The Stopped Heart

It’s the sort of book you cannot put down, partly because it is so addictive and partly because if you do put it down, you know you will spend the next few hours startling at every creaking door… It really is unremittingly, heart-stoppingly dark.

Viv Groskop, Observer

The German word unheimlich captures best what Myerson writes about so well: that eerie sense when something is both familiar and unfamiliar. The English word for that is 'uncanny'.

Katherine Weber, New York Times

Filled with darkness… An unsettling and disturbing tale.

Beth Jones, Sunday Telegraph

There’s a rhythm to these purposeful leaps between past and present that becomes part of the experience of reading this increasingly gripping novel.... The German word unheimlich captures best what Myerson writes about so well: that eerie sense when something is both familiar and unfamiliar

New York Times

Myerson evokes mystery and madness, with glimpses into devastating events, the full extent of which are slowly and skilfully uncovered.

Hannah Nathanson, Vogue

I raced through this compelling story of parental heartbreak interspersed with the unravelling a century-old crime.

Cathy Rentenbrink, Bookseller

The story is heart wrenching, unremittingly grisly… A thriller and…a page-turner… The Stopped Heart exposes the flesh of the lives cut in half, the pain and loves of the past, and why they are no less real than the present.

Heloise Wood, Independent on Sunday

Darkness courses through Myerson’s psychological horror novel.

Francesca Angelini, Sunday Times

A brilliantly unsettling read. Myerson’s elegant prose creates a suffocating feeling of dread as the psychological consequences of loss and violence are mercilessly revealed.

Eithne Farry, Mail on Sunday