Stunning psychological suspense debut in the vein of Barbara Vine and Tana French.
By the end of that summer, two people would be dead... Fans of In A Dark Dark Wood and The Couple Next Door will love this twisty thriller.
I have given up so much and done so many terrible things already for the sake of my family that I can only keep going.
I do not know what is going to happen to us.
I am frightened, but I feel strong.
I have the strength of a woman who has everything to lose.
In the sweltering summer of 1997, strait-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress.
She was quickly drawn into Biba's world, and for a while life was one long summer of love.
But every summer must end. By the end of theirs, two people were dead - and now Karen's past has come back to haunt her . . .
STONE MOTHERS, the new novel by Erin Kelly, is available to buy now!
"A terrific suspense debut, reminiscent of another British woman's auspicious bow: Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca . . . This one gets the writer's ultimate bit of praise: I wish I had written it." - Stephen King
"A beautifully crafted, evocative psychological thriller . . . dark, poetic, gripping, totally brilliant." - The Times
"Unusually good . . . an author who instinctively knows how to tell a suspense story (think early Barbara Vine)" - Daily Mail
"The writing is elegant, atmospheric and sophisticated." - Sophie Hannah
"Brilliant! THE POISON TREE grabs you with the first sentence and doesn't let go--even after the last page; this is the sort of thriller that stays with you for a long, long time. Compelling and lyrically stylish, THE POISON TREE is a true winner!" - Jeffery Deaver
"A brilliant new voice in crime fiction . . . Kelly creates an atmosphere as claustrophobic as a summer commute, which permeates the narrative and keeps the reader hooked." - Stylist
"A tense, twisting thriller . . . Atmospheric and gripping, it will keep you guessing to the end" - Cosmopolitan
"The dark world of psychological thrillers has a bright new voice . . . [a] twisted, brooding, creepy debut." - Daily Mirror
"In her compelling debut, Erin Kelly evokes the brooding atmosphere of Rebecca, in a contemporary and completely convincing novel of tangled family desires." - Sara Paretsky
"THE POISON TREE has a nicely claustrophobic cape wrapped round it . . . the novel's a clever tease, the pay-off more than worth it" - Time Out
