The Blood of Crows

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Praise for Caro Ramsay: The terrific cast of characters keep the action and detection compelling * * Time Out * * Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page * * Guardian * * Glasgow comes alive in Caro Ramsay's dark, vivid and daring thriller -- Val McDermid on Absolution Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb, the dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns * * Observer * * Well drawn characters and a great sense of place set this series head and shoulders above most of the competition * * Times * * [Ramsay] is able to write scenes of heartbreaking tenderness nestled amid evocations of such grotesque violence that it is difficult to imagine that they can coexist as such sublime interlocking pieces of the whole... * * New York Sun * * At once humane, horrifying and exciting * * Literary Review on Absolution * * Caro Ramsay proves once again that she is a titan of Tartan Noir -- Helen Fields