Shadz: thanks for flagging up Harlan Coben: I picked up his 'Darkest Fear' in a charity shop in Wiveliscombe when visiting the equine son and heir, plus Jeffery Deaver's 'The Bone Collector' - although I saw the film, I think you often get a richer sense of the story through reading. I've started 'Darkest Fear' and particularly enjoy the Jewish humour of the hero, Myron Bolitar (although I keep thinking it should be Bolivar), even though it's a thriller. Nice to have levity alongside a dark story - I think that's where I eventually found Cornwell's heroine too bloody earnest and po-faced, and Gerritson's is similarly humourless, unless it's to make rather over-feministic wisecracks.