Plum Island-Nelson DeMille; Homecoming-Belva Plain; 10 Lb. Penalty-Dick Francis; The Starlite Drive-In-Marjorie Reynolds (Very Good, HC, 575 pgs, Reader's Digest Vol 2 1998)

Dust jacket, cover and pages have light wear; pages are unmarked; pages are lightly age-toned. 

Plum Island-Nelson DeMille: Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell, wants Corey's big-city expertise, but Maxwell gets more than he bargained for.

Homecoming-Belva Plain: It is a crisp December day when Annette Byrne walks to the end of her long, curving driveway and drops five sealed envelopes into the mailbox.  Quickly.  Before second thoughts stay her hand.  Shortly thereafter, with the holidays approaching, her estranged family will be gathered at her country estate for the first time in years.

10 Lb. Penalty-Dick Francis: Even though Ben Juliard had always dreamt of becoming a jockey, he couldn’t say no when his father—a prominent politician—pulled some strings and got him a job in his campaign for Parliament. Now Ben needs to do more than smile for the cameras. With each step up on the ladder of power come new dangers to the aspiring candidate. And as the mysterious attacks grow ever more lethal, Ben discovers that politics can be the most perilous horse race of all

The Starlite Drive-In-Marjorie Reynolds: Living within sight of, but never traversing beyond, the drive-in movie theater owned by her father, small-town Indiana girl Callie Anne is exposed to the outside world of the 1950s for the first time with the coming of drifter Charlie Memphis