Dick Francis & Felix Francis
Crossfire

Shell-shocked and missing a foot – lost to an IED, Improvised Explosive Device, during his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent home by the army and, at a loose end, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, first lady of British racing, has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to breaking point with his mother and stepfather. But there's another reason for the stifling tension at Kauri House Stables: Josephine is being blackmailed for a hefty sum every week – and forced to make her horses lose. Retirement is not an option, as she has been warned that it will result in the thing she most fears, exposure and ridicule . . . and prison, when the government finds out what she's been hiding. Tom sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career, or will he find himself caught in the crossfire?

Published simultaneously with the hardback edition.

Jill Paton Walsh
The Attenbury Emeralds

The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury’s dazzling heirloom launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective in 1921. Now it is 1951: Lord Peter Wimsey has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, detective novelist Harriet Vane. Then the new Lord Attenbury, grandson of Lord Peter’s first client, seeks Wimsey's help to prove who owns the gigantic emerald. It will be the most challenging case he has ever faced.

'It is impossible to tell where Dorothy L. Sayers ends and Jill Paton Walsh begins' – Ruth Rendell, Sunday Times

Catherine Aird
Past Tense

Detectives Sloan and Crosby find themselves assigned two rather puzzling cases. First, there's the young woman's body which has been discovered in the River Alm. And then there's the mysterious break-in at Berebury Nursing Home. To be precise, it's Josephine Short's room at the Nursing Home that's been entered, although nothing seems to be missing. What could the intruder have been after? It becomes apparent to Sloan and Crosby that the two cases are connected – but who can the killer be?

'Never less than elegant and mischievously sharp'– The Times