Michael Connelly
The Lincoln Laywer

Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, travelling between the courthouses of Los Angeles county to take whatever cases the system throws in their path. Mickey's been in the business a long time and he knows how to work it, how to grease the right wheels and palms.When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. He might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But, as Mickey knows, criminal cases can turn on a dime.

• A blistering tale about a cynical defence attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.

Lindsey Davis
See Delphi and Die

With safe seas, good roads and provinces rich in heritage sites, Marcus Didius Falco's fellow countrymen have become voracious tourists. Greece, home of the ancient Olympic Games, is a favourite destination for Seven Sights travel, a seedy company which provides escorted tours for wealthy travellers. When Falco and Helena hear that a young girl and a newly-wed woman, both Roman visitors, have been murdered at Olympia, they both step in to investigate. But, after making themselves unwelcome at the hidebound sanctuary, they soon find themselves up against an absentee tour guide and a mixed bunch of customers, some of whom have things to hide. They soon find that the search for culture is far from genteel - and it can be very dangerous indeed.

When John Thaw, the star of The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Goodnight Mister Tom, died from cancer in 2002, the nation lost one of its finest actors, and Sheila Hancock a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart. In 1974 John married Sheila with whom he shared a working-class background, a RADA education and a huge talent for acting. Theirs was a long, sometimes turbulent, always passionate relationship, and here Sheila describes their life together - a love that weathered overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink and cancer, separation and joyful reunions with honesty and piercing intelligence.