Mary Higgins Clark
Two Little Girls In Blue

Margaret and Steve Frawley return home from a dinner to discover their twins Kathy and Kelly missing, and an eight million dollar ransom note. The Frawleys meet the kidnapper's demands, but only Kelly is returned. Kelly seems to be in touch telepathically with her twin, but no one except Margaret believes that Kathy is still alive. Then Kelly's warnings become increasingly specific and alarming....

Martin Davies
The Conjuror's Bird

Despite being the leading expert in his field, Fitz has never written the great book on extinct species that everyone expected from him. Suddenly, a figure from the past reappears in his life. The beautiful Gabby wants him to help find something that vanished over two hundred years ago from the collection of the pioneering naturalist Joseph Banks: a specimen known as The Mysterious Bird of Ulieta....

Sarah Dunant
Snowstorms in a Hot Climate

Two years after Marla's best friend, Elly, left England, Marla receives a strange letter begging her to fly to New York. There, Marla finds Elly very different from the carefree friend she once was. Elly has acquired a cocaine-smuggling boyfriend ­and as Marla tries to free her friend from the dual addictions of love and cocaine, she unravels a story of seduction and power in Columbia and of desire and betrayal in California.