A brilliant performance
Times Literary Supplement
A terrific job
The Times
Mr Lovesey maintains a wonderful tone throughout . . . A comedy of bad manners, full of oddball characters and wacky events develops into a perfectly realised murder mystery whose skilful misdirection never oversteps the bounds of fair play
The Wall St Journal
A bravura performance from a veteran showman: slyly paced, marbled with surprise and, in the end, strangely affecting
New York Times Book Review