The Summer Before the DarkNobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age. As the summer begins, Kate Brown attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm

Now she must find the very human source of the evil wind that is blowing through the ruins

The stellar line up includes Lindsey Davis

becomes a prisoner in Norwich Castle

they discover a terrible secret

Tempe must fight to save her professional standing

MEXICAN GOTHIC

for what crimes could possibly happen in such an out-of-the-way place

A Case of Libel is a remarkable picture of a newspaper office - the office of a newspaper which

A modern classic I couldnt put it down Claire Dyer

A QUEEN IN MORTAL DANGER Bruno is tasked with going undercover to join the conspirators

A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz

her beloved sergeant of police