12,169 book reviews and counting...

"Lee Child hands over the Reacher franchise to his brother — who transforms the fabulously taciturn Jack into a loquacious pedant..."

"a beautiful and profound crime novel..."

"Despite an over-reliance on coincidences, Three-Fifths is compelling and powerfully moving..."

"an unconventional village murder-mystery..."

"Compelling, formally innovative and beautifully conceived, this is an unusual and deeply rewarding novel..."

"terrifyingly macabre..."

"charming, cosy and respectful..."

"I can’t wait to see how Rebus deals with Covid and Brexit..."

"a curious book, not always convincing in its recreation of 1880s London, but certainly compelling..."

"Wildly inventive, Turton’s tale defies definition as either historical fiction or crime novel, but provides all the pleasures of both genres..."

"implausible but absorbing..."

"It’s a joy of a book..."

"a mystery infused with the spirit of a Western..."

"Lisbon during the Second World War is a locale underexplored by writers..."

"Disher is brilliant at rural noir..."

"Griffiths assembles a vivid cast of characters..."

"Broadfoot spins a captivating story, and does well to keep the reader interested at every turn ..."

"short, lucid and harrowing..."

"Giving his detective Harry Hole a break, Jo Nesbo instead puts two brothers at the centre of this hefty stand-alone novel..."

"reminiscent of Agatha Christie in their penchant for audacious narrative trickery..."

"In the Pointless creator’s bestselling debut, amateur sleuths in an upmarket retirement village investigate a murder a bit too close to home..."