Praise for Cherry Beach
"This is one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year . . . Toronto now takes its place with Los Angeles, New York, and Boston as a character in the action and it’s great."
—Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail
"Gillmor really knows his stuff—in a dazzling range of areas. A layered portrait of a changing city in the guise of a gripping crime novel, for fans of Tana French and Dennis Lehane."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A well-crafted police procedural with vibrant characters and a strong sense of place."
—Steven Beattie, Toronto Star
"Cherry Beach is a largely captivating novel, the sentences by turns clipped and spare or expansive and stunning. And befitting of an author who’s spent so much time in journalism, Gillmor doesn’t pull any punches. The world he gives is an ugly one, much like our own."
—Paul Carlucci, The Seaboard Review
"In Cherry Beach, Gillmor serves up a tense tale with numerous twists."
—Andrea Geary, Winnipeg Free Press
"[Gillmor's] work . . . led him into worlds of crime and corruption. Now, he’s writing smart, snappy fiction on the very same subjects."
—Edward Lander, Toronto Life
Praise for Breaking and Entering
"A searing tale of midlife, the need to be seen, and how easy it is to lose oneself by slow degrees, Breaking and Entering is written with Gillmor's trademark power and insight, a novel of depth and painful truths filtered through strikingly rendered characters."
—Open Book
"A devastating and droll portrait of middle age that will be instantly recognizable to the 'sandwich generation,' stuck between kids and parents, and just generally stuck. It's a period of life that makes you want to do crazy things, and the only escape is other people."
—Stephen Marche, author of The Hunger of the Wolf
“A beautiful, shattering book. Wise and honest, and exquisitely written. Insight for anyone who has known the gnawing sorrow or the endless accusation of a senseless loss. It will also make you laugh out loud. Go figure.”
—Linden MacIntyre, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Bishop’s Man
Praise for Don Gillmor
“To The River: Losing My Brother is haunting, beautifully written and rightly hesitant about any certainties regarding an act as ultimately unknowable in social terms as it is in individual decisions.”
—Brian Bethune, Maclean’s
"[Long Change] is an intimate epic, a tightly focused personal narrative set against one of the most powerful economic forces of the twentieth century . . . a window into a world which few readers will have really considered."
—National Post
