"A terrific suspense debut, reminiscent of another British woman's auspicious bow: Daphne DuMaurier's REBECCA. The shadows gather until the ending looms like a threatening figure. This one gets the writer's ultimate bit of praise: I wish I had written it."

- Stephen King

"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

"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

"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