Play Dirty by Sandra Brown - F
His release from prison should have been the end of Griff Burkett's troubles - it wasn't. The former star American football player is reviled by fans for throwing a championship game, his fortune is lost, & he remains a suspect for an unsolved murder. Can his situation get any worse? 

The Breached Wall by Anita Burgh - F
During the First World War the old social order is crumbling as surely as time begins to breach the walls of the ancient manor house. With their menfolk away in France, the women left at home take on the burden of running the estate, as well as their homes and households, working harder than they ever have before.

The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke - MF
The latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux is a powerful evocation of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects on his beloved New Orleans.

Lucifer's Ark by Simon Clark - F
The Volsparr routinely sails to a mining community in the Baltic. This time it carries families over to visit loved ones who must work through Christmas to meet a deadline. Unknown to the passengers, the ship also carries a secret cargo - Stateless criminals, who have committed the most horrendous of crimes.

The Chase by Clive Cussler - F
In April 1950, a steam locomotive rises from the waters of a Montana lake, revealing the remains of three men who died 44 years before. The US government brings in the best man they can find to solve the case - a no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell. Soon it will take all of Bell's skills not to prevail - but merely to survive.

Second Chance by Jane Green - F
Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say they are the perfect family, but you would be very wrong

Penalty Shootout by Bill Knox - MF
The death of a second-hand car dealer at a model-railway exhibition seems a fairly routine case for Glaswegian detectives Thane & Moss, but the arrival in the city of a horde of international football fans complicates matters. The duo struggle to piece together the evidence against a backdrop of confusion & violence

Crossfire by Andy McNab - F
Bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone's life is saved by a reporter's swift action as a roadside bomb explodes. When the man later vanishes, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads him from Iraq to Bermuda, London and Kabul

A Christmas Beginning by Anne Perry - MF
Superintendent Runcorn decides to spend Christmas in Anglesey, hoping to stave off the loneliness of the season and thoughts of Milisande, the woman he must forget. However, Melisande is also in Anglesey and when her brother is implicated in murder she calls on her old friend Runcorn to help clear his name

Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel - F
The lives of four characters collide in Danielle Steel's novel, as a devastating tragedy transforms each of them forever, igniting powerful journeys of change and revelation, courage and grace

The Tree Planter's Lass by Janet McLeod Trotter - F
Clarissa Belhaven and her sister Olive have grown up on their widowed father's tea plantation in India. When he dies suddenly, the sisters are forced to return to their father's family on Tyneside. Clarissa is shocked by the hard lives of the locals, and dreams of opening her own tearoom