«It demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can't . . . A considerable achievement»

Guardian

«Move over Ian Rankin - there's a new gunslinger in town looking to take over your role as top British police procedural author. With Aftermath, Chief Inspector Alan Banks emerges as a definite contender for fiction's new top cop»

Independent on Sunday

«Near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league»

The Times

«The master of the police procedural»

Mail on Sunday

«Banks' slow but dogged pursuit of murderers and his meditations on the past make him a figure readers feel they know intimately and trust implicitly and, despite moments of darkness, the series' warmth makes you feel all's right with the world»

S Magazine