Thrilling debut keeps reader guessing to the very end

FICTION: The Woman in the Window, By AJ Finn, Harper Collins, €14.95

There’s no set recipe for a hit novel. Not unless you have magic dust gathered in a jar somewhere and you know exactly how to use it. Hit novels are rare beasts: usually recognised best in retrospect, when the sales figures have spoken for themselves, and advance hype has been replaced by genuine readerly praise. But one thing you can be ...