It's cleverly done and never dull, with science and folklore neatly woven into a fascinating plot. This, together with well researched and wonderfully imagined period detail, make Deadly Communion a rich and riveting read

Brilliantly combines the popular with the serious in clever historical thrillers

Confirms his place in the front rank of British thriller writers

Tallis's writing still has the richness of literary fiction ... the reader is taken into the terrifying psyche of a murderer ... Deadly Communion is the most psychologically cohesive of the Max Liebermann outings

An interesting, intelligent and enjoyable read

Frank Tallis's Deadly Communion takes his psychoanalyst protagonist Dr Max Liebermann deep into the mind of a murderer. Our hero suspects that the motivation for the murders lies in childhood trauma, and employs Freud's ideas about the unconscious to find a strikingly modern killer

From page one, I was hooked. The descriptions in this novel are clear, graphic and the atmosphere they create is one of mystery, intrigue and a definite need to turn the page

Fireworks, inventiveness and excitement of part three and a curmudgeonly inventor of torpedoes

An indefatigably clever storyteller...witty, laconic dialogue; a galloping pace, particularly in the first and third narratives; the author's silky, fluid prose; and above all the concluding passages, which detonate a series of surprises as poignant as they are grim

A complex novel of mystery and suspense narrated by three fascinating characters...I thoroughly recommend this title

Well worth the ride

Pears is in a class of his own; no one else could possibly succeed in making the world of big finance so hugely entertaining.

this thoughtful, thoroughly satisfying novel... clever storytelling to reach imaginative heights