One of my lifelong fantasies is to live in a high-ceilinged apartment in the City of Light. And so, the Paris Apartment appealed to me because of its title alone. Inside its pages, Lucy Foley tells a highly entertaining story. It begins with Jess, a neglected drifter, fleeing her scuzzy, grungy existence in Brighton. She…

The very near future is a great place to set crime fiction – it presents a world we recognise, but is darkly skewed. In John Marrs’ ‘the One’, dating apps have been rendered superfluous by a simple DNA test guaranteeing the perfect match. Naturally, they’re not the only thing to have been upended. The story…