A writer of bewitching readability

What makes this book gripping . . . is its truthfulness. It is a sort of detective story after all, with Brookner as the sleuth . . . applying her own devastating insight.

What a humorous and humane as well as accomplished artist she is.

Classic Brookner

A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must read.

This is Parson’s best crime novel so far and underlines his exceptional talent for sensing the zeitgeist.

If you haven’t already become a fan, the third outing for Max Wolfe is the perfect introduction to the London underworld that Tony Parsons has so vividly created. While expertly playing with the classic tropes of the detective genre, Parsons folds in live-streamed vigilante justice and a social media campaign to bring back the death penalty – meaning Wolfe’s cases couldn’t feel more of-the-minute

Had me gripped from the first chapter to the last sentence.

A cleverly plotted page-turner, with touches of Cracker and Nordic Noir, all soaked in the atmosphere of London’s murky back-streets

Fast paced and gripping

A gripping page-turning book that will demand your full attention

This is addictive, intelligent entertainment of the highest order... It is an astonishingly stringent, well executed and actually almost without exception breathlessly suspenseful psychological thriller bar none

Impressive and terrifying

Insanely creepy psycho-thriller that places the thin veneer of normality under the microscope.

The Crow Girl is a psychological thriller that will take you to the darkest corners of human insanity

First-class thriller for readers with nerves of steel

What an outstanding debut… A must-read for any fan of Scandinavian crime fiction.

The characterisation is always totally convincing....The denouement is exciting and totally surprising to the reader...a thrilling and unexpected ending.

Searing and affecting psychological thriller… A terrific thriller, chilling but oddly tender.

Mr. Hayes’s globe-trotting book has more kicks, twists and winks than anything of its dusty genre has provided in a long time. You will be happily surprised to find a new thriller franchise with brains to match its brawn

Written in a heart-stopping pace, this literary thriller lands somewhere between Homeland and Breaking Bad and then transports you to a different level. It is part spy novel, part psychological thriller. Twists and turns. Emotionally complex characters. Relevant geopolitical issues.

An assured novel: well researched and vivid, with a strong plotline, delivered with verve and some appealing wry humour.

A vivid sense of history and locale

Meticulously researched and delivered in clear, lucid and intelligent prose, Mukherjee is a fantastic addition to the stable of international crime writers, whose books effortlessly cross boundaries and bind readers in a community of excellence and enjoyment.

Vividly described, full of humour and humanity, it's a wonderful picture of that time and world, as well as being a perfect murder mystery novel.

Bursting with lively historical details about post-World War I India, this is a stirring and entertaining mystery

This brilliant mingling of real history and fictional invention kicks off a series that does for the Raj what Philip Kerr did for the Reich