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|isbn=15294096591529077745|title=The Locked Room Dark Wives (Dr Ruth GallowayD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Elly GriffithsAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but A man walking his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by dog in the early morning discovered the discovery body of a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken man in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'park near Rosebank, some years before Ruth was borna care home for troubled teens. It The dead man was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she Josh - one of the care workers who was determined due to find out what was behind work a shift the photograph night before but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdownwho had never turned up. Ruth and Kate are restricted D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with murder - but her university teaching dutiesonly clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. The good thing Some people believe that Chloe was meeting Zoe, responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the new tenant from next door whom they got girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to know whilst clapping for carersfind Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|isbn=B09MN1526W1529428289|title=Blood Games A Grave in the Woods (DS Nikki Parekh 4A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Liz MistryMartin Walker

|summary=It's Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the third murder in the space of a few weeks and grave but when they've all been because found it, it came with three sets of machetes used on teenagersbones. DS Nikki Parekh They dated back to World War II and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first it fell to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on Bruno, the outskirts Chief of Bradford. Only, this timePolice for St Denis, it's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that discover the identities of her beloved nephew, Haqib, the bodies and she has establish whether or not a very public meltdowncrime had been committed. It As if this isn't Haqib: there are similarities but enough to worry about, the body Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundflowing at record levels. What it does mean though is It's not just the local autumn rains that Nikki is going have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety release water and depressionSt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.

|isbn=1529135567152919640X|title=One Step Too FarThe Suspect|author=Lisa GardnerRob Rinder

|summary=ItThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's five years since the stag weekendonly one suspect. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and Joshcarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. The first night Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they had plenty of alcohol - too much really can be in a busy, live television studio - and in the night Scot managed Brooks served a ragout to wander offHolby. The remaining four searched for him in vain Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and it she was dead within minutes. It was decided soon clear that Timthis was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, who was experienced covered in survival techniquesmud and blood - and carrying a knife, would go for help. When help didncomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't come killed the remaining three finally made their way back to townman. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign A body at the bottom of Tim. Every year, Tima freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's father, Martin, and the four friends have been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back to continue from his honeymoon, which coincided with the search although they do now acknowledge that theybirth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he're looking d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'remainsJohn Tanner' rather than were made for Timeach 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.

|isbnauthor=1529346541Stuart Douglas|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's late July sitcom 'Floggit and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique ShawLeggit', Undersecretary for leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the school system, dead body of a representative from woman on the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, edge of a filmmakerreservoir. It follows on from The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the meeting is an exploration help of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used a fellow actor, John Le Breton to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitieshelp him investigate matters further. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as They travel across the problem seems country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting death during the trust of Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people she speaks to and photographs.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=13987069060008517061|title=The LostDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Simon BeckettStig Abell

|summary=The disappearance of Former Metropolitan police firearms officerPolice detective, Jonah Colley's young sonJake Johnson, Theohas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, just about finished himLivia and her daughter Diana, particularly as he blamed himself 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 this is the future she wants for what had happened. herself and her daughter? He'd fallen asleep For the moment they’re enjoying life in the park whilst Theo was playing present and when he woke, Theo had goneputting the future on the back burner. It cost him his marriage and his home}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. Ten years later he5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's largely come through it and heluxury's out with his team apartments - when he gets they discovered the bones of a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneychild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's Was this a long time since they've spokenritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's obviously in difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaythree months ago. ''There's no one else I can trust''Her condition will be obvious before long, he saysnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15294181000008551324|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'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'm not usually s prepared to tell the police where the body of a fan of short stories - I find missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it all too easy will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to put be transferred to an open prison to serve the book down between stories remainder of his sentence and forget to pick get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's [[Martin Walkereven 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 Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in Chronological Orderthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Brunosummary=It's Challenge'' sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was hard never found and the investigation ground to resist a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryher father are dead in their bed. For those new to the seriesInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's an excellent introduction something about the positioning of the bodies that will tell you all you need makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to know about who's who be an open-and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the background to why Bruno is explanation lies in St DenisRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B09GJW49GF0571379877|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Kellerby Code|author=Jenny O'BrienJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Edward Jevons is a pump attached to working-class young man, obsessed with his stomach, so her overupper-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ianclass friends, was pestering her to get married Robert and she thought it would be Stanza. Robert's a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' liketheatre director. Her friendHe's also self-obsessed, Millydemanding, had arranged handsome and entitled and uses Edward to take her boyfriend, Liam, run errands for a night him. Edward has been in a posh hotel but then love with Stanza since their university days - and he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity s drunkenly confided how he feels to go in his placeRobert. She Most men in Robert's position would return home 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 find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QJo Callaghan|title=Without a Leave No Trace|author=Jane Bettany

|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through When a man is found crucified on the top of a divorce and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningsidekick, the AI detective Lock. It wasn't going to be though: s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when she went into her bedroom she there is a second body found crucified a dead man on her bed few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a knife in his chestpotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She'd no idea who he was.Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1035021803|title=Bitter FlowersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning been back to workthe English country village where she grew up. However She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, the quiet job heCarole. Freya's supposedly taken on caretaking someoneformer mentor and Carole's house quickly turns into a murder investigationclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and a mystery around a missing womanthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Varg finds himself Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only investigating thesebeen back to the village: Arthur, but also looking into an oldshe feels, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundlet her down badly. Somehow Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, these disparate cases appear she has not felt able to be linkednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but what is she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the linklove of her life, who was murdered) and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308XFreya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=18387748231398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 2016 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the Queen's Private Secretaryher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandnot. SwimmingShortly afterwards, he decidesEtty and Greg, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered find the body of Cynthia Harris at Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the side of the poolriver. There It was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by an easy assumption for the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris police to make that Duncan had slipped murdered Charlie and cut herself so badly that she had bled outthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 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 next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul Cleave, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=The Quiet PeopleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary= I am not a fan It was one of "those flash downpours that the Prologue"British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Most books are In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the worse for thembody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. In this He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case I might make an exceptionof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. We start with Luca Pittman who is in Geary was a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not havetownie, and when so what was he hurries, when he bundles things into doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the back suicide of his car Holly Gilbert and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, two other deaths which he should were not hear because this is New Zealand considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=1913193942

|isbn=178607981X1529425867|title=Bad ApplesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Will DeanSimon Mason

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up In 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's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the roadshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Wondering You might wonder if someone needed help she got out you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the car - and heard same policing coin. Sometimes the screams from deep inside the forestcombination works brilliantly well. Determining the direction of a sound isnSometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It't easy when you need hearing aids s February 1991 and dampness Essex is causing interference but Tuva bitingly cold, which made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over Bruce Hopkins' return all the body of a manmore surprising. He'd been decapitatedexiled 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. He was Arne Gustav PerssonIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a resident watery grave in the boot of Visberga stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0861541774|title=Cold As HellA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary= In DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a red suitcase as the bottom of 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 fissure in knife - and he killed a lava fieldGhurka. Initially, there is he faced a body. And charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man who has put her there has just discovered that . Now he is capable of killingcould 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.|isbn=1913193888

|authorisbn=Will Carver1521129886|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is 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 high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously good job too because Greg and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also Joyce will soon have a self-acknowledged psychopathbaby and they're both delighted. Whilst analysing and critiquing Joyce will be more delighted about the AA steps baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is mainly using the groups approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to find targetshave killed himself...targets for sexual encounters Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, targets to feed her desire to hear of peoplewho's misery, struggling to make ends meet and targets for her violent behaviourson is not thriving. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and when shethe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's unable prepared to pay Greg to find like-minded people in any of out what happened on the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornnight Gil died.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=1784165263B0CK3MYJ56|title=Invite Me InResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Emma CurtisAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn1990s and Greg Mason't get home, there would be troubles twenty-eight years old. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined He used to have a wheelchair, high-flying job in the city but donit wasn't be too quick to be understandingsatisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza 'Shades of Cameron Strike', youmight be thinking. Nice bloke, but where're good at being a disappointment''s the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. All this Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in Elizawhat's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, been written off as a tragic accident at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, 42 Linden Road Oliver and he Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was desperate doing there - or how she could come to get fall in before it was advertised as being availablefront of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.

|isbn=17847427751838954481|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)The Misper|author=Susan HillKate London|rating=54

|summary=Drugs hadnRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there't really been s no doubt about that much of a problem in Lafferton . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timepointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. They still were, to a great extent, He pulled the trigger but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited due to transport the drugs and vagaries of the operation running the county lines jury system he was tight. A mule might know found not guilty of both the name (although it probably wouldn't be murder and the correct one) manslaughter of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the organisation. The police might catch capital and hoping for a few of quieter life in the runners countryside but theywhen a missing teenager is found on her territory she'd never get anywhere near those higher ups drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=B09HTWX47X1448309743|title=Endless ObsessionThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Dai HenleyCaro Ramsay

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy FloodIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, formerly five members of a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigatorwealthy family are found murdered. He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in The only item missing from the home is the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown Devil Stone: myth says that if the nest, Pippa to Australia, stone is removed from where she has very little contact with the familyOtterburn House, and Gemma to married lifedeath will follow. SheThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope an easy conclusion given that married life will provide two of them 'discovered' the support she needsbody. Flood's business The Senior Investigating Office is going well and that was why DCI Bob Oswald but when he felt able disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to turn down the case of Lisa Black'shadow' him.

|isbn=15293793851529077699|title=The Madness of Crowds Raging Storm (Chief Inspector GamacheTwo Rivers)|author=Louise PennyAnn Cleeves

|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, weSir?''re post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life  Well yes, it is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return to Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the Bistro middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the Aubergevillage of Greystone, in Devon. TheyRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that not I ''nearly'' said 'all saints are necessarily pleasant people to -round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be around - more than a little bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the village as money for his first boat? How did he finance the Asshole Saint.trip?

|isbn=183885410X1529427045|title=The Dark RemainsGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinKarin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to one the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the major crime families area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in nineteen seventies Glasgowcoming forward. DC Jack Laidlaw Salander's niece's mother is on the CID team charged with latest woman in the investigationarea to have vanished without trace. I say ''on the team'It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece' s guardian but Laidlaw never really seems to be it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carterremarkably gifted teenager who's body was found behind one unaware of Glasgowthe part Salander played in her father's seedier pubsdeath.

|isbn=19424102551787636607|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)The Trap|author=Michael PronkoCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's a scene replicated all too often in the culture, isn't it? early hours of the morning. The hours Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required way to do: you'll work more hours get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the job done and done to few taxis available. Others squash onto the satisfaction night bus that will only go as far as one of bullies like Shigeru Onizukathe outlying villages. When he was found dead The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in front the light of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of regret or grief, even from his family, her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but there was a mild curiosity as to whether heher phone'd jumped from s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the roof of chance to beg the building or been assisted in bus driver to let her use his descent. Gossip revolves around There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=From the fact first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he left so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. SheI'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimebetter give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.