The School for German Brides by Aimie K. Runyan. It’s another WW2 story – God knows there are thousands of them and showing no signs of abating. This follows two young women – one of whom, Hanna, is set up to be married to a ghastly Nazi lieutenant, and is sent off to a place as per the title – a posh country house where young women are sent to learn how to be faithful and good wives and mothers and to obey their men thereby honouring the Fatherland. The other, Thilde, is Jewish, abandoned by her husband and needing to evade the authorities, all whilst about to have a baby in parlous circumstances. Thilde is a seamstress and makes clothes for the likes of Hanna, from which point their lives inevitably intersect. I really enjoyed it (after thinking I wasn’t going to). 

Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham who always writes terrific books. This is the third in his series about Cyrus Vance. Twenty years ago, his family was murdered. Only he and his brother survived. Cyrus because he hid. Elias because he was the killer. Now Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric hospital and Cyrus, a forensic psychologist, must decide if he can forgive the man who destroyed his childhood.