Four new books to read this week

When Shadows Fall By Neil Lancaster hardback, £16.99

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Max Craigie is the new Jack Reacher: unkillable, unstoppable and utterly brilliant.

The sixth outing of Lancaster’s brilliant north of the border police procedurals is genuinely gripping, and never lets up the pace.

One woman is killed in a fall from a Scottish mountain that might be an accident, but when Craigie discovers five other female climbers have died in similar accidents, alarm bells begin to ring.

So is it a lone serial killer at work or a wider conspiracy? Either way, Lancaster’s pulse-pounding plots will steal your sleep. 9/10

Holy City By Henry Wise paperback, £9.99