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.