"'A crackerjack of a crime novel, unafraid to face the reality of man's and woman's evil' Evening Standard 'A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme' Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian 'Peopled by a fast-talking shower of queens, spades, morries, slags, shysters, grifters and grafters of every description, The Crust on its Uppers is one of the great London novels' New Statesman 'A State of Denmark is a fascinating and important novel by one of our best writers in or outside of any genre' Time Out"
