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|isbn=13985075041529077745|title=Cold ReckoningThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that A man walking his father committed suicide and for dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the last sixteen years he's been searching park near Rosebank, a care home for evidence to prove that he's righttroubled teens. When a frozen body The dead man was found in Damflask Reservoir, there Josh - one of the care workers who was a link back due to work a cold case from 2002shift the night before but who had never turned up. There didn't immediately seem D I Vera Stanhope is called in to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death investigate the murder - but Adam Tyler senses a link to her only clue is the disappearance of one of the case his father was investigating before he diedresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Above all there's a growing sense Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the criminality of Det Supt Stevens death but Vera thinks this is going to be brought out into unlikely as the opengirl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Perhaps Tyler is going She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to get the answers he needs?Josh.
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|isbn=17876349061529428289|title=No Less A Grave in the DevilWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Stuart MacBrideMartin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the 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 Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the 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 devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeThe nation're in Oldcastle s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and Malcolm is in troubleit seems that there's only one suspect. He's in an abandoned house celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he's being threatened by two young peoplemust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that sheShe's Allegra Dean-Edwards) seriously allergic and Hugocarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplebusy, apparently) but she'd put live television studio - and Brooks served a tracking device in it so that ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingdead within minutes. It won't be long before the police realise was soon clear that Malcolm this was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsno accident.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SXB0CYV674G2|title=Death Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at Friarwork but he's Inndetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob KeeleyStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Tom Barton were in Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the finals dead body of a woman on the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society edge of Friar's Inna reservoir. For aspiring barristersThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, moots test but something about the participants' knowledge whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Tom They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Nat are from ', seemingly, a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thislink to death during the Second World War. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidence. But is there really a link between the deaths? Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=15291259440008517061|title=City of the DeadDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jonathan KellermanStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a living, you're careful and it's not just little uncertainty about the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and if it's her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieter, even if you have -grid and relaxing life to wait up when you get move in with Livia or does Livia move to where you're going. Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? And it was going well until For the men hit something moment they’re enjoying life in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked the present and couldn't be identifiedputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11786482126|title=The Patient Janus Stone (A DS Cross thrillerDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Tim SullivanElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has Builders were demolishing an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Aspergerold house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's Syndromeapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He can be rudeWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, difficult and awkward Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with people, although it's never intentionalDCI Harry Nelson. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply dondifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't occur to him. There's , that she is pregnant with his child as a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has result of the best conviction rate with cases, everone night they spent together some three months ago. His partner Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached prone to himself) and even attempts to instil some sudden bouts of those missing social niceties into Cross's behavioursickness.
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0008551324|title=Unhinged The Devil You Know (Volume 3) (Blix and RammD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one of BlixNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers prepared to tell the police where the body of a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact missing person is buried and who was responsible for her superior, Blixdeath. Before she can reach himThis person, howeverhe promises, she is murdered, someone big and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares it will be worth the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toopolice doing what he wants. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot remainder of his sentence and killed someoneto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, and Ramm saw is it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Ramm uncover she's even prepared to do the other thing that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15291516000008405026|title=Give Unto OthersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Donna LeonJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The ''pandemia'' stripped She was never found and the city of its tourists for nearly two years and investigation ground to a lot of businesses have closedhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, most never to reopenand her father are dead in their bed. ThereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's now a cascade something about the positioning of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they What looked as though it was going to launder all the money which be an open-and-shut case is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was now a childcomplex double murder. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and sheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd like Brunettis disappearance: others (such as Derwent's adviceboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0571379877|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Kellerby Code|author=Neil LancasterJonny 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 a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''When a man is'' found crucified on the back top of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerhill in Nuneaton, only DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to find that Maccathe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. the man he thought he was working It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with, is deadseveral cold cases. His remains would never be But when there is a second body found. The delivery crucified a few days later, Kat is hijacked by Davie suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Calluma very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. As Will they be able to solve the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15294096591035021803|title=The Locked Room Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C 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 (Dr Ruth Gallowayon 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=Elly GriffithsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was some time since expected at her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhusband's belongingsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographHer children, sons Niall, taken in misty conditions Paul and Ollie and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'her daughter, some years before Ruth was bornEtty. It was before are all worried but - strangely - her parents were marriedhusband, Alec, is not. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the country was in lockdownriver. Ruth and Kate are restricted to It was an easy assumption for the cottage with Ruth attempting police to home school Kate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and continue with her university teaching dutiesthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they got to know whilst clapping for carerscan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09MN1526W1529900360|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Ghost Orchid|author=Liz MistryJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's the third murder in the space of a few weeks fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and they've all been because of machetes used even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on teenagersdifficult cases. DS Nikki Parekh His assertions that there were only open-and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on -shut cases which didn't need the outskirts help of Bradforda psychologist only worked for a while. OnlyFinally, this timeit was Robin, itDelaware's going to be differentpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewnext case did look simple, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownthough. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Two lovers were murdered in the body is clad swimming pool of a remote property in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundBel Air. What it does mean though He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is that Nikki is going married to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety an extremely rich man and depressionit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1529135567178763681X|title=One Step Too FarKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Lisa GardnerOrlando 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, 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=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since was one of those flash downpours that the stag weekendBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Five of them had set out: Tim (In a gully, a human skeleton came to the groom) surface and his four groomsmen, Scotforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshhad disappeared nine years earlier. The first night they He'd been a known drug user and had plenty learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it Geary was decided that Tima townie, who so what was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? When help didn't come There are connections to the remaining three finally made their way back suicide of Holly Gilbert and to towntwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of Tim. Every year, Timthe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's father, Martin, cold cases to you and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timme) investigate.
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|isbn=15293465411529425867|title=Something Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novela police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July February 1991 and Deborah St James Essex is at bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary wanted drug smuggler for the school system, a representative decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from the NHShis ex-wife, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name saying that she didn's ill and hasn't catch but would later turn out long to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerlive. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is an exploration of abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the possibility boot of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesa stolen Ford Sierra. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks closer to and photographs.home?
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|isbn=13987069060861541774|title=The LostA Nye of Pheasants|author=Simon BeckettSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyDCI Domenic Jejeune's young sonclose friend and former colleague, TheoDanny Maik, just about finished himhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedGuy Trueman. He'd fallen asleep Maik was involved in the park whilst Theo was playing and when a street brawl - he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years would later maintain that he's largely come through it was facing a man armed with a knife - and he's out with his team when he gets killed a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyGhurka. Gavin used Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenlight that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and Now he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaycould be facing the death penalty. ''There's no one else I Domenic Jejeune can trustdo nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'', he sayst help Danny at all.
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|isbn=15294181001521129886|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Martin WalkerKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IGreg Mason'm not usually 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 fan of short stories - I find it all good job too easy to put the book down between stories because Greg and forget to pick it up again - but I am Joyce will soon have a fan of Martin Walkerbaby and they's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation -law appears to read have killed himself. Stuart''Brunos concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's Challenge'' was hard struggling to resist make ends meet and I'm rather glad her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that I didnGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't even tryin his nature. For those new to The police and the coroner have accepted that the seriesdeath was suicide, there but Stuart's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need prepared to pay Greg to know about who's who and find out what happened on the background to why Bruno is in St Denisnight Gil died.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GFB0CK3MYJ56|title=Buried Lies Responsibilities (Gaby Darin Book 5Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Jenny O'BrienAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by He used to have a pump attached to his stomach, so her overhigh-protectiveness was understandable, flying job in the city but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was wasn't satisfying so he'reallys now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike' like, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Her friendOn the other hand, Milly, had arranged he has been asked to take her boyfriendlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, Liamor rather, for a night they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a posh hotel but then he dumped tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and she couldnPam Hetherington - can't get the money back, so Hannah understand what she was offered the opportunity doing there - or how she could come to go fall in his placefront of a train. She would return home Greg's been asked to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missinginvestigate.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1838954481|title=Without a TraceThe Misper|author=Jane BettanyKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth PrendergastRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: shethere'd just come through a divorce s no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and right now pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was raining hardfound not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. All she wanted was to get back to her new home For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and settle down hoping for a quiet evening. It wasn't going to be though: quieter life in the countryside but when she went into her bedroom she a missing teenager is found a dead man on her bed with territory she's drawn into a knife in his chest. She'd no idea who he waswider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1448309743|title=Bitter FlowersThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, In the quiet job he's supposedly taken village of Cronchie on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationthe West coast of Scotland, and a mystery around five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing womanfrom the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Varg finds himself not The only investigating thesesuspects are known Satanists but in many ways, but also looking into that's an old, cold case easy conclusion given that two of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundthem 'discovered' the body. Somehow The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, these disparate cases appear DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X'shadow' him.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=18387748231529077699|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=S J BennettAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''It's 2016 and the Queenall bloody peculiar, isn's Private Secretaryt it, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise ?'' Well yes, it is putting a strain on his waistband. SwimmingJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, he decidesstayed for about a month and then turned up, is the way to go naked and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to be there early one morning and discovered the body village of Cynthia Harris at Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the side status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the poolworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. There was broken glass I ''nearly'' said 'all- round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - little bit close with money and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outhis background isn't exactly an open book. Still, it was a shock Where did he get the money for Sir Simon.his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1529427045|title=The Quiet PeopleGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not a fan ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of "Gasskas, where the Prologue". Most books are so-far-untapped natural resources of the worse for themarea have sparked a gold rush. In this case I might make an exception The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. We start with Luca Pittman who Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in a hurrythe area to have vanished without trace. He has to hurry because he has children It was only with reluctance that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlyremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|isbn=1913193942
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|isbn=178607981X1787636607|title=Bad ApplesThe Trap|author=Will DeanCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up It's a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at scene replicated all too often in the side early hours of the roadmorning. Wondering if someone needed help she got Drunken revellers spilling out of the car - clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and heard manage to get one of the screams from deep inside few taxis available. Others squash onto the forestnight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Determining The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the direction light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and dampness is causing interference collect her - but Tuva made her way phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to where a woman was holding let her coat over the body of a manuse his. HeThere'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergs no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1405957174|title=Cold As HellA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In a red suitcase as From the bottom of first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a fissure in a lava field, there man - is a bodydying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. And What we don't know is who the man who has put her there has just discovered is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that he is capable of killingyou can understand what's happening.|isbn=1913193888
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