Item category 1: Crime Paperback

Two people swap murders. It should have proved untraceable, but one of the murderers is insane - he has killed before and is likely to kill again. The case comes to the attention of Lucas Davenport, the explosive, porsche-driving police officer featured in the book "Rules of Prey".

Peter was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office. Instead he found himself in the village of his childhood - at the service of a vet whose operating theatre was rapidly acquiring an unwanted reputation as an abattoir.

Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. Patricia Highsmith's other novels include Strangers on a Train and This Sweet Sickness.

Laurie Kenyon's fingerprints are found at the scene of the murder of Allan Grant. Laurie, the victim of a kidnapping when she was four, has a multiple personality disorder and has no recollection of the shocking murder.

Guy still believes that Leonora loves him, as she had done when she was a young girl, and he led a street gang around London's Notting Hill Gate. His obsession with her has increased over the years, and a murderous madness is taking hold.

A young woman dies in a New York hospital. When the oxygen mask is removed, reporter Meghan Collins is plunged into a nightmare. The dead woman's face is a mirror image of her own.