"Mind games and cunning betrayals link Salisbury, England's quaint cathedral closes with sun-drenched Arles, France, in this well-constructed psychological thriller. For fans of Carol Goodman and Mary Higgins Clark." — Booklist
“Shemilt injects a great deal of suspense into her narrative in both time frames, even as her fluid prose eloquently captures a mother’s grief and painful journey to self-awareness.” — Booklist on The Daughter
“Jenny is a strong believable character…[her] journey is a memorable one.” — Publishers Weekly on The Daughter
“BRILLIANT, and frighteningly credible, partly because the characters are so beautifully realized. Exquisitely written, utterly gripping and almost unbearably tense—you'll be thinking about it long after you read the final page.” — Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Hunting Party, on The Playground
"Countless psychological thrillers get compared to Big Little Lies; Shemilt is the real deal." — People on The Playground
"Beautifully written and suffused with dread. Jane Shemilt's domestic settings are seductively vivid, and the final outcome is profoundly shocking and terrifying." — Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author of To Tell You the Truth, on The Playground
“Beautifully crafted… a tautly coiled spring of suspicion and suspense which builds to a devastating ending.” — Daily Mail (London)