The Guardian -
25 Aug 2017 13:00

Soot by Andrew Martin; The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan; The Lying Game by Ruth Ware; Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath; Yesterday by Felicia Yap Told in diary entries andletters, Andrew Martin's Soot (Corsair, £14.99) is set in York atthe end of the 18th century, a time when shades, or silhouettes, were the latest thing in portraiture. Fletcher Rigge, languishing in a debtors' prison, is bailed by the louche Captain Harvey on condition that he find the murderer of his shade painter father...
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