The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly

  • A beautifully crafted, evocative psychological thriller...A dark, poetic, gripping, totally brilliant Brideshead Revisited for the 21st century.

    - The Times

  • An unusually good debut psychological thriller from an author who instinctively knows how to tell a suspense story and whose plotting, characterisation, fluent writing and dark humour should ensure her a successful career.

    - Daily Mail

  • Tense and menacing right from page one, filled with foreboding and a terrible sense of the inevitable. Kelly builds a feeling of claustrophobia and of seemingly ordinary people driven to do extraordinary things. It's a gripping psychological thrill...and I expect the author to go far.

    - Bookseller

  • In her compelling debut, Erin Kelly evokes the brooding atmosphere of Rebecca in a contemporary and completely convincing novel of tangled family desires.

    - Sara Paretsky

  • The spirit of Daphne Du Maurier hangs heavily over Kelly's debut novel, from the gloomy old Highgate house where the heroine is lured to the unnerving, claustrophobic denouement. A taut chamber-piece of psychological suspense.

    - Financial Times

  • A wonderfully tense and foreboding thriller that is at the same time a clever, considered study of desire and a good old-fashioned page-turner.

    - Psychologies

  • A brilliant new voice in crime fiction... Kelly expertly builds up the suspense... For a debut, The Poison Tree is extremely accomplished - Kelly creates an atmosphere as claustrophobic as a summer commute, which permeates the narrative and keeps the reader hooked.

    - Stylist

  • Weaving tangled webs, this is a gripping psychological thriller with believable characters and a fine sense of time and place. It will keep you intrigued from the menacing prologue to the defiant ending.

    - Choice

  • The dark world of the psychological thriller has a bright new voice.

    - Daily Mirror

  • Spooky... I absolutely loved it.

    - Alex Heminsley, BBC 6music

  • With forensic attention to detail, this mystery is all-consumingly addictive.

    - Easy Living

  • A tense, twisting thriller...Atmospheric and gripping, it will keep you guessing the the end.

    - Cosmopolitan

  • A psychological thriller that will give you chills.

    - Red

  • A gripping debut, this thriller has a creeping sense of unease.

    - Bella

  • A really great read.

    - Good Housekeeping

  • Tense to the end.

    - Woman & Home

  • Gripping...you won't put it down.

    - Look

  • An enjoyable excursion into territory first colonised by Barbara Vine.

    - Literary Review

  • Terrifically vivid, beautifully written.

    - www.crimesquad.com

  • An elegant and sophisticated writer, great on sense of place.

    - Sophie Hannah

The Poison Tree: Out now