The review in The Glasgow Herald described it as a "strong, quick thriller", but with inferior dialog to The Trial of Mary Dugan.
Judge Nikesh Shukla described it as a "strong, strange political thriller that oozes with one-liners and thrills galore", saying that "with such a strong shortlist that gave us mermaids, fallen cities, people waking up a different race and more, Making Wolf manages to excite and entertain in equal measure".
Poliakoff's television breakthrough came in 1977 with the nuclear thriller Stronger Than the Sun in the BBC's Play for Today slot.
Another story, "First on the Scene", would make a strong opening to a thriller.
An independent press strong in crime and thriller writing, Shelley dragged A&B back into profit, introducing a line of library hardback crime novels and eventually catching the eye of Little, Brown, which he joined as editorial director for crime and thrillers.
Rachel's unreliable narrator drew comparisons with Gillian Flynn's blockbuster Gone Girl that had come out a couple of years before and demonstrated that there was a huge demand for dark psychological thrillers with strong, complex female characters.
Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs are tense psychological thrillers with strong doses of procedural, tautly plotted and written in prose that appears to have been carved with a scalpel.
Hollywood wrapped up what is usually an off-season at the box office with another strong weekend, as "Obsessed," a thriller from Sony Pictures Screen Gemss division, took in $28.5 million to place No. 1, according to an estimate from Sony.
"I think what's particularly appealing about it is, it's an opportunity to make a really strong, very kind of immersive thriller," the film's director, John Madden, told The Huffington Post, "but one that has an emotional and psychological or moral complexity to it that's completely intertwined with the plot".
His quirky dramas and gangster thrillers have a strong following at home and a fervent cult status abroad.
