Broken Harbour

A searing new psychological thriller which begins on a ghost estate outside Dublin; two children and their father are dead, their mother is on her way to intensive care. For star detective Scorcher Kennedy, it's going to be a complex investigation which will resurrect painful memories of his own past. '}Broken Harbour{ is better than whatever's going to win the 2012 Man Booker. It's better than the novels that are going to win the Costa and Orange prizes, and if it doesn't win the Gold Dagger for best crime novel, the injustice might drive me to go and sit in a tent for a while even though I hate camping. Tana French is a genius.' Sophie Hannah