Thoroughly enjoyable

The plot twists in Shari Lapena's A Stranger in the House made me shout "No!" out loud. Shari expertly traps you, confounds you and leaves you gasping at the end. More, please . . .

Smart, twisty and compulsive. Suspense and suspicion accumulate relentlessly, toying with your expectations and your emotions right up until the packs-a-punch ending. Don’t miss it, and don’t expect to be able to put it down

Hard to put down.

A smart and twisty thriller . . . It's taut, intelligent and compelling.

Tense.

Creeping sense of dread throughout . . . A firecracker of a plot twist.

Smart crime thriller packed with twists and turns which keep you guessing until a powerful ending that really packs a punch.

With its slow-burning plot and gradual, totally unpredictable reveal, this looks set to be another bestseller.

Dark and twisty.

Lapena keeps the well-developed twists churning, with each a surprise notch in this ever-evolving plot, and she continues this skilful storytelling until the stunning twist at the end.

Tense. Unpredictable. Unputdownable. Shari's novels are domestic noir at its finest

The Good Girl raises all kinds of contemporary issues with wit and sensitivity

Clever, grown-up and totally gripping

A topical, tense and addictive read

The Good Girl looks set to be the next Gone Girl, with its dark compelling exploration of family secrets . . .

Neill takes a light scalpel to online disaster in this exceptional dual-narrative

Cracking

Two families become embroiled in each other's lives and long buried secrets are unravelled. Contemporary issues are tackled here with both humour and realism, making for an engrossing read

Neill's characters are so cleverly depicted, you feel as if you've met at least one of them before

An absorbing psychological study of greed, loyalty and cultural conflict

The bastard child of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith

A masterful and sophisticated psychological thriller that explores moral ambiguity from multiple perspectives

Taut psychological thriller that’s as sinister as it is thrilling. A real unputdownable effort that examines morality and privilege

Smart, seductive… A sophisticated page-turner

Osborne is a literary writer – and a brilliant one – and this sumptuously written superbly observed study of misplaced idealism and moral expediency reads a bit like a thriller penned by F Scott Fitzgerald

Malevolent, gripping… A compelling read, acutely observed and beautifully written. For all the character defects of the principal protagonists, the reader wants to find out what happens to them. It matters. And there can be no higher praise than that

This complex, thrilling novel focuses on Naomi Codrington, a young lawyer who befriends Samantha, a malleable American teenager, while summering with her father and stepmother on the Greek island of Hydra. When they find a Syrian refugee washed up on the shore, calamity comes rushes in.

Thrilling, chilling and contains the following subtext: best stay at home

Birdcage Walk offers a persuasively grimy period evocation of contemporary domestic peril facing women, not least in an agonising childbirth scene that has traumatic consequences

Gripping historical drama

A story of idealism and possessive love, with strong and memorable characters

Helen definitely has a deft touch when it comes to history but the vividness of Lizzie and Diner's relationship is what stands out in glorious literary 3D. Speaking as someone raised in Bristol, I'll never be able to gaze down into the Gorge again without seeing that rowing boat. Bleak can be hauntingly beautiful and between these covers Helen demonstrates how

She vividly brings to live the struggle of women’s lives in late 18th century Bristol, and I recommend the book for an insight into Bristol in another time

From the swish of a silk dress, to the whoosh of the guillotine, Dunmore uses words with economic precision to build up the detail and suspense of this novel. Which haunts the reader just as the characters in it are haunted by the dead.

Flawless final historical novel from the late, great Helen Dunmore

A lively and inventive voice … by all account as brilliant as her other books

Early feminism and a hint of Grand Designs: a great mix’