A Tidy Ending

Joanna Cannon The Borough Press £16.99 Lonely Linda Hammett has settled into a humdrum life on a housing estate with her boring husband Terry. She longs for excitement and it soon arrives in all the wrong ways: there’s a serial killer in the neighbourhood, Terry’s behaving oddly and her new friend Rebecca has a raft of secrets. Cannon’s shrewd characterisation, sparky observations and subtly menacing plot makes this a darkly funny and delightfully sinister read.