IN the summer of 1999 in a village in Scotland, there were 22,300 tons of BSE cull material being stored.

The government did not have the resources to cope with the disposal of so many animals, and investigated the possibility of using local landfill sites.

However, the Scottish minister for Rural Affairs has given his assurance that landfills will not be used -- the waste remains in storage.

In the novel Deception, Ken McClure draws upon his years of experience working as a research scientist for the General Medical Council to deliver a gripping and thought provoking thriller. Basing the novel around his belief that what we put into the earth will eventually come back and haunt us, in Deception, it does...

Published by Simon and Schuster at £16.99.

And in the paperback Tangled Web, also by Ken McClure, the tranquillity of a sleepy Welsh village is rocked by the brutal murder of a local baby. But no one is more shocked than local GP Tom Gordon, the only friend of the baby's father, John Palmer, who stands accused of his daughter's murder.

As Tom starts to investigate, he discovers a disturbing link between the Palmer baby, the missing body of a cot-death victim and the IVF clinic at Caernarfon General. And, with John Palmer about to be tried for murder Tom is sure he did not commit, things are starting to look desperate -- and dangerous -- for all of them. Published by Pocket Books at £6.99.