Advance praise for The Knowledge : "Martha Grimes delivers an outstanding police procedural.Readers will find it hard to put the book down; all will be drawn in from the first sentence. This may be Martha Grimes' finest Richard Jury mystery to date." --Bookreporter "Jury's investigation centers on gem smuggling, tax dodging, and greed. The real mystery is how to find a cab drivers' pub, the Knowledge, so secret that even Scotland Yard can't force its patrons to reveal its location . Readers will appreciate the elements that have made this a long-running bestselling series, notably a complicated case and distinctive characters." -- Publishers Weekly "Grimes' twenty-fourth mystery starring Richard Jury gets off to a breakneck start . Jury's devoted readership will find much to enjoy.
" -- Booklist Praise for Martha Grimes and the Richard Jury mystery series: "Delightful, surprising, even magical. They begin as police procedurals--someone is murdered, Jury investigates--but Grimes's love of the offbeat, the whimsical and the absurd makes them utterly unlike anyone else's detective novels . Although Grimes is American she has a wicked eye for English eccentricity . Original, civilized and witty novels that . truly are novel and, once come upon, they can become necessary." -- Washington Post , on Dust "Delicious . A prime example of Grimes' skill at balancing the serious with the lighthearted . Jury and his posse are terrific companions .
Delightful." -- Seattle Times , on Vertigo 42 "Intricate and entertaining . A delicious puzzle." -- Boston Globe , on The Horse You Came In On "Wondrously eccentric characters . The details are divine." -- New York Times Book Review , on The Stargazey "Swift and satisfying . grafts the old-fashioned 'Golden Age' amateur-detective story to the contemporary police procedural . real charm.
" -- Wall Street Journal , on The Lamorna Wink "The literary equivalent of a box of Godiva truffles . Wonderful." -- Los Angeles Times , on The Stargazey "Witty, atmospheric mysteries . Simply heaven." -- Denver Post , on The Stargazey "Read any one [of her novels] and you'll want to read them all." -- Chicago Tribune "Grimes is not the next Dorothy Sayers, not the next Agatha Christie. She is better than both." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Grimes is superlative at describing the physical world .
And, when Grimes takes us into interiors, whether it's a posh country home or a down-at-the-heels flat, she is like Dickens in linking human character to habitat . A stellar series." -- Kirkus Reviews , on Vertigo 42.