A Sickness in the Family #[nn]

From Vertigo Crime's mature-readers line comes this unsettling graphic novel by crime writer Denise Mina, with art by Antonio Fuso. Lee Bermejo's cover sets the tone perfectly — a mock family portrait arrangement of five oval-framed figures, their faces subtly wrong (eyeless, slack-jawed, bloodied), flanking a central couple who smile with just a little too much ease, a skull faintly visible behind them and a large fly perched ominously at the top. It's the visual grammar of a holiday family photo turned quietly horrifying — exactly the kind of dark domestic tension Vertigo Crime does so well.