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For 18 years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise when Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. But when the hospital calls at midnight no one is ready for the shocking truth: Emily is dead from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun Chris took from his father's cabinet - a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself.        We think we know our children but do we ever really know them at all? Click here or on the book cover to purchase your copy of The Pact from kalahari.net	The Pact Jodi Picoult R94,95 ISBN: 0340838035 Hodder & Stoughton Paperback 400 pages
In 1920s Munich, homicide detective Axel Berg is called to the scene of a grisly homicide, the victim is a young and pretty society wife. Soon, a second body is uncovered. The discovery of a third indicates that Berg is dealing with an unimaginably evil killer. Adolph Hitler's power is growing, and the Nazis are a strong civic force in the city of Munich.         Berg is alone as never before, with the imminent threat at all times of making a mistake with deadly consequences. Click here or on the book cover to purchase your copy of Straight into Darkness from kalahari.net	Straight into Darkness Faye Kellerman R149,95 ISBN: 0747265615 Headline Trade Paperback 432 pages
Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target of a ruthless professional killer. Criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his policewoman partner Amelia Sachs are called onto the case, working frantically to anticipate where the hired gun will strike next and how to stop him, all the while trying to find out the truth about Charles Singleton, and the reason that Geneva has been targeted. Click here to purchase your copy of The Twelfth Card from kalahari.net	The Twelfth Card Jeffery Deaver R149,95 ISBN: 0340734574 Hodder & Stoughton Trade Paperback 448 pages
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note on the windshield of his car: If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.         If there were speed limits for sheer pulse-racing excitement in a novel, Velocity would break them all. Click here to purchase your copy of Velocity from kalahari.net	Velocity Dean Koontz R149,95 ISBN: 0007197012 HarperCollins Trade Paperback 400 pages
At age 10 Liza Barclay shot her mother while trying to protect her from her violent stepfather Charley Foster. Despite her stepfather's claim that it was deliberate, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people agreed with Foster and tabloids compared Liza to the infamous murderess, Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity in name.         She grows up with adoptive parents who try to erase every trace of her past, even her name. Always, though, she and her family feared that someday, her vengeful stepfather would reappear to harm her.         They were right. Click here to purchase No Place Like Home from kalahari.net	No Place Like Home Mary Higgins Clark R139,95 ISBN: 0743268075 Simon & Schuster Trade Paperback 384 pages

LitNet: 20 September 2005

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