If you covet a gripping thriller as much as the next noir-loving woman, put Sadie Jones’ The Snakes on your hit list.

Jones is the author of four best-selling novels, including The Outcast, a brilliant and harrowing tale of young man shunned by a ridged village community in the 1950s.

Now the author is back in the limelight, with her first stab at fiction set in modern day.

The Snakes tells the story of a young married couple, Bea and Dan, who escape their small flat in London for a few months to visit Bea’s brother at the hotel he runs in Burgundy, France.

They find him all alone at the deserted establishment, with nothing but a nest of snakes in the attic.

When Bea’s wealthy and charming parents arrive on-scene, dark secrets begins to surface, and a sudden tragedy reveals the family’s rotten core.

You need to read The Snakes, new dark thriller set in Brexit-facing London