Patricia Cornwell
Scarpetta

Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her. His story turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder that he didn't commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta, or is his paranoid tale true? Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges....

Katie Flynn
A Mother's Hope

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying, a basket on one arm. Filled with panic, she abandons her burden, meaning to return later. Even as she disappears in the resulting chaos, the bundle in the basket begins to wail. Years later, two young unfortunates meet on a miserable November day. Martin has been desperately trying to hitch a lift along a lonely windswept road, when he sees a weeping girl in front of him. Rose and Martin become unlikely companions until they go their separate ways, not expecting to meet again. But fate decrees otherwise.

Mma Ramotswe is facing a number of challenges. First, her faithful companion, the tiny white van, is experiencing mechanical difficulties. Will Charlie, the feckless apprentice, be able to save the day? Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi is experiencing a crisis in her engagement to Ph uti Radiphuti. A scheming woman - Violet Sepotho - has obtained a job at Phuti's store, clearly intending to prise him away from Mma Makutsi. Enough to unsettle Mma Ramotswe? Certainly not! Calm reflection and cups of red bush tea will solve even the most trying of problems....