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Jean Chapman

Out on a morning run, ex-Met officer John Cannon vaults a stile, becomes ensnared in a discarded fishing line - and entangled in trouble. For there is a macabre discovery at the far end of this line, leading John into a search for a missing au pair, which puts him into conflict with the local police and involvement with international crime. He discovers that the local Health Spa has much to conceal, with its security guards and dogs patrolling the grounds. But the Portuguese owner is a ruthless businessman, and Cannon faces danger every step of the way ...

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Neil White

"Twenty years ago, Claude Gilbert, murdered his wife, buried her alive and then killed himself - so everyone believes. But as Gilbert disappeared without a trace on the night of the murder, the mystery has remained unsolved. Until now ... When Lancashire crime beat reporter Jack Garrett is contacted by someone alleging that Gilbert is alive, he eagerly leaps on the chance to solve a decades-old enigma. But as Jack sets off on Gilbert's trail, he quickly finds that the truth is stranger than the headlines. Jack and girlfriend PC Laura McGanity quickly realise that they are now pawns in a twisted game, and the rules are about to get nasty ..."--Publisher description.

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Peter James

"The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somervile, are in a terrified mobile phone call from her. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the apartment block where they live in Brighton, and seen a man acting strangely. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished, leaving behind her neatly parked car and cell phone. That same afternoon, workmen digging up an old asphalt path in a park in another part of the city, unearth the remains of a young woman in her early twenties, who has probably been dead for 30 years. At first, to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his Major Crime Team, these two events seem totally unconnected. But then another young woman in Brighton goes missing and another body from the past surfaces. At the same time a strange man visits an eminent London psychiatrist, claiming to have a piece of information on the missing woman, Logan, that turns out, at first, to be wrong-or so it seems. It is only later Roy Grace makes the chilling realization that this one thing is the key to both the past and the present-and now, beyond any doubt, he knows that Brighton has its first ever serial killer"--

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Deborah Crombie

Examining the burning death of a South London woman, superintendent Duncan Kincaid discovers that the case is disturbingly similar to a missing-persons investigation being covered by his lover and partner, Gemma James.