“The Blazing World is poundingly alive with ideas, personalities, conviction, fear, fakery, ambition, and sorrow. The reading mind is set on high, happy alert.
“Rickman’s writing style reflects his subject matter: spooky and indirect, elegantly crafted but always a sense of shadow behind you, that you’ve missed something you should have seen.
“Long Man is a visceral novel that evokes a sense of time and place and of the people who both define and are defined by that setting. Beautifully written in spare prose . .
“The Way You Die Tonight is a laconic bit of hardboiled detective noir, with name-dropping galore: from Frank Sinatra to Howard Hughes and everyone in between. . . .
"Dead Water shows these universals through the uniqueness of its setting and characters, adding another award-quality book to Ms. Cleeves’s body of work."
“In spite of the bad taste left by the last one-third of the book, the depth and the magnetism and the humor of Eric Charles May’s truly unforgettable characters makes this