Cecelia Ahern
Mrs Whippy

Emelda is 46 years old. Her husband, Charlie, has left her for a 23-year-old dancer. Her five difficult sons worship their father and blame Emelda for his leaving. On top of everything else, she has to struggle with a new job at the local supermarket. For comfort she turns to her only true friend - ice cream. But lately there's a handsome man driving the ice-cream van. Could romance be about to blossom?

Lin Anderson
Blood Red Roses

A hen night in Glasgow leaves the bride-to­be dead on a toilet floor. Her body is twisted, her face a mask of terror. Who would kill a girl just before her wedding? Dr Rhona Macleod and her team are called in to find out. As they go through the evidence, they find themselves in a world where sex is bought and sold, and more violent death is lying in wait.

Nan Ryan lives by herself. When it's heard that the builders are coming to work on the deserted house next door, Nan's three grown-up children reckon she won't get a moment of peace. But when Derek Doyle's shiny van arrives outside Number 12, Nan is secretly excited. And when the handsome builder looks to Nan to help unravel the mystery of the previous residents' vanishing, a special friendship begins to flourish.