In The Guardian, reviewer Christobel Kent wrote, "Racing up and down the country, chasing suspects from the London suburbs to Barrow-in-Furness, from Scotland via Market Harborough to lap-dancing clubs on Tottenham Court Road, the narrative is dizzying in its proliferation of character, location and detail, and tirelessly, relentlessly specific."[REF] .
On 30 May, Career of Evil was one of the six novels nominated for the title of Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year [REF].