‘Macabre and wry’ Telegraph

‘Mesmerising, macabre and magnificent. The Mercy Chair is truly terrifying, laugh-out-loud funny, and impossibly clever. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable’ Chris Whitaker

‘Washington Poe is a brilliant creation, from one of the finest and most inventive crime writers of today’ Peter James

‘Craven renders the darkness of the human condition with immense skill, ratcheting the tension to a nails-on-chalkboard pitch. Don’t turn out the lights.’ Vaseem Khan

MORE PRAISE FOR MW CRAVEN:

‘The kind of novel that inspired me to write fiction in the first place. A guaranteed great time.’ Chris Brookmyre

‘Darkly entertaining’ The Telegraph

‘If you haven’t read any M.W. Craven yet, fix that immediately’ S. A. Cosby

‘I’ve been following M.W. Craven’s Poe/Tilly series from the very beginning, and it just gets better and better’ Peter Robinson

‘Poe and Tilly books are a joy’ Steve Cavanagh

‘In Tilly and Poe, M.W. Craven has created a stand-out duo who are two of the most compelling characters in crime fiction in recent years’ Fiona Cummins

‘Darkly comic . . . Thrilling’ The Independent

‘Clever, sophisticated, utterly gripping thriller from one of the best writers around’ Mari Hannah

‘Craven has unleashed Ben Koenig into the thriller world. Long may he raise hell in the pages. A superb thriller that will have everyone talking, and gasping.’ David Baldacci

‘Paging Lee and Andrew Child: you’ve got company’ The Times