The Clifton Chronicles: The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer

Volume two, also read in two days, is mainly concerned with the struggle to determine whether Hugo Bannerman, a thoroughly despicable person, is Harry's father. Emma travels to New York to try and locate Harry, who has been jailed for murder because he took on the name of another man.

We certainly have the good guys and the bad guys in these novels, but everything seems a bit predictable, and just when you think something bad will happen to one of the characters, some implausible escape from disaster is at hand.

These are entertaining enough, and I'll probably read the other two books in the series, but I haven't found anything to really chew on.