RaveEvening Standard (UK)\"... addictive ... [a] lurching, turning, weaving, winding whodunnit ... The characters would be largely unlikeable and frustrating, if they hadn’t been bestowed with such carefully crafted and unspeakably tragic back stories. Hawkins builds and layers to a point where it’s perfectly feasible that any one of them could have killed in cold blood ...
The killer, for me at least, didn’t come as a huge surprise, but it’s the why that’ll leave readers squirming. Intricately interwoven plots and subplots, propulsive twists and a neat finale, while it’s no The Girl On The Train,A Slow Fire Burning is a deliciously easy psycho drama to hungrily tear through.\
