Author:Margot Livesey
A decent, harried young banker travels north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister. A single mother struggles to make a home for her family in a society she only vaguely comprehends. A baby girl is abandoned in a bus station and picked up by a stranger. A caller leaves threatening messages. Brilliantly structured and tense as a thriller, CRIMNINALS shows how the best intentions can have the worst results - and how families pull together, form themselves anew, and occasionally, tear apart.
The Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled
—— New York TimesSo irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure
—— GuardianA huge, mesmerizing, galloping read
—— Vanity FairDonna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller
—— Stephen KingTakes my breath away
—— Ruth RendellBrilliant and compulsive
—— Evening StandardA haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth
—— The Times