Topolski adroitly probes the murkiest crannies of the human soul, while ratcheting up the tension. A tautly strung very dark tale

A chilling portrait of madness and evil

Mankell is in the first division of crime writing

An excellent thriller

By far the best writer of police mysteries today

The novels become a compulsion - one reads them all

The most original crime writer of our time

James Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world

Without him and his crime fiction, there's no David Peace or The Sopranos or Ian Rankin or The Wire or the work of countless writers and film makers who saw a different way of doing things when they first cracked the spine on an Ellroy

Burnside is an accomplished and careful writer. And this is a beautiful book, compelling and strange

Unsettling, hauntingly memorable tale

Written with deceptive elegance, riddled with gaps and non sequiturs and a clever travesty of several genres, this is a disturbing, provocative book'

[A Summer of Drowning] brings an eerie glow to the colours and sounds, flora and foodstuffs of the far north