The latest Jeff Ford novel has slightly more of a supernatural element to it than The Girl in the Glass, but probably nowhere near enough to please genre purists. The Shadow Year is basically a great novel about a geeky kid in 1960s America (and my, doesn’t that seem a like ancient history now) whose neighborhood is threatened by a stalker and possible serial killer. It is, to some extent, a schoolboy detective novel, except that it is much more realistic and scary than Scooby Doo. You can read this for the fantastical elements, and the is supposed to be scary, but if you did you’d be missing out on a great novel about fairly ordinary people. I loved it. Nice one, Jeff.