![–Salem Macknee, Raleigh News & Observer on <em>Those We Left Behind</em>](https://sohopress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/blog-00.png)
In Stuart Neville’s Belfast, the police are not icons of virtue, just less flawed than the criminals they are trying to help. Neville creates a sense of menace that jumps off the page, but with an underlying poetry that keeps you hoping innocence will prevail.