The Poison Tree: the addictive , twisty debut psychological thriller from the million-copy bestselling author

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I’ve used the word formula and while there are certain conventions the genre has to follow – peril, mystery, misdirection and reveals - I don’t believe thrillers have to be formulaic. If you read a lot of psychological thrillers they can get a bit suburban and samey, so I try to keep my books fresh by writing about things I haven’t seen done before: for example, the plot and structure of He Said/She Said revolves around total eclipses of the sun, amongst other things. It kept me interested and offered something new for my readers. But that doesn't happen. Louisa was more upset than be happy. Upset and scared, that he might be searching her for some revenge? And also that she spent 20 years of her life crying about someone who had been alive all this time. Yes, coming to the murder for which Paul is a witness for the trial now. What happens? Even this wasn't a surprise. Daniel and Paul were committing another burglary, but this time they get caught by a caretaker of the area, an old man names Ken Hillyard. He has already called the cops, and tells Daniel that there are secret cameras around recording his every move, couldn't he read? Yep, that was the question. Louisa became this possessive girlfriend, where the idea of Adam cheating on her haunted her dreams. And that's fair, but she should have known what kinda guy Adam was before getting into all of this. I mean, he WAS seeing a girl when she met him, remember? He dumped that girl for Louisa, who's to say he won't dump her for someone else?

This proved to be another highly effective psychological thriller from Erin Kelly in which a woman is haunted by a difficult relationship from her late teenage years that still impacts upon the present some twenty years later. Then she meets Paul, who comes to work on the garden restoration project that she is overseeing while he is waiting to testify in a murder trial. Their relationship develops quite organically as both are outsiders and troubled by the secrets they hold.

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Louisa.. Louisa.. Alan recollects the name. Memories starts coming to him. His already existing headache worsens tenfold when he starts remembering everything and.. He screams. I actually got really excited for this story when we found out that Adam Glasslake (Alan Murray) was still alive. Then I got even more excited when he went missing. I thought for sure that we were going to find out that he was Paul's father all along; Paul is mistaken for Adam on numerous occasions, and also renaming himself yet again seemed extremely plausible as he's already done it once before. GlassLAKE to SEAforth? Definitely would've been an acceptable pattern. The timeline might have needed some tweaking then (perhaps if he disappeared sooner rather than 5 years later) but it would have brought in a whole new layer of maturation for Adam's character. The drama that would ensue between Paul and Louisa would've been palpable not only because of her shagging her love's son from another woman but also because he would be carrying the extra baggage of being the sole witness to his gruesome (and this time true) death. With both Louisa and Paul hiding from the past they form a relationship but how much of their former lives are they willing to reveal to each other and who is out there looking for them? But who died, and why? In a prologue set in the dead of night, why does Karen flee from their home? Who's been watching them? And what has Karen been hiding for all these years? She was relieved and hurt at the same time. But this time the hurt was more. And she was done. Done with him.

Are there any tired tropes that you’d like to see less of and what would you really love to read and see more of? What is the meaning of this? What is the entire plot even about? Louisa and Paul die? Just like that?

Biba is a bohemian, an aspiring actress looking for a German coach. Karen speaks the language, and they embark on a friendship filled with parties, drugs, artistic people, and what Karen feels is freedom from her normal, dull life. Biba’s brother, Rex, tries to look out for them, but Biba is a force of nature. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.