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A week in December[Link]London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life03/08/2010
Bloodline[Link]When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary02/08/2010
Cold in hand[Link]Recently promoted to Detective Inspector in the Major Crime Unit, Lynn Kellogg's rescue of a badly-beaten 15-year-old from Eastern Europe links her to an international investigation into people trafficking and gun smuggling, and teams her up with SOCA the03/08/2010
Dead tomorrow[Link]The body of a teenager dredged from the seabed off the coast of Sussex, is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more young bodies are found03/08/2010
Entombed[Link]After a lull of four years, the 'silk stocking rapist' is back at work on the Upper East side, but this time Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman have perfect DNA evidence to work with03/08/2010
I'll be there for you[Link]In the vein of 'Since I Don't Have You', 'I'll Be There For You' is a story of two sisters, who in their own very different ways, face heartbreak03/08/2010
Library of the dead[Link]A murderer is on the loose: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them i03/08/2010
Midnight fugue[Link]Gina Wolfe has come to Mid-Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiance´, Commander Mick Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job. What none of them realise is how events set in motion decades ago wi03/08/2010
My dirty little book of stolen time[Link]Charlotte supports herself and her lumpen side-kick, Fru Schleswig, as a prostitute in Copenhagan. But the course of harlotry never runs smooth, and Charlotte's life is altered irrevocably when one hard winter, she stumbles on an exciting new source of in03/08/2010
Rain gods[Link]Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland is a former ACLU attorney and Korean War prisoner. Running from a traumatic and chequered past to become sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas, Hackberry soon find himself dealing with more than jus03/08/2010
Ravens[Link]This is George Dawes Green's first novel in 13 years. It tells the story of grifters, Shaw and Romeo, who devise a plan to obtain a winning lottery ticket from the Boatwright family03/08/2010
Sir Michael Caine[Link]Born Maurice Micklewhite, son of a Billingsgate fish porter and a charlady, Michael Caine's life has been an extraordinary rollercoaster: from washing dishes and fighting on National Service, to winning two Oscars and being knighted by the Queen. This is03/08/2010
Stirred but not shaken[Link]Colourful chef Keith Floyd serves up an account of his sweet and sour (and crazy) life. He reveals the ups and downs of his career, and the fortunes won and lost. He also presents an analysis of fame and how it can destroy, and delivers a study of the sho03/08/2010
The believers[Link]When radical New York lawyer, Joel Litvinoff falls gravely ill, his wife Audrey uncovers a secret that forces her to re-examine both her belief in him and her commitment to their 40-year marriage. Joel's children, with dilemmas of their own to cope with,03/08/2010
The bodies left behind[Link]A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to03/08/2010
The Bradshaw variations[Link]Since leaving his job to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Thomas has found the structure of his daily piano practice & the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks03/08/2010
The informers[Link]Capturing the lives of a group of people in Los Angeles, 'The Informers' is an intense narrative that blurs genders, generations and even identities. They are connected in the only way people can be in LA - suffering from nothing less than the death of th03/08/2010
The last king of Scotland[Link]What would it be like to be Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's bestselling novel, now also an award-winning film, tells the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime03/08/2010
The queen of new beginnings[Link]Clayton Miller's life is a mess. His career as one of the country's best comedy script writers has stalled and his long term girlfriend has left him. Just when he thinks his life couldn't get any worse, he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace an03/08/2010
This is how[Link]All actions have consequences. This is how life goes. Patrick is a loner. An intelligent but disturbed young man struggling to find his place in the world. He ventures out on his own and as he begins to find happiness commits an act of violence that sends03/08/2010
Turbulence[Link]The D-Day landings - the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day. A team of scientists is charged with agreeing on an accurate forecast five03/08/2010
Wish you were here[Link]After 10 years together Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his live-in girlfriend, Sarah. All he wants to do is wallow in misery, but mates Andy and Tom have a better idea, a week of sun and souvlaki in Malia, party capital of the Greek Islands. But Charl03/08/2010

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