Rich descriptions of Montreal in winter … blend well with the bone-chilling plot …
THE NEW YORK TIMES
John Farrow has written a tour de force … in terms of popular genre fiction, [this] might be the best book ever produced in Canada.
THE VANCOUVER SUN
[It] has a heart pounding with crime, sleaze, and venom. And intrigue, greed, and betrayal mark the boundaries of this thumping story.
NATIONAL POST
Farrow, who admires the morally complex thrillers of John Le Carré and Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky Park), achieves much the same high ground.
MACLEAN’S
… Farrow’s Montreal is a dirty old town, and City of Ice is as noir as it gets; noir with a hard glaze of frost, unforgiving as January.
THE GAZETTE (Montreal)
City of Ice may be a thriller, but it’s one with more than a little literary skill behind it. You won’t find any breathless prose in Farrow’s fast-paced book. Instead the writing is seamless, the plotting intricate, and the characterization generally first-class.
THE EDMONTON JOURNAL
Farrow’s novel has enough grit to satisfy fans of the genre and enough intelligence to be a welcome addition to the ongoing exploration of Canada’s solitudes in the context of a changing world.
QUILL & QUIRE