Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. She practised as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, and recently completed an MA in Creative Writing - Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia.
We Live Here Now (2025) Sarah Pinborough "Sarah Pinborough has done it again - the queen of the spooky thriller has taken on a haunted house and given it a twist all of her own. Clever, compelling and creepy, you'll never want to move to the country again!"
Fundamentally (2025) Nussaibah Younis "Loved this. Laugh out loud funny, outrageous and thought provoking - a winning combination. Highly recommend."
The Seven (2025) (Eve Wren, book 1) Robyn Delvey "I really enjoyed this. It's a cracking read - a pacy, page-turning legal thriller with a thoroughly engaging main character in Eve Wren and an intriguing central premise with the horrific actions of the Seven at the heart of the plot. I'm very much looking forward to meeting Eve again in future cases."
Notes on a Drowning (2025) Anna Sharpe "Razor-sharp writing, a gripping plot and a level of authenticity that comes straight from years of legal experience right at the coal face. Highly recommended."
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby (2024) Ellery Lloyd "Intoxicating, enthralling, compelling . . . the reclaiming of an artist's story wrapped up in a mystery with a great love story to boot. I loved it!"
Dead Mile (2024) Jo Furniss "An inventive, gripping take on a locked room mystery."
The Four (2024) Ellie Keel "Immersive academic noir set in a boarding school dominated by a toxic ruling cadre, with four teens striving for survival in the baroque horror of that claustrophobic world."
The Wrong Sister (2024) Claire Douglas "I raced through it...The solution to the mystery is so clever I was nowhere near guessing it! I loved it."
The Guest (2024) B A Paris "Expertly plotted and compellingly told - a cautionary tale that will put you off ever having anyone to stay with you again. I raced through it!"
Five Nights (2024) Rachel Wolf "Totally gripping... Succession on the high seas! A sympathetic protagonist in Emily, fabulously toxic characters in the repellant Scarmado family, a tense, claustrophobic setting and a sense of mystery from the start all add up to a compelling locked room thriller that has confirmed my view that I will never, ever go on a cruise."
The Fury (2024) Alex Michaelides "A very sophisticated book which takes the format of a classic murder mystery and elevates it to something very devious and clever indeed. The narrator is fabulous - I was throughly gripped by his voice and it seems to have been written with great glee. There's such a tremendous complicity to it even though the reader has no idea how much of what he's telling is true, even down to the final pages. The way it reveals itself through the layers of the narrative is very well done indeed."
First Lie Wins (2024) Ashley Elston "I really enjoyed this - very unexpected and pacy with a brilliant central character."
Reasonable People (2023) Caroline Hulse "Caroline's wit and warmth shine through - I went from laughing to crying to laughing again in the space of almost a page. The characterisation is spot on - I have friends like Janine and Roy is a treat. Such a great book."
The Square of Sevens (2023) Laura Shepherd-Robinson "This is a book to relish, not rush through. Rich in historical detail, it's immersive, authoritative and Dickensian in scope. Fundamentally though it's a damn good story, brilliantly told. I loved it."
Speak of the Devil (2023) Rose Wilding "A dark and distressing story handled with a lightness of touch - it's a very accomplished debut. It centres the survivors of abuse in the story, rather than the perpetrator, showing the awful ripple effects of violence and misogyny but also providing a level of hope, especially given that the story starts with the villain's head on a platter. I loved it."
Thirty Days of Darkness (2023) Jenny Lund Madsen "I loved it! Dark and atmospheric. I found it a bleak and beautiful evocation of Iceland, and Hannah is a pitch-perfect depiction of the bombastic neurosis that we writers know so very well, on top of which the mystery of the murder that pulled me in from the start."
You Can Run (2023) Trevor Wood "Fast paced and gripping but with a heart of solid gold. Great stuff."
One Moment (2023) Becky Hunter "Fantastic. Incredibly moving and very thoughtfully written."
Mother's Day (2023) Abigail Burdess "Mother's Day is terrific. So dark, so twisted and one of the most batsh*t crazy characters you'll ever meet in Marlene."
Freeze (2023) Kate Simants "Brilliant - creepily atmospheric and incredibly tense. The characterisation is fantastic and it cuts as cold as the Arctic in which it's set. Highly recommended."
The Close (2023) (Maeve Kerrigan, book 10) Jane Casey "I loved the simmering tension between the main characters, the tightly plotted mystery and the way that the darkness grew relentlessly to take over seemingly perfect suburbs - a brilliant example of nothing being as it seems."
The Book of Eve (2023) Meg Clothier "What an extraordinary book - rich in historical detail and full of esoteric knowledge yet wearing its learning lightly while tapping into a rage that's universal at men's endless attempts to control the doings and thinkings of women. It's an education hidden in a tense, compelling, anger-driven narrative, Beatrice and Diana both knock-out characters. No mean feat!"
Other Women (2023) Emma Flint "It is brilliant. I was swept up in a turmoil of emotion as I read. This is a book that starts as a love story and turns into something much darker indeed."
The Garnett Girls (2023) Georgina Moore "The perfect holiday read and a slice of pure escapism. I was drawn into the world of The Garnett Girls, a compelling story full of warmth and shade, and characters that I'd love to party with in real life. Like the best of Rosamund Pilcher."
Needless Alley (2023) (William Garrett, book 1) Natalie Marlow "A Chandleresque hard-boiled detective novel with an atmospheric, horrifying feel all of its own. Tightly plotted and beautifully written, a world of Blackshirts and misogyny with a flawed, human detective who I took straight to my heart."
The Black Dog (2022) Kevin Bridges "I've just finished THE BLACK DOG with a massive lump in my throat - what a brilliant book. Touching, raucous, visceral and really funny with some moments of real profundity."
Truly, Darkly, Deeply (2022) Victoria Selman "Original and clever - an incredibly tense read which pulled me inexorably along to its chilling denouement."
That Green Eyed Girl (2022) Julie Owen Moylan "I loved this. Dovie and Ava are both such compelling characters and the evocation of time and place so strong - I was irresistibly drawn into their stories. Sad, rage-inducing and uplifting - a very emotional read."
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (2022) Sophie Irwin "This is SO much fun. The most pleasing homage to Georgette Heyer with a thoroughly modern sensibility all of its own. Tremendous stuff."
The Hiding Place (2022) Simon Lelic "I loved this. A great police procedural centred on a boarding school with a potent mix of privilege and the fall out from toxic parenting, building up to a gripping, breathless denouement. Great stuff."
Oxblood (2022) Tom Benn "Powerful stuff and so beautifully written - like David Peace wrote Alan Warner's The Sopranos and so lyrical, too. You don't care where it's heading, you're just happy to step into the flow and let it take you. Brilliant stuff - this is really very good indeed."
Miss Aldridge Regrets (2022) (Canary Club Mystery, book 1) Louise Hare "Charming characters, a cross-Atlantic setting, jazz, cocktails, sex and a brilliant murder mystery. You couldn't ask for more! I loved it."
The Dictator's Wife (2022) Freya Berry "Excellent. Horrifying and immersive with strong characterisation and atmosphere."
The Key in the Lock (2022) Beth Underdown "The perfect read for an autumnal weekend. Atmospheric and rich with evocative detail, I found myself in tears by the end."
Vine Street (2021) Dominic Nolan "A tour de force. A brilliant marriage of tension and rich detail."
The Anomaly (2021) Hervé Le Tellier "It's a phenomenal read. I loved how it tied together. So clever yet also so gripping."
The Turnout (2021) Megan Abbott "Abbott creates a dark and mesmerising world and, as always, is so brilliant at portraying women and girls and their competition and complexities ... It makes Black Swan look like a children's story."
Down by the Water (2021) Elle Connel "Down By The Water takes the reader on a weekend trip from hell... I loved the classy writing and ever-growing sense of unease in this clever subversion of a classic country house mystery."
Jen Williams "Creepy and compelling, [Dog Rose Dirt] is a truly disturbing take on a serial killer narrative. I read it heart in mouth!"
The Therapist (2021) Helene Flood "Creepy, compelling and very well-written. The Norwegian setting and the questions it poses about crime and punishment are particularly interesting."
Anna Bailey "Tall Bones brilliantly conjures up the oppressive claustrophobia of the small town... Extremely well written... fantastic."
Greenwich Park (2021) Katherine Faulkner "Razor-sharp prose, a properly twisty set up, lots of unlikeable characters and a strong feminist undercurrent - it's got the lot! I raced through it. Absolutely loved it."
Lightseekers (2021) (Philip Taiwo, book 1) Femi Kayode "A superb novel – so inventive and so well done. It’s just brilliant."
Call Me Mummy (2021) Tina Baker "Horrifying and beautiful in equal measure, the characters truly lifelike in their all too human complexities. Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive. I loved it."
Shiver (2021) Allie Reynolds "Exhilarating. A brilliant combination of knife-sharp locked room mystery with a will they/won't storyline. So cleverly done - I felt like I was there."
The Push (2020) Claire McGowan "Huge fun with some very dark moments and brilliantly awful characters. Excellent, twisty plotting."
The Searcher (2020) (Cal Hooper, book 1) Tana French "With a tension that mounts inexorably throughout, French creates a world whose characters stay with you long after the book is finished. I didn't want it to end."
The House (2020) Imogen Robertson and Tom Watson "A rare view from the inside of the Machiavellian machinations for power . . . Fascinating."
Black Widows (2020) Cate Quinn "It's a great hook and a tremendous read - I thoroughly enjoyed this. The tension ramps up all the way to the end and I loved the relationship between the wives."
Cherry Slice (2020) (Cherry PI Mystery, book 1) Jennifer Stone "If you’re in need of comic distraction (as we all are…) this is extremely funny."
The Eighth Girl (2020) Maxine Mei-Fung Chung "Intricately plotted and sensitively written, The Eighth Girl draws the reader into the dark heart of London's underworld with relentless tension until the shock of the final reveal."
The Temple House Vanishing (2020) Rachel Donohue "Atmospheric, creepy, tense and utterly absorbing - a great literary thriller set in a Catholic girls' boarding school. Loved this."
