The ingredients of a classic crime novel

It’s 50 years since Agatha Christie died, but her crime fiction still captivates audiences old and new

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

In a world where image is everything, the quiet streets of suburbia hide deadly truths. Ambitious psychiatrist Dr Geddes is rising fast at a respected practice – until a troubling young patient threat

BOOKS

by Harriet Lane (£20, HB, Orion) What lies beneath the image we construct of ourselves? Ruth, newly divorced and drifting as her daughter leaves home, feels invisible – until Sookie, her dazzling form