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"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...."

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

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

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

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

"... 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..."

"a highly original, electrifying read..."

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

"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..."

"Nicci French is back to what she does best..."

"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..."

"expertise is clear throughout... his marriage of fact and fiction is masterly..."

"While the plots of many Nordic noir writers are turning ever more grim, Finland’s Antti Tuomainen opts these days for a wittier, lighter touch..."

"this is a traditional mystery of the best sort..."

"this is Grisham at his passionate best, conveying every ounce of his anger at the corruption behind the law..."

"– a near-perfect ghost story..."

"a finely written book, evocative and moving in its exploration of how we live now, without being maudlin or sentimental..."