The Wolf In The Woods

Dan Brotzel, Sandstone Press, £8.99

Brotzel’s offering focuses on Colleen and Andrew, whose marriage is in trouble thanks to a shared alcohol problem, conflict over their botched handling of a wayward son and general midlife malaise.

They head to a cottage in the woods for a week of solitude and sobriety where their landlord, the “wolf” of the title, seems eager to steer them away from impending divorce, but is all as it seems?