For those who demand emotional intelligence and literary verve from their thrillers, Sophie Hannah is the writer of choice. THE POINT OF RESCUE, her third, combines a creepily irresistible page-turner with an exploration of motherhood’s taboos

Tension, thy name is Sophie Hannah. In THE POINT OF RESCUE, murder, false identity and infidelity are thet tools Hannah deploys to create a plausible but edge-of-your-seat read

The tension is screwed ever tighter until the final shocking outcome

Hannah doesn’t allow the tension to slacken for a second in this addictive, brilliantly chilling thriller.

Sophie Hannah just gets better and better, with experience adding rocket fuel to her already high-octane yarns . . . Brilliantly cunning and entirely unpredictable

Sophie Hannah’s ingenious, almost surreal mysteries are so intricately constructed that it’s impossible to guess how they will end . . . A compelling and disquieting story, told with the author’s usual panache

Every so often a writer comes along whose freshness and originality blows the competition out of the water…Genuinely gripping, full of the unseen and yet fitting twists and turns that make good quality crime fiction such a pleasure

Brilliantly creepy

I’m surprised I had any nails left by the end of this addictive thriller

This disturbing tale is a cut above the average crime thriller, with an intelligent and inventive plot that raises questions about identity, guilt and the taboo of unfulfilling motherhood

A great read and an involving thriller

Hannah is an expert in creepy scenarios and plot twists that keep you guessing until the last page. The tension doesn’t slacken for a second

Hannah has established herself as a writer of offbeat thrillers that skillfully play on contemporary anxieties about motherhood and marriage. What keeps one reading is the creepy plausibility the author brings to her portrayal of a mind unhinged by the demands of parenthood

Hannah constructs a thriller that twists and turns satisfyingly through a series of ever-more surprising revelations

Statistics show that more and more women are committing acts of “family annihilation”. In THE POINT OF RESCUE Sophie Hannah tackles this distressing subject with sensitivity, while spinning a cracking story