Click to read: Legacy of the Lynx/Review, Scotsman

Gray reclaims the historical crime novel from those practitioners content to serve up bland plot and blander writing...Stroop has the makings of a great detective in the cerebral Holmesian tradition. Not for the faint-hearted, this is a fantastic first novel by a prize-winning short-story writer...
 
Lucinda Byatt, Historical Novels Review

 

Gray is that rarest of finds, a natural writer…

Jan Rutherford, Scottish Booktrust

 

Gray is a writer you can rely on not to write quite like anyone else… more Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast than Jane Austen and Sense and Sensibility

Lesley McDowell & Colin Waters, Scottish Sunday Herald

Weird and truly wonderful, Envoy of the Black Pine excites, terrifies and amuses.
A fantastically different read by a fantastically different writer

Barbara Nadel, Author


Gray has skilfully crafted a tale...The killings are violent and cold-blooded, and the suspense is maintained right until the end... an exceptional eye for detail, and her characterisation is superb...

Lucinda Byatt, Historical Novels Review


Clio Gray is a master of atmosphere and sensuousness. Reading her is like being at a sumptuous feast in a palace, just before it is stormed...
 
Alan Bissett, author


Gray has skilfully crafted a tale…The killings are violent and cold-blooded, and the suspense is maintained right until the end…Gray has an exceptional eye for detail, and her characterisation is superb...
 
Historical Novels Review
(Of Guardians of the Key)


Guardians of the Key...A first novel from Clio Gray and an astonishingly assured one.

Yorkshire Post

Clio Gray is an uncommonly interesting writer. One wonders, expectantly, what she will do next...
 
The Scotsman


The Brotherhood of Five transports the reader to a different time and place thanks to Gray’s magical inner eye.
 
Alex Gray, Author


An unaffectedly good man, Stroop attracts love and loyalty. So does Gray’s book...this book’s true delight is the fond, playfully elegant and effortlessly seductive ‘action style’..
 
Daily Telegraph