'Highly accomplished... Fans can look forward to his usual sharply realised characters operating in a tense, pressured environment'

'A rewarding experience...This is murder at its most foul, crime at the deep end'

'His novel is something substantial and distinctive...Edric has a clear, almost rain-washed style, eminently suitable for his Hull setting...Cradle Song is a strong and serious novel, soberly entertaining and well worth your while'

'Cradle Song is a superbly paced book... This is classic crime noir... Edric can also produce beautiful prose and arresting images as well as incisive social satire... Magnificently achieved'

'Deeply intelligent...Vertiginously devious...Twists like a fist around the throat of the reader'

'A veritable Stanley Kubrik of the world of fiction...Edric makes it impossible for the crime novel to be considered the country cousin of serious literature any longer'

A witty novel about love