10,863 book reviews and counting...

"an accomplished and addictive addition to the great British tradition of spinster fiction..."

"Despite their sombre subject matter, the defining quality of Mandel’s novels is fun..."

"a cat-and-mouse game played by well-matched enemies..."

"brilliant and unpredictable..."

"a tightly plotted and gripping read...."

"The publisher is pitching this as similar to the books of Robert Harris, but this is a more straightforward action thriller..."

"She lets her tale do the talking, and the results are quite splendid......"

" The writing here is sparkling and the detective work, refreshingly, internal rather than external...."

"The last outing does a credit to our 17th-century hero..."

"... Cry Baby works as a way into the series for sure, but it’s even more entertaining for us old aficionados to see the origin story of Billingham’s hero..."

"a labyrinth as exhilarating as anything..."

"Frear writes vividly about the uneasy relationship between her female cops and brings the novel to a startling conclusion...."

"Kiernan’s novel has echoes of real-life scandals about undercover cops in illicit relationships..."

"Smith combines the excitement of a medical thriller à la Michael Crichton with sensitive characterisation and social insight..."

"Overall, it’s another winner...."

"(a) high-concept thriller..."

"Rhodes writes beautifully crafted psychological thrillers..."

"demonstrates a broadening out of his ambition..."

"The reverse storytelling here is dispatched adroitly..."

"It shouldn’t work, but it does..."

"deliciously horrid horror..."

"If you’ve come up with a protagonist your readers have taken to their hearts, it makes sense to maintain that affection..."

"Jeffery Deaver mines new territory in The Goodbye Man..."

"Rumours of the death of Scandicrime are greatly exaggerated, as The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Bjorg Ægisdottir proves..."

"With its bravura picture of a wrecked economy and swingeing death toll, Camino Winds has come to seem all too prescient..."

"a peerless exercise in suspense..."

"Is Stephen King a horror writer or a crime writer these days?..."

"...owes a debt to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca..."

"a messy rehash of Briscoe’s other tales of upper-middle-class crisis..."