The Listeners

'The foreboding darkness creeps off the pages like a chilling fog, threatening damage to everything that Carla treasures. Powerful and scary' * Sunday Times Crime Club * 'Quinn puts another layer of wisdom on his already accomplished manner of exposing the moral duplicity of the margins' * Belfast Telegraph * 'As in earlier books, Quinn sets up a Russian doll narrative, with manipulation within manipulation' * Guardian * 'Takes the reader to the rugged, deeply atmospheric landscape of the human mind and the dangerous, malleable labyrinth of memory and suggests that oft times, silence speaks louder than words' * Pen & Ink Reviews * 'One hopes more DS Herron mysteries follow' * Irish Independent * 'A neat variation on the traditional locked-room mystery, with Quinn crafting a satisfying solution to what appears to be an impossible crime' * Irish Times * 'No-one does atmosphere and menace better than Anthony J. Quinn ... In a beautifully written narrative and with foreboding darkness almost rising from its pages, Quinn explores the themes of secrecy, lying, duplicitous behaviour and untrustworthiness through his characters with plenty of misdirection and red herrings for anyone trying to unravel the mystery concealed within what is a Russian doll of manipulation inside manipulation ... Quinn's writing and pace are immaculate, his characters well-drawn' * Crime Review * 'A fascinating meditation on the nature of truth and a mind-bending variation on the locked-room mystery' * Irish Times *