Press Reviews

• The Times

  Praise for Colette McBeth: 'Colette McBeth delivers twists and shocks with superb timing. An impressive debut'

• Sunday Express

  'An excellent storyteller... Precious Thing is more than deserving of a place on the modern thriller bookshelf'

• Literary Review

  'An interesting and original page-turner'

• Sunday Mirror

  'A cleverly crafted tale... If you're a fan of Gone Girl, you'll love this'

• Fabulousmag.co.uk

  'Precious Thing is one of my top five books of 2013. Truthfully, I would go on for hours about what I loved about this psychologically disturbing, thoroughly readable, cleverly written book'

• Lovereading.co.uk

  'A great debut, menacing, gripping and full of twists and surprises... This is one of those incredibly compelling stories that simply drags you along, whether you like it or not. Highly recommended'

• Paula Hawkins, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

  The Life I Left Behind is a rare thing; a well-paced, meticulously-researched thriller which is not just gripping but compassionate, too

• Marian Keyes

  Absolutely amazing. Grip-Lit of the highest order. Brilliant.

• Sun

  One of the best books of the year

• Woman & Home

  This intriguing and twisty thriller kept me reading into the night

• Fabulous

  A creepy and clever thriller

• Independent

  McBeth's is a much better realisation of the same theme [as The Lovely Bones] and, psychologically, by far the more interesting accomplishment

• Irish Times

  If a more affecting psychological thriller is published this year, it will be a very good book indeed

• Heat

  Dark and clever murder tale with a twist

• Glamour

  McBeth pulls it off with aplomb

• Jill Mansell

  Completely brilliant

• Lucy Diamond

  Fantastic

• Marian Keyes

  Guardian

  Lots of women published great, grippy thrillers this year - Colette McBeth's The Life I Left Behind (Headline Review) is one of the best. The plot is taut and compelling, the writing excellent, but it's the exciting narrative structure that sets it apart - a three-strand storyline, one told by a woman who has already been murdered.