The Girl on the Stairs

Brilliantly atmospheric, the tension builds until you are chilled to the core

Good Housekeeping

A taut narrative that plays with our sense of what's real. Brilliant

Red

'A stylish and violent Berlin-set thriller'

Guardian

'The Girl on the Stairs feels like a ghost story. Taking place in a haunted city, the book's knowing evocation of Don't Look Now, Du Maurier's Venice-set story, is sharpened by the fact that this mother is not grieving the loss of a child but anticipating a birth. Yet what Welsh knows, and brings to a bloody conclusion, is that no supernatural manifestation of our darkest hours is any match for what real human beings can do to each other'

Guardian

'An outstanding work of psychological suspense that will thrill Welsh's existing fans and earn her many more'

Daily Record

'A portrait of a city haunted by its past, with nods to Don't Look Now and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, it's a profoundly creepy read'

Guardian Books of the Year 2012

Welsh skilfully exposes Jane's growing obsession in a tale that becomes more compelling with every shocking twist

Psychologies

A highly effective mystery, told by the kind of unreliable narrator able to rival the very best at keeping you guessing

Scotsman

'We've come to expect two things from Welsh: a brilliant sense of location and knuckle-whitening suspense . . . Superbly entertaining'

Saga

'Wonderfully atmospheric'

List

'Both chilling and disturbing insights into the female psyche'

Scotsman

A masterclass in sustained tension and hold-your-breath suspense

Bookseller

'The uncertainties and ambiguities kept me guessing to the end . . . The Girl on the Stairs is a dark, psychological thriller, full of atmosphere and claustrophobic tension. I really enjoyed it'

booksplease.org

'Edgy, tense and a real page-turner'

Woman

'A clever Rear Window type thriller . . . You won't be able to put this book down until the very end when there is a surprising twist. I was left with an uncomfortable feeling at the end and am still thinking about this book days after I finished it'

novelfriends.com

'A dark haunting novel. The story builds and as the tension incrases I enjoyed it more and more, and felt it got better and better until I was gripped . . . It's a fairly short novel, written in spare prose with evocative descriptive passages and effective dialogue that always adds to the plot progression'

thelittlereaderlibrary.blogspot.co.uk

'This was everything I could have ever hoped for in a thriller/fiction-type book'

edelwaugh.blogspot.co.uk

'Crime fiction may have its prize-winner at last'

Independent on THE CUTTING ROOM

'A fast-paced read...this is definately a must read novel for fans of mystery or psychology'

Ialwaysbelievedinfutures.blogspot

'The Girl on the Stairs is a gritty, psychological thriller with plenty of suspense, tension and mystery. The twists and turns will have you believing Jane one minute and thinking she's mad the next. A definite page-turner and an excellent read'

NotesofLife.co.uk

'Fewer contemporary novelists write as well as Welsh, and fewer British writers stand equal to her narrative ease'

Irish Times on NAMING THE BONES

Welsh heaps on the tension, chapter by chapter, in this enthralling read

Vogue on Naming the Bones

Gripping story, shrewd characterisation, humour, eroticism, the macabre ... a spattering of gore

Scottish Review of Books on Naming the Bones

Plenty of thrilling tricks and turns

The Observer on The Bullet Trick

The action never flags for a minute

Sunday Telegraph on The Bullet Trick

Keeps its secrets and tricks and, above all, its reader, hectically on the run

Irish Times on The Bullet Trick

A fast-paced and sparkling story

The Herald on Tamburlaine Must Die

Utterly engrossing. I read it in a sitting, unable to put it down

The Sunday Telegraph on Tamburlaine Must Die

A rocket-propelled novella

The List on Tamburlaine Must Die

A page-turner to the very end

The Sunday Herald on Tamburlaine Must Die

The sort of narrative you can smell on your hands after turning the pages

Literary Review on Tamburlaine Must Die

Intriguing, assured and unputdownable

The Sunday Times on The Cutting Room

It twists to the sort of climax Rilke would recognise; brief but fulfilling

The Times on The Cutting Room

I was hooked from page one

The Guardian on The Cutting Room