A Place of Hiding
by Elizabeth George
Hodder & Stoughton, £18.99, pp. 576, ISBN 034076709X
Blacklist
by Sara Paretsky
Hamish Hamilton, £12.99, pp. 432, ISBN 0241141885
I have in front of me three novels, all of which are over 400 pages long. Their average length, in fact, is 482 pages and their average weight is 783g.

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