A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever

As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing

There's a manipulative plotter at work in The Keys to the Street, and it's the author

Psychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell’s work is outstanding

There are quite a few Ruth Rendells: the doyenne of the traditional English detective novel; the queen of the psychological thriller; the celebrated author of the literary thriller

Brilliant and compulsive

A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth