Mavis Cheek
Getting Back Brahms

Diana owns a bookshop, is thirty-something, and is single again after a long relationship. The Brahams Requiem was once her favourite piece of music. Now she cannot listen to it without it stirring painful memories of her old love. She is determined, however, to supplant the old memories with something new-in her quest for a memory to superimpose on the past . . .

Patricia Cornwell
Isle Of Dogs

Chaos breaks loose when the Governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be installed on all streets and high-ways, and warns that motorists will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric inhabitants of an island off the coast of Virginia threaten to set up an independent state. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of Virginia State Police and Andy Brazil, state trooper and Hammer's right-hand confidant, find themselves at their wits' end as they try to protect the public from the politicians-and vice versa.

Ruth Rendell
Adam And Eve And Pinch Me

Jock Lewis was supposed to have died in the Paddington rail crash-Minty had received a letter from Great Western. But, curiously, the police hadn't been in touch. And Jock had gone off with all her savings. Then there was Zilla. She had also received a letter from the railway company that said her husband was dead. She didn't really believe the story, but chose not to mention he doubts. Jock's ghost reappeared to Minty at home, at work, in the cinema. Minty started to carry a knife . .