Critics Review

• A rich mix of the dark and the diverting. Brilliantly believable

  Sunday Times

• Another triumph for one of the very best crime writers out there. Stunningly clever and compelling.

  Heat

• Hannah excels at dissecting human behaviour, and the way she describes little acts of cruelty can send real chills down the spine.

  Psychologies

• Cool, calculating and utterly chilling, KIND OF CRUEL is another compulsive book from Hannah, to be gulped down with all the lights on and someone to grab when the sense of menace grows too great.

  Observer

• Hannah has outdone herself with KIND OF CRUEL . . . Her trademark precision-layered structure creates a multi-dimensional maze that holds at its centre a revelation which is truly hair-raising, even by Hannah’s standards.

  Independent on Sunday

• An audacious puzzle of a novel that is impossible to second guess . . . Crime novels are often dismissed in literary circles for not being literary enough. Yet KIND OF CRUEL is exactly the intelligent, reflective and stunningly written novel that has “literary” critics swooning and judging panels lining up to reward.

  Sunday Express

• Hannah concocts a mystery of satisfying complexity in which frequent clichés of the genre (the locked room, for example) are turned inside out. If that were all her novels did, they would be admirably cerebral but uninvolving. Unfortunately for her rivals, Hannah does texture, depth and character with similar panache.

  Scotsman

• Intricately plotted and pleasingly sinister . . . guaranteed to get under the skin.

  Good Housekeeping

• A terrific reading experience. Everybody loves Sophie Hannah.

  Gaby Logan Show, BBC Radio 5

• ‘A writer of prodigious talent . . . This is a jaw-droppingly assured book which sometimes feels as if there’s a plot twist on every page . . . This reader was left speechless with admiration . . . a truly sensational book.’

  Daily Express on LASTING DAMAGE

• One of the great unmissables of this genre – intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully Gothic imagination.

  The Times

• ‘A remarkable novel, and an adventure to read . . . A first-class whodunit that will keep you reading long into the night.’

  Scotsman on A ROOM SWEPT WHITE

• For those who demand emotional intelligence and literary verve from their thrillers, Sophie Hannah is the writer of choice.

  Guardian

• ‘Hannah excels at dissecting human behaviour, and the way she describes little acts of cruelty can send real chills down the spine.’

  Psychologies

• ‘Intricately plotted and pleasingly sinister, it’s guaranteed to get under the skin’

  Good Housekeeping

• ‘Fast-paced prose makes this a suspense-filled page-turner with a vividly unsettling atmosphere.’

  The List

• ‘This taut, intelligent psychological thriller . . . opens up a lot for reading groups to get their teeth into . . . intensely satisfying personal read.’

  New Books magazine

• ‘[Sophie Hannah] has perfected the psychological thriller, always with strong female characters, and always with a high degree of edge-of-the-seat peril.’

  Bookseller

• An exploration of memory and the way trauma lives on in the present. Cool, calculating and utterly chilling, KIND OF CRUEL is another compulsive book from Hannah, to be gulped down with all the lights on and someone to grab when the sense of menace grows too great.

  The Observer

• [Hannah] has outdone herself with KIND OF CRUEL . . . Her trademark precision-layered structure creates a multi-dimensional maze that holds at its centre a revelation which is truly hair-raising, even by Hannah’s standards.

  Independent on Sunday

• An audacious puzzle of a novel that is impossible to second guess . . . Crime novels are often dismissed in literary circles for not being literary enough. Yet KIND OF CRUEL is exactly the intelligent, reflective and stunningly written novel that has “literary” critics swooning and judging panels lining up to reward. The fact that it has a police investigation at its heart is a plus, not a minus, and makes for one hell of a journey.

  Sunday Express