Praise for The Rabbit Club Riveting from page one to the twisty and twisted ending.Susannah Cahalan, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire
"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 Alices 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 Alices 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 backwardor even flip itself inside-out."Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and Where You End "Its strange to describe a story of murder, betrayal, and manipulation as delightful, but with its nods to Alice in Wonderland, colorful characters, and mind-bending twist, thats exactly what this is. So follow Christopher J. Yates down the rabbit hole, knowing that youre in capable hands."Lauren Nosset, author of The Resemblance Tantalizing Dark academia fans ought to snatch this up.Publishers Weekly Yates winking yarn is both homage and parody of the dark academia genreLiterary references abound, ranging from Shakespeare to Dickens to Nirvana and most notably the overarching motifs of Alice in Wonderland. Secret societies, mysterious documents, and cryptic backstories all add to the richly detailed university settingYates is clearly having fun, and readers will too. Booklist Yatess dark-academia literary thriller delves into the allure and peril of elite university traditions The immersive atmosphere, complex characters, and expertly paced plot propel the story to a satisfying, unexpected conclusion. Gripping, thought-provoking literary fiction. Library Journal, STARRED review "In this mind-warping dark academia gem, an American student at Oxford University gets into a tony secret society, and it sets off a chain of events youll never see coming."People Great fun.The Free Press
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 Yatess 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 ones 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, hes 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"
