‘Knox’s pitch-black novels are among crime fiction’s most compelling’

‘Fierce, funny and flint-sharp. Joseph Knox is the true grit of Brit noir'

Dark, gritty and compelling, this will have you turning the pages until the early hours of the morning

Oozing dread, full of surprises and with a powerful sense of outraged humanity, The Sleepwalker is Joseph Knox’s finest novel yet.

‘[An] ingenious plot … full of striking revelations’

Unrepentantly, invigoratingly dark

Unflinching, fearsomely realistic, superb...The Aidan Waits series has the makings of a classic of the genre.

Knox is proving to be amongst the most pithy of British crime writers, and his exuberant novels are among the best in the current field

mesmerizing depictions of Manchester by night; a plot that is baroque in its shimmering complexity and overall, an hallucinatory power that borders on the uncanny

Gritty, dark, funny, and very, very good

bleak, brutal and brilliant

brilliant ... displays all the virtues of a high-energy police procedural while being spiritually and tonally in thrall to classic PI fiction, with a cumulative hallucinatory power that borders on the uncanny.

Gritty, dark and absorbing

Wrobel writes a fascinating and thrilling debut that looks deeply into the complicated reasons a mother and daughter can hurt each other. A psychological twister that had me completely captivated until the end

Deliciously sinister. I defy any reader to work out exactly what these two spectacularly unreliable narrators are up to

A blackly comic and original novel with a fascinatingly complex heroine in Rose Gold - you will be both horrified by and rooting for her

A stunning exploration of love, revenge, and the devastating impact of childhood trauma. It's dark, disturbing and utterly gripping

I absolutely devoured it! It's right up my street and I couldn't get enough of Patti and Rose Gold, alternating my opinion of them at the same speed that I was turning the pages! A fabulous read!

Superb! And seriously twisted. This book will play with your mind...then STAY on your mind. Compelling and very, very clever

Two extraordinary narrators drive the nail-biting action in this sensational, compulsively readable debut. A tour de force of captivating psychological suspense

An original, stunning debut! Masterful crafting of a split time-frame and utterly compelling characters will hook readers from the very first page until they finally learn the truth hiding within this chilling mother-daughter relationship. An intelligent, beguiling read that should be at the top of every reader's list

More than a page-turner-although it's undoubtably that - The Recovery of Rose Gold plumbs the depths of this poisoned mother-daughter relationship, asking probing questions about why we all hurt the ones we love. An explosive debut from a thrilling new voice

A blackly comic and original novel with a fascinatingly complex heroine in Rose Gold - you will be both horrified by and rooting for her

Wrobel has crafted two gloriously complex characters who will swing the reader between horrified disbelief and empathy in the turn of a single page. Wrobel uses witty writing and clever plotting to ensure the reader will fly through the pages in search of the truth. It takes profound skill to craft such a twisty and darkly entertaining read, and Wrobel does it in her debut as deftly as only the best thriller writers can do

Intelligent. Highly disturbing

Very rarely does a book like The Recovery of Rose Gold come along . . . this is a book that wastes no time in enticing in a reader and keeping them guessing until the very last page

Sinister and chilling . . . The writing flows beautifully and I felt like each character was confiding in me, trusting me with their secrets. I loved every bit of this thrilling story and the ending was brilliant and perfect. It's an amazing debut looking at the tangled web of a controlling mother/daughter relationship and a must read in my opinion

Taut, twisted and with two terrifically toxic narrators, this thriller offers a wonderfully wicked perspective on complicated mother-daughter relationships. Gripping

Striking. Unsettling yet compelling reading

It will make you laugh on one page, exhibiting the darkest of humour, and then make you shudder at the very next

A gritty story of truth and fantasy

Must read

I haven't come across two more unbalanced characters in books than this mother and daughter

Horribly riveting. At times I wanted to, but I could not put it down

Wrobel's claustrophobic debut explores the sinister subject of parents who deliberately make their children ill . . . Find out who's manipulating who in this clever chiller

Deliciously icy. Wrobel's cleverly constructed plot twists and turns, undermining any sense of integrity the minute you catch a glimpse of it

Absorbing, beautifully written

A masterful interrogation of a family's undoing ... and a ruthless examination of the pieces left behind

Dramatic and compelling ... a whodunit and a Greek tragedy all in one ... absolutely riveting

Nugent excels at creating a shocking story of a horrible family with huge issues and complexities that keep you hooked to the end