The Judgement of Strangers (38 page)

‘Taylor is a major thriller talent’

Time Out

‘One of Britain’s best writers of psychological suspense’

The Times

‘Taylor, who is a successful and subtle crime novelist, works a delicate and difficult game successfully’

Spectator

The Roth Trilogy

‘Skilful, elegant, powerfully atmospheric, in which ancient evil shimmers like images trapped in a corridor of mirrors’

P
HILIP
O
AKLEY
,
Literary Review

‘An intelligent, exciting psychological drama … A powerful feeling of something nasty just around the corner prevails’

Daily Mail

‘The writing is consistently good’

D
ONNA
L
EON
,
Sunday Times

‘It deals in the quietest, most civilized way, with abominable suffering … a highly sinister piece of work’

N
ATASHA
C
OOPER
,
TLS

‘Complex, with lots of sinister implications … moves the traditional crime novel on to some deeper level of exploration’

J
ANE
J
AKEMAN
,
Independent

‘A trilogy which spans both history and geography … masterly’

G
ERALD
K
AUFMAN
,
Scotsman

Caroline Minuscule

Waiting for the End of the World

Our Fathers’ Lies

An Old School Tie

Freelance Death

The Second Midnight

Blacklist

Blood Relation

Toyshop

The Raven on the Water

The Sleeping Policeman

The Four Last Things

The Barred Window

Odd Man Out

The Air that Kills

The Mortal Sickness

The Lover of the Grave

The Suffocating Night

Where Roses Fade

The Office of the Dead

Death’s Own Door

Requiem for an Angel

The American Boy

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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