Roses, Roses (Vol. Book 10)  (Harpur & Iles Mysteries)
Bill James writes a superior brand of police procedural about a steely English detective named Colin Harpur, but he has never written a story as cold, dark and dangerously funny as Roses, Roses.  --Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book ReviewBill James's Harpur and Iles books are deliciously unsavoury: a brilliant combination of almost Jacobean savagery and sexual betrayal with a tart comedy of contemporary manners. A stylised world that is several moves from reality, and about as real as you can get.  --John Harvey, "The Crime Writer's Crime Writer," GuardianThere is nothing else quite like this series of police procedurals. James is concerned with the dilemmas and difficulties of policing Britain's inner cities, and he addresses these in hard-edged narratives that leave readers gasping and flinching, praying the people in these stories never come to live in their streets. . . . It's all delivered in a ferociously poetic voice that is uniquely Bill James.  --The Times [London], "100 Masters of Crime"