The best partnerships in crime fiction shouldn't work. A night-shift detective and a retired legend in Los Angeles. A maverick inspector and his younger colleague at the world's most guarded summit. A forensic archaeologist and a detective who doesn't always agree with her in Norfolk. Two Oxford DIs who couldn't be further apart in background and barely tolerate each other. Four pairings, eight people, and crimes that none of them could have cracked alone.
Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours - LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up on New Year's Eve when two seemingly unconnected cases converge on a single killer.
Ian Rankin, Naming of the Dead - Rebus investigates a series of suspicious deaths during the G8 summit at Gleneagles, while keeping a personal tragedy at arm's length.
Elly Griffiths, The Outcast Dead - Ruth Galloway is called in to identify bones found at Norwich Castle that may belong to a Victorian hanged for child murder. While she identifies the long-dead, children are disappearing in modern-day Norfolk.
Simon Mason, A Killing in November - Oxford detective Ryan Wilkins investigates when a young woman is strangled at an Oxford college that pulls him into a world of privilege, secrets and buried history.
