Intense and flamboyant... excellent. The plot runs on high-octane violence... a powerful book... one emerges breathless, shaken and ready to change one's view of recent American history

Brilliant and appalling. It is deeply repelling portraiture, yet mesmerising

Laconic violence, terse, slang-driven sentences, and a gleeful blurring of the moral line between good guys and bad guys... Seven hundred pages of this stuff left me feeling punch-drunk and dizzy, but then it sure beats the hell out of Anita Brookner

A frenetic and explosive thriller . . .

One of the most important popular-fiction writers in America ... a Tinsel town Dostoyevsky

The Beck books were greatly admired, but Wahloo's two novels featuring Chief Inspector Jensen are more intellectually intriguing

A compelling storyteller of our time

Compulsively readable

Part-bodice-ripper, part-slasher, the book's elaborate plot moves along at a brisk clip with a nod to the likes of Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd

A sure-footed evocation of seamy Victorian London

A sinister picture of a country, and protagonist, on the brink of hysteria

As crowded with sensation as a Victorian parlour with furniture

A spider's web of a plot and a spine-tingling atmosphere of menace and suspense

Mesmerising, elegant and compelling

This spine-tingling novel… will certainly keep your nerves jangling

An excellent ghost story...magnificently eerie...compulsive reading

She writes with great power, authentically chilling

One of the most popular British ghost stories of modern times