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Marwood builds her ripped-from-the-headlines premise into something sprawling and admirably ambitious. Click here to read the review

This meticulously plotted tale tacks deftly between past and present and the unfolding revelations feel both shocking and inevitable. Click here to read the review

Alex Marwood doesn’t do things by halves. The day that we chat via Skype, she’s battling a cold and “a number of lurgies” she picked up on her recent trip home from Australia, but is chipper and cheerful, full of energy and laughter. Marwood’s crime fiction thrums...

Survival takes many forms in “The Poison Garden,” Alex Marwood’s gripping, creepy fourth psychological thriller, this time revolving around the demise of a doomsday cult in North Wales. Click here to read the review

Marwood does a wonderful job building exquisite tension among the players. Romy strives to seem normal and nonthreatening in a society she finds abnormal and frightening, and Sarah wants the kids to feel safe and heard even as she struggles to understand their...

Alex's article in CrimeReads provides 10 Ways to Make Double Sure You're Not In a Cult Click here to read the article

Marwood kept me on my toes - there was no way to predict where this story was going to go. I so appreciate being surprised by a plot. Marwood's prose flow easily. And as before, I didn't see the ending coming. It finished the book, but left some nice little what-ifs...

Painting a vividly terrifying portrait of cult life, Alex Marwood brings this chilling novel to a stunning, twist-filled conclusion that will leave readers hoping for a sequel. A brilliant mystery that I highly recommend. Click here to read the review

I love books that make you question your own belief systems, and as I was ready to sneer at Lucien’s congregation for being so gullible, I soon came to see that we are all a product of our upbringing, and the programming (or brainwashing) we receive through family and...

Starred Booklist Review! An extraordinary novel of psychological suspense that is more wicked than Marwood’s Edgar-winning Wicked Girls (2013) and darker than her Macavity-winning The Killer Next Door (2014)…. Two of Marwood's novels have already been optioned for...