Reviewed this month: Exit Strategy by Lee and Andrew Child, The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso, The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly, The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery and Dying Days by Les Hinton

Clockwise from left: Hayley Gelfuso, Ross Montgomery, Andrew and Lee  Child, Les Hinton and Michael Connelly

Clockwise from left: Hayley Gelfuso, Ross Montgomery, Andrew and Lee Child, Les Hinton and Michael Connelly

Our thriller and crime critic Myles McWeeney on the best new novels to read this month.

Bantam, 352 pages, hardcover €27.50, e-book £11.99; out November 4