DARK SECRETS COME TO LIGHT IN JON

YOU LET ME IN

Camilla Bruce

Bantam Press, £14.99 BESTSELLING romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only a long letter and a will.

She had been shrouded in controversy all her life. As a child, she was the thinly disguised subject of a bestselling book by her therapist while, as an adult, she was suspected of being involved in two murders.

Despite being long estranged from her mother and sister, Cassie has left her entire estate to her niece Penelope and nephew Janus.To inherit, they must go to her house and read the letter left in her study which tells two chilling and disturbing stories.

One is of a little girl who lets faeries into her life and receives their magical gifts, albeit at a great cost.The other is the story of a little girl cruelly treated by her family.

Penelope and Janus must decide which story to believe and if they still want to inherit Cassie’s dark legacy.

This beguiling and unsettling debut had me hooked from the first page until a delightful twist at the end. It is a unique, strange and defiant folk horror story which lingers long in the memory.

BLACK RIVER

Will Dean

Point Blank, £14.99 FOUR months after moving to a newspaper in southern Sweden, reporter Tuva Moodyson learns her best friend Tammy Yamnim has gone missing.

She races back to Gavrik, a small town in the Arctic north in the grip of the endless days of midsummer, with clouds of biting insects from the surrounding dark pine forest driving residents slowly mad.