Your next good read December 2008
New Titles by popular Authors
Lyn Andrews
A daughter’s journey
Angela is sent away from home to live with relatives as a young child and moves away from her Irish roots as a teenager in the early 1960s. She puts her past behind her until an unhappy ending to a love affair sends her home.
Christine Barber
The replacement child
A debut police procedural mystery novel from the US featuring the death of an anonymous tipster feeding information to newspaper journalists. It is soon clear that this death is intimately connected to others in the area.
P C Doherty
Spies of Sobeck
Pharaoh Queen Hatusu calls for an investigation into a puzzling sequence of events. A palace official falls to his death, people disappear and the guests at a funeral party are poisoned. Dangerous forces seem to be at work in the country and the chief judge needs to uncover the truth urgently.
David Donachie
The Admirals’ game
John Pearce was press-ganged into the Navy and has been in constant conflict with Captain Barclay ever since. Now Barclay is facing a Court martial but with the war against the French intensifying the Admirals are in dispute about how to deal with the situation.
Michael Edwards
Wild oats
A first novel featuring two families sharing a disastrous holiday in the countryside. The unusual thing is that they are not real people, just the inventions of a novelist who is content to create the characters and let the plot take care of itself. 
Susanna Gregory
The Westminster poisoner
A fourth instalment of the Thomas Chaloner mysteries set in restoration London. Christmas festivities had been banned during the Puritan period so were celebrated even more riotously afterwards. But even so two dead bodies in Westminster Hall seemed excessive, especially when it was discovered that they died of poison not gluttony.
Catriona McPherson
The winter ground
Another “Dandy Gilver” detective story set in the 1920s. With a nicely convoluted plot and engaging heroine mixed with authentic period flavour these stories manage to be both witty and suspenseful.
Charlie Owen
Bravo jubilee
A police action thriller from an author with 30 years of service in the police force. The setting in the year of the Queen’s silver jubilee and the themes of terrorism and football hooliganism evoke the atmosphere of Manchester in the 1970s. A follow up to the successful “Foxtrot Oscar”.
Nicholas Sparks
The lucky one
A soldier has survived a tour of duty in Iraq when many of his friends did not make it home. He is convinced that his survival is due to a lucky charm, a photograph of an unknown woman that he kept with him at all times. On his return home he sets out to find her, only to discover that this is not so straightforward.
Rosy Thornton
Crossed wires
A comedy about a Cambridge University professor who crashes his car in an effort to avoid hitting a cat. He certainly doesn’t expect to find love under such circumstances but forms a relationship with the call centre worker who takes his insurance claim.
Richard Woodman
The disastrous voyage of the Santa Margarita
On the way to Acapulco in the spring of 1601 the Santa Margarita was beset by misfortune including typhoons and problems with the cargo and the crew. It was eventually wrecked off the Philippines and the horrors and deprivations endured by the few survivors led to talk of a curse on the ship.
Gary Russell
Doctor Who: Beautiful chaos
Lance Parkin
Doctor Who: the eyeless
Dan Abnett
Doctor who: the story of Martha
Three new titles for fans of the BBC series will be released on Boxing Day
