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The Verdict
Oct 28, 2024 12:19 AM

Author:James Patterson

The Verdict

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.

A woman violently attacked in her bed.

A billionaire businessman on trial at The Old Bailey.

As the world’s press gather outside London’s luxurious Tribeca hotel, can Jon Roscoe protect his own family from the terrifying consequences of the verdict?

Reviews

Detective Inspector Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years

—— Jeffery Deaver

Page-turningly chilling

—— The Times

DI Helen Grace is a genuinely fresh heroine ... Arlidge weaves together a tapestry that chills to the bone

—— Daily Mail

This is going to be as big as Jo Nesbo

—— Judy Finnigan

Taut, fast-paced, truly excellent

—— Sun

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

—— Lisa Gardner

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

—— Daily Mail

Chilling stuff

—— Fabulist

A chilling read

—— My Weekly

A grisly, gripping thriller

—— Sunday Mirror

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

—— Sunday Sport

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

—— Will Lavender

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

—— Jake Kerridge , Sunday Express

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

—— Tim Stanley , Literary Review

Page-turning heaven

—— Alice Jones , Independent

Slick and fast-paced

—— Express

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

—— Emma Curtis, author of One Little Mistake

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

—— Dinah Jefferies

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!

—— Ava Marsh, author of UNTOUCHABLE

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

—— Luana Lewis

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

—— Sanjida Kay, author of Bone by Bone

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

—— Take A Break

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

—— Tweet from Eva Dolan

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

—— Tweet from Mark Edwards

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

—— Laura Kasischke, author of The Raising

Compulsively readable…. It actually hurt to put it down

—— JOY FIELDING, New York Times bestselling author of Now You See Her

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

—— Bustle

A gripping, down-the-rabbit-hole thriller

—— Entertainment Weekly (US)

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

—— People Magazine (US)

[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

—— Entertainment Weekly (US)

distinctive, intelligent and unpredictable

—— The Times

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

—— NPR.org

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

—— Irish Times

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

—— USA Today

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

—— Financial Times

[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

—— GQ.com

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

—— Huffington Post

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

—— The Good Book Guide

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

—— New York Times

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

—— Tweet from Armistead Maupin

it's BLIDDY FABLISS, isn't it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this

—— Tweet from Marian Keyes

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 . . .

—— Ryan Tubridy

Agatha Christie meets Rear Window...a taut psychological thriller that's chockful of chilling twists.

—— Mail on Sunday, Events Magazine

Clever, exciting and full of twists, this is undoubtedly the cream of this year's crop

—— Daily Mail

Unputdownable . . . the new literary sensation . . . nothing short of sensational

—— Daily Mail

...this unusual clammy-palmed thriller.

—— THE TIMES

Hawkins juggles perspectives and timescales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual central character.

—— GUARDIAN
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