Drumfire
by Ison, Graham

The new and unusual case for Detectives Brock and Poole - One Saturday night, a
masked gunman walks into a jazz club and murders the drummer. Very soon,
Detective Chief Inspector Brock and Detective Sergeant Poole find themselves
taking an interest in the guests at a party in Surrey's stockbroker belt, which
leads them to look again at a five-year-old robbery and to interview a dozen or
so armed robbers. The killer is eventually arrested, but not before numerous
extra-marital affairs come to light and a bullion van is attacked . . .

Veranilda
by Gissing, George R.

I guessed as much. The suspicion came to me at a certain moment this morning --
a mere grain, which ever since has been growing tanquam favus. I am not wont to
consider myself as of much use, but is it not just possible that, in this case,
your humble kinsman might serve you?'

The Confederate Farmers
by Gulliver, Gene

After the Civil War, veterans of the war returned home to their farming
communities along the Missouri-Kansas border. They were looking for peace and
tranquility; what they found was turmoil. Forced to leave their homes, four of
these men came to Independence and returned to farming. Things were going well
for these former confederate soldiers and their families until Bruce Yeager came
to town with a carpetbag, $100,000 and a confidential map showing where a
proposed railroad line was being planned. Bruce planned to acquire the land that
the railroad was going to pass through. To accomplish this plan, he befriended
the mayor and hired a gunman named Tony Creek. He used the mayor to acquire the
land by the powers of eminent domain and used Tony Creek to enforce his desires.
When Bruce attempted to take land from these farmers he found out that they were
not ordinary farmers. These men were veterans with a shameful, dark secret.

Passion's Bright Fury
by Radclyffe

When a trauma surgeon and a filmmaker become reluctant allies on the
battleground between life and death, passion strikes without warning. Saxon
Sinclair, the broodingly secretive Chief of Trauma at a busy Manhattan hospital,
is less than pleased to learn that her new resident is going to be the subject
of a documentary film. The arrival of Jude Castle, a fiery independent
filmmaker, soon sets sparks flying as the two driven women clash both personally
and professionally. Both have secrets they have spent a lifetime guarding, and
both have chosen careers over love. Desire and destiny clash in this blazing
romance.

War Stories
by Bowen, Jeremy

Having joined the BBC in 1984, Jeremy Bowen became a foreign correspondent four
years later. He had witnessed violence already,both at home & abroad, but it
wasn't until he covered his first war that he felt he had arrived. This is his
story.