A writer who evokes the colour and danger of Victorian London with a master's touch ... moving with Jackson's mystified characters through the swirling fogs of our pre-electric capital city is an exhilarating experience

A feisty heroine, atmospheric settings, and an express-speed narrative full of twists and surprises. Victorian murder mysteries don't come better

Lose yourself in Jackson's atmospheric writing as he introduces us to his intriguing Victorian heroine, Sarah Tanner. Jackson is a writer who not only knows his history but who knows how to tell a truly engrossing tale

Mystery and romance par excellence

Fleming finds an unencumbered, historically penetrating language in which the simplest expository sentences can bring prose, story and setting into a crisp and evocative alignment

This is a tense, thrilling and at times darkly comic novel with a complex central character who... bursts off the page

An extremely wintry and hard hitting adventure story...this is a historical evocation at times as powerful as the account of pre-1914 Berlin that the late great Sybille Bedford gave us in A Legacy..... readers will surely welcome its author to the ranks of our greatest storytellers

Virile, ruthless, adventurous

With this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy

This is a story not for people who like reading novels but for the much larger number who like solving puzzles

Bruen's tightly coiled prose strikes like a piss-soaked rattler.

Sharp, punch and unsettling, Priest is a masterpiece.

... An intensely dark maelstrom ... excellent.

Bruen should be valued as one of the most challenging and memorable writers in the genre at the moment.