Mary Higgins Clark
You Belong To Me
When Dr Susan Chandler decides to use her radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to be victims of killers who prey on the lonely.

C.S. Forester
Hornblower In The West Indies
To be Commander-in-Chief of the West Indies, with nothing more to worry about than the suppression of the slave trade, the hunting down of piracy and the policing of the Caribbean, was pure joy to Rear Admiral Lord Hornblower.

Ruth Rendell
Make Death Love Me
Alan Groombridge had a fantasy. Husband to a woman he didn't like, father of two children he had never wanted, and manager of a tiny bank. Alan was doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine. All that saved him was that one fantasy: stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom.