Sympathy for the Devil: Breen & Tozer: 4

Big treat in store for fans. And if you're not a fan yet, why not? - Val McDermidWilliam Shaw is one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction - Peter JamesThis book contains the kind of writing - silky, seductive, unobtrusive - that carries one along. I picked the book up to get a taste of it and an hour later was still reading this clever, absorbing police procedural - Literary ReviewShaw's talent for sensuous storytelling comes to the fore as he sets this fourth book in the series in the summer of 1969 . . . A first rate drama. Shaw goes from strength to strength, while making it all seem effortless. - Daily MailWhat a pleasure it is when one discovers a writer who combines ironclad storytelling techniques with the linguistic finesse of more literary novelists. William Shaw is surely such a writer, a man whose command of narrative grips the reader by the throat from page one, and never lets go - Independent, on The BirdwatcherA gripping plot, atmospheric setting, highly believable characters and dialogue you can imagine real people saying, make this a contender for thriller of the year - Sun, on The BirdwatcherA first-rate police thriller set amidst the seamy underside of the swinging sixties - C. J. Sansom, on A Song from Dead LipsA gripping story, impeccably researched - Guardian, on A Song from Dead Lips