It is wartime and Miranda, little cockney orphan Ted and Roberta (Bobbie) have been evacuated to an old-fashioned household in the country. Despite the war, the children's time spent with two unmarried sisters at their rectory is idyllic. But when the local Committee for Evacuation objects to the spinsters' attempt to adopt all three children, it is Bobbie who is reluctantly sent away. And, before long, all three children who have come to think of themselves asa family are parted - seemingly forever....

Michael Connelly
A Darkness More Than Night

Former FBI agent Terrence McCaleb comes out of retirement to help the Los Angeles Police Department investigate a most baffling and bizarre killing - one starkly similar to the murders he once profiled for the FBI. Reluctantly, McCaleb is drawn from his peaceful life on Catalina island with a new wife and daughter back into the adrenaline fuelled tension of seeing inside a horrifyingly deranged criminal mind. More horrifying still, the suspect who fits his profile is someone he has known and worked with in the past...

Ruth Dudley-Edwards
The Anglo-Irish Murders

Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs her friend Robert Amiss into becoming conference organiser. the interested parties seem intent on living up to their worst sterotypes and when a delegate plummets off the battlements, no one can decide whether it was by accident or design. The next death poses the same problem and causes warring factions to accuse each other of murder...