by Michael Cronin (2008)
Oswald Trent is an actor who has never quite made the grade. While on tour in Canada he is taken up by Joey Rossi, who takes him on gambling junkets where Oswald learns how to collect money illicitly. When a mob war breaks out, Oswald flees to London where he sets up in partnership with experienced fence Rufus Whittaker.
Simon Shaw
There's something about Lewis that women can't resist. There's something about Peter, too. But he's rich. They have Peter's wife, Julie in common - and when Lewis and Peter meet by chance, the lives of the three of them can never be the same again.
Celia Fremlin
Alice Saunders, striking out on her own following the traumatic break-up of her marriage, rents an attic room in a London boarding house. The house contains a curious assortment of people, including the neurotic Mary, who resents Alice's occupation of the attic, and is trying to conceal a murder.
Elmore Leonard
The feds think bookie Harry Arno will squeal on his wiseguy boss if they put word on the street that he's skimming profits -- but Arno's off to Italy. After losing the bookie once, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens wants him back... if he can find the fugitive before he's whacked.
Jenni Mills
Kit Parry is a woman with a past, albeit one she'd rather forget. Now a successful engineer, she's spent all her adult life trying to erase the memory of what happened over the long, hot summer of her fourteenth year. When she takes a job shoring up the ancient quarries under her hometown of Bath, however, the secrets she tried so desperately to bury threaten to work their way to the surface. For beneath its sleepy facade, the old spa town is as riddled with unwanted memories as it is with Roman ruins ...