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

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

In this extract from Peter Wise’s new book, an angler is fishing an ice-age lake where the coffin containing an evil monk who was reputed to have come back from the dead was once dumped. But the past is coming back to haunt him…

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