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GH ’s books director Joanne Finney shares her pick of this month’s new hardback releases

Run Away is the latest twisty Harlan Coben mystery to be adapted for the screen – and James Nesbitt has come along for the ride

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

W hen 17-year-old Lily vanishes, it leaves her twin sister Abby, family and local community reeling. Twisty, six-part drama Girl Taken follows what happens when Lily returns five years later and the f