Jungstedt delivers excellent clammy atmosphere and a constant premonition of weird deaths to come. She's becoming one of Scandinavia's best crime writers, no mean compliment in a crowded field.

The best medical thriller I’ve read since Coma

Penetrating, intelligent

Echoes from the Dead was rightly acclaimed in the UK, and this, his second, is even better. A powerful study of grief, loss and vulnerability, with a commendably earth-bound solution

Theorin builds the tension exquisitely

Pacy, full of suspense and larger than life characters... An absorbing read.

Almost indecently thrilling

Franklin is one of the very best creators of medieval whodunits writing today

Feisty and delightful series heroine... easy, enjoyable summer reading

Pacy, full of suspense and larger than life characters... An absorbing read

An exhilarating whodunit and my favourite book of the year. I'd like to crown Ariana Franklin Queen of the Historical Mystery

Thrilling and vividly told, this is definitely one to keep you up all night

Deliciously underhanded, echo-filled novel...so rewarding...it shows off an imagination so active that When Will There Be Good News? can barely contain it

Heralds the welcome return of Jackson Brodie . . . a brilliantly observed drama on the nature of fate, love and memory

I love Kate's writing...a fantastic detective mystery

The opening chapter of Kate Atkinson's latest book is one of the finest pieces of suspense literature you will read this year . . . addictive . . . Atkinson is back at her best