- Published: 15 March 2007
- ISBN: 9780099483786
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $29.99
Patrick's Alphabet
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- Published: 15 March 2007
- ISBN: 9780099483786
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $29.99
The narrative voice turns it from a dark whodunit into something more intriguing. But Roberts never forgets that his principal responsibility is to keep us hooked - and that he does with aplomb
Barry Forshaw, Daily Express
Suitably disturbing and unsettling, and lingers long in the mind
Daily Mail
A cold, existential tale... One of the terrific things the novel offers is his rendering of a town in the grip of a nameless fear
Observer
Stylistically accomplished
John Dugdale, Sunday Times
His corpse-strewn first novel derives its title from St Patrick's habit of inscribing letters on new territory to transform it...the atmosphere of creeping menace kept this heathen reading, simultaneously irked and intrigued
Mark Sanderson, Daily Telegraph
Crafty, sad and haunting
Literary Review
An intriguing, gripping and highly unconventional crime novel
Times Literary Supplement
An impressive novel
Herald