Blue is the Night - Softcover

Blue is the Night completes McNamee's magnificent "Blue Trilogy" - establishing it as one of the very finest series of crime novels ever written - and yet, at the same time, this final novel both illuminates and transcends the previous two to stand alone alongside books as great as The Glass Key and Shutter Island as that rarest of things: a genuine, original masterpiece. (DAVID PEACE)

McNamee's prose - with its chilly precision and desolate grace - is one of the glories of contemporary fiction. But what most impresses here is how a provincial courtroom drama lays bare the workings of a whole society, its untold codes and nightmares. Blue is the Night is the best book yet from one of Ireland's most alert and gifted writers. (LIAM McILVANNEY)

There is no one to match Eoin McNamee for the clean, clear, resonant sentence structure he has perfected. He is a unique writer... his subject, the inescapable complicity of people in the leak of evil in the world. (SEBASTIAN BARRY)

If McNamee's subject matter is dark and ugly - violent death, cover-ups, conspiracies and corruption - his writing style in stark contrast is lyrical, full of finely wrought passages and memorable turns of phrase, punctuated by staccato sentences. With the same regularity that Stormont once delivered miscarriages of justice, McNamee has delivered another masterpiece of provincial Gothic and the "dark grammar" of murder. (Martin Doyle Irish Times)