Your next good read November 2008
New Titles by popular Authors
Boris Akunin Pelagia and the red rooster
Clive and Dirk Cussler Arctic drift
Michael Jecks King of thieves
Andy McNab Flashback
James Patterson Cross country
Anne Perry A Christmas grace
J D Robb Salvation in death
Alexander McCall Smith La’s orchestra saves the world
Danielle Steel A good woman
Valerie Wood The long walk home
Kelley Armstrong
Living with the dead
Another instalment in the popular supernatural fantasy series “Women of the Otherworld”. Robyn finds herself the prime suspect in a murder enquiry. She does have two people who take her side but they have problems of their own; one is half demon and one a werewolf.
F G Cottam
Dark echo
The “Dark echo” is a luxury yacht with a chilling history. It was built for an American playboy but seems to have been cursed as the three subsequent owners have all met tragic deaths. It will take a brave woman and the uncovering of a powerful secret to prevent the newest owners suffering the same fate.
Emma Darwin 
A secret alchemy
This relates the story of the murder of the Princes in the Tower and evokes all the tension and suspicion surrounding the mystery. Over five hundred years since the boys were taken, the story of the power struggles around the throne and the involvement of the future Richard III are brought to life in this account of innocence betrayed.
Matthew D’Ancona
Nothing to fear
A modern re-telling of the Bluebird legend by the Sunday Telegraph’s political columnist. Ginny’s new house represents a fresh start after her bitter divorce and Sean her new neighbour proves a very good friend. She is puzzled about why he keeps one room locked in his house but when her curiosity gets the better of her, a horrific secret is revealed.
Kate Furnivall
Under a blood red sky
Another sweeping epic from the author of “The Russian concubine”. Sofia manages to escape from a Siberian labour camp, to search for her gravely ill friend’s lover throughout communist Russia of the 1930s. Her search proves perilous and she encounters lies, secrecy and courage on her quest.
Stephen King
Just after sunset
A varied collection of short stories which King hopes will keep readers awake after the lights have been put out. The thirteen stories came about after judging a short story competition re-awakened his interest in the genre.
Toni Morrison
A mercy
A new novel from the Nobel Prize winning author of “Beloved” again exploring the slave trade and the details of a mother and daughter relationship, but set much earlier in the 1680s. Rich language and dramatic plot combine to cause the reader to reflect on the legacy of America’s colonial history.
Michael Pearce
A dead man in Barcelona
The fifth in the Dead Man series in which Seymour of Scotland Yard is sent out to Spain in 1912 to investigate the death of an Englishman in a prison cell. It seems that the businessman from Gibraltar was caught up in an illicit trade to Morocco, but how did he come to be murdered in Barcelona?
Ruth Rendell
Portobello
An art gallery owner finds an envelope filled with cash in the street and instead of handing it over to the police decides to try and find the owner himself. His note stuck to a lamppost attracts a rich variety of characters, all with their own problems, dreams and obsessions.
