From the author of Birdsong comes A Week in December! We follow seven lives in seven days during the week before Christmas 2007 in London. Sebastian Faulks explores complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life and how each character is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they-and we all-inhabit. Kirkus Reviews starred review states that Faulks "shows us a world in which money rules, tunnel vision destroys and love remains the touchstone and redeemer."

John Hart's novel The Last Child follows the story of Johnny Merrimon, a thirteen year-old boy, and a tormented cop, Clyde Hunt, who search for Johnny's missing twin sister in rural North Carolina. While the two are searching for Alyssa, another child goes missing. Hart is a Edgar Award winning author of two New York Times bestsellers, The King of Lies and Down River. The Last Child is Hart's first novel in which a major character is a child. As Hart puts it, "The risks have to be credible, the action not only compelling but very, very real. And the kid -- man, the kid has to be real, too: his perspective, beliefs and actions, everything that he sees and thinks."

In Margaret Leroy's Yes, My Darling Daughter, four-year-old Sylvie is frightened by water, has night terrors, and is fascinated by an old photo of a seaside town -- a bit of a "odd" child. Her mother, Grace, is trying to find out why this obsession with the photo.

Publishers Weekly (starred review) says, "Fans of old-fashioned gothics will welcome this tale of love, betrayal and death from British author Leroy . . . Leroy's prose lures readers into a disturbing murder mystery. Her characters are as realistic and intriguing as her locales in England and Ireland."

 Heresy by S.J. Parris is the tale of renegade Italian monk Giordano Bruno, based on a real-life figure, who has heretical ideas about the universe and escapes to England to work undercover for Sir Francis Walsingham. When attending a debate in Oxford, a series of murders take place which Bruno must solve. This blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus. Publishers Weekly starred review reports, "Parris interweaves historical fact with psychological insight as Bruno, a humanist dangerously ahead of his time, begins his quest to light the fire of enlightenment in Europe."