Pacy and exciting...Totally different

Gone Girl meets Mean Girls

Dear Daughter has three of my favorite things in a book: a smart, damaged, unstoppable narrator with a slicing sense of humor; needle-sharp writing that brings characters and atmosphere leaping off the page; and a vivid, original plot full of satisfying twists. This is an all-nighter, and the best debut mystery I've read in a long time

Dark, sharp and witty

A really gutsy, clever, energetic read, often unexpected, always entertaining. I loved Janie Jenkins’s sassy voice and Elizabeth Little’s too. In the world of crime novels, Dear Daughter is a breath of fresh air

With a narrator so unreliable you suffer from constant seasickness, and the same fizzy sense of the media tracking the case that gave Gone Girl such edge, this is the thriller of the summer… This is so damn good that it’s worth going on holiday with someone you hate, just so you can ignore them all week

The real pleasure of this novel is its main character. As narrator, Janie is razor sharp, amoral and fizzing with coal-black wisecracks… A very modern and very funny take on a murder mystery

Every year a few books stand out. This is one of them

With a compelling cast of superbly drawn characters, a serpentine plot and crackling dialogue laced with stark, pungent asides, Dear Daughter defies you to put it down

This crime fiction début is the real deal. Unreliable narrator? Check. Plot twists? Yup. Razor-sharp writing? That, too... A thrilling, gripping read

A clever, witty thriller you’ll want to gobble up in one go

This amazing book is like Gone Girl meets Gossip Girl - it's gonna be HUGE!

Clever… razor-sharp

A brilliant read

Scalpel sharp, plenty of twists and a feisty narrator, you won’t be able to put it down

Clever, original, and darkly witty, Dear Daughter’s many twists will keep you on your toes as you fall under the spell of its unapologetic, whip-smart narrator

Extremely well-written…a brilliant début…outstanding

What a devilish, delightful treat of a novel! Crackling with wit and shining with originality, Dear Daughter is the kind of whirlwind mystery that will keep you hooked—and guessing—until the very end

The writing is sharp as a tack, the heroine feisty and the mystery will keep you guessing until the very last page – a corker

A terrific page-turner...hilarious... Finally, a thriller that deserves the tag 'the new Gone Girl'

I couldn't put it down!

Elizabeth Little has created a fast-reading mystery rich in dialogue, demonstrating a special talent for great one-liners and crisp observation, and has given her protagonist enough sass and wit to complement the half-wits she has to tolerate on a daily basis as she tries to recover her memory of past events and solve a mystery where she just might be the killer

Smart, darkly funny and packed with plot twists… Heroine Janie is an engaging and complex character… An enjoyable romp of a read which is incredibly difficult to put down

Janie Jenkins [is] a snide, sharp-tongued and sparky LA bitch channeling her inner Paris Hilton

Captivating… Sharp and dramatic – we couldn’t put it down!

Original and full of twists

[Janie’s] wit is bitter and devastating, her put-downs Pulitzer-worthy

Fresh and fizzing and original, this is such an impressive debut

a sassy firecracker of a crime novel

The assured telling of this chiller combines to create a very modern Gothic horror that will keep you up way past your bedtime

There's a hint of Kathy Reichs, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and of Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train. Despite its dark subject matter, this is a hopeful book . . . the ending managed to be both surprising and satisfying.

The denouement is unexpected, plausible and perfectly satisfying . . . Black Eyed Susans is a thumping good mystery

If you like dark and disturbing psychological thrillers then Black Eyed Susans should definitely go on your list

A fascinating, educated, highly absorbing read that I struggled to put down for any length of time. Any free moment was spent with my head in this book.
Intense, creepy and atmospheric, Black-Eyed Susans is a intelligent character driven masterpiece excellently paced with some great plot twists which had me guessing right to the very end ... brilliant!

Heaberlin drip-feeds an intriguing story at a tantalising pace . . . Heaberlin has written an intelligent, absorbing and well-researched page-turner that will delight fans of Megan Abbot and Tana French

Fascinating details about identifying remains through bone and DNA analysis are woven through equally compelling present-day narration and flashbacks to Tessa's therapy sessions and trial testimony. The pieces can't come fast enough as the story builds to a shocking and satisfying conclusion. Deliciously twisty and eerie, Heaberlin's psychological suspense novel is intricately layered and instantly compelling

This book is a rarity in that the research underpinning it is evident but not obtrusive. Black Eyed Susans is a fine achievement. It drips with authenticity, empathy and dread, meditating on the Death Penalty as well as offering an empathetic study of the life of a survivor. Take note - Julia Heaberlin belongs on every suspense fan's bookshelf

Creepy and compelling, Black-Eyed Susans is a shadowy and crooked journey to a very dark place indeed, a twisty fairytale that deceives you just when you think you've cracked it and a thriller to make you remember why you love thrillers. Don't miss it.

This is the debut novel of Julia Heaberlin, and again it's excellent . . . Beautifully written . . . It's a great book

A powerful thriller . . . With a fairy-tale-like atmosphere, the creepy thriller works insidiously on the senses . . . Clever, ingeniously manipulative and elegant.

This dark, complex thriller is not just a gripping page-turner, but also brilliantly explores the psychology of the victim

Black Eyed Susans is haunting, intense and original - it'll keep you guessing till the last page

Taut, addictive, intelligent and impressive

Tense, pacy and compelling, Black-Eyed Susans is a taut psychological thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Julia Haeberlin masterfully ramps up the suspense gradually, building to an explosive denouement that you won't see coming. Quite simply, the best thriller you'll read this year - perhaps decade. Miss it at your peril.