To Tell You The Truth

Gilly Macmillan, Century, £12.99 Macmillan’s latest offering is a s multi-layered tale that runs two missing persons cases alongside a fictional bestselling book series. Lucy Harper is haunted by her past and possessed by her alter ego/imaginary friend, Eliza, the star character in Lucy’s novels.

Lucy’s instability and the tangle of a lifetime of lies makes for a strong plot, and Macmillan is a master at winding up the tension.