Cris Freddi

Amazon reader reviews of Pelican Blood

• Absolutely compelling!

  Vivid, raw and totally gripping. A really clever and intelligent plot - which pulls you in so deeply you just can't escape. This book was recommended to me by a friend, and I have to say it was one of the best books I've read in a very long time.

• Gripping read

  Pelican Blood - I won't give away the significance of the title - features premeditated murder, friendship and an obsessive hobby taken to extremes worthy of John Fowles ('The Collector'). Read it.

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  Moody, bloody and blue !

  A wonderful piece of writing - really accomplished. I would never have bought a book about birdwatching but I couldn't put it down - it's Hitchcockian in its suspense and lyrical and elegiac too.

  This writer should wins lots of awards. The jacket is brilliant too!

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  Beats every birding 'exposé'

  We live in an age obsessed with obsession, and birding has been fodder for many books about that topic lately. Most of them, unfortunately, have been written by non-birders or new birders, who really lack the background and the sympathy to investigate the fascination birders feel for their hobby. Pelican Blood is different, and much better.

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