The Hiding Season by A C Glass, Hardback, £18.99
After her husband leaves her, Maya Landry strikes to Montana and takes a job sustaining unique ski lodges low season within the Rocky Mountains, fulfilling her want for solitude till she stumbles throughout a lifeless physique in considered one of them. Forced to flee the killer as the only real witness, FBI agent Riley Maguire helps her cover in Texas residing beneath a brand new id however when that is compromised and she or he is pressured to succeed in out to Riley once more, Maya begins to concern she shall be on the run endlessly.
This stylish standalone thriller from the writer of the Emma Makepeace spy sequence hooks you from the primary web page and by no means lets up till a vastly gratifying closing twist. 8/10
The Artful Anna Harris by Tracy Maton, Hardback, £16.99
When the vivacious Sofia Carstairs rents a cottage in her sleepy village in Somerset they usually turn into associates, Anna Harris is reminded of the carefree and rebellious life she as soon as had in London. She thought she had been comfortable to go away that behind, and as a chameleon who has all the time recognized methods to mix in Anna had immersed herself within the lives of her boyfriend and in-laws.
But Sofia makes her suppose it’s time to have some enjoyable once more – in any case, main two lives is extra engaging than one. This debut was impressed by the writer’s love of Patricia Highsmith and this contemporary twist on The Talented Mr Ripley is intelligent, sassy and nice enjoyable, of which Highsmith would absolutely approve. 8/10
Unreliable Narrator by Araminta Hall, Hardback, £18.99
With an eight-part TV drama starring Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington primarily based on her novel Imperfect Women beginning earlier this week on Apple TV+, Araminta Hall is having a well-deserved second. And her thrilling new novel can solely win extra followers. Unreliable Narrator is an immediate basic, a psychological guessing recreation primarily based on one of many oldest and most duplicitous of literary gadgets – the blurring of reality and fiction.
Hope left her dream job as live-in PA to bohemian writer Ambrose Glencourt after a deadly accident. Ten years on, the devastating occasions are introduced again to life in his new novel. It’s a really completely different story from the one Hope remembers, so who’s the dependable narrator? Utterly unputdownable. 8/10
The Frenchman by Jack Beamont, Paperback Original, £9.99
Former fighter pilot and DGSE operative Jack Beaumont, a pseudonym, has turned his experiences working for the French equal of MI6 right into a gripping thriller – suppose James Bond with a Parisian twist and extra croissants. When agent Alec de Payn’s Pakistani supply is tortured to demise, he should ponder the unthinkable – a mole inside his organisation has betrayed them.
Tasked with investigating a sinister bio-weapons facility in Islamabad, de Payns should put his fears to 1 facet, consider his cowl story and pray his household isn’t offered out. The spy style is having fun with a revival and this thrilling roller-coaster journey of a novel from Paris to Palermo to Pakistan is a worthy addition. 9/10.
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