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Limelight Book Reviews: Mystery and Crime

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osmond

Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood

Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike #5) by Robert Galbraith

The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2) by Elly Griffiths

The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths

The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9) by Elly Griffiths

the red hand peter temple

The Red Hand by Peter Temple

Death of An Old Master by David Dickinson

Death of An Old Master (Lord Francis Powerscourt #3) by David Dickinson

The Buried Circle by Jenni Mills

The Buried Circle by Jenni Mills

Crooked river Preston & Child.

Crooked River (Agent Pendergast #19) by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear

Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3) by Jacqueline Winspear GABY

Elegy for Eddie

Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs #8) by Jacqueline Winspear

The Water Room

The Water Room by Christopher Fowler

The Stranger Diaries

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs #6) by Jacqueline Winspear

Goodnight Sweet Prince by David Dickinson

Goodnight Sweet Prince by David Dickinson

The Mapping of Love and Death by Maisie Dobbs #7

Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths

Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths

See you at the Toxteth

See you at the Toxteth by Peter Corris

The Suspect

The Suspect by Michael Robotham

The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz

An Incomplete Revenge [Maisie Dobbs #5] by Jacqueline Winspear

Messenger of Truth [Maisie Dobbs #4] by Jacqueline Winspear

Kin by Snorri Kristjansson

The Dark Angel [Ruth Galloway #10] by Elly Griffiths

The Worst Woman in Sydney by Leigh Straw

full dark house

Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler

Unto Us A Son Is Given by Donna Leon

Unto Us A Son Is Given by Donna Leon

The lost Man by Jane Harper

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

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