Firewall by Andy McNab
          Helsinki, Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a 'K’ working for the British Secret Intelligence Service on deniable operations, is tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained – and desperately in need of cash… 
          Offered the lucrative freelance job of kidnapping a mafia warlord of the ROC (Russian Organized Crime) and delivering him to St Petersburg, it seems to Stone that his problems are over. In fact, they are only just beginning. 
          Back in London, Stone is given the chance to earn enough money never to have to do this sort of work again. Stone enters the bleak underworld of the former Soviet republic of Estonia, where unknown aggressors stalk the Arctic landscape, and he soon finds himself caught between implacable enemies. For Russia has embarked upon a concerted cyber-espionage offensive, hacking into some of the West’s most sensitive military secrets. American and British intelligence agencies are determined to thwart them. An the mafia are waiting in the wings with their own chilling, brutal solution. Stone soon realises that he is nothing more than a pawn in a much bigger game.

My Mother’s Daughter by Judith Henry Wall
          Judith Henry Wall tells a spell-binding story of three generations of Texas women. The middle generation comes of age during WWII and illustrates the changing times. One sister, Martha Claire, dreams of a happy home life and having babies as she waits for her soldier/husband to return from Europe. Meanwhile, her beloved and career-minded sister Justine joins the WACS and sees first-hand the horrors of war. The free-spirited Justine returns home unwed and pregnant and gives birth to Iris. Martha Claire and her husband adopt Cissy and Buddy, orphan siblings, and they all live together in their happy, family home until a horrible secret shatters their world and drives them painfully apart. 
          The younger generation, devastated by what has happened to their once-loving family, struggles to learn the secret. Only Cissy does and is able to bring some degree of healing to her destroyed family through her own troubles. You will never forget these mothers and daughters and will delight in their joys and cry over their heartbreaks. 

Shattered by Dick Francis
          Francis’s latest may be one of his less memorable rides, but even at 80, the old master proves he can still go all out in the final stretch. The hero here is Gerard Logan, a dashing English bachelor who owns and operates his own glassblowing shop in a charming village in the Cotswolds, popular with other artisans and tourists. Logan’s problem is that his good friend, jockey Martin Stukely, gave him a videotape shortly before dying in a fall during a steeplechase at Cheltenham racetrack. That videotape is now missing, stolen by a tall, bearded gent who made off with it while Logan’s back was turned. Now, a crew of thugs wants the tape.         
          They are led by the cruel, aptly named Rose Payne, a ruthless bookmaker who knows what’s on the tapeAmedical breakthrough secrets worth millionsAand will do anything to get it. Logan tries to reason with Payne, saying he no longer has the video, and besides, he doesn’t even know what it contains. But Rose won’t give up. She and her crew beat up Logan on several occasions, viciously trying to break his wrists so he can no longer practice his craft. Logan, no slouch when it comes to payback, finally mounts an all-out defense that includes not only physical reprisals, but also a crafty recovery of the missing object.

Silence & Shadows by James Long
          Patrick Kane is a man haunted by his past. Bobby Redhead, a woman who stumbles into the path of his car, is a mysterious part of that past. They have come together at an archaeological dig in the village of Wytchlow. 
          What has Patrick done that he cannot forgive? Why is Bobby so drawn to him? And how are they connected by the local folksong of a Saxon girl called the German Queen? To learn the answers, they must race to save the German Queen’s long-buried secret before a developer can claim the land.
          Here, in a small English village where history is as alive as the nearest plowed field, three people — one dead a thousand years but still very much alive — meet on an unforgettably touching adventure through time that will lead to the very depths of the human heart…. Can the fragile bones of a royal matriarch heal the hearts of those who would dare free her?