Hare House
by Sally Hinchcliffe (£14.99, HB, Mantle)
In an eerily beautiful corner of Scotland, a woman moves into a cottage on the grounds of Hare House. Leaving behind a teaching post under somewhat mystifying circumstances, she begins afresh surrounded by the rolling hills of her new home, but strange rumours circulate among the locals: myths of madness and witchcraft that plague the village. As the woman grows closer to her landlord and his sister, a sense of unease grows within her. It seems her new friends are hiding something, and dark truths come to light as a snowstorm keeps them captive inside the estate. A deeply unsettling modernday tale of witchcraft.