Lee Child writes edgy American thrillers to rival the likes of Thomas Harris and John Grisham

Sixth in seriously good series featuring Jack Reacher...Exciting, absorbing and intriguing, with hero big and bold enough to handle the percussive action

For most fans of Lee Child the greatest draw is his military police tough guy Jack Reacher...To be fair, Reacher is more of a thinking girl's beefcake - I can see Russell Crowe already angling for the movie part

Jack Reacher is a most magnetic creation, tough, cool and ultimately moral

Lee Child's protagonist, Jack Reacher, is a hero in the Dirty Harry style, a man who lives by his own principles...Produces a surprising twist when it's least expected

A good, edge-of-the-seat thriller

A taut thriller by a British writer who handles the American suspense novel well'

Plenty of twists and plenty of excitement...another real page-turner

The Doll Princess carries the unmistakably pungent air...of deftly invoked squalor and menace, and is an impressive genre effort

Tom Benn's debut novel is a long overdue good thing in many senses... and there is much to recommend, not least Benn's sturdy grip on vernacular... What's more , he's a good writter of action - a scene in the top room of a nightclub on Deansgate early in the novel is particularly good

The Doll Princess is a promising, foul-mouthed debut in which gangsters and good guys fight for supremacy in a Manchester that resembles a war zone

immerse yourself in the language and the rhythm of the narrative and you're in for a fast and consuming ride through dark territory

a crime novel unlike any other; the voices of real people can be heard throughout its pages