The Mouthless Dead

Anthony Quinn has found an ingenious way of shaping the story into a gripping work of fiction... a compelling mixture of crime story and character study * Sunday Times *
A voyage of discovery... this superior whodunnit becomes a danse macabre as the terrible truth is gradually revealed * The Times *
Anthony Quinn is one of our most underrated novelists, so I'm always happy to sing his praises. Initially, The Mouthless Dead is a fictional account of the infamous unsolved murder of housewife Julia Wallace in Liverpool in 1931. But then the story and its narrator takes a series of unexpected turns until its final, chilling paragraph. I was gripped * Red Magazine *
A dark, unsettling, completely addictive mystery, which draws you in with all the momentum and all the loving attention to period detail that we've come to expect from Anthony Quinn * Jonathan Coe *
A beguiling real-life crime thriller and an elegiac meditation on murder, marriage and loneliness * Chris Brookmyre *
This absorbing account of one of the most famous unsolved British murder cases creates a fascinating narrative about what really happened. The Mouthless Dead is as engrossing as it is unsettling * Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths *
Intensely readable and indelibly haunting -- Alexander Larman * Observer *
Thrilling... the final fifty pages accelerate until breathing becomes almost impossible * Financial Times *