Gytha Lodge is a writer and multi-award-winning playwright who lives in Cambridge. After studying creative writing at UEA, she was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize and the Arts' Council England fiction awards, and developed a very large online following for her young adult and children's writing, with over five million reads accrued on platform Wattpad. She Lies in Wait is her debut novel.
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby (2024) Ellery Lloyd "A terrific, transportive read that had everything I could wish for in a mystery, all twisted up with a darkly satisfying plot that was worthy of Edgar Allen Poe. Wonderful!"
Leave No Trace (2024) (Kat and Lock, book 2) Jo Callaghan "I am rapidly becoming a huge Jo Callaghan fan. Leave No Trace was every bit as smart, compelling and insightful as her debut, and where these books really excel is in the emotional weight they bring to the thriller genre. A terrific read!"
The Grief House (2023) Rebecca Thorne "An emotional, constantly tense, scary and yet ultimately utterly human story that pulled me in and wrung me out. One of my absolute books of the year."
Five Bad Deeds (2023) Caz Frear "An utterly compelling, superbly characterised, constantly fascinating mystery. I read with my eyes inches from the pages as each new reveal unfolded, and the final reveal was superb."
Dead Man Walking (2023) (DS Rick Turner, book 1) M K Murphy "I loved this. An immediately gripping, compelling and emotionally wrought thriller where the high stakes and strong mystery never let up from first page to last. Clear your diary and get reading!"
Speak of the Devil (2023) Rose Wilding "With beautiful, gripping writing and depth, Speak of the Devil is a mesmerising, moving story that is impossible to look away from. Superb!"
Silent Waters (2023) L V Matthews "I was immediately obsessed with this brilliant, murky but warm story of deep-buried secrets and impossible choices. Gorgeously real characters and relationships and a compelling mystery with heartbreakingly high stakes. Loved it!"
Stay Buried (2022) (DI Lockyer, book 1) Kate Webb "I LOVED the book! It was such a brilliantly engaging, emotionally compelling read. I loved the complex relationship between Hedy Lambert and DI Lockyer, and the twists were terrific."
Truly, Darkly, Deeply (2022) Victoria Selman "An all-consuming, beautifully drawn thriller about love and the terrible things it can drive us to do. Absolutely compulsive reading."
Deadly Cure (2022) Mahi Cheshire "A taut, sizzling thriller with, at its heart, a friendship gone badly wrong. Addictive and brilliant."
What His Wife Knew (2022) Jo Jakeman "A totally engaging, brilliantly characterised read that had me hanging on every twist and turn. An absolute 5* cracker of a book."
The Whistling (2021) Rebecca Netley "A terrific, all-absorbing read. A wonderfully eerie haunted house set-up is given new life by brilliant, atmospheric writing, and by those rare things in any ghost story: real heart and feeling. I loved it!"
End of Summer (2020) (Seasons Quartet , book 1) Anders De La Motte "A fantastic read. Atmospheric, beautifully written, with strong characters and with a really compelling mystery that made it incredibly hard to put down when I really needed sleep! A real triumph."
The Safe Place (2020) Anna Downes "It's such a rare thing - a claustrophobic, addictive thriller that lets you actually feel for all of the characters involved."
The Dead Line (2020) (Casey Benedict, book 2) Holly Watt "A rip-roarer of a thriller that sucked me in and wouldn’t let go until the finish. Like To the Lions, The Dead Line confronts some of the worst of human nature head on, but also finds hope in the complex heroes who stand against it. In Casey Benedict, we have a brilliant creation who is relentless in her pursuit of the truth. I find myself wishing there were more Caseys in the world."
Keep Him Close (2020) Emily Koch "Keep Him Close was a magnetic, all-consuming read. A heart-breaking suspense which deals with love in all its forms, however it is expressed."
Alice Teale is Missing (2019) H A Linskey (Howard Linskey) "A brilliantly plotted, perfectly clued story of the dark power of terrible truths. Compulsive reading from page one."
