What's My Book?

I pinched this idea from dolabellae because I thought it sounded like fun.

The game is as follows - I give the last sentence or couple of sentences from five of my favourite books. Your task - to identify the books.

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One from a detective story, one from fantasy. Two male authors, three female. Two American writers, three British. No science fiction - my favourites that are with me at the moment either have really obvious endings or endings that could belong to anything. In general, my favourite science fiction books don't seem able to cut it where resounding endings are concerned. It's odd that I never noticed.