The pace never slackens, the writing is elegance personified, and the story tugs at the heartstrings * Daily Mail *
Joe Lansdale is one of the dark kings of modern mystery fiction, a master of the genre. His name deserves to be whispered with the greats. * John Connolly *
Lansdale has the delight in language of the best raconteur; he also delivers some wince-inducing violence and can crank up the tension to screaming point. * Metro *
A terrific and memorable novel that sticks in the mind long after it is finished * Canberra Times *
A charming Gothic tale...an adventure as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm - or Mark Twain * New York Times Book Review *
EDGE OF DARK WATER describes a trip downriver that is one-half Huck Finn, one-half Deliverance, and entirely Joe Lansdale. * Joe Hill *
The strongest, truest, and most pitch-perfect narration since Huck Finn's. Marvelous and terrifying, EDGE OF DARK WATER is the result of real genius at work. A masterpiece. * Dan Simmons *
Alternately scary, funny as hell, disturbing, but always (and most importantly) memorable. * Bruce Campbell *
Joe Lansdale has long been one of our finest and most difficult to classify writers... In EDGE OF DARK WATER he offers a beautifully spun tale of life in the sticks, friendship and mortality, and tells it with the wit, humor and pure-deep power we've come to expect of him. * Daniel Woodrell *
Dark and comic, bleak and terrifying, romantic and endearing...This, I kid you not, is the Great American Novel of the year. * CrimeTime *
