The Meaning of Night

A tale of obsession, love and revenge, played out amid London’s swirling smog … Glyver is an outstanding creation … Cox lovingly recreates the atmosphere of the period, from grand dinner parties to assignation with ladies of the night … Yet he never allows period detail to swamp the human drama at the novel’s heart’ - Daily Mail

Spellbinding Victorian mystery …Dark atmospheric storytelling with wicked twists and turns - Good Housekeeping

A handsome slice of Victoriana… a rewarding, sinister yarn wrapped around an austere meditation on fate, faith and privilege - Observer

A novel of fate and free will, forensic detection and blind love, crime and its justifications. The atmosphere crackles, but beneath all is a sly sense of humour. The plotting is second to non - a finely tuned yet extravagantly complex piece of clockwork - Evening Standard

An unadulterated pleasure. In prose as flamboyant as a bespoke smoking jacket, Cox’s metropolis comes to life, teeming with hearty whores and weasily clerks … As thrilling as a Hansom cab chase and as guilty a pleasure as a nocturnal turn at a gentleman’s “introducing house” - Independent on Sunday

Like Charles Palliser, Michel Faber and Sarah Waters, Cox is making the Victorian era a switchback ride for the reader’s mind… a rich and complicated tale … a journey into darkness - Independent

A brooding, sinister work … seeps with questions about good and evil, fate, inheritance, love and, above all, faith - Scotsman

The pages teem with wit and erudition and the plot thickens like a good minestrone soup … Thrilling - Courier Mail