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Quick Choice!

You love reading - but sometimes you're not sure what to read next?

Look no further, try these books from our Quick Choice section where you will find plenty of suggestions. You will discover all the latest and other recent bestselling fiction (and some non-fiction) paperback books. The Quick Choice titles are constantly changing so that there is always something new.

These books are available in all Westminster lending libraries and can be borrowed for two weeks. Look for the Quick Choice display stand near the library counter!

Titles for December 2008:

Fiction

Barclay, Alan
Blood runs cold (CRI)
When an FBI agent is found dead on the white slopes of Quandary Peak in Colorado, a brilliant but volatile agent is drafted in from Denver to lead the investigation. Fighting personal demons, pressure from Washington and dwindling leads.

Berry, Steve
The Venetian betrayal
Cotton Malone is back and the stakes were never higher. A deadly virus is spreading that could wipe out civilisation as we know it - its cure lies buried in the past.

Black, Helen
A place of safety
14-year-old asylum seeker Anna is raped by three public schoolboys. Desperate for some justice, Anna and her friend, Artan, turn up at their school armed with guns. The day turns to tragedy and Anna is arrested. Family care lawyer Lilly is compelled to take on Anna's case despite the objections of her family and friends.

Cornwell, Patricia
The front (CRI)
Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962.

Gregory, Susanna
The butcher of Smithfield (CRI)
Thomas Chaloner has just returned to London from Spain and Portugal and finds that many things have changed. A number of citizens who have eaten cucumbers have come to untimely deaths. It is such a death which Chaloner is despatched to investigate; that of a lawyer with links to 'the Butcher of Smithfield'.

Hayden, Torey
The sunflower forest
Lesley's Hungarian mother Mara is traumatized by her adolescent Holocaust experiences. She struggles to understand, but dealing with Mara is a severe strain which sets her apart from her peers. But when Mara's psychosis results in tragedy, Lesley goes to Wales in search of her mother's remembered joy.

Hill, Reginald
The roar of the butterflies (CRI)
Luton in the grip of a sweltering summer is a pretty sedentary place - which is bad news for the private detective business. Thieves, fraudsters and philanderers take the month off and the only swingers in town are the ones to be found on the 19th hole of the Royal Hoo Golf Course. The civilized reputation of the 'Hoo' is in trouble, however.

James, Peter
Dead man's footsteps (CRI)
Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton ne'er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime - to disappear and reinvent himself in another country.

Kinsella, Sophie
Remember me?
What if you woke up and your life was perfect? This is the dilemma facing Lexi when she recovers after a car accident. What happened to her? Will she remember? What will happen if she does?

Patterson, James
7th heaven (CRI)
Michael Campion was a people's hero, a popular governor's son who publicly battled against a rare & debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace, his disappearance & the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily. But the trail went cold very quickly.