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|isbn=18389544811035043092|title=The MisperKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Kate LondonAnn Cleeves|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereI can's no doubt about that. He t have been the only person who was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawsad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. He pulled the trigger It's been seven years since we heard from him, but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder 's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the manslaughter daughter of the officerhis former partner. And so lives must go Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving maternity leave, but when the capital and hoping for body of a quieter life popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the countryside but when aftermath of a missing teenager is found on her territory storm, shecan't resist getting involved. He's drawn into d been battered about the head with a wider investigation Neolithic stone - and back into the orbit one of Ryan Kennedya pair - which had been stolen from a museum.
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|isbn=1448309743henleyA|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Ultimate Obsession|author=Caro RamsayDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of ScotlandEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, five members of his daughter's defence against a wealthy family are found murderedmurder charge drained his savings. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn HouseHis wife, Laura, death will followhas been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many waysThat's what 'ordinary people do', that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered He' s not been entirely up front about the bodystate of their savings. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearsWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadowit' s the thought of the money he could make that convinces himthat this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.
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|isbn=15290776991529934753|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Protest|author=Ann CleevesRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's all bloody peculiarFor a little while, isn't itlooked as though Sir Max Bruce, Sir?the country'' Well yess most famous living artist, it iswas not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening Still, he arrived in the middle nick of an autumn galetime, stayed for about a month complete with his two wives and then turned upsix children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, naked and deadyou tend to do things like that, in but it was fortunate that there was a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to record of the village of Greystone, in Devonprotest. Rosco had Lexi Williams, an intern at the status RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a national treasure: a renowned adventurerchair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, round the world sailor and all round whilst shouting ''celebrityStop the War''. I ''nearly'' said It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'allblue-round good eggface' attacks, but as we'll find outthis was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open bookSir Max Bruce was dead. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=15294270450008551375|title=The Girl in the Eagle's TalonsWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''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 the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was 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 the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan HowardNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItLeanne Wilson's a scene replicated all too often in body was found at the early hours bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out result of clubs and looking for a way to get hometragic accident. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis availableShe'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go Her friends were relieved as far as one 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 outlying villageslast year. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'All were experienced climbers, particularly in the light properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her what a long way short of her home. She had intended stupid thing to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phonedo's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use hisexplanations applied. ThereThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesa killer on the loose.
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|isbn=14059571740008643660|title=A Death at the PartyThe Burial Place|author=Amy StuartStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=From A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the first page, we know that Nadine Walshexcavations are being televised. There's party even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will not end wellbe split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. The victim - Jake Jackson, a man - former police detective, is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort trying to call the ambulance lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers s inevitably drawn in to have him dieinvestigate. IReading the letters, it'd better give you a little more background so s difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the local police are keen that you can understand what's happeningJake should be involved.
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|isbn=00085300251529425905|title=Murder A Voice in the FamilyNight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Cara HunterSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was There's a new Superintendent in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and found the body of her stepfatherfamily values, Luke Ryderbut as far as she's concerned, in the garden she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of their West London homeNigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He had an injury on the back 's married to Diane and has twin sons. Management's opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his head which could have happened if last boss felt that he needed more experience at what hecalled 'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberatewet end'. Twenty years laterRyan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, no one has been charged with his murder and itcould be said that he's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime shownever really left it. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence He lives in shell suits and to take the investigation furthertracksuits, always in vivid colours. More to the point, theyPrevious management was adamant that he should ''never''re going to do this live on camera, episode by episodebe given responsibility. There's no dump Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of the whole box set - and no shortage both of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingthem.
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|isbn=02419961041529077745|title=Coming to Find YouThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Jane CorryAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside a man in the courtpark near Rosebank, after Martin receives a life sentencecare home for troubled teens. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' dead man was Josh - she's not been found guilty one of anything but will have the care workers who was due to live with what happened for work a shift the rest of her lifenight before but who had never turned up. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - she inherited five million pounds from but her mother - and only clue is the papers are making disappearance of one of the most of itresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is one favourite epithet and unlikely as the girl''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokens diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=15294136801529428289|title=A Chateau Under Siege Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=One Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the main events grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the liberation identities of the town from the English in 1370 bodies and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendsestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. ItAs if this isn's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelint enough to worry about, the man playing one of the main characters Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is seriously injured when he departs from the scriptflowing at record levels. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as heIt's a senior government employee, not just the man who runs Frenchelon - local autumn rains that have caused the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some St Denis faces the possibility of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaydevastating flood.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529196388152919640X|title=The TrialSuspect
|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyoneThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - live on television and itseems that there's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murderonly one suspect. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it He's Taylor-Cameron celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himcontract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. KnightShe's determined to plead not guiltyseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, despite all Taylorlive television studio -Cameron's recommendations and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to the contrarybe found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Andrew CartmelB0CYV674G2|title=Death in Fine ConditionSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and in particular carrying a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies knife, comes into the police station shouting that she can sell on for profit, sometimes he hasn'tweaking' them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayst killed the man. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in A body at the background bottom of a photograph on her drug dealerfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner isjust 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 how she can steal it! It'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's a nextsleep-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when deprived to the owner point of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbnauthor=1448309379Stuart Douglas|title=Flesh Lowe and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's something sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a surprise reservoir. The police seem happy to find that you're deadassign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on and he enlists the help of a break with your wife and childrenfellow actor, but that's what happened John Le Breton to DS Aector McAvoyhelp him investigate matters further. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillThey travel across the country during their days off filming, officiallyuncovering more possible murders and, aliveseemingly, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoaha link to death during the Second World War. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but But is there really a link between the partially clad man deaths? And will they manage to uncover who'd dashed from her flat is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the early hours future of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her cardaughter Diana, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on Aectorthe back burner.
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|isbn=15291353891786482126|title=The FallJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gilly MacmillanElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the morning at site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the county fair before she returned homebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnskull. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Some of them fought with each other and didnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't work as reliably , that she is pregnant with his child as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and result of the one night they were still getting used to having that sort of money, toospent together some three months ago. EventuallyHer condition will be obvious before long, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound not least because Ruth is prone to his headsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Alan ParksJane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's 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-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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=To Die The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in Junea dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of When a homeless man is found crucified on the streetstop of a hill in Nuneaton, suddenly starts DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredthe case alongside her sidekick, and then anotherthe AI detective Lock. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholicIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with no fixed abode, and he has been for yearsseveral cold cases. At the same time as facing these possible murdersBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Harry Kat is also dealing suddenly struggling with a move to potential serial killer and a different police station, and the arrival there of very high profile case that draws a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record lot of the boy having existed can be foundunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Something feels wrong - not just with Will they be able to solve the woman’s story but also with case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the other officers where he has been stationedcase and, potentially, but can Harry uncover just what is going onout of a career?|isbn=1805300784139851120X
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|isbn=18045456001035021803|title=The MonkAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Tim SullivanC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol Charlotte Salter was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He'd been savagely beatenHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is Father Dominicnot. He'd been missing for a few days Shortly afterwards, Etty and certainly hadnGreg, find the body of Greg't asked permission to leave his abbeys father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. As It was an easy assumption for the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friendt stand the guilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd also been very wealthy s little else they can do but had given it all up for his faithget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|isbn=00085170101529900360|title=Death Under a Little SkyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Stig AbellJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jakebeen Lt Milo Sturgis's side fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and he didn't think there even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for Faye eitherhis help on difficult cases. They His assertions that there were still polite to each other only open-and wished each other well - but shut cases which didn't wish to remain marriedneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The perfect solution arrived next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the form swimming pool of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurremote property in Bel Air. He'd been left a secluded property in was the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - heir to an Italian shoe empire and enough money she is married to live there without an extremely rich man and it's not the need to workItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley178763681X|title=One Puzzling AfternoonKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the same small town for almost her whole life, Belgravia. He didn't really want to but now she is facing celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a move as her son wants to move to another house way of getting both men and bring Edie women to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memorydo what he wanted. However, Edie is tormented by Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the memory of her childhood friend, Lucyschool to assist Paul, who went missing over 60 years agohad a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened problems - are all that time agohis own. After The one thing he hadn'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she t expected was the last time she saw her, she starts for someone to find pockets of memories coming back to herturn up dead. And yet as she remembers Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the past, she is forgetting more body and more in her day everyone knows that the police consider that person to day lifebe the prime suspect. 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=00085512781529421284|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)Laying Out the Bones|author=Neil LancasterKate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith It was snatched from one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the bottom of Fyrishsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, where she'd been doing her trainingwho had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadhave been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeGeary was a townie, Affo came so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the age of twelvetime. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of drugs and three years later shethe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's happy with her foster family. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - cold cases to you and anyone could get to herme) investigate.
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|authorisbn=1529425867|title=Jenny Lund Madsen Lost and Megan E Turney Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Thirty Days of DarknessSimon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableIn Oxford, bitter womanthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, an author son of Ryan and father of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsRyan, is not. Sorry to leave her bottles He's not any of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairthose things. He's white, she flukes her way into originated from a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictiontrailer park, saying hebarely educated (reading's populist trash not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and only writing what anyone could writetrackies. Cue the bet that she cannot live up They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to that accusationa police procedural written for laughs. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandWell, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allyou're not. Just on the point The two men are just different sides of despairing – about her writing, about the people and same policing coin. Sometimes the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladycombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615problematic.
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|isbn=13985095821529431735|title=The FavourWinter Visitor|author=Nicci FrenchJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, not long after A levels, when which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togethermore surprising. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. Liam was He'd been exiled on the reverseCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. He just acted The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'as if life just rolled him over s ill and carried him along'hasn't long to live. A bit of weed hereIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a few drinks there: watery grave in the legal effects boot of the car crash really didn't worry him at alla stolen Ford Sierra. The relationship broke up soon after that - Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.a problem closer to home?
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni0861541774|title=Her Deadly GameA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeDCI Domenic Jejeune's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in defence of his clientsa street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawInitially, Patsy also has he faced a gift for drinking himself charge of manslaughter but evidence came to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning light that suggested that he might have planned to overshadow murder the formerman. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in Now he could be facing the hideous position of asking her father for death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a job diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southall.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbn=00084049761521129886|title=The Close They Had It Coming (DS Maeve KerriganGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Jane CaseyKeith Redfern|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close. If youGreg Mason're a regular reader of s just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] youpoint where he'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itwarn someone about how much he charges. It's a massive spoiler good job too because there is Greg and Joyce will soon have a delicious sexual chemistry between baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the two which seems very, very realbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. But (thereStuart's always a 'but'concerned about his sister, Lucy, isnwho't there?) Josh has a partner s struggling to make ends meet and he dotes on her sonis not thriving. Lucy, he says, even if is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, As for Maeve, shebut Stuart's just come prepared to pay Greg to find out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainwhat happened on the night Gil died.
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|authorisbn=Nick BrooksB0CK3MYJ56|title=Promise BoysResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When It's the principal (headmaster) 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 Urban Promise Prep school is murderedCameron Strike', three boys find themselves called 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 the police station as suspectssomething. EachJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, seeminglyor rather, has they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there tragic accident at the time of his murderan unmanned level crossing. But who killed him, Joyce - and whyher parents, Oliver and if any Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of the boys are innocent, will they be able a train. Greg's been asked to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155investigate.
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|isbn=15291259601838954481|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Misper|author=Jonathan KellermanKate 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
|genre=Crime
|summary=Donny Klement was In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a photographer. Well, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA wealthy family are found him dead in his bedmurdered. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The PAonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish whatthat's happened. Donny had just finished a series an easy conclusion given that two of photographs called them 'discovered'The Wishers''. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like to bebody. They were then dressed up as their fantasy The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in dollarsto 'shadow' him.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529077699|title=Expectant The Raging Storm (Detective Sam ShephardTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is approaching . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the start middle of her maternity leave when there is an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a brutalsmall boat, shocking murder anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of an expectant woman Greystone, in DunedinDevon. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in Rosco had the hunt for status of a national treasure: a killer targeting pregnant womenrenowned adventurer, with round the world sailor and all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfround ''celebrity''. Finding herself put on desk dutiesI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, which she rails against, she just canhe could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't let exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the case go and she starts Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to follow every thread offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to uncover whatthe small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's actually happening, and niece's mother is the latest woman in the increasingly disturbing worry area to have vanished without trace. It was 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 just what might happen nextthe part Salander played in her father's death.|isbn=1914585577
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