Painting The Darkness

Oct 31, 2024 5:35 PM

Author:Robert Goddard

1882. When the creak of the garden gate one autumn afternoon sounds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, William Trenchard is puzzled, but not alarmed. He cannot possibly know the destruction this visitor will wreak on all he holds dear.

The stranger is James Norton, who claims to be the man William's wife Constance was once engaged to, and who was reported to have committed suicide eleven years ago. Trenchard fears the loss of his wife's affections, but he is forced to plumb the depths of his own despair before the dark secrets of the Davenall family can finally - shockingly - be revealed...

Reviews

It explodes into action so that the reader is hooked by the time he reaches the third page... he is a superb storyteller

—— Sunday Independent

It has all the ingredients of a first-class melodrama... engaging and satisfying

—— The Times

I was hooked by this atmospheric historical mystery

—— Sarah Broadhurst , Today

An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion

—— Annabella Bankhouse , Times Literary Supplement

As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read

—— Joan Smith , Sunday Times

This is crime fiction writing at its most intriguing

—— Marie Claire

Only one's dreams after a champagne-fuelled night at the Follies Bergere have quite the same nightmarish-but-entertaining quality as Vargas's delightful crime novels

—— Jake Kerridge , Daily Telegraph

Gripping

—— Guardian

[Vargas is] one of the most exciting, addictive and inventive purveyor of classy crime fiction currently pounding the publishing beat... It it a highly entertaining policier but more importantly, as with Conan Doyle, the wacky world Vargas shapes is oddly reassuring: a great remedy to a grey day

—— Christian House , Indepedent on Sunday

A thrilling read

—— Sunday Times

A beguiling story

—— Independent on Sunday

A sinister, beguiling tale that brilliantly evokes a childhood world

—— Woman and Home

Brilliant and nightmarish, this modern fairytale is beautifully written

—— Eve Magazine

Phantom will maintain Jo Nesbo’s unstoppable momentum.

—— The Independent

The king of Nordic crime – and his haunted protagonist Harry Hole – returns with this tightly plotted thriller which pitches Hole deep into the murky underworld of Oslo’s heroin market.

—— Metro

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—— Bella

Phantom leaves us reeling, with a storyline and ending that hurts us almost as much as it hurts the protagonists... The twists and turns show Nesbo at his complicated, yet utterly accessible best, and Hole at his undeniably brilliant but self-destructive worst.

—— The List

Jo Nesbo is a master of his craft. His latest novel, Phantom, is world-class crime writing. Phantom is a crime novel that pleases on every level.

—— Dagbladet (Norway)

Harry Hole is back only to find that the case he wants to investigate is already closed

—— Observer

Jo Nesbo has done it again with Phantom, his seventh gripping novel featuring Inspector Harry Hole... Tense and compulsive Phantom will have you jumping out of your seat

—— Hannah Britt , Daily Express

King of Scandinavian crime... A writer at the top of his game

—— Deirdre O’Brien , Sunday Mirror

Riveting reading from page one

—— My Weekly

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