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Second Life. By SJ Watson. Doubleday, €17

The three reviewed books
The three reviewed books

For his follow-up to 2011’s ultra-smash Before I Go to Sleep, British novelist SJ Watson has popped down to the cliché wholesaler’s. Julia’s sister Kate has been murdered in an apparent mugging in Paris. The cops turn up nothing, so Julia decides to investigate for herself. According to Kate’s friend Anna, Kate had a rich online sex life. Did she go too far? Will Julia follow her down the fifty-shaded path ...