OVER-ABSORBING, FASCINATING, BREATH-TAKING - Rated 
Grange once more made his best and proved his creativity and imagination to be amongst the best in his writing style.
A great story, superb background, breath-taking characters, hypnosis, spontaneous deaths, interesting crimes and in the middle of the story a child with supernatural forces.
The story will cover you at its first pages and send you to lots of scary, tricky and challenging situations. Read it and see the quality of Grange!
As good as his first two books - honest! - Rated
I bought this book despite the reviews I have read on Amazon. I loved his first two books so much, particularly 'The Blood Red Rivers', that I really thought it had to be worth reading. Imagine my surprise when I found that it was! Not to put too fine a point on it, I wonder if these other people have been reading the same book....this is superb, mysterious, gripping, shocking, suspenseful and utterly unfathomable. The main character is difficult and awkward, but not unsympathetic, and she does soften considerably as the novel goes on. Anyway, for heaven's sake, is Niemans in 'Blood Red Rivers' particularly likeable? Has everyone forgotten the first chapter? And what about Louis Antioch in 'Flight of the Storks'? A cold killer when it suited him....enough said I think. This book is great, don't believe the negative reviews. If you like his other two books, and even if you've never read them, get this, you won't be disappointed. And then track down a French film called 'Vidocq' that he wrote the screenplay for - not quite the same, but very atmospheric and enthralling.
What a disappointment!!! - Rated 
...this novel - it is an absolute let down. In my opinion, Grange was just trying to experiment with a new genre, but in my view, this experiment went badly wrong.
Of course, there again is a major conspiracy to be uncovered during the course of the book, and of course there are again some very strange and gruesome murders occuring - but mixing this with the supernatural just did not quite cut it. The same goes for the protagonist of this book, whom you completely stop caring about after about 50 pages and you can't wait to be finished off by the baddies - which... well, at this point i can't really say anything else, but what a disappointment.
So disappointing - Rated
Like the previous reviewer I was expecting much better things from this novel. Grange's last, Blood Red Rivers, sits comfortably in my top 5 novels of all time and I can't believe this came from the same pen. The main character is the biggest problem - she has no redeeming qualites whatsoever and you stop caring about her and anyone else for that matter long before the end. The other serious problem is that the book is boring, with a capital B. I tried so hard to like this book, what a shame. Avoid.
His worst so far - Rated
As someone who had absolutely loved his previous two, this book is a distinct disappointment. If his previous two highlighted his mastery of gripping narrative, this book has him sleepwalking through the story. A plot which never really sparkles is set against poor characterisation. It feels more like a film script than a novel, as if he is appealing to the film companies more than the reader. Although it is typical Grange, in its breadth of travel and pace, it is his worst so far and perhaps one to avoid until he comes back to form.
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