Susan Hill’s crime novels are getting better and better… The main plot is straightforward enough — who is the killer and will he be caught? — but the narrative is so streamlined and effective that it races beautifully along until it smacks against the buffers of an unexpected but entirely convincing ending
Spectator

Susan Hill’s crime novels are getting better and better… The main plot is straightforward enough — who is the killer and will he be caught? — but the narrative is so streamlined and effective that it races beautifully along until it smacks against the buffers of an unexpected but entirely convincing ending
Spectator

I stayed up gone two in the morning and by the end there were tears in my eyes
Tony Clements, Daily Telegraph

I stayed up gone two in the morning and by the end there were tears in my eyes
Tony Clements, Daily Telegraph

Delicious agony…The suspense-building techniques of Alfred Hitchcock have long been locked into Susan Hill’s literary apparatus and they are given full rein here
Daily Express

Delicious agony…The suspense-building techniques of Alfred Hitchcock have long been locked into Susan Hill’s literary apparatus and they are given full rein here
Daily Express

All the ingredients for the perfect crime novel are here, but the added value comes from Hill's distinctive and human psychological insights.
Carla McKay, The Daily Mail

All the ingredients for the perfect crime novel are here, but the added value comes from Hill's distinctive and human psychological insights.
Carla McKay, The Daily Mail

A triumph: cunningly plotted, shrewdly characterised. Hill has an understanding of evil that is both acute and disconcerting.
Philip Oakes, Literary Review

A triumph: cunningly plotted, shrewdly characterised. Hill has an understanding of evil that is both acute and disconcerting.
Philip Oakes, Literary Review

As always, Hill creates a marvellous cast of characters with absorbing contemporary concerns… This is crime reading for those who relish a perceptive take on human nature as much as finding out whodunit
Daily Mail

As always, Hill creates a marvellous cast of characters with absorbing contemporary concerns… This is crime reading for those who relish a perceptive take on human nature as much as finding out whodunit
Daily Mail

The psychology and pace of the whole - and the quality of the writing - are utterly absorbing.
Leslie Geddes-Brown, Country Life

The psychology and pace of the whole - and the quality of the writing - are utterly absorbing.
Leslie Geddes-Brown, Country Life

Masterly story telling from an accomplished writer
The Good Book Guide

Masterly story telling from an accomplished writer
The Good Book Guide

It’s a wonder it hasn't been snapped up for telly
Scotland on Sunday

It’s a wonder it hasn't been snapped up for telly
Scotland on Sunday

A captivating read
Mary Fitzgerald, Observer

A captivating read
Mary Fitzgerald, Observer