Black Widow: Award-Winning Crime Novel of the Year (Jack Parlabane) - Softcover

A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing (Ian Rankin)

Black Widow is a stand-out thriller, reminiscent of the best of Nordic Noir but with its own vivid landscape (Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer)

Brookmyre opens with a dramatic court scene, followed by a series of clever twists that challenge the reader to work out who is the victim of an extremely sophisticated crime (Sunday Times)

Exceptionally good - a knotty mystery that's not just richly, provocatively political but one of the most perceptive excavations of a dysfunctional marriage I can remember reading.... Brookmyre plays a cunning, careful game (Guardian)

I didn't know what was going to happen next in this epic thriller. I urge you to read it, too (Sun)

The story's characters are compelling and the mystery is evoked with scalpel-like precision (Daily Mail)

This is mystery plotting at its highest level, all the disparate strands forming into a web and then into a knot that tightens around victim, detective and reader (Spectator)

It's only as you're racing through the final tense pages, full of betrayal, revenge and shocking revelations, that you realise the brilliance behind the construction of this utterly compulsive, whipsmart thriller (Sunday Mirror)

A gripping, complex and classy crime novel. (Mail on Sunday YOU Magazine)

Chilling, gripping and exquisitely unpredictable (Daily Record)