Crazy Think, by Elly Summers (Penguin, £5.99 in UK)

This one is narrated by Richard Cory Hayes, a 35-year-old accountant with his own firm on East 88th Street in New York. On the surface a successful and prosperous businessman, in his mind he harbours the demons attendant on a horrific childhood. Raised on a farm with his brother Max, and sisters Elizabeth and Claire, he underwent the trauma of brutality and incest, and even in his thirties still finds it impossible to damp down the recurring nightmares. Now his sister Claire has been arrested for the murder of her violent husband, and the family is once again forced to confront the ravages of the past. The result is an insightful excursion into terrain that bleeds with pain, but first-time novelist Summers handles it more than adroitly.