by Charlotte MacLeod writing as Alisa Craig (1993)
When a family member at Sir Caradoc Rhys's ninetieth birthday party goes to pieces, Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys and his wife Janet must remove themselves from the festivities and investigate their kin's odd behavior.
Douglas Terman
At an underground factory in Siberia, the Russians have made a replica of a U.S. Navy warhead. Soviet military planners review their ability to survive all-out nuclear war. The KGB selects as its target for high-level political subversion a vulnerable U.S. senator with presidential ambitions.
Alistair Maclean
PLOT Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world. The mission takes on new and dangerous twists as the crew finds out that all is not as it seems at Zebra, and that someone will stop at nothing to prevent the mission from being completed.
Ruth Rendell
A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fianc??s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from suicide--only to fall victim to an unfathomable form of possessiveness?. In the eleven tales gathered in The Fallen Curtain, Ruth Rendell lays bare the twisted inner workings of the unbalanced mind.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ruth Rendell
The clumsy efforts of two amateur bank robbers give bank manager Alan Groombridge a chance to realize his dreams of trading a dull life for passion and adventure, but his conscience soon gets in the way