Sleeping BeautyIn Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly

and the world drifts towards apocalypses of violence

Highly recommended' SARAH HILARY

It is June 1365 and the feast of Corpus Christi

they still wrong foot you when they do

Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way

'Russell writes a pacy

she's also plunged headlong into the underworld of Glasgow's notorious Drag - the haunt of working girls

Inspired by an ancient legend

Marcus realises that his father's death was no accident and that his own life is in danger

at the gathering of the Junglist Massive

rather like early Jack Higgins - Peterborough Evening Telegraph

hard-worked destroyer and her company of men