What do you recommend?

“I had spells of reading over Christmas that were really disappointing — how awful is that? So I went back to someone who always delivers: Adrian McKinty and the beginning of his trilogy that starts with Dead I Well May Be. He’s such a good writer, and he s very good at taking the story into a direction you don’t see coming. ... And The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood is one of those books you read and wish you’d written.”

Val McDermid, author of Splinter the Silence

This story was originally published January 15, 2016 at 6:45 AM with the headline "What do you recommend?."