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Let’s swap murders: Amanda Craig’s The Golden Rule reviewed

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

The Golden Rule Amanda Craig

Little, Brown, pp.400, 16.99

It has been three years since Amanda Craig’s previous novel, The Lie of the Land, the story of a foundering marriage set among the gathering shadows of Brexit. The Golden Rule is worth the wait. It opens with a nod to Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, the classic thriller in which two strangers, meeting by chance on a train, agree to murder each other’s wives.

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