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|isbn=02419901651529077745|title=Hope to Die The Dark Wives (D I FawleyVera Stanhope)|author=Cara HunterAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired A man walking his dog in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from early morning discovered the householder. A couple body of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come introubled teens. In The dead man was Josh - one of the kitchen there care workers who was due to work a body on shift the floor: the head night before but who had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handnever turned up. Richard Swann told D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the police that he'd heard sounds murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigatethe residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. The ignorant young lout had called him Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl''Grandad'' and come at him with a knifes diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Swann had shot him in self-defenceShe knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=178763566X1529428289|title=Listen to MeA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Tess GerritsenMartin Walker|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out Because of various property transactions, people were searching for university this morning the grave but when they found it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out it came with three sets of the library she knows that they're going bones. They dated back to be ruined - World War II and unsafe - in it fell to Bruno, the snow that's now falling. As she crosses Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the road, a car comes out identities of nowhere the bodies and hits herestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. It doesn As if this isn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzolienough to worry about, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch what It's happening in not just the local autumn rains that have caused the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 problem: various dams upstream on another river have aroused her suspicionshad to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1801109265152919640X|title=The CompanionSuspect|author=Lesley ThomsonRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as The nation''a punctual man who s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was inexplicably never murdered live on timetelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. He' s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he was - as usual - late must not serve anything containing miso to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'Jessica Holby. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyShe's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. The dinner would never Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be servedin a busy, as James live television studio - and Wilbur are the victims of Brooks served a double stabbing on the beachragout to Holby. The case falls Her EpiPen was nowhere to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policebe found and she was dead within minutes. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughIt was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=David LagercrantzB0CYV674G2|title=Dark MusicSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonderIt seemed like an open-and-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onshut case. A man, but there is not covered in mud and blood - and carrying a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For oneknife, comes into the main focus of police station shouting that he hasn't killed the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDman. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows A body at the prime suspect bottom of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death shortly after the match, and . DCI John Tanner is just outside the stadium. Beppeback from his honeymoon, which coincided with the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks birth of interrogationhis daughter Samantha. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who You would 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 thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and the investigation is a shambles'John Tanner' were made for each other. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke He's sleep-deprived to the most erratic, irregular kind point of guy, she falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..any sleep at home.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbnauthor=152941363XStuart Douglas|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley Floggit and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as Leggit'JJ'), leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the head dead body of detectives for a woman on the départment edge of the Dordognea reservoir. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed The police seem happy to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of assign it as an oldaccidental death, stolen Peugeotbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, crashed and abandoned in he enlists the help of a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bulletfellow actor, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. OhThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and there was , seemingly, a golf ball too, which didn't belong link to death during the owner of the carSecond World War. A golf bag would be But is there really a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. link between the deaths? Was there going And will they manage to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain directionuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=07278505470008517061|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)Death in a Lonely Place|author=David MarkStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. A body had been found in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the roots future of a fallen tree at Brantinghamhis life with his vet girlfriend, near Hull. When he gets to the sceneLivia and her daughter Diana, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled with the roots as moving in together would mean a lot of a newlycompromise: does Jake give up his off-fallen tree – 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 roots have grown through him – future she wants for herself and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. her daughter? It would seem that this was done whilst For the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to moment they’re enjoying life in the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost present and this time putting the future on the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyback burner.
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|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Little DrummerElly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the death bones of a young woman in child beneath a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into doorway. There was no skull. Was this a far-reaching investigation of ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, fraudDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichbut Nelson doesn't, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich that she is led to Africa pregnant with his child as they follow the twists and turns a result of the investigationone night they spent together some three months ago. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious Her condition will be obvious before long, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard not least because Ruth is prone to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going onsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=13985075040008551324|title=Cold ReckoningThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Russ ThomasNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heIt's been searching unusual for evidence anyone from the Hardie family to prove that approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's right. When prepared to tell the police where the body of a frozen body missing person is buried and who was found in Damflask Reservoirresponsible for her death. This person, he promises, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. There didn't immediately seem And what he wants is to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link transferred to an open prison to serve the case remainder of his father was investigating before he diedsentence and to get an early parole date. Above all there Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a growing sense even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is going to be brought out into the openkept well away from what's happening. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbn=17876349060008405026|title=No Less A Stranger in the DevilFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Stuart MacBrideJane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He's in an abandoned house She was never found and he's being threatened by two young peoplethe investigation ground to a halt. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) Now, her mother, Helena, and Hugoher father are dead in their bed. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm Initially, it looks like a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) straightforward murder/suicide but shethere'd put a tracking device in it so s something about the positioning of the bodies that she makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Hugo could find out where he her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was sleepinggoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. It wonKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their owns disappearance: not many other people others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsless convinced.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0571379877|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Kellerby Code|author=Rob KeeleyJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friar's InnStanza. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: itRobert's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedtheatre director. Tom He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and Nat are from 'a provincial university' entitled and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thisuses Edward to run errands for him. The other contestants - Becca DeckerEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -Hamilton and Lucia he'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidences drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. TomMost men in Robert's £30 supermarket suit doesnposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he't make him feel any betters not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Jo Callaghan|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a livingman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, you're careful and it's not just about the way that you driveAI detective Lock. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itIt's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleeptheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. When you're taking But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a removals truck through potential serial killer and a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 very high profile case that draws a.m. when the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get lot of unwanted attention to where you're goingtheir AI Future Policing project. And it was going well until Will they be able to solve the men hit something case in Westwood Villagetime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, an upmarket neighbourhood out of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identified.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11035021803|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Tim SullivanC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndrometwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He can be rude, difficult and awkward with people, although itShe's never intentionalback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ItFreya's just that he thinks differently former mentor and social niceties simply donCarole't occur s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to himsay the least. There's a Arthur was the reason why he's Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the best conviction rate with cases, everman or pursue the profession she loved. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: After the split, she regards Cross with affection worked in a cafe, met and married James (not an emotion he would recogniseon the rebound from the love of her life, or welcome being attached to himselfwho was murdered) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourFreya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1398524085|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, a police officersons Niall, Paul and Emma RammOllie and her daughter, a crime journalistEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. In this book we Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find that when one the body of BlixGreg's colleaguesfather, KovicDuncan Ackerley, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blixin the river. Before she can reach him, however, she is It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered, Charlie and Blixthen committed suicide when he couldn's daughter Iselin who shares t stand the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooguilt. We then find ourselves a few days later The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with Blix their lives and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenwonder about what really happened. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=15291516001529900360|title=Give Unto OthersThe Ghost Orchid|author=Donna LeonJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Venice has changedAlex 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. The ''pandemia'His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn' stripped t need the city help of its tourists a psychologist only worked for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopenwhile. ThereFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's now a cascade of money as life begins partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greed. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all She knew that the involvement was something that the money which is coming their way? man she loved needed. Whilst he's thinking about thisThe next case did look simple, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they though. Two lovers were neighbours when he was murdered in the swimming pool of a childremote property in Bel Air. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she'd like Brunettiis married to an extremely rich man and it's advicenot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK178763681X|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Neil LancasterOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon 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 'is'somehow' ' got the back of beyond: thereimpression that he's not even any light pollution which is why it was d be at the perfect place school to land illegal deliveries of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto assist Paul, who had a nice little earnerbroken arm, only to find but it didn't turn out that Macca, way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. the man he thought The one thing he hadn't expected was working with, is for someone to turn up dead. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and Callum. As everyone knows that the story progresses we'll get police consider that person to know them quite wellbe the prime suspect.
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|isbn=15294096591529421284|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Laying Out the Bones|author=Elly GriffithsKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingsone of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She was intrigued by the discovery of In a picture of her own house: it was an old photographgully, taken in misty conditions a human skeleton came to the surface and on forensic testing proved the back it said 'dawn 1963'body to be Lee Geary, some who had disappeared nine years before Ruth was bornearlier. It was before her parents were marriedHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. When she returned to Norfolk she Geary was determined to find out a townie, so what was behind he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the photograph but Covid intervened suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the country was in lockdowntime. Ruth Lockyer and Kate are restricted to DC Gemma Broad of the cottage with Ruth attempting Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to home school Kate you and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersme) investigate.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1529425867|title=Blood Games Lost and Never Found (DS Nikki Parekh 4A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Liz MistrySimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the third murder in the space 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 a few weeks Ryan and they've all been because father of machetes used on teenagersRyan, is not. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts He's not any of Bradfordthose things. OnlyHe's white, this timeoriginated from a trailer park, itbarely educated (reading's going to be differentnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. The body appears You might wonder if you're being introduced to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownpolice procedural written for laughs. It isnWell, you't Haqib: there re not. The two men are similarities but just different sides of the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundsame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. What Sometimes it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression's problematic.
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|isbn=15291355671529431735|title=One Step Too FarThe Winter Visitor|author=Lisa GardnerJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the stag weekendmore surprising. Five of them had set out: Tim (He'd been exiled on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and JoshCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The first night they return has come about because he's had plenty of alcohol a letter from his ex- too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain wife, saying that she's ill and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didnhasn't come the remaining three finally made their way back long to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Timlive. Every year, TimIt's father, Martinhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and the four friends have been back sent to continue a watery grave in the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbn=15293465410861541774|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelA Nye of Pheasants|author=Elizabeth GeorgeSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's late July close friend and Deborah St James is at former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a meeting short holiday in Singapore to meet up with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systeman old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but street brawl - he would later turn out to be Zawadi maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Narissa Cameron, he killed a filmmakerGhurka. It follows on from the success Initially, he faced a charge of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesman. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she Now he could be as facing the problem seems death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities help as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and photographswouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=13987069061521129886|title=The LostThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Simon BeckettKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyGreg Mason's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when ll warn someone about how much he woke, Theo had gonecharges. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and hethey's out with his team re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when he she gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneypast the morning sickness. Gavin used Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to be have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his best friend but itsister, Lucy, who's a long time since they've spokenstruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. He's obviously in some difficulty now Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - Jonah can hear it simply wasn't in his voice - nature. The police and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, ''Therebut Stuart's no one else I can trust'', he saysprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.
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|isbn=1529418100B0CK3MYJ56|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Martin WalkerAnn Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put s the book down between stories 1990s and forget Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to pick it up again have a high- flying job in the city but I am a fan of Martin Walkerit wasn's [[Martin Walkert satisfying so he's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike'Bruno, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's Challenge'' was hard the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to resist look into something. Joyce and I'm Helen are half-sisters, or rather glad that I didn, they were until Helen was killed in what't even trys been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. For those new to the seriesJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need - or how she could come to know about whofall in front of a train. Greg's who and the background been asked to why Bruno is in St Denisinvestigate.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1838954481|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Misper|author=Jenny O'BrienKate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. Hunter had diabetes and this He was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her overthe fifteen-year-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married old holding the gun and she thought pointing it would be a good idea for him at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to find out what parenting the vagaries of the jury system he was ''really'' likefound not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a night quieter life in the countryside but when a posh hotel but then he dumped missing teenager is found on her and territory she couldn't get the money s drawn into a wider investigation - and back, so Hannah was offered into the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingorbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1448309743|title=Without a TraceThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Jane BettanyCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a divorce and right now it was raining hardwealthy family are found murdered. All she wanted was to get back to her new The only item missing from the home and settle down for a quiet eveningis the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. It wasnThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that't going to be though: s an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in his chest. Sheto 'shadow'd no idea who he washim.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529077699|title=Bitter FlowersThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a stint small boat, anchored in rehab and is now returning Scully Cove close to workthe village of Greystone, in Devon. However Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the quiet job heworld sailor and all round ''celebrity's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but also looking into an oldas we'll find out, cold case of he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundopen book. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is Where did he get the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel money for his first boat? How did he finance the truthtrip?|isbn=191319308X
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|isbn=18387748231529427045|title=Her Majesty The Girl in the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemEagle's Talons|author=S J BennettKarin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's 2016 and mother is the latest woman in the Queenarea to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that too much good claret and too little exercise Svala is putting a strain on his waistbandremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Swimming, he decides, is the Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to go get home. Some are lucky and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came manage to be there early get one morning and discovered of the body of Cynthia Harris at few taxis available. Others squash onto the side night bus that will only go as far as one of the pooloutlying villages. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', by particularly in the look at it - probably one light of 'the missing women'. For one young royals being careless woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - and it looked as though Mrs Harris but her phone's dead. The bus had slipped and cut herself so badly that driven off before she had bled outthe chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. StillThere'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 first page, it was 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. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a shock for Sir Simonlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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