Stolen Souls

Stolen Souls offers harrowing, uncompromising suspense

Val McDermid

Stolen Souls is a nightmare story in the most noir place on earth, told by an exceptional talent. Crime fiction doesn't get much better than that

Lee Child

The Twelve was an astonishing debut and Collusion proved it was no fluke. Now with Stolen Souls, Stuart Neville has raised the bar even higher. Gripping, compassionate and packed with wonderfully realised characters, this is a book that will stay with you long after you finish it. Just three books in and Stuart Neville is already a crime-writing star

Mark Billingham

This third, beautifully crafted thriller, which brings Inspector Jack Lennon to the fore, confirms [Stuart Neville's] stature as the North's most promising crime fiction talent.

Irish Independent

The Irish crime-fiction wave rises to new heights with Stuart Neville's third novel, the tight, telescopic thriller Stolen Souls. The writing here is mature and assured: There are no extraneous words or characters... But where Ellroy writes a furious caldron of nonstop vintage action, one senses a diamond-hard stillness at the heart of Neville's prose, despite the hurtling plot

Denise Hamilton, Los Angeles Times

Stuart Neville's mastery of Belfast continues... Spectacularly written

Marcel Berlins, The Times

Stolen Souls shows an unflinching mastery of such dark and disturbing material ... A master at work

Henry Sutton, Mirror

Neville creates a break-neck pace as he switches between the story's different strands in punchy chapters...good, grisly fun

Siobhan Murphy, Metro

Neville's third outing confirms him as the king of Belfast noir

John O'Connell, Guardian

A stir-fry of death and addiction

Tom Adair, Scotland on Sunday

Stolen Souls is another winner from a a man who's rapidly establishing himself as a top-notch thriller writer. Great stuff

Simon Kernick

Scary, but always humane

Joan Smith, The Sunday Times

Neville is a master at constructing monsters and this latest is no exception... The best measure of a genre novel is its readability and this one sticks to the hands

Chris Moss, Time Out

This guy can write.

James Ellroy

Neville has the talent to believably blend the tropes of the crime novel and those of a horror, in the process creating a page-turning thriller akin to a collaboration between John Connolly and Stephen King...

The Sunday Independent

A brilliant thriller: unbearably tense, stomach-churningly frightening.

The Observer

A no-frills thriller that barrels along at a ferocious pace, pausing only to offer the occasional nod to 1970s paranoid classics such as William Goldman's Marathon Man.

Declan Burke, Irish Times

Stuart Neville's third novel effortlessly exceeds the high expectations created by the first two installments... Stuart Neville's latest novel is a thrilling masterpiece. From its gripping and well paced plot to its well defined and intriguing characters, Stolen Souls is a powerful novel, which does not shy away from exploring the new literary landscape for Northern Irish fiction.

Kellie Chambers, Ulster Tatler

Unputdownable and seriously good. Fasten your seatbelt and climb into this rollercoaster of a book

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