Billingham is well aware that we’re au fait with most police procedural scenarios and is always working to ring clever and inventive changes on the formula… the tension is fine-tuned with all the usual skill.
Daily Express
Most fictional sleuths are flawed but invariably triumphant; Billingham is unusually willing to show his series hero making blunder after blunder.
Sunday Times
A fast moving, straight-up cop story in a series that is about to hit television.
Literary Review
Billingham pulls it off with his usual panache and good writing.
The Times
While Billingham has well and truly mastered the modern police procedural, the thing that sets him apart from the crowd is not just his emotional insight, but the way he invariably packs such a heart-wrenching punch… Billingham’s most desperately gripping read yet
The Mirror
An unputdownable tale
Bella
Excellent
The Sun
A well plotted police procedural with touchingly human characters
Choice
A guaranteed page-turner
Sport
Energetic, subtle writing and fully fleshed characters
Morning Star