Praise for Still Waters

“Moss spins a mystery that sparkles with dynamic setting…with vivid pictures, resonant insights and a spin on mystery storytelling that is as multilayered as it is beautiful…
…passionately intellectual with gripping narrative…Still Waters is a mystery told by a storyteller par excellence and is not to be missed.”
- Don Graves, The Hamilton Spectator

“Grittily complex…Ontario Gothic à la Robertson Davies…Moss does noir Canadian Style.”
- Kerry J. Schooley, Murder Out There

“…wonderfully clever dialogues between Quin and Morgan. They put me in mind of Reginald Hill's Daziel and Pascoe, or perhaps the clever cocktail commentary of Hammetts' Thin Man duo, Nick and Nora Charles.”
- Merrill Young, Reviewing the Evidence

“John Moss is off to a good start, and Morgan and Quin are promising and appealing protagonists worth following in future books.”
- Quill and Quire

“Still Waters is both an assured debut in the mystery category and offbeat…If anything, Moss' character-driven writing in Still Waters reminds me of the involving work of the British writer Reginald Hill in the famed Dalziel and Pascoe series.”
- Eric McMillan, Towncrier

“A powerful novel...Moss skillfully enlarges his story to make it more than a murder mystery: it is a life mystery.”
- Jenni Mortin, Saskatoon Star Phoenix

Praise for Grave Doubts

“Summertime demands a really good, grisly mystery, and John Moss… delivers the goods.”
- Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail

“John Moss's previous tale, Still Waters, was on my must-read list. Grave Doubts is on that list with a star beside it…”
- Don Graves, The Hamilton Spectator

“Unusual mystery proves hypnotic delight.”
- Joan Barfoot, The London Free Press

“Moss proves again that he is a thrill-master of detail and suspense, drawing readers in to death's lonely chill.”
- Murder Out There

“Stellar storytelling…for mystery buffs, it doesn't get much better than this. Dashiel Hammett meets P.D. James.”
- Chaos.com

“How lucky we are that John Moss has turned his brilliant academic mind to writing mysteries. His Miranda Quin and David Morgan of the Toronto Police service are a different breed of detectives. Intellectual and culturally sophisticated, they wrestle with both existential problems and their feelings for each other. Their adventures take them through the streets of Toronto and into the wilds of rural southern Ontario. Moss has written two titles so far (Still Waters and Grave Doubts) and I hope there will be many more.”
- Clare Hitchens, http://adventbooks.wordpress.com