Category: Police Procedural
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THE FOREVER WITNESS by EDWARD HUMES
Pulitzer Prize Winner, Edward Humes, brings us a true crime story. How Genetic Genealogy Solved A Cold Case Double Murder. This is a true story of murder in the Pacific Northwest. When two young people leave Canada to run an errand in the U.S., they never return. Searches were extensive, but the evidence was sparse.…
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THE RISING TIDE by ANN CLEEVES
A Vera Stanhope Novel #10 Since I have recently finished binge-watching the BritBox series Vera, I was happy to receive a copy of this newest DCI STANHOPE novel! We are back on Holy Island for this one. Fifty years ago a group of high school kids and their young teacher went on a retreat there…
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THE PLAYING FIELDS by STELLA CAMERON
An Alex Duggins Cotswolds Mystery When two bodies are discovered within six weeks of one another, it would appear that a serial killer is at large in the sleepy Cotswold village of Folly. DCI Dan O’Reilly is settling in to his new home with boxes still unpacked when a body is found on the old…
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THIEF OF SOULS by BRIAN KLINGBORG
“On the night the young woman’s corpse is discovered, hollowed out like a birchbark canoe, Inspector Lu Fei sits alone in the Red Louts bar, determined to get gloriously drunk.” Lu Fei has all the credentials of a top-notch Inspector and yet he is living in a small town in the north of China,where life…
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The Darkest Evening by ANN CLEEVES
I love the Vera series! And this time we meet more of her family. As DI Vera Stanhope is on her way home the first big snow of the winter is blowing so hard she can barely find her turnoff point. The one thing she can see is a car with the driver’s door open…
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THE MOLTEN CITY by Chris Nickson
Detective Superintendent Tom Harper senses trouble ahead when the prime minister plans a visit. Can he keep law and order on the streets while also uncovering the truth behind a missing child? Detective Superintendent Tom Harper has a bad feeling about the Prime Minister making a stop in Leeds. It’s September of 1908 and everyone…
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THE SECRETS THEY LEFT BEHIND by Lissa Marie Redmond
Shea O’Conner is a twenty-three-year-old cop in Buffalo, a regular patrol officer, who looks more like a teenager than an adult, and, who is still recovering emotionally and physically from the wounds inflicted by a sadistic killer in a case none of her co-workers even know about. When she is asked to go undercover…
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE BY PETER GUTTRIDGE
When a body is found in a lake belonging to Nimue Grace, a reclusive actress, DI Sarah Gilchrist and her partner DS Bellamy Heap are on the case. The dead man, Major Rabbitt was not well-liked by any stretch of the imagination. He was a pig. His ex hated him, his business rivals hated him.…
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TEN DAYS GONE by Beverly Long
Most of the police procedurals I have read have been set in the UK. This one is set in Wisconsin with bits of Minnesota and Illinois. This is the first in a series and I am so glad I read it. In Baywood, Wisconsin, A.L. McKittridge and Rena Morgan have a big problem. Four women…
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Shatter the Night (A Detective Gemma Monroe Mystery) by Emily Littlejohn
Detective Gemma Monroe is back in the fourth installment of this series. This time it’s Halloween in Cedar Valley and not everyone is giving out treats! When Gemma stops in to say hello to a retired judge, Caleb Montgomery, in his offices, she finds him upset and tells her about threatening letters he has been…
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