The best book I read this winter...This book is so good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it...Dubus casts a net of dread over the reader so strong that one sometimes longs to put it down, but finds himself unable... you want to grab someone and tell them to read it - don't wait for the movie, read it now.

'More than cements Dubus' status as one of America's finest writers... Tension and confusion are wrought from every spare yet evocative sentence.

'You cannot help but be mesmerised'

Explosive... profound...masterful...Difficult to put down, impossible to forget.

Riveting and disturbing.

Reading Reichs is always an education one way or another. There is plenty of action... but it is the detail that actually makes it gripping

Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs

A truly impressive writer

Alex Cross is a legend.

Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.

Patterson knows where our deepest fears are Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.buried... there's no stopping his imagination.

Patterson is in a class by himself.

Sharp, sassy and guaranteed to send shivers down your spine, this is a tense thriller

Cross is one of the best and most likeable characters in the modern thriller.

I love Kate's writing...a fantastic detective mystery

The opening chapter of Kate Atkinson's latest book is one of the finest pieces of suspense literature you will read this year . . . addictive . . . Atkinson is back at her best