The Woods: Harlan Cohen
One night, twenty years ago, four teenagers disappeared at a summer camp. Two were murdered. Two vanished -- one of them being Paul Copeland's sister. The case was never solved, but long-buried secrets threaten to come to light. In this breathtakingly suspenseful story, Harlan Cohen tells how a shocking discovery forces Paul to confront what really happened to his sister so long ago. Did she die? Or could she still be alive? Another masterpiece from the best-selling author whose Tell No One was made into a French film that recently won four coveted Cesar Awards.

Written in Bone: Simon Beckett
When the remote Hebridian island of Runa is hit by the full force of an Atlantic storm, all connections with the mainland are severed. Forensic expert David Hunter, who has been brought in to advise on charred remains found in a crofter's cottage, is stranded. Hunter, who believes that even the dead tell tales, suspects there is a killer at large. The locals are tightlipped, and it takes dogged investigation on Hunter's part to uncover the dark secret at the heart of the community. From the imagination of one of Britain's most promising new crime novelists.

Dear John: Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks, one of the world's favourite authors, asks the question.what does true love really mean? For John Tyree, a directionless young serviceman, it means having his life change completely when he meets Savannah Lee Curtis in a seaside town in North Carolina. She is an idealistic young college student, who makes him think and feel more deeply that he could ever have imagined. Then comes September 11, John had plans to leave the army, but suddenly being a soldier counts more than it used to. Can he and Savannah ever be together, now that world's gone crazy?

Thunder Bay: William Kent Krueger
Set in the seductively beautiful countryside of northern Minnesota, with its glassy lakes and towering pines, this novel speaks touchingly about a family of today whilst solving an intriguing puzzle that is seventy years old. When ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor gets an urgent request for help from Ojibwe medicine man Henry Meloux, he is determined to assist his old friend in any way he can. Henry, who is seriously ill, has an almost impossible wish: to find the son he has never seen. But, as the two men travel north to Thunder Bay in Canada, they are unaware of the hidden danger that lies ahead. A gem of a novel -- part mystery, part family drama.