John Grisham
The Pelican Brief

Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans, legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest level of power in Washington and cause shockwaves there. Shockwaves that will send hired killers chasing after her, which will propel her across the country to meet the one man who is as near the truth as she is.

Ruth Dudley Edwards
Clubbed To Death

Ada Williams was once an ambitious woman who believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now, she is all alone in the world, except for her greedy, bitter son Peter, who despises her and waits for the day he will inherit her fortune. Ada, however, has a different plan altogether....

Reginald Hill
Dialogues Of The Dead

A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents-yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette, apparently as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be claiming responisiblity for the deaths. But when the story is leaked and a third indisputable murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe firid themselves playing a game no one knows the rules of, against an opponent known only as the Wordman.