A paranoid, sarcastic and clattering pop thriller that reads as if it were torn from the damp pages of Glenn Greenwald's fever journal ... Reading [Shafer's] prose is like popping a variant of the red pill in The Matrix: everything gets a little crisper

Genius techno-­thriller à la Neal Stephenson, powered by social-media info-conspiracy à la Dave Eggers

[It's] possible that Shafer is remaking the international thriller... An edgy, darkly comedic debut novel whose characters and premise are as up-to-the-minute as an online news feed

The book's fanciful premise comes to seem eerily plausible: 'How about if a shadow government is filing away everything about you?'

Smart and often very funny ... Shafer etches diamond-sharp and precisely observed contemporary satire

A stylish, absorbing, sharply modern hybrid of techno-thriller and psychodrama that bristles with wit and intellect

Moving, funny, engrossing and blisteringly smart

It is a joy to watch Shafer seamlessly work incisive commentary on contemporary life into a fast-paced spine-chiller

Exciting, funny, moving and thought-provoking

Among the hair-raising flights of fancy and irresistibly urgent plotting, Shafer alights on most of the key issues of the privacy debate ... Shafer's prose is whip-smart, funny and informal

A fine example of what happens when big, brainy ideas are successfully mated with good old-fashioned plot thrust ... [Shafer] makes you care for his characters, even the ones with First World problems, while threading chewy techno-philosophical ideas through stretches of masterfully maintained suspense, paid off by big event-driven set-pieces (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot sometimes reads like William Gibson indulging his love of Le Carré). More, he can return the weariest soul to that glorious state of teenage binge-reading, when you'd stay up until two in the morning ... simply to find out what happens next. ... The next time the Fiction is Dead brigade demand to know why novels deserve a place in popular culture, the constant reader might well cite this book as Exhibit A for the defence

an incredible and multi-layered story woven to perfection by the author. Overall the book feels very authentic… The writing here is superb, very descriptive and of a very high quality I'd say it's one of the best written books that I've read so far this year. I will definitely be keeping an eye out for more from this author in the future… told in an intelligent and gripping way. Not a book to miss this one and very highly recommended

It may be McHugh’s debut psychological crime novel, but in my book, The Weight of Blood, puts this talented writer up there with the best of them. Inspired by a true story that took place in the town in the Ozark Mountains where McHugh spent part of her childhood, this gripping thriller bravely confronts the scandalous treatment of young women in modern-day America… A compulsive debut filled with suspense, this book leaves me wanting more from McHugh

A chilling psychological thriller with two distinct strands... This is tense, atmospheric stuff well told, an impressive debut

One of my favourite reads of last year, this is a well-written cleverly plotted and chilling story

Absorbing . . . refreshingly unconventional

A real page-turner.

a wholly original writer.

A thrilling plot, full of suspense.

Claustrophobic, compulsive and gripping

I read Disclaimer in two sittings . . . It's that good. . . The premise is the star of the show but Knight's success lies in keeping her plot, characterisation and unpredictability up to that same standard.

A fine example of the genre . . . unbearably tense

An unsettling page-turner of The Girl on the Train variety that wil live on in readers' imaginations

A faultlessly constructed, page-turning debut, Disclaimer delivers its twists and surprises with ease. It is both clever and moving, and I'm full of admiration.

It's Disclaimer that turns out to be the Gone Girl of the season

An ingenious and involving tale and a very successful first novel

Fiendishly clever

Renee Knight's stunning debut is a thriller with a particularly literary flavour, but also with a heart. Best enjoyed slowly, with no skipping to the heart-wrenchign conclusion. Terrific.

A deeply probing, intense psychological thriller that was gripping and very difficult to put down

Disclaimer forms a trinity alongside Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train as the best of domestic noir . . . Disclaimer will be climbing the bestseller list

An original plot, well-paced to its unexpected climax

A highly assured debut novel with a cracking premise . . . a remarkable well written page turner

A superior piece of dark emotional fiction that will get under your skin.

Plunges us into our worst nightmare - somebody knows our darkest secret, and they're sharing it

A finely crafted puzzle box

A brilliant premise, superbly executed. I love this book

fantastic - was absolutely gripped. Great idea, could not put it down.

Disclaimer is a real one-nighter

It's knockout

The marvel of the new suspense novel “Disclaimer” is that it lives up to its unusually gripping premise.
Disclaimer forms a trinity alongside “Gone Girl” and the “The Girl on the Train” as the best of domestic noir. That this is a first novel from Renee Knight, a British television screenwriter, makes her sure hand with what’s sinister that much more stunning.

A sensational psychological thriller

excellent debut

This bestseller is definitely one of the best thrillers of 2015.

More original and sophisticated than your average psychological thriller, Renée Knight's DISCLAIMER is an accomplished and addictive tale.