The worst damage is done by the people closest to us. These three novels make this clear. Erin Kelly's Marianne fled her hometown of Nusstead at seventeen, leaving a secret she and her boyfriend Jesse buried together, and thirty years later, forced to return to care for her sick mother, she can feel that past closing in. Tami Challey's Brighton marriage looks solid enough to survive almost anything, until the morning her husband is arrested on the doorstep and the name of his accuser turns everything to ash. Three friends who bonded over their college swim team return to the island resort where one of them apparently drowned, and in Lexie Elliott's taut, unsettling novel, none of them is quite what she seems. You have been warned.
Erin Kelly, We Know You Know - The asylum where it began is now luxury flats. Marianne can see it from the street. Classic, controlled Kelly.
Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach - A stranger arrives to scatter rose petals in the sea. What she knows about Tami's world will end it.
Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend - After the memorial, someone leaves a message on Bronwyn's mirror. Georgie can guess who. Elliott at her darkest and best.
