These are...classic page-turners, in which the loyalty and decency of ordinary (and not so ordinary) people contrive to vanquish villains and tyrants

Already a bestseller in its native country, it deserves to be one here if there's any justice in the world of crime

There is only profit and pleasure to be had in this wise, good-humoured, funny book

A crime novel in a class of its own, you'll laugh till you cry

There are quite a few Ruth Rendells: the doyenne of the traditional English detective novel; the queen of the psychological thriller; the celebrated author of the literary thriller

Brilliant and compulsive

A 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