'South African cop Riedwaan Faizal is the sort of smouldering hero who will make readers of all ages want to be policemen when they grow up. But his habitual springbok-in-a-china-shop approach makes him prime suspect when his little daughter disappears just as his ex-wife plans to take her to live abroad. With child murder as its subject, this is bleak at times, but Orford plots so brilliantly that to stop reading is as harrowing as to carry on.'

From Jake Kerridge's Telegraph crime reviews.