Subtle, funny and furious

An astoundingly accomplished piece of work

Nothing short of stunning

A very buoyant book, part truth, part fiction, combining sophistication with an equally beguiling vulgarity...it does leave one relishing it and wanting to read more

Taut, fast-paced, truly excellent

One of the best new series detectives . . . Mesmerizing!

M. J. Arlidge has created a genuinely fresh heroine in DI Helen Grace

Chilling stuff

A chilling read

A grisly, gripping thriller

Gruesomely realistic, intriguing and relentless. Arlidge's fledgling army of fans is about to grow

Expertly pulled off. It has a devious premise. DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome. It's scary as all hell. And it has a full cast of realistically drawn, interesting characters that make the thing read like a bullet

Grips like a vice and manages to convey all the drama of an election without resorting to melodrama

An electric read, like a shot of adrenalin to the heart . . . rollicking and literate . . . an insightful and witty thriller

Page-turning heaven

Slick and fast-paced

Couldn't put the lights out until I'd finished it! Gripping, emotional and very well-written

'This clever, multi- layered novel is simply stunning'

Loved I Let You Go and Behind Closed Doors? My Sister's Bones is guaranteed to be this year's most twisty and twisted read - you'll never see what's coming!

This book is amazing - harrowing and compelling...a clever plot that twists right to the very end

A beautifully written, spine-tingling thriller that had me on the edge of my seat. My Sister's Bones is a compelling tale about the evil unleashed by war and the evil that can lurk in the very heart of our homes. Heart-wrenching and compelling

If you loved The Girl on the Train, then this debut psychological thriller is for you ... dark, thrilling and full of unexpected twists and turns

Going to be THE book of 2015. Sexy, smart & v intricately plotted

Brilliant, fast-moving, very clever. Add to your January wish-list now!

Be ready to be spell-bound . . . It's the kind of book you'll want to press into the hands of everyone you know, after you've turned the last page, just so they can share your obsession and you can relive it

Compulsively readable…. It actually hurt to put it down

I'm calling it now: The Girl on the Train is the next Gone Girl. Paula Hawkins' highly anticipated debut novel is a dark, gripping thriller with the shock ending you crave in a noir-ish mystery

A gripping, down-the-rabbit-hole thriller

Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller . . . Hawkins' debut ends with a twist that no one - least of all its victims - have seen coming

[Paula Hawkins] pulls off a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming

distinctive, intelligent and unpredictable

perfectly paced, from its arresting beginning to its twist ending; it's not an easy book to put down . . . what really makes The Girl on the Train such a gripping novel is Hawkins' remarkable understanding of the limits of human knowledge, and the degree to whcih memory and imagination can become confused

A complex and increasingly chilling tale courtesy of a number of first-person narratives that will wrong-foot even the most experienced of crime fiction readers

The Girl on the Train marries movie noir with novelistic trickery . . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend

achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last

[L]ike Gone Girl, Hawkins' book is a highly addictive novel about a lonely divorcee who gets caught up in the disappearance of a woman whom she had been surreptitiously watching. And beyond the Gone Girl comaparisons, this book has legs of its own

Hawkins' masterful deployment of unwittingly unreliable narration to evoke the aftershocks of abuse and trauma is a powerful way of exploring women's marginalization

Springs new surprises on us . . .Pulses will be quickened

The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl

Halfway through and I can't stop reading it. My kinda thriller!

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.