Weirdo - Tapa blanda

Unsworth's best yet, as sharp as vinegar on chips (FT 2012-06-30)

A serious talent ... she has brilliantly captured that desperate sense of teenage boredom, isolation, danger and mayhem (Daily Mirror 2012-07-13)

A creepy, credible page-turner that delights and disturbs (Metro 2012-07-11)

A great, page-turning read. I think the whole package works beautifully: memory traces, bad magic, sounds, smells (Iain Sinclair)

Fans of Cathi Unsworth's potent brand of period noir have come to expect her trademark fluid writing, tense plotting and believable characters but in Weirdo, she has added an extra dimension of intensity. Set partly in the 1980s and partly in the early 2000s, the bang-on and powerful evocation of being a Punk in the provinces twists round the switchback central story of madness and murder like a perfect riff. Satisfying and beautifully done, Weirdo is a brilliant read, by a brilliant author. (Joolz Denby 2012-04-05)

A must for fans of crime fiction. (Anne Sexton Hot Press 2012-05-19)

Cathi Unsworth, follows up her masterly noir Bad Penny Blues with another fine crime novel, Weirdo, as a private detective travels to Norfolk to try and unravel the mystery of a schoolgirl's murder. (Simon Evans Choice 2012-06-01)

Another fine crime novel from Cathi Unsworth after her masterly noir, Bad Penny Blues (Simon Evans Choice 2012-06-01)

An absorbing mystery, an extraordinarily powerful evocation of time and place. (Guardian)

A gripping tale of adolescent angst and genuine evil (Telegraph)