Stone's Fall

A complex novel of mystery and suspense narrated by three fascinating characters...I thoroughly recommend this title

Landers Bookshop, Independent on Sunday

A juicy mystery with lashings of period detail

Daily Telegraph

Absorbing and also timely

Jessica Mann, Literary Review

An indefatigably clever storyteller...witty, laconic dialogue; a galloping pace, particularly in the first and third narratives; the author's silky, fluid prose; and above all the concluding passages, which detonate a series of surprises as poignant as they are grim

Daniel Mallory, Times Literary Supplement

Engrossing and intelligent, it's the best sort of page-turner

Amber Pearson, Daily Mail

Fireworks, inventiveness and excitement of part three and a curmudgeonly inventor of torpedoes

Philippa Stockley, Evening Standard

I cannot remember enjoying a book as much as Stone's Fall

Malcolm Gladwell, Observer

Iain Pears has an uncanny historical sense ... splendid return to the grand 19th-century novel

Jane Jakeman, Independent

Pears is in a class of his own; no one else could possibly succeed in making the world of big finance so hugely entertaining.

www.thetruthaboutbooks.com

The assurance and invention with which the novel is written are alike remarkable. Utterly absorbing and a rare delight

Alan Massie, Scotsman

The novel is above all a romp, albeit an exceptionally intelligent and entertaining one

David Robson, Sunday Telegraph

this thoughtful, thoroughly satisfying novel... clever storytelling to reach imaginative heights

Waterstone's Books Quarterly

Well worth the ride

Sunday Telegraph