https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/25/the-fatal-tree-by-jake-arnott-review

‘Arnotts flair for noir -corruption, menace and the psychosexuality of gangsters -transposes well into “Romeville”…He gifts his prig-nappers and pot-valiant bawds the kind of one-liners Moll Flanders would have rejoiced in…the texture of Romeville is created not by those overworked tropes of historical fiction, the smells the customs, the clothes -but by words…Arnott never sentimentalises the desperation and lawlessness of the time.’

Hermione Eyre The Guardian