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"(A) problematic portrait of Mexican migrants on the run..."

"It’s a sensual, remarkably visual ride, vigorous with displays of conceptual imagination and humour..."

"Fans of crime thrillers will find plenty to enjoy here..."

"Sophie Hannah is one of this country’s most accomplished writers..."

"Lupton’s ability to handle the topic is subtle and clever..."

"The knots Douglas-Home ties are so intricate and tight that you wonder if they can be unravelled...."

"Helen​ Phillips’s disconcerting new novel starts on a note of thrillerish urgency...."

"Mannheim exposes the cracks in the facade of the American dream..."

"beneath everything, there is a wild and dangerous energy..."

"Buenos Aires in the 1960s, home to remnants of the Third Reich in exile, is brought chillingly to life..."

"Wartime Paris is lovingly depicted: the smell of wet leaves, the taste of chicory coffee, the flics in their rain capes, a loaded glance across a café. Most of all, the sense of menace...."

"Intensely human characters, a cracking storyline and vivid scene-setting make The Last Hunt one of Meyer’s best...."

" the attempts to modernise the series with subtle nods to modern popular culture are intriguing..."

"there is a surprising lack of narrative tension, the internal inconsistencies are confounding and we have guessed the denouement long before it arrives..."

"Penny keeps the reader guessing who did what to the very end...."

"... atmospheric, clever, witty and amusing. If I were only allowed to read one crime series again it would be that of Donna Leon...."

"keeps the reader guessing..."

"This lean, fast-paced action thriller has the feel of Taken set in the world of Sons of Anarchy...."

"a highly original, electrifying read..."

"As always, Child gets a charge out of flaunting Reacher’s impressive build, but he’s also unafraid to show his hero’s softer side..."

"A tale of Russian intrigue in Britain’s mess..."

"Lucy Foley's gripping thriller stays chilling to the final page..."

"Bringing together four crime writers to write one thriller could be a disaster. But in the case of The Understudy, this quartet pull it off with aplomb..."

"At the heart of The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa’s masterful 1994 novel, now published in English in Stephen Snyder’s lucid and elegant translation, is the way that, once lost, things get forgotten..."