I cannot remember enjoying a book as much as Stone's Fall

The assurance and invention with which the novel is written are alike remarkable. Utterly absorbing and a rare delight

Engrossing and intelligent, it's the best sort of page-turner

A juicy mystery with lashings of period detail

The novel is above all a romp, albeit an exceptionally intelligent and entertaining one

Absorbing and also timely

Iain Pears has an uncanny historical sense ... splendid return to the grand 19th-century novel

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