One of today's few truly original writers of crime fiction: disturbing, unruly, droll and poetic

Few contemporary crime thrillers can match Vargas's soaring imaginative flights

This is wonderful, quirky stuff, a world away from formulaic crime fiction

Vargas is an addictive writer whose surreal touches create a curiously solid world. Her occasional whimsy somehow turns into comment both trenchant and funny

A cool, clever, original and deeply humane crime writer

Move over Scandi crime, the new foreign thriller favourites are the French. And no one is better than Fred Vargas

The characterisation is imaginative and the plot distinctly quirky... Humour is cast over even the darkest of themes and the oddball central characters entertain as much as the plot intrigues

Dog Will Have His Day firmly demonstrates why Vargas is so highly thought of

it's BLIDDY FABLISS, isn't it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this

The Girl on the Train is one of those delicious thrillers that can be devoured in four sittings, that's two return journeys on a typical train trip! There's a whiff of Agatha Christie and a dollop of Gone Girl with plenty of blind alleys that we happily wander up and get lost in. Pick it up, solve the crime and pass it on . . .

Agatha Christie meets Rear Window...a taut psychological thriller that's chockful of chilling twists.

Clever, exciting and full of twists, this is undoubtedly the cream of this year's crop

Unputdownable . . . the new literary sensation . . . nothing short of sensational

...this unusual clammy-palmed thriller.

Hawkins juggles perspectives and timescales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual central character.

Absorbing . . . refreshingly unconventional

A real page-turner.

a wholly original writer.

A thrilling plot, full of suspense.

Claustrophobic, compulsive and gripping

Intriguing ... presents enough believable suspects and motives to keep the reader gripped

What She Left leads the reader down a dark and twisty path of suspense and intrigue. This gripping and stylishly written novel left me chilled to the bone and captivated me from beginning to end

WHAT SHE LEFT is bold and inventive storytelling. The reader becomes the investigator, sorting through diary entries, letters, tweets, and emails to discover the truth beneath the tales of an entire cast of potentially unreliable narrators. This is not only a clever thriller, but an insightful exploration of identity and the personae we create in the social-media era

A faultlessly constructed, page-turning debut, Disclaimer delivers its twists and surprises with ease. It is both clever and moving, and I'm full of admiration.

It's Disclaimer that turns out to be the Gone Girl of the season

An ingenious and involving tale and a very successful first novel

Fiendishly clever

Renee Knight's stunning debut is a thriller with a particularly literary flavour, but also with a heart. Best enjoyed slowly, with no skipping to the heart-wrenchign conclusion. Terrific.

A deeply probing, intense psychological thriller that was gripping and very difficult to put down

Disclaimer forms a trinity alongside Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train as the best of domestic noir . . . Disclaimer will be climbing the bestseller list

An original plot, well-paced to its unexpected climax

A highly assured debut novel with a cracking premise . . . a remarkable well written page turner

A superior piece of dark emotional fiction that will get under your skin.

Plunges us into our worst nightmare - somebody knows our darkest secret, and they're sharing it

A finely crafted puzzle box

A brilliant premise, superbly executed. I love this book

fantastic - was absolutely gripped. Great idea, could not put it down.

Disclaimer is a real one-nighter

It's knockout

The marvel of the new suspense novel “Disclaimer” is that it lives up to its unusually gripping premise.
Disclaimer forms a trinity alongside “Gone Girl” and the “The Girl on the Train” as the best of domestic noir. That this is a first novel from Renee Knight, a British television screenwriter, makes her sure hand with what’s sinister that much more stunning.

A sensational psychological thriller

excellent debut

This bestseller is definitely one of the best thrillers of 2015.

More original and sophisticated than your average psychological thriller, Renée Knight's DISCLAIMER is an accomplished and addictive tale.