A sure-fire winner in our picks for the best Psychological Thrillers out now: Our Beautiful Mess by Adele Parks, False Idols by Karla Marie Sweet, Our Last Resort by Clémence Michallon

Despite producing 25 new books in 25 years, Parks has succeeded in resisting a formulaic approach to her multi-million-selling novels.

Her latest drama tackles how far a mother will go to protect her family.

Connie is a mother with big secrets. The arrival home of her student daughter Fran with her new boyfriend Zac makes Connie uneasy. When Fran announces she is pregnant the dilemmas for Connie become an emergency.

What follows is a rollercoaster of past deceit and future menace that allows the main characters, but especially Connie, to drive this dark tale to its explosive conclusion.

Another sure-fire winner.

The toxicity of the ultra-exclusive LA wellness scene is the intriguing backdrop to a story packed with creepy suspense and relatable characters.

The central character is Sadie, a neurotic would-be artist escaping from her past and seduced into joining Deep Flow by its charismatic leader Lilith.

Her friends soon realise she is being drawn into a dangerous situation. But it takes Sadie longer to grasp exactly what she must do to truly belong to this group – and what she is prepared to risk to survive.

The shiny, manipulative Lileth is particularly well drawn and Sadie’s desperate need to escape the trauma of her past makes her the perfect victim.

Smart plotlines and a shocking conclusion that exposes yoga poses and breath classes can, in fact, be the tip of a very poisonous iceberg.

Every sentence reeks of good writing. The storytelling is spare and tense and it is literary without being pretentious.

We meet Frida and her brother Gabriel in a luxury resort in Utah where they are attempting a reunion following their traumatic past growing up in a strict cult.

Then the wife of one of the tycoon guests is murdered and Gabriel, due to the death of his wife years ago, becomes a suspect.

Gabriel’s less-than- convincing defence forces Frida to re-evaluate her whole relationship with him. Compelling.