Beautifully written and well-crafted, the characters of Natalie, Rachel, Sadie and Alex stayed with me long after I finished reading and I resented anything that stopped me from getting back to them. I read it in two days, though I would have read it in one if I could!

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.

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

Mina writes with wonderful wit and compassion

A brilliant thriller gripping with menace, but also a clear-eyed examination of female friendship and toxic masculinity. Denise Mina, a true original, can make you gasp in horror and laugh out loud on the same page

The Less Dead is one of the best crime novels I have read in ages... fast-paced, deftly-drawn... Denise Mina compellingly catches the tone of voice of angry, abandoned, drug-zonked Glaswegian women

A very urgent and affecting piece

Mina has written the year's best crime novel

A brilliant thriller dripping with menace... Denise Mina, a true original, can make you grasp in horror and laugh out loud on the same page

The always-wonderful Denise Mina with The Less Dead, notable as ever for its story, characters and setting

A great writer and thinker

[A] terrifying and hilarious 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

Such intricate and enthralling storytelling. Evocative and creepy

This book is chilling. It's the type of book you need to read with the lights on and the doors locked but it's so gripping you won't regret the mild night terrors

C. J. Tudor has crafted an intense novel that gets right to the heart of what it means to love and to grieve . . . Intriguing, dramatic and heartbreaking

A chilling psychological thriller, pulsing with atmosphere and plot twists

A well-crafted story that blends a mystery with some supernatural chills. You'll want to leave the light on

A chilling, atmospheric tale of justice, revenge, and the darkness lurking on the fringes of society

Vivid characterisation, lots of mystery as well as a twisting plot, it makes for a gripping page turner

The chilling new novel by the bestselling author of The Chalk Man is an absolute page-turner. We'll just say the author isn't referred to as the 'Queen of Creepy' for nothing

Complex thriller which is suffused with loss, longing and vengeance. Touches of the supernatural add to the spine-tingling thrills

A novel with a formidable emotional pull

C.J. Tudor is mastering the suspense/horror genre . . . It's quietly disconcerting, completely relatable and shows you that humans have a wonderfully dark side

Kidnap mystery and horror suspense all rolled into one as a man is haunted by his abduction of his daughter while the woman who knows what happened is on the run for her life

Praise for C. J. Tudor

CJ Tudor taps into those things that woke you up in the night when you were a kid and then stay with you when you're an adult

Britain's female Stephen King

Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time

A dark star is born

An intense novel that gets right to the heart of what it means to love and grieve

Wonderfully gripping and doubt-inducing

Sisters echoes Brontë's Wuthering Heights not only in its gothic elements and sombre descriptions of English landscapes but also in the idea of doomed love, love which becomes an omnipotent, harmful power... Sisters is chilling and unrestful in a way many horror stories aren't, the world of the novel itself a disturbing and anxious place.

An absorbing tale of sibling love and envy.

It's hard to deny the uncanny thrill generated by Johnson's blend of horror, nature writing and magical realism... As dazzling as a photographer's flash.

Held me rapt until the very end

I didn't want to put it down

A beautiful and intriguing page-turner

Rich and atmospheric