This Is How It Ends: The most critically acclaimed crime thriller of 2018 - Tapa dura

Anyone wanting smart and compelling crime fiction with razor-sharp social comment should read Eva Dolan. In fact, EVERYONE should read her (Mark Billingham)

It couldn't be more timely. Or more imbued with passion (Val McDermid)

Terrific...A haunting novel about friendship, suspicion and betrayal (Sunday Times, Crime Book of the Month)

Stupendous. The thriller comes of age (Sarah Hilary, winner of the Theakston Crime Book of the Year Award)

A thoroughly contemporary and distinctively intelligent thriller (Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week)

Dolan is expert at the orchestration of tension, right up to the vertiginous climax (Barry Forshaw Guardian)

Expect clever plotting, complex characters and the best book yet from an author at the top of her game (Lisa Gray Daily Record)

I absolutely loved it. I don't think there's another crime writer around at the moment who's engaging so passionately with urgent social issues, and creating such thrilling drama out of them (Mick Herron, author of the Jackson Lamb series)

A tense, intelligent, politically charged thriller, expertly crafted by a writer at the top of her game (Mari Hannah, winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library)

Searing and uncompromising and so inventive in structure I could but marvel (Rachel Rhys, author of Dangerous Crossing)