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|isbn=17876366071035043092|title=The TrapKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Catherine Ryan HowardAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItI can's a scene replicated all too often in t have been the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a way to get homenew life on Orkney. Some are lucky It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go their young son, James, as far well as one Cassie, the daughter of the outlying villageshis former partner. The woman all regret the Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'taxi problem'be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, particularly in the light aftermath of a storm, she can'the missing woment resist getting involved. He'. For one young woman, the final stop on d been battered about the bus leaves her head with a long way short Neolithic stone - one of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her a pair - but her phone's dead. The bus which had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesbeen stolen from a museum.
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|isbn=1405957174henleyA|title=A Death at the PartyUltimate Obsession|author=Amy StuartDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=From the first pageEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, we know that Nadine Walshhis daughter's party will not end welldefence against a murder charge drained his savings. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needsretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. What we donThat's what 'ordinary people do','' He't know is who s not been entirely up front about the man is or why Nadine prefers state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to have persuade him die. Ito take his case, it'd better give you s the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a little more background so miscarriage of justice that you can understand what's happeninghe really should put right.
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|isbn=00085300251529934753|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Protest|author=Cara HunterRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body nick of her stepfathertime, Luke Rydercomplete with his two wives and six children, in the garden one of their West London homewhom filmed what happened. He had Being an injury on the back influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberateprotest. Twenty years laterLexi Williams, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now an intern at the subject of ''Infamous''RA, grabbed a true-crime show. A group spray can of experts has been brought together blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to review spray Bruce in the evidence and to take face, whilst shouting ''Stop the investigation furtherWar''. More It seemed to the pointbe part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, they're going to do but this live on camera, episode by episodewas different. There's no dump of the whole box set - The can had been laced with cyanide, and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingSir Max Bruce was dead.
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|isbn=02419961040008551375|title=Coming to Find YouWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jane CorryNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=NancyLeanne Wilson's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed body was found at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brotherthe bottom of a Scottish mountain, Martin, has been convicted seemingly the result of their murdera tragic accident. We first meet Nancy outside the courtShe'd looked so happy, too, after Martin receives a life sentencewhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - Her friends were relieved as she's not been found guilty was just out of anything an unpleasant relationship, but will have to live with what happened for the rest of it looked like she was living her best lifenow. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. Of courseAll were experienced climbers, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - properly equipped for what they were doing and the papers are making the most of itsensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is one favourite epithet and certain there''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokens a killer on the loose.
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|isbn=15294136800008643660|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Burial Place|author=Martin WalkerStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One A group of the main events archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation excavations are being televised. There's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the town from the English in 1370 finders and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendslandowner. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from perfect until the scriptgroup begin receiving threatening letters. LuckilyJake Jackson, a former police detective, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in trying to lead a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival simpler life at Little Sky but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped inevitably drawn into investigate. One daughter lives nearby and anotherReading the letters, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her fatherit's friends for a pre-arranged holidaydifficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the local police are keen that Jake should be involved.
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|isbn=15291963881529425905|title=The TrialA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Rob RinderSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden was There's a hero: new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a policeman who stood for all that was good talk about work/life balance and honest family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and looked up to by just about everyonethey're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old BaileyBaliol educated and always immaculately dressed. ThereHe's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - married to Diane and ithas twin sons. Management's not opinion of him is that he thinks too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Clivedenhighly of himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park -Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and in fact, itcould be said that he's Taylor-Cameron never really left it. He lives in shell suits and his pupiltracksuits, Adam Green, who eventually represent himalways in vivid colours. KnightPrevious management was adamant that he should ''never's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrarybe given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them.
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529077745|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndcare home for troubled teens. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayswork a shift the night before but who had never turned up. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the background disappearance of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wallone of the residents, and so she sets about discovering where fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this collection is, and how she can steal it! Itunlikely as the girl's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has she reached too far, and to find Chloe to discover what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947happened to Josh.
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|isbn=14483093791529428289|title=Flesh and Blood A Grave in the Woods (DS McAvoy 11A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=David MarkMartin Walker|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something Because of a surprise to find that you're deadvarious property transactions, particularly people were searching for the grave but when you're thinking that you're actually on a break they found it, it came with your wife and children, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoythree sets of bones. Whilst he was relieved They dated back to find that he was stillWorld War II and it fell to Bruno, officiallythe Chief of Police for St Denis, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in to discover the early hours identities of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was bodies and establish whether or nota crime had been committed. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyAs if this isn's doppelganger t enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindlyis flowing at record levels. It had always been suspected 's not just the local autumn rains that Pharoah was sweet have caused the problem: various dams upstream on Aectoranother river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1529135389152919640X|title=The FallSuspect|author=Gilly MacmillanRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was playing murdered live on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barntelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. TheyHe'd s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used serve anything containing miso to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponJessica Holby. Some She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of them fought with each other and didn't work emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as reliably normal as they should. It had all come about through can be in a ten-millionbusy, live television studio -pound lottery win and they were still getting used Brooks served a ragout to having that sort of money, tooHolby. Eventually, Nicole Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found Tom and she was dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his headwithin minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Alan ParksB0CYV674G2|title=To Die in JuneSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems It seemed like the unfortunatean open-and-shut case. A man, accidental death of covered in mud and blood - and carrying a homeless knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man on . A body at the streets, suddenly starts bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to feel like something more sinister as another body death. DCI John Tanner is discoveredjust back from his honeymoon, and then anotherwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. This is worrying enough You would think he'd be grateful for detective Harry McCoy, an easy answer but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, words 'perverse' and he has been 'John Tanner' were made for yearseach other. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move He's sleep-deprived to a different police station, and the arrival there point of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where probably because he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784't get any sleep at home.
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|isbnauthor=1804545600Stuart Douglas|title=The Monk|author=Tim SullivanLowe 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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|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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|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's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a 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 abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent 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 close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's 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 satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4
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|summary=''The room was full of In the sort village of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is Cronchie on the story West coast of two menScotland, both with what looks like the same surnamefive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Rupert Beauchamp The only item missing from the home is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Beechamdiscovered'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialbody. His surname The Senior Investigating Office is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other DCI Bob Oswald but when Caiushe disappears, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie ODCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'Hara, Rupertshadow's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bushhim.
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|isbn=08570517411529077699|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he''It's determined that Rebecka Martinsson all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is going to investigate . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the case middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a body found month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a freezer at small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the home village of a deceased alcoholicGreystone, in Devon. The problem is that Rosco had the case has long passed the statute status of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyI ''nearly'' said 'all-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a dying manlittle bit close with money and his background isn's wisht exactly an open book. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, Where did he get the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. money for his first boat? Is there a connection between How did he finance the two deathstrip?
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|isbn=15294212411529427045|title=Stay BuriedThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Kate WebbKarin Smirnoff
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|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually a cold case unit and there are just two 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of them doing the jobarea have sparked a gold rush. Lockyer's The criminal underworld has not unduly worried, though although hebeen slow in coming forward. Salander's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: sheniece's probably capable of something bettermother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheonly with reluctance that Salander became her niece's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and guardian but it was Lockyer quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who put her there, fourteen years ago. She's keen to see him and to tell him that unaware of the man everyone thought shepart Salander played in her father'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadess death.
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