Crime writing of the highest order

The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three decades is an epic achievement - in its own way quite the equal of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart . . . One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever

Virtually every page contains a sentence that demands to be quoted ... reading Leon is always an uplifting experience

Leon started out with offhand, elegant excellence, and has simply kept it up

Donna Leon has been giving unto us for all of the thirty years since Death at La Fenice introduced us to Brunetti

Leon's elegant, witty prose . . . is a joy. One of the best European novelists around

Give Unto Others is both tremendously enjoyable and deeply humane. As much about love as it is about crime, and rich with Venetian detail

It may be Donna Leon's 80th birthday this year, but it is her readers who will be getting a present, in the form of a new Commissario Brunetti novel

Give Unto Others is no less mysteriously compulsive than its 30 predecessors . . . Thanks for giving such civilised pleasure for half a lifetime

A gently paced, emotionally acute story of betrayal and revenge.

Sumptuous and intensely satisfying, it reminds us what an extraordinary gift Leon has given us

"The latest from Andrea Mara chilled me to my core. An outrageous amount of twists and turns, you will love it!"

A fabulous book. Brilliantly plotted, heart-wrenchingly emotional, and with a central premise to die for. This delivered by the armful. I loved it!

Praise for Claire Douglas

Spine chilling

Claire is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit

Twisty, exciting yet so very real

Jonasson is a master at two aspects of Icelandic noir: one is the description of his country's withering weather; the other is the handling of murderous plots that are tangled beyond all expectations. He's in top form in both specialties this time out

Jonasson is a master at exploring the impact of claustrophobia brought on by darkness and enclosed spaces. He an avid fan of Agatha Christie, and Outside is an adaptation, with an Icelandic twist, of the classic locked-door mystery

It takes a truly talented writer to work with a thin outline like that and turn it into a classic, and that is exactly what Jónasson has done here. I believe he has penned the Icelandic version of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs

From the winner of THE BEST CRIME NOVEL IN THE LAST 50 YEARS

Praise for Ragnar Jónasson

Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today

Triumphant . . . Chilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense

Dark, chilling and utterly gripping

Such a tense, gripping read

A world-class crime writer. One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction.

A master of the Icelandic thriller.

Is this the best crime writer in the world today? . . . He's truly a master of his genre

Invigorating Iceland-set slice of Nordic Noir

Fiendishy clever

Triumphant conclusion to the trilogy. Only Ragnar Jónasson has rendered hindsight so heartbreaking

It is nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction

The red hot crime writer from the frozen north . . . One of the most important voices on the international crime scene

Ragnar Jonasson has a gift for crafting clever whodunnits while conveying the intimidating beauty of his native Iceland

Jónasson has the full measure of the Nordic noir genre, and pushes all the buttons

Expertly Plotted

I loved Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris, which achieves the astonishing feat of taking 17th-century events and people and telling their stories in 21st-century language without a single seam showing

Thrilling

This is a novel that asks big historical questions. You could read it as a pure thriller, and it is one of Harris's most compellingly paced to date. You could read it as a piece of intelligent historical immersion. I think it is more; I think it is his best novel since Fatherland.

It's a belter.

If only all historical thrillers could be this entertaining.

In this tense and beautifully written account of the ensuing manhunt, Harris brings sympathy to characters on either side of the civil war that divided a nation.

A brainy, compulsive page-turner.

A violent, gripping, globetrotting chase thriller

He’s my go-to person that I know will keep me entertained

[A] rich, propulsive novel