Tall Bones

Anna Bailey's debut is irresistible, a compelling and nuanced psychological thriller suffused with small town prejudice and dark family secrets.

PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train

Tall Bones is as atmospheric as it gets. Anna writes beautifully and it was so refreshing to experience a different voice - a stunning debut that delivers on every level. Reminded me of Jane Harper's The Dry.

RENEE KNIGHT, author of Disclaimer

Chilling and compulsive... a dazzling debut.

KATE HAMER, author of The Girl in the Red Coat

Brilliant! Could not put it down. It's utterly gripping and beautifully written.

KATIE FFORDE

An elegant, mesmerizing debut-Anna Bailey explores festering secrets with a with a sharp, yet tender gaze. This book reads like a whisper in the dark.

DANYA KUKAFKA, author of Girl in Snow

Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets.

TAMMY COHEN, author of Stop At Nothing

With Tall Bones, Anna Bailey bursts onto the scene with a wonderfully haunting debut. Small-town intrigue, exquisitely drawn.

JANE HARPER, author of The Dry and The Lost Man

An intricate and compelling thriller, beautifully nuanced. Brilliant.

SJ WATSON, author of Before I Go to Sleep

I felt so strongly about some of the characters that I had to check the ending to make sure they were ok! Extremely well written... fantastic.

HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange

A terrific debut about guilt, secrets and complex family dynamics - the writing is vivid & assured: Anna Bailey is definitely one to watch.

LUCY ATKINS, author of Magpie Lane

Gripping and so beautifully written Tall Bones is spellbinding; dark and menacing, but also so full of love and hope. I loved it. I cried.

CRESSIDA McLAUGHLIN, author of The Cornish Cream Tea Christmas

'A clever, twisting debut about the dark side of small town America. It is packed with secrets like firecrackers ready to ignite.'

FRANCINE TOON, author of Pine

Anna Bailey writes like a dream about teenage love and lust, the terror of knowledge and the claustrophobia of families and of small towns.

EMMA FLINT, author of Little Deaths

Simmering resentments and long-held prejudices boil over in this beautifully realised evocation of small-town America. I I loved it.

Kate Riordan, author of The Heatwave

The best kind of small-town crime novel... one that drips with atmosphere. Bailey has penned a compulsive literary crime-drama about love, guilt, trauma, intolerance and the consequences of religious devotion... an intricately weaved and haunting story that will stay with you for days after.

Culturefly

A nuanced thriller that will haunt you long after you race through its pages.

GRAZIA

Fast paced and moving.

LITERARY REVIEW

Both menacing and haunting, a compelling and atmospheric debut.

DAILY MAIL

Beautifully written and very moving, this is an assured debut.

Laura Wilson, GUARDIAN

This is a striking first novel, a chilling insight into an oppressive world, where bad thoughts and bad deeds ripple just below the surface, out of sight.

Alison Flood, OBSERVER

One of the most exciting debuts of the year.

OK magazine

Spellbinding and darkly beautiful.... intricately plotted and exquisitely written, Tall Bones is a stunning debut.

WOMEN & HOME

One of the most exciting debuts of the year.

SUNDAY EXPRESS

Cleverly written, Anna Bailey's debut shines a light on the darker and more oppressive side of small-town society.

INDEPENDENT

Bailey writes with perfect poise. She is destined for great things - I feel it in my bones.

SAGA magazine

Haunting... Emma's path to where the truth lies will carry the reader's soul along in both moving and compassionate ways.

Maxim Jakubowski, CRIME TIME

Its portrait of small-town intrigue is scarily credible. Bailey understands that the dynamics that drive small-town relationships are the same the world over.

VAL McDERMID