Makkai doesn't shy away from moral complication in this impressive and complex novel - Guardian

[An] absorbing thriller... As well as being a well-plotted crime tale, the novel has pertinent things to say about the fetishising of murder, about easy online outrage, and about people who insert themselves into someone else's story. I Have Some Questions for You also offers a thought-provoking re-evaluation of what was problematic about male behaviour in the 1990s in the light of the #MeToo scandals of the 21st century - Independent

A sharp addition to the 'dark academia' canon - Grazia

Insights into power, race and our fascination with true crime boost a satisfyingly plot-y mystery - Mail on Sunday

Compulsively readable -- Jessie Thompson - Independent

Makkai, though, approaches [memories] as a writer curious about psychology. She deftly explores how remembrance can melt into reverie, especially in speculative sections that attempt to reconstruct the scene of Thalia's death. And she nails, too, what it's like to remember . . . beautifully evokes the layered, full-body immersion that occurs when you return to a familiar place, and the weird gravity of an institution like Granby, whose students are transient but whose structures endure . . . It's the perfect crime - New Yorker

Her prose is lean yet lush, with short, incantatory chapters and sentences as taut as piano wire . . . whip-smart and uncompromising - New York Times Book Review

Vastly entertaining . . . I Have Some Questions for You is both a thickly-plotted, character-driven mystery and a stylishly self-aware novel of ideas. It's being rightfully compared to Donna Tartt's 1992 blockbuster debut, The Secret History, because of its New England campus setting and because of the haunting voice-over that frames both novel . . in a twist worthy of Poe, Makkai suggests that the truth alone may not set you free or lay spirits to rest - Fresh Air, NPR

It is at once a propulsive crime story and a thought-provoking meditation on sex, race and the abuse of power - Economist

An engrossing reflection of sexual politics and the devastating vagaries of the justice system . . . you'll be gripped by the mystery at its heart - Daily Mirror

In this addictive page-turner, Makkai skewers how and why missing girls become media commodities - Oprah Daily

I've been waiting years for a book like this! You will laugh, think, think again, cry and stay up all night finishing it. Unputdownable and unforgettable. Makkai has written the book of the season -- Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less Is Lost

Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunnit, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU is a true literary mystery -haunting and hard to put down -- Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer winner and author of The Candy House

Both a deeply satisfying crime story and a thoughtful, even provocative, novel of ideas, I Have Some Questions for You narrates one woman's interrogation of her own past while in turn posing difficult questions directly to its reader: about sex, power, privilege, and the ambient violence of contemporary American life. What a feat of storytelling -- Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

One of the things I love most about Rebecca Makkai is her absolutely engaging written voice; reading her books feels like hearing a well-told story by a longtime friend. This book - through the voice of its beautifully complex narrator, Bodie Kane -brings readers along on a journey they won't forget -- Liz Moore, author of Long Bright River

Rebecca Makkai's extraordinary storytelling gifts are on full display in I Have Some Questions for You, a tense, sharply drawn, and impeccably plotted literary mystery andan urgent, propulsive story of the collision of gender, race, and class in a New England boarding school. I loved walking alongside narrator Bodie Kane - angry, obsessive, struggling with her own traumatic memories - in her imperfect attempts to reckon with a past she longs to leave behind -- Elizabeth Wetmore, author of Valentine

I dare any reader to not find themselves utterly engrossed in Makkai's superbly paced mystery . . . one of the most satisfying reading experiences I've had in a long time . . . it is a robust literary mystery and something (and I don't make this comparison lightly) that could've been penned by Donna Tartt -- Barry Pierce - Big Issue

Makkai places her fictional murder firmly in the context of violence against women, cancel culture and our obsession with true crime . . . Makkai doesn't shy away from moral complication in this impressive novel - Guardian