A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman’s body into the trunk of a car…or was it just a sleeping pill-induced nightmare? At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected that the famous doctor’s work “curing” infertile women was more than controversial–that it was deceitful, depraived, and often deadly. But before Richard could tell Katie his fears, she left the office for the weekend and an appointment for routine surgery…in Dr. Highley’s operating room.

After a tragic accident involving his mother, and the disappearance of his father, young Davie flees his hometown of Blackburn, unsure of what the future holds. Devastated, he must escape the haunting memories of the worst night in his young life. With little more than the shirt on his back and a fierce determination to find his father, he sets off on a lonely, friendless road. Back home, those Davie has left behind wait anxiously; Kathleen, his childhood friend who has held a secret close to her heart these past few years, and Joseph, his grandfather whose guilt at the events that dreadful night burns right to his soul. Will they ever see Davie again?

POMPEII by Robert Harris – Ancient Rome is brought vividly to life in the exciting new novel set in AD 79. When the great Augusta aqueduct fails, engineer Marcus Attilius is under pressure to safeguard the water supply to Pompeii and the rest of the Bay of Naples.
SHUTTER ISLAND by Dennis Lehane – In 1954, two US Marshals take a ferry to Shutter Island’s high-security mental hospital, charged with discovering the fate of a missing patient.
THE RUNNER by Peter May – When a weightlifter dies in the arms of his mistress, Detective Li Yan of the Beijing police is ordered to cover up the scandal.
THE CRUELLEST MILES by Gay and Laney Salisbury – In the winter of 1925, a diphtheria epidemic broke out in the gold-rush town of Nome, Alaska, just as supplies of antitoxin were running dangerously low.

The seventh scroll is nearly 4000 years old. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time. Duraid Al Simmu and his wife, Royan, discovered the scroll and made research notes on it. But Duraid is murdered, and Royan has to flee to England to seek refuge.

Its 1952. Bitterly divided by the struggles of their native land, the Courtney family empire has come to dominate the lives of all South Africans, white and black alike. But revolution is in the air and Shasa Courtney finds he must choose between his ideals and the quest for power.

Across four generations and two world wars, the epci novel of a powerful and ambitious Italian-American family whose lives and fortunes are cught up in the monumental events of the century.

A novel about the world of movie-making recounts the struggle of maverick director Steve Wayland to create a complex film, with the help of three people whose own dreams have been shattered.

Under crystaline skies, in the pale winter beauty of Arrowhead country in Minnesota, Harvey and Paul Perry set out on a cross-country skiing expidition. Harvey “The Bull” is jubilant, boisterous; his brother Paul struggles to keep pace behind.
But adventure turns to nightmare when a blizzard strikes. Forced into dependence on each other, the two men are pitted against the deadly malice of a frozen wilderness and must prove their courage, honour and love if they are to survive their ordeal…

Amy Parry is bereft of her best friend who died in childbirth, unable to marry Val Gwyn who is seriously ill with TB, and determined not to choose poverty and struggle with her former lover Pen Lewis. So she marries John Cilydd More, but her peace is soon shattered by strikes and then Pen returns.

In the autumn of 1993, American special forces were dispatched to the famine-stricken land of Somalia. Their intervention in this war-torn country was the most dramatic US military action since Vietnam. A route mission went horribly wrong when Michael Durant’s Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu and he was quickly surrounded by Somali troops and taken captive. The brutal torture he underwent was made all too clear to the world when his coerced statements were broadcast on live television and his battered face appeared on the cover of magazines around the globe.