Kathy Reichs
Death Du Jour

March in Montreal: It is a bitterly cold night and in the eerie silence of an old church, forensic anthropologists Dr Temperance Brennan digs carefully. She is there to exhume the remains of a Nun who died in 1888 and is now proposed as possible sainthood.

It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor. Young and toughened, he labours beneath the glorious heritage of his family, and the burden of his own self-doubt. For him, there is the ramp of a landing craft smashing down into the sea, and the fire of the enemy on a Sicilian beach.

Ian Rankin
Knots & Crosses

First, there was the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. Now a third is missing. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policeman hunting the killer.