Noir in a nutshell

A sleek, saturnine thriller

A top-drawer mystery

The novel has three great strengths. The first is Waldo Lydecker, the vain, deliciously nasty newspaper columnist ...Its second strength is an ingenious plot twist ...The third is Caspary's having set a noirish crime story in the Manhattan haute monde of ad agencies, fancy restaurants and society folk as odious as they are self-satisfied

Twists and turns give the plot its space, and hard-bitten cop Mark McPherson its hero

A great thriller from this emerging talent, with a fascinating subject, clever plot and vivid depiction of 1960s Ireland

Wildly entertaining, Ratlines is a superb mystery but in addition, a spotlight on a slice of Irish history largely ignored. This is a complex mystery told in the exceptional style that Stuart Neville has made his own. Jameson and Nazis, Irish rebel songs and Charles Haughey, it's a bold and brilliant blend

A superbly written, supremely intelligent thriller

Absolute blockbuster – and one you won’t want to put down

Sittenfeld's humour and sharp observation deliver a coming-of-age novel you can relate to