Jackson's series is the best of current Victorian mysteries

Victorian London is brought vividly to life from the very beginning... plenty of wry humour ...and engrossing historical detail

'Lee Jackson's Dickensian style of narrative gives and authentic Victorian voice to A Metropolitan Murder... Once again Mr. Jackson has succeeded in creating the atmosphere of nineteenth-century London, with its respectable veneer hiding a vicious underworld'

'Full of power and substance London Dust... is a powerful and evocative novel that brings the past, and its dead, to life again'

Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation

Tautly told in a crisp translation of the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund, the story is a riveting exploration of the consequences of crime, a whydunnit rather than the traditional whodunnit

A brooding study of how one thoughtless action can have catastrophic consequences

Fossum never forgets that her primary duty is to entertain, and she keeps her cut-to-the-bone mystery moving briskly

Norwegian writer Karin Fossum has been turning out a steady and impressive body of work since long before Steig Larsson first put pen to paper...This is a first-rate psychological thriller, one of Fossum's best books to date.

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