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|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529077745|title=The Night Watch Dark Wives (D S Max CraigieI Vera Stanhope)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fergus Grigor went out A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for a runtroubled teens. The lawyer dead man was on his honeymoon but his body Josh - one of the care workers who was found dashed due to pieces below work a shift the cliffs at Dunnett Headnight before but who had never turned up. Was it suicide D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, or did he fourteen- year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to Vera thinks this is unlikely as the deaths of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a girl'not-proven' verdict meant s diary makes it clear that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmentshe adored Josh. Paterson was Grigor's last clientShe knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=000837936X1529428289|title=The Last Girl to DieA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helen FieldsMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to TobermoryBecause of various property transactions, on people were searching for the Isle of Mullgrave but when they found it, in search it came with three sets of a new lifebones. It was a bit They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of a change from Las VegasPolice for St Denis, but to discover the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs identities of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) bodies and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who establish whether or not a crime had successfully tracked down missing teenagersbeen committed. Brandon, AdrianaAs if this isn's twint enough to worry about, was upset and surly. Fourthe Dordogne River -yearnormally tranquil -old Luna just knew that she missed her big sisteris flowing at record levels. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and it looked like St Denis faces the possibility of a ritual killingdevastating flood.
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|isbn=1509889612152919640X|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Suspect|author=Ann CleevesRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItThe nation's fifty years since a group of teenagers went favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on a weekend retreat to Holy Island. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative television and theyit seems that there've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was s only one of the original teenagerssuspect. Ken now has AlzheimerHe's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that hemust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's a shadow seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of the man he used to emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be. Philip Robson now in a priestbusy, always gets there early as he likes live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to have some quiet time alone in the chapelHolby. Annie Laidler lives locally Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areawas dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=0241990165B0CYV674G2|title=Hope to Die Swanton Morley (D I FawleyJohn Tanner)|author=Cara HunterDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddlyseemed like an open-and-shut case. There was A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a 999 call suggesting knife, comes into the police station shouting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadnhe hasn't come from killed the householderman. A couple body at the bottom of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to answer the doordeath. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was a body on the floor: the head had been blown off DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handbirth of his daughter Samantha. Richard Swann told the police that You would think he'd heard sounds of be grateful for an intruder easy answer but the words 'perverse' and had come downstairs to investigate'John Tanner' were made for each other. The ignorant young lout had called him He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he'Grandads determined to keep going - probably because he can'' and come t get any sleep at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defencehome.
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|isbnauthor=178763566XStuart Douglas|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeDuring location filming for his 1970're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that theys sitcom 're going to be ruined - Floggit and unsafe - in the snow thatLeggit's now falling. As she crosses , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the road, dead body of a car comes out woman on the edge of nowhere and hits hera reservoir. It doesn't stop. Two months later The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolibut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and a keen defender of he enlists the suburb help of Reverea fellow actor, north of BostonJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, where she lives. Nothing gets past her uncovering more possible murders and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsakseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is in California, looking after his sister, she has there really a link between the time deaths? And will they manage to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The uncover who is responsible before more people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=18011092650008517061|title=The CompanionDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Lesley ThomsonStig Abell|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his sonFormer Metropolitan Police detective, WilburJake Johnson, for their 'boys' day out'has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the boy's attention, future of his life with his mothervet girlfriend, AnnaLivia and her daughter Diana, promised him as moving in together would mean a roast dinner when he returned. 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? The dinner would never be served, as James For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Wilbur are putting the victims of a double stabbing future on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughback burner.
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1786482126|title=Dark MusicThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wondersite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -mind at when they discovered the heart bones of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthchild beneath a doorway. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is There was no John Watson MDskull. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on Was this a ritual killing or murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old? Inevitably, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutesIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but refuses to admit anythingNelson doesn't, 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 thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is pregnant with his child as a shambles. But taken off result of the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allone night they spent together some three months ago. Until, that may Her condition will beobvious before long, she manages not least because Ruth is prone to stop him in the middle sudden bouts of an apparent suicide attempt..sickness.|isbn=1529413192
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|isbn=152941363X0008551324|title=To Kill a Troubadour The Devil You Know (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelD S Max Craigie)|author=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It''Nobody knows what s unusual for anyone from the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is Hardie family to approach the police chief . Neither side likes or has any respect for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as he'JJ'), s prepared to tell the head of detectives for police where the départment body of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being a missing person is buried and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francewho was responsible for her death. The discovery of an oldThis person, stolen Peugeothe promises, crashed is someone big and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been for will be worth the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carpolice doing what he wants. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the owner remainder of the carhis sentence and to get an early parole date. A golf bag would be a good place Not much to hide a sniperask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's weapon. Was there going even prepared to be an attempt to kill someone, or were do the detectives being pushed in a other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain direction?that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=07278505470008405026|title=Blind Justice A Stranger in the Family (DS McAvoy 10Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=David MarkJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. A body had been She was never found in and the roots of investigation ground to a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullhalt. When he gets to the sceneNow, her mother, Helena, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedand her father are dead in their bed. A young manInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's corpse is entangled with something about the roots positioning of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It would seem that this What looked as though it was done whilst the man was still alivegoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. McAvoy makes a promise to Kerrigan is convinced that the victimexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoyothers (such as Derwent's own familyboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)0571379877|title=Little DrummerThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story Edward Jevons is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with the death of a working-class young woman in a carparkman, that looks very much like an overdoseobsessed with his upper-class friends, it unravels into Robert and Stanza. Robert's a fartheatre director. He's also self-reaching investigation of murderobsessed, frauddemanding, handsome and international pharmaceutical dealingsentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Norway whilst Frolich 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 led left to Africa as they follow stumble upon the twists and turns two of the investigation. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth them kissing in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going ona dark passageway.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbnauthor=1398507504Jo Callaghan|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that he's right. When a frozen body was man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Damflask ReservoirNuneaton, there was a link back DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to a cold the case from 2002alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler It's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the their first live case his father was investigating before he diedtogether, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Above all But when there's is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a growing sense very high profile case that the criminality draws a lot of Det Supt Stevens is going unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be brought out into able to solve the open. Perhaps Tyler is going to get case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the answers he needscase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=17876349061035021803|title=No Less the DevilThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Stuart MacBrideC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. One is Allegra (weFreya'll soon learn that shes former mentor and Carole's Allegra Dean-Edwards) close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Hugothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to keep him warm (the village: Arthur, she often does this for homeless peoplefeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingloved. It won't be long before After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the police realise that Malcolm love of her life, who was one of their own: not many other people are going to murdered) and Freya and James have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsnow divorced.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1398524085|title=Death at Friar's InnHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Rob KeeleyNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place Charlotte Salter was expected at The Honourable Society of Friarher husband's Innfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. For aspiring barristersShortly afterwards, moots test Etty and Greg, find the participants' knowledge of several areas body of law as well as their advocacy skills: itGreg's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Tom It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Nat are from then committed suicide when he couldn'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thist stand the guilt. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia Salter children are not convinced but there'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage s little else they can do but get on with their lives and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=15291259441529900360|title=City of the DeadThe Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, youIt hadn're careful and itt been Lt Milo Sturgis's not just about the way fault that you driveAlex 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. You restrict your alcohol intake His assertions that there were only open-and if it-shut cases which didn's t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepwhile. When youFinally, it was Robin, Delaware're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 as partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again.m She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. when the roads are quieter The next case did look simple, even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're goingthough. And it was going well until Two lovers were murdered in the men hit something swimming pool of a remote property in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los AngelesBel Air. The He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man was stark naked and couldnit't be identifieds not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC1178763681X|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Tim SullivanOrlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's SyndromeChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He can be rude, difficult didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalwomen to do what he wanted. ItPaul 's just 'somehow'' got the impression that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur d be at the school to him. There's assist Paul, who had a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and broken arm, but itdidn's t turn out that he has way. The teaching - and the best conviction rate with cases, everproblems - are all his own. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion The one thing he would recognisehadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, or welcome being attached to himself) he was the person who discovered the body and even attempts everyone knows that the police consider that person to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourbe the prime suspect.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1529421284|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It was one of those flash downpours that the third book British weather often delivers in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistheatwave. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovica gully, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to contact her superiorbe Lee Geary, Blixwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Before she can reach himHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, however, she is murdered, and Blixso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toot convinced. We then find ourselves Geary was a few days later with Blix and Rammtownie, who so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are being interviewed by connections to the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot suicide of Holly Gilbert and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happento two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix Lockyer and Ramm uncover DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that led 's cold cases to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=15291516001529425867|title=Give Unto OthersLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Donna LeonSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedIn 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. The He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''pandemiareally'' stripped the city his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of its tourists for nearly two years shell suits and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopentrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. ThereYou might wonder if you's now re being introduced to a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125police procedural written for laughs. Well,000 deaths have you're not put an end to greed. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth two men are they going to launder all just different sides of the money which is coming their way? same policing coin. Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like BrunettiSometimes it's adviceproblematic.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529431735|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Winter Visitor|author=Neil LancasterJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon 'It's February 1991 and Essex isbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'' return all the back of beyond: theremore surprising. He's not even any light pollution which is why it was d been exiled on the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Jimmy McLeish thought that The return has come about because he was onto 's had a nice little earnerletter from his ex-wife, only saying that she's ill and hasn't long to find that Macca, the man he thought he was working with, is deadlive. His remains would never be found. The delivery It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is hijacked by Davie abducted, stripped to his underwear and Callumsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. As the story progresses we'll get Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to know them quite well.home?
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|isbn=15294096590861541774|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Elly GriffithsSteve Burrows|rating=54
|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 motherDCI Domenic Jejeune's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery of close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a picture of her own house: it was short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'ally, some years before Ruth was bornGuy Trueman. It Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was before her parents were marriedfacing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. When she returned Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Norfolk she was determined light that suggested that he might have planned to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and murder the country was in lockdownman. Ruth and Kate are restricted to Now he could be facing the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesdeath penalty. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersanother police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1521129886|title=Blood Games They Had It Coming (DS Nikki Parekh 4Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Liz MistryKeith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's the third murder in the space of a few weeks good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersre both delighted. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the first morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordhave killed himself. OnlyStuart's concerned about his sister, this timeLucy, itwho's going struggling to be differentmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephewLucy, Haqibhe says, and she has a very public meltdown. It isnis convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes his nature. The police and comes from an obviously monied background. the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, What it does mean though is that Nikki is going but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to be find out what happened on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionthe night Gil died.
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|isbn=1529135567B0CK3MYJ56|title=One Step Too FarResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Lisa GardnerAnn Macarthur|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years since old. He used to have a high-flying job in the stag weekendcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Five 'Shades of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenCameron Strike', Scotyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in On the night Scot managed other hand, he has been asked to wander offlook into something. The remaining four searched for him in vain Joyce and it was decided that TimHelen are half-sisters, or rather, who they were until Helen was experienced killed in survival techniques, would go for helpwhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. When help didnJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign fall in front of Tima train. Every year, TimGreg's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back asked to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timinvestigate.
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|isbn=15293465411838954481|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Misper|author=Elizabeth GeorgeKate London|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's late July no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and Deborah St James is pointing it at a meeting with Dominique DI Kieran Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from . He pulled the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch trigger but would later turn out due to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmaker. It follows on from the success vagaries of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration jury system he was found not guilty of both the possibility murder and the manslaughter of the idea behind officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the book being used to highlight an area which countryside but when a missing teenager is causing concern in some communities. Deborahfound on her territory she's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian drawn into a wider investigation - and Somali communities as she relies on getting back into the trust orbit of the people she speaks to and photographsRyan Kennedy.
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|isbn=13987069061448309743|title=The LostDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Simon BeckettCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Metropolitan police firearms officerScotland, Jonah Colley's young sonfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happeneddeath will follow. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he wokedisappears, Theo had goneDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=''It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it and heall bloody peculiar, isn's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but t it, Sir?'s a long time since they've spoken Well yes, it is. He's obviously Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it a small boat, anchored in his voice - and he asks Jonah Scully Cove close to meet him at Slaughter Quaythe village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity'There's no one else . I can trust''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he sayscould be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbn=15294181001529427045|title=BrunoThe Girl in the Eagle's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesTalons|author=Martin WalkerKarin Smirnoff|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=I'm not usually a fan of short stories 'Life has more to offer than people - I find it all too easy prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again small town of Gasskas, where the so-far- but I am untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a fan of Martin Walkergold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's [[Martin Walkerniece's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries mother is the latest woman in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation area to read have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'Brunos unaware of the part Salander played in her father's Challengedeath.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'' was hard s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to resist get home. Some are lucky and Imanage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'm rather glad that I didn, particularly in the light of 'the missing women't even try. For those new one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to the series, therering someone to come and collect her - but her phone's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to know about wholet her use his. There's who no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and the background to why Bruno is in St Denishigh-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1405957174|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)A Death at the Party|author=Jenny O'BrienAmy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her From the first night away from her sonpage, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by The victim - a pump attached to his stomach, so her overman -protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married is dying when we first meet him and she thought it would be a good idea for him Nadine consciously makes no effort to find out what parenting was ''really'' likecall the ambulance he so desperately needs. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldnWhat we don't get know is who the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity man is or why Nadine prefers to go in his placehave him die. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.
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