A thriller that will have you whipping through those 130 pages. Marriage and murder make the perfect combo and this short story is bloody brilliant

A satisfying read for sad singletons slumped on the sofa of despair: Valentine's Day going horribly wrong for the rich

'A race-against-the-clock thriller and a complex psychological drama'

'Torn apart by loyalties and suspicion, the tension gradually mounts as the pieces of the jigsaw finally fit together into a gripping psychological drama'

'Lives up to the promise of its remarkable predecessor, Shadow Dancer...confirms Bradby's considerable promise as a a thriller writer'

Haunting in every sense. An absorbing novel that finds its eloquence in what is left unsaid and its most vivid imagery in what has been lost, possibly for ever

Matar suffuses Nuri's education in love and loss with an erotic frisson and fragile grace that lend the book an inner radiance

Submerged grief gives this fine novel the mythic inexorability of Greek tragedy

Sensually written, there is an extravagant feel even to the simplest sentence. From start to finish that exquisitely profound quality of uncertainty is the most wrenching aspect of all

A thrilling read