Reviews for Cut Adrift

'Well-researched, pacey and engaging, the sixth DI Jon Spicer novel from Manchester-based writer Simms is well up to his usual high standard.'
The Guardian

‘In his sixth DI Jon Spicer novel, Chris Simms shows why he has made the short list for the 2010 CWA Dagger in the Library award.’
Shots

‘An absolutely ace British police procedural.’
Irish Independent

‘Cut Adrift is compelling evidence that Chris Simms’ star is certainly in the ascendency.’
Tangled Web

‘Here is an author who simply gets further and further beneath the skin of his characters – and what they face – and brings them to life with exemplary skill.’
chrishigh.com

Chris Simms has written a number of superb thrillers, but his latest, Cut Adrift, takes him to another level.’
crimesquad.com

'A gripping, well-plotted page-turner - Simms is a crime writer to watch.'
Choice Magazine

'An engrossing and cleverly plotted read... Simms neatly ties all the elements together in a thrilling and incredibly clever climax, at the same time delivering a moral message for our time.'
Peterborough Evening Telegraph

'After many years of reviewing crime fiction, it's not often my jaded nerves get actually, physically jangled - but they certainly were during one long, extraordinarily tense passage of CUT ADRIFT, the superb novel which is surely going to lift Chris Simms up a couple of notches in the crime writers' pecking order.'
Morning Star

A reader’s thoughts

‘Absolutely brilliant. One of your best so far, and really satisfying when it comes to character development.’
A Ward, via email.