LOOK BOTH WAYS

by Linwood Barclay (£20, Harpercollins, HB)

Fast, efficient and utterly deadly. The flashy new driverless cars, known as Arrivals, were supposed to revolutionise road safety. Their trial run on Garrett Island was going smoothly, and even the police swapped their vehicles for black-andwhite models. But as a busy press event gets under way, the Arrivals are organising. Electrifying and highly original.