This month’s best books

SARRA MANNING GOES ON A CRIME SPREE…

My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams

(Quercus, £16.99, out now)

I’m obsessed with the story of Anna Delvey, who pretended to be a German heiress to scam her way around New York. My Friend Anna is the tell-all biography of her BFF, Rachel Williams, and it is everything I wanted it to be and more. A deep dive around New York’s coolest bars and hippest hang-outs and a tale of two girls that blurs the line between friend and freeloader. Think The Talented Mr Ripley meets

Sex And The City.

The Turn Of The Key by Ruth Ware

(Harvill Secker, £12.99, out 8th August) A baby is dead and her nanny, Rowan, is in prison awaiting trial for her murder, but she swears she didn’t do it. There’s a remote house in the Scottish Highlands full of intrusive smart technology, four nannies who’ve quit in a year, four demanding little girls and a creepy, supernatural atmosphere permeating every page. This starts off as a slow burn, but hang on because you’re in for one wild ride.

Platform Seven by Louise Doughty

(Faber & Faber, £14.99, out 22nd August) From the author of the bestselling

Apple Tree Yard comes this curious and compelling story set entirely around Peterborough train station. Eighteen months ago, a woman killed herself on deserted platform seven, and that woman, Lisa Evans, can not rest until she remembers why she died. Part ghost story, part whodunnit and a blistering account of a coercive relationship, Platform Seven is unlike any other thriller I’ve ever read.

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

(Century, £12.99, out 8th August)

In a once-grand house in Chelsea, three adults have been dead for days, the children who live there have disappeared and, in an upstairs room is a content, well-looked-after baby. The baby is adopted and named Libby and when she inherits the house on her 25th birthday, she’s determined to find out what really happened all those years ago. What. A. Book!