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I listened to Gilly MacMillan's The Perfect Girl (British title: Butterfly in the Dark), narrated by Penelope Rawlins and Dugald Bruce-Lockhart. The girl/butterfly of the title is a teenager who is trying to rebuild her life after having been convicted of killing three people in a car accident and serving a year in a juvenile facility. Then her mother is killed.
From that premise, I was expecting the story to follow a different path from the one the author actually took, which turned out to be more thought-provoking and less formulaic than it might have been.
MacMillan's previous book, What She Knew (British title: Burnt Paper Sky; why oh why do they have to tinker with titles?), with the same two narrators, was also good.
There seem to be more British than American authors writing the kind of books I've come to enjoy most--domestic situations, psychological suspense, female protagonist, family secrets and lies.
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