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|isbn=15294136801035043092|title=A Chateau Under Siege The Killing Stones (A BrunoJimmy 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, Chief she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of Police Novel)a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Martin WalkerDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the reEx-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong whentime now, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when and he departs from the scriptshould be doing quite well financially. LuckilyUnfortunately, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in daughter's defence against a helicoptermurder charge drained his savings. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - as he''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's a senior government employeewhat 'ordinary people do', '' He's not been entirely up front about the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped instate of their savings. One daughter lives nearby and anotherWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her fatherit's friends for the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a pre-arranged holidaymiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.
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|isbn=15291963881529934753|title=The TrialProtest
|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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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel0008551375|title=Death in Fine ConditionWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, and in particular seemingly the result of a series called Sleuth Houndtragic accident. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' themd looked so happy, to add valuetoo, in somewhat fraudulent wayswhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. One day Her friends were relieved as she discovers a near perfect collection was just out of these books after seeing them 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 background last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a photograph on her drug dealerstupid thing to do's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is, and how she can steal it! Itcertain there's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when killer on the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947loose.
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|isbn=14483093790008643660|title=Flesh The 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 investigate. Reading the letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and Blood even the local police are keen that Jake should be involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|title=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 bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the streetsChief of Police for St Denis, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, discover the identities of the bodies and then anotherestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. This is worrying As if this isn't enough for detective Harry McCoyto worry about, but all the more so because his own father Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a down and out alcoholicdevastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, with no fixed abodeJessica 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 has been for yearsmust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. At the same time Everything seemed as normal - as normal as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to they can be in a different police stationbusy, live television studio - and the arrival there of Brooks served a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be foundand she was dead within minutes. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=1804545600B0CYV674G2|title=The MonkSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Tim SullivanDavid 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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|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 a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the casecombination works brilliantly well. She does interviews Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and when we meet herEssex is bitingly cold, shewhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's just d been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a keynote presentationdecade. On the plane back, sheThe return has come about because he's approached by had a podcaster, Waylon Spencerletter from his ex-wife, who points out saying that she could do a podcast 's ill and get hasn't long to so many more people than she could by giving speeches live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a few hundred people at conferenceswatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=057137493X0861541774|title=The Other HalfA Nye of Pheasants|author=Charlotte VassellSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The room was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two mens close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, both has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with what looks like the same surnamean old ally, Guy Trueman. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to Maik was involved in a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a catered-man armed witha knife -butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is he killed a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialGhurka. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when CaiusInitially, out for he faced a run, stumbles across charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfriendman. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his partyNow he could be facing the death penalty. She was dead under Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a bushdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=08570517411521129886|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Keith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to live but the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found in good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicbaby and they're both delighted. The problem is that Joyce will be more delighted about the case has long passed baby when she gets past the statute of limitationsmorning sickness. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in 1962-law appears to have killed himself. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje StromStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem Lucy, he says, is convinced that this is a dying manGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's wisht in his nature. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes police and the coroner have accepted that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholicdeath was suicide, was also murdered. Is there a connection between but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the two deaths?night Gil died.
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|isbn=1529421241B0CK3MYJ56|title=Stay BuriedResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Kate WebbAnn Macarthur|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itIt's actually a cold case unit the 1990s and there are just two of them doing the jobGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. LockyerHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn's not unduly worried, though although t satisfying so he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: shenow set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's probably capable of the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something better. It Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: shekilled in what's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and it her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was Lockyer who put her doing there, fourteen years ago- or how she could come to fall in front of a train. SheGreg's keen to see him and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out been asked to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesinvestigate.
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|isbn=13997022891838954481|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)The Misper|author=Louise PennyKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=After Ryan Kennedy killed a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springpolice officer: there's no doubt about that. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector JeanHe was the fifteen-year-Guy Beauvoir of old holding the Sûreté du Québecgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Gamache had offered help He pulled the trigger but due to a young woman after the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherthe officer. And so lives must go on. For Jean-Guy, it had always been DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the other way around. Now they're both capital and hoping for a quieter life in the village and neither can fathom whatcountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's happening. Armand will soon find that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home drawn into a wider investigation - and in his lifeback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1448309743|title=White RiotThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always In the danger village of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture Cronchie on the spirit West coast of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist Scotland, five members of a particular event or era of political historywealthy family are found murdered. Austerity Britain, The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the student riotsstone is removed from Otterburn House, Donald Trumpdeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Brexit – so much that's an easy conclusion given that two of what is, and has been, written in them 'discovered' the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivebody. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature) The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, the best writing about current political events is that which DCI Christine Caplan is written when the events pulled in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewto 'shadow' him.|isbn= 1529423376}}
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|isbn=18387761841529077699|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=S J BennettAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The QueenIt's all bloody peculiar, like the sunrise and the tidesisn't it, was generally a reliable way of marking time.Sir?''
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|isbn=08615419951529427045|title=Wolf PackThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Will DeanKarin Smirnoff|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the road north so-far-untapped natural resources of Visberg. She sees blood on the road and area have sparked a creature on its side near the pine treesgold rush. It will turn out to be Bronco, a Swedish Elkhound, who The criminal underworld has not been attacked by a wolfslow in coming forward. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to the vethave vanished without trace. Bronco didnIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece't make s guardian but it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva quickly becomes obvious that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalistunaware of the part Salander played in her father's instincts are soon brought to the foredeath. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?
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