In a Dark, Dark Wood

[A] chilling psychological thriller...a tense, claustrophobic marriage of secrets, tequila shots and shotguns

Sunday Express

If the premise might be the sort that Agatha Christie would have toyed with had she been a 21st-century graduate, Ware’s analysis of the power-games some women revel in – and the toxicity in the undertow of some female friendships – is more reminiscent of Sophie Hannah, Christobel Kent, or even Gillian Flynn and Harriet Lane

Patricia Nicol, Independent

You won’t be able to put down this creepy page-turner

Closer

Thrilling, gripping & well-written

Metro, Book of the Week

Toxic friendships, an isolated house, a dark snowy wood... Everyone's worst nightmare, and the perfect ingredients for this tense, terrifying novel

Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go

This is one of the hottest crime debuts around, one that does for friendship what Gone Girl did for marriage

Netgalley

So gripping. So glad my hen do days are behind me. It’s going to be huge

Tamar Cohen, author of Dying for Christmas and The Broken

Ruth Ware has written an exciting, and in fact amazing book that never stops circling around behind the reader and clapping its cold hands over her eyes

Peter Straub, NYT bestselling author of Ghost Story and A Dark Matter

I raced through this, totally unable to put it down. It’s gripping from start to finish: slick plotting, sharp twists and a pitch-perfect understanding of the many unique ways in which female friends hurt one another. Dark, smart and compulsive

Nicci Cloke, author of Lay Me Down