Form/Genre: Suspense fiction

A struggling architect in a failed marriage, Jane looks forward to building an extension to her home - until the workers unearth a human skeleton. The bones belong to a childhood friend who went missing 25 years before.

The best tipster in the country is how the newspapers describe Toby. Having picked 15 winners from the last 17 selections, he's set every racing tongue wagging. Then his dead body is found, and Jeffries discovers that there is more to his success rate.

Inspector Kari Vaara is languishing in Helsinki's homicide unit, a year after his last case left him with a scarred face, chronic insomnia and a full body count's worth of ghosts. Until he is drawn into the murder-by-torture case of Lisa Filippov.

Inspector Kari Vaara is languishing in Helsinki's homicide unit, a year after his last case left him with a scarred face, chronic insomnia and a full body count's worth of ghosts. Until he is drawn into the murder-by-torture case of Lisa Filippov.

In Berlin an Abwehr officer, Wolfgang Stahl, fakes his death - he has been spying for the Americans - and flees to England before he is unmasked.

Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman are on the trail of five heads of state who are conspiring to cause massive civil unrest throughout the Western world. Tweed knows the identity of four of the ringleaders - but who is the fifth?

When Mark commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished jockey, comes in third, he can't help but be suspicious. Did she lose on purpose? Was the race fixed?

By the author of 'The Magician's Assistant', the Orange Prize runner-up, this novel features the combinatin of opera and terrorism. Latin terrorists storm an international gathering, only to find that their intended target has failed to show up.

Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has managed for four years. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that has been dug up.

Five men. One robbery. A deadly game of greed, revenge and betrayal is about to begin. Fresh out of the SAS, Browning is down on his luck and owes £500,000. Then he is offered a lifeline - to steal £10,000,000 in gold & diamonds.

Who is Jason Bourne? And why does he have $4 million in a Swiss bank account? This high-tension thriller, by the author of such works as The Scorpio Illusion, centres on a man who has lost his memory, and his search to find out why someone wants him dead.

Young, newly rich Verity Daniels claims to be receiving threatening demands for money from a mysterious caller. When Jake Runyon agrees to investigate he discovers that the case is nowhere near as clear-cut as it appeared.

Set against the steamy background of Hong Kong, China and the West, The Bourne Supremacy brings back Ludlum's most memorable hero with a vengeance when a murder is committed in a smoky cabaret. Ludlum's works include Trevayne and The Icarus Agenda.

The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves 30 feet high and blow through houses at amazing speeds. When meteorologist Perry Stuart goes on a hurricane-chasing ride in the Caribbean, he learns about more than wind speed.

Journalist Guy Foster doesn't want to go out for the evening. He tells his wife Melissa to go to the party with her friends, and settle down to write his novel in peace. It is the last time he will see her alive.

Ruth Rendell lays bare the dark recesses of the human psyche in this haunting, memorable and chilling collection of moral tales.

Sarah didn't think she had any reason to fear Toby when he offered to help clear out the family's isolated country cottage. She didn't doubt Toby's motives - until the tramp arrived.

Kit still longs for the illegitimate child she was forced to leave 18 years before. Now widowed, she returns to see her son, but her return awakens long-forgotten emotions both in herself and in her former circle of friends.

At the end of the American Civil War, Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his uncle has left him an estate, only to find that Ireland is caught up in its own civil war. But after witnessing the atrocities, Clay is unable to stand by.

Lord Broome had been attacked and robbed, and brought back to Broome Court to die. It was hinted to Frances Chard, the new governess at Broome Court, that Lord Broome had murdered his mistress, and the sooner he died the better.