ErinKelly

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

- The Times

Brilliant! THE POISON TREE grabs you with the first sentence and doesn't let go — even after the last page; this is the sort of thriller that stays with you for a long, long time. Compelling and lyrically stylish, THE POISON TREE is a true winner!

- Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Edge and The Burning Wire

Intoxicating...Kelly gives readers a compelling creeper that intelligently invokes the conventions of the Gothic [and] offers the twisted pleasures of vengeance within its eerie narrative.

- Washington Post

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

[An] intriguing and well-written mystery.

- Washington Times

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

Ingeniously plotted and masterfully told, THE POISON TREE is an outstanding debut from Erin Kelly. A spellbinding tale of murder, guilt, and obsession, it will hold readers in suspense from the first sentence until the final shocking twist.

- Stefanie Pintoff, Edgar-award winning author of In the Shadow of Gotham and A Curtain Falls

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

Kelly deftly weaves past and present in her highly satisfying debut…the tension never wanes, and the ensuring horror comes as a major shock. The surprises don't end until the last page of this twisted tale with its wonderfully evocative London atmosphere.

- Publishers Weekly

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