His killing spree began in September 1995 with the stabbing of retired railway worker Roberts, 56, who lived in semi-isolation in a cottage in Caergeiliog, Anglesey. Still, there’s some good scenery too in Fiona’s second outing, Love Story, With Murders (2012), which takes the investigation out to the Black Mountains of Powys and Monmouthshire. He had claimed that the death of his wife, Madallin, 37, the mother of his two sons, was “a tragic accident”.

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To be able to know so many of these places really makes you think about what is going to happen next.

This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one.

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Forget Chandler’s LA or Hammett’s San Francisco, for many readers Pryce’s Aberystwyth is where noir reaches its zenith! He told witnesses he had fallen but detectives have been unable to identify where he may have fallen. Mrs Nixon had asked Roberts and his male partner to leave their room because the hotel was closed for the winter. The 30-year-old was attacked with a wooden baton while on his round in Clayton Road, Mold, on February 4, 2003.However, following advances in DNA technology, North Wales Police said it would carry out a forensic review. It is later discovered that a notorious crime family of the Russians is responsible for the unstable situation of the city.

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Of course it was not the first miscarriage of justice to occur in the Cardiff Docks—Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men (2021) tells the story of the executed innocent Somali man Mahmood Mattan.With no employment and little money in his hand, Conrad decided to begin writing a story while sitting on a beach in Florida, which became his debut novel, Soft Target.

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Gerald had been a photography and video lecturer at Blackpool College of Art in Lancashire before retiring to the coastal spot about 20 years ago. However, the later books of Conrad follow the adventures of the Major Investigation Team and Detective Alec Ramsey.It’s a 186-mile route that links Cardiff on the south coast to Llandudno on the north coast—not quite Route 66 but still…. The 77-year-old had been stabbed 22 times, perhaps with a pitchfork or possibly a screwdriver, but died from a fire in the hayloft. It’s a taut thriller and won the prestigious UK Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year in 2014. Earlier that evening Mr Watson, who lived alone, had been seen drinking in the Pen-y-Bryn Hotel in Llanrwst.