Delves so deep beyond its own shock horror premise that much contemporary crime fiction looks like cheap, exploitative rubbish by comparison ....an utterly absorbing novel that gives as vivid - and disturbing - a picture of contemporary Japan as you could imagine

Suicide, paedophilia, incest and murder combine with subtle touches of humour to form a story that will leave you questioning your own morality

This is a rich, complex read. Be prepared for a book utterly unlike anything we are used to in crime fiction

It is one of the most unexpected and playful novels to emerge from Japan in recent years...a triumph. In its boldness and originality, it broadens our sense of what modern Japanese fiction can be

Unclichéd contemporary noir at its most absorbing and relevant...a masterful and haunting achievement

Patterson's Boxers are not pants.

The novel is, like the nameless killer's victims, well executed. And like the killer himself, fiendishly twisted. A real page turner

Savvy and sharp ... as well-written a thriller as The Silence of the Lambs ... A winner

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.