The Lonely Hour ends on the most shocking cliffhanger yet – but if anyone can pull off the impossible, it's the most consistently brilliant, entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction, the utterly fabulous Christopher Fowler.

A mesmerising, beautifully-written domestic thriller that really stands out from the crowd. I flew through it.

Engrossing, original and hugely enjoyable.

A fabulous read.

A menacing new thriller . . . Expect to be gripped!

A domestic noir to race through.

Enjoyably twisty.

A tense and suspenseful domestic thriller . . . will linger with you long after you finish the final page.

A compelling, disturbing and beautifully told story. I loved Jane's debut Daughter and adored The Drowning Lesson but Jane has topped them both with Little Friends

Countless psychological thrillers get compared to Big Little Lies; Shemilt's is the real deal

Surefire suspense [. . .] riveting creepiness

A fantastically clever novel with some wonderful twists

Praise for Jane Shemilt

A compelling sense of place, good twists, and a tense, intense ending

We absolutely loved this

Thrilling

Builds layer upon layer of tension in a novel you won't be able to put down

Utterly gripping. A tautly-coiled spring of suspicion and suspense which builds to a devastating ending

A dark and twisty tale

Well-written, taut and tense

Taut and thought-provoking

Gripping to the last page

Suspenseful, brooding

Clever

Denise Mina is always brilliant, but Conviction is I think her best yet – joyously dark, comic, loads of fun

A pitch-perfect comic thriller

Denise Mina gets to the heart of what crime really is. You feel like you are right there, in all the dark nooks and crannies that her characters inhabit

Not a single word is wasted in this beautifully written novel. Unsettling, evocative and staggeringly good, it is possibly Mina’s finest achievement

A wonderfully atmospheric, unsettling read.

Deeply unsettling and thought provoking in all the best ways

The Long Drop is an exceptional book. The pages reek of fifties Glasgow, forming an oppressive backdrop to a true crime story that fascinates and appals from start to finish. Mina’s prose cuts to the bone, laying bare the prideful wickedness of men in a tale that is as often touching as it is frightening. A feast of a crime novel.

The Long Drop is a fascinating, quietly insidious work, unsettling but absorbing

It is a beautifully written book, a masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain’s finest living crime novelist

The Long Drop is not just a success and a thrilling read in its own right, but a game-changer for the genre.

A relentlessly tense and exciting read, every page oozes menace and its core of truth makes it all the more unsettling.

Deliciously shadowy.

Dark, gritty and chilling, it is steeped in the atmosphere and mores of Glasgow in the 1950s

[An] extraordinary story of a 1950s Glasgow murder mystery.

The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel

I’ve been a fan of Ms Mina for a while, but The Long Drop has to be my favourite. The writing is beautiful and more than once I found myself having to pause, just to take in the sheer elegance of the prose. It’s an absolute gem of a book.

[O]ne of crime fiction’s most acute observers of contemporary society.

A wonderfully punchy evocation of a legendary murder mystery, packed with the authentic sights, sounds and intrigues of Glasgow in the late Fifties.

[I] was gripped, impressed by her insight into the mind of a psychopath… A grim novel, but a very good one.

Mina's novels are engrossing, deeply rooted in reality and astutely perceptive about human nature

Powerful, passionate and compelling. Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence

Why do Scottish writers dominate British crime fiction? With Denise Mina at least, the answer is pure class

Remarkable… It often seems as if Mina has freed herself from most of the strictures of the thriller format in order to explore altogether more literary territory. It is a pleasure to accompany her. The writing is frequently arresting

Charismatic, grimy masterpiece

Bleak and atmospheric