Broken River: The most suspense-filled, inventive thriller you'll read this year - Rilegato

Compelling from the first page, and then smart, sophisticated, suspenseful and satisfying throughout -- Broken River is a first-class ride. (Lee Child)

J. Robert Lennon is a connoisseur of calamity, qualms and paradox, all of which are on profuse display in his crafty, seductive eighth novel, Broken River... Broken River is a remarkable performance, a magic trick that makes you laugh at its audacity. Lennon has written a realistic novel with vivid characters and flashes of humour and an evocative mood... when you close a novel as good as Broken River, something, not quite a ghost, may follow you. (Terrence Rafferty New York Times)

A cracker of a novel - sharp, dark and suspenseful (Hephzibah Anderson Mail on Sunday)

What prevents Broken River from being classified as simply a horror or crime story are Lennon's linguistic energy and dark humour ... it's a rare book that manages to bend genres so successfully - that thrills and frightens while evoking such insight into human failings and the lure of the past (Zoe Apostolides Financial Times)

Fizzing with line-by-line propulsion and wickedly plotted with slow-burn complexity, this is a knockout, unmissable performance from a writer at the very top of his game. (Observer)

Broken River is like a Coen brothers movie set in rural New England... Lennon has a lot of fun... and we do, too. (Sunday Times)

A writer with enough electricity to light up the country. (Ann Patchett)

Hypnotic and unsettling, Broken River weaves a dark, compelling spell (Mick Herron, author of Real Tigers)

Lennon's prose has a languorous, lingering quality with shifts of perspective and tonal jolts that make you concentrate all the harder. I might venture that Broken River ought to be on prize longlists, but as with the house, nothing is certain... There is a ghastly creepiness to all this, magnified by the cat-like elegance of the prose... Two thirds of the way through this novel, I fantasised about an epic Mexican shootout where Wes Anderson, Guy Maddin, Sofia Coppola, David Lynch and Kevin Smith argued about who should get the film rights. At the same time, I realised it is impossible to film. So much happens inside the characters: so much is presented as hypothetical. This is an astonishing, nasty, brilliant, upsetting work. (Guardian)

J Robert Lennon's tautly constructed blend of literary fiction and thriller is a compelling cocktail, right down to its explosive and shocking ending (John Harding Daily Mail)

A stunning psychological literary thriller from 'a master of the dark arts' (Kelly Link)