Tale of hidden secrets could go much deeper

NINA TODD HAS GONE. BY LESLEY GLAISTER, Bloomsbury, €16.15.

How do you restart your life when you’ve just been released from jail for murder?

In Lesley Glaister’s absorbing, if ultimately slight, 11th novel, ex-convict Nina Todd believes that the only good answer to that question is to conceal her own identity.

As Karen Wilder, Nina was the adopted teenager who committed a horrific crime. As Nina Todd, complete with a disguising nose job ...