Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect. ― STEPHEN KING

The thriller scene will have to up its game if it’s to match Hawkins this year ― Observer

A complex and increasingly chilling tale courtesy of a number of first-person narratives that will wrong-foot even the most experienced of crime fiction readers ― Irish Times

achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last ― Financial Times

Hawkins’ masterful deployment of unwittingly unreliable narration to evoke the aftershocks of abuse and trauma is a powerful way of exploring women’s marginalization ― Huffington Post

Springs new surprises on us . . .Pulses will be quickened ― The Good Book Guide

The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl ― New York Times

Halfway through and I can’t stop reading it. My kinda thriller! ― Tweet from Armistead Maupin

it’s BLIDDY FABLISS, isn’t it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this ― Tweet from Marian Keyes

The Girl on the Train is one of those delicious thrillers that can be devoured in four sittings, that’s two return journeys on a typical train trip! There’s a whiff of Agatha Christie and a dollop of Gone Girl with plenty of blind alleys that we happily wander up and get lost in. Pick it up, solve the crime and pass it on . . . ― Ryan Tubridy