following daybody. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to disappoint'shadow' him.
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|isbn=08615419951529077699|title=Wolf PackThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Will DeanAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north of Visberg''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. She sees blood on Jem Rosco blew into the road and a creature on its side near local pub one evening in the pine trees. It will turn out to be Broncomiddle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a Swedish Elkhoundmonth and then turned up, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco naked and his ownerdead, Bengt Nybergin a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the vetvillage of Greystone, in Devon. Bronco didn't make it but on Rosco had the waystatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missinground the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. SheI 'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalistnearly'' said 'all-round good egg's instincts are soon brought to the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wifeas we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his two eldest children and then killed himselfbackground isn't exactly an open book. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Where did he get the money for his first boat? Does this have any connection to How did he finance the disappearance of Elsa Nybergtrip?
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|isbn=14059511841529427045|title=The Girls Who DisappearedGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Claire DouglasKarin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. As she passed through Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridorsmall town of Gasskas, a figure appeared in where the road. Olivia swerved to avoid him and so-far-untapped natural resources of the car smashed into area have sparked a tree, leaving her trappedgold rush. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Ralph Middleton, who lived in the woods helped her before Salander's niece's mother is the police and ambulance arrived. But what had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening latest woman in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshireto have vanished without trace. It was thought only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of as Aveburythe part Salander played in her father's poor relationdeath.
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