This book contains the kind of writing - silky, seductive, unobtrusive - that carries one along. I picked the book up to get a taste of it and an hour later was still reading this <b>clever, absorbing</b> police procedural
- Jessica Mann, Literary Review
Shaw's talent for sensuous storytelling comes to the fore as he sets this fourth book in the series in the summer of 1969 . . .<b> </b><b>A first rate drama. Shaw goes from strength to strength</b>, while making it all seem effortless.
- Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
The debate about whether or not crime fiction should aspire to literary values rumbles on, but when a writer demonstrates a consummate use of language and can also incorporate the key imperative of the thriller - page-turning - it's <b>a cause for celebration</b>. William Shaw is in that select breed
- Barry Forshaw, Financial Times
William Shaw is a <b>superb flowing writer</b>, both of police procedure and personal relations, and perhaps England's most adept at using dialogue (as distinct from description) to propel his <b>always intelligent stories</b>
The Times