Binchy, Maeve. The Return Journey. Stories from a great Irish writer.
Clark, Mary Higgins. You Belong to Me. A talk show host's curiousity about a missing woman leads to murder.
Garrison, Paul. Fire and Ice. The first novel has been optioned to the movies for $1 million. It's the story of a man with only a primitive raft who must pursue the huge commercial ship on which his family is kept captive.
Perry, Ann. Brunswick Gardens. When the beautiful assistant of a powerful Anglican priest is found dead at the bottom of a stairway, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt investigate.
Smiley, Jane. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. A woman whose abolitionist husband is murdered in 1850s Kansas cuts her hair and tracks his killers to Missouri.