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A Science Fictional Domestic Thriller: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

As her scientific career is climbing to fresh heights, Doctor Evelyn Caldwell finds out that her husband, Nathan, has been cheating on her but not with a colleague. Instead, he’s hijacked her cloning research to create an ideal replacement wife from Evelyn’s own genetic material: Martine. She’s almost identical to Evelyn in appearance, but Nathan has altered her to be more subservient, family-oriented, and attentive to his needs. However, the real problems start when Martine calls Evelyn in a panic after killing Nathan in self-defense… and Evelyn decides to help with the cover-up. The Echo Wife is a phenomenal, creepy, significant novel but it’s a hard read, and wrestling with its implications is harder. The twisting, remorseless plot seamlessly combines domestic thriller with cutting-edge science fiction, dragging the reader along as the Caldwells’ secrets are unearthed one at a time. Sarah Gailey’s incisive prose lends to the suffocating atmosphere that pervades th

PSYCHO THRILLERS

DEAD HEAD by C J Skuse (HQ £8.99, 384 pp) Skuse has been creeping up the bestseller charts with her anarchic thrillers about Rhiannon Lewis, a politically incorrect serial killer who makes hilarious kill lists the way Bridget Jones used to list the calories she’d eaten. Think Bridget meets Killing Eve only with better jokes. Here, Rhiannon is on the run on a cruise ship, after a killing spree and abandoning her new baby. The voyage gives Skuse perfect material for death lists and the story is punctuated with very relatable ones (eg ‘Davina McCall. You’re fit. We get it.’). Sounds crazy and it is.

All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in February!

One woman will travel to the stars and beyond to save her beloved in this lyrical space opera that reimagines The Little Mermaid. Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. Atuale, the daughter of a Sea-Clan lord, sparked a war by choosing her land-dwelling love and rejecting her place among her people. Now her husband and his clan are dying of a virulent plague, and Atuale’s sole hope for finding a cure is to travel off-planet. The one person she can turn to for help is the black-market mercenary known as the World Witch and Atuale’s former lover. Time, politics, bureaucracy, and her own conflicted desires stand between Atuale and the hope for her adopted clan.

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