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Michelle
16th December 2006, 20:20
The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell

Derfel, once a captain in Arthur's warband, recalls the days of Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and Bishop Sansum. But, above all, it tells the story of Arthur, the only man who can hold Uther's throne for its infant heir, and unite Britain's squabbling kingdoms against the enemy.

Winter House - Carol O'Connell

When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner Detective Sgt. Riker are called in to investigate. One of the occupants of Winter House, the scene of the crime, is 70-year-old Nedda Winter, who immediately confesses to the killing, claiming it was self-defence. Murder solved, case closed. It's even poetic justice. But Winter House is the site of a massacre that took place 50 years previously and doesn't give up its dead so easily. Mallory and Riker will have to reopen the original investigation in order to try and stop the murderer from finishing what they started.

Winter and Night - S.J. Rozan

In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They're holding a 15-year-old kid named Gary -- a kid Bill knows. But before Bill can find out what is going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a town where nothing matters but high school football, where the secrets of the past -- both the town's and Bill's own -- threaten to destroy the present. If Bill is to have any chance of saving Gary and preventing a tragedy, he has to both unravel a long buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past.

Winter in Madrid - C.J. Sansom

"Winter in Madrid" is an intensely moving love story, a remarkable sense of history unfolding and it reveals the profound impact of impossible choices.

madcow
16th December 2006, 20:41
Although i have voted for The Winter King (seeing as i have a copy to hand) Winter House sounds like a good read also, and if pushed the others sound good too!

Pilgrim
17th December 2006, 03:28
The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell

Purple Poppy
17th December 2006, 18:42
I'd be happy with any of them, but given that I nominated Winter House, I'll stick with that.:)

PP

princessponti
18th December 2006, 15:30
I went for Winter in Madrid... I was all for The Winter King then I read the bit about the 'intensely moving love story' and was sold! I think it's because christmas makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!! :)

Renniemist
18th December 2006, 16:07
I have been pretty undecided on this one. I was going to go for “The Winter King”, but “Winter in Madrid” has such an appeal too. Eventually ‘plumped’ for “Winter in Madrid.”:)

Michelle
25th December 2006, 22:32
We need to close this one, to give people a chance to get hold of the book. Our January choice is The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell.