Maeve Binchy
The Lilac Bus

Every Friday night young Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-coloured minibus leaves Dublin for the country town of Rathdoon with seven people on board, all returning home for the weekend. Though these people have known one another for years, everyone on the bus has a secret. But this weekend, when Tom's bus pulls in, the riders find the unexpected waiting for them....

Christopher Brookmyre
Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks

Jack Parlabane was no believer in ghosts, but that was before he found himself in the compromising position of being not only dead himself, but worse: dead with an exclusive still to file. But he soon finds his assumptions turned upside down as he encounters phenomena for which he can deduce no rational explanation.

At the birth of their daughters, best friends Rachel, Mariel and Jenny make a promise: to love and care for each other's girls exactly as they would their own. Six years later, Rachel's daughter Emma is dead, killed in a road accident that the other two girls have survived. But, as Rachel slowly rebuilds her world, she can't forget the vow she once made....