Second Wind by Dick Francis
          For a few precious seconds, the shrieking wind dies down and the colossal waves lie flat. Airborne in the heart of the storm, TV weather forecaster Perry Stuart braces himself for impact. Then suddenly all is blackness as the small aircraft plunges out of control…..
          It takes a truly frightening accident for Stuart to discover the secret of Trox Island – and plenty of things about the human race that he would rather he didn’t know. He came as a half-drowned hurricane victim lucky to be spared from the ocean. He left with information that would bring down an evil worldwide conspiracy – if they didn’t kill him first…..
          From the twisting, spiralling centre of a full-blown tropical storm to deadly threat and danger on the world’s greatest racecourses, Dick Francis’s fortieth thriller is a hurricane-force masterpiece.

The Devil’s Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver
          New Year’s Eve, 1999. Washington, D.C. is under siege. A grisly machine gun attack in the Dupont Circle Metro station leaves dozens dead. A note delivered to the mayor’s office pins the massacre on the Digger, a robotlike assassin. Only a ransom of $20 million will end the terror. FBI agents must find the Digger before he finds them….

A Peculiar Chemistry by Kitty Ray
          Ellis Jones is single, pregnant and in turmoil. Determined not to burden her young lover, Joe, with fatherhood, she leaves her city flat and moves into the Suffolk cottage she has inherited from her Great-Aunt Nell. It is the discovery of Nell’s journal, and the love story described in its pages, that finally help Ellis to reach a key decision in her life. Past and present are deftly intertwined in this wonderful romance.

Stinger by John Nichol
          Still struggling to come to terms with his Falklands nightmare, RAF pilot Sean Riever transfers to helicopters and heads for the remote mountains of Afghanistan. His work there with the mine-clearance teams takes him as close to the shadow of war as he wants to get. But when a British Airways passenger plane is shot down by a stinger missile over the east coast of America, the ghosts of a past conflict return to haunt him once more. Disguising himself as the enemy and hiding in the rocky mountains to outwit the terrifying Taliban regime, Sean risks everything he has learnt to care for to prevent an infinitely greater tragedy.