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Victim Without a Face

Victim Without a Face

by Stefan Ahnhem, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
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tagged : international mystery & crime, crime
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Vigilante Season

Vigilante Season

by Peter Kirby
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tagged : police procedural, crime, hard-boiled
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Walls of a Mind

Walls of a Mind

An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery
by John Brooke
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With fourteen towns and forty villages in her purview, she had been busy enough since taking over in February, fulfilling her new role quietly and efficiently, learning the lay of the land. The romance of wine country did not mean people were less nasty, brutal or just plain stupid than their fellow humans anywhere else. Yes, the beat was different: apart from gypsy house-breaking rings, there were no gangs. Gangs were in the city and stayed there. So no extorting and breaking knees. No people-smuggling; illegals came in through the ports and her patch stopped well short of the sea. No white collars siphoning, laundering or otherwise defrauding. Not yet. Make no mistake: wives were bashed, children were abused and abducted, houses were robbed and vandalized, garages torched. Drugs were being dealt. There had been two rapes. A Belgian wintering in his summer retreat had been seriously beaten by a neighbour when he complained a little too loudly about the man's yapping dogs. An armed robbery in Causses had turned into a tense stand-off and negotiation at a cabin in the woods before two sad men surrendered. And these were all serious crimes requiring her expertise. But in almost half a year on the job, not one person had been murdered.

Now someone had, and high-profile, to boot.

One does not wish for murders, but it is natural for a cop to yearn for a challenge befitting her skills. And of course, this was coupled with a need to prove herself to her new peers. Aliette was eager.

And puzzled: The victim was a Joël Guatto, thirty-three, from a prominent wine-producing family. The media were playing up the political angle. The politics of wine. Six weeks before, Guatto had run in the regional elections representing CPNT (Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Tradition), also known as the Hunting & Fishing party. He hadn't made it past the first round, garnering less than one percent of the vote. Yesterday he had been shot dead: one well-placed bullet through the head, according to the morning reports. Joël Guatto lived on the family domaine twenty minutes from Saint-Brin, well within Aliette Nouvelle's allotted territory. But he was gunned down on the same stretch of beach where she herself had been enjoying some sunny oblivion a few hours earlier. The beach, twenty minutes from downtown, was city jurisdiction. And scene of the crime was the bottom-line criterion where it came to the choice of lead investigator.

So why had they called her?

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War N' Wit, Inc. Boxed Set

War N' Wit, Inc. Boxed Set

by Gail Roughton
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tagged : women sleuths, urban life, paranormal
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Weirdo

Weirdo

by Cathi Unsworth
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tagged : occult & supernatural, crime
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West End Murders

West End Murders

by Roy Innes
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tagged : police procedural
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When Blood Lies

When Blood Lies

A Nicole Charles Mystery
by Linda L. Richards
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tagged : women sleuths, amateur sleuth, crime
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Where Bodies Fall

Where Bodies Fall

by Sheila Kindellan-Sheehan
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