Ian Rankin
Exit Music

It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence a high-level delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, keen to bring business to Scotland. The politicians and bankers who run Edinburgh are determined that the case should be closed quickly and clinically. But the further they dig, the more Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke become convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack...

Joanna Trollope
Friday Nights

It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her window she sees two young women with small children, separate, struggling and plainly lonely, and decides to ask them in and see what happens. Gradually six women, with different ages and different backgrounds, form a circle of friends. All of them value Friday nights. And then one of them meets a man, an enigmatic, significant man, and the whole dynamic changes ...

On the unforgiving streets of downtown Miami, rookie reporter Deborah Jones is on a quest for the truth. 82-year-old William Craig is on Death Row for the murder of the senator's son who raped his granddaughter. In a race against time, Deborah is determined to expose the blackmail and corruption that lay at the heart of Craig's trial. As she digs deeper she unearths a conspiracy involving the embittered senator, a right-wing governor and a Florida mafia boss ­and inevitably becomes a target for those who would kill to protect their secrets. In the desperate final countdown to save Craig, she too may be forced to disregard the law....