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‘The Wolf Tree is a stunning debut: a wild, vivid landscape and a propulsive mystery you simply have to know the answer to. It will have you on the edge of your seat’ – Leah Pitt

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‘Laura McCluskey offers a powerful debut in this atmospheric thriller infused with unsettling folk horror tropes’ – Booklist

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‘Atmospheric and immersive … creates a mounting chill that seeps into the bones’ – M. K. Murphy

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‘An exciting new voice in crime fiction’ – Pip Drysdale

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‘Absorbing, unsettling, and deeply accomplished’ – Dervla McTiernan

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‘The Wolf Tree is an exquisitely executed tale. Laura McCluskey’s debut is a great gothic slow-burn that will keep you thinking and guessing even after you’ve reached the end’ – Louisa Luna

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‘Laura McCluskey’s thrilling debut blends detective novel and folk horror to terrific effect’ – Jennifer Thorne

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‘Mare of Easttown meets The Wickerman in Laura McCluskey’s deft, intricate, perfectly executed debut thriller’ – Nick Newman

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‘THE WOLF TREE is a marvelous mystery, rich in atmosphere and quick in pace’ – Christina Alger

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‘Congratulations to Laura on such an atmospheric story. I loved her writing style’ – Helen Cooper

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‘An impressive crime debut dripping with atmosphere and threat, Laura McCluskey’s The Wolf Tree will take you to a chilling cliff-edge of suspense, then hold you there until the very last page’ – Hannah Richell

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‘The Wolf Tree weaves a complex web of tradition, suspicion and murder … Tense and increasingly claustrophobic, The Wolf Tree is seething with atmosphere, intriguing relationships and a community determined to protect itself at all costs. Gripping’ – Heather Critchlow

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‘McCluskey is masterful at building suspense around a sense of place and a feeling of otherness’ – Kirkus Reviews

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