Philip Miller is a fine, painterly writer - Edinburgh at dusk, for example, is “a weave of shadows hung in a net of light” - and he has created a first-class thriller

Unusual and elegant, Philip Miller’s third novel takes the Tartan Noir genre in some new and unexpected directions

outstanding mystery thriller…In a style recalling the brutal dreariness of Le Carre, Miller describes a pivotal character as ‘sharp and severe as a snapped bone.’ It’s also an apt description of this biting tale of society in decline. Noir fans won’t want to miss it

Its vivid sense of location is one of this engaging mystery’s great strengths

The Goldenacre features a dense cast of vivid characters, not least Tallis, a tortured pilgrim worthy of a Graham Greene tale. The book—which explores through prose the interplay between light and darkness in the physical and moral worlds—is an ambitious and wonderfully realized work

A riveting, brutal journey into the high stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth

A pacy tale of crime and deception set in the world of fine art. Beautifully written, with a brilliantly vivid sense of place and a killer twist, The Goldenacre is one to savour

Art, music, politics, and murder, set against a backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world - what's not to love? A complex and compelling plot, with intruiging characters that I very much hope we will meet again. Great read

Phil Miller's Edinburgh is a city of secrets, an introverted place filled with characters so real in their humanity and yet somehow askew, imbued with the touch of supernatural shadows but also unshakeable goodness. Elegiac, moving, but always richly humane, Goldenacre is a welcome addition to Scottish noir

This book is a gripping exploration of the darker side of modern society

Philip Miller's superb debut, The Goldenacre, is a prime example of Scottish noir

A classy & stylish noir novel set in a world of fine art & low morals, with more than a hint of Graeme Greene about it

Like its namesake, The Goldenacre occupies its own unclassifiable space, as much a meditation on beauty and loss as it is crime fiction

The book for you if you are looking for something a little out of the ordinary in terms of your Scottish crime fiction

Tartan noir hobnobs with the art world in The Goldenacre, Philip Miller's clever, complex and improbably touching thriller set in Edinburgh, a city whose reputation for quiet elegance and relative calm gets quite a workout

Unputdownable

This excellent well-plotted noir thriller pits unique characters against the hard-edges of modern life

this story... is mesmerizing in its use of atmosphere, poetic language, and ingenious plot construction

It is the magic way oddly juxtaposed words manage to convey the essence of a scene, the feelings of a character, or the ugliness of an act, more vividly than any dictionary-precise language, that makes The Goldenacre a thoroughly worthwhile read

The Goldenacre is a prime example of a good Edinburgh novel… an excellent read for those who enjoy Tartan Noir and want to read something different to your usual hard-bitten detective story

Philip Miller has written a stylish thriller which is a breath of fresh air and which deserves to be acknowledged as such ... It’s a crime novel for readers who think they don’t like the genre, and a literary novel for people who would normally stick to crime

[Philip Miller] constructs an intricate and intelligent plot and peoples it with richly imagined and deeply realized characters . . .  An authoritative work on art and an accomplished work of art, The Goldenacre also represents a shrewd study of family dynamics and a splendid sample of literary crime fiction

an artful whydunnit with a lyrical style and memorable characters, and captures several parts of Edinburgh perfectly