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and kept me questioning until the end. Fans of ’90s horrors with an insatiable appetite for gruesome thrills will surely feel the same.

It’s easy to criticise books that people brand ‘page-turners’, but the fact is this book called to me constantly until I’d devoured it in just two days, As one of three ‘final girls’ – the sole survivors of three separate massacres – Quincy has tried her best to move on with her life. But when Lisa dies in mysterious circumstances, and Sam suddenly appears on Quincy’s doorstep, it looks like the past has come back to haunt her. Riley Sager’s thriller may be more than a little far-fetched at times, but it’s gripping, fast-paced and full of twists – the perfect holiday read. When you stop breathing for the first couple of pages of a book, you know you’re in for a treat. When something terrible befalls one of the three Final Girls, Lisa, the other two, Quincy, who was taken into the woods and tortured by a serial killer who killed all her best friends, and Sam have to unravel the mystery that began in those woods 10 years before.