Talking to the Dead A chilling British detective crime thriller

Praise for gripping, atmosphere Fiona Griffiths crime thriller series:

Chilling, atmospheric and so gripping it hurts. You won't read a better crime novel this year

MARK EDWARDS

Bingham has gotten inside the mind of his clever, neurotic heroine so well as to make her seem entirely credible... An interesting, unusual and in some ways even moving crime novel. LITERARY REVIEW This cleverly plotted police procedural introduces a likeable, maverick detective destined for a bestseller following. CHOICE This is on one level an orthodox, if expertly written, police procedural. But the charactar of Fiona lifts it to an altogether different, extraordinary level. She is childlike, brilliant, courageous and utterly loopy all at the same time - as well as devastatingly real and human and alone...She'll haunt you long after you finish this book, and send you scurrying to find what else Bingham has written. YORK PRESS The mystery-thriller genre is already so staffed with masterminds that it's hard to make room for yet another. But along comes a book like TALKING TO THE DEAD, by Harry Bingham, and suddenly an unadvertised opening is filled...has the feel of something fresh and compelling. The best thing coming out of this gem of a crime story is the promise of another. NY DAILY NEWS With Detective Constable Fiona "Fi" Grffiths, Harry Bingham finds a sweet spot in crime fiction - a female protagonist with stunted emotions, a passion for protecting women (think Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander), outsider status (think Denise Mina's "Paddy" Meehan), sheer guts, and an unstoppable drive to follow her own instincts even when it means breaking every rule in the book (think Lee Childs's Jack Reacher) [...] The writing is terrific, just literary enough to make you catch your breath but not so eye-catching that it detracts from the storytelling BOSTON GLOBE This is realism and social commentary immersed in a procedural unlike any other you are likely to read this year USA TODAY The detective with a troubled past is a massively over-familiar motif in crime fiction, but it's to Harry Bingham's credit that he is able to re-energise the scenario here so that it seems as fresh as paint. The book has already gleaned a slew of admirers, no doubt because of the writing that lifts Talking to the Dead effortlessly out of the police procedural realms GOOD BOOK GUIDE 20130601