Emma, Disappeared

Smart, blackly humorous and featuring one of Irish crime fiction's most audacious femme fatales, Emma, Disappeared is Hughes' finest novel to date

Andrew's characters are beautifully drawn and intriguing, he casts the seeds of mystery and doubt like a pro and his portrait of modern Dublin is multi-layered and immersive

A gripping debut thriller set in contemporary Dublin

If you loved Catherine Ryan Howard's The Trap, this is similar page-turning fare

Tense and taut enough to sit happily on crime bookshelves, while transcending most of its companions

A glorious read, both literary and page-turning, and has a wonderfully enigmatic first-person narrator