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"a drolly enjoyable blend of fight scenes and family history......"

"scary throughout..."

"clever, marred — no, enhanced — by being peppered with (deliberate) flaws and absurdities..."

"McNamee has found a particularly ingenious, and thematically relevant, twist..."

"Tuomainen is the funniest writer in Europe..."

"800 pages in Shardlake’s company will always fly by...."

"the Mitford social setting is a lot of fun..."

" tremendously entertaining..."

"a delicate story of a Dutch painting..."

"strong stuff... as gripping as it is intoxicating..."

"an astutely observed skewering of aspirational anxieties and the wellness industry..."

"While Under The Night does have some merit, the novel is hindered by a number of issues...."

"Bolton's excellent novels are not just skilful evocations of the era but have a genuine darkness at their heart..."

"A thoroughly absorbing whodunnit..."

"As it turns out, the novel is slightly disappointing..."

"although absorbing at times, the novel lacks convincing characterisation ..."

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"Breathe ingeniously knits together the killer London smog of the winter of 1952 and the discovery of multiple corpses in Rillington Place..."

"An evocative homage to Raymond Chandler finds his tough hero showing skill and courage even in the autumn of his life..."

"terrific dialogue and much humour..."

"an entertaining read with plenty of plot twists..."

"...something close to a masterpiece..."

"Good Allingham, good war-spy thriller..."

"an excellent historical thriller..."

"engrossing and ingenious..."

"a naturally engaging and elegantly written novel..."

"I can’t commend it highly enough. ..."

"Dark Pines clips along and is effectively immersive. I read it on holiday and it went down very nicely with the wine and sunshine..."

"a gripping psychological thriller..."

"A well-worn tale about an unequal friendship in contemporary New York forensically unpicks our relationship with phones..."

"extraordinary novel..."

"a genuine, read-in-one-sitting page-turner..."

"a mastery of English language and grammar, often missing from today’s crime fiction..."

"It could be the book of the year..."

"gut-wrenching twists and an engaging protagonist..."

"Purcell has thrown explicit Gothic elements at this by the coachload..."

"(a) nuanced meditation on race, roots and belonging..."

"a highly entertaining journey to unearth the dark secrets at its core..."

"Samantha Harvey’s fourth novel is a richly immersive detective story set in a 15th-century Somerset village..."

"a fabulously dark and witty concept, executed with quite some panache..."