Michael Bond
Monsieur Pamplemousse and the French Solution

From the author who brought the world Paddington Bear comes the new book in the delightful Parisian mystery series featuring Monsieur Pamplemousse and his canine partner. Pommes Frites. In this latest adventure, they must get to the bottom of a mystery surrounding the tarnishing of the integrity of Le Guide - France's premier hotel and restaurant guide. What they couldn't anticipate was that the case would involve a nun who is a habitual member of the Mile High Club.

Robert Crais
Chasing Darkness

It is fire season. and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. Fire Department personnel rush to evacuate the inhabitants and find the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. Each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed. One murder per year for seven years. their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the 'death album'. these seven murders have been linked, and the news for Elvis Cole is bad.

In Roman times, the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World held a deep fascination. Two of them were in Egypt: the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. Marcus Didius Falco's wife Helena Justina is determined to see them before her next confinement. Conveniently. he has an uncle with a house in Alexandria. For this innocent reason (he says) they sail to Egypt. As soon as they arrive in Alexandria, a suspicious death occurs at the famous Great Library. The authorities rapidly hand Falco the investigation; he is after all the well-known informer from Rome and the Emperor Vespasian's fixer. He was one of the last to see the victim alive and, should the investigation fail, it is he who'll get the blame.