Suspenseful tale of a grim, dystopian future

A Lovely Way to Burn

**By** Louise Welsh

**John Murray,** €16.35

**Reviewed by** Joanne Hayden

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Louise Welsh's psychological thrillers pay attention to style as well as plot. Since her first novel, The Cutting Room, was published in 2002, the Scottish writer has often been credited with narrowing the gap between literary and crime fiction. A Lovely Way To Burn, her sixth book and the first instalment in a Plague Times' trilogy, is ...