Christopher J. Yates. Harvill Secker (IPG, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-84655-728-6
Psychological thrillers don’t get much more complex or twisted than Yates’s promising debut. In 1990, six Oxford first-years decide to create and participate in an elaborate mind game. Intrigued by the exclusiveness of a club known as the Games Soc,
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Christopher J. Yates. Picador, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-15028-8
Yates follows his well-received debut, Black Chalk, with an edgy, intelligent thriller that explores the aftermath of a senseless crime. In 1982, 13-year-old Matthew Weaver ties Hannah Jensen, who’s also 13, to a tree in the woods outside Roseborn,...
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Christopher J. Yates. Hanover Square, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-335-55097-2
Yates revisits the stiff-collared and secretive Oxford University setting of Black Chalk in his tantalizing latest, which chronicles a student’s discovery of nefarious deeds there in the mid-1990s. Alistair “Ali” McCain, 18, is the illegitimate son...
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