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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529077745|title=The Dark MusicWives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from A man walking his dog in the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before early morning discovered the allusion breaks? This does have body of a wonder-mind at man in the heart of what little investigating is going onpark near Rosebank, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthcare home for troubled teens. For The dead man was Josh - one, of the main focus of care workers who was due to work a shift the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDnight before but who had never turned up. She's a Chilean D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows - but her only clue is the prime suspect disappearance of old, in a case where a referee one of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchresidents, and just outside the stadiumfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Beppe, the suspect, Some people believe that Chloe was drunkenly antagonistic to responsible for the ref during the closing minutes, death but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke Vera thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe this is innocent and unlikely as the investigation is a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she cangirl't get his full verdict on s diary makes it allclear that she adored Josh. Until, She knows that may be, she manages has to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X1529428289|title=To Kill a Troubadour A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin 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.
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|isbn=152919640X
|title=The Suspect
|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there'Nobody knows what the truth is any mores only one suspect. He'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordognehis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. TheyShe're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being s seriously allergic and prosperity carries an EpiPen in case of this most beautiful part of Franceemergencies. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the car. Ohbusy, live television studio - and there was Brooks served a golf ball too, which didn't belong ragout to the owner of the carHolby. A golf bag would Her EpiPen was nowhere to be a good place to hide a sniper's weaponfound and she was dead within minutes. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=0727850547B0CYV674G2|title=Blind Justice Swanton Morley (DS McAvoy 10John Tanner)|author=David MarkBlake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt 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 even had time for breakfast when killed the call came throughman. A body had been found in at the roots bottom of a fallen tree freshly dug grave at Brantingham, near Hull. When Swanton Morley church - he gets 's been stabbed to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagineddeath. A young man's corpse DCI John Tanner is entangled just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the roots birth of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesdaughter Samantha. It You would seem that this was done whilst think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the man was still alivewords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. McAvoy makes a promise He's sleep-deprived to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes point of falling asleep at a cost and this time the cost might be work but he's determined to McAvoykeep going - probably because he can's own familyt get any sleep at home.
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|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Little DrummerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the death dead body of a young woman in on the edge of a carparkreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, that looks very much like an overdosebut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, it unravels into and he enlists the help of a far-reaching investigation of murderfellow actor, fraudJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led seemingly, a link to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of death during the investigationSecond World War. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down But is there really a link between the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard deaths? And will they manage to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much who is responsible before more dangerous, is going on.people lose their lives?|isbn=19145851271803368209
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|isbn=13985075040008517061|title=Cold ReckoningDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Russ ThomasStig 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 future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, 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 this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the last sixteen years hesite was going to hold seventy-five 's been searching for evidence to prove that heluxury's right. When apartments - when they discovered the bones of a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to child beneath a cold case from 2002doorway. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DI Richard TylerDCI Harry Nelson. It's death difficult as Ruth knows, but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's child as a growing sense that the criminality result of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openone night they spent together some three months ago. Perhaps Tyler Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to get the answers he needs?sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=17876349060008551324|title=No Less the The DevilYou Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stuart MacBrideNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're 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 Oldcastle prison and Malcolm he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is in troubleburied and who was responsible for her death. He's in an abandoned house This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he's being threatened by two young peoplewants. One And what he wants is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Hugoto get an early parole date. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Not much to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopleask, apparently) but sheis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'd put a tracking device in it t think so that and she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before s even prepared to do the police realise other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0008405026|title=Death at Friar's InnA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Rob KeeleyJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots investigation ground to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's Inna halt. For aspiring barristersNow, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their advocacy skills: bed. Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a great way something about the positioning of getting invaluable practice the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and of getting yourself noticedher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Tom What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Nat are from '-shut case is now a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thiscomplex double murder. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'Mouse' Dawes have no s disappearance: others (such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tomas Derwent's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15291259440571379877|title=City of the DeadThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonathan KellermanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Edward Jevons is a livingworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, you're careful Robert and it's not just about the way that you driveStanza. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itRobert's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleeptheatre director. When youHe're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieters also self-obsessed, demanding, even if you have handsome and entitled and uses Edward to wait up when you get run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to where you're goingRobert. And it was going well until the Most men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood 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 Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identifiedthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Jo Callaghan|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorderWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, quite probably Asperger's Syndrome. He can be rudeDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalthe AI detective Lock. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur to himtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. There's But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit potential serial killer and it's a very high profile case that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recogniseWill they be able to solve the case in time, or welcome being attached to himself) will Kat find herself taken off the case and even attempts to instil some , potentially, out of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1035021803|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the third book in a series English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Rammrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a crime journalistCarole. In this book we find that when one of BlixFreya's former mentor and Carole's colleaguesclose friend, KovicArthur Crockleford, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, she tries to contact her superior, Blixsay the least. Before Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she can reach himfeels, howeverlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooprofession she loved. We then find ourselves After the split, she worked in a few days later with Blix cafe, met and Rammmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot was murdered) and killed someone, Freya and Ramm saw it all happenJames have now divorced. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=15291516001398524085|title=Give Unto OthersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Donna LeonNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The ''pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and a lot of businesses have closedher daughter, most never to reopenEtty. There's now a cascade of money as life begins again are all worried but even 125- strangely - her husband,000 deaths have Alec, is not put an end to greed. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the money which is coming their way? Whilst hebody of Greg's thinking about thisfather, Duncan Ackerley, Brunetti encounters someone in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childt stand the guilt. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like BrunettiThe Salter children are not convinced but there's advicelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529900360|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Ghost Orchid|author=Neil LancasterJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon It hadn''is'' the back of beyond: theret been Lt Milo Sturgis's not fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even any light pollution 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 is why it was didn't need the perfect place to land illegal deliveries help of drugsa psychologist only worked for a while. Jimmy McLeish thought that he Finally, it was onto a nice little earnerRobin, only to find that MaccaDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man he thought he was working withshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, is deadthough. His remains would never be foundTwo lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. The delivery He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is hijacked by Davie married to an extremely rich man and Callumit's not the Italian. As But which of them was the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.primary target?
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|isbn=1529409659178763681X|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Elly GriffithsOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father 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 remarried but his wife was now keen a way of getting both men and women to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingswhat he wanted. She was intrigued by Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the discovery of school to assist Paul, who had a picture of her own house: broken arm, but it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornproblems - are all his own. It The one thing he hadn't expected was before her parents were marriedfor someone to turn up dead. When she returned to Norfolk she Unfortunately, he was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and person who discovered the country was in lockdown. Ruth body and Kate are restricted to everyone knows that the cottage with Ruth attempting police consider that person to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, be the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersprime suspect.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1529421284|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Laying Out the Bones|author=Liz MistryKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's was one of those flash downpours that the third murder British weather often delivers in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersheatwave. DS Nikki Parekh In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and DC Sajid Malik are amongst forensic testing proved the first body to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Only, this timeHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's going to be differentt convinced. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewGeary was a townie, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? It isn't Haqib: there There are similarities but connections to the body is clad in designer clothes suicide of Holly Gilbert and comes from an obviously monied backgroundto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. What it does mean though is Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that Nikki is going 's cold cases to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety you and depressionme) investigate.
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|isbn=15291355671529425867|title=One Step Too FarLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lisa GardnerSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since the stag weekendIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Five Raymond Wilkins is of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenNigerian descent, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil Balliol educated and Joshalways exquisitely dressed. The first night they had plenty D I Ryan Wilkins, son of alcohol - too much really - Ryan and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timfather of Ryan, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpis not. When help didnHe't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign s not any of Timthose things. Every year, TimHe's fatherwhite, Martinoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that theyhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're looking being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'remainsre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it' rather than for Tims problematic.
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|isbn=15293465411529431735|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe 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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|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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|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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|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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{{Frontpage
|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 clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the car - and heard few taxis available. Others squash onto the screams from deep inside night bus that will only go as far as one of the forestoutlying 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 use his. 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 body of 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 so desperately needs. HeWhat we don'd been decapitatedt know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. He was Arne Gustav Persson, I'd better give you a resident of Visberglittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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