An inventive and intricate psychological puzzle thriller that mystifies, torments, disturbs, beguiles... a powerfully intelligent debut

A compulsive page-turner that will hold your attention until the very last word

Sinister, addictive and unpredictable – this is a novel to be devoured greedily, at speed, but one that will leave its footprint on your memory for far longer

Yates’s take on the collegiate thriller lives up to early comparisons to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History... filled with gleeful malevolence

[A] chilling debut...this is a thriller, a cautionary tale and a sobering exploration of unintended consequences rolled into one

Black Chalk grabs from the get-go... Yates plots with tantalizing skill

This addictive psychological thriller will have you hooked from start to game over

Compelling

A truly chilling thriller, with campus-fun-gone-wrong echoes of Donna Tartt's The Secret History

A very exciting debut - like The Secret History, but so much creepier... This is intellectually challenging psychological thriller writing at a high level

An intricate and sinister thriller, in which the truth is slowly and subtly revealed

Words to describe this wonderful thriller could be: gripping, sinister, realistic and very scary, as well as irresistible, compulsive and unputdownable... A perfect read on a dark evening,

A gripping thriller... Will leave even the most hardened of horror fans looking over their shoulders and checking that the door is locked!

Complex, ingenious and thrilling

a sinister and suspenseful read

ghastly, riveting tale.

Highly unsettling

A tantalising mystery

Captures sinister atmosphere brilliantly