This latest outing for the offbeat Commissaire Adamsberg is [Vargas'] best

After decades in which crime fiction in French was dominated by the Belgian author Georges Simenon, it has an indisputable new star in Fred Vargas

Vargas depicts brilliantly a rural community riven with superstition, where class distinctions have existed for centuries

The novel has been compared with In Cold Blood, but the voice is entirely Clarke's own rough, uncompromising and ultimately heartbreaking

George Elliott Clarke has mined his family tree for the poignant story of George and Rue. His heart does not waver in its quest for the courage to shed light on a grievous crime. George & Rue is an extraordinary and poignant first novel. We weep with Clarke while rejoicing in his triumph

I haven't read such a captivating, relentlessly suspenseful thriller as The Andalucian Friend in ages

Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs

A truly impressive writer

An astonishing debut . . . Hobbs is up there with the best . . . a masterpiece

Smoking-fast . . . the debut of a gifted crime writer who will only get better

A pulse-pumping heist thriller

Neville's third outing confirms him as the king of Belfast noir

A stir-fry of death and addiction

Scary, but always humane

This guy can write.

Neville has the talent to believably blend the tropes of the crime novel and those of a horror, in the process creating a page-turning thriller akin to a collaboration between John Connolly and Stephen King...

A brilliant thriller: unbearably tense, stomach-churningly frightening.

A no-frills thriller that barrels along at a ferocious pace, pausing only to offer the occasional nod to 1970s paranoid classics such as William Goldman's Marathon Man.

Stuart Neville's third novel effortlessly exceeds the high expectations created by the first two installments... Stuart Neville's latest novel is a thrilling masterpiece. From its gripping and well paced plot to its well defined and intriguing characters, Stolen Souls is a powerful novel, which does not shy away from exploring the new literary landscape for Northern Irish fiction.

Belinda Bauer's thrillers are always compelling, always original, always brilliant. I will rush to read anything she writes

Bold and original, Rubbernecker draws you into unexpected psychological territory with its sophisticated, fast-paced story. A thought-provoking page-turner you won't be able to put down.