Long Lost by Harlan Coben

Myron Bolitar receives an unexpected phone call from someone he has not seen for 8 years.  Terese Collins asks Myron to meet her in Paris for the weekend, she needs his help.  He flies over to see her and discovers that her ex-husband has been murdered and Terese is the prime suspect.  Myron and Terese are being hunted by the police and they end up running for their lives.  Myron tries to find out who killed Rick Collins and why.  Lots of bits of information keep coming to light and there is obviously more behind the murder of Rick than they first thought.  

This is the first Harlan Coben book I have read.   I have seen dramatisations of his books Safe and The Stranger and found these really gripping stories to watch.  I perhaps, therefore, expected a bit more from this book.  Overall I enjoyed the story but thought it started off a bit slowly.

N is for Noose by Sue Grafton

This is one of the Kinsey Millhone Mysteries in the alphabet series.  

Kinsey is a private investigator.  She is asked by recently widowed Selma Newquist to find out what was troubling her husband Tom before he died. Tom was a local detective who had died from a heart attack.  His death was not considered to be suspicious.  

Kinsey starts asking around and the locals all close ranks against her, and anyone who will talk to her has nothing bad to say about Tom.  Kinsey discovers that Tom was looking into some old, but not closed, cases.  She looks through all his papers to try to find clues, but within all the paperwork she can not find his most recent pocket book.  On the verge of giving up, she finds a trail to something Tom had been investigating for a while.  

In this series I have already read: 
A is for Alibi
B is for Burglar
C is for Corpse
D is for Deadbeat
E is for Evidence
F is for Fugitive
G is for Gumshoe
H is for Homicide
I is for Innocent
J is for Judgment 
K is for Killer
L is for Lawless
M is for Malice
O is for Outlaw
P is for Peril
S is for Silence
T is for Trespass

I also have the following books on my bookshelf:
Q is for Quarry
R is for Ricochet
U is for Undertow

Books with the letter V, W, X and Y are also now available in the series. 

Telling Liddy by Anne Fine

Sisters Bridie, Stella, Heather and Liddy are very close and see each other regularly.

Stella tells Bridie some information she has learned about George, Liddy's boyfriend.  Bridie is concerned that Liddy does not know and feels that she should be told.  The three sisters together agree and the information is shared.  

Liddy becomes really upset and angry and refuses to talk to Bridie.  When Bridie seeks support from Stella and Heather she finds that Liddy is still talking to, and seeing, them and it is only Bridie who is being ostracised.  This does not seem fair as the sisters together agreed that Liddy should know and it was not Bridie who told her.  

Bridie feels left out and separated from her sisters, but with the help of her work colleagues she is able to look at and analyse her family life from a different perspective. 

I Found You by Lisa Jewell

Alice is a single mum of three children.  One day she looks out of her window and sees a man sitting on the beach in the rain.  Hours later he is still sitting there.  She heads out to the beach with an old coat for him.  He doesn't know where he is or how he got there.  He doesn't even remember his own name.  Alice takes him in and lets him sleep in her converted shed which she sometimes rents out to lodgers.  She tries to help him regain his memory.  

Lily has been married to Carl for three weeks.  She is new to the country and does not yet have any friends.  She is expecting Carl to arrive home from work at 6pm as usual but he does not appear.  She has to wait 24 hours before the police will accept a missing persons report.  When being questioned by the police she realises that she does not know a lot about Carl's life, she has not yet met his mother and does not even know where she lives.  She is frantically searching for Carl, he would not have willingly left her.  The police have taken Carl's passport and find that it is a fake.  Carl Monrose does not exist.  

Every Woman for Herself by Trisha Ashley

Charlie's husband Matt suddenly announces he wants a divorce and her life is turned upside down.  She is alone, without any money and having to start all over again.  

Matt is selling the house and so Charlie heads back to Upvale to stay with her eccentric father and sister Em.  She sets herself up in the summer cottage with all her plants and continues with her painting.  Life in Upvale is chaotic, there is father's current mistress and her 2 children, then the third sister Anne turns up, soon followed by brother Bran.  They all have their own problems and need time to heal.  

Mace North, a bad tempered actor and screen writer, has also moved to Upvale along with his small daughter so that he can continue to write his plays in peace.  He gets mixed up with the Rhymer family antics and soon finds that he wants to spend a lot more time with Charlie.   

Dangerous Deception at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison

Kat Stanford has returned home to the estate of Honeychurch Hall.  She has set up an antiques business and she specialises in bears.  A BearFest has been arranged and Kat is the headline speaker and auctioneer for the day.  Just before the event Cassandra Bowden-Forbes appears, she is also going to attend the BearFest and undertake valuations in competition with Kat.  She also makes it clear to Kat that she is very much a part of the life of Piers with whom Kat is starting is date.  

Following the BearFest Kat finds herself at the scene of a mysterious death.  She needs to find out how the death occurred and investigate some strange happenings both to clear her own name and to ensure she is not the next victim.  

This book is one in a series about Honeychurch Hall.  It can be read as a stand alone story but there are a few references to things which must have happened in some of the previous books in the series.