THE BRIGHTON MERMAID
by Dorothy Koomson, £12.99, Century, hardback Sisters nell and macy’s lives are haunted after nell and her best friend, Jude, find the body of a young woman washed up on Brighton beach – with only a mermaid of Brighton tattoo to identify her. Twenty five years later, nell’s sole ambition is to solve the mystery of the dead woman. But the fallout from her search turns out to be far greater than she could have imagined.