ON DANGEROUS GROUND

KEIGHLEY NEWS

Lesley Horton captures the seediness, deprivation and violence on the streets of Bradford well in her assured, but frill-free prose.

Yet it's her characters and subject matter as much as her sense of place that gives the book such a credible grounding.

LIVERPOOL ECHO

Gritty, realistic and exciting is how On Dangerous Ground is described - and it couldn't be more accurate

SNARES OF GUILT

DAVID KNIGHTS, KEIGHLEY NEWS

Snares of Guilt is most decidedly excellent - meaty, gritty, realistic, compulsive and thought-provoking

Readers of Snares of Guilt will be hard-pressed to spot that Lesley Horton is a first-time novelist. More likely, after finisheing this book many people will rush out to bookshops to try to buy others by the same author.

JIM GREENHALF, TELEGRAPH & ARGUS

I was impressed by Lesley horton's tight writing - no purple prose, no over-descriptive excess, little or no editorialising, credible dialogue and speech patterns - and the virtually faultless arrangement of her storylines. Like tram cables, they all lead somewhere and spark with electricity.

A first-class story, well told by a skilful story-teller, with first-hand experience of Bradford's mean old scene.

ALI KARIM, SHOTS MAGAZINE

A debut novel [which] reads almost like a professional writing under a pseudonym.

Lesley Horton writes with sensitivity on a subject that is difficult to balance...

The catalogue of characters is large, and everyone is a suspect, but Horton manages to sketch each one with a flourish that breathes life into all.