Thrillers you won't want to miss: The Girl in Cell A By Vaseem Khan, The Man Made of Smoke By Alex North, Sweet Fury By Sash Bischoff

Eighteen years ago 17-year-old Orianna Negi was convicted of killing one of the male members of the all-powerful Wyclerc dynasty in the small town of Eden Falls, but always insisted she was innocent.

Orianna explains that she cannot remember anything about that fatal night when she was found unconscious beside the body with her prints on the shotgun that killed him.

Forensic psychologist Dr Annie Ledet is brought in to help the now 35-year-old recover her memory of what really happened, and this first standalone thriller from British-born crime writer Vaseem Khan explores their dialogue and what happens when Orianna is released and returns to Eden Falls. Beautifully structured and peopled with unforgettable characters this is story-telling of the highest order: do not miss it.

As a small child Dan Garvie encountered a serial killer, the Pied Piper, at a motorway service station with one of his victims – another little boy – but Dan did nothing to save the child. Now an adult and a psychiatrist used to dealing with murderers, he is still plagued with guilt.

Dan’s father was one of the police officers responsible for trying to trap the killer, but failed, and now he has disappeared from a clifftop on the island they both called home.

So begins North’s splendidly creepy story – which chills to the bone - and grows ever more complex as Dan goes back to investigate his father’s apparent suicide.

Built around the five stages of grief, it paints a haunting portrait of a psychopath and the psychiatrist trying to understand what drives him.

Famous movie actress Lila Crayne is America’s sweetheart, kind, warm and dazzlingly beautiful. She and her director husband Kurt Royall are Hollywood royalty, on the cover of Vogue one moment and about to direct and put on a production of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnetic story Tender Is The Night the next.

But not all is as it seems, for Lila is troubled and consults psychiatrist Jonah Gabriel about what is disturbing her. It emerges that Royall is abusing Lila, and, after a time, the psychiatrist falls in love with her during therapy.

Nothing is what it appears in this brooding story of revenge wrapped up in a homage to Fitzgerald. Lila is far from the sweet ingénue that she presents – and is Gabriel a knight in shining armour or a manipulative villain?