‘One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years’
Ian Rankin
‘Like all the best crime writers, Mina can make melodramatic events seem credible because her characterisations and settings are so authentic: if she described Alex sprouting wings and flying to Pluto she would make it plausible. There are probably now as many crime writers in Scotland as criminals, but Mina may be the pick of the bunch’
Daily Telegraph
‘Confirms Mina’s place in the premier division . . . atmospheric, intense and full of the disturbing flavour of inner-city lowlife’
Guardian
‘Denise Mina is set to carve a niche for herself as the Crown Princess of Crime’
Val McDermid, Daily Express
‘This book has passages so powerful that you have to pause in reading it. I’m not ashamed to admit I cried . . . Writers like Mina are breaking the mould’
Scotland on Sunday
‘Funny, raw, compassionate, often brutal . . . romps its way to a satisfying conclusion’
Independent
‘Suffused with telling social commentary and wry humour, while exposing the hypocrisy and passive racism at the heart of modern, intercultural Scotland’
Times Literary Supplement
‘The plot is unrolled artfully. The writing is lucid, and the minor characters breathe with an almost Dickensian life’
Sunday Times