Praise for The Rabbit Club "The Rabbit Club a lively labyrinth of a novel, a fun read that nods at pop hits and dusty classics alike, and that unlocks a secret society of characters as colorful as those who populate Alice''s Wonderland. The game is afoot. and it is wicked and wild!"--Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight in Soap Lake "Diving into The Rabbit Club, a dizzying story grippingly told, is like taking a leap into Alice''s rabbit hole only to discover something mysterious, compelling and new. There is a dark sense of danger in the wonderland Yates creates, a world of game players, liars and secret societies. Rarely has a dark academia tale been spun with this much verve and thrill. When the truth is revealed, your head might spin backward--or even flip itself inside-out."--Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and Where You End Praise for Black Chalk "This is the smart summer thriller you''ve been waiting for. The black and harmful little book you want in your carry-on.
The novel you should be reading tonight." NPR''s "All Things Considered "One of the greatest surprise reveals I''ve witnessed. A twist that''s like screwing your head on backwards. And when you see the tricky switch Yates has pulled, you just want to kiss him, because dammit if there isn''t something sweet and satisfying about a plot twist pulled off with aplomb." NPR.org "A circle of bright college friends who feed on one another''s cleverness and trump one another''s insults until the steady diet of cynicism ends in tragedy-this is the stuff of two fine first novels: Donna Tartt''s The Secret History (1992) and, now, Christopher J. Yates''s Black Chalk. Yates''s characters are even wittier than Tartt''s.
Yates is a master of college-student psychology.[He] has achieved something new and impressive. Pick up Black Chalk." The Washington Post "[A] riveting psychological thriller.Terrifying.Read it fast." Entertainment Weekly "A new Stephen King, albeit with a British accent."New York Post "Christopher J.
Yates'' debut novel is a psychological thriller about the consequences of friendship gone awry. The result is a story littered with twists that will keep you guessing until the final page." Paste Magazine "[A] sardonic psychological thriller. Yates, a crossword puzzle maker himself, sets clues firmly in place, moves back and forth in time and throws in surprises at every turn. Black Chalk is an engrossing literary guessing game." BBC.com "Dark, twisty fun." New York Daily News "Dark deeds among school cliques is a milieu that''s attracted top-tier authors from Donna Tartt to Tana French, and this debut thriller is a worthy addition, with its chess-like psychological showdown.
" Booklist "An inventive and intricate psychological puzzle thriller that mystifies, torments, disturbs, beguiles . A powerfully intelligent debut." The Times (London) "A compulsive page-turner that will hold your attention until the very last word." The Sun (London) Praise for Grist Mill Road "The plot is darkly, intricately layered, full of pitfalls and switchbacks, smart and funny and moving and merciless; the characters are all that and more. This is a powerful exploration of how truth isn''t a complete and immutable thing, or a pure force of redemption: it''s made up of broken shards that lie buried somewhere in the spaces between people, and when the jagged edges work their way to the surface, they can be devastating." Tana French, author of the New York Times bestselling In the Woods and The Trespasser "Dark, intense, and disturbing, Christopher Yates''s Grist Mill Road begins with a shock and keeps the suspense burning page after page. A thriller with imagination to spare. Highly recommended.
" Krysten Ritter, author of Bonfire "Christopher Yates''s Grist Mill Road is a terrific thriller. A horrid childhood crime carried secretly to adulthood, with menace lurking around the corner, and guilt hanging heavy overhead. Alfred Hitchcock would have optioned the plot in the blink of his gimlet eye. A gripping read." Jason Matthews, author of the bestselling Red Sparrow trilogy "The list of authors whose books I read automatically is very short, and loses more names than it adds most years. Now the British writer Christopher J. Yates is on it, thanks to this truly superb second novel, a dark, roving psychological thriller as powerful as anything by Tana French.irresistibly readable.
make no mistake: Yates is the real deal." --USA Today "Shuffling and reshuffling one''s narrators has become almost a sport among suspense novelists, some of whom take it to excess. This reader, for one, balked when Paula Hawkins in effect brought one of her characters in The Girl on the Trainback from the dead, out of temporal sequence, to supply crucial information. Yates eschews such highhanded artifice, tacking back and forth in time, and from one narrator to another, with extraordinary skill." Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post "Two of life''s delicious pleasuresgourmet delectations and a sinister, plot-twisty talecome together in this intelligent thriller." - Oprah.com "An intricately crafted novel about adult lives forever changed by closely held childhood secrets. Grist Mill Road is a compulsive read that will unsettle you from its first page and surprise you until its very last.
" Jung Yun, author of Shelter "Grist Mill Road is full of tension and unexpected twists."Angela Carone, San Diego Magazine "5 Books to Read in January" "Yates constructed a thrilling psychological puzzle in his first novel, Black Chalk. With his second, he''s written an even more complex and propulsive whodunnit laced with questions about moral responsibility, the relativity of truth, the reliability of memory and the long-term consequences of our actions."Jane Ciabattari, BBC.COM "10 Books to Read in 2018".