RANDOM WINDS
by Belva Plain · Delacorte Press
From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a New York hospital, comes a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one family. The Farrell family are dedicated, brilliant... and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no force can suppress.
THE SECOND COMING
by Walker Percy · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Will Barrett's unusual capacity for forgetting and imagining features of his own life involves him in the affairs of a Southern family
INNOCENT BLOOD
by P.D. James · Scribner's
Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa embarks on a thrilling investigation, enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts. From the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and Death in Holy Orders, Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity, blood ties, guilt and revenge. P.D. James has been influential as a crime writer for many years and her writing is often compared to the work of authors such as Val Mcdermid, Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson. 'A fascinating psychological study of blood ties, guilt and revenge' Sunday Telegraph
THE CRADLE WILL FALL
by Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Katie, a young prosecutor in a small New Jersey town, begins investigating a possible suicide and uncovers a hidden medical conspiracy.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.