No Good Deed - Tapa dura

Compulsive reading from page one to the shattering conclusion...Manda Scott's writing is simply beautiful (Denise Mina)

Scott's cinematic style has both sweep and depth...Besides exposing the gristle and bone of human violence, Scott astutely probes the aftermath of crime - the loss of moral certitude that truly shatters the soul. (Marilyn Stasio)

Gritty, literate, and engaging, NO GOOD DEED is an exceptional achievement. Manda Scott is a fine writer, with a great future (Julia Wallis Martin)

'Uncompromising...brilliantly depicted' Gemma O'Connor

'one of the most remarkable thrillers of the year'. Amazon

Dark, taut and edgy, Manda Scott's debut thriller exerts an emotional grip that tightens to a twisting stranglehold. There's not a word wasted in this unflinching novel, which still manages to demonstrate the profound power of love. It's a joy to read something so intelligent, so direct and so beautifully crafted (Val McDermid)

'Manda Scott has bypassed all expectations by producing a dark and visceral thriller that's awesomely powerful and a work that should project her to the vanguard of contemporary crime writing...Good as they are (previous novels), these books are light years away from the scorching impact of No Good Deed...This is the best crime novel of the year so far.' W Magazine

Manda Scott picks us up by the scruff of the neck, drags us kicking and bumping along the rough side of life, then makes us fall in love with her characters along the way. Wow, just...wow (Laurie R. King)

'the story it expertly paced and grips from beginning to end...' Sunday Telegraph

'Another darkly gripping thriller that will keep you awake at night' Newcastle Journal

Orla McLeod knows too much about violence for her own good. She knows about pain and how to inflict it, she knows about guilt and she knows about survival. And because she was barely a teenager when she learnt all this, she know what these things can do to a child. So when she and a nine-year-old boy are the only ones left alive in a freezing Glasgow tenement after a Special Branch undercover operation she was spearheading has gone disastrously wrong, there's no way Orla McLeod's going to hand Jamie Buchanan over to social services. Not when Jamie's the sole witness to Tord Svensen committing an act of savagery of the type that's rapidly turning him into one of the most feared criminals in Europe. Especially since Svensen knows a lot about survival too.