Unquestionably among the most entertaining you can find in the season's crop of Swedish crime fiction.

Leif GW Persson is a highly intelligent entertainer, able to make the reader writhe with laughter on one hand and flinch over the sharp and critical depictions of contemporary society on the other ... To put it simply, I haven't had this much fun reading a crime novel in a long time.

Leif GW Persson undoubtedly writes the most entertaining crime literature in Sweden right now, not least because of the priceless police detective Bäckström - a con man whom we love to hate.

Despite - or thanks to - Bäckström's asinine character the plot strands are elegantly woven together into a powerful whole that satisfies the readers' desire for a titillating cast of characters, strange coincidences, and a waft of history.

All the ingredients are in this book...You're in safe hands with Searle's elegant writing

An incredibly dark, taut thriller...it deserves to be a bestseller. Think of Ruth Rendell morphing into John le Carré

Searle shows a gift for complex plotting. The Good Liar is packed with secrets and surprises, bluffs and double-bluffs

A perfectly entertaining way to spend a few hours

A confident debut...an easy page-turner

A cracking read

What a clever and menacing novel The Good Liar is. I was gripped and horrified in equal measure and the ending knocked me sideways! I can't wait for everyone to read the book so I can talk about it

Precise and speedy prose, with good old-fashioned romantic adventure spiced up with deadpan authorial irony

Fast-paced and chock-full of twists, Last Seen Alive is both absorbing and gripping. After reading it you'll never dream of a house swap again

Thrilling . . . superb plotting. I could hardly catch my breath between twists!

It's so twisty, turning and grippy. Highly recommend it!

I love stories where you're not quite sure who is telling the truth! This one kept me guessing