The Life I Left Behind: A must-read taut and twisty psychological thriller - Softcover

Lots of women published great, grippy thrillers this year - Colette McBeth's The Life I Left Behind (Headline Review) is one of the best. The plot is taut and compelling, the writing excellent, but it's the exciting narrative structure that sets it apart - a three-strand storyline, one told by a woman who has already been murdered. (Marian Keyes Guardian)

One of the best books of the year (Sun)

The Life I Left Behind is a rare thing; a well-paced, meticulously-researched thriller which is not just gripping but compassionate, too (Paula Hawkins, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN)

Absolutely amazing. Grip-Lit of the highest order. Brilliant. (Marian Keyes)

A creepy and clever thriller (Fabulous)

Dark and clever murder tale with a twist (Heat)

McBeth pulls it off with aplomb (Glamour)

This intriguing and twisty thriller kept me reading into the night (Woman & Home)

McBeth's is a much better realisation of the same theme [as The Lovely Bones] and, psychologically, by far the more interesting accomplishment (Independent)

If a more affecting psychological thriller is published this year, it will be a very good book indeed (Irish Times)