The Vows of Silence

Delicious agony...The suspense-building techniques of Alfred Hitchcock have long been locked into Susan Hill's literary apparatus and they are given full rein here

Daily Express

Susan Hill's crime novels are getting better and better... The main plot is straightforward enough - who is the killer and will he be caught? - but the narrative is so streamlined and effective that it races beautifully along until it smacks against the buffers of an unexpected but entirely convincing ending

Spectator

It's a wonder it hasn't been snapped up for telly

Scotland on Sunday

I stayed up gone two in the morning and by the end there were tears in my eyes

Tony Clements, Daily Telegraph

Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction

P.D. James

A triumph: cunningly plotted, shrewdly characterised. Hill has an understanding of evil that is both acute and disconcerting

Philip Oakes, Literary Review

The psychology and pace of the whole - and the quality of the writing - are utterly absorbing

Leslie Geddes-Brown, Country Life

Masterly story telling from an accomplished writer

The Good Book Guide

As always, Hill creates a marvellous cast of characters with absorbing contemporary concerns

Daily Mail

A captivating read

Mary Fitzgerald, Observer

Full marks to Susan Hill for her ability to face the unfaceable

Eurocrime.co.uk