This Is How It Ends - Softcover

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)

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

Superb ... Gripping ... A sad, intelligent book, with a shocking ending (The Times, Crime Book of the Month 2018-02-10)

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

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

[Dolan] excels at presenting knotty, addictive tales that also force the reader to think more widely about the way in which society treats its most vulnerable members . A wonderfully prescient premise . Dolan keeps the tension rising as she expertly juggles two distinct voices and timelines . Dolan is a master of pace . Ultimately, this smart, deftly told story resonates so strongly because of the complex, claustrophobic relationship at its heart: like Molly, we are drawn inexorably to Ella's flame, unable to step away even when it might burn (The i)

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)

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