"ECHO BURNING" : Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you're lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. Jack Reacher's adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and the last thing he's worried about is exactly WHO picks him up... "FORCE 12" : Following the successful test of his new ship Victory, information technology billionaire Rex Wyman announces the yachting race to end all races. His ship will challenge the best to race from San Francisco Bay to Tokyo Harbor via the 5200-mile rhomb line that consists of the shortest nautical distance. This Pacific challenge will occur in the winter making it that much more hazardous. "THE OBSERVATORY" : Librarian - Liz Mallory - has never been close to her twin, a wealthy, world-famous artist, but when Harpers eight-year-old daughter is killed in a sledding accident, she comes for the funeral and stays to minister to seven-year-old Nick, whos being ignored by his grief-stricken mother. Then Liz meets gentle, wounded David Fields (renter of an estate with the eponymous observatory), and it seems love will overcome her lifelong feeling of being overshadowed by glamorous Harper... "THE FALLS" : When the collegiate daughter of a wealthy banking tycoon goes missing - and possibly murdered - the only clues Rebus and fellow detective Siobhan Clarke can find lie in a computer puzzle game in which the girl was involved...