"a brooding, gothic-tinged coming-of-age tale..."

"it is cleverly constructed..."

"so tense, so full of jeopardy, that it makes many thrillers feel underpowered..."

" a timely consideration of Hong Kong’s recent past..."

"Haunting and very dark, this is certainly worth the read..."

"a solid and well-constructed police procedural..."

" complex and occasionally convoluted, ending in a terrific set-piece legal showdown..."

"Haunting and heart-wrenching, this book is reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier...."

"Full of twists... wrongfooting the increasingly uneasy reader at every turn...."

"his grip on the mechanics of storytelling is highly assured..."

"(A) taut, clever, thought-provoking thriller...."

"she skilfully adapts it to a contemporary British setting in which our obsessions with class and keeping up appearances are weaknesses ripe for exploitation...."

"In this savage cinematic caper about an academic fraudster, social commentary meets standup comedy..."

"Jackson follows her brilliantly unnerving Never Have I Ever with another battle of wits between a manipulative criminal and her victim. ..."

"assured and engrossing..."

" Fitzek’s brainy thriller is always at risk of becoming impossible to take seriously..."

"Bradby’s blend of le Carré espionage yarn with Michael Dobbs political thriller is a nifty and appealing concoction..."

"This long-awaited epic makes superhuman strength an unsettling backdrop to family drama..."

"Thomas’s new novel displays the same high energy as his debut, Firewatching...."

"This characteristically clever novel challenges assumptions and has a sophisticated take on sexual politics...."

"Jane Casey constructs an intense, action-packed mystery out of emails, court documents and newspaper articles..."

"begins with a hurricane... and ends with a whirlwind of hectic action and ghastly revelations ..."

"it stands comparison with the early works of Sarah Waters and Barbara Vine...."

"fierce, angry energy..."

"This is natural history as police procedural; and life on Earth as the scene of a crime...."

"a page-turning read, but with functional writing and a predictable plot, it’s not really one to linger over..."

"Twisted, dark and fizzing with fury, it’s a lot of fun...."

"deliciously sinister and obsessive, an immersive journey into a world where ballet is everything, with one hell of a twist...."

"Flynn keeps the tension bubbling nicely..."