Tag: Police Procedural
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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 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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SILENT FOOTSTEPS by JO BANNISTER
A Hazel Best and Gabriel Ash Mystery When Constable Hazel Best stops a confrontation between a local gang member and a harmless looking fellow on the train, a chain of events ends with bodies and everyone she loves in danger. As she begins finding things on her doorstep, she at first believes she may have…
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A MAP OF THE DARK by KAREN ELLIS
The first in a series, A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis, introduces us to FBI Agent Elsa Myers. Elsa is a complex character with a dark past and a lot of secrets. Right now her father is dying and she is by his side when she receives a call for help from New…
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INTO THE NIGHT BY SARAH BAILEY
Sarah Bailey follows up her thrilling novel Dark Lake with Into The Night. I think all of us who read The Dark Lake were hoping there would be another and soon! DS Gemma Woodstock has had more than her fair share of knocks and has left her young son to move to Melbourne. A big…
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THE DARKNESS by RAGNAR JONASSON
Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson is an atmospheric audiobook thriller from one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. DI Hulda Hermannsdotter is a few months away from retirement with the Reykjavik Police. She’s not sure how she feels about that. At 64…
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